@WatchingTVnFilm @rbreich
"Republicans" here in the US don't, in any way, stand for the values of the republic -- or any republic.
"Republicans" here have taken increasingly despotic positions and pushed authoritarian policies that are distinctly and unequivocally fascist.
It's a long-strategy power grab, embedded deeply from the grass-roots level up. The aim is to end the US as a republic and demolish all democratic institutions.
Any experienced programmer worth their salt will tell you that •producing• code — learning syntax, finding examples, combining them, adding behaviors, adding complexity — is the •easy• part of programming.
The hard part: “How can it break? How will it surprise us? How will it change? Does it •really• accomplish our goal? What •is• our goal? Are we all even imagining the same goal? Do we understand each other? Will the next person to work on this understand it? Should we even build this?”
If you find yourself in the Bay Area on Saturday, consider joining @internetarchive's "Don't delete our books! Rally" in San Francisco. ✊ https://actionnetwork.org/events/dont-delete-our-books-rally-in-san-francisco
We’ll probably be hearing a great deal in the coming weeks about The Tennessee Three, two of whom the state’s House GOP voted to expel yesterday. My write up of what went down and what it means in the larger sense, in today’s piece. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/showdown-in-nashville?sd=pf
In case you missed it, there is an absolutely brilliant community-run online radio station on the Fediverse called Radio Free Fedi.
It features Fediverse people making music and other audio content, you can listen right now at:
There are two versions of the station, normal and comfy. Comfy focuses on lighter, more relaxing content.
You can follow the latest news from the station on its account at:
Welp, we gotta start pulling #CO2 out of the air
In recent years, over 70 countries have committed to net-zero carbon emissions, aiming to become carbon neutral by mid-century. The 2015 Paris Agreement aimed to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius and ideally limit it to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. Despite global efforts, emissions are still rising, and achieving the 1.5-degree goal has become increasingly difficult.
Did you know Tesla has cameras both on the outside of vehicles and the inside, and everything is uploaded to Tesla? Anyhoo they’ve been exporting the videos, making memes of customers and then posting them on chat rooms. https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/
Bellingcat is hiring!
We are looking for an editor to join our growing team.
Find out more about the role and how to apply here:
@thomasfuchs just imagine the shit show if the US ever adds a 51st state and needs to settle on a new flag design.
Developer, Gamer, Musician, Creative, Disabled
#FOSS proponent
On Lemmy at @cityboundforest
Bridged from BlueSky at @cass.cityboundforest.com
Blog bridge at @cityboundforest.com@cityboundforest.com