i'm shocked. shocked.
well. not that shocked
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Cyber experts say they have found holes in Brussels’ age verification app, despite claims by the EU executive that it is “technically ready.”Émile Marzolf (POLITICO)
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Well, maybe . One of the greatest artists of the 20th century might have something to say about that.
If, for example, you use AI to mock the existing powers, That could be art.
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There's a scammer on the move, see the quoted post for details. Genuine admins will NEVER demand that you verify your identity.
I've done a guide to scams and how to recognise them at:
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An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the FediverseFediTips (Fedi.Tips - An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse)
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The scammer usually uses multiple handles and URLs and identities, so general warnings about this type of scam tend to be more effective.
They are trying to con people into giving their credit card details as a form of verification. Then they can drain the card of money.
The reason they're doing this is because so many sites are actually asking for this, for example Apple is now demanding all its UK users give credit card details to verify their age. This gives scammers a really good cover to do scams.
Fediverse platforms don't do this, but not everyone realises this.
Of de PVV in haar poging om de onvredemachine verder aan te jagen, haar eigen wet nu begraaft of niet:
Er is in NL een ruime meerderheid voor de droom van elke fascist:
om het simpele bestaan van een bevolkingsgroep strafbaar te maken.
En over de rest vd racistische asielwet van Faber spreekt al helemaal niemand meer.
Hoe lang gaan we nog knuffelen met extreemrechts? Kun jij nog onderscheid maken tussen D66, FvD, VVD, BBB, CDA, SGP, CU & PVV?
Ik namelijk niet.
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"FVD'er Van Houwelingen ook in hoger beroep veroordeeld voor nazitweet.
In het bericht stond een nepafbeelding van toenmalig ministers Kuipers en Van Gennip met een hakenkruisvlag."
Right.
1. Álle tweets van Van Houwelingen zijn nazitweets.
2. Ook al is Van Houwelingen een nazi die we zeker moeten vervolgen, deze vervolging slaat nergens op.
3. Maar in dit land vinden we de beschuldiging van racisme / nazisme véél erger dan actual racisme / nazisme
4. En de rechter bevestigt dat.
Van Houwelingen wordt niet veroordeeld omdat hij al jaren de nazi uithangt, maar omdat hij iemand anders met nazi's heeft vergeleken.
5. Wist je dat slechts zo'n 70 mensen per jaar worden veroordeeld voor discriminatie?
Terwijl jaarlijks maar liefst 1/4e van de bevolking discriminatie ervaart.
Waar vervolgens ook nog eens institutionele discriminatie overheen walst, van instanties die weigeren daders te vervolgen.
Maar noem niemand racist!
Dan krijg je een veroordeling aan je broek.
Dat speelt niet alleen sinds kort of alleen bij de extreemrechtse Van Houwelingen, maar bijvoorbeeld ook tien jaar geleden al bij dit linkse gemeenteraadslid, die slechts een zeer terechte constatering deed over racist Nawijn: namelijk dat Nawijn een racist is.
Dát mag je niet zeggen van de rechter. #Discriminatie mag je bijna altijd gewoon doen, maar niet benoemen!
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Laat het maar weer aan het
Openbaar Ministerie over om in hoger beroep een LAGERE straf te eisen tegen fascisten, dan de rechter gaf.
Wat is dit voor een wereld op zijn kop?
rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/55900…
Het Openbaar Ministerie heeft maandag in hoger beroep een werkstraf van 60 uur geëist tegen Raisa Blommestijn (32), waarvan 30 uur voorwaardelijk.RTL.nl
When you read about Bans of Social Media for Teens and Age Verification, you must remember what it truly means:
• Official identification of every adult using social media.
• Deanonymization of every account, endangering groups that often rely on pseudonymity for safety, such as victims of domestic violence, victims of stalkers, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people.
• Putting every adult at great danger of exploitation, fraud, and identity theft by forcing them to share their official ID with a for-profit third-party company with no incentive to protect it. Breaches have already happened.
• Constructing a system of mass surveillance to attach every comment on social media to a legal identity. Effectively allowing authoritarian governments to silence their critics and opposition.
• Potential for dystopian censorship and cutting off means of organization for groups of resistance to oppressive regime and organizations.
• Endangering children online by putting a clear identification beacon over every child or family with children online.
• Endangering the data of children who will inevitably try to pass as adults, and have their information collected by the third-party for-profit company.
• Diminishing the value of official identification due to the inevitable data breaches, eventually pushing the system to require even more intrusive identification techniques, such as iris scans and fingerprints.
