RE: mastodon.social/@andrewstroehl…
not just gratitude, the rest of the country should be stepping up with their own bravery (and they are, but moreso!) -- and the rest of us need to be stepping up ourselves
Every American owes a huge debt of gratitude to the brave people in Minnesota who are risking their lives to video the horrific crimes of masked thugs under Trump's vicious regime.Andrew Stroehlein (Mastodon)
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“Good white folx,” it’s now at your door.
The hate.
The coverups.
The justifications meant to strip you of dignity and humanity.
It’s ugly. It’s harsh. It’s violent.
But it has always been this way.
For years, I’ve said something many of you did not want to hear: that “good white folx” would eventually find themselves harmed by the very systems, institutions, and policies rooted in the myth of white supremacy that you believed protected you by default.
Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE.
They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon.
They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times.
He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”.
Silverio Villegas González was an undocumented immigrant who was shot and killed at close range while allegedly trying to flee.
He was dragged from his vehicle at a traffic stop after dropping his children off at school.
The bullet went through the back of his neck.
Keith Porter was shot and killed by an off duty ICE officer on New Years Eve in LA.
The officer alleges Porter pulled a weapon on him but the family and other witnesses deny that.
Renee Nicole Good was shot three times by an ICE agent who called her a “f*cking b*tch” after.
ICE claims she was using her vehicle as a weapon despite multiple videos showing she was trying to drive away from the agent.
2 of the 3 shots were through driver side door.
The ICE agent shot her through her windshield, moved out of the way of the vehicle and kept shooting.
He was in no danger. But he didn’t stop shooting until he got the kill shot.
Independent autopsy confirms it was through her left temple and out the right side of her skull.
There’s been so much documented abuse of power.
In addition to the shootings we have Liam Ramos, a five year old child who was used as bait and then taken by masked agents and sent from Minnesota to Texas.
There’s Geraldo Campos who was choked to death in an ICE camp in Texas.
The medical examiner officially ruled his death a homicide, and DHS moved to deport the witnesses!
Chaofeng Ge was found hanging in ICE custody.
They ruled it a suicide despite his arms and legs being tied behind his back.
Randall Gamboa Esquivel was in perfect health when detained by ICE.
He disappeared while in custody.
By the time his family located him, he was in a persistent vegetative state.
They deported him to Costa Rica and he died soon after.
David Courvelle worked as a detention officer in an ICE facility in Louisiana.
He sexually assaulted a Nicaraguan detainee for three months, forcing other detainees to keep watch while he abused her.
Silvia Reyna Mendoza, a mother of 8 who had been in the US for 40 years, was sexually harassed by an ICE contractor.
He reportedly would tell her if she was good to him, he would be good to her.
When she reported the harassment she was immediately detained.
Bayron Rovidio Marin had his leg broken during an ICE raid in LA.
He was then held in the hospital under a fake name so no one could find him.
He was chained to a hospital bed for 37 days until a court ordered his release.
There’s Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in ICE custody for almost a year.
He was only two days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when they grabbed him.
He’s being denied his prosthetics, he’s been placed in solitary and his health is declining
Now there’s Alex Pretti, another US citizen shot and killed in broad daylight.
These are not just a few random incidents.
It’s not a few “bad apples”.
It’s a systemic problem.
These agents have been allowed to hide their identities, filled with hateful rhetoric and told they have immunity.
People are being abused, assaulted and killed by ICE.
This isn’t about immigration or crime, it’s about control & creating fear.
It’s tyranny and no one is safe under tyranny.
The scariest part is these are only the cases we know about.
At least 1,200 people are missing from Alligator Alcatraz.
Elected officials are regularly denied access into the camps.
We have to assume we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg.
Abolish ICE.
Close the camps.
Keep witnessing and speaking out.
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I've said it before now, but I'll repeat it in the context of FIFA or the Olympics: Please don't come here. The rule of law is gone. I could never have really "guaranteed your safety" before, one can't. But now, I can't even guarantee that we'll get you out of this.
Do not come to the US, which is currently busily become a failed pariah state with no rule of law.
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Friends & Comrades
How are you??
(everything is a LOT right now and you don't have to be perfect for me or anyone else, and we are multi-faceted beings that are capable of feeling many things simultaneously, so choose everything applicable)
Recently have you felt?
Incidentally, yesterday's event(s) are why I ALWAYS switch off video autoplay in all browsers and social media apps and refuse to use TikTok or other video media platforms.
I do not need to see that kind of shit, and you should think twice before sharing it with strangers without a content warning.
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Haastattelussa säveltäjä ja harmonikkataiteilija Joose Ojala.www.espoo.fi
Моя разказ за роботите и хората няма да спечeли Букър, но пък аз си го харесвам.
Страх ме е. Много ме е страх, но не за себе си, а за вас. Навеждали ли си сте се някога към локвичка с вода след току що навалял дъжд за да духнете в нея?Богомил "Бого" Шопов (Блога на Бого)
Aз на FOSDEM 2026
Тази година пак ще се опитам да се замъкна на FOSDEM. За първи път си направих и слайдовете предварително, което малко ще намали стреса, които промените в последните секунди ми носят. Ако сте там и искате да се видим, тук ми е приблизителния план за двата дни! Ето списък с лекциите и слайдовете, ако ви е интересно.
