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Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.

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If it's advertising, what is it advertising?

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People lie best when they lie to themselves.

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It's worth keeping in mind that the article above is from 2022.ev.

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"Illegal state subsidies?" From whom?

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Got it in one.

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Somebody seems to think so.

I can't shake the feeling that we're in the middle of a passive-aggressive depopulation operation.

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Is it just Kbin, or does every fediverse service have the issue of being totally swarmed with bots advertising illegal pharmaceuticals? Is this just the result of limited moderation?

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I haven't seen it on any of the instances I hang out on.

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I was just about to ask if anybody else had been "advised" through the usual social back channels to not consider hiring anyone on that list. I got a couple of messages last night from folks I used to work for about that.

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It's not an actual list. There's no GDoc that gets shared around or anything. People talk to people. Folks who used to work together who kept in touch sometimes give each other "a friendly heads-up - that guy at the protest? He's getting fired. Don't hire him." Then e-mails to recruiting addresses get deleted or a resume' gets dumped in the recycling bin, and that's that.

It's the same back channels on LinkedIn and Skype chat groups (yes, they're still a thing) that are used to organize parties at RSA and shit like that.

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Shit. I'm going on travel in a month or two.

Top Republican says party base "infected" by Russian propaganda ( www.newsweek.com )

Russian propaganda pushed by the Kremlin has “infected” part of the Republican base, a senior GOP congressman has said, as indications grow that a vital U.S. military package for Ukraine will come up for a vote with U.S. lawmakers this month....

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If you actually talk to some of those people as people (person to person, just shooting the shit, not questioning or obviously gathering intel or anything) and the subject comes up, they’ll straight up tell you that.

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“Conservatives seem more excited about change.”

No, conservatives seem excited about changing as much back to the way it was before. Progressives are sad because un-doing progress is significantly easier and faster than making progress.

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The autopsy report will be interesting. Assuming that it’s not mysteriously lost in a disk crash.

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Maybe somebody should be them in touch with Indymedia.

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Really?

Fuckin’ really?

I give up.

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A friend of mine quit his position at a library and moved away from WV last month. Just in time, it seems.

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Just remember: Two sets of hex wrenches (USian and metric) will run you about $15us at the hardware store.

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They’re great for un-doing the bolts used to hold lots of stuff in place. Including rocks.

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Some people still don’t understand that justice is cash flow.

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Not terribly unusual. The same companies that own nuclear power companies also own television networks that never have negative coverage of nuclear power for the same reason. It’s just showing up on a smaller scale now.

State inspectors denied entry to privately-run immigration detention center in Tacoma ( washingtonstatestandard.com )

Washington state health and workplace inspectors have repeatedly been denied entry to a for-profit federal immigration detention center in Tacoma, where detainees have filed hundreds of complaints over issues like neglected hygiene, poor food and inadequate medical care....

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Where there’s a government agency, there are contractors willing to do the job.

New US company ownership database faces continued political attacks weeks after launch ( www.icij.org )

The rollout of a landmark company ownership registry officially launched by the United States Treasury Department on Jan. 1 and aimed at fighting dirty money flows in the U.S. has been met with political attacks and the spread of misinformation, amid ongoing tensions around the transparency tool....

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I guess they don’t want all their shell companies listed in one place.

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Usually, when stuff like that is left out it means that the cops were using it as a pretext law (i.e., it lets them “say-so” without having to provide evidence).

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New Year’s Day would have been ideal - a lot of folks would be partied out and not paying attention to the news.

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They don’t see a reason to keep the illusion going anymore. Pretending to actually care got them this far, and now they’ve decided that they won. So, they don’t have to keep pretending. In fact, from their point of view continuing the charade makes them seem weak.

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Unless the OC says anything, I’m not assuming there was any sarcasm. I knew too many people back home who honestly believed such things.

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It also means less cannon fodder for the quiverfull cultists.

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They don’t seem to teach it in school in a lot of places.

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Don’t forget successfully making editorial demands of publishers:

Pop Star Pink to Give Away Banned Books at Florida Tour Stops ( www.rollingstone.com )

The three-time Grammy-winning singer announced her collaboration with the national free speech organization PEN America during an Instagram Live with Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in the U.S. Pink will also work with bookseller Books & Books to distribute four books from PEN America’s Index of Banned Books: Todd...

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“As a famous person once said, ‘You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.’ And as I - another more famous person - once said, if you don’t teach them to read, you can fool them whenever you like.” –Max Headroom

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Good.

Amazon, DoorDash and Walmart are trapping workers in poverty, UN poverty expert says ( web.archive.org )

"I am extremely disturbed that workers in some of the world’s most profitable companies – in one of the richest countries on earth – are struggling to afford to eat or pay their rent,” said Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights....

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I was going to say - it’s working as designed.

Chicago Police Officers Appeared on Membership List of Extremist Oath Keepers Group ( www.occrp.org )

Reporting by Chicago public radio station WBEZ, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) has identified nine current and at least 18 former members of the Chicago Police Department on past internal rosters of the Oath Keepers obtained by OCCRP. The investigation identified another 12...

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Surprise.

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It is how they are incrementally changing the existing system so that it works that way.

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It always has been. It’s a quick and easy way of manipulating emotions of people on a large scale.

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Re: the source, of interest: mediabiasfactcheck.com/ynetnews/

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I was not trying to be ghoulish. Fog of war is a very real thing, and a great deal of misinformation about the situation is being passed around. Video footage of paragliders is being passed off as combat footage of Hamas airdropping into Israel. Older footage of a mosque in Syria being blown up is being republished as footage of Israeli forces acting in the Gaza strip. For pete’s sake, footage from the Arma 3 is being passed off as realtime citizen journalism.

In other words, I did some digging on the news site linked to, found that there is a very high probability that it is not a fake news site (with the incredible shenanagains involving professional fake news sites in the last couple of years I’m not willing to say “is not,” only “high probability it is not”), and posted the most informative link backing up the news source.

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Some schools are refusing to have Scholastic Book Fairs because they’re afraid of the blowback.

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Only $150us? Where?!

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I was going to say…

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    “All it takes is one speed freak to ruin a commune.” –Hippie proverb

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    Don’t replace the USB connector, replace the entire cable. It’ll be way easier.

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    I have a couple of air quality sensors I need to get wired up with wireless interfaces. I also have a book that I’m hollowing out to turn into a crystal radio-slash-diorama that I need to get back to work on.

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    The article isn’t clear. “On or near the buoy” could mean a lot of things - clinging to a buoy or floating next to one, at the very least.

    “Razor wire and drowning devices” is also mentioned specifically but without any details. Buoys that are linked together with razor wire? Seems pretty on-brand for Abbot, to be honest. “Getting entangled in the barrier” seems to support this.

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    Sounds like some swinger parties I’ve heard about in Tampa.

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    Any idea of the IP addresses they were coming from?

    An interesting case of moderation in the fediverse ( blog.ownlifeful.com )

    A small group of people were offended by a joke that unintentionally came across transphobic, and as a result this persons account was blacklisted. Even after getting the account reinstated, there were lasting complications with the state of the account (these probably technical issues) and the account was basically lost for...

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    “If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged.” –Cardinal Richelieu

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    We are statistical outliers, etc etc.

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