• Installing a system of mass surveillance capable of attaching even more information to everyone's legal identity. With a potential to built list of people in certain groups, and scale-up state censorship and discrimination in unprecedented ways.
• The list goes on and on.
This isn't about protecting the children.
It never was.
Do not be duped by this excuse used to convince you to let go of your human rights. They are only trying to manipulate people lacking information.
Stay informed on the issues related to Age Verification, and push back for your rights to privacy and democracy.
The future depends on us.
#AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism
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if they cared about the well-being of children and developmental problems with being exposed to the the internet they'd be talking about different thing.
You'd want to make the internet less addictive and dangerous, by limiting ad-tracking and algorithmic systems the incentivize mass data harvesting. Force public-facing spaces to effectively moderate to keep from being dangerous to children.
You'd want to make the material environment more hospitable to doing anything other than sitting inside on a computer all day. Limiting cars so it's safe to be outside, promoting public parks, social programs and child-friendly public events.
@codinghorror @anton
What about it? The moral injury of getting roped into being "complicit" in our own oppression is just one more way they damage us and try to convince us we somehow brought this bullshit on ourselves.
Imagine, for a moment, a world where people could easily get their basic needs met. If disposable income was an actual thing, people would not be in nearly such a hurry to jump for the dangerously predatory "free" shit on offer from the people who helped make sure we're poor in the first place.
@violetmadder @codinghorror @anton and frankly "people only want free stuff" was never true.
people were always willing to pay a reasonable price for media or software. its just always been priced as a luxury to maximize profits for middlemen. also the shift to free wasnt consumer or creator driven but seller driven as the growth over profits practice is how we got here.
@glassresistor @codinghorror @violetmadder like.... yes you can have an understanding of "human nature" as a concept and the political motives of social scientists of the 1900s to make this position reasonable in a vaccum
but that is not a reasonable statement to make in this context. having studied history does not make people automatically agree with you nor automatically have the correct opinions
@anton @codinghorror @glassresistor
Observing humans under capitalism and saying it is in their nature to be greedy, is like observing humans underwater and saying it's in our nature to drown.
Humans can be shockingly malleable, in terms of what we can be conditioned to accept as normal. Huge amounts of social engineering went into giving us the desperate impulse to grab for whatever we can reach. That's a compulsive behavior, very much like the food hoarding of a person who's experienced starvation. Or the junk-hoarding behavior of people who've had everything taken away from them multiple times-- sweeping the homeless compounds their trauma and makes them that much more likely to cling to anything and everything they can.
Artificial scarcity is DESIGNED to make us act like this. Torture programs research learned helplessness and addiction and more, for this purpose. Blame the victims, convince everybody this is just a dog eat dog world where everybody is a selfish bastard deep down and.. actually, what IS the point of that line of reasoning??
@codinghorror @violetmadder @anton i can agree we are imperfect. can you agree that "users demanded free" is ahistorical. users pirated because digital media was overpriced and inconvenient, users happily paid for records and books while pirating photoshop.
people love paying for spotify now.
the move to free with ads then paid without ads to finally pay for less ads was always the strategy and one planned pretty early on. the valley has been chasing leverage over profits for 3 generations now. people didnt choose this CEOs did and made us think we did.
@glassresistor @codinghorror @violetmadder all these ad-supported businesses that would otherwise be subscription-based are heavily reliant on network effects. it's a lot easier to get someone to try something if that thing is free to use.
That understanding of the demand for piracy in large part comes from Valve Software and Steam. With the Steam example Valve had the benefit of making Half-Life, one of the most popular games of all time. And the other thing with Steam is that a lot of the people who make games for Steam would not settle for a non-paid option.
because the content and the consumer aren't distinguishable for social networking. For the promises of federated systems to really work, exit costs need to be kept as low as possible. Most people do not, and should not be expected to, have loyalty to their particular instance strong enough to make most instances financially sustainable.
Ads should have their place in the federated ecosystem. especially when said ads are structured in a way that helps recruit powerful people in the fight against tech-oligarchy and the surveillance state
@anton @codinghorror @glassresistor
The powerful people ARE the tech-oligarchy and surveillance state.
We need the combined power of a lot of ordinary people, not "powerful" rescuers who are just going to keep pulling the same old crap. Ads pollute the ecosystem.
