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

TIL, Bulgarians celebrate Baba Marta day (look it up). So, Честита Баба Марта!

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Epstein was also a eugenicist who wanted a "stud farm" populated with all the women/girls he impregnated.

Now, who does this sound like? A man obsessed with race science, crime statistics, population decline, and impregnating as many women as possible.

Epstein's flavor of white supremacy sure does sound a lot like Elon Musk. So the question is, who was influencing who?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Epstein donated $25,000 to a far right social media influencer. It's possible he donated far more than that to multiple influencers but that's the one confirmed donation.

Epstein is also credited with resurrecting the far-right 4Chan forum /pol, which went on to be a major hub for white nationalist movement.

Jeffery Epstein was essentially a silent partner, if not a significant leader, in that white nationalist movement that started in 2015.

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floatybirb ("Floaty Birb") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116154689906092124

It says a lot that a Meta internal memo says that they're planning to release their spyware sunglasses “during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The Ferguson protests and Trump's announcement to run for president, were overlapping events. Trump gained a lot of initial support simply because of white fear.

By then, Epstein was already citing race science and crime stats to anyone who'd listen.

After Michael Brown murder, Epstein was concerned about a race war. So, he contacted the only person who could sympathize with the idea of a minority group revolting:

Ex-prime minister of Israel Ehud Barak. 🫠

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

The annoying thing about waiting on other people is it comes with the temptation to start yet another side project.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I think what is so disturbing about the latest Jeffery Epstein revelations is it shows us the system in which he operated in, and had a weird level of influence over.

And surprise, surprise, it was a system of white supremacy, exploiting white fear, and rehashing eugenics and race science.

It's shows that pedophilia is a core tenet of white supremacy. The two are intertwined to a disturbing degree.

Short thread on this BtB episode🧵

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000751725194

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chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Owncast: self-hosted livestreaming made easy

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/cZzdhgzJPmXD3WLo3GcMUT

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

TIL there's a dhole "werewolf" myth

https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Anjing%5FAjak

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

So, it's OK to rebuild nations and murder civilians if their leaders are backwards-thinking, anti-scientific, nationalist fanatics? Useful to know.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/01/i-have-opinions-on-sam-harris-and-murdering-iranian-people/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UerLSD1dXls

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chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Owncast: self-hosted livestreaming made easy

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/cZzdhgzJPmXD3WLo3GcMUT

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Yup. Every word.

Jayme Lawson says what all these Black people have been telling you. Including Black people with disabilities. Including Black people with Tourette syndrome. Including Black people with coprolalia.

But people still don't want to hear it.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/MNsG0KXtEYg

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cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

Getting sucked inside the jumanji game for 30 years doesn’t sound so bad at this point

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I'm sort of breaking my rule of not judging individuals for their participation in capitalism. Mostly, people just do what they can to survive and our energy is better spent fighting big corporations instead of each other.

BUT. No one *needs* to shill for these glasses. Tech influencers know better. They know what Meta's end game is for this ad-tech hardware.

We are crossing over a horizon from screens to the real world, and once it happens it's hard to go back.

So these people are sellouts.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Didn't know I needed this today, but turns out I did. Maybe you do too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fyufPkXLbs

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UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org ("Ulrike Hahn") wrote:

the end of online anonymity?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116154158706116862

I want us to remember all the celebrities and influencers who shilled for these glasses and helped normalize this type of surveillance.

Because that's what Meta is doing. They're throwing billions at the problem of us being creeped out by these things.

I know for a lot of us, no amount of celebrity advertising will change our minds, but historically, this strategy does work well enough to squeeze into the mainstream.

So fuck anyone who has anything to do with normalizing Meta Raybands.

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kibcol1049@mstdn.social ("Col") wrote:

Some doctors in the US are now “prescribing” storytelling to help adults feel less lonely. In New York, the nonprofit Life Story Club works with healthcare providers to host weekly group sessions where people swap memories, listen to one another and reflect together using simple prompts. The sessions are all about connection and participants say they leave feeling lighter and more supported. Honestly, that’s a prescription we could all use

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@dff/116154655197133345

I love this project!