Тази година пак ще се опитам да се замъкна на FOSDEM. За първи път си направих и слайдовете предварително, което малко ще намали стреса…Богомил "Бого" Шопов (Блога на Бого)
Huh.
ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/qu…
Quebec’s Ministry of Cybersecurity and Digital Technology (MCN) is adopting measures to regulate the use of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) by public bodies.The Canadian Press (CTVNews)
It didn't, but it sounds better than I would have expected.
(My expectations are very low because of Canada.)
В Питере открылась монастырская баня для состоятельных верующих. Люксовый комплекс рассчитан на двоих и оформлен с камином, колоколами, иконами и парной. Цена православного релакса — 35 тысяч рублей с человека: в неё входят парение вениками, массажи, скрабы и «очищение ума от дурных мыслей». Обещают полный духовный перезапуск.
Чем это отличается по сути от "денежных ворот"?
Nazi Germany didn't start with camps.
It started with loyalty tests, enemies within, attacks on the press, and people saying "this won't last."
It was built while people waited for it to get "bad enough" to matter. Waiting was a decision.
If this feels uncomfortably familiar right now, that's not an accident.
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I could suspend disbelief to the point of agreeing that yeah, ok, maybe Tim Cook needed to be at the inauguration.
But at the Melania documentary VIP screening while groups of government thugs roam the country, executing people? Yeah no, he’s just part of the gang now.
theguardian.com/world/live/202…
Rip up trade deals with the US. They're not worth the paper they're written on anymore.
Repeal anti-circumvention laws; allow companies in every nation to reverse engineer US tech, and sell better, cheaper alternatives, even to Americans - this would create leverage over the USA.
Cory Doctorow raised this idea at his 39c3 talk, recently. I agree. Those trade deals promise low/no tariffs and we let US tech walk all over us. Well now there is nothing to lose (never was).
If you’re wondering what kind of access a gold-and-Gorilla-Glass statue, a $1 million donation, and endless fawning buys you, well, it gets a special advanced screening of a state-sanctioned propaganda documentary film about the First Lady.Terrence O'Brien (The Verge)
#NewYearResolution2026: Never let people tell you it's impossible to deGoogle your life. 💪
➡️ Find out the names to the icons: tuta.com/blog/degoogle-list
2025 is the year to deGoogle! In this guide, we take a look at the best private Google alternatives so that you can say hello to privacy!Tuta
Al fin una infografía de alternativas a Google con verdaderas alternativas a Chrome.
Eso sí, la categoría de sustitutas de Google Chat podría mejorar, comenzando por quitar Signal. Delta Chat o Monocles Chat/XMPP quedan mucho mejor.
#Bulgarian localization daily (device) usage of the products I contribute to:
- Firefox Desktop: 130 764
- Firefox for Android: 52 954
- Thunderbird: 20 284
RE: mastodon.social/@Moltz/1159538…
I have the feeling I have bought my last Apple products. They make me productive and I love how they work for me. But my conscience can’t handle giving this company more money.
On the night a man was murdered by ICE in Minnesota, Tim Cook spent the evening watching what must be one of the shittiest movies of all time with the people running ICE as their own personal terrorist organization. https://www.theverge.John Moltz (Mastodon)
I think #Signal seems to be a really good app. Both from UX perspective and privacy (as far I've heard from others).
But it's still US software hq:ed in Mountain View California (with Alphabet, Google, LinkedIn), so switching to it does nothing (0) towards European digital independence. It doesn't help promote the emergence of strong European alternatives to US tech. It actually does the opposite when the European alternatives miss out on an influx of new users.
#digitalsovereignty #diday
Large corporations will cooperate with all governments (including the US), and Signal cannot mathematically leak your data. Between today's reality and switching to Signal, I would choose Signal.
Yes, it would be good if there were a strong European alternative that would gain popularity, but I don't see such a ‘player’.
#DeltaChat, it is decentralized, doesn't require phone numbers or any private data, onboarding is smooth much easier than in signal, similar UI (it is a signal fork) it has much better multi-device and multi-profile support, secure in-chat mini-apps like notepads, to-do lists, shopping lists, etc
there are alternatives, but they will not gain momentum if you don't promote them and stop misinforming people selling a centralized silo running on amazon as sovereign
@leanderlindahl
Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires
thehftguy.com/2026/01/22/doing…
<- this is one of those things I never knew existed but now desperately need
Disclaimer: None of this is written by AI, I’m still a real person writing my own blog like its 1999 I finally figured out how to do Gigabit Ethernet over my existing phone wires. Powerline adapter…The HFT Guy
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in reply to Cleverson • • •In pt-br, some eSpeak builds output y in the “-ião” type sequences, and Speech Player normalizes y -> i after the base pt rules run, so the existing lengthening rule never sees it.
Fix: add this to pt-br.yaml right after the y -> i rule:
- from: "iˈãᴜ"
to: "iːˈãᴜ"
- from: "iˌãᴜ"
to: "iːˌãᴜ"
After that, changing lengthenedScale will actually do something for those words.
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in reply to Tamas G • • •- from: "ɲ"
to: "ɲj"
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to: "lːj"