@anton @codinghorror @violetmadder its funny how little content this reply had. its almost like instead of a point or counter argument you went for the claasic dodge of "haha just because my opinion is unfounded, ahistorical, and lacks even shallow analysis doesnt mean people shouldnt value my opinion" and "your not always right"
please explain to me your historical context for why freemeium became the norm
@codinghorror The problems of algorithmic tracking and individual micro-targeting are distinct and much more pernicious than the problems of ad-supported media in general
Long term the project of 99finches is to convince local businesses in Iowa to advertise here instead of on platforms that have been proven in open court to have screwed over their business clients on ad purchases. Then use that revenue to pay people in Iowa to do the long-term work needed to make the Fediverse a serious threat to big tech.
@codinghorror @anton
Speak for yourself, I pay (eg) for mastodon.
I don't need Facebook, let it rot.
And it doesn't take much to antagonize the current government in the US:
"The ICE agent wanted more than a month’s worth of electronic data, but offered no information as to what, exactly, caught the agency’s attention. When John Doe’s attorneys later reviewed their Reddit posts, they found nothing to suggest criminal activity or intent.
"There was a thread from early January, after news outlets including The Intercept identified Jonathan Ross as the ICE officer who shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis. Commenting on a Minnesota Star Tribune article, another Reddit user posted that Ross might be welcomed as a hero in Florida or Texas. John Doe responded by sharing that Ross had lived in Chaska, Minnesota; grew up in Indiana; and served in the Indiana National Guard — biographical details that were circulating widely at the time. “Hopefully he moves up to Stillwater State Penitentiary,” they wrote.
"In another post, a Reddit user asked what they should write on an anti-ICE protest sign. John Doe suggested the lyrics to a song: “Urine speaks louder than words.” In a third instance, Doe wrote, “TSA sucks and we all know it.” According to the Reddit user’s attorneys, these were the most aggressive posts they could find."
An ICE summons to get the user’s identity failed. Advocates worry the move to a grand jury signals an escalation of the war on dissent.Ryan Devereaux (The Intercept)
@anarchademic
This is why I build mastodon.social.
It's pretty straight Mastodon but all authenticated traffic it through #Tor and no email addresses are collected.
So there's nothing beyond the public posts to identify users. What you put in a public post can be much more identifying that you may think but at least with this model full control is with the user the service doesn't need to know anything extra
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systemd : because it is shoved down our throats by a mega-corp that by no means can be considered innocent in producing free code
ipv6: it is solving their problems none of our own .. so why bother?
zstd: just an algorithm, came from a NATO security officer and was purchased and furnished by FB as their first (and only?) open free code offering? Sounds too good not the be what I am afraid.
what linux avoids them all three? joborun linux - like Arch with runit and suspect "features" turned off
systemd : because it is shoved down our throats by a mega-corp that by no means can be considered innocent in producing free code
ipv6: it is solving their problems none of our own .. so why bother?
zstd: just an algorithm, came from a NATO security officer and was purchased and furnished by FB as their first (and only?) open free code offering? Sounds too good not the be what I am afraid.
opennic for DNS
what linux avoids them all? joborun linux - like Arch with runit and suspect "features" turned off
Making corporations pay rent on retained personal data would likely have a similar outcome.
My my. You're an easy block.
nodds in agreement
"#AgeVerification" is just yet another #FalsePretense for more #Cyberfascism, #SurveillanceState & #PoliceState!
@kkarhan
Is Mr. Robot from a TV series?
P.S. Why did he only take one? 🤔
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»Diminishing the value of official identification due to the inevitable data breaches, eventually pushing the system to require even more intrusive identification techniques, such as iris scans and fingerprints.«
Next step, rarely considered – very important to highlight. Thank you!
Wat een ontzettend goed idee!
Er kan vast niks misgaan als we een siegheilende narcist en vriend van Trump de controle over onze wegen geven.
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.Zembla (YouTube)
An ICE summons to get the user’s identity failed. Advocates worry the move to a grand jury signals an escalation of the war on dissent.Ryan Devereaux (The Intercept)
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So far in Australia ... politicians just block you for criticising them ... some if you just ask the 'wrong' question ... as in one they don't know the answer to ...
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Breaking: Trump promises mass pardons to all of his staff before he leaves office.
He says everyone who came within “200 feet of the Oval Office” will be fully pardoned for any crimes committed.
Impunity for people in power is the surest path to atrocities and dictatorship.
I guess most western media and politicians will now try to get impunity as well, in stead of stopping this monster.
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Watching Fedi and the world react to the US president go absolutely unhinged in public, threatening war crimes as his cognitive grip disintegrates before our eyes, watching the horror and the outrage…there is something I want to tell you from Minneapolis.
