Notices by Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)

@rybson Sounds like something from Batman: "It's just a bruise, Alfred." "Yes, one covering your entire body." I hope you feel better soon!

@vulkan That's great! I made the mistake of enabling comments in FreeTube.

@vulkan My god, the transphobia on the video comments! Fuck YouTube and fuck Google.

Thanks to folks like @vulkan @migtorr @MarkJones for confirming that elementaryOS does indeed offer disk encryption at installation! I'm moving very close to the switch on desktop!

Does anyone know if #elementaryOS offers disk encryption at installation, like #Pop_OS! does? #Linux #encryption #AskMastodon #AskFedi #HiveMind

We’re getting to the point where as a tech company all you have to do is not be fascist or actively sabotage your own product with AI bullshit. You don’t even have to be good, you just have to not actively be bad

This is why I'm trying to develop a co-op that promotes tech at the intersection of privacy, security, sustainability, and ethics.

In bizarre move, Framework embraces deeply extremist views https://www.osnews.com/story/143520/in-bizarre-move-framework-embraces-deeply-extremist-views/

@beadsland Oof, well said. And it needs to be said more often!

@fkamiah17 I did think that was fast!

@fkamiah17 Thank you so much!

@fkamiah17 Oof. I'd love to read that report.

"It’s going to be a bloodbath, but as usual when the finance and tech bros scam entire sectors, it’s us normal folk who will be left to foot the bill. Let’s blame immigrants some more while we implement harsh austerity measures to bail out the billionaire class. Again." https://www.osnews.com/story/143491/the-case-against-generative-ai-the-numbers-just-dont-add-up-i-e-its-a-scam/

Thousands March on UN, Demand Arrest of Netanyahu: https://unicornriot.ninja/2025/thousands-march-on-un-demand-arrest-of-netanyahu/

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs -- the company is emailing users impacted by the breach: https://www.theverge.com/news/792032/discord-customer-service-data-breach-hack

Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to build out a 24/7 social media surveillance team that will scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other sites to target people for deportation: https://www.wired.com/story/ice-social-media-surveillance-24-7-contract/

@zenkat Yes, I would never conflate any centralisation of hierarchical power through the nation state with the actual people. That's why I emphasised the state itself in my statement. (Wow, a lot of "state" in this reply, ha!)

@fkamiah17 Yeah. You mean War Torn Portland, right? With the capital letters.

It's quite something to witness a nation state that, despite being built on slavery, justified its own existence as the "land of freedom" and "liberty" with a statue for such supposedly welcoming the world's poor, persecuted, huddled masses, now pride itself on mass deportations -- ignoring its own indigenous people and in the process revealing its white supremacist agenda (if that wasn't already apparent).

We need a Doomsday Clock but for Bluesky.