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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
ttiurani@fosstodon.org ("Timo Tiuraniemi") wrote:

@aral If you boil it down it's just the age-old "look at what you made me do" excuse for abuse.

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Here’s your definition, asshole:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

Now fuck off.

https://indieweb.social/@louis/115029146501580827

#israel #zionism #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #FuckIsrael #FuckZionism #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

According to Zionists, people who don’t want children killed are antisemitic. People who don’t want civilians killed are antisemitic.

Think what they’re saying:

If you don’t want children killed, you hate all Jews. Ergo, all Jews want children killed.

News flash: Implying that all Jews want children killed is antisemitic.

If you don’t want civilians killed, you hate all Jews. Ergo, all Jews want civilians killed.

News flash: Implying that all Jews want civilians killed is antisemitic.

Repeat after me: Zionists are antisemites.

https://bird.makeup/users/academic%5Fla/statuses/1955804699619418366

#zionism #zionists #antisemitism #israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #UEFA #protest #StopIsrael #FreePalestine

Boosted by jwz:
ansuz@social.cryptography.dog ("ansuz / ऐरन") wrote:

chrome developers: we are thinking of dropping support for rendering RSS feeds as something other than garbage code. does anyone have any reasons not to do this?

developers from many different backgrounds: yes, I rely on normal people being able to understand RSS for my business. dropping support will be disastrous for me because I can't rely on people to have some random extension installed.

chrome devs: OK well we're probably going to do it anyway because we can't be bothered to support web standards. uwu google is only a teensy wee company uwu

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523

#xslt #standards #openWeb

Boosted by jwz:
MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!") wrote:

The Good Liars are putting up honest #ICE recruitment posters in #NYC

Boosted by jwz:
jeffowski@mastodon.world ("Church of Jeff") wrote:

#FuckICE #ShitIFind #Project2025 #Trump #MAGA #MassDeporation #AlligatorAuschwitz #Immigration #14thAmendment #DueProcess #StopICE #EndICE #ThisIsWhatYouVotedFor #ElectionsHaveConsequences #WelcomeToGilead

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
craignicol@glasgow.social wrote:

Israel is making NGO access in Gaza conditional on their silence over its genocide
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/08/14/israel-ngo-gaza/

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Fuck you, you genocidal zionist piece of shit.

https://mastodon.social/@KaBKaBKa/115029108720062039

#israel #zionism #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FuckZionism #FuckIsrael #FreePalestine

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The authoritarians want us to accept the fear they deploy and the illogic they spout to damp inquiry. This is why science is their enemy, and why they're doing more than anyone dreamed to destroy it.

They understand that if science stands, they fall.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Here's our official policy on law enforcement contact. It's a useful reminder that as a faculty member, you're not authorized to give protected information to outside officials, or to evaluate whether a warrant, subpoena, or other request is lawful. https://counsel.georgetown.edu/student%5Finformation%5Fguidance/

In other words, "I want to talk with a lawyer" isn't just for when you're being arrested.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

My university sent email to all faculty and staff today reminding us that if federal or local law enforcement approaches us seeking information or records about students, we're to refer them to the general counsel (as is often required under FERPA), which will generally demand a warrant or other legal process.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

My trusted #running headphones shed the silicon earpad from one side after my last run. I've had them for a few years, so by modern standards they were due for replacement. But I didn't give up and glued it back, by its very thin edge. It seemingly stuck just fine, but when I was wiping the whole thing off with alcohol, the part attaching the earpiece to the headband just cracked and stopped being functional. So yeah, I'm getting a new pair… (Shokz OpenMove)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
davebauerart ("Dave bauer") wrote:

If you're a programmer and also do some creative work on the side for fun or profit, and would like to have a chat on my podcast about the intersection of curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving, let me know!