And I’m not sure how, and I’m not sure if I can, but I want to try. People are always thanking us and calling us heroes and asking us for some kind of…something, anything we can offer in the face of the authoritarian march, and well, here it is, here is something, if I can figure out how to say it.
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Reminds me very much of New Orleans in the months after the Hurricane Katrina Federal Flood and continuing disaster.
if enough of us wrote/emailed/phoned/screamed outside their office to our congressional reps to IMPEACH or face voter outrage leading to being voted out, and kept it up, we could regain our democracy
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Support Courage Candidates fighting for democracy. Courage for Democracy backs action-driven leaders ready to defend the Constitution.ballast@gmail.com (Courage For Democracy)
@jfmezei
His cognitive abilities have never been that great, which is why he used to keep his academic records private.
Being a thug and a bully works only until it doesn't. He's so ready lost his war with Iran, and oil prices went up again today in reaction to his threats.And
He's been vigorously TACOing on every deadline he's set. Iran is getting $2 million for every ship they let through. And with the presence of VIA assets being active in Iran publicly known because of news reports of CIA activity in the rescue of the lost pilot, you can be sure those agents will be hunted down, even if it means killing 100 suspects for each real one.
This is the essence of survival. Iran can't afford to back down, ever. Not to the US, not to Israel, not to anyone. The US simply doesn't have the manpower to pull off a successful invasion, which wouldn't reopen the Strait anyway, and businesses would prefer to pay the Iranians to let their ships through rather than have them blocked for the next 3 months or more.
Simple economics. Trump is a lame duck even before the midterms.
@barbra I do not disagree. However, if one is to speak of mental illness, you need to prove degradation, and since he has never been able to negotiate and always been a thug to impose his terms/condition, he isn't really degrading. He is just stuck into conditions where he was NEVER able to deal with.
(he is a mafioso thug unless subservient to someone who rescued him financially like the Russians).
The crowd size when first elected closer to psychosis illness than current war.
@jfmezei you don't have to prove mental degradation for a mental illness diagnosis. Look at the people who are obviously mentally ill without any past baseline history, based on their current behaviour.
When someone is standing on the corner howling at the moon it's obvious they have a problem. When they let addictions drive their every action they're tucked up at a pretty basic level. When they want sex with underage minors who can't consent and they insist it's the kids fault they are messed up. And then there's bestiality ...
@noodlemaz @jfmezei the legal term is sexual assault, not rape. That's why Trump won $$$ when someone said he raped one of his victims. Same as Clinton said "I didn't have sex with that woman" because "sex" was defined as penis penetrating vagina in that state. Oral didn't count.
Sleezebags gonna sleezebag. Always.
@noodlemaz @jfmezei using the term "sexual assault" includes way more sex crimes than rape ever did. As I pointed out, rape in many jurisdictions only included penis-vagiina, so it wasn't possible to charge anyone with rape if the perp and victim were both male. Has zero to do with consent. The law was too restrictive and left too many unprotected. Using the term sexual assault fixed that. Think of it - a man could not be charged with raping his son, because no vagina. Sexual assault has that covered. There's a reason people pushed for the term sexual assault - it left less wiggle room for perps to try to wiggle out, same as scum bag Clinton argued he never had sex with his intern because state law didn't consider a blow job as sex - only a penis penetrating a vagina. So anal sex, blow jobs, and hand jobs weren't sex. And forcing someone to do the same wasn't legally rape.And
Sticking with the term rape instead of sexual assault favours the Epstein class. Not a good look.
The fetishization of "heroes" in American culture has always been cognitively dissonant.
professionalsoutherner.com/202…
People waiting around being miserable, suffering, and dying, waiting for the cavalry to arrive, or a small group of superheroes, or a lone man coming to the rescue.
It portrays Americans as a passive people letting others step forward & do the hard stuff.
Perlmutter, a major GOP donor, is the former owner of several movie franchises like the Marvel Universe.
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“ Nobody is coming to save you. The choice is ourselves or nothing. The moment you believe that, that you •know• it in your bones, is the moment the work truly begins.”
Can be infuriating to read commentary by some/ many who have not experienced / do not actually believe this; oxygen thieves! 😐
First things first: THANK YOU for your service!
What you describe is how it always is in war. We are at war against a fascist, racist theocracy. Either we win this war or much of the world descends into a slave pit of misery.
And we are winning it! Crimethinc's analysis shows deportation flights from Minneapolis plunged after that Jan 14 neighborhood uprising.
Now Trump is in a war with Iran that he sought just after it became clear he had no path to victory in Minneapolis. He's losing there too.
Notice there have been no futher large scale, widely reported urban invasions intended to sow fear.
