@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-05-06 23:33:25
I love writing. I wasn't always good at it (it's debatable that I am now). But it was never about being good, it was always about process; about playing with language; about putting one word in front of another and moving them around; about dragging thoughts from the darkness of my head into the light on the page to make sense of them and to communicate; about affirming my humanity. Writing's never been for everyone - that's fine. But how we're collectively treating it no…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-06-28 22:55:45
her: [coming at me with a cheap plastic rain jacket]
me: "no, I don't want to try it on"
her: "I'm actually going to smother you with it"
her: [places it over my head]
me: "ah, finally, the sweet release of death"
her: "omg you look like a KKK member"
9yo: [singing a k-pop (Itzy) song] 🎶 "cake cake cake" 🎶
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-30 13:22:31
This week, @… gives us an opportunity to score the #EndingCredits: a collection of songs at the end of things to mark the end of April.
1. Eric Kinny & Danica Dora, “Last Goodbye”—
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-23 03:30:19
Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureaucrats are reportedly planning to use specialty facial recognition glasses to collect data on Americans in real time,
independent journalist Ken Klippenstein revealed.
Financial statements viewed by Klippenstein point to the development of a facial recognition platform modeled after commercially available AI smart glasses,
like Meta’s widely-panned“pervert glasses.” ICE’s in-house model, it seems,
will allow agents to monitor vi…
@pre@boing.world2026-06-15 18:33:32
Don't get me wrong, I certainly think y'all should abandon those ten apps and come join me on the free internet, away from corporate ownership in free unowned spaces where no big money players can control the playing-field. Take away from big money that feed that they use to point your kids and you at whatever scape-goat target they want, from migrants to trans people, from the disabled on benefits to kids using mobile phones.
But you're talking about installing a gateway on the entire internet and giving the government the power to decide who is allowed to use it or not.
That isn't going to get you away from those monopoly capitalists, it's going to entrench them and give them a cosy relationship with an authoritarian government that's about to change to being both authoritarian and also racist and sexist and nativist and far-right-wing.
We want to break up these monopolies and decentralize the power they have and destroy all advertising.
This will do the opposite of that. It is an attempt to enclose the internet commons for corporate interests. It will do that.
It can not be done in a way that protects privacy and anyone saying it can probably has shares in Palantir or similar who will expect to be paid to run these government gateways on internet publishing and who will then leak all your data that they lied about collecting.
#ukpol #internet #socialMediaBan