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Can You Hear Us?: Five Voices from Gaza – Hot Press Magazine, Ireland
https://www.hotpress.com/opinion/can-you-hear-us-five-voices-from-gaza-23113207
The five voices are those of my partner at Gaza Verified, @…

Can You Hear Us?: Five Voices from Gaza
It is hard for us, here in the relative comfort and security of Ireland, to even begin to imagine what is has been – and what it is – like in Gaza, where...

How to Set Up and Use a Burner Phone
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-set-up-use-burner-phone/

How to Set Up and Use a Burner Phone
Obtaining and using a true burner phone is hard—but not impossible. Here are the steps you need to take to protect your mobile communications based on the risks you face.

https://tidbits.com/2025/10/09/how-to-turn-liquid-glass-into-a-solid-interface/

How to Turn Liquid Glass into a Solid Interface - TidBITS
Apple’s new Liquid Glass interface design can be hard to read in certain situations. If you encounter any issues, here’s how to adjust the transparency and other visual effects across macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS to suit your needs.

There's no point in having fuck-you money in the bank if you never say "fuck you"!
https://www.anildash.com/2025/09/09/how-tim-cook-sold-out-steve-jobs/

How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs
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Actually, I do want to come back to masculinity under patriarchy and whiteness under white supremacy because I think it's worth talking more about. The "man" under patriarchy (at least "Western" patriarchy) is represented as power and independence. The man needs nothing and thus owes nothing to anyone. The man controls and is not controlled, which is intimately related to independence as dependence can make someone vulnerable to control. The image of "man" projects power and invulnerability. At the same time "man" is a bumbling fool who can't be held accountable for his inability to control his sexual urges. He must be fed and cared for, as though another child. His worst behaviors must be dismissed with phrases such as "boys will be boys" and "locker room talk." The absurdity of the concept of human "independence" is impossible to understate.
Even if you go all Ted Kaczynski, you have still been raised and taught. This is, perhaps, why it is so much more useful to think in terms of obligations than rights. Rights can be claimed and protected with violence alone, but obligations reveal the true interdependence that sustains us. A "man" may assert his rights. Yet, on some level, we all know that the "man" of patriarchy acts as a child who is not mature enough to recognize his obligations.
White violence and white fragility reflect the same dichotomy. "The master race" somehow always needs brown folks to make all their shit and do all the reproductive labor for them. For those who fully embrace whiteness, the "safe space" is a joke. DEI shows weakness. Yet, when presented with an honest history adults become children who are incapable of differentiating between criticism and simple facts. *They* become the ones who must be kept safe. The expectation to be responsible for one's own words and actions, one of the very core definitions of being an adult, is far too much to expect. Their guilt needs room, needs tending, needs caring. White people cannot simply "grow the fuck up" or, as they may say of slavery, "fucking get over it."
And again, interestingly, it is *rights* that they reference: "Mah Freeze PEACH!" I find it hard to distinguish between such and my own child's assertion that anything she doesn't like is "not fair!" No, these assertions fail to recognize the fundamental fabric of adult society: the obligations we hold to each other.
At the intersection of all privilege is the sovereign, the ultimate god-man-baby. Again, referencing the essay (https://hexmhell.writeas.com/observations-on-domination-and-trump)
> This is where it becomes important to consider the ideology behind the sovereign ritual. Participation within the sovereign ritual denotes to the participants elements of the sovereign. That is, all agents of the sovereign are, essentially, micro dictators. By carrying out the will of the sovereign, these micro dictators can, by extension, act outside of the law.
While law enforcement is the ultimate representative of sovereign violence, privileges allow a gradated approximation of the sovereign. Those who are "closer" in privilege to the sovereign may, for example, be permitted to carry out violence against those who are father away. The gradation of privilege turns the whole society, except for the least privileged, into a cult that protects the privilege system on behalf of the most privileged. (And immediately Malcolm X pops to mind as having already talked about part of this relationship in 1963 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf7rsCAfQCo.)

Back in the day, Trump told the press: If you need someone to get vicious toward an opponent, you get Roy Cohn
Alas, his favorite thug-fixer-lawyer has been dead since 1986 (having perished just six weeks after he was disbarred for fraud).
Now he has Cohn 2.0,
courtesy of slavish Pam Bondi,
who is systematically destroying the credibility of the Justice Department,
converting it into a Trump defense firm,
and spitting venom at anyone with the temerity to a…

Pinterest adds new tools to let users limit how much AI-generated content they see in their feed in certain categories, including beauty, art, and home decor (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/pinterest-ad…

Pinterest adds controls to let you limit the amount of 'AI slop' in your feed | TechCrunch
Pinterest is rolling out new controls that let users limit how much AI-generated content appears in their feeds. The company is also making its AI content labels more visible.

New state superintendent says he's dropping Bible-teaching mandate issued by Ryan Walters (Murray Evans/Yahoo News)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/state-superintendent-says-hes-dropping-164705125.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p169#a251015p169

So how long until the Firefox logo becomes another AI company logo that looks like a butthole?
:firefox: https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo

»Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it:
Microsoft is rewriting Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to.«
How does that happen when everyone in the office is babbling with the PC and how should people then work eficiently concentrated? M$ powers do not serve us, but listen clearly and openly to what it is already doing now − switching now to Linux desktop!
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Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it
Microsoft is bringing new AI features to all Windows 11 PCs. Copilot Voice and Copilot Vision are now rolling out to turn computers into AI PCs.