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I built some notable pieces of web 1.0, including some services/sites that you probably used if you're old enough. Now I'm getting very grumpy about what our creation has become.
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This is important. Trump is a racist fool, but he's not an outlier. All Republican candidates have had racist policies and campaigns, for at least a generation -- they just were better at saying the quiet parts quietly. Lee