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@nomdeb@mstdn.social @mcnado@mstdn.social I would love to see a list of those arenas plus all the other businesses owned by the same people. Boycott all of them. Make them feel it.
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mastodon 4.7.3pro-compassion, therefore:
anti-bigotry, anti-fascism, anti-puritanism
I'll listen to you if you'll listen to me.
As an active pacifist, I try to separate people from their toxic beliefs.
I write open source software for human rights.
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@josephcox@infosec.exchange why would Google do this, if not to invalidate satellite imagery and open data research? :(
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@Sheril@mastodon.social sounds very timely indeed, and very insightful. Have you shopped it around?
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@D4lt0n@infosec.exchange @mattblaze@federate.social the trump supporter who now owns CBS (David Ellison, son of Larry Ellison) installed the pro-trump Bari Weiss as head of CBS, who now asserts editorial control over the network. This has led to censorship of the show 60 Minutes, blocking stories that reflect badly on trump and everything he's doing. This censorship has destroyed the credibility of 60 Minutes and CBS. One of 60 Minutes' reporters, Scott Pelley, called this out in a recent staff meeting, and was fired.
All to say, CBS and 60 Minutes are no longer to be trusted. :(
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@evacide@hachyderm.io someone pointed out that there's copper and even a gram or two of gold in each Flock camera.
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@AkaSci@fosstodon.org ruining American leadership in scientific research is exactly what they/Putin want to do. :(
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@evacide@hachyderm.io they thought that because the snake-oil salesmen told them so. At least they're figuring it out now.
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@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk the humans may seem uncannily sentient, but in fact they're just stochastically regurgitating text fragments that chatbots have trained them on. See:
https://posts.rat.pictures/@hannah/116733275752439635
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@evan@cosocial.ca I knew an A&R guy (music industry) who gave me the Orb's "Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld" in 1990 and enthusiastically told me to check this out, it was really great and it was where music was heading. I didn't get it at first but he was right!
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@malwaretech@infosec.exchange reminds me of the 1990s (?) dirt-simple exploit whereby you could crash a Windows machine merely by sending it any OOB packet. Yes, I tried it and it worked. I later saw code for it in an exhibit of various exploits at Madrid's Reina Sofia art museum. Cool exhibit.
Edit: Found it-- it was called WinNuke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke
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@flexghost@mastodon.social what, no one posted this yet?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY
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@samlitzinger@journa.host I'm wondering if soon the team could get back together, outside of CBS.
I mean, if Colbert could do it....
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@defcon@defcon.social if you see someone wearing them in public, start filming that person aggressively and unapologetically.
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@evan@cosocial.ca we got an orange day in SF in 2020, and it made big news. Sorry that's happening every year for you now. :(
At least in SF, the thick smoke was far from the ground, so we weren't breathing it.
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@tinker@infosec.exchange I'm not a kernel developer, but if there are truly a bunch of Linux devs jumping ship to BSD, then are there enough of them to just make a Linux fork instead? I thought the argument against a fork was essentially that there wouldn't be enough personpower to develop it as well as the fork that Linus controls. Am I missing something?
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@Nonilex@masto.ai the US team should bench Balogun for this game, to remove the asterisk from their potential win. What's the point of winning if you cheat to do so?
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@heidilifeldman Alito seems to confuse his being offended with an actual rebuttal. (A lot of people make this mistake in various contexts.)
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@annaleen@wandering.shop right? If I'd known, I would have followed alt.food.lunch a lot more closely.
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@samlitzinger@journa.host if they could produce the show each week and get a large following on e.g. YouTube, I wonder if they could angle for a syndication contract. With terms guaranteeing full editorial control and a strong union, of course.
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@samlitzinger@journa.host I'm reminded of Elijah McClain, who played violin for cats at the local shelter.
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@karlauerbach@sfba.social someone posted that because trump withdrew the lawsuit it removed the judge's oversight, but IANAL and that could be wrong.
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@evan@cosocial.ca yes, but don't trust it to find all the errors. It's also better if a human reviews the error reports, rather than just plugging the error list output into another pipeline.
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@starlily whatever, Internet rando. We already have a whole party that are actual traitors. My proposal would get rid of them.
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@codinghorror @heidilifeldman @jwz I suggest the following scenario:
1) Two different constitutions are proposed, perhaps based on the current one, but one appeals to the left and one to the right.
2) Each state's population votes on which they prefer.
3) The US splits into two countries based on which states support which constitution.
This approach might even get bipartisan support.
Unfortunately, this abandons vulnerable populations in the red states, but right now everyone is suffering anyway. The new "blue state country" should allow immigration from the "red state country" to mitigate this.
Hey, if we split again and the red states *don't* implement slavery this time, I'd call it a win.
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@starlily he's already divided the US, and we're currently ineffective against him anyway. The "blue state country" would be much more able to check Putin's actions than the US is today. Also, a hard ejection of the fascism would give us a chance of regaining international trust, which is lost now.
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@Tzipporah@turtleisland.social something that helped me was to get a mic on a stand, a way to mix your voice with music from streaming/CDs/etc., and headphones to listen to that mix as you sing. The headphones really help you hear how you sound.
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@samlitzinger@journa.host it's Republican projection, again (and I'm including Fetterman in that). That's how they treat Democratic presidents, so they assume tribalism is the only reason we don't like trump.
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@evan yay, kudos for addressing this! It's true that not all participants would want to identify themselves, e.g. to all friends of friends when replying to a friend's private post. I think it's OK for such repliers to still be identifiable to (only) their friend the OP. Otherwise, harassment would be more possible if the reply were completely anonymous, whereas if the OP knows their identity they can use social pressure to mitigate harassment.
One challenge is if Alice posts and Bob replies, and Bob is blocking Charlie, then how does Alice (or Alice's server, e.g. an MLSGroup) know not to forward Bob's reply to Charlie, unless Alice knows that Bob is blocking Charlie? Blocklists are private information. One possible solution is to use Private Set Intersection (PSI) to determine the intersection of Alice's recipients and Bob's blocklist. PSI is slow and typically requires recalculating every time one of the sets changes, but Updateable Private Set Intersection (UPSI) can handle set changes quickly.
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@samlitzinger@journa.host I'm guessing she's in the files too, based on her legal corruption in Epstein's Florida case.
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@dangillmor@mastodon.social over the years, I've asked many self-identified conservatives what "conservative" means anymore. I've never gotten a straight answer.
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@evan
UPSI is fairly new technology, just a few years old. I haven't used it myself, but it could be part of the solution for the blocking problem you refer to.
This was all true as of around 2022, when I was looking into this issue of blocking and private posts, while trying to keep blocklists private.
If I understand it correctly, I like your MLSGroup solution.
I guess I should have posted this to the GitHub thread.... :/
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@karlauerbach@sfba.social seems like that removes any judicial oversight from all settlements, since the parties could always just agree to withdraw the lawsuit as part of their settlement. What am I missing?
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@mattblaze@federate.social I would think the Democrats would want expulsion, so Beshear could appoint his replacement. But I don't know the relevant Kentucky law.
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@samlitzinger@journa.host Rubio said this afternoon that the offensive phase of the war is over, leading me to wonder if the US is just in a defensive war now.