@Lemlems [grabs nearby rope which somehow lowers a 16-ton weight] ...Right, anybody else?
@fromjason PR and real goals are often serving two different ends; just at a glance, it seems obvious to me that the PR would aim for something more inspiring than "find your network of co-conspirators!" -- and of course a lot of the motivation even for the organizers may have been emotional rather than calculated.
Regardless of intent, though, they are still useful for that purpose, as well as helping morale.
(FWIW, I haven't attended any rallies, though I think it's great that so many people did.)
@gleick I started an online retail venture at about the same time as Bezos -- it wasn't hard to see the possibilities. (Unfortunately, I had no money and no investors; writing all the code yourself only goes so far.)
@kaia @yschaeff Are we going to start measuring vegetatively-exfiltrated data capacity in kb (kilobananas)?
Also: this means that infosec truly does need to learn how to defend itself against fresh fruit. Monty Python was right all along!!
@fromjason The "No Kings" style of protest isn't about disrupting; it's about networking. (...to oversimplify a bit.)
...and wow, I still can't decide if Thiel is honestly delusional or understands very well the manipulative BS he is spewing.
@davidgerard ....where by "users" we of course mean "dollars", um, I mean "donors".
Sorry, maybe I should have been more specific (except I'm being paid not to).
My nomination for today's #SuperbOwl.
The Cosmic Owl is two galaxies that crashed into each other, creating overlapping ring-shaped splashes of stars. It measures 150,000 light years from side to side, or about 10^20 times the size of a Great Grey Owl on Earth.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10058 #space #science #nature #sports
Help me Obi-Wan Fediverse:
I've discovered that by using my Android devices through a VPN address in an EU nation -- even though I reside in the Untied Snakes -- a lot of Google enshittification gets eliminated. (For example: Preventing YouTube links from working in DuckDuckPlayer.)
Now, pleez tell me that there is an Android OS that will work on a pre-2023 Motorola Moto G Power and a Samsung Tab A9+ tablet so that I can be done with this troublesome Google once and for all.
Greatly appreciate any guidance from the Fediverse hive mind.
#FediverseHiveMind #AndroidOS
@dthompson @eryn John Lennon, "Give Me Some Truth". CSNY, "Ohio". I'm sure I'll think of more later.
@hellomiakoda If you set up an SMTP server (e.g. Postfix) on your local machine, then set your remote email to always forward to that account, I think that would work.
...and then you can set up an IMAP server (e.g. Dovecot) on your local machine so you can access it with an email client at localhost.
The world is on fire, but here's a nice thing. A few months ago, a pigeon laid two eggs under our outdoor furniture on our balcony. We put a camera in there to keep an eye. The eggs hatched, survived, grew up, flapped their wings, and left the nest. :) Here's what happened & what we learned.
My family spent a year(ish) in England in 1973-4 (when I was 8ish) and I fondly remember TotP, cheesy as it was -- and being surprised, when I came back to the US, that some of the artists I liked most were unheard-of here.
(Also Dr. Who, but that's another genre entirely.)
be safe out there, friends.
but please, for all of us who are already disappearing, please, please do something to help stop this.
meaningful things in your community.
protect your neighbors.
print whistles.
deliver groceries.
demand action from your political peeps.
print fliers.
call out liars.
be the voice for the silenced.
be the arms for the broken.
be willing to run and hide and live another day.
Prove that we as a society meant it when y'all promised my mother's people "Never again" at Nuremburg.
and for the love of everyone who survived contact with the current crop of oligarchs, ceaselessly demand that they immediately release the full #Epstein files and pursue criminal penalties for the perpetrators.
do it for the children of tomorrow.
do it for all of us.
