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"Mothers, Fathers, Sisters, and Brothers need to show the battle lines are drawn, and stand together to fight for the future of victims.
Is protesting the answer? I dont know. But we’ve got to start somewhere.
To all survivors and those protesting. We stand with you in solidarity and know the fight is not over!"
-- It takes incredible courage to face down the sexual predators who have abused you.
Which is why WC, in this broken year, has selected a broken …

2025 in Review: WC’s Person of the Year
In what passes for tradition here at Wickersham’s Conscience, we spend the last week of each year thinking about the year that is ending, and making our wishes for the coming year. This is the four…

DeltaChat is a cool idea but should be cranked to the max. Fuck protocols, instant messaging has never been been about the protocol but the network effect.
Not everyone knows how to login to their email outside of the web browser, a chat client should facilitate speech between you and your friend’s favourite app.
These are all open protocols that allow for direct communication but garden off others: activitypub, email, irc, matrix, xmpp, bluesky, nostr, simplex, theema, tox, jam…

Essentially this is abusive behavior and the only way out is to break the cycle.
This doesn't preclude valid criticism, but each party in this must recognize that the other parties aren't them and do not have the same audiences, the same requirements for rigor, or the same style of communication.

More than a dozen states including New York, California and Delaware prohibit the reporting of #medicaldebt on a consumers’ #credit report.
The #Drumpf administration is coming for

Trump administration moves to overrule state laws protecting credit reports from medical debt
The Trump administration is moving to overrule state laws that protect consumers’ credit reports from medical debt. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has drafted an interpretative rule related to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. This rule suggests that the FCRA should preempt state laws on debt reporting to credit bureaus like Experian, Equifax, and Trans Union. This repeals Biden-era regulations allowing states to implement their own credit reporting bans. More than a dozen states, incl…

"Le programme actuel de déréglementation menace la protection des consommateurs, les garanties sociales et la protection de l'environnement. En plus de provoquer une instabilité économique, de mettre en péril les emplois et de réduire le bien-être des citoyens, une déréglementation aveugle augmentera directement ou indirectement le coût de la vie"

The headline should be: ❝AI vendor’s AI-generated analysis claims AI generated reviews for AI-generated papers at AI conference❞
To be clear, I give great credence to the claims of the humans in the article who thought they’d received an AI-generated review. I bet •they’re• correct. It’s Nature I’m coming after here.
A journalistic institution would investigate that claim, track down the reviewer in question, get to the bottom of the story. A PR outlet would just repeat some vendor’s product claims as fact and click “publish.”
Which one is Nature?
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Trump says he’s protecting Nigerian Christians. His admin is blocking them from coming to the US | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-nigeria-travel-ban-refugee-isis-attack-b2891074.html

Godzilla Day is coming up on November 3, and knowing this in advance gives me time to maybe tidy up the collection to get a good shot by then. We'll see 😂
https://godzilla.com/blogs/news/how-to-celebrate-godzilla-day-2025

How to Celebrate Godzilla Day 2025
More than seven decades after producer Tomoyuki Tanaka, director Ishirō Honda, and special effects master Eiji Tsuburaya first unleashed Godzilla in Japanese theaters on November 3, 1954, the King of the Monsters remains a beloved symbol of imagination and cinematic innovation. Now, after a landmark 70th anniversary ye

In the coming days, as we move into 2026, I’ll run a few polls on Android, Linux, and a few philosophical/political topics. I’d love for you to participate and boost when they drop.
#Polls

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…