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Finally. A major media outlet has finally reported on Trump’s total travel ban for transgender visa applicants seeking the United States. I had to scream for two days to get someone else to report on it. It is NOT just for athletes. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

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I'm already hearing about another boycott/walkout starting March 15, and another one March 28. We may not have to wait until 2028 to see a general strike. #economics #labor #boycott #EconomicBoycott #GeneralStrike

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Thanks, @globalvoices! If you know where to look then the Internet, like television, still delivers quite a lot of its promise of learning about people you didn't know of and what their experience has been, what they have suffered, what they have achieved, what they bring to this world. What […]

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Last year, Google removed some observances from the calendar it provides to Google Account holders. https://www.theverge.com/news/608858/google-calendar-missing-events-holidays Here is a list of observances and dates in case you want to put them back: Black History Month — February Hispanic […]

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via @kottke: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2025/02/surviving-fascism-lessons-from-jim-crow/

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https://streetartutopia.com/2025/02/20/peace-street-art/

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Number of times posted in 2025: 1 Stencil spotted in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

A friend and colleague recently shared their alarm over "AI" being able to change its own programming. I explained that self-modifying code, that is code that changes itself while it is running, has been a thing for decades. They thought I wasn't alarmed therefore, but oh, I am. Just because […]

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Some terms I want to be using more often: Wiki - as tech, and as social phenomenon. Any archive with an active group of people building or working with it is a wiki. Blogs & blogging. (Most of what people mean when they say "social media.") Computer — including your "phone" or pocket […]

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

'Branch is urging federal employees who believe they were illegally fired to collect any feedback or comments they received that refute the government's claim that their performance was somehow poor or inadequate. "They can't tarnish your reputation. They can't infringe upon your liberty […]

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Remember MapQuest? Here is a fun reason to visit their website again: https://gulfof.mapquest.com/ #maps #uspol

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/cisa-election-security-freeze-memo/

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

One of my commitments this year is to learn more about and practice more beloved community. https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/for-good-men-filled-with-kings-love-on-valentines-day-kpkn/

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https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-things-to-do-if-trump-wins/ - Any time you start to feel lost this may be a helpful list (and website) to return to. The Empowerment Manual — Starhawk F.D Signifier: https://www.youtube.com/@FDSignifire Safeguarding Research/Culture […]

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I wrote this piece less than a month ago. It is haunting now in entirely new ways beyond how it was then to write it, in the midst of apocalypses that had already occurred and were underway. "The apocalypse arrived a while ago, it's just not evenly distributed." […]

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Started my wood carving class last night! We are doing relief carving; I chose a Green Man pattern as my first design I’ve only done a little figure carving so far, with a knife, so the relief carving and using chisels was really cool and very different Excited to learn more! #woodCarving

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Lily Zheng, author of "Reconstructing DEI," observes that if a company is able to eliminate its DEI initiatives overnight (in deference to the Trump-Musk regime), that raises serious questions about the depth and sincerity of those initiatives.

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Ralph Nader has been nearly as constant as Bernie Sanders in US politics, in my lifetime. https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/11/a-trumpian-fascistic-coup-is-underway-stop-it-before-the-terror-starts/

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

He thinks he's in charge now. It's a very dangerous moment. Hold your loved ones, close, take care of each other. Keep listening/reading as you can. Keep speaking up and with each other. They have chosen to do this the hard way, we have a lot of hard work to do but many of us were already […]

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Free story title and idea: Fifty First Turing Tests #llm #ai #story #hacking

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

I have little hope for the Democratic Party. If they listened to this sort of thing and took it to heart more, I suppose that could shift? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHeg8_6i-tE

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Drop what you are doing and read this incredible story from Wired, if you can. After that, come back here. https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-tesla-sexy-path-networks-doge/ It mentions that a 19 y/o man who's assisting Musk's team and who has […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

It's not "DOGE" any more, they merged it with the US Digital Service and renamed it. So the correct acronym is USDS, which now stands for United States Department of Government Efficiency Service. Acting Director Ted Carsterson, earlier today: "I am not taking the fork, but after discussions […]

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Democrats have two pieces of leverage — some of their votes will be needed to raise the debt ceiling, and some will be needed to pass Trump's budget. Will they use that to negotiate an end to the Constitutional crisis? I just called my representatives and exhorted them to refuse to participate […]

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

This guy and Wired are doing some really good work reporting as live as possible on what is going down with the federal government's core financial and other information systems […]

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Just sitting hear daydreaming of a conversation with aaron swartz and Candice King on what's happening right now in the world... 😭 😭 😭 #comrade #eugene #Internet #oregon #usa #us #world #Gaia #solidarity #anarchist #anarchism #freedom #power #labor #progressive #left #socialist #socialism […]

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From Kim Kelly on Twitter: 'Apparently there’s a “kickoff” meeting between the DOGE people and Department of Labor management planned for tomorrow at 4pm ET.' https://x.com/GrimKim/status/1886898588099240401

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Google 'has rewritten the principles guiding its use of AI, dropping a section which ruled out uses that were "likely to cause harm".' https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy081nqx2zjo

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

If you are an "insubordinate" US AID worker, I ❤️ you. Rubio 'blamed the change on US AID] workers’ high levels of “insubordination.”' for [https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/03/us/trump-usaid-news https://archive.ph/Ydlcz#selection-677.332-677.399 (archive link) #love #gift #mutualaid […]

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In the right context, swearing can be unbelievably effective. Here's one example I didn't see coming: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/just-give-me-the-fing-links-cursing-disables-googles-ai-overviews/

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

❤️ 💔 Tonight, 9pm til 1am at The Side Pocket: "The owners will match sales made of 'Weller' whiskey to be donated to Candice King's family. As well we will have a fundraiser/ raffle. Prizes vary and you must be present to win. Karaoke will start at 9pm. Come join us. Prizes include gift […]

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

❤️ 💔 Tonight, 9pm til 1am at The Side Pocket: "The owners will match sales made of 'Weller' whiskey to be donated to Candice King's family. As well we will have a fundraiser/ raffle. Prizes vary and you must be present to win. Karaoke will start at 9pm. Come join us. Prizes include gift […]

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

A snapshot of what's already happening in academia. Read the whole thread: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gqci2kowewtjmhvzqvdlcdq3/post/3lgwipdff5k2i

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

I had thought of Trump's appointees' inexperience/incompetence as an issue separate from their far right/antidemocratic sympathies, but Ruth Ben-Ghiat points out that the former, too, suits the purposes of a would-be strongman.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Some lessons, you will find yourself learning again and again. This is just how it is. #learning #iteration #life

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Today I learned that CalVolunteers is bigger than the Peace Corps. o_O https://www.californiavolunteers.ca.gov/after-the-election-california-yes-that-hellscape-will-keep-moving-the-world-forward-no-matter-what/

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Relieved to see the release of Israeli/other hostages and prisoners of war, who were being held in Gaza. Wish more outlets acknowledged that many of the people being released from (or still held in) Israeli prisons are also, in effect, hostages, political prisoners, or prisoners of war […]

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

When the government is cracking down on you, for feeding people: https://solidaritynews.org/2025/01/28/neighbors-feeding-neighbors-says-citys-actions-against-it-are-unconstitutional/ #food #humanrights #Eugene

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

On the topic at hand, I highly doubt that 'social media' will ever be a very clear or useful term. It has done a lot of harm so far, better language might start to mitigate that.

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