@bri7 Sent a few emails with custom "from" addresses. It was a bit wild when SMTP servers had no restrictions on relaying or any authentication
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@hongminhee Then there's the Australian option... No shoes inside because nobody is wearing shoes outside (summer months), but when shoes are worn outside then often worn inside too.
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I’m completely fed up with elected Representatives saying shit like, “Republicans will tell you behind closed doors that they don’t agree with what ICE is doing”. Playtime is over. Professional courtesy no longer exists. Name them, record them, and make it public.
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Capitalist ideology more or less teaches everyone that good people don't exist, so when good people do good things for good reasons, it's often enough to short circuit the whole thing at least for a second. You see this with the widespread conservative claim that protestors are "paid" - they can't believe people would actually protest because they care about their neighbors.
Capitalism literally doesn't understand mutual aid, it can't comprehend it, so it also cannot defeat it. It is the one enemy capitalism does not understand and cannot co-opt.
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I've seen people say that we can't condemn everyone who works at ICE—there are employees who work in buildings who don't deal with people who are detained.
So it's okay for some people to work at the Kidnapping & Murder Agency as long as they don't do the kidnapping and murder?
🙄🙄🙄
Fuck ICE.
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This law is using the boogyman of 3d printed guns.... which notably still need bullets and barrels, so... maybe regulate those actual GUN parts instead??
The issue is that this law in plain english says you are no longer the owner of your device. You don't get to choose what firmware to run, only the govt approved ones.
It's so broadly written that it appears to apply to ALL CNC machines.
At the end of the day this is end of right to repair in WA if this passes.
https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=2321&Year=2025
@decay @nullagent Even the design of little widgets used to make assembly of aircraft easier are considered proprietary. What's the bet some serious lobbying by Boeing, Amazon etc will carve out exemptions for the big end of town?
Btw, fighter jets are made in St Louis. P8 and KC46 made in Puget Sound though and they'll contain designs that USN & USAF won't want shared.
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Finally as we all know well in cybersecurity if you have a data set valuable enough... some evil hacker may try to steal or ransom that data!
By actually having a BIG pile of actual dangerous shapes collected by the leakest, dumbest cluster fuck of organizations is maybe not going to do much to prevent that data from being exposed.
Oh look at this one where they lost control of data AND had $600M of funds stolen!
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Huge turnout against #ICE and #DHS, #protest/ #generalStrike in #Minneapolis #Minnesota yesterday
International observers and even some domestic observers:
You may ask why Americans aren't doing more
And I agree
But much is being done that you don't see because a lot going on is purposefully deemphasized in the #USA #newsmedia
Btw, this was in -10 F (-20 C) weather
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Microslop's CEO is on a roll!
Few weeks ago he begged us to stop using "slop" because it makes AIs sad. Days ago he complained "AI boom might falter" if we don't start using more spicy autocomplete. :blobeyes:
Now he's begging developers to "do something useful" with lying machines, or they might lose the "social permission" to boil the planet. :blobcatgiggle:
https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/microsoft-ceo-urges-ai-developers-to-get-to-a-point-where-we-are-using-this-to-do-something-useful-or-lose-even-the-social-permission-to-generate-these-tokens
What, is Microslop's Slopilot services not useful enough on their own? :blobcatthink:
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In unrelated news, Microsoft is asking Microsoft Windows users to uninstall a recent Microsoft Windows update, issued and published by Microsoft, because said update is breaking Microsoft Windows.
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-urges-uninstalling-the-update-kb5074109-after-bug-reports-on-windows-11-heres-how
Every single piece about this should be mentioning Satya Nadella bragging how 30% of new Microslop code is AI-generated:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html
Not providing this context is journalistic malpractice.
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Microsoft is handing over Bitlocker keys to law enforcement. https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/01/22/microsoft-gave-fbi-keys-to-unlock-bitlocker-encrypted-data/
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I don't need little cat feet socks for my chairs
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@davidbcohen @miffyhelen Bushell's or Bell are the "canteen" teas that are barely drinkable but cheap. Not sure how widespread it is, but Dilmah have a good customer base in Australia and NZ. Very nice Sri Lankan tea that is sold by the producer. https://www.dilmahtea.com/
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'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
#mushroom #hallucination #weird
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260121-the-mysterious-mushroom-that-makes-you-see-tiny-people
@stilgherrian Roast the whole clumps. Great with the main roast, and left overs can be frozen to add to other things later. The caramel gooeyness of roast garlic is amazing.
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Quite a phenomenal campaign ad from the Greens down in England. Strong. I firmly believe that any political party not running this same message will fail.
