Cybre Rick @rick_777@cybre.space

Bruce Williamson of the US embassy in Bolivia bribed every Bolivian general with a million dollars and every Bolivian police chief with half a million dollars to foment the coup. Via Marga Wirkieman: https://twitter.com/MargaWirkierman/status/1196662512936206337?s=19

The recording of my talk today on the future of Internet regulation at the European Parliament is now available to watch.

Starts at 01:14:00 at https://web-greensefa.streamovations.be/index.php/event/stream/the-future-internet-regulation

#DigitalServicesAct #SurveillanceCapitalism #Mastodon #SmallTech #GDPR #EU

CC @Mastodon @Gargron

i heard this story about a train line in japan where they were going to close one of the stops due to lack of ridership but there was this one little girl who lived there and there was no other way for her to get to primary school so they removed the train stop officially but the train would still stop there just for her and she rode it all through middle school and high school until she turned 18 and moved away and i think about that a lot, like, that’s the attitude i feel like we should have towards public transit in general

Here's a trick I learned if you want to make text readable on an image but only have access to paint (or just want to do it quickly): Place the text on the image in black, then place the exact same text in white overlapping but slightly oblique to the black text. Easy drop shadow!

Disney+
Disney++
Disney#

"Boss makes a dollar
I make a dime
That was a rhyme for a simpler time
Boss makes a billion
I make jack
So that's why I strike to seize the means back"

- forums poster Ice Phisherman

Where I come from, we always had a term for "White boomers who sold their souls to a corpocratic state and adopted regressive politics and allowed america to slide into a post-industrial hellscape"

Yuppies. Throw that at your next "OK Boomer" moment. "Fukkin Yuppie". They remember that word.

cis artists who have no knowledge of the trans community back away from the 'trans supportive artpiece' you're making.

SuperTuxKart ha llegado a su primera versión estable https://www.kdeblog.com/supertuxkart-ha-llegado-a-su-primera-version-estable.html #SuperTuxKart #Software #KDE

Facebook has recently admitted that its greatest threat, looking to the future, is federated platforms.

Many federating platforms (like PeerTube, a video sharing software, or WriteFreely, a blogging software) are springing up around the federating system.

Capitalist websites like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are getting progressively worse in how they act, in their quest for profits.

Meanwhile, the fediverse is only getting stronger, powered by money through voluntary donations and the hard work of thousands of admins.

Federation is a positive path forward for the future of the internet, has liberated people and allowed them to form regenerative communities, and is helping to educate people about alternative ideas and methods to those promoted by capitalist business.

It's really encouraging to see the fediverse doing so well.

Don't just teach your students to read.
• Teach them to question what they read, what they study.
• Teach them to doubt.
• Teach them to think.
• Teach them to make mistakes and learn from them.
• Teach them how to understand something.
• Teach them how to teach others.

Credits: @proffeynman@twitter.com

#Intel is removing all of their motherboard drivers from their website on November 22nd because reasons.

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=69184

Now's a good time to grab a backup.

Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=69184

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"I wish for a family."

"Don't you already have one?" asked the genie.

"I wouldn't mind a better one..."

"Do you wish for your current family to be..." the genie made a grim gesture.

"No! No I mean... I guess I like them but I have to be someone very specific for them."

"Understood."

With a solemn magical nod, the means of a new family appeared in my hands.

"A laptop?"

"With unlimited internet access and airline miles."

"Yesss."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #UrbanFantasy