"Let me say this clearly: nobody in this country is safe."
"Federal agents detained American citizens without individualized probable cause this week. They handcuffed children. They sorted people by race. They treated an American city like occupied territory."
"This happened. In Chicago. In America. This week."
En trucos no pedidos por nadie y de gran utilidad a personas ciegas, o al menos eso creo: Marcar los botes de productos de baño con dymo en las tapas y cuando se acaba y sustituye, se cambia la tapa del nuevo por la marcada del viejo. SĂganme para otras cosas inĂștiles para el populacho!
it only took a few years for the trust fund brunchlords in charge of modern media to convert the entirety of the country's Op/Ed infrastructure to an ugly fusion of right wing propaganda and engagement trolling RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ddvusâŠ
at some point you'd think we would develop some kind of cultural immune response to being endlessly trolled by some of the dimmest, least remarkable people imaginable
I'm writing these words from the bottom of my heart.
This is not the life we deserve to live. We are human beings and we deserve a better life. This life isn't like us. We had beautiful life. We had beautiful home. We had beautiful people and places. Now we only have a tent that we move from a place to another. We lost everything.
We don't deserve this!
Please donate to help my family overcome this tough time
"Iâm tired, Mama. Iâm thinking of the hours that I'll spend tomorrow in the water line." â says 9 year old Ahmed to his mother before going to sleep.
I was curious about whether there were any developments in inexpensive braille, so I searched for "low cost braille display". The top result was, of course, Orbit. The second? Humanware. That made me laugh. Looks like Orbit and BrailleMe are still it, and I still don't like Orbit's lack of cursor keys, refresh sound, and keyboard. I've never tried BrailleMe. It's sad that the new ideas for this technology never seem to pan out. Pun intended.
"When we stand up, we don't stand alone." -Senator Cory Booker. Stand up with millions on October 18th to say enough is enough. Find your closest event at nokings.org. Sign up for Walnut Creek at the link on our website. #nokings #indivisible #stopthecuts #mayday #trumpshutdown #yeson50
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.
Today, with things being what they are, I can do no better than quote from the master, Douglas Adams... "Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so muchâthe wheel, New York, wars and so onâwhilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than manâfor precisely the same reasons"
A new California law will require streaming services such as Disney+ and Netflix to ensure that the audio volume for an ad is the same as the content being streamed. pcmag.com/news/california-cracâŠ
Iâm Abeer, a mother of four from Gaza. I lost my husband and our home. We survived bombings, hunger, and endless fear. Now Iâm alone, trying to keep my children alive â to find food, water, and warmth. No child should suffer like this. Please, help me give them safety and hope again đ
Ugh. It's a zero motivation, getting my ass handed to me by depression day. I woke up at 10, and I've been lying here in bed trying to find reason and motivation to get up and do something since. It's a rainy miserable day here today. And while I could probably very easily blame my mood on the weather, I won't. I really detest this why bother, what's the point mood that I get into sometimes. Like you know that point where you feel like all you need is something good to happen to you or a little bit of good news to feel better? Yeah, that. It's times when I feel like this that I really understand why people self medicate to feel better. Oh well, I'll probably do that myself when I do eventually rise because why the fuck not? Hope everyone has/is having an awesome day.
Adobe Acrobat is now pushing VERY hard to get you to upload your personal PDF documents to their AI summarization tool. Absolute trash. Dangerous trash.
Verbalize what is on the screen in online presentations so as to help those who can't see your screen. Some may be blind or have low vision, and unable to read the screen-share contents using assistive technology. Others may be calling in or have bad internet connections.
I'm reading Eichmann in Jerusalem, & something I wish I had been aware of sooner is that this is not just an important text about Nazis & the evils that ordinary people can commit without batting an eye.
It is *also* an important text about Israel & its history. Hannah Arendt is also critiquing Eichmann's trial as a type of show trial & pointing at the Zionist ideology & propaganda on display.
I'm primarily reading because I'm interested in how Arendt's insights into the mentality of people facilitating genocide without feeling guilt or remorse can be reconsidered & reinterpreted in modern American life.
I don't know if I will fully agree with all of Arendt's interpretation, but it feels like her work is a great place to start.
Is anyone aware of works by Black or Indigenous authors (or other POC) that either deal directly with Arendt & her ideas about the "banality of evil" or that cover similar topics?
I'm interested in the psychology of "normal" people who participate in, support, or tolerate genocide happening around them, & would especially benefit from perspectives of colonized people on this.
mixed feelings. obv will go downhill under Qualcomm: end of era. OTOH I can respect if Arduino's founders/owners wanted to get rich, esp as a way of de-risking the lives of them and their loved ones. cuz very risky/chaotic things on the horizon, across near and medium term scales
there will always be other teams out there trying to make the next Arduino. not surprised if a few exist already
I just checked and it seems that it has been 9 years since my last post in this blog :O As part of my job at Amazon I started working in a GTK widget which will allow embedding a Servo Webview...
Despite the recent media reporting, #Windows installation with local accounts is working just fine. Create a regular Windows installation media and drop autounattend.xml to the root of the USB device and install it.
If the installation demands you to connect to the internet, you can bypass this part by pressing Shift+F10 and then entering oobe\bypassnro + <return>. After the installer restart, you'll have the "I don't have internet" option, and the installation will proceed.
EDIT: To clarify: While I did not test the latest insider build I believe this method will continue to work, even with it. I'll be sure to edit the post if this turns out to be incorrect.
If you have an iPhone 16 (of any kind), this is your reminder that you can set up an automation in the Shortcuts app that turns on silent mode when you leave home, and another one that turns it back off when you arrive.
I used to keep my phone on silent all the time, mostly to save myself the embarassment of forgetting to flip the switch before an important meeting. With the physical switch gone, this is no longer necessary.
Today is the second anniversary of October 7. I want to share some personal reflections about that day and the past two years. October 7 was, for me, a lightning bolt.
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