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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

I love cats

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
so_treu@blackqueer.life ("RI DaSēr K") wrote:

"Black people in America did worse economically in 2025 than at any time since the Federal Reserve began its financial wellbeing survey in 2013, according to some measures published Wednesday.

More notable than the depressed financial situation of Black respondents is the gap between Black people and, in some cases, every other racial and ethnic group recorded."

Source: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/black-people-worse-trumps-economy-federal-reserve

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

cats!!!

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

Our ancestors must have had a deeper spirituality than we do, given their appreciation of diversity.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/25/the-fallacy-of-inferring-the-spiritual-superiority-of-our-ancestors/

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

New post: "The Best Worst Email Client" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/best-worst-email/

The Emacs-based mu4e email client is ugly, painful to set up, difficult to configure, and might be exactly what a tiny percentage of you are looking for.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“What separated the Sanders and Trump voters? Great replacement theory. Studies have shown that financial struggles due to economic crises do not automatically bring White voters—or men, or Christians—to great replacement politicians like Trump. What brings these voters to great replacement politicians in times of economic crises seems to be their hardening belief that their groups are under attack by ruling elites who are purportedly enabling peoples of color, women, and Muslims to replace them.”

‘Chain of Ideas: The Origins of our Authoritarian Age’ - by Prof I X Kendi

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
aesthr@wandering.shop ("Æ.") wrote:

Where I post from

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

True story: in our household we call breakfast "pronkfast".

I'm not lying it's an actual thing here

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

I've just spent almost two weeks in the Netherlands, and now that I'm back at Spain, I have to wonder:

Why the fuck do train stations in Spain suck so fucking much?

Barcelona-Sants is almost an airport, holy shit.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Whoever is dealing with Totolink devices is having a bad day

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
xssfox@cloudisland.nz ("xssfox (crossy)") wrote:

Know your rights. Not just around protesting, being arrested. But like, rental agreements, work contracts (especially if you are in gig economy role), health providers, banks. Help others know their rights. Know how to use those rights.

Shitty people get away with far too much because people aren't aware of their rights.

Someone wants you to sign something - don't sign it straight away. Someone doesn't want you to talk to your union - talk to your union (join one if you don't have one).

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
gavi@bagel.ing wrote:

Poor people deserve nice things

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Tutanota wrote:

Because we know that there is no backdoor for the good guys only!

Help us fight for Canadian's privacy & say no to this surveillance bill.

Send a letter to reject Bill C-22 here 👉 https://www.internetsociety.org/our-work/internet-policy/keep-canada-protected/

#Canada #CanadaBill #Surveillance

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Tutanota wrote:

🚨 Canada’s Bill C-22 is here & it’s the same surveillance bill from last year's failed C-2. 🚨

What does this mean?

❌ Your metadata would be stored by service providers for up to 12 months.

❌ The government would force these companies to build surveillance capabilities directly into their platforms.

Government calls it “lawful access” but we know that forcing providers to enable access to encrypted data puts EVERYONE'S privacy & security at risk. 😡

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

This is a VERY simple meal, and surprisingly easy to make for just one person.

First your ingredients:

- A bulb of fennel. It doesn't need the fronds but we will use them if you have them
- Yogurt. It can be vegan yogurt, there are many good ones on the market
- Pick up one of those weird "vegetarian burgers" in the vegan section where you're like, is that really a burger? I picked up "sweet potato and black bean", but get whatever: black bean and corn, chickpea and kale, the less like a normal burger the better (we are gonna serve it as its own thing)
- Citrus! Blood orange, or maybe lemon

The other things you should have on hand (some kind of oil, salt, black pepper, literally any green dried herb)

Okay we're gonna make it!

