Notices by Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)

Some great advice as it's needed now more than ever in these difficult times.

https://tech.lgbt/@emilyyoung/114615871217094939

I'm sure George Orwell is giving all the praise in the world upstairs right now as his predictions in 1984 are happening in real time.

https://newrepublic.com/post/195904/trump-palantir-data-americans

#privacy #security #humanrights #surveillance #dystopian #dystopia #nineteeneightyfour

Happy 20th to Tina Roth Eisenberg's Swissmiss blog, a design, creativity and more space on the internet that's still going strong.

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2025/05/20-years-of-this-online-garden.html

#blog #internet #anniversary

We're entering the golden age of getting scammed so much easier in another dark age for the consumer.

These pieces from the current issue of the American Prospect explains why and rightfully so.

https://prospect.org/topics/jun-2025-issue/

Great introduction piece as well ont he matter.

https://prospect.org/power/2025-05-27-golden-age-of-scams/

#scams #deregulation #consolidation #finance #consumers

@juliewebgirl Assuming if it's legal to do so as mask bans are spreading like wildfire over the past few weeks and months. :(

You should be absolutely terrified right now at the prospect of this possibly going into law.

It's US democracy's endgame basically.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/27/a-hidden-measure-in-the-republican-budget-bill-would-crown-trump-king

@feorlen Yup, I have been there more than once.

It took a week to fully migrate my stuff into a newer desktop six years ago.

Tonight's movie watch is very appropriate and it's also airing on TCM tonight if you want to check it out:

The Great Escape (1963)

#TCM #TCMParty #TheGreatEscape #film #films #movie #movies #4k #4kbluray

Reminder that the orange dictator-in-chief have called soldiers "suckers" "losers" and "disgraceful".

Guess over half the nation that voted for the man didn't get the memo...

@ieure Related: they'll kill your Switch anytime they see fit:

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/19/nintendo-updates-console-eula-well-brick-your-shit-if-we-dont-like-what-you-do-with-it/

Once upon a time, there was a oh so brief period where most of the world actually cared about humanity.

@jgordon I have the book and it's so relevant.

Bookshop link since any alternatives to Amz is better.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-collapse-of-complex-societies-joseph-tainter/6554178

@CardboardRobot @lucky @jstatepost

"The case was settled out of court. The result of the settlement was that Columbia Pictures, which had financed and was distributing Dr. Strangelove, also bought Fail Safe, which had been an independently financed production. Kubrick insisted that the studio release his movie first."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail_Safe_(1964_film)

@CardboardRobot @lucky @jstatepost

There's more to the story:

"Fail Safe and Dr. Strangelove were both produced in the period after the Cuban Missile Crisis, when people became more sensitive to the threat of nuclear war. Fail Safe so closely resembled Peter George's novel Red Alert, on which Dr. Strangelove was based, that Dr. Strangelove screenwriter/director Stanley Kubrick and George filed a copyright infringement lawsuit."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail_Safe_(1964_film)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove

Sad that #Glitch is shutting down although the writing was on the wall since they got brought. :(

https://www.theverge.com/news/673457/glitch-coding-platform-shutting-down

@lucky @jstatepost Also do watch Fail Safe which is a great companion double feature. Released at the same year, weeks apart even.

@jalefkowit

Some examples that people in the thread haven't mentioned yet so I will:

Breathless (1960)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Some Like it Hot (1959)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Seven Samurai (1954)

@jcrabapple @APBBlue Self-hosting is the only way to go these days if you want an alternative. Wallabag is a good one.

Sad to see #Mozilla shut down #Pocket as it should never have sold off in the first place.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-whats-next/

Self-hosting your read laters and bookmarks such as #Wallabag are the way to go now.

https://wallabag.org/

If you have a bank account, prepare for it to become a second class citizen in favor of crypto.

https://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2025/05/the-genius-acts-insolvency-provisions-crypto-investors-come-ahead-of-bank-depositors.html

BTW, these Dems need to be primaried and voted out by gifting the industry.

https://prospect.org/politics/2025-05-21-democratic-senators-deserve-primary-crypto-bill/