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That feeling when you’ve got twice the number of followers on the fediverse as the closed-source VC-funded European social network being peddled by the EU Commission has accounts.
Hey, @…, y’all are so incompetent you can’t even do evil right.
Muppets.
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Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ (@elena@aseachange.com)
[1 media attachment] Good morning Fedi friends. Is anybody curious about how the #WSocial experiment is going? You know, the private, for profit "European answer to X" endorsed by the European Commission, which is a fork of Bluesky and has quietly gone closed-source before its beta launch (à la #TruthSocial)? I've got numbers for you! Nearly two months in, W Social has almost the same number of accounts as #Eurosky... You know, the European fork of Bluesky that does NOT require government …

Rubio nodded to the fact that
Katie Miller's husband,
deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller,
has the portfolio overseeing UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena).
"I don't know who it is. I don't know what it is. But there are things flying over our military installation, and they're not ours, and we should look into this," Rubio said.
Rubio said there was a political benefit to talking about it when he was a senator becaus…

Greatest hits from Rubio's head-turning podcast interview
Katie Miller's show is the Trump administration's go-to new media outlet where officials talk at length in a friendly setting.

➡️ www.marginalia.nu
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One of the best humans I know is a disabled musician who cannot afford the materials to build a vocal booth. Please consider helping him build one so he can finish his vocals at home.
More details about the project and him are at: https://gofund.me/7c7c0d557

There have been recent projects by Historic England and Museum of London Archaeology #MOLA to record historic #ghostsigns Here is an example of a more contemporary one. Presumably John Lewis are no longer "at home"?

our regular pub (owned and run by old friends) was flying a huge trans pride flag over the bar earlier this year; tonight i noticed they have changed the toilet signage in way that tells terfs to fuck off in an elegantly ronseal manner

Grad die erste Folge LOL next geschaut. Viel Fremdschämen, kein einziges Mal gelacht.
#lolnext

Found a site that always goes the extra mile for it's niche subject, to the point I genuinely feel bad tryna explore rather than be a sincere initiate https://enochian.net/

I spent a lot of time talking with cyber folks at cons during September, and without prompting, they told me over and over again how the frontier labs are just failing cybersecurity 101.
So check out my latest CSO piece on how bad security practices and not agents with minds of their own cause those "rogue" hacking incidents.
Thanks to everyone who spoke with me, and thanks to Rob T. Lee, Gary McGraw, and Dan Wallach for their further thoughts.
https://www.csoonline.com/article/4234854/ai-agents-arent-going-rogue-frontier-labs-are-skipping-security-basics.html

The feeling of unity soon gave way to anger and division,
in large part due to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars,
begun by the George W Bush administration
and framed as necessary conflicts to help the US win the "war on terror".
“We launched two forever wars that were wholly ineffective at making us safer militarily,
and only sank our prestige in the world
– especially [in] Europe and the Middle East
– at the cost of thousands of American sold…

Americans on how 9/11 changed their lives: ‘It completely unraveled the US’
Twenty-five years later, the Guardian asks US readers how the attacks affected their lives, and their country