Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

Provide me a time machine and I will prevent 9/11.

*Prevents the colonization of North America*

Done!

In light of US tech oligarchy setting its sights on Wikimedia Foundation, a historical detail I did not know before: #Wikipedia became the non-profit it is today partly as the result of a labour strike of Spanish Wikipedia editors who disagreed with the proposed inclusion of advertisements. Initially, it was not clear what revenue model Wikipedia would get, and Wales moved towards a for-profit model already a year after launch. However, rather than working for free, so Jimmy Wales could profit from their labour via advertising, Spanish contributors forked Spanish Wikipedia as the Encyclopedia Libre Universal. Under the threat of losing the editorial community of such a large language, Wales conceded and set up the non-profit.

That is to say, however imperfect they are, all the digital commons we have are the result of ongoing struggle and hard work to keep them as commons.

Via Las Redes Son Nuestras (https://www.consonni.org/es/publicaciones/las-redes-son-nuestras) by @teclista

The first of two articles we're sharing on our page today; Liao's – "The Equality Society"

An overview of the early Chinese anarchist movement in diaspora in the US, kindly sent over from @thecommoner with permission from Liao.

And remember, no cop has the legal right to enter you home unless (A) you let them, voluntarily or (B) they have a signed, current "Search Warrant." Check the date and time (must still be current). Make sure there's a judge's signature. And make sure it's a search warrant. Ice typically doesn't use search warrants. They use "arrest warrants" and "administrative warrants," which do NOT give them legal right to enter.

Me vs. other #puppygirls

Jour 1 de goblin week
#GoblinWeek #goblinweek2025 #art

hang on i need to check if im still a bisexual disaster

*chugs psych meds with coffee* check
*looks at pics of hot ladys and drools* check
*looks at pics of hot guys and drools* check
*looks at pics of hot enbys and drools* aaand check

yup, still disaster bi

#Benchmarking Intel

J20 weekend - People’s March before the Festival of Resistance.

Olympia, Washington 1/18/25

i should do this. especially with all the free 30+ reply deep hellthreads discussing us politics

#shitpost #hornypost

Posted by someone else first, but here it is with alt text.

ok, this kid knows how to create a proper write-up: https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/45a3cdfa52246f1d1201c1e8cdef6117

congrats and respect. on the other hand the response of the "privacy tool" signal is disappointing. and cloudflare is being cloudflare.

Depending on your job you probably have in the past made compromises. Maybe to keep your job. Maybe to survive. This is a bright line. If you are asked to be the one to update the table don't let it be your fingers typing those changes.

If you can't just say "No I won't do that." Stall, run away, feign incompetence. Just don't let it happen.

I suspect this might be where the rubber hits the road first for us around here.

Nothing has changed. You do not have to do it. It is not even ordained.

I know someone who rebuffed such a request. Boss was apologetic "it's what the higher ups want, oh *I* think it's a lot of nonsense, but I don't want us to be out of step ... blah blah"

It was proposed to them in sheepish way. They said it would be a lot of work, not add anything of value, and most important they would not do it. It didn't come up again.

Fascism can be the work of zealots, but there are also many sheepish middle management helping hands who "don't even believe in this really"

FUCK OFF with your “THIS IS TOO IMPORTANT TO CW” bullshit!

We told you how bad it’s gonna be.
We told you the impact of it.
We told you all the tech corps will be complicit.
We told you they are facists!

Don’t come screaming on my lawn only because it took YOU until now to realize what is happening.

I cannot afford to stay uninformed anyway, but if I shall function somewhat as a normal human being, I need to be able to decide when I am engaging with this. And I don’t even live in that fucking country and this is the effect this has on me!

Put a fucking CW on your fucking post.

(Boost if you agree.)

@pluralistic im just gonna post this again :D