AI is a weapon wielded by the wealthiest to control the masses. It is their coup de grâce to gain absolute control of The Internet, something that was intended to be of the people, by the people, and for the people.

This is why they dump billions of dollars into AI and do not care how inaccurate or dangerous to mental health it has turned out to be for the billions of users.

Whichever AI captures the most users in its trawl nets wins. Musk exploited this when he purchased Twitter AS A WEAPON. Until that time it was Zuckerberg unchallenged as the obvious "favorite". Now Thiel has the full backing of the most powerful and corrupted government in the world. He will win unless something unfortunate befalls him.

What part are you playing in this hostile takeover of humanity?

I completely underestimated how widespread the issue of servers not supporting TLS 1.3 is. Tests in the beta channel gave no indication.

I regret not working harder to at least make the error message better.
The error message in master has been improved, but I can't push that fix as long as I have ongoing disputes with Google (putting it out by temporarily admitting to collecting email addresses resets my spot in the queue to maybe talk to an actual person).

#Songs that you would recommend for the big global party - when Trump or Netanyahu or Putin or Xi or Modi - drops dead.

Drop the track name or video or song link, here.
Thanks for helping to create the hooray, the #dictators are dead!, party #music #playlist.

All music genres, welcomed.

*This thread will stay alive until one or more of the above listed dictators, drops dead. I added Modi too.*

#Antifa #FreedomForThePeoples
Requested by me, Que "Puncher of a Cop" Banh.

• Sew a new and improved bag (28%, 11 votes)
• Just patch it forever (71%, 27 votes)

Question for people using #screenreaders: Do I need to retype the text of a page into the accessibility box for a pdf? I am assuming yes since it sees the page as an image, correct?
#LowVision #accessibility #BlindFedi

For some reason I thought pdfs were automatically better for accessibility, but now I wonder if that was false information.

Word spread through social media that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had reportedly checked into two Long Beach hotels.

Within the hour, a small contingent of local residents had arrived at both establishments.

They were there to make sure ICE agents didn’t sleep.

This was one of several
“No Sleep for ICE” events
that popped up during the month of June.

In a time when large-scale protests often dominate headlines,
a different kind of resistance is taking root across Southern California.

Small, decentralized networks of community members are using stealthy tactics and real-time coordination
to monitor, disrupt, and expose the movements of federal immigration officers.
truthout.org/articles/in-south…

In Southern California, Small Groups of Activists Quietly Undermine ICE Operations

Organizers confront ICE wherever they can be found, from the hotels where agents sleep to the streets they patrol.

^{Michelle Zacarias (Truthout)}

Happy Labor Day. Although many of the blind workers in workshops for the blind were not officially organized in the late 1880x-1960s, that did not stop them from organizing strikes, work-stoppage protests, or picketing. Because they were not organized, the leaders lost their jobs and were blocked from other blindness shops, agencies, and services. We have come a long way, but our rights are not assured.

Today, I remember and honor the early blind men and women who fought for a fair wage.

I would love to see more theological formation have this as part of its goal!

“Theology is conceived as an art directed toward the cultivation of an ideal disposition of the soul, a disposition that may be called virtue, wisdom, or holiness.”
- Rev. Dr. Greg Peters

So much Christian theological training is far too cerebral, and needs to rediscover the traditional doxological and ascetic principles that have gotten lost in modern Christianity.

#PacificPower's grid is broken in NE PDX, something in a substation broke. It was something big, since 15,000 people don't have service, probably one of those bus-sized transformers.

Incidentally, most of the substations on the west coast are really old, like 50 years or more. They last a long time, but they don't get replaced if they aren't broken.

Unfortunately all of the electricity price increases lately have gone into wildfire insurance, not grid maintenance, so expect more outages.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.

In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.

In 2005 I started medical transition. For the state to recognise this I had to submit to standards of "care" which were humiliating, degrading and which placed me at risk of violence.

