honorable mentions to France, Belgium, Portugal and all other colonialist powers. Double triple extra honorable mention to the Catholic Church, which manages to be exceedingly evil without even being a state actor
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This is an email client. Please update your mail generator to stop wasting electricity and emitting extra carbon with HTML mail, or at least provide graceful degradation for users whose email clients only receive plaintext (as anyone who cares about there computer security does).
#MakeHTMLemailOptional!
Twitter has no real incentive to use ActivityPub
1. They don't control ActivityPub. Anything added/modified to the protocol will be seen as Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
2. No Fediverse instance will federate with them so it won't matter to them. Well, no one with common sense, which I hope covers most sysadmins
3. DRM is coming to a TL near you. Think of HDMI "proto-cables" connecting "producers" and "consumers"
4. Money (See no. 3). Want in? Here's a federation key with your subscription fee
the #spacex program means fucking nothing when coupled with a scheme that will rob people of the chance to observe the sky. if its true purpose is to vomit space junk around the earth, it's in fact worse than useless.
please spread the word and get angry about this shit. #starlink is not a savior. it's positioning itself openly as anti-intellectual and anti-science - very viciously so.
if you're returning to space in order to make profit while everyone else takes a hit, stay home.
Granted, that describes a lot of people, but this one ALSO famously hoarded the only copy of Wu Tang's "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin"
For context, this is the Onceler-like figure which gleefully jacked up the prices on several life-saving medications and wound up in jail for screwing over his investors.
If I were Linda, I would be scrubbing myself in the shower to this day, because I would feel so very unclean.
'A biotech entrepreneur gave his New York City public high school a gift of $1 million. “You kind of look back and say, ‘Who do I have to thank for my success?’” said Martin Shkreli, 31. “For me it was definitely my high school,” said Shkreli. “I really cleaned up in the business world. I have to give thanks,” said Shkreli, who gave a special shout out to his math teacher, Linda Aboody. “Ms. Aboody was just a wonderful teacher — her logic class was unbelievably helpful,” he said.'
This is certainly the worst endorsement for a school that I have ever seen:
wait now i wanna write a superhero story where public perception turns against the heroes and they're banned and it turns out it was a great idea and everyone is safer and the superheroes weren't doing good or important things after all, and nonviolent civilians take over important things like directing traffic
and then the final page is just blank with large block letters that say 'this is about the police'
And this is the Sonic comics commentary I was talking about this morning.
This is the Medium article I was reading on it, because after a certain point, I clocked out: https://medium.com/@ponett/i-read-every-sonic-comic-by-ken-penders-and-theyre-wilder-than-you-could-ever-imagine-1f9dd05ae433
It started off as this clumsy, pun-filled SaTAM, Adventures of Sonic hybrid, and then it got all serious and soap opera-y and filled with the writer's own OCs. It was like some older guy who didn't like Sonic was making Sonic fanfic and still marketing it for kids.
Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.