The deportation machine grinds on, one of the main threats now seems to be 287 (g) in shithole states like Florida which are much harder to fight. This however isn't flashy stuff that energizes the GOP base.
As I said elsewhere, a defeat for Trump in Minneapolis followed by a defeat for him in Iran could trigger a blowout defeat for the GOP in November even over ICE agents at polls etc. If THAT happens, Trump loses much of his influence, cannot rule by decree, cannot push bills through an opposing Congress-and loses his path to an illegal 3ed term or otherwise staying in office past Jan 20 2029. Sweeping him out will leave the Dems owing huge debts to our street fighters and a torrent of public rage will be unleashed against the GOP. Hopefully we can then throw down everything Trump stands for and smash it to bits, burn it to ashes.
If Trump goes for an auto-coup after defeats in Minneapolis and Iran, expect it to blow up in his face. In that scenario, we may be able to get him out immediately. Every Federal official will have to choose between obeying Trump and obeying the courts, and they will mostly be trying to cover their own asses.
Worst comes to worst we fight an open-ended guerilla war, and Trump's successors are never able to pacify the continent. Eventually their regime burns out, exhausted from the war.
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@htpcnz Way to miss the point of the entire thread, but I would expect that from someone who gripes about “limousine liberals” or whatever without any prompting.
Heh. Why am I even talking to you? There’s an even chance that you’re an LLM.
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They funded an insane wannabe dictator into the Oval Office. Deliberately.
7. Paul E. Singer $66,800,800
8. Marc Andreessen $42,365,113
9. Stephen Schwarzman $40,202,039
10. Timothy Dunn $35,780,200
11. Rob Bigelow $34,991,500
12. Diane Hendricks $33,165,417
13. JJ Ricketts $32,273,650
14. Shirley W. Ryan $32,198,116
15. Warren A. Stephens $25,895,650
16. Isaac & Laura Perlmutter $25,344,890
17. Vince & Linda McMahon $23,961,659
18. Ronnie & Nina Cameron $21,372,500
19. Jan Koum $20,855,091
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10. Securing American Greatness $67,558,284
11. Senate Leadership Fund $67,445,300
12. Club for Growth $59,846,594
13. Koch Inc $49,092,685
14. Blackstone Group $48,609,890
15. Stand Together Chamber of Commerce $44,801,948
16. Restoration PAC $41,168,363
17. Crownquest Operating $35,752,512
18. Bigelow Aerospace $34,991,590
19. Building America's Future $33,670,000
20. Stephens Inc $27,343,518
21. British American Tobacco $26,175,838
22. American Prosperity Alliance $22,549,000
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23. Manzanita Management Group $22,159,143
24. America First Action/America First Policies $21,724,798
25. Mountaire Corp $21,375,080
26. Reyes Holdings $21,192,607
27. Energy Transfer LP $19,321,695
28. Hendricks Holding Co $19,306,538
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These individuals fund Trump & the GOP's corruption:
1. Elon Musk $291,482,587
2. Timothy Mellon $197,047,200
3. Miriam Adelson $148,304,900
4. Richard Uihlein $143,498,936
5. Ken Griffin $108,402,284
6. Jeff Yass $101,128,680
brilliant thread and very chilling that the fascists and billionaires have taken such control that it is up to individuals sharing with each other to resist the invasion by the evil forces. Well done and thank you. I hope I never have to experience it in such a raw way.
Watching Fedi and the world react to the US president go absolutely unhinged in public, threatening war crimes as his cognitive grip disintegrates before our eyes, watching the horror and the outrage…there is something I want to tell you from Minneapolis.And I’m not sure how, and I’m not sure if I can, but I want to try. People are always thanking us and calling us heroes and asking us for some kind of…something, anything we can offer in the face of the authoritarian march, and well, here it is, here is something, if I can figure out how to say it.
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The donors that bought 147 congressional election deniers, a Supreme Court, and numerous government bodies
Investigate these entities first.
1. SpaceX $288,723,409
2. Adelson Clinic/Miriam Adelson $146,881,700
3. Uline Inc $146,027,201
4. Citadel LLC $108,669,316
5. Susquehanna International Group $101,468,362
6. Andreessen Horowitz $89,036,553
7. Empower Parents PAC $82,500,000
8. Coinbase $79,008,020
9. Elliott Management $68,846,510
Decades of contributions aimed at influencing the judiciary bought fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch the EPA ruling he’s always wanted.Sharon Lerner (The Intercept)
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@LukefromDC
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I have one suggestion, go after the money of the billionaires funding MAGA.
