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You’re not apolitical, you’re unapologetically privileged.

before anyone says Elon's cancer-inducing data center in Tennessee is "conservatives getting what they deserve", remember that it's in *Memphis*, Tennessee, a large city with a 60% BIPOC and mostly politically liberal population, in general the privileged *never* get what they deserve and the the idea that they do is used to divide the working class against the supposed "backwards" populations who "deserve" right-wing policies

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/115741596746900837
This, kids, is why when relying on containers, we should ensure that (at least):
1. Their filesystem is READONLY (example: if you are using Python, generate your .pyc files when creating your OCI image, not at runtime)
2. They run under a non-privileged user
And, at the host & network levels:
3. The private network is properly segmented.
4. We have firewall rules to control outgoing traffic and traffic between subnets.
This is not paranoia not overengineering, shit happens, we ought to be careful.

Stefanski mum on future, 'privileged' to have job https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47446171/kevin-stefanski-mum-future-privileged-browns-coach

Why nothing changes at DCA, and why I never want to fly there...
#aviation

When you ask someone to respect your GPL free/open source license, sometimes they act offended and say you are threatening them with state violence. The thinking seems to be that copyright law comes down to threats to put people in prison. I've only seen this from privileged white men in tech. Where does this come from? It's it a right wing libertarian ideology? (genuine question, I'd like to know!)
Really, the GPL (and AGPL) is all about undermining copyright law, by creat…

New place near me does not offer olives on pizza. That’s just depressing. 😤
I mean, if you’re only looking at it through a privileged food lens and not actually considering (GESTURES AT EVERYTHING)

Is it a watering hole for privileged pricks of dubious character?
Does it have the word “Royal” in its name?
These are the same question.

Zohran Mamdani's woke, privileged tenant advocate Cea Weaver breaks down crying when asked about hypocritical gentrification comments (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/07/us-news/zohran-mamdanis-tenant-advocate-cea-weaver-breaks-down-crying-when-asked-about-hypocritical-gentrification-comments/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p151#a260107p151

grumbling about "carrying the team" in any group project is a sign of some immature (and privileged) Main Character syndrome
being an adult is nothing *but* a series of overlapping "group projects".
the people you call "freeloaders" are probably carrying *your* ass in one of the areas you can't see.
this is not *not* a post about stack ranking

“how many agents do you have running?” is 2026's tell me you are privileged without telling me you are privileged :-)

The realisation of the usefulness of cooperation, which should have led to the triumph of solidarity in all human relations, instead gave rise to private property and government, that is to the exploitation of the labor of the whole community by a privileged minority.
---- - Errico Malatesta - ----

Reliaquest has a post on attacker’s use of .SCR files to install remote access software. SCR (screensaver) files _are_ executable files. If you don’t already, please block .scr files from being emailed to your end users. #cybersecurity

Of course it's gonna be privileged kids doing more activism! It's the fact they use their privilege, “pass the mic”, and fight for a world where their circumstances aren't a privilege but a right, that's what matters.
When conservatives point out the privilege of their political rivals, it's never to actually criticize a hierarchical society, but rather an expression of the wish that their opponents had as little of a voice as the groups they marginalize.

How tech worker activism has grown more cautious as companies crack down and once-privileged workers realize they don't have much leverage (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/busines

Despite Crackdown on Activism, Tech Employees Are Still Picking Fights
They increasingly see themselves as rank-and-file workers who have traditional gripes with their companies.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sellathechemist/115875640029647958
Defend someone the way privileged white men defend Elon Musk.

"The Mandelson who bragged of doing something “every day” to undermine Jeremy Corbyn and the movement he led..."
The twice disgraced minister when appointed by Starmer.
And now we know he was personally corrupt, leaking privileged national information to allow the markets to be played against the country.
The Mandelson scandal reaches to the rotten heart of what Labour has become | Morning Star

I am mixed on this one...
On one hand I can see the risk of having Chinese people in China work on (which means "have access to", and often "have privileged access to") US DoD systems.
However, I don't see the other half of the issue - What do do about people who are not in China (perhaps in the US, even US citizens) who are, or have been induced, to use their access to promote the interests of a foreign power?
Given that under Cheato the US is dumbi…

Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work
The measure, which emerged in response to a ProPublica investigation, bars Microsoft engineers in China and other adversarial countries from servicing sensitive Pentagon cloud computing systems.

Space Camp fundraising has been hard this year. Beyond the cancelled fundraiser in Jan, people are kind of tapped out with donation requests: there’s been so much dire need for groceries, rent assistance, stuff like that…well, when survival is in question, education and joy become luxuries for the privileged.
That’s what happens in times like these. But I’ll be damned if I let ICE rob these kids of Space Camp without a fight.
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yeah, so it becomes a test for privilege or fear
privileged kids who have never been food-insecure, whose teachers & coaches & caretakers have always given a shit -- they pass the marshmallow test
or kids who have been draconically punished for disobedience -- they also pass, for very different reasons
but both groups are willing to wait for the additional marshmallows later
the _truly_ scrappy (gritty?) kids might grab the marshmallow and then lobby for the l…

Des Bishop is fully aware he is a privileged tall, straight, white man & is here to announce that it is ABSOLUTELY NOT 'difficult' to be a tall, straight white man. 😜
Watch more at https://youtube.com/@desbishopcomedy

Event Video: Multifaith Prayers and Call to Action
The Interfaith Center of New York hosted a conference on Religious Resistance to Authoritarianism, and I privileged to be invited to give one of the close prayers. The video of that segment is below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_AsyGBk9bI

Kevin Stefanski 'privileged' to be head coach of Browns amid job security questions https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6927152/2025/12/29/kevin-stefanski-browns-coach-job-security/

“When Karen Newton left home in late July 2025, she knew that international travellers were being locked up in immigration detention centres in the US. ‘I was aware,’ she nods. ‘But I never thought it would have any impact on my holiday.’”
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Huge “I planned a holiday in Nazi Germany because they were only persecuting Jews and I’m not Jewish” vibes.
It’s amazing to see privileged white people learn the leopards eating people’s faces lesson over and over again.

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to the Honourable Cairine Reay Mackay Wilson who the first woman to be appointed to the Senate in Canada. Her appointment in 1930 marked the end of an era during which women in Canada were denied civil rights. Born in Montréal on February 4, 1885, into a wealthy Scottish-Canadian family, Cairine Reay Mackay married Norman F. Wilson, the Liberal Member of Parliament for Russell, Ontario, in 1909. In 1919, the Wilson family moved to Ottawa, where Mrs. Wilson soon became heavily involved in politics. Her privileged background did not stop her from publicly denouncing appeasement of Hitler, defying her own government to bring in #WWII Jewish refugees, or a lifetime commitment to child poverty and refugees. And she had time to fight for women's rights to be in government by founding the National Federation of Liberal Women of Canada in 1928 and the Twentieth Century Liberal Association in 1930.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairine_Wilson