Everything is going extremely badly today and I just need to SCREAM INTO THE VOID!!

Thank you all for being a part of my void.

Wow.

Via Kyle Cheney: 1/...

JUST IN: DA #FaniWillis is asking the judge in the #Trump racketeering case to fast-track all 19 of the defenants — not just Ken Chesebro — while permitting the others to file motions to sever from the larger case. #legal #TrumpIndictment #Georgia https://t.co/T9r46He7dO

Republicans must be too busy trying to distract us with other things to try and cancel Obamacare lately. Or maybe they’ve finally realized most people like it.

At any rate, this is another great idea from Governor Gretchen Whitmer. All states should do it. Probably only the Democratic-run ones will. #VoteBlue

Michigan Gov. Whitmer will call on Democrats to codify ‘Obamacare’ into state law |
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/michigan-gov-whitmer-will-call-on-democrats-to-codify-obamacare-into-state-law

Look, we tried trickle-down economics for over forty years. It simply didn’t work. The national debt exploded and nothing trickled-down, so now we move on.

Stimulating the economy from the bottom up is clearly more effective. A rising tide should lift all boats, not just yachts.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-rich-50-years-no-trickle-down/

Many people seem still unaware of just how bad Chrome Sync is for your privacy. By default, Chrome will sync all your data – including e.g. your passwords, bookmarks, browsing history and open tabs. And by default, Chrome will not encrypt any of this data. All of it will be accessible by Google, by anyone who subpoenas Google to turn up your data and whoever else managed to get access to these servers.

If you want this data encrypted before it is first uploaded, you need to click “Settings” instead of confirming sync, then expand “Encryption options” and set up a sync passphrase. The default option “Encrypt synced passwords with your Google Account” is essentially a disguised “We can access all your data but we promise not to look. Don’t you trust us?”

The only positive aspect here: Chrome Sync used to be a lot worse. It used to enable automatically when you signed into Chrome. It used to encrypt only passwords and none of the other data even if you set up a passphrase. It used to warn you when setting a passphrase because Google’s web services would no longer be able to access your passwords. It used to upload data without encryption first, only allowing to enable encryption after the fact. And its encryption used to be horribly broken. I wrote about that five years ago: https://palant.info/2018/03/13/can-chrome-sync-or-firefox-sync-be-trusted-with-sensitive-data/#chrome-sync

But even now, Chrome Sync requires you to take action in order to get privacy. Because Google knows that you won’t. Compare that to Firefox Sync which has always been encrypting all data by default. I criticized the implementation here as well, but that was really a minor issue compared to the mess which is Chrome Sync.

#Google #GoogleChrome #privacy

Edit: Removed link to a post claiming that Google is censoring synced bookmarks. This claim appears to be incorrect, the message there referring to a different Google service.

The Programmers' Credo, via the ineffable pinboard, Maciej Ceglowsi. Yes I had this bronzed myself. Twice, one for me, one for him. And we deserve every bit of it! 😉

I'm now on Mastodon so time for an #Introduction post. Hi! I'm an archaeologist and I research our relationship with animals through time. I examine animal remains 🦴, do biochemical analyses 🔬, and study iconography 🎨 I work(ed) on 🐄🐖🐪🦌🦦 and plan to study many more!
#archaeology #animals #scicomm

Trickle-Down Economics isn't a failed experiment, it worked exactly the way the people that instituted it wanted it to.

MORE OF THIS!!!

‘Brought to you by big oil’: US billboards call out companies for record heatwaves

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/29/billboards-oil-climate-crisis-phoenix-austin

> Fossil Free Media, a non-profit media organization, installed the ads in cities rocked by heatwaves including Phoenix and Austin

Never buy a PC with a power button on top. N E V E R.

Alt-headline: By 53-30 margin, most Americans approve of the DOJ indicting #Trump. #media

https://apnews.com/article/trump-indictment-poll-georgia-elections-b6140eed88b3153e41dbf9e008d5a21b

Just a reminder that Trump was caught on tape instructing Georgia's Republican secretary of state “find” the exact number of votes needed to overturn Georgia's results.

This is not a man who was interested in finding “voter fraud.” He wanted to steal the election. Period.

Looks like Jack Smith obtained Trump’s Twitter data, including “some volume” of his DMs. Elon’s people tried to delay production and wanted to tell Trump about the warrant, but they got smacked down and hit with sanctions. Shows whose side Musk was on, huh?

If the idea of violent protests don't make you at least little scared I wonder how well you know history. At the same time, real change almost never happens without people putting their bodies on the line.

The right understands this far better than your average liberal/moderate. To be a moderate is to trust that existing systems will (mostly) work.

If those systems fail? What then? To even consider this is moderate treason.

(Cartoons by Mattie Lubchansky https://thenib.com/author/mattie-lubchansky/ )

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This is the way. 🙌🏻

Via Keith Boykin, for those who like to keep score:

91 criminal charges
26 sexual assault allegations
6 bankruptcies
5 draft deferments
4 indictments
2 impeachments
1 convicted company
1 fake university shut down
1 fake charity shut down
$25 million fraud settlement
$5 million sexual abuse verdict
$2 million charity abuse judgment

#Trump

medical establishment: your blood pressure seems high, are you also under any stress at the moment?

me: *gestures everywhere*

Above all it’s sad that people are still supporting a platform like this in the name of ‘community’. Let’s call it like it is - you need the validation. For those who say they stay to fight, you are fighting nothing. Deleting your account is the biggest impact you can make towards not tolerating hate.

No elected official has ever been accused of anything remotely on the scale of what Donald Trump has been charged with.

His prosecution isn’t a “witch hunt.” It’s a defense of our democracy.

Don’t believe his lies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPnT9WMaf6U