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Did you know that the @internetarchive has been archiving TV 24 hours a day since 2000, or that it digitizes about 3,000 books a day? Learn more about how @brewsterkahle and the Archive team preserve history on the new episode of “How to Fix the Internet.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/podcast-episode-building-and-preserving-library-everything

📣 The Tom the Dancing Bug Review just dropped!
"TOP TEN TOM THE DANCING BUG NEWSLETTERS OF 2025"
-The Tom the Dancing Bug Newsletters Report
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This week
🧠🐛 Medical advice from a brain worm
😬 "Needs more guns..."
🔴 🔵 🟡 🟢 "The Most Dangerous Game"
AND MORE!
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I had a wonderful time yesterday talking to folks at the @fediforum book launch event for Move Slowly and Build Bridges! It was especially fun to see folks who were interviewed for the book!

As usual, I want to share the text of my talk as well as the slides. You can see them here:
https://robertwgehl.org/presentations/fediForumBookTalkText.html
https://robertwgehl.org/presentations/fediForumBookTalk.html

The latter has alt text for images, and there's a "presenter view" if you want to see the text and slides together. (Marp ftw).

Also, this:
https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com//images/discountBill.png

I do not know how this website works but I hope we can say our beliefs that jokes are fun to tell with our friends and Nazis are bad and the people allowing Nazis to attack and kill us and our friends and OUR CHILDREN should be both stopped and replaced by idk communism 😊

Hello I am very angry to be here 😊 after getting my good true jokes published by The Federalist, I, like many of our trans leftist peers, have now been literally suspended from bsky for literally saying "rest in piss Charlie Kirk." To be fair I also said a bunch of very funny true things that I will happily read on the stand at the Hague 2 with my lips DIRECTLY on the MIC

The new CBS might not quite be state media, but it’s certainly going to be state-supervised media.

Congratulations to Kenneth Weinstein on the title, but the real bias ombudsman is Donald Trump.

Read more from FPF's Seth Stern in the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/12/cbs-bias-donald-trump

i feel like Ghost doesn’t get enough love for this feature

the party that's been wink-nodding political violence against their opponents my entire life cannot credibly demand a special exemption for Charlie Kirk, who himself explicitly said dead schoolchildren were a small price to pay for the 2nd Amendment

sorry! not buying it!

I really <sarcasm>love</sarcasm> how Windows lets me set a date and time for restarting after updates and then completely ignores my instructions and restarts earlier and wipes out work I was doing.

This is one reason I do most of my computing on a Linux machine...

I've always thought "I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure." is a great quote. It's often attributed to Mark Twain, but according to Snopes he never uttered it. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mark-twain-obituary-pleasure/ Ah well. I like it anyway, whoever coined it.

Susan Edmunds on RNZ just asked 'why would you want an Apple device'... and she talked about 'all my photos are on the iCloud', and then "I guess it's the 'loyalty tax'"... ugh. It's lock in that oblivious and credulous people fall for. As a species we need to sharpen up. A lot.

NFTs are going just great

https://news.artnet.com/market/christies-scraps-digital-art-department-2685784

The right in the US has a lot of fractures, as should be clear by now (MAGA vs Elon on immigration, MTG vs Trump on Israel, etc.), so this additional context shouldn't come as a surprise - Kirk's murder may have been over-determined, so to speak. Plenty of people have things to gain from this kind of event...and it's really got me thinking about things like "strategy of tension" and "years of lead." If you know, you know; if you don't, well...

Google is re-writing current events. Everything is working as intended.

https://gizmodo.com/google-is-telling-people-doge-never-existed-2000657051

#ChatGPT may start alerting authorities about youngsters considering suicide, says CEO - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/11/chatgpt-may-start-alerting-authorities-about-youngsters-considering-suicide-says-ceo-sam-altman just the start; expect it to "report" more things that you ask or say.... #privacy #surveillance

Delighted to share with you a brand new version of my video: "Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" ... with Finnish voice-over narration 🥳

https://peertube.wtf/w/dD9r3Nfn2jCfB9sUov2pRT

🗣️ VO by @zeggo
🎞️ produced & mixed by @jopa (who originally did the Finnish subtitles) 🏆

Thank you SOOO much Johannes! 💙

Hello all. I am very bad at asking for money. I find it very awkward. I have a paid subscription tier on my otherwise free newsletter, but it's not a popular one tbh. But if you have a few spare pennies and would like to support what I do I also have a Ko-fi too. Thank you!
https://ko-fi.com/designthinkingcomic

Yes, we should despise Big Tech/Telecom's vile CEOs. But as @pluralistic says in his latest Pluralistic post, first blame the policy monsters -- among them, Robert Bork, Bruce Lehman, and Ajit Pai -- who enabled Tech's vicious and destructive monopolists https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/say-their-names/

I love how the second part of Banksy's newest mural, which is a comment on censorship and oppression, was done by the very people he is critiquing.

Their response was predictable, and relied upon, and imho has created a masterpiece.