Notices by Patrick (patrickoftheg@mastodon.social)

1. Don't connect your important things to the internet.
2. If you can't buy a version of the important thing that doesn't require connection to the internet, you should already be burning down the homes of the people responsible

or 3. This will happen.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/unprecedented-cyberattack-cripples-supermarket-fridges-across-europe-as-hackers-activate-automatic-defrosting-delivery-and-store-prices-also-impacted-by-incident

A spider way bigger than a Montreal spider should be just landed on my face and I screamed my woman awake. Great evening.

I kind of envy white supremacists and racists and language supremacists and the like. When you can chalk up all your problems because of X, then life has to feel so simple and so easy and so good.

Life on easy mode.

"Yes, the reason I am unhappy is that I hear too much English/French/Arabic on the streets. Fixing that will fix my life."

It feels so achievable? Doable? Stupid as shit but wow easy mode.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/large-white-supremacist-meeting-shakes-residents-of-alberta-town-9.7297070

I love that my first consideration for buying any appliance, these days, is:

"This isn't going to try to connect to the internet, is it?"

Happy Tom Lehrer Day!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY

I can't tell if this is Republicans and Democrats, Conservatives and Labour, or Conservatives and Liberal Party of Canada. It probably also applies to Australia somehow.

Things are really great everywhere.

What glorious tidings do Canada's American-owned news services bring today? Jesus Christ.

https://financialpost.com/personal-finance/taxes/rich-pay-fair-share-taxes-carney-canada

RE: https://mastodon.social/@amalia22/116822578631537618

My prayer to God right now was quite literally, "You're a bastard God, fuck you."

I also flipped the bird at Heaven.

Infinite power infinite responsibility. You want to be worthy of worship, you don't let shit like this happen.

RE: https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/116812061879306346

This is like asking me to feel bad for Israeli bulldozer operators or the whipping arms of plantation overseers?

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@dyckron/116805765538656365

Ladies, gentlemen; I don't care if Alberta's independence movement is an American psy-op. The cancer that is going to kill the rest of Canada is offering to cut itself right out of the body politic.

Let it.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/116782986015946387

If you don't think every country in the West did exactly what Trump did, for the same reasons, you probably stopped paying attention to how many people it *still* kills every month, didn't you?

The politicians aren't the only #monsters

I remember reading someone who thought the Culture books were dystopian because humans surrender their power and decision-making to the largely benevolent robots.

Then I consider that I live in a real world where I don't have power left to surrender, and all decision-making comes from people who think boiling the world and every living thing on it, to run up their bank accounts like high score in a video game, is the best way to squander our lives.

It doesn't make me feel much better.

The only reason America wants a Golden Dome is because it wants to invade NATO and not eat a face full of retaliatory French nuclear weapons.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-golden-dome-price-tag-cbo-4f18f4ae8f1ba232abc097277ad0367a

@bmacDonald94 I mean, the Bootes Void is certainly doing its best.

Gosh, I wonder why every government and company everywhere wants to bind your personal ID to everything you do online.

Surely it's about the children.

Not coming after anyone for having opinions that deviate from what the government wants. Perhaps you think trans women are women, or a certain country shouldn't starve its helots to death, or that the government should build affordable rental units.

No, surely it's about keeping children off Facebook. Yep.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/us-government-wants-google-to-share-data-on-unidentified-canadian-trump-critic/

I wonder if the real reason all the governments in the West are eliminating traditional snail mail, is because traditional snail mail is the only place where you are allowed privacy.

The government wants to be able to read all your texts, emails, social media, et cetera, all the time, and it doesn't even want to have to buy data from the private companies anymore to sidestep privacy rules. Now they want you to bind your identification to everything?

Snail mail is the last bastion of privacy.

It's a shame that defacing the graves of the people responsible for this is considered a crime.

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/liberation-of-dachau-concentration-camp-except-lgbtq-prisoners/

@fesshole At least the Odd Fellows had surprise corpses in their lodges.

@aral Why, she's totally too good for ethnic cleansing and murder. Look at the quality of her friends, Aral.

@tk No.