Here's a list to be Investigated for RICO & sedition.
Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife, Mellon, Seid, Uihlein.
desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-…
desmog.com/2025/01/21/mapped-d…
desmog.com/2026/04/01/the-vest…
The fossil fuel industry funds fascism globally.
nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/poli…
Tech is co-opted
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Saudi Arabia's millennial crown prince got to see the inside of Apple's new $5 billion campus.Kif Leswing (Business Insider)
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63 billionaires funded Jan 6.
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Mueller never investigated the recipients of Putin's election meddling. It is as illegal to give bribes as to accept them, or at least it used to be.
Why not?
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washingtonpost.com/politics/20…
This isn’t simply campaign finance, it's vast public corruption on an international scale.
While much has been made of the shock and dismay at last week's insurrection by America's corporate leaders,newswireeditor (Common Dreams)
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Koch Network waged decades-long malign influence campaigns to get "corporate personhood".
Their next effort is "AI personhood" so they can buy swarms of AI agents to overwhelm and overturn the will of real people.
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futuristspeaker.com/artificial…
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-w…
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For people freaked out over extremely rare non-citizen voter fraud, the GOP are weirdly unperturbed by Putin launching "AI voters" at elections.
Doctors were once considered Gods, or at least godlike. Lawyers and now philosophers have long tried to grab a similar status -- by birthing artificial people. In the beginning, lawyers created corporate “persons.Barbara Pfeffer Billauer JD MA (Occ. Health) PhD (American Council on Science and Health)
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When a man was seen being locked in a ‘cage like an animal’, a protestor lay in the road to prevent the van from driving away with himTara Cobham (My London)
Well spoken Paul. The choice is indeed ours to make: freedom, or tyranny, all, or nothing.
Thank you for your words and actions. Thank you for your sacrifices.
Long live the people of Minneapolis, may your deeds inspire others to resist tyranny around the world.
My late Father-in-Law and his family helped hide escaped prisoners and pilots etc in WW11, to have been discovered would have meant all the family being shot. I'm glad that didn't happen, not least that I would not have been married for 54 years to his late son who was 6 months old at the time.
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this reminds me a bit of 2018 when Extinction Rebellion got started. At the same time with Greta and her friday kids.
Very different, different goals, short vs long term, but also similar.
I’ve looked it up the shortcut, almost cheater way and read one of the reviews there among very positive reader reactions. This review made me order it because I see the time and context for some of the poems. Now I can imagine the difficult stories written efficiently but forceful. Will order—thanks, Paul.
“This slender volume of poetry may do more than the dozens of thick works of sociology hitting the bookshelves to explain why tens of thousands of Central Americans --- primarily from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras --- try so desperately to enter the US with their children each year.
Like Cassandra, Forché has been relegated to the realm of the unheard prophet who could have prevented the current (2018) tragic spectacle of the US running concentration camps for migrant children.”
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Oh, yes, 100%. Both these things at once.
We did not wait for our electeds to do anything here in MN — but our taking action created a space for them to be bold too. We led, they followed.
It’s the difference between begging politicians to save us and telling politicians “come on, join us.”
See this thread here, for example: hachyderm.io/@inthehands/11616…
YES PLEASE.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…
Minnesota launches investigation that could bring charges against US immigration officers
US county attorney is ‘confident’ her office will be able to pursue charges in cases which led to criticisms of use-of-force policiesGuardian staff reporter (the Guardian)
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Peter Thiel supports Trump in ways that he did not report as campaign finance in the 2024 election cycle.
Thiel and his tech allies are an extraordinary threat to every democracy.
motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
The quirky Silicon Valley billionaire's priority: retaining GOP control of the House.Daniel Friedman (Mother Jones)
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These folks fund Trump's kleptocracy.
20. Thomas Klingenstein $17,410,263
21. Rob Walton $17,572,601
22. Janet J. Duchossois $16,306,033
23. Howard W. Lutnick $16,503,667
24. Kelcy L. Warren $16,151,105
25. Walter W. Buckley Jr. $15,522,500
26. Thomas Peterffy $14,305,900
27. Anthony Pratt $14,000,000
28. Sherrilyn Fisher $13,299,894
29. David Millstone $13,413,486
30. Lynne Walton $13,037,750
31. Charles Schwab $12,801,600
32. Stephen Wynn $12,518,750
33. Anthony Lomangino $9,529,705
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Tax the rich.
34. J. Christopher Reyes $9,536,425
35. Jay Winters Faison $9,084,324
36. James Davis $8,497,854
37. John W. Childs $8,694,286
38. Patricia Duggan $8,446,099
39. Richard G. Haworth $7,500,800
40. Marc J. Rowan $8,721,299
41. Jeffrey Specher, Kelly Loeffler $7,052,013
42. John L. Nau III $7,030,556
43. John & Shannon V. Addison $6,757,065
44. Robert H. Book $6,986,387
45. Susan Fox $6,687,414
46. Patricia Perkins-Leone $6,606,600
47. Jeffrey Hildebrand $6,508,389
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Get rid of Citizens United & their tax cuts.
48. Bernard Marcus $9,397,150
49. Steve Brodie $6,481,298
50. Daniel Newlin $6,063,928
51. Trevor D. Rees-Jones $5,765,124
52. Ross & Sarah Perot $5,643,416
53. Harold C. Simmons $5,596,530
54. Kelly Navarro $5,373,100
55. Alice Walton $10,248,000
56. Rob Granieri $5,587,899
Her work is so powerful. I am so sorry that it is so apt for these times, on your own doorsteps.
Thank you for posting this thread, for resisting.
For anyone new to Forché, her works below.
That was one of the first books of poetry I ever bought for myself as a new young adult and poetry student, many moons ago. Very powerful. Eye opening for my privileged, protected young self. Big impact on my political development.
Highly recommend. Also her translation of Claribel Alegría's poems Flowers from the Volcano.
…and still no one will do anything to stop him.
To me, that’s far more disturbing than one man with syphilitic dementia.
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I sometimes wonder if such movies, with their strong theme that citizens are powerless collateral damage as the powerful battle each other, that they train voters to think they can sit on the sidelines & be Monday Morning Quarterbacks, second guessing but not participating.
16. Isaac & Laura Perlmutter $25,344,890
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The Epstein Class wants us to believe someone else has the job of fighting fascism and the electorate just has to sit on their asses & ...
Isaac "Ike" Perlmutter held court with the president and Marco Rubio at the Palm Beach Halloween bash.Erik Hayden (The Hollywood Reporter)
@nando161
There's several organizations aiming for May Day, 5/1/26.
Need about 12 million to be effective .. no work, no school, no shopping (a big one) no driving no nothing but protesting
@nanowiz @Npars01 @LukefromDC
It was a useful piece of propaganda for the side winning the class war, wasn’t it?
One day, the working class will rise, even in the US.
@Npars01
Resonates & has a lot of explanatory power: “ The fetishization of "heroes" in American culture has always been cognitively dissonant.” ☹️
A striking but dissonant feature of US culture, as you say. 🤔
Makes what Paul writes all the more important.
"Is justice, just … ice?
Governed by greed and lust?
Just the strong doing what they can
And the weak suffering what they must?
- Joni Mitchell, in "Sex Kills"
I’ve received requests about sharing this thread in other venues. You are welcome to do so, and I’d be honored.
I hereby release the contents of this thread under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license (creativecommons.org/licenses/b…).
Please credit to:
Paul Cantrell
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Please let me know if you do anything cool with it.
Stay warm, stay strong.
Kunnen we even normaal doen?
- Er ging een strijker af die wat grind weg blies
- Christenen voor Israël bestaat uit extreemrechtse christenen, niet uit Joden.
Dit is geen antisemitische aanslag maar hooguit een antizionistische.
En het woord "aanslag" is sowieso enorm overdreven.
Ja, ik ben ook tegen vuurwerk. En nee, ik vond het ook niet per sé een toffe actie.
Maar doe even normaal met je "terrorisme".
NIET in NLse media: In Berlijn pleegden nazi's met machetes vorige week een aanslag op een jongen en meisje van 19, alleen maar omdat ze uit een linkse kroeg kwamen.
De twee jongeren hebben het overleefd. Ze hebben zichzelf kunnen redden door met heftige hoofdwonden nog terug naar de linkse kroeg te vluchten. Ze liggen nu in het ziekenhuis.
De neo-nazi's renden er na hun daad vandoor, terwijl ze fascistische leuzen riepen. Ze zijn nog niet gepakt.
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Ein 19-Jähriger und seine Begleiterin wurden am Dienstag in Berlin-Kreuzberg von zwei Unbekannten angepöbelt. Plötzlich zog einer der Täter eine Machete! | TAG24Laura Voigt (TAG24)
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en ondertussen kan je in Nederland n nazi nog niet gemeen aankijken of liberaal Nederland staat al op zn achterste pootjes om het te veroordelen.
Lina E had the right idea.
