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Software engineer, bad endurance athlete, leftist, medievalist. he/him. #fedi22 [bridged from https://tilde.zone/@astory on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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If you’re in the EU and you opted out of Meta training generative AI on your Facebook, Threads and Instagram posts and pictures, Meta are requiring you to opt out *again* or they will continue training on your data. Users have until May 27 2025 to opt out again or forever lose the right […]

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

I was shocked that there was not a single book by Emma Goldman in my local public library. So I looked her up, and came across this 1919 work I hadn't seen before. DEPORTATION - Its Meaning and Menace It seems deportation without due process to gulags overseas is […] [Original post on mas.to]

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

(via tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/unatkozorobotok/782909145155338240?source=share) I can't decide if this is a fascinating activity for kids or just deeply strange.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

"monad" sounds like an insult and works pretty well as one. "Jeff? Ugh. Total monad. Good luck working with him." "I don't like to go there in the afternoon, place is full of monads, every machine is tied up and no one knows what they're doing."

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

Union building 101. https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114384996898350887

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I've got a quick favour to ask. If you're reading this post on Mastodon (or the Fediverse), please click share. How come? I recently moved across to my own self-hosted single-user server (using GoToSocial.org). For a bunch of reasons, including visibility across the Fedi, it would really help out.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

[Food] We put together a wonderful passover seder based on medieval food (and matzah) with some great friends and a liberatory Haggadah my parnter assembled. Pre-modern matzah is a _brick_. Tearing it in half was a feat of strength. #passover #MedievalCooking

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

THAT'S WHAT MEDIEVAL REENACTMENT IS MISSING!!! comb *cases*. indeed, those tines are delicate.

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Signal provides: - Excellent protection against third party interception of communications (wiretapping). - Limited protection against compromised (hacked) or lost devices - No protection against certain common usage mistakes (accidentally including a a reporter in your large group war […]

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Wow this is a big deal if peer review pans out! I remember palaeobotany class being really excited about the 2007 fossil microscopy conclusion that these weird things were fungi, but that didn't really solve the mystery because what the hell is an 8 meter tall fungus doing in a field of 3" high […]

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

We live in interesting times. Friend of mine is a scientist in France. He just got briefing on what to do when traveling to the US. He was told to use an empty, freshly installed laptop with nothing but his presentation on it. Uninstall all messengers and social media. If he has to surrender […]

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

These senators are—and I say this without hyperbole—absolute morons. Well, that is, except for the ones actually recognize the extraordinary power this will give the Trump administration to target online speech it doesn't like, and so are just morally corrupt.

submitted 60 days ago • 10 comments

Trumplumbia University “per mandatum tuum”

submitted 60 days ago • 13 comments

Someone riddle me this: Why would Trump's Jan. 29 Executive Order on "Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism" be given the executive order number it has, which is 14188? Surely, even with the flood of EOs this POTUS has issued already, we're not up to […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

[Tesla, NJ, 5k Purses] I've written a bit before about the expensive purse and car scene that orbits the 'luxury' shops on Madison and 5th Ave. in NYC. These are mostly young people 15-25 from NJ, The Bronx, Deepest Brooklyn, SI and Queens. They are mostly non-white. The way it works is the […]

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments