Everything DHS has been doing and saying for the past week is focused around one goal: generating excuses.
They’re trying to give Senators an excuse to fund them, to give CEOs an excuse to wash their hands of responsibility, to give wavering Republicans an excuse to keep believing their BS, to give Minneapolis an excuse to let our guard down.
They’re trying to give everyone an excuse to believe it’s all OK now.
It is not OK now. Here in MSP, it is very much not OK.
KEEP • UP • THE • PRESSURE
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"Kultusminister fordert Altersregeln für Social-Media"
The death knell for Internet Freedom. Once you have the infrastructure in place to do such a thing, you can then easily expand it more aggressively. Even the most limited regulations will cause adults to.. not be able to use the internet, lest they submit their ID to some outsourced private company who will Definitely Not Abuse YoU.
I heard this deathknell on German ARDmediathek's tagesschau24 just now.
It's Papers-Please on the Internet.
Oh I guess they found an alternative to Mozilla's location service because that feature is back in Fedora now.
It's not particularly accurate for me but good enough for time and weather at least.
@thomasfuchs
I can't really disagree, my gateway into vintage computing was Win9X gaming but I've definitely spent more time exploring earlier parts of it now.
It's hard to beat the machines that you can fully understand the hardware in but also try wild and crazy stuff because x86+Microsoft hadn't engulfed the industry yet.
My 1981 HP Series 200 where HP uses HP-IB to connect all the peripherals is wonderful and would not happen 3 years later.
I'm not trying to predict the future, but I am trying to read the present, & I really do feel the world shifting under my feet. We don't live in the 90s anymore. Or the 2000s. The world I knew once is not the world I know now.
It's dark in some ways. It's really dark. I sure wish that—for instance—more people would have listened in the 80s, one of the times when consumerism experienced new life & just fucking exploded. Things were fucking dark enough then.
My #life is genuinely stable and good now.
It's strange, my mind almost doesn't know what to do with the stability and I always have a low grade #anxiety nagging at me, wondering when it's all gonna fall apart.
Then it never does, and I start planning for my future with #education plans and a part time job that pays me more than I need, and then I wonder if I actually deserve it.
I remind myself that I always did. It was others who made me think otherwise.
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