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An interesting read on Model Context Protocol, which I've heard of but haven't read anything about until now. (Probably to-be standard disclaimer: ceding this space to the billionaires is a bloody mistake. Might as well cede the rest of public infrastructure -- they're attacking through all […]

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Where we are.

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Saying the quiet part out loud: billionaires don't want the little people around, they want us to quietly go away and stop existing on their dime (because obviously all the dimes belong to the deserving poor, er, billionaires). This is eliminationist rhetoric, aimed at you (and me) […]

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I really am an anarcho-capitalist. Over a sufficiently long time frame. The comparison I've used a couple of times is that of putting children out the door when they are 3 years old. Or 8, or 12. They're not ready. The only real argument I ever had with Amy about raising children was in […]

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If any journalist going to WWDC is reading this, I would love it if you could press folks involved with App Review to give a statement on what their plan is for when armed DOGE agents extrajudicially seize the app store's datacenters in order to deploy tracking software to migrants & trans […]

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I swear, Nazis go to bed and get up thinking about cock. Even the ones not closeted (most of them aren't, though it doesn't seem like it sometimes) ... are obsessed with gay imagery. You can't read a passage about gay/trans people without one of them offering "forcing it down my/our throats."

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I hear I can get up to $900 in rebates on the Samsung Galaxy s25. The rebate is about twice as much as I'm willing to spend on a phone.

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If you think I'm talking about you, I might be. A sufficiently long string of negative comments will get you blocked. If you're sad and angry, man, I get it. But bringing everyone else down during difficult times is its own kind of mistake.

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Doomsday - cast so far Robert Downey Jr. as Doom Chris Evans denies he is returning Asgardians Tom Hiddleston as Loki Chris Hemsworth as Thor Avengers-ish Paul Rudd as Ant-Man Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson Danny Ramirez as Joaquin Torres/the new Falcon Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes Wyatt […]

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There was a woman wanted to date me once, bright, funny, cute. "Do you really think Doctor Who is something for adults?" she asked. We did not date.

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I like Ukrainians.

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What kind of scam is this? It's the second time she's messaged me, she has zero followers and follows zero people. I clicked through to friendica, it's a dead account there too. Phishing, at a guess, but better constructed than most such attempts.

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I've read more feminist literature than most women, more black writers than most black people. Certainly it informs my writing. But you have to be humble. Well read black people, well read feminists, have read far more on their subjects than I ... and have lived their lives, which the most […]

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Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief. By Jeffrey Goldberg and Shane Harris https://archive.is/kLcRz

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I don't read paper any longer, not by choice. Too hard with one eye. I've told people occasionally over the years I'd read 600 volumes of history & biography, which is true. I know because I once owned 500+ volumes, circa age 35, and I'd read them. (One guy right around 2000 diagnosed about […]

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From billybongos1337 on the Bad Place: "If you are abducted by an ICE agent, you can be sent to that gulag in El Salvador, potentially for life, with no judge, jury, or court date or records of your disappearance. On the other hand, if you shoot an ICE agent, you will be apprehended by local […]

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I need to retain a liberal, competent accountant in the Greater Los Angeles area. Competent and anything but liberal won't work, this is for a political project. Any references appreciated.

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Here's a useful bit of text: "I'm not taking your anger at [group I belong to] personally. Not even, or perhaps especially not even, if you want me to." People are entitled to their anger. Lord knows mine has been useful to me. But you don't have to accept delivery of it.

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I think where people hang up on our modern Nazis, is on the idea that they cannot be both complete clowns, and legitimate dangers. You can see it in the use of Signal for war planning. Clowns. Incompetent clowns, because they invited a reporter into the chat group without realizing. But they […]

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A coworker some years back called me a race traitor for voting for Obama. Ran across him recently on social media. He's gone "never Trumper." I was tempted to ask him if I was still a race traitor, but instead I just let it go. I suspect the answer is yes.

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I've noticed something that I think is worth pointing out: pretty much ALL of the pushback I have gotten on LinkedIn over the past few months over stories critical of this administration has come from men in IT. Many of whom no doubt idolize Musk, who in […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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Yeah, I'm ready already. https://youtu.be/_xuo_FvPI18?si=LxYYfH7MClICdl99

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https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-democrats-corporate The bending at the knee of law firm Paul Weiss to Trump is stunning. Weiss is the traditional home of the corporate wing of the Democratic Party and has traditionally served as the Democrats' government-in-exile during […]

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A buddy who has spent his life studying philosophy didn't like my post on the subject the other day, "monkeys manipulating symbols." I am not nearly as well read in philosophy as some people -- I've sampled a dozen writers in the field, without any particular sense I'd spent my time wisely […]

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I think I have finally given up basketball for real. I've been whining about it for decades, because it's been visibly coming for decades. But the last time I played my son, I wrenched something in my right knee, the sort of injury I've had dozens of times over the years -- but instead of […]

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Almost all philosophy is monkeys arranging symbols into attractive patterns. 1 Do no harm. 2 Protect the innocent. I can stand on that. It's not a rock, but it's pretty solid. Near everything else I've ever seen that I like is some flavor of 1 & 2, or something I disagree with. On my […]

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Trump’s inauguration was really big this y… wait… oh, that is AOC and Bernie Sanders speaking to 34,000 people in Denver, Colorado, on their Fight the Oligarchy tour. In 5 events across the US, 86,000 people have showed up.

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The Democratic establishment was of modest utility when this country was a democracy. I wouldn't rely on them to keep you from being kidnapped and murdered by fascists today, though. Better be armed.

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The Democratic establishment was of modest utility when this country was a democracy. I wouldn't rely on them to keep you from being kidnapped and murdered by fascists today, though. Better be armed.

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Empires by longevity: Byzantine Empire, 1123 Holy Roman Empire, 1006 Zhou Empire, 790 Ethiopian Empire, 704 Carthaginian Empire, 668 Khmer Empire, 629 Ottoman Empire, 623 Roman Empire, 503 Parthian Empire, 471 Han Empire, 426 ... United States. 80. Eh.

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