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Trump and Musk are doing a $350 billion pump and dump with your tax money. Trump’s “Crypto Reserve” is a money laundering scheme and you are being robbed blind.

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Bingo. Via Rupar: Wyden on why he's not attending Trump's speech tomorrow and instead is hosting a town hall: "We're not interested in hearing about the Donald #Trump alternate reality."

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Would be really cool to have an RSS bridge on mastodon that actually works. I’d love to be able to follow RSS feeds here. Did I miss any? The RSS bridges I’ve tried have been useless thus far.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Dit kan toch niet anders gezien worden dan Trump's volledige onderwerping aan Putin. Hoeveel rechtgeaarde Amerikanen kunnen dat accepteren? https://nos.nl/l/2558055

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There is something really repulsive about the fact that Fox News and CNN are now having long debates about the clothes Zelenskyy wore to The White House, and whether it was a problem, he did not wear a tie. It must be really awkward for all US servicemen and women who know what it takes to […]

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

What's to stop Musk, who's already tried meddling with German elections, from seizing Zelenskyy's, or any other European leader's X account, and posting something with dire geopolitical consequences? We're way past the point where it's wise for European leaders and institutions to rely on a […]

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

On encryption backdoors: Emergent Harms in the Security Group at the University of Cambridge have put out of a researcher paper around how over half of all cybercrime court cases in the UK are prosecuting UK police officers for abusing systems access […] [Original post on cyberplace.social]

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It’s not that often these days that I can feel any pride in my profession. Much respect to these people: https://apnews.com/article/doge-elon-musk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c #USpol

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Most people that are interested in alternatives to Big Tech (fast growing group thanks to 'orange face') stop trying as soon as they need to know their CPU to pick download, have to type 'pip something' in this weird text thing they never saw before, or get whatever 'obvious' computer-says-no […]

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Ik verneem dat zorginstellingen nu SharePoint-in-de-cloud gebruiken om medische gegevens van patiënten op te slaan, herkent iemand dit verhaal? Mail op [email protected] is welkom.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

#usa If you or a loved one was recently fired from a federal agency during your probationary period, and the reason you were given was poor performance, please reach out to us at http://Www.centerforemploymentjustice.com We have a plan and may be able to help you. Please share this info […]

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

My bro who’s on facebook tells me there’s a big anti trump fest brewing there. I guess zuck is going to get the “it would be sad if something were to happen with FB” call soon.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

If you want to see leadership in the face of metastasizing American fascism, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3_SLAzHMmc

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

The legality (not wisdom) of putting European private data on US clouds hinges on the availability of the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Trump neutered this board, and the European parliament has taken notice & asked the European Commission what they think:

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

You know why we Germans are so pedantic about data protection? Someone around 90 years ago went through all records available, selected people with certain criteria, with the help of IBM, and then killed them all. We don't want to be on any list. And now the US Gov and Musk is trying to get […]

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

#ElonMusk ridiculed a blind person on X. Then the mob went to work. Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette works at the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan watchdog group focused on reducing bureaucratic waste. He also happens to be blind. So when he criticized Musk’s US #DOGE Service in testimony […]

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Gulf of America: Mexico threatens to sue Google over name change of Gulf of Mexico on US maps | CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/17/americas/sheinbaum-google-lawsuit-threat-gulf-of-mexico-intl-latam/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=blueskyCNN&utm_content=2025-02-17T17%3A55%3A21 […]

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There's a nonprofit whose website I support that monitors the far right. They want to set up a mirror site in Iceland (or other country with strong data sovereignty laws) in case the Trump administration takes down their website. Does anyone have Icelandic hosting companies they recommend? The […]

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Thanks to the inspiration, and some useful pointers, by @rwg, my blog now also can pull in/display comments that are made as #fediverse-replies! Reply to this post and they will become comments for this blog post. 🚀 https://tzovar.as/commenting/

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

If you know of or are involved with an organization that helps people in a way that the #TrumpAdministration doesn't approve of, and the org is worried about continuing to do their work while protecting their employees, volunteers, and clients, I am happy to meet for free with the org to work […]

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: A bunch of U.S. Digital Service employees (including me) were fired tonight. It's still unclear exactly how many. There is no visibility whatsoever into what determined who was let go. Legacy USDS (i.e., pre-DOGE) leadership was not involved in the decision about whom to let go and […]

submitted 17 days ago • 15 comments

A thing me and my fellow liberals need to let go of is pointing out right wing hypocrisy. It feels good when we notice it but they have not given a fuck about their own hypocrisy for the last 50+yrs.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Twisted Pine (My Heart's in the Highlands), Scotland (2024). This seemed a fitting image to share on Valentine's Day, as the first thing I saw from this viewpoint was the heart-shaped loch. The autumn colour this last year was absolutely exceptional — quite unlike […] [Original post on mas.to]

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Gevaarlijke besmetting heeft deze James Donald Bowman opgelopen! Tijdens de presidentsverkiezingen van 2016 was Vance een bekende criticus van de Republikeinse kandidaat Donald Trump. In een USA Today-column van februari 2016 schreef hij dat "Trumps feitelijke beleidsvoorstellen, variëren van […]

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Hey @brewsterkahle I was wondering whether there’s a possibility to use http status code 451 “not available for legal reasons” in case of mandatory takedowns. In which case we would at least know a record exists.

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It's impressive that the company name OpenAI manages to fit three lies into a single word of only six letters: * Neither the code nor the training data is open. * What the company offers is not artificial, it's knowledge provided by millions of humans. * And it's not intelligent, it's stochastic.

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Here's the just filed complaint from a coalition of states suing Musk and DOGE directly for violating Appointments Clause and acting without any Congressional authority per the Constitution. Spearheaded by #NewMexico AG Raul Torrez […]

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's a little archiving tool I created based on @simon's shot-scraper and @webrecorder's pywb: https://github.com/anjackson/sliver #WebArchives

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Current sitch at Harris Teeter (these posts are good now, I fear)

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The NYT has published a useful graphic showing all the agencies with investigations into or regulatory battles with of Musk's companies that have seen staffing cuts, including the firing of top officials. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/politics/elon-musk-companies-conflicts.html

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Govt: Wear face masks at work for your safety Response: Government can’t tell private companies what to do. Govt: Get rid of your DEI programs Response: Ok

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This is not how true American law enforcement works. These thugs had no uniforms, showed no identification, presented no warrants. This is just another demonstration of the fall into authoritarian tyranny with the Trump and GOP genuflection […]

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Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. "More than 150 scientists and other experts had collectively spent thousands of hours working on the report, a first-of-its-kind assessment of nature across the United States." […]

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A reminder that "executive orders" are exactly that - orders from the president for the executive branch. They are not laws, and they do not directly bind anyone not in the executive branch of the US government. They might affect how laws are enforced and other things the executive branch does […]

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

«'Vorauseilender Gehorsam' and making open science 'unpolitical'» I've written why SPARC's betrayal of removing all mentions of equity, diversity & inclusion stings particularly hard and why we shouldn't forget this. #openscience #openaccess https://tzovar.as/vorauseilender-gehorsam/

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

I get so incensed at all of the security theater for fucking banks, medical providers and the like when these monopolistic corporations are constantly hemorrhaging our data. Oh, the burden is on me to jump through these hoops..make new passwords... type in fucking 12 digit 2-factor codes […]

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Shouldn't Europe think strategically and generously offer asylum to excellent American scientists?

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New in shop!!

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment