Cubans the Latest Latinos For Trump to Find Out
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'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
Man votes Trump, wife gets arrested & imprisoned
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Apparently DOD went through the web pages for Medal of Honor recipients and marked those of non-white dudes as "DEI", which also broke links.
The shameless racism is nakedly on display.
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"Joining me today on the pod is someone I'm hoping to reach across the aisle to. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Joseph Goebbels!"
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Hey welcome back to my new channel, Documenting the Collapse of US Democracy! I know this must be strange for those of you who preferred the old format of discussing science and critical thinking butRebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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258 cases of #measles. And yet:
"a health department spokesperson said it was withholding further information because 'these cases don’t pose a public health risk and to protect patient privacy.'"
Bullshit! Measles is very infectious and the unvaccinated and undervaccinated are at risk. Most of the people affected were unvaccinated.
Talk to your doctor about your vaccine status.
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Oklahoma says the cases “don’t pose a public health risk.”…Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
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Just because it's predictable for racist fascists to do this, doesn't make it any less infuriating, disgusting or reprehensible.
Black Lives Matter
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Crews have begun work to remove the large yellow “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street one block from the White House. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the change last week in response to pressure from activist Republicans in Congress.Ashraf Khalil (AP News)
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that really is a great and efficient use of money, isn't it?
ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
disgusting
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Worth a read.
Opponents of mask bans and anti-mask laws typically invoke the First Amendment rights of association and anonymous speech.Deborah Fisher (Free Speech Center)
Seems easier to help Jerry with his golf skills. 🤷
Seriously though, here in Europe, in most countries there would be big protests already, probably right after the first DOGE action...
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In my case, one particular vote broke me: to increase death benefits for Gold Star widows of fallen servicemembers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Post 9/11, yellow-ribbon-wearing, American flag-pinning, Toby Keith-blaring Republicans voted it down in party line.
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Many in the industry warn that the tariffs will disrupt the integrated supply chain across North America that has been in place for more than 25 years.David Shepardson (The Japan Times)
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Firefox maker Mozilla deleted a promise to never sell its users' personal data and is trying to assure worried users that its approach to privacy hasn't fundamentally changed. Until recently, a Firefox FAQ promised that the browser maker never has and never will sell its users' personal data. An archived version from January 30 says:
Does Firefox sell your personal data?Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That's a promise.
That promise is removed from the current version. There's also a notable change in a data privacy FAQ that used to say, "Mozilla doesn't sell data about you, and we don't buy data about you."
The data privacy FAQ now explains that Mozilla is no longer making blanket promises about not selling data because some legal jurisdictions define "sale" in a very broad way:
Mozilla doesn't sell data about you (in the way that most people think about "selling data"), and we don't buy data about you. Since we strive for transparency, and the LEGAL definition of "sale of data" is extremely broad in some places, we've had to step back from making the definitive statements you know and love. We still put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share with our partners (which we need to do to make Firefox commercially viable) is stripped of any identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like OHTTP).Mozilla didn't say which legal jurisdictions have these broad definitions.
Mozilla says it deleted promise because “sale of data” is defined broadly.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
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Firefox Reddit sub is pretty full of outrage posts. Rightfully so.
I've been a long time supporter of Firefox because fuck Google and their Chromium spawns feeding their dominance, but what Mozilla is doing now, I'm planning on moving to Waterfox from the looks of it. Present on all platforms, Android, Windows and Linux, supports sync and has all the tracking and telemetry bullshit stripped out. I just wish they'd get versions up to date a bit faster, but oh well, it's probably a small team of people doing it in their free time so I can't complain too much.
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For the first time, we’re introducing a Terms of Use for Firefox, alongside an updated Privacy Notice. Earlier today, we published a blog post explaining why we’re making this change and what it means for you. Now, we want to hear from you.connect.mozilla.org
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Never have, never will.
So, here's the funny thing about "never will". It's not a promise you can go back on. "Never will" means "forever won't".
Changing that language is a breech of trust. Getting all "nuanced" and weasel-wordy about it doesn't change that.
Folks should start looking into whether the previous promise is legally binding in any way, and start preparing for a class action suit if it is. Because Mozilla's better dead than it is as zombie smoke screen for this horse shit.
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"I want this"
"Source?"
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It seems like the issue here is, users want to be spoken to in colloquial language they understand, but any document a legal entity produces MUST be in unambiguous "legal" language.
So unless there's a way to write a separate "unofficial FAQ" with what they want to say, they are limited to what they legally have to say.
And maybe that's a good thing. Maybe now they need to create a formal document specifying in the best legalese exactly what they mean when they say they "will never sell your data", because if there's any ambiguity around it, then customers deserve for them to disambiguate. Unfortunately, it's probably not going read as quick and catchy as an ambiguous statement.
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the issue here is
The issue is Mozilla's McKinsey CEO has decided to break the promise not to sell personal data.
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So .... what is the leading alternative browser then?
One of the reasons Firefox became so popular was that it was an alternative.
Now that they're drifting towards something we don't like ... what is the new alternative?
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A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.librewolf.net
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Zen Browser is built for speed, security, and true privacy. Download now to enjoy a beautifully-designed, distraction-free web experience packed with features.Zen Browser
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Really depends on where and how the data collection is integrated.
Browser forks mostly make changes to the application UI which wraps the engine, not to the engine itself. Browser engines are these fantastically complex things, extremely difficult to keep operational and secure, which is why there aren't many of them and why they're all developed by large organizations. Forking the engine is basically doomed to failure for a small project because you won't be able to keep up, you'll be out of date in a month and drastically insecure in a year.
Awesome, appreciate the information!
Edit. Got it set up and configured. So far I'm liking it a lot.
Look up browser called Ladybug. It is not based on either WebKit or Chromium.
It's not ready yet but it's coming.
Kolla in communityn Ladybird på Discord – träffa 10736 andra medlemmar och umgås genom gratis röst- och textchatt.Discord
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Ladybird is a non profit developed by volunteers, no company.
Project lead is Andreas Kling (you should definitely watch his development videos and streams), great guy who developed SerenityOS aswell, an operating system from scratch. For that he developed LibWeb which he then used to create Ladybird. They only recently founded a non-profit, which is probably needed as the project size grew.
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I hope they explain further. Honestly I don’t think the “oh crap I need to know if it’s good or bad right now!” camp is really going to care, but it still feels a little uncomfortable. (As opposed to the “this could be either way, I don’t have enough evidence to decide right now, and I’m ok with holding that uncertainty in my brain until new evidence moves my needle” camp)
Are forked builds possible with third party service references neutered?
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So long, and thanks for all the add-ons.
In seriousness, though, this doesn't in any material way make Firefox a worse option than the other browsers with active dev teams. Avoiding Manifest V3 is alone worth the price of admission.
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I tend to trust Mozilla (more than other browser-owning companies), but they really should just clarify exactly what they do that would be considered as sale of data in any jurisdictions.
They seem to be implying that the data is just metadata that has been abstracted for (presumably ad-targeting) commercial purposes, and there are jurisdictions that consider derived metadata as still being "user data", but in that case just make a blog post laying out what and where you are sharing. If your "partners" are opposed to people knowing about them, or you are scared that people would not like who you're in bed with, that is a problem.
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From the Mozilla forums.
I'm curious what "Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox to perform your searches, for example" means. Like, is that literally just the search I type into the browser bar, or are they talking about scraping data from my browser to improve my searches the way a lot of phone apps do?
I could see some government somewhere passing a data security bill of some kind that makes rules around collecting and using data that redefines what that means in a way that includes something Firefox is already doing. I could also see them using this as a sneaky foot in the door as they plan to ramp up data profiteering like so many companies already have.
It would be nice if they'd clarify their reasoning for doing this a bit more specifically.
For the first time, we’re introducing a Terms of Use for Firefox, alongside an updated Privacy Notice. Earlier today, we published a blog post explaining why we’re making this change and what it means for you. Now, we want to hear from you.connect.mozilla.org
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It already exists at least as an "experiment" but I guess now it's nearly ready for full production use. Perhaps the new terms of use text is motivated by not enough people accepting the old merino opt-in prompt as well as wanting to get more third-parties involved in the system. More details here: firefox-source-docs.mozilla.or…
When Merino integration is enabled on the client and the user has opted in to Firefox Suggest data collection, Firefox sends everything the user types in the address bar to the Merino server.
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Think about it. Anything you type into a browser is your intellectual property, you own the copyright to it, unless you're copying someone else's text. In order for Mozilla to pass what you type on to any website you're visiting, they need to "copy" that text (i.e., from the keyboard to the network).
I think this is what they're trying to address with their legalese. It's a pity that it has to come to this, but that's how the legal environment is these days. They can't afford to make expensive mistakes. Perhaps they can keep improving and clarifying the language though.
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Firefox is not a legal entity needing a license. Mozilla is.
Firefox is a product, not a service.
When I write notes in a book, I do not need to give the manufacturer of that book a license for my notes. If I mail that book to a friend, I do not need to give a license for that book to the post office.
The only other software that I can think of that has taken a similar stance on TOS vs an open license is Microsoft and their VS Code product. Precompiled executables are license under a non-free (libre) license while the source code of VS Code remains under the MIT license.
The original license of Firefox MPL2 allow end users to freely use the browser, with no license needed to give to Mozilla. Thousands of open source software who all use GPL, MPL, MIT, et al. allow users to use their software however they want. The proposed TOS does not and you must abide by their Acceptable Use Policies.
Even if they require a license due to some legal reason, there is simply no reason why the license has to be a non-exclusive, perpetual license. If it really as they claim "to help you navigate the internet", then the terms should explicitly say that, and not make it implicit.
The fact is Mozilla doesn't need a license for me to operate Firefox locally. Any copyright claim they are making is in bad faith because anything you type into the browser would be covered under fair use. They have yet to convince me why they need a license for me to operate a browser fully locally.
The most likely reason why they are changing the license is because they want to start training AI data based on your browser habits. They may not be doing it now and they may say they have no plans to do it in the future. But the TOS, as currently written, gives them permission to do just that.
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Some obvious jurisdictions that come to mind are US vs. EU:
The color of your hair... is PI in the EU, it isn't PII in the US since it's not enough to pinpoint you as a single person.
Under US law, a data broker can gather a bunch of "not-PII, just PI", and refine it into profiles that can end up pinpointing single individuals.
Under EU law, that's illegal; no selling PI, period.
Maybe the should replace their CEO wit AI:
Some obvious jurisdictions that come to mind, are US vs. EU:
The color of your hair... is PI in the EU, it isn't PII in the US since it's not enough to pinpoint you as a single person.
Under US law, a data broker can gather a bunch of "not-PII, just PI", and refine it into profiles that can end up pinpointing single individuals.
Under EU law, that's illegal; no selling PI, period.
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This is completely accurate, and people don't know how non anonymous it is.
Your hair one for example. Who cares, say you even have brunette hair, something generic. Okay, then let's add on that you're using an iPhone. How narrow is the search now? What state you're in? Who owns a specific model of TV?
I would argue that with only just a few data points you could be identified.
And now they are taking everything you put into your browser and everything you take out. Add some AI pizazz and they'll be able to build a pretty accurate profile about you.
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We're setting the new standard of trust online, empowering people to take control of their personal information.DuckDuckGo
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apt now?
apt in general (in which case, I think you've replied to the wrong post)?
apt repos
There isn't a browser suitable to replace Firefox in the official Debian apt repos.
However, as far as I can tell, Mozilla's recent Terms of Use apply only to the Firefox builds downloaded from Mozilla, not to the built-from-source versions that you get from the Debian archive using apt.
You can use the Debian build under the terms of the Mozilla Public License. Read /usr/share/doc/firefox-esr/copyright for details.
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I know you only want software from the official repos, but it's really simple to add the LibreWolf repo and use that.
Other than that, there's not really much in the way of Firefox forks in the official repos. I believe the Debian builds have their own configurations as well, but I'm not certain. You could use other browsers (Falkon, GNOME Web, etc.), but they're severely lacking in features.
Off-topic, LibreWolf uses the extrepo package to add their repo which is a great third party repo management program for Debian. It has a curated (by members of the Debian packagers) selection of other third party repos for some popular software that either doesn't make it into the official repos for whatever reason or aren't kept super updated in Debian Stable.
That and it's so much easier than adding signing keys, messing with sources lists, etc. I wish more software used it, honestly, but the maintainers know what they're doing.
A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.librewolf.net
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Made the switch to Fennec and IceRaven on Android, and Zen on my Linux desktop, which also has Windows and Mac versions. Sure, they're forks of Firefox, but they are not subject to the same TOS. I used to use LibreWolf on my desktop but ended up having too many issues with it. Lots of crashing and instablility that regular Firefox just didn't have.
Another great tool for unGoogled Android users is FFUpdater. It will handle updating of many open source (not just Firefox-based) browsers. You could also use something like Obtanium for something less browser-specific.
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Update at 10:20 pm ET: Mozilla has since announced a change to the license language to address user complaints. It now says, "You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content."Mozilla may also receive location-related keywords from your search (such as when you search for "Boston") and share this with our partners to provide recommended and sponsored content. Where this occurs, Mozilla cannot associate the keyword search with an individual user once the search suggestion has been served and partners are never able to associate search suggestions with an individual user. You can remove this functionality at any time by turning off Sponsored Suggestions—more information on how to do this is available in the relevant Firefox Support page.
So, turn off Sponsored Suggestions and you're (probably) good to go.
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Even before mass protests have really begun, the wannabe dictator is already trying to make protests illegal.
The bully is scared even before the fight begins.
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#Democracy? #FreeSpeech?
Nah, this looks like '68 in Socialist #Czechoslovakia :)
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NO MASKS! 😂🤣😂
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(Maybe no Musks...?🤠)
The fossil fuel industry funds anti-protest legislation and lawsuits globally.
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Universities have been accepting funding from the fossil fuel industry for years, in exchange for suppressing dissent on campuses.
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Students say that by investing in fossil fuels their schools are violating commitments to the public interestDharna Noor (The Guardian)
what a goddamned pathetic child. And yes, you're correct - this shows obvious fear. The bully is already scared, and let's put it this way: HE is the one who has to deal with US for the next four years. Never, ever let him or any of these criminals rest. Not for one second.
THIS MEANS THE PROTESTS WORK.
If you storm congress: Then you will be pardoned by Trump
If you protest at your school: DEFUND EVERYTHING!?!
While the white people cheering draconian measures being taken against BLM, Standing Rock, and other protestors, I've got something for you to think about. Those same measures will be taken against you, Whitey. If you don't believe me, go read about the Bonus Army.
I am baffled that they haven't started yet.
What is keeping people from protesting?
In most EU countries, people would be on the streets for weeks already.
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Freedom of assembly and association, anyone?
And just wait until free speech absolutist Musk hears about this. Looking forward to the Jim Jordan hearings on government attempts at censorship.
Protest at Starlink, Whole foods, the Whitehouse. And if I can't do that then I'll protest where I can how I can. Peaceful protest is Resistance. Depose the Oligarchy Now!
The funny thing is, he can't do any of those things. He has no legal basis for any of his threats and would lose in court.
But, hey, his stupid base doesn't know that and they'll lap it up!
Erm, that is not trying to make them illegal - he'd have to push that through his tame courts, which might take a while.
He's implying that *any* protest is illegal, which it is clearly not under what remains of the tattered remains of of your constitution.
I love the NO MASKS random outburst.
What an unstable spaz
Trump got elected by promising to lower prices. This is what his trade war with Canada is doing to the price of lumber. Everyone who needs to build a new house or renovate will now see a drastic increase in material costs.
There is no plan. Only Trump chaos.
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I believe Trump is a sadist. His political ideology? Torture.
His decisions don't make sense politically, economically, or otherwise. They only make sense when they are understood in the context of a sadist, perverse mind who enjoys torturing others just for the pleasure of seeing them suffer.
That is the only benefit he gets from it.
The world will be a better place when Trump dies, and billions of us around the world cannot wait for the day we'll celebrate the death of the sadist.
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These buildings provide data for virtually every weather forecast in the US.
A recent study found that every $1 invested in weather forecasting provides $73 of value in return.
Dismantling NWS infrastructure is one of the least efficient and most reckless things you can do.
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Here's the American Meteorological Society study that estimates the value of US weather forecasts: ametsoc.org/sites/ams/assets/F…
Value of weather forecasts = $102.1 billion
NWS budget = $1.4 billion
That represents an incredible return on investment of 73 to 1.
That cost estimate is very underwhelming. I don't think it psychologically works as a point when you're trying to convince your cranky uncle about NOAA's importance and the general stupidity in having voted for getting vital tax/government-funded services dismantled.
What your cranky uncle hears is that he loses $ 73 this year. But next year, when his $ 1 in taxes isn't being extorted from him anymore for NOAA services, he'll be home free. And $1 richer than this year.
Or similar BS.
Tell your cranky uncle instead that he won't get a well-informed bad weather warning anymore and thus can expect to lose his home, his business building, his car. Maybe his life or that of his wife, children, brother and sister.
Tell him how the increased losses from not being warned incur an increase in his annual insurance rates.
Whether or not he lives in an area where extreme weather events increase damages: his insurance gets more expensive now.
Because he voted for the orange dick tater.
His grocery bill is going to increase too. Because farmers won't be warned and won't be able to protect crops or animals.
Because he voted for the orange dick tater.
And in case he gets to rebuild his home after a weather disaster, the prices for raw material and manpower will now increase further, now that NOAA can't warn anymore. Because simultaneous damages and hence, simultaneous rebuilding efforts will increase.
Not to mention the undocumented immigrants who used to work in agriculture and construction: losing their work force increases bills for getting things done around the house and for groceries.
Because he voted for the orange dick tater.
The computers demanded that we rent these buildings.
It won't say why. It just told us to rent these buildings, unlock the basement, and never go back down there.
It says if we take away its building, the computers will stop working.
Tornado season.
Hurricane season.
Plundering jackals dismantling the National Weather Service.
People will die. Cities will flood. Homes will be lost. Insurance coverage will be cancelled. #Trump will sit on his hands.
People think the happy weather people on TV track all the weather all by themselves.
I truly wish, that the next tropical Strom will hit Trumps Mar A Lago by 100%. Total destruction.
It is time that exactly those people who caused that harm will be hit. Exactly them. No other person.
if they get some stupid $500 “refund” out to Americans the misguided morons will vote themselves into hell again willingly.
All the studies in the world can’t combat the takeover o the country by rent seeking oligarchy and the people will be glad to sell themselves out until it’s far too late.
You are of course completely correct, it’s sad that it is probably irrelevant kind of like counting the amount of plants that die while hectares burn and no fire suppression is deployed.
Unelected psychopathic immigrant Elon Musk may not know how to successfully lead a company, ruining the value of ex-twitter & of Tesla, but if there's one thing unelected psychopath Eloon for sure knows it's how to recklessly & ruthlessly abuse given power to hurt & harm people & their families by the hundreds of thousands.
In short: Elon Musk for sure knows how to make enemies.
#MuskSuX #ObstructionOfUSGovernment #ElonMusk #AbuseOfPower #AbuseOfOffice #ExpelMusk #TaxEvasion #Lawlessness #Outlaw #Lawbreaker #RuleOfLaw #Law #Justice #Freedom #Democracy #ProtectThePeople #USPol #USPolitics #ImpeachTrump #ImpeachJDVance #ImpeachTrumpAppointees #Trump #Pathocracy #OrganizedCrime #Racketeering #ProsecuteALLRebels
Justin Sun is celebrating avoiding a fraud investigation by posting handshake emojis on X.Matthew Gault (Gizmodo)
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Trump Loving Farmers STILL in DENIAL
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed a few comments here and there asking me what I think about the new COVID vaccination study. And it was weird because I tend to be generally aware of research in tRebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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Elon: We need to eliminate government waste.
Advisor: We could end tax breaks for billionaires.
Elon: What about this guy here?
Advisor: That's Greg. He has to push a button every ten minutes or our nuclear warheads will detonate, killing us all. We pay him $7.25 an hour.
Elon: Fire Greg.
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This is obviously fake.
It's not that easy to get the nukes to start flying off. This isn't a fairytale utopia where we all die in a single, blissful instant and are released from the burden of consciousness.
We're gunna suffer, long slow and hard.
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This is classic. Legislator votes that "using incorrect pronouns" is freedom of speech. Gets pissy that he is addressed by "Madame Chiarman" www.thepinknews.com/2025/02/24/c...
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Chairman Tim French, who voted against using preferred pronouns, appeared annoyed when his own pronouns weren't respected recently.Michele Theil (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
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It's easier to get from the bible to flat earth than it is to get from the bible to the creationist baraminology of Answers in Genesis.
They their religiously motivated pseudoscientific conspiracy theories backwards.
The new Trump administration have begun their book banning, and Julianne Moore's children's book "Freckleface Strawberry" has been banned, because it teaches children not to be sad that they are different, because everyone is different in some way — and that is just too inclusive to the hate administration.
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The Trump Administration has banned Julianne Moore's 2007 children's book 'Freckleface Strawberry' from schools operated by the Department of Defense.Jack Dunn (Variety)
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one comment (Evans) puts it perfectly: „… literally a children’s book that is banned for telling children that it’s okay to be different. It is now state policy that it is not okay to be different, not even with freckles …“
This is the main defining sign of fascism. Divide between people like you and everyone different and declare those as evil „Volksfeinde“. Thus forcing you to oust everyone different because you mustn't be friends with Volkfeinde or you're an evil Volksverräter.
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The book Freckleface Strawberry has a beautiful website with the picture of the Julianne Moore and LeUyen Pham when they were children.
next up they will be burning these banned books in the street.
Surprisingly it was never about free speech.
This is a very dangerous cultural shift they are trying to push, where difference and diversity is not seen as natural and positive but as
something negative (and we all know where this leads), it's not just in the US this is spreading throughout the world. We are at a crossroads in Europe, or we go the route of a more united Europe and reinforce our shared values or crumble and all bets are off at that point, but it's not good.
The tipping point may be the next German elections if AfD gains strength we are all fucked, I don't know how the US sees them, but these people are Putin's puppets and let's not beat around the bush are fucking Nazis.
Off course, it's Trump's goal to divide Europe, AfD is the perfect party for that and shares a lot of this administration goals, especially in relation to Russia, they've said recently that if they win no more weapons will be sent to Ukraine and will resume commercial relations with Russia, but their anti EU stance, their reactionary ideas (this one is strange since their leader is a Lesbian married to an immigrant and they both have 2 adopted children, but they want to close the boarders, expel all illegal immigrants and are against same sex marriage and adoption, amongst other individual rights regression) are also important and no less dangerous.
They are therefore the perfect partner for this administration, they will not win, but the pols are giving them 2nd place so they will have a lot of power and forming a functioning and stable government in Germany will not be an easy task.
We already have Hungary on Putin's side and turning into an autocracy, if Germany follows suit and then France with Le Pen, the EU, and the world, is in serious trouble, but let's keep optimistic and fight to change people's minds showing them the lies of these parties while we still live in democracy, because it is at risk
Oh wow..
As a former ginger freckle face this hurts..
"Freckles are the rusty ends of my steel nerves 😉"
Everything is too inclusive for an administration whose unofficial president is mocking blind people on his social platform and whose official president made fun of a disabled journalist.
Unless you're bullying people, you are too inclusive for them.
Differences are the enemy of totalitarian regimes.
Everybody the same as opposed to each to their own.
This has a history, and many books have been written about them. Many draw lines between the roots of totalitariarism and libertarian capitalism.
To bad many of them have been written by European Jews, for some reason or another.
yes, it's a scandal - amoung so many - and a stepping stone to a fascist state ("gleichschaltung" like the nazis called bringing everything in line). not to forget the hypocrisy talking about "the states" and making top-down policy, talking about "free speech" and doing everything to suppress it.
and clearly saying in their world being different is dangerous.
but could we find a more exact wording? they are banning it from schools and school libraries, not (yet) to be sold.
So being different with freckles is bad. But being different because your skin is orange and you wear hyaena hair on your head is good. Got it.
These people focus on the most fucked up shit...
she is one of the main actors in Children of Men. Cool! I have to get this book for my kids.
Anyway. Book bans were already established before the fascist in government:
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The U.S. Department of Education dismissed 11 complaints related to book bans, saying it was ending “Biden’s book ban hoax.” PEN America counted nearly 16,000 book bans in the past several years. It's no hoax.ltolin (PEN America)
* When the German nazis deported politicians, I didn't bother, I wasn't a politician.
* When they deported jews, I didn't bother, I wasn't a jew.
* When they deported artists, I didn't bother, I wasn't an artist.
* When they deported writers, I didn't bother, I wasn't a writer…
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* When they deported me, because of my freckles, who was there left to bother?
As a German, I really bother what the TrumpMuskGOPfascism is doing, and how they could be stopped before more people get killed?
This tax season, we're here to remind you about TurboTax's 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing their taxes for free.
(Published Oct. 2019)
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Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.ProPublica
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I live in Chile and filing my taxes takes at most half an hour.
That was not my experience in the US.
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Quote from The Caledonia-Record (Feb 15).
"Food Bank Limits Market Match Assistance Without Warning
A federal funding freeze has affected a low-income food assistance program in New Hampshire. This week, the New Hampshire Food Bank imposed a $5 limit on the Granite State Match program, which previously covered half the cost of fruit and vegetable purchases for SNAP[1] users without a cap."
[1] Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) - provides food benefits to low-income families to supplement their grocery budget so they can afford the nutritious food essential to health and well-being.
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The ISO 8601 standard wasn't published until 1988.
The last time I wrote any COBOL was about 1979.
My memory was that COBOL date/time was stored in largely ad-hoc mainly text based formats back then and almost always with two digit year fields.
Bytes were expensive.
This was well after COBOL was about the only language for business and accounting programmes.
Git orf muh lawn Musk and you still owe me a beer.
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It's a good thing that it would be totally unrealistic that they'd just delete those persons' data to be able to push a "We saved THIS much money" statement ...
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"I want you to shut your f***ing mouth up."God (Letters from God)
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Central Florida neo-Nazi leader convicted of plotting Baltimore power grid attack
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Brandon Russell formed the Atomwaffen Division (ADM) in Central Florida in 2015 and even recruited on the campus of the University of Central Florida (UCF), according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a nonprofit dedicated to confronting rac…Erik von Ancken (ClickOrlando | Orlando, Florida News, Local Headlines | WKMG News 6")
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Although the DoD won't share it, Gen Rogers' Wikipedia page has his Medal of Honor citation. He charged through multiple waves of incoming artillery fire to lead his men to repel an attack, and was seriously wounded TWICE in the process.
"DEI" should not be not a smear, but in this case, DEI my ass.
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United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1929-1990)
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •This racial discrimination also includes 21 MoH recipients from the #442nd RCT (Regimental Combat Team, Go for Broke) during WWII. The 442nd had most MoH recipients for a unit of just 4000 men.
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infantry regiment of the United States Army
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Sam Sethi said, on bsky:
> If the racists [sic] US Govt really want to dishonour their black or female veterans, odd they have not replaced the 404 image
Grabbed image while I could; great JPEG with full details!
Caption: U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Ava Alegria, a combat photographer [...] , and Sgt. Kevin Cherry, a drill instructor with Lima Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion [...] Parris Island, S.C., Dec. 19, 2024. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Lance Cpl. Ayden Cassano)
Dan McDonald
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Nope... it's just GONE.
Original warning post from Bsky:
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crazyeddie
in reply to Dan McDonald • • •@danmcd When I take the "dei" out of the URL I get what looks like a redirect response to the URL with the "dei" added back in and THEN I get a 404.
To test that it's not just my fancy browser doing it, I tried with links and got the same behavior.
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •@jef @danmcd Because it would mean that the people who actually have to upkeep this are taking steps to make it reversible at least. The website could actually be completely intact, this could be done in a reverse proxy.
Being unable to stop it from happening, this would be the next best thing. As soon as whoever needs to get their head out their ass to stop this does, they could put it back.
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Also present at this link, but it is not a .gov site.
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Charles Calvin Rogers | Vietnam War | U.S. Army | Medal of Honor Recipient
Congressional Medal of Honor SocietyKee Hinckley
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •"DEI."
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •For the billionaires funding the end of American democracy, bigots are the perennially reliable voting bloc for fascists & Russian psyops.
The coded language of bigotry.
The CRT furor was funded by Koch, Putin, Sharon Virts, Dunn, Wilks, Ackman & Paul Singer.
The DEI and trans furor has the same funding.
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Warmongers too:
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Heritage Foundation and Allies Discuss Dismantling the EU - DeSmog
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •The US government is at war with its own citizens.
It wasn't just about removing undocumented migrants, it was also about changing the status of existing American citizens.
It's shocking, but it's also a logical consequence of believing some people deserve to survive, thrive, and be happy, more than others.
Sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, religion, capitalism, supremacy, monarchy, patriotism, nationalism, fascism... it's a continuum.
#uspol #fascism #racism
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •web.archive.org/web/2025030516…
Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •I'd respect them just slightly more if they said what they mean
So many "free thinkers" love their code words to play lawyer
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •The once great USA looks like a tag-nut on the arse hairs of humanity these days.
Coming from less-than-great-Britain that seems like a terrible thing to say, and I apologise to my American friends who maybe don't see what's happening, for being so blunt.
The world is laughing at the American clown show (except those who are afraid, I guess).
Let's hope USA vomits its poison soon, and starts to recover...
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Race breakdown of the US Army.
Would you join up if you’re non-white?
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Distribution of race and ethnicity among the U.S. military 2019 | Statista
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •See if the DoD marked some white guys as DEI too: that could happen if they used software to detect a face and a white guy's face was dark enough due to poor lighting to trick the software into classifying him/her as non-white.
It wouldn't surprise me if they didn't think anything through: their 1st priority is to generate those 5 sentences for Musk describing each thing they accomplished in a week.
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Don’t tell them about Edward Carter Jr. but everyone should read about this American hero before their intern gets around to removing it too
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •check out this hero’s story too: Army Pfc. William Henry Thompson
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