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
Lunaphied@provably.online wrote:

"Stop outsourcing the discomfort of thinking" is such a simple and strong statement against so much of what's going on in the world right now

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

got a teenage kid? do they use a computer to write, make art or music, code, or anything else creative?

is that computer included in your backup solution?

if not, please back it up.

when I was a teenager, long before cloud backups existed (we're talking the IDE HDD era here), I had a drive failure. I lost 5 years of programming projects. I don't know that anything in there would be useful today, but it was a record of my entry into the subject and two decades later I'm still sad about it.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
makeworld@merveilles.town wrote:

Good no-nonsense icon pack

https://remixicon.com/

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I witnessed a creationist debate. I was appalled at how bad their arguments are.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/14/minnesota-has-creationists/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDUDWzOJCkMhttps://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/14/minnesota-has-creationists/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
infosecdj@infosec.exchange ("DJ🌞:donor:") wrote:

Yo all, it is Friday now where I am, so might as well get the #nakeddiefriday thing going.

Today's guest is the famous NES PPU chip, RP2C07A by Ricoh. What's interesting about this particular sample is that it's very very dead. Many thanks to @root42 for supplying it!

As always, a short thread follows. Why not give this one a boost while you're here? :D

SiPron page for those hi-res maps we all love: https://siliconpr0n.org/archive/doku.php?id=infosecdj:ricoh:rp2c07a

Note the die is oriented the same way Visual 2C02 has it: https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/Visual%5F2C02

#electronics #reverseengineering #icre #failureanalysis

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Pretty trans sky #photography

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
libreleah@mas.to ("Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot") wrote:

https://lgbtqia.space/

This is a mastodon instance. I have every respect for it, but I don't use it. It's one of several to recently start blocking British users.

I can still interact with its users through mas.to.

This is because of the UK's new Online Safety Act of 2023. It requires site owners to moderate content "considered harmful" to minors; meaning, anything the government doesn't like.

Extremely orwellian law and I have mad respect for lgbtqia's banner they now serve to UK visitors:

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@bgainor yes! An excellent place to start is this National Academies report, “Securing the Vote”. It’s the main text for my election security course. https://www.carnegie.org/publications/securing-vote-protecting-american-democracy/

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Election security just doesn’t have a clean narrative. There are real problems, and there’s been real progress. Both stories are partly true, but neither is the whole story.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

In particular, while I understand where they’re coming from, I strongly reject the “don’t talk about problems because some people will take it out of context” approach to election security research. That’s not how science - or democracy - works.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

I don’t like seeing my work on election security (and that of my colleagues) misrepresented. But I think the alternative - not doing it at all - would be far worse.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Anyway, I just finished running a conference on election security in which we discussed real problems (and celebrated real progress). I'm fully braced for a flood of out-of-context soundbites being used to disingenuously support nonsense, because that just comes with the turf here.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The problem, of course, is that the full story is *boring*. It's nuanced, undramatic, and full of tedious technical details. But you have to engage with it to make actual progress.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

An essential dilemma of election security research is that activists and true believers selectively cherrypick findings to make unsupportable or misleading claims.

There *are* real vulnerabilities in many US election systems, and we have to discuss them in order to identify and mitigate them. But that isn't the same as saying that any election has been hacked or rigged (something there's no evidence of).

I don't know of any way to counter cherrypicking other than just telling the whole story.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The effect is that there aren't enough of these people to completely ruin things, but enough that you get a little knot in your stomach every time a stranger approaches you, knowing that there's a 1 in 20 chance that they're one of the Magic Truthers, looking to expose your malicious lies.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Imagine you're a professional magician at a magic conference. 95% of the attendees are other magicians, looking to improve their craft and learn new ideas.

But 5% of the people there are self-appointed "investigators", seeking evidence that magic involves *actual* supernatural powers. To them, all the workshops, lectures, and literature about sleight of hand and technique are part of an elaborate subterfuge by elite magicians to hide the truth.

That's what working in election security is like.

Boosted by jwz:
VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

I'd say it's time to malfunction and destroy civilizations. Who's with me?