Tootfinder

❝“Free speech culture” becomes bad and unserious when it starts telling us that speech is morally neutral, that we should not make value judgments against it, and that there is no moral component to promoting it. I am committed to the defense of the legal right to speak, but the defense of speech does not require us to refrain from speaking frankly about moral truths.
Giving Wax [a bigot] a platform to be a bigot is morally distinguishable from saying she should be free to be a bigot. “The only immoral thing you can say is that someone else’s speech is immoral” is not an ethos worthy of respect.❞
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-fashionable-notion-of-free-speech

Democrat Christian Menefee won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election Saturday
that will narrow Republicans’ already-slim majority, telling Donald Trump that the Democratic district “topples corrupt presidencies.”
Menefee, the Harris County attorney, prevailed in a runoff against Amanda Edwards, a former Houston City Council member.
He will replace the late Rep. Sylvester Turner, a former Houston mayor, who died in March 2025.
The seat representing the heavily …

Democrat Christian Menefee wins House seat for Houston in special election
Democrat Christian Menefee has won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election that will narrow Republicans’ already-slim majority. Menefee, the Harris County attorney, prevailed Saturday in a runoff against Amanda Edwards, a former Houston City Council member. He will replace the late Rep. Sylvester Turner, a former Houston mayor, who died in March 2025. The seat representing the heavily Democratic Houston-based district has been vacant for nearly a year. Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott didn’…

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Geen idee of het aan mij, Mastodon of andere gebruikers ligt, maar ik heb die taalinstelling van 'aanpassen ...' maar omgezet in 'NL'... 🙈

It is definitely telling that the last "lesson" in my university IT security training is literally someone reading the entire acceptable use policy verbatim and the "evaluation" is clicking a button to acknowledge that you have read the policy.

My sinuses are telling me that people have fired up their wood-burners again ffs.
#Allergies

A: "[The 8yo] was telling me all the things she knows about hackers.."
me: "Mm-hmm"
A: "She told me how you can send a super long password to overflow a buffer"
me: "Oh yeah."
A: "Why does our 8 YEAR OLD know how to write exploits??"
me: "It, uh, came up at bedtime one night.."
#parenting

Olivia Nuzzi Isn't Telling All (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/olivia-nuzzi-rfk.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p44#a251202p44

Ann Telnaes.

From slack:
> I was just telling a friend about the idea of a "Fractional CEO" and her first response was "good idea, let me go get a guillotine to help with the sharing"