Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I think a lot of folks are going to be all geared and gussied up to fight fascism and then find that it has come in the night to beat up some folks in that *other* neighborhood (you know the one) and they at most heard some sirens in the night. I think folks are so focused on being prepared, on their own safety, on knowing how to react, on being the target that they’re going to miss the fact that fascism might not care about them all that much.

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https://www.eviscerati.org/articles/2024/11/a-remarkable-bird-the-norwegian-blue-epilogue/

It's finally done! I'm finally convinced I've deleted as much of my Twitter feed as I can, so today I deactivated the entire account. In 30 days I'll be gone.

Will I be replaced by some rando nazi indulging in ubersoft cosplay? Probably not, I'm not really high on any celebrity list. I suppose it's possible.

Our friends @pmpress got these double-sided antifascist scarves made as the ultimate winter fundraiser for The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund!

Stay warm, look good, show solidarity with anti-fascists - what's not to like?

IT'S THE ULTIMATE HOLIDAY GIFT FOR THAT ANTIFA ON YOUR LIST!!!

Get it here: https://bit.ly/antifascarf

#antifa, #solidarity, #staywarmfightfascism

Hey fediverse tech brains... I've been trying to troubleshoot why Eviscerati.Org has been running out of space and the primary culprit seems to be /var/log/mysql:

In Toxic Avenger #2 I was able live out one of my dreams as a writer: creating my very own black ops squad of tight-knit buds with names like Harper, Dozer, and Big Bunny—then having a giant teen puke on them.

Reduce whale-ship strikes by making 2.6% of ocean surface safer, study says - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/21/reduce-whale-ship-strikes-ocean-surface-safer-study "Researchers identify collision hotspots around world but reveal almost all these lack preventive measures" hardly much to ask... #whales

I’m being told that the largest Mastodon instance - mastodon.social - is now hiding my profile.

One person telling me it’s because of German obsession with making up antisemitism where there is none.

Anyone who knows me and my work knows that I frequently platform critical Jewish voices. My MA thesis was on Yiddish and Hebrew, I do memory studies which includes Holocaust studies, and I am co-producing a Jewish podcast by three radical Jews.

So what’s up Mastodon? Am I too Arab for you?

Star Trek Picard is bad and for dummies, and you will have to fetch me the hemlock before I recant

This is as awful as it sounds. The House -- with a few Democrats in favor -- just voted to let Trump regime declare any nonprofit (e.g. university, civil-rights org, news startup, hospital and more) a terrorism supporter. No evidence required, but the penalty for the accusation is loss of nonprofit status. A financial death penalty.

School allows a pro-Palestinian protest? Nonprofit status gone. Watch for Planned Parenthood and ProPublica to be on the chopping block.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/hr9495-nonprofit-killer-bill-passes-house-trump-palestine-protest/

Huh, this is interesting: https://sherwood.news/business/tesla-has-the-highest-rate-of-fatal-accidents-among-all-car-brands-report/ Teslas have the highest fatal accident rate of any car in the US (and SUVs in general are twice the average for all cars)...

I've now created the ansible-community organization on @Codeberg to do exactly the same: https://codeberg.org/ansible-community

I'm not looking to justify my personal motives for this at this time but know that it is not meant to compete with https://github.com/ansible-community and does not intend to spur a migration from GitHub either.

It is meant to be a neutral, general purpose place to contribute on Ansible projects together outside of GitHub because the Ansible community exists outside of #GitHub.

Tech journalist Julia Angwin sees the light on why decentralized media -- the fediverse in particular -- can and should replace our current, corrupt centralized social media.

https://buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin/archive/the-right-wing-takeover-of-social-media/

I fear she mistakes the obvious head fake from Meta/Threads, and the increasingly likely one from Bluesky, as making them part of the fediverse.

"To all my writer friends that use MS Word - Microsoft has turned their Al bits and bots on to automatically go through anything done via Word. Here's how to turn it off. File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Connected Experiences"

On the Mac I found it under Word/Excel/Etc > Preferences > Privacy, and near the bottom was the checkbox for "Turn on optional connected experiences" which of course was on by default.

#office365 #AI #microsoft

@kyle
Well, that's the official line at least. But as I mention in the article, I don't believe they've successfully made that case.

The machines that could have conceivably "copied" their open designs were the cheap i3 clones of years past, which didn't prevent Prusa from dominating the high-end market and having their most profitable years.

But the modern competition is unlike any open printer Prusa ever made. They didn't need to copy Prusa when they already had the more advanced design.