Fun fact: @saikatforcongress.bsky.social is running against Scott Wiener, one of the members of our house who introduced the Palestinian book banning bill, AB 715.
So.
If you don't like book bans I wouldn't vote for Wiener! Just saying!
Meta is dropping encrypted messages from Instagram DMs from 8 May.
This means that your all private conversations will be readable by Meta, shareable with advertisers, and subpoenable by courts.
Privacy should be a default. Sign our petition.
www.mozillafoundation.org/petitions/ke...
Stan are you using a pen???
(28A is SERIF)
Crowd of protesters gathered behind a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire near an airport tarmac, waving Palestinian flags as cranes rise in the background. Overlaid text reads, “The Planes Across the Tarmac” and “At a civilian airport in a progressive city, the machinery of global war meets the question of who controls infrastructure.” By Alex Press.
“Every single time a FedEx plane lands & I’m watching them land, I wonder, ‘Oh, is that the one?’”
At Oakland’s public airport, @alexnpress.bsky.social reports, workers & organizers ask who controls civilian infrastructure when it becomes part of the war machine.
inthesetimes.com/article/logi...
Over the weekend, Trump bypassed Congress to give the Israeli military 12,000-1,000 pound bombs manufactured in the US by General Dynamics.
We are all haunted by the faces of ghouls like Trump, Musk, Epstein, Netanyahu
yet only one of them has the basic consideration to be a proper ghost
oooh, a beverage I've taken one sip of, where can I leave it for the next few hours
yyyup
A cool thing is putting your "representatives" on speed dial so you do your venting right into their voicemail. I guess
There has been a lot of reporting on facial recognition systems leading to false arrests, almost entirely of Black people.
Now we're seeing reports of automated license plate readers like Flock leading to the same thing.
Surveillance supercharges racism.
www.businessinsider.com/flock-safety...
rfk standing very normally in a steak and shake
leland palmer in the black lodge
brutalest
oh no I'm online
how many amps do you think the weedeater guy ruined in his career
Our software has worked reliably for decades using a few simple if-then statements. Let's replace them all with unpredictable, complex statistical models that are wildly computationally expensive, too
tapping the sign
my favorite part in Pluribus is when Carol looks at the camera and says "it's Plurbin' time"
who's up dealing 1240 damage to the architect
oh look, it me
I don't need an LLM, I can scroll through my open tabs until I find what I'm looking for and/or lose my shit
robots.txt that says 'fuck you'
was looking at my old website
when she gives you That Look
(the one that says she's deciding how best to murder you when you get to the end of this pun)
you could install docker, then you'd have two crimes
I am loathe to tell people what not do without giving them some useful advice for what they should do instead. If you are relying on Proton for "secure email" please read my security 101 guide for what to do instead and the limitations of all these tools hashman.ca/security-101/
(reading about children being bombed and people dying in concentration camps) oh fuck! gas prices!
oh no I accidentally glanced at hackernews, now I'm stupid and angry
They should invent a way out that isn't through
theparlourtrick.bandcamp.com/album/a-bles...
It’s Bandcamp Friday! Looking fir some haunted chamber music? Mer Yayanos has you covered.