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Danish CEO Lars Christensen posted the following statement about the change in US policy and I think it somewhat reflects how Europe sees the ongoing situation. There’s counter arguments to that - criticism in the Congress, the Senate, the individual States, and thin majority by which #Trump won in 2024. But there’s also arguments in support - support for Trump in the same Congress and Senate, and escalating ICE violence that marks a change in internal just as in foreign policy of the US. All following text is quote from Christensen without block quote for readability:
The problem isn't Trump. The problem is the US.
When the outside world observes Trump's insane behaviour and his threats against allies, and we at the same time observe that there is no real action from the US public, Congress, the US Supreme Court, or the US media about this insanity, we will all have to conclude that the US accepts this behaviour.
The public in the US think the US is entitled to a certain position in the world where there is no room for decent behaviour and where there are no norms and rules.
That means that we all have to conclude that the US — not only Trump — has betrayed the international order that the US, with its Western partners, were the main architects of after the Second World War.
This is the conclusion that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney so clearly laid out in his speech at Davos yesterday. We simply cannot trust the US to play by the rules any more. Therefore, we also fundamentally have to ask ourselves — should we trust the financial and economic structure which is an integral part of the global rules-based order?
Americans live in the illusion that the US can do everything on its own, despite the fact that the US for nearly 20 years has lived beyond its means.
US private and government consumption has been funded by, among others, European central banks and pension funds. But we now have to ask ourselves — why would we trade in dollars? Why would we put our savings into US Treasury bonds?
If the US is not a rules-based society, we cannot trust the dollar to be a stable currency, and it would be insane to hold dollars. As domestic US institutions are eroded and governance structures destroyed, the US will be turned into an emerging market economy — or more accurately, a de-merging economy.
If the US threatens the territory of allies, then the US acts as an authoritarian bully nation. Nobody in their right mind would lend money to the US government. If the US doesn't live up to its international obligations and respect the sovereignty of other nations, why would we expect the US government to honour its debts?
If Trump can tariff nations that will not give up their territory, then there is certainly no reason to believe that the US will not introduce capital controls. And if that is a risk, why would you risk investing in the US?
It is not a question about Europe standing up to the US. It is a question about being prudent with our investments — about reducing risks.
Every day Trump remains in office, distrust of the US increases, and the cost for the US will go up day by day. And this is irreversible. It takes years to build trust, but you can destroy it by your actions in minutes.
Europe has now completely lost trust in the US. And so has Canada. It is up to the people of the US to demonstrate that Trump is an 'outlier', and it is up to the American people to stop him.
If you don't do that, we will have to assume that this is what the US is about — whether the name of the President is Trump or something else, whether the President is a Republican or a Democrat.
Source: https://xcancel.com/mamomvpy/status/2014020...
The problem isn't Trump. The problem is the US.
When the outside world observes Trump's insane behaviour and his threats against allies, and we at the same time observe that there is no real action from the US public, Congress, the US Supreme Court, or the US media about this insanity, we will all have to conclude that the US accepts this behaviour.
The public in the US think the US is entitled to a certain position in the world where there is no room for decent behaviour and where there are no norms and rules.
That means that we all have to conclude that the US — not only Trump — has betrayed the international order that the US, with its Western partners, were the main architects of after the Second World War.
This is the conclusion that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney so clearly laid out in his speech at Davos yesterday. We simply cannot trust the US to play by the rules any more. Therefore, we also fundamentally have to ask ourselves — should we trust the financial and economic structure which is an integral part of the global rules-based order?
Americans live in the illusion that the US can do everything on its own, despite the fact that the US for nearly 20 years has lived beyond its means.
US private and government consumption has been funded by, among others, European central banks and pension funds. But we now have to ask ourselves — why would we trade in dollars? Why would we put our savings into US Treasury bonds?
If the US is not a rules-based society, we cannot trust the dollar to be a stable currency, and it would be insane to hold dollars. As domestic US institutions are eroded and governance structures destroyed, the US will be turned into an emerging market economy — or more accurately, a de-merging economy.
If the US threatens the territory of allies, then the US acts as an authoritarian bully nation. Nobody in their right mind would lend money to the US government. If the US doesn't live up to its international obligations and respect the sovereignty of other nations, why would we expect the US government to honour its debts?
If Trump can tariff nations that will not give up their territory, then there is certainly no reason to believe that the US will not introduce capital controls. And if that is a risk, why would you risk investing in the US?
It is not a question about Europe standing up to the US. It is a question about being prudent with our investments — about reducing risks.
Every day Trump remains in office, distrust of the US increases, and the cost for the US will go up day by day. And this is irreversible. It takes years to build trust, but you can destroy it by your actions in minutes.
Europe has now completely lost trust in the US. And so has Canada. It is up to the people of the US to demonstrate that Trump is an 'outlier', and it is up to the American people to stop him.
If you don't do that, we will have to assume that this is what the US is about — whether the name of the President is Trump or something else, whether the President is a Republican or a Democrat.
Source: https://xcancel.com/mamomvpy/status/2014020...
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