@pygospa@social.linux.pizza2025-09-20 10:00:18
![Console with vim showing the content of the new `systemd` service I wrote, which lives in my home dir under: `.config/systemd/user/yubikey-unlock.service`
Content:
```
[Unit]
Description=Yubikey GPG Unlock
After=graphical-session.target
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c 'TEMP_FILE=$(/usr/bin/mktemp); echo "unlock test" | /usr/bin/gpg --encrypt -r FEE1636BFD47D3E8 > "$TEMP_FILE"; /usr/bin/gpg --quiet --decrypt "$TEMP_FILE" >/dev/null 2>&1; /usr/bin/rm "$TEMP_FILE"'
Environmen…](https://cdn.social.linux.pizza/system/media_attachments/files/115/236/005/531/817/698/original/aff515a276e940a3.jpg)
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-11-16 14:24:11
When it's observable that the very rich are steadily growing richer while the vast majority of people are growing poorer, it's obvious that the tax system is not neutral: it is actively redistributing wealth upwards. For the tax system to be neutral, it MUST tax the very rich much more. To do so is not redistributive, at least until it actively causes a net movement of wealth towards the poor: rather it is simply neutral.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-16 18:25:43
Email: Ron Conway, a close friend of Marc Benioff for 25 years, stepped down from the Salesforce Foundation board, citing Benioff's comments supporting Trump (Heather Knight/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10…
@lilmikesf@c.im2025-10-17 13:24:51
Politically connected Local SF "Venture Capitalist" villain and notoriously bad tipper #RonConway publicly announces he has resigned from #MarcBenioff charitable org board after #Salesforce founder's flubbed req…
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-12-18 02:42:10
Vital Arts Podcast
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@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-03 07:16:35
What are you going to do when the regime falls? After calling all your friends, after the great memes, after the parties, what are you going to do to make sure it never happens again? What world should we create?
Taxing billionaires is great and all, but we could build systems where billionaires are impossible. Is hoarding wealth and using it to control people even something we should consider part of a functional and humane system? Any system where one group of people doesn't have rights means that anyone can be stripped of their rights, like has happened with all the US citizens who've been illegally detained and deported by ICE. Does the concept of "rights" that must be defended with violence, that can be stripped away by people who can exercise more violence, even make sense? Or should the bedrock of a functional system be the obligations that we have to each other and to society, that cannot be severed or taken from us, that tell us we *must* defend regardless of whether systemic oppression will impact us or not?
Americans have been so restricted by the limitations of the two party system, only able to choose between options acceptable to different sections of the capitalist class. Would we even be able to imagine what we could do if those restrictions went away?
The fall of the Berlin wall was a surprise. The fall of Assad was faster than anyone expected. One day the government of Nepal was an unrepentant oligarchy, the next it was on fire. Everything can change in an instant, faster than anyone expects. No one can predict revolutionary change. Will you be ready if the opportunity presents itself?
The US cannot be fixed. The economic system is a ponzi scheme that has been patched again and again, but has finally run out of options. Racism, sexism, and Christian nationalism are baked into the system at every level. Trump gutted the system of soft power that held the US economy together, now there is only a slow decline. Even after he's gone, the damage is done. Once we let go of how to fix something that cannot be fixed, we can start to imagine something that cannot be achieved within the current system.
This is a time of opportunity. Do not burrow so deep in terror that you miss your chance to dream.
#USPol
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-10-13 11:52:03
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-12 18:26:03
The Trump administration recently dropped its
National Security Strategy
and, like all things Trump,
it’s equal parts nonsense and vitriol.
It signals a self-defeating retreat from any sort of global leadership
and the regime’s open promotion of white nationalism at home and abroad.
The document is extremely light on the “strategy” part,
but is chock full of naked racism and Great Replacement rhetoric.
If you fed a low-rent knockoff version o…
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-12-17 08:24:31
Casting Guild Of Australia Podcast
Bringing recognition to Casting Directors across Australia who cast film, television, TV commercials, theatre, new media and reality...
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@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-02 21:26:21
It's also easy to imagine that Trump is sending his military to Portland. People forget that the military is actually really big and pretty complex.
Most people join the military because they want to get out of poverty. Some people join because they believe in it. A lot of people are just too young to have any kind of politics, but some of them do develop politics in the military... and some of those folks become anarchists.
There are Nazis in the military. It's a big problem. But there are also anarchists who signed up before they developed a critique of the state, and now they're kind of stuck for a few years until they can get out.
It's also worth recognizing that a lot of people join after they graduate. Basic training is like 22 weeks. So, assuming a random selection, there really aren't a lot of folks who would be deploying to PDX who would have joined under Trump. That's just assuming a random selection, and there may be other things at play that I'm not aware of, but the majority of the types of folks who would get deployed now would have joined under Biden.
The troops who will deploy (if they do deploy) may very much not want to be there. These are also not monsters wanting to kill (like Trump wishes them to be). They're kids from nearby towns. That's not awesome, most of Oregon has absolute shit politics. But joining the National Guard doesn't necessarily mean that a person has any politics at all. All of this is worth remembering.