Pasteur institute of Tehran:
The largest medical research institute in West Asia and the culmination of 106 years of Iranian medicine, it played a pivotal role in eradicating smallpox, rabies, plague, and tuberculosis in Iran and produced important vaccines such as the hepatitis vaccine.
Israel destroyed it yesterday.
Don't ask why...
#WarOfAggression #WarCrime
#RegimeChange #WarOnIran #EpsteinWar #WestAsia #Iran #tRump #WarForOil #Israel
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Holy shit this is detailed. Can you believe the hubris to silently collect all this information on users?
Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, LinkedIn’s JavaScript executes a silent scan of your installed browser extensions.BrowserGate
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C-Support & Q-support zijn de enige overheidsorganisaties die PAIS patiënten steunen & artsen voorlichting geven. Gebrekkig, ME patiënten als ik kunnen er niet terecht, maar het is iets.
Ipv dit uit te bouwen draait Jetten het nu de nek om.
Help ons! Teken de petitie om C-support te behouden.
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Geachte bezoeker, Ik schrijf dit als partner van iemand die ernstig ziek is door post-COVID. Ons leven is volledig veranderd. Ik wil u laten zien wat dat echt betekent — niet in cijfers, maar in ons dagelijks bestaan.Petities.com
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Mensen in een concentratiekamp opsluiten omdat ze veiligheid zoeken, mag dat?
Voormalig links, nu PRO:
"Tuurlijk als het maar geen kinderen zijn"
De altijd al extreemrechtse Nieman:
"Ja maar als ze nou 17 zijn joh"
Nederland mensenrechtenland 🤢
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"Taking a Stand in Baton Rouge"
@darth_hideout Thanks! I didn't realize it had a name. Powerful image.
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@CStamp agreed. Although ideally we’d get actual matriarchic societies eventually, not women as temporary leaders in a patriarchal political hierarchy.
But perfect is the enemy of done, so hell yeah.
@CStamp
I consider that "one" to match up to "Tank Man" (e.g. Tiananmen Square)
I found a couple more references.
latimes.com/california/story/2…
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More than 70 protesters were arrested Saturday evening after authorities shot tear gas and pepper balls into the crowd, leaving at least one teen with an eye wound and others with skin burns, according to demonstrators and police.Connor Sheets (Los Angeles Times)
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It really happened, if that's what you mean.
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More than 70 protesters were arrested Saturday evening after authorities shot tear gas and pepper balls into the crowd, leaving at least one teen with an eye wound and others with skin burns, according to demonstrators and police.Connor Sheets (Los Angeles Times)
I think she did that for that.
May be if I have had the opportunity to dress so, and to go for an arrest, I'd have paint my body with a green, sticky, muddy gelly on all the body, even under the dress (by security, acab).
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"One last lantern.
To light the rest.
Shines.
And drowns the darkness."
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Option A: The cops didn't realize how this looked.
Option B: The cops knew exactly how this looked.
Sommige onderwerpen keren regelmatig terug bij Bits of Freedom. De Wet op de inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten (WIV) is daar een voorbeeld van. Dit voorstel kreeg al snel de bijnaam ‘sleepwet’, omdat het de geheime diensten de mogelijkheid gaf om met een sleepnet grote hoeveelheden online communicatie te onderscheppen. 🙃
Nu komt er weer een nieuwe wet aan. 😬 Evelyn, Inge en Lotte blikken vast vooruit in S8A1 van onze podcast: bitsoffreedom.nl/podcast/de-ni…
Deze week spreken we met Lotte over de nieuwe Wet op de inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten. Evelyn tipt een website waarop je zelf met AI kunt experimenteren.Bits of Freedom
Hi @bitsoffreedom! Ik was net op zoek naar een #app via fdroid en kwam daar dit tegen: keepandroidopen.org/
"In August 2025, #Google announced ↗ that as of September 2026, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the #Android platform without first registering centrally with Google."
is dit iets dat jullie gemoederen ook heeft bezig gehouden?
Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.keepandroidopen.org
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Ratsnake Games 🔞
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in reply to Eniko Fox • • •and the way it’s ‘hacked’ it’s just waaay too easy
Almost everything is unencrypted and the app does rarely clean the files
𝔱.𝔥.
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in reply to 𝔱.𝔥. • • •@trzyglow Yup..! Luckily this is not super duper mega sensitive data we're deal with
Oh.. wait
Jeremiah Fieldhaven
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in reply to Eniko Fox • • •«ok, let's be honest, not shocked at all.
Actually, you know? Let's be really honest here. I could have written this article the day of the announcement before the actual discovery.»