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
sanityinc@hachyderm.io ("Steve Purcell") wrote:

@technomancy @cwebber here's another fennel recipe a love: https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/quinoa-fennel-and-pomegranate-salad

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

it was actually published in 2006 which feels a bit late to ride the XML wave to me

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

Document insertion into a native XML Data Store (XDS)

sometimes you know what era a paper dates from without finding the publication date.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

dear academic friends with journal (including elsevier, alas) access:

could i please bother you for these papers? edit: 1 paper now

edit: got them all, thanks!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

I'm gonna take advantage of the long weekend to soft launch my business doing portrait, cosplay, and gaming photography.

https://eschate-blue.studio/

If you're in the #Seattle area, and want photos for speaker profiles, of your gaming group, or a bunch of stuff in between, hit me up.

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What do I mean by "soft launch"? I know the website is incomplete and still kinda sucks, I have limited availability for now until I get through my surgery next month, and my portfolio is still a bit thin.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dbattistella@todon.eu ("DB 🌱💦") wrote:

Look at what Google's AI just did to a Japanese artist...

It permanently banned their entire Google account, simply for uploading their own old manga files to Drive.

The artist's appeal was rejected. An algorithm decided that an artist's work was a violation.

And they didn't just lose Drive. Gmail, YouTube, every service.. gone!

Artists must take care. Never rely solely on the cloud for irreplaceable items like your own copyrighted data. Physical storage is the best approach.

#Google #GoogleDrive #GoogleAI #AI #Artist #Manga

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Pepijn@mastodon.online wrote:

As far as I have been able to figure out (also became a parent around that time, was distracted) this was very much linked Google experimenting with their "AI summaries".

Whenever Google enabled this in a region the traffic to https://overfishing.org just disappeared.

This had never been an issue with their previous version, the "Quick answers" snippets they had since the 2010s. These would not be rewritten by a machine, and did link back properly to actual carefully worded information.

3/x

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zkat@fedi.zkat.tech ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

What’s the point in doing open source when any amount of hard work and deep thought that you do is use as fuel for someone else’s half baked but “sufficient” slop, completely stripped of credit?

Why even participate in a system like that?

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

For instance, we're seeing substantial pressure from electeds even though the DOJ threw the match in Ticketmaster; this need-not be a one-off:

https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/at-spotlight-forum-democrats-sound-alarm-on-corrupt-doj-antitrust-settlement-that-allows-live-nation-ticketmaster-to-continue-abusing-its-monopoly-to-harm-music-fans-artists-and-venues

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

As in the Live Nation / Ticketmaster case, other actors will be able to develop the case further if/when the DOJ does the corrupt thing. Now's the time for anyone who cares about the web, privacy, and a future for computing that is not inherently authoritarian and oligarchic to make noise, both at a federal level, and with state AGs. It can matter.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@owa/116633879822356309

There was reason to fear this would not go to trial, and an utterly corrupt administration could still throw the match. Trump has been bought and paid for by Tim Apple, so the Ticketmaster "settlement" could see a replay, but as in that case, the trial record matters.

Getting Cupertino's actions on the record in the US will have ongoing reverberations, no matter how the judgements shake out in the short run.

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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

The 🇺🇸U.S. District Court for New Jersey is appointing three special masters to DOJ vs Apple to assist with the discovery process.

This case has important implications for ⚙️browser engines and 🌐web apps.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68362334/431/united-states-of-america-v-apple-inc/
🧵👇️ (1/5)

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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

The essence of the DOJ case is that Apple has made iPhones worse for US consumers in order to increase lock-in, reduce interoperability and block competitors from competing.

https://www.justice.gov/atr/media/1358786/dl?inline

🧵(3/5)

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Core to Hwang's thesis is these ads aren't just dangerous, they're also *ineffective*. The danger of ads is erosion of privacy and the mobilization of private data for state repression and fraud, but not particularly for persuasion. The idea that ad-tech companies have realized the ancient dream of building a mind-control ray via the novel technique of "hacking your dopamine loop" is a story that the ad-tech swindlers cooked up to *help them sell ads*:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/30/dont-believe-the-criti-hype/#ordinary-mediocrities

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

The only reason this wouldn't be obvious is if you've fallen into the trap of thinking "if you're not paying for the product, you're the product." Companies that cheat when the opportunity arises will cheat *everyone*: customers, users, regulators, suppliers and employees. You're the product if the company can get away with making you the product:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar

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