Hard Pass

“Woody, part of a group called Cut the Ties to Fossil Fuels and dressed in the grim reaper costume, told the Guardian he had come “dressed as Big Oil”…

“”Big Oil’s tentacles reach across through many industries, and it’s those enablers of the fossil fuel industry that, as a movement, Cut the Ties to Fossil Fuels, target.”

“He said it was important to unite on the left and work together, which is something the right tend to do well “despite having massive differences”.

“”It’s a numbers game in a way. This is really important to send a message. So I’m really excited about being here today and being part of a much bigger thing.”

“To illustrate the historical gravity of the moment, actors Billy Porter, Griffin Dunne and Sam Waterston delivered a dramatic reading of the House Un-American Activities Committee testimony of Paul Robeson, the pioneering Black singer and activist whose career was decimated by 1950s McCarthyism.

“Waterston, who appeared in the film The Killing Fields and the TV series The Newsroom, told the gathering: “What’s happening here at the Kennedy Center is not a culture war sideshow. As it says in the anti-authoritarian playbook, before the camps, before the purges, before the marches, there is a theatre going dark. The gallery closed, the comedian silenced, the musician banned. This is not coincidence. The assault on artistic expression in America is central to the authoritarian project.””

Hacker News.

The young woman at the heart of what has been called the tech industry’s “big tobacco” moment was on YouTube at six and Instagram by nine. More than a decade later, she says, she still can’t live without the social media she became addicted to.

“I can’t, it’s too hard to be without it,” Kaley, now 20, told a jury at Los Angeles’ superior court. This week, five men and seven women handed down a verdict on the design of two of the world’s most popular apps that vindicated Kaley’s position.

The ruling sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley and sparked hope among families and child safety campaigners that change may finally be coming to social media. Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and Google’s YouTube were found liable for deliberately designing addictive products used by Kaley and millions of other young people.

It was one case centred on the suffering of one young person who became depressed at 10 and self-harmed, but Kaley, referred to by her first name or the initials KGM in order to protect her privacy, was the figurehead for a much bigger fight.

“We wanted them to feel it,” one of the jurors explained to reporters. “We wanted them to realise this was unacceptable.”

cross-posted from: https://thecanadian.social/ap/users/116156929904576299/statuses/116307641300917264

@manitoba Wab Kinew: “Let the Epstein class fight the Epstein war”

"Not a single Canadian should ever be put in harm's way to defend Donald Trump's foolish Iranian war," he [Kinew] said at the conference Friday.

"I'll go a step further, and I'll say no American either," Kinew said. "No American child from the blue collar or the middle class should have to die in Iran. Let the Epstein class fight the Epstein war.”

Full article here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/wab-kinew-iran-war-mark-carney-9.7145251

#cdnpoli #iran #manitoba

Actually I have zero ideas as to the statement being made with this potato on a stick/staff with a condom on it. Does anyone know?

I was using webmin, but since my last server died and I'm making a new one, I decided I'd look into something different, personally I liked webmin but didn't use most of its functionality and felt a little clunky for my basic use. I've also testran casaos but felt weirdly limited and couldn't smoothly migrate docker containers to interact with its interface.

I can do with just the terminal, but it's nice having a gui that I can glance at my phone and quickly do stuff like update and reboot.

I personally haven't seen or found much conversation into the topic so I figured I'd ask and see what you peeps use and why.

Heyho,

as I will soon move into my first "own" apartment (have lived in shared apartments so far), I would like to set up some smart home devices. Primarily lights, but I am open to other ideas.

Looking into the topic I noticed that basically all cloudless setups need a server - often they use a Raspberry Pie, a low energy protocol - like Zigbee or Thread, and a managing software like Home Assistant or openHAB.

Currently, I think about using the Raspberry Pie 5 (should also be helpful for other projects such as Immich) together with some kind of USB to connect to the Thread network (guess there is something similar like conbee2 for Zigbee) and openHAB as the software for greater customization. While openHAB is probably overkill, as a computer scientist I think I might enjoy the greater customization options.

So my question: Are there any good tutorials for this setup? While I knew of Zigbee before this project, I wasn't aware of Thread and am just looking into it. I don't feel comfortable yet to double down on it without learning more on possible ways to connect Thread to openHAB on a Raspberry Pie.

Thanks in advance!

You get a womb with a view.

Demonstrators across the country and the globe will protest against Donald Trump on Saturday at over 3,000 planned events.

Millions are expected to gather across the country and around the world on Saturday for a third round of “No Kings” protests against Donald Trump. Organizers predict that it will be the “single largest non-violent day of action” in American history.

Saturday’s “No Kings” marches, of which there are more than 3,200 planned across all 50 states and several continents, come as Trump faces increasing scrutiny over the war with Iran, the rising cost of gas and how his administration has executed its mass deportation agenda.

“Since the last No Kings [protests], we’re seeing higher gas prices and groceries, all while there’s an illegal war in Iran,” Sarah Parker, a national coordinator for the group 50501, told reporters Thursday on a national press call previewing Saturday’s events.

I have vivid dreams sometimes and a nightmare will stick with me for a long time, especially if it wakes me up

last night was one of those dreams

I was at work getting close to closing up for the night, it was dark outside. I was the last one to leave. My computer opened up a Copilot screen asking why I wasn't engaging with it. I ignored it and screens from other computers started lighting up with messages that it knew I was there and it wanted an answer. Lights were flickering on and off and the electric doors wouldn't open. It started pretending it was going to wipe my servers if I didn't engage with it. I started to cover up webcams but it would show me videos on screens that it was watching me. The graphics looked like early 90s Wired magazines. The screens it would show me of wiping my servers looked like old DOS formatting, so I knew it was just fucking with me but I couldn't leave because of the magnetic door locks.

ugh I can't even escape this bullshit in my sleep 😫👎