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I learned that you can replace the sleep mode overlay on my PocketBook with a custom image, and I just _had_ to doodle a eepy Miriel to put there
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Government must move away from toxic social media platforms | Open Rights Group [Video]
We shouldn’t be forced to use toxic platforms that track and profile us in order to get public information.
Platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube track and profile their users so that they can target advertising towards them.
Their business models fuel online harms by pushing more and more extreme content to users. Despite this, these platforms are one of the primary ways that government departments share public information.
Tell your MP to support the EDM calling on the UK Government to ensure that all public sector social media content is published on open, decentralised and federated platforms!
#socialMedia #UK #politics #UKpolitics #fediverse #initiative
wow... okay, das ist schon krass. Der Urheber dieses Blogs schreibt auf meinen, doch offensichtlich satirischen Tröt, dass wir nur noch generisches Femininum verwenden sollten:
"Ich freu mich jetzt schon darauf, von Menscheninnen zu lesen…"
Meine Erwiderung darauf:
"Menschen ist per se geschlechtsneutral und benutzt also kein generisches Geschlecht. Deshalb ist es sehr großer Unsinn, von Menscheninnen zu reden. Das ist genau der Spruch, den die blaunen benutzen um das Gendern ins Lächerliche zu ziehen."
Seine Reaktion: Wie ein beleidigtes kleines Kind direkt los zu plärren, ich würde ihn in die rechte Ecke stellen, spricht von ungerechtfertigten Nazi Vergleichen und kündigt an, mir zu entfolgen und niemals wieder über eines meiner Projekte berichten zu wollen.... und begründet das mit der Ukraine Flagge auf seinem Blog und einer vierstelligen Summe, die er der Ukraine gespendet habe....
ohne auch nur ein Wort der Verteidigung oder Erwiderung meinerseits zuzulassen.....
Und dann das:
@christin
Was ne arme Wurstin…
I have come here to chew bubblegum and touch grass... and I'm all out of bubblegum
Aaron Swartz was a digital rights champion who believed in the need for an open internet.
His life was cut short in 2013,
after federal prosecutors charged him under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) for systematically downloading academic journal articles from the online database JSTOR.
Facing the prospect of a long and unjust sentence, Aaron died by suicide at the age of 26.
Join us to celebrate the legacy of Aaron Swartzon Nov. 8, 2026.
With the organizers of Aaron Swartz Day, we’re honoring his life with an in-person and remote hackathon.
This event is supported by several organizations that carry on his work, including the Internet Archive
—which is hosting the in-person event
—the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Creative Commons and the Free Law Project.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/join-eff-celebrate-life-aaron-swartz
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Did you watch the news much when you were in your 20’s? Because i didn’t, hell I still don’t. Plus taking 50 credit hours with a little toddler baby raising them alone took every bit of my time.
Review unit is here!
MacBook Pro PROLED XDR, 16" nano texture, M5 Max, 128 GB of RAM.
The display is even better than I remembered.
What are your questions?
@viticci Does Safari seem snappier?
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When covid started I didn’t know anything about it. I wasn’t on Twitter or reddit or Facebook. I was in college, doing that and had a baby. We watched cartoons and when they slept I’d read and write. I had no idea until no one was on the road or at Walmart with me. I had no idea how to even get information about what was happening, so I went to the county website and found nothing. my professors stopped livestreaming and sent helpful information about it the same week so I got it.
Turned out the city had a Facebook page that people were getting their information from. And there was also a Twitter.
Then my kid gets to be school aged. The fucking school used Facebook and twitter to communicate with parents. I missed so many programs, and lacked information about everything that happened there.
Fucking hate it.
A man who is afraid of a lie will always be a fool. #proverbs
Mobilizon is getting a makeover!
The new organiser page or group page will be unveiled soon.
By the way, Mobilizon has a new logo: goodbye to the ‘O’, hello to the ‘M’.
https://
framagit.org/kaihuri/mobilizon/-/commit/05be8fa28873c8626c56d334c2e4702edb56a29a
The revamp has only just begun!
To support Mobilizon, click here: https://
mobilizon.org/support_en
@mobilizon FWIW for some reasons the links in this post aren't clickable from Mastodon.
@keydelk @woozle @Ashedryden and recall things like 27 rapes for example:
@werefreeatlast @keydelk @Ashedryden
The Dems have so much ammunition to work with; if they don't at least start a steady assault, then we need to do a revolt or something (again).
The DOJ Official Who Spent 19 Months Terrorizing Colleges Is Resigning – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/11/harmeet-dhillon-doj-resignation-higher-education/
Good news, Harmeet K. Dhillon, the Justice Department’s assistant attorney general for civil rights has resigned.
Dhillon undid years of diversity, equity, and inclusion work at more than 300 colleges by launching aggressive investigations, lawsuits, and pressure campaigns.
Under Dhillon, the Justice Department stopped investigating accusations of systemic racism or sexism and declined to investigate ICE officers’ fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis. Tasked with protecting the rights of people with disabilities, Dhillon has also used the r-word in casual social media posts.
Twelve South’s new Cablesnap charger has a built-in retractable USB-C cable https://9to5mac.com/2026/11/06/twelve-south-retractable-usb-c-charger/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
@garland @mattblaze @lawyersgunsnmoney I’m not -saying- it wasn’t happenstance but I mailed it in September, it arrived in LAX customs Sept 30, and was held there until exactly the day after the election.
@garland @hacks4pancakes @lawyersgunsnmoney @mattblaze
Why is customs holding a regular piece of paper mail anyway? I mean, at all? *especially* if it's marked as a ballot.
@simulo yes, the thesis I'm writing right now. gimme a few weeks :)
@simulo or you can go straight to the source and read the authors that introduced the concept, but tbh it's all quite dense and not at all a practical tutorial: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pst.175
this is why i'm writing this thesis, to make the concept more accessible to researchers who aren't total statistics nerds
Just a random geometric loop 🙂
A new day. A new chance to succeed.
Lots of moving parts this morning, each needing a little bit of attention, none needing a lot.
A day of potential just waiting for me to kick it into gear.
The temptation to dive in headfirst runs strong but I think I'm going to take a few minutes to just sip my coffee and enjoy the quiet before the storm to come.
The day will unfold as it will. I'm not going to fight it.
May all your moving parts move the way you need them to #today
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