Trump announced a massive new deal with a man connected to a $600,000 payment to the FBI informant convicted of lying to the FBI about Hunter Biden’s business decisions.
Trump’s Newest Deal is His Shadiest Yet
DAMAC has pledged to invest $20 billion. One of its board members was tied to lies about Hunter Biden.The New Republic
Okay my lovely nerds, I also intend to buy a few of the BTO options for the HP c8000. Does anyone happen to have one or more of the following:
Tape drives:
- HP DAT40i Internal DDS4 tape drive (C5686B)
- HP DAT72i Internal DAT72 tape drive (Q1522A)
- HP Ultrium 232 Tape Drive Internal (DW064A)
Monitor:
- HP LP2465 24-inch TFT Widescreen Flat Panel Display (1920x1200 resolution)
If so, let me know!
Moderating Threads at a Server Level for Indieweb.Social
A few days ago, I expressed concern over Meta’s new fact-checking and content moderation policies. When Thread announced its move to the Fediverse over a year ago, we chose not to take preemptive action.www.timothychambers.net
A wild batch of Other People's Music this week! Dark post-punk nostalgia! Weird sound collage! Weirdo folk! Emotive drone! And a bit of spoken word to cap it all off. Read it, and hear the music, here:
etherdiver.com/2025/01/10/opm-…
@electronicmusic
@experimentalmusic
@rockmusic
@folkmusic
#OPM #OtherPeoplesMusic #rock #PostPunk #Noise #Tape #AudioCollage #music #musodon #folk #indie #FreakFolk #SpokenWord #drone
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Les gars sont mal quand même parce que une fois goûté à l'émancipation on est pas prêtes à lâcher notre liberté et nos ardeurs
Nous sommes fortes, nous sommes fières, nous sommes joyeuses
Je vous aime les copines (d'ici ou du hip-hop)
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We must acknowledge that some people have always been above the law in the United States, News Editor Ashton Pittman writes.
Verheerende Brände in Kalifornien – Regierungsversagen und Missmanagement
Gründe für die verheerenden Brände katastrophalen Ausmaßes in Kalifornien sind mangelnde Vorsorge und komplettes Missmanagement der Verantwortlichen, denen es nicht gelingt, das Feuer einzudämmen: Feuerwehrleute fehlen, Wasserhydranten sind leer.Natalie Furjan (Tichys Einblick)
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Okay. Time is running short, but I have a few more projects I'd like to finish before #assemblyRequired and I'm turning to the fediverse for advice about one of them.
(This is a thread)
I keep sliding backwards in to this idea of a Community Entertainment Center.
A box that plays independent video games and let's you watch independent television networks (like #NewEllijayTellevision or @rstv ) and maybe some video on demand stuff.
(this is a thread! This is the part of the thread where I'm speculating around my own problem. If you're going to give me advice, please read the previous posts as well.)
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Feuerkatastrophe von Los Angeles: Der "Klimawandel" sieht plötzlich arabisch aus und ist
Kaum gingen die Bilder der Brandkatastrophe von Los Angeles um die Welt, stand Klimahysterikern Luisa Neubauer auch schon bereit, um diese auf den KlimawandelKurschatten (Journalistenwatch - Newswatch)
Secret Phone Surveillance Tech Was Likely Deployed at 2024 DNC
Secret Phone Surveillance Tech Was Likely Deployed at 2024 DNC
Data WIRED collected during the 2024 Democratic National Convention strongly suggests the use of a cell-site simulator, a controversial spy device that intercepts sensitive data from every phone in its range.Dhruv Mehrotra (WIRED)
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in reply to Tim Chambers • • •Tim Chambers
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in reply to Tim Chambers • • •SpaceLifeForm
in reply to Tim Chambers • • •This is the best approach. Limit. And encourage people to un-follow. It will get bad at some point, and then there will be no choice but to defederate.
Threads will never moderate.
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in reply to SpaceLifeForm • • •Jerry on Mastodon
in reply to Tim Chambers • • •Yes. Perfectly stated. This is the exact position taken here on hear-me.social.
I will add one additional perspective.
Servers that claim they "block Threads" or "block Meta" are not blocking Threads or Meta. Neither Threads nor Meta have any interest in joining their servers. What they are doing is blocking people who opened accounts on Threads. They are saying that they don't want to have anything to do with those people, most of who never heard of the Fediverse.
The result is, when someone on Threads asks "what is the Fediverse", the answer is, a bunch of people who don't want to talk to us because they believe they are smarter and better than us. The reaction? The people on Threads will never in their lives consider joining the Fediverse because they think we're a bunch of pompous arrogant asses who think we're better than everyone else. We've lost them forever because Fediverse people refuse to talk to their kind. I have seen these conversations so often there. Personally, I think their response is expected and understandable.
I prefer people on Thread
... show moreYes. Perfectly stated. This is the exact position taken here on hear-me.social.
I will add one additional perspective.
Servers that claim they "block Threads" or "block Meta" are not blocking Threads or Meta. Neither Threads nor Meta have any interest in joining their servers. What they are doing is blocking people who opened accounts on Threads. They are saying that they don't want to have anything to do with those people, most of who never heard of the Fediverse.
The result is, when someone on Threads asks "what is the Fediverse", the answer is, a bunch of people who don't want to talk to us because they believe they are smarter and better than us. The reaction? The people on Threads will never in their lives consider joining the Fediverse because they think we're a bunch of pompous arrogant asses who think we're better than everyone else. We've lost them forever because Fediverse people refuse to talk to their kind. I have seen these conversations so often there. Personally, I think their response is expected and understandable.
I prefer people on Threads have an opportunity to meet people on the Fediverse and learn what the difference is, rather than to hate us because they think we hate them. For Heaven's sake, 99% of them don't even know the Fediverse exists. Now, thanks to the blockers, they won't care to find out anything about it. I wouldn't either.
Tim Chambers
in reply to Jerry on Mastodon • • •william.maggos
in reply to Tim Chambers • • •what differentiates us from the open web where anybody can post almost anything and anybody can browse to it, is somebody can tag you. that allows people to push crap at you like with email. we should therefore have protection at the social media server level like we have spam protection.
but we don't have algos. you're only going to see what you kinda asked for, like with a browser. since #threads users can't even tag us yet, I don't see the concern here yet. but I'm a weirdo.
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in reply to Tim Chambers • • •Stefan Ferreira 🏳️🌈
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