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It's sorta funny to see the diff where Mozilla removes the phrase: > Unlike other companies, we don’t sell access to your data. > from their ToS. 😬 > https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e

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I feel as if we're capable of acknowledging that a one-day boycott is mostly symbolic without becoming contemptuous and dismissive of people finding a little meaning and comfort in such a symbol. The scorn seems petty.

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@lgbtqia We are struggling to meet the needs of our non-us passengers. Once we start moving someone, we have to keep going until they are safe, and we have had several unexpected large expenses. So we are approaching a situation where we won't have funds to support those on the road and in […]

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A brief note before the mass graves part of this techno-fascist regime begins: “I was just following orders” wasn’t accepted as an excuse at the Nuremberg Trials and won’t be accepted when this regime is finally ousted either.

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The problem with niche passions is that you have to explain why things that you do are cool, but they still don't care even after you explain.

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At University of Cambridge, I was asked if I maintain a sense of optimism about climate change. My answer: Yes, because unlike cancer, where we often don't know the cause and don't have a cure, we know exactly why global temperatures are rising and how to stop it. We just need the political will.

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When individuals and publications labor to construct the intellectual and moral justifications for genocide, I think they should be treated like people doing that.

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Attempting to describe the current American political situation is a grimly laughable mindfck because it triggers all the mental alarm bells that are meant to help you avoid sounding “unhinged” or “dramatic” in polite conversation when really we’re just in an objectively insane situation

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"As Trump burns these trade deals to the ground, the rest of the world has an unprecedented opportunity to retaliate against American bullying by getting rid of these laws and producing the tools, devices and services that can protect every tech user (including Americans) from being ripped off […]

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#GoodWords “What radicalized you? Nothing. Not wanting people to starve and suffer is not radical, it’s normal. Stop saying it’s radical to be base level empathetic, and start asking what made people into sadists. Call out sick behavior, because I’m tired of people thinking kindness shouldn’t […]

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GET READY: This Friday is the BUY NOTHING day of protest. We are millions. Let's demonstrate OUR economic power, simply by buying nothing. No big chain stores, big boxes, no Amazon, no online shopping. You can shop on Saturday starting at 12:01 in the morning. If you have to shop, buy local […]

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at the observer, got to write about Gilliam's Brazil at 40, and how (unlike Orwell) it understands that fascists are often really incompetent, which makes them even more dangerous. observer.com/2025/02/terr...

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The "trolling" is also part of the point. It allows them to insist they're not doing what they're actually doing, until it's too late, and then they admit "of course that's what we're doing." Just like the "we're not doing Project 2025" -> election -> "of course we're doing Project 2025."

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Also: I’m laying a bet that soon either Musk or the administration will float the idea that DOGE’s administrator and staff must be anonymous because of the threats to them. Like a king’s headsman in a mask.

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The expert: All these plane crashes aren't actually statistically worrisome Me: Oh good, so I shouldn't worry? The expert: No, you should worry lol www.theverge.com/planes/61743...

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They Live (1988) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/ #uspol #movies #trump #musk

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Anyway buffoonish hack Ed Martin probably won’t approve charges against right-wingers. So if you’re in DC, deciding what level of force to use against a Trumpist, consider they can kill or assault or rape you without being charged or with the promise of a pardon, and act accordingly.

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AP: Utah close to fully banning fluoride in water, stripping cities’ ability to decide Utah appears to be the first state ready to put a full ban on fluoride in public water systems under a bill that doesn’t allow cities or communities to decide whether to add the cavity-preventing mineral […]

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European Council President Antonio Costa says Ukraine’s future could depend on admission to the European Union. Read more from @euronews https://flip.it/_j-8rq #Ukraine #Europe #EU #Costa #Russia

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The US Department of Defense now has a CISO appointed who had their security clearance suspended in 2021 by the NSA. The person responsible for coordinating national cybersecurity policy in the US also has no prior cybersecurity (or technology) experience […]

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While we are cutting costs it’s pretty clear that all of the Republicans in Congress could be very inexpensively replaced

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First term CS: Build a calculator app. Third term CS: Build a client-server system. Sixth term CS: build a high performance distributed computing system. PhD in CS: Build a calculator app. https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app 🤯

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If you continue to work at an Elon Musk company with a job title of Engineer or higher, you are explicitly a Nazi Collaborator and you should expect to be treated as such for the rest of your life. hth

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i don't know how anyone working at meta can post gleefully that meta is hiring a ton and you should consider working there

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Extortion Inc. Exclusive: US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources | Reuters "During the meeting, #Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested […]

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I feel compelled to tell you I bought full coverage Australian health insurance today. It is $17 USD a week.

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“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

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Tomorrow in the NYT: I voted for Donald Trump because I hate the people he hates and wanted to see them suffer. Now that I am suffering, why can’t you find it in your heart to be sympathetic? RUDE

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#USpol #PolitcalCartoon #NoKings

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