But I did it "by the book"

As I did it "by the book", the NHS agreed to reregister me as female, which makes sense because my anatomy now is.

In 2007 I had sex reassignment surgery. This had to be signed off by two mental health professionals, "by the book", and it was.

In 2008 I applied for gender recognition. This involved signing a statutory obligation, stating that I promised, BY LAW, to live fully as female for the rest of my life. As this was done, "by the book", the government promised that it would treat me as such.

Its first act as treating me as female was to annul our marriage because it was a same sex marriage and those were not allowed.

The state then reissued my birth certificate, correcting the "mistake" it had originally made when it recorded me as male, "by the book".

In 2009 Sylvia and I married for the second time, in a same sex civil partnership, which was done "by the book", because the state regarded me as female and I was bound by law to be female.

In 2013 we married again, because the state decided that same sex marriage was in fact allowed after all. This was done, "by the book". Despite having been married for 12 years, we had to submit ourselves to individual questioning to prove our relationship was genuine, "by the book".

In April of 2025 the state turned round and told me that I had been mistaken. That it never regarded me as female. That I was male the whole time. That the marriage it annulled because it was a same sex marriage was never a same sex marriage (but it stays annulled). That the civil partnership in 2009 never really happened because "opposite sex" civil partnerships were not allowed in 2009.

And that the legal obligation I have to live as female for the rest of my life, which I signed and gave up my marriage for, is still in effect but also if I keep following it, I am breaking the law and subject to arrest. As it's still valid, presumably if I don't keep following it, I am also breaking the law and subject to arrest.

The law of the land simultaneously requires me to be both a man and a woman and if I do either then I am breaking the law and subject to arrest.

At every stage I did what the state asked me to, even though it was humiliating, degrading and cruel.

And it kept moving the goalposts, and reneging on the agreements it made, whilst continuing to hold me to them even when they are now mutually contradictory.

Apparently this is "all my fault" and I should have known that this would be the consequences of my actions when I started medical transition 2 decades ago.

Perhaps you can now appreciate why we are upset?

my wife said Gen Alpha is obsessed with the word "nonchalant"

I don't have any inside information about this. Where'd they learn it? What did they consume where this word was used frequently enough that it has become a part of their standard vocabulary?

There is no official Wireguard or OpenVPN client for AppleTV and this is just absolutely batshit bonkers

I was going to use one app last night but they hid an an-app payment. When you try to enable the VPN they want an $85 license fee haha

One of my favorite programs for the Mac is from a company called Objective Development -- Little Snitch -- and it's a host-based firewall that alerts you anytime something on your computer tries to reach the Internet for the first time (or you can set to always ask all the time, which I wouldn't recommend just because of the alert volume). I personally like to know what programs and apps are doing and with whom they are communicating, and this app is a useful if imperfect way of doing that.

The most jarring aspect of Little Snitch is how some programs suddenly phone home but you have no idea what's going on because the requested IP is some shared Amazon cloud server or something. Even after spending a few minutes digging on the IP, you probably still won't find a hostname and you're no closer to gauging whether you should allow the connection or not. But most of the time the program is silent, operating the background to block or allow various connections that you have specified previously.

Anyway, what I wanted to share that's neat about Little Snitch is when you install an app that you've had on your phone or iPad onto your Mac, suddenly you have a much better idea of where (if not who) your apps are communicating with, and maybe even a little more info about what these apps are actually doing in the background.

the Omada SDN controller's HTML has comments like this

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Ich überlege, kleine Software-Tools anzubieten gegen Spende. Gibt es eine Plattform oder einen Anbieter, über den ich die Spenden direkt an einen e.V. ausliefern könnte? Also dass das Geld nicht erst bei mir eintrudelt, und ich dann weiter überweisen muss?

#followerpower

Me: "hey, any interest in switching this [SMS thread] over to Signal?"

Other class parent: "I would prefer not to add another service I'm not currently using. But we could do WhatsApp."

🙄

we fucking deserve the surveillance capitalism that we have