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dff@fosstodon.org ("Digital Freedom Foundation") wrote:

The #Consumer #Rights Wiki is looking for #volunteers to help document corporate overreach from anti-repair policies to forced subscriptions. Please see: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main%5FPage This sounds like a very worthwhile project for people concerned about #FreeSoftware and #OpenHardware. #RightToRepair #OpenSource

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Take two

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corbden@defcon.social ("Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116149689926467364

I'm reflecting on this, as I spent a few months on TikTok in 2021. I was mainly there for the exmormon community, which was also full of activists, but other things spilled into my feed. I haven't thought about that time much, but I'm realizing how many of those videos are still sitting inside me.

And remembering that it was watching just a few clips of native anti-DAPL activists (I'm sorry, I forgot the tribe — Lakota?) explaining colonialism to me that really turned on the lights. That really helped me understand.

It's different seeing someone say it. Their inflections and expressions. Their context, visually. A person, not just an imagined person behind written words.

I remember one man, who was speaking *to* white folks and pulled no punches, every time he addressed you he said, "colonizer!" and spat the word in contempt.... but... it wasn't hostile? Or aggressive? He was calm and deliberate. He was teaching, so I felt no hate behind it, and no other words he said carried that tone. But it did communicate that he was angry. That he was holding me accountable for the history and the dynamics he was describing. And that he expected me to listen, and then do something about it.

It made me sit up straight and pay attention in a whole new way.

And that has transformed into action. Into my anti-colonial deconstruction on here and my attempts to unpack the white unculture inside me and teach it to other white people. Into my support of land back. Into me trying to learn as much as I can about the Kootenai whose land I'm on. And about how to take better care of this land.

I was certainly deconstructing and learning long before Tiktok. But that medium added a whole other dimension to it.

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wim_v12e@tilde.zone ("Wim 🅾→Ⓣ") wrote:

A single flower has just opened on the dwarf cherry tree on the balcony. But the plum trees down the street are in bloom!
#photography
#bloomscrolling

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bee@tusky.pink ("Bee") wrote:

Yassss #Greens!

I’ve been voting for them for almost 25 years, hoping one day there would be a breakthrough in the two party deadlock.

Fuck #ReformUK and the politics of division. Here’s to hope but here’s to organising and doing the work. And also here’s to the only trans inclusive party left standing having a fucking WIN. I feel safer this morning. I bet a lot of other people do too.

#GortonAndDenton #UKPol #LoveWins #HateLoses

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TheZeldaZone ("Zelda 🎀") wrote:

"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

In lieu of facing, y'know, everything that is happening and all, I'm working through some of my nostalgia for the Atkinson dither by playing around with raven photos

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JoshuaACNewman@xeno.glyphpress.com ("Joshua A.C. Newman") wrote:

For me #retrocomputing is about the time when we dreamed that communication would make us wiser

When we could be free to play with ideas and share them with each other

To play until we uncovered new ways to think as a matter of course

I don’t want my Mac Plus and HyperCard back.

I want to build now what I wanted then.

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amoroso@oldbytes.space ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

Rupert Lane reconstructed the code of Joseph Weizenbaum's Online Programming Language (OPL).

Based on a printout of source code found among Weizenbaum's papers archived by MIT Libraries, I have reconstructed the language so it can live again for the first time in nearly sixty years on a IBM 7094 emulator running CTSS.

https://timereshared.com/reconstructing-joseph-weizenbaums-opl

#eliza #ProgLang #retrocomputing

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philpem@digipres.club ("Phil M0OFX") wrote:

There's an new book out on the history of Acorn and ARM - if you liked "Soul of a New Machine" you might like this. It's not a dry stuffy history book - it focuses on the people.

"Voices from a Future Passed: How the BBC, ARM and Acorn changed the world" by Rob Napier.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/VOICES-FUTURE-PASSED-Broadcasting-Corporation/dp/1764460804/
https://www.doitonce.net.au/

If you're local to Milton Keynes or visiting TNMOC, they had copies in their museum shop yesterday. I had a thumb through one yesterday and liked what I read :)
#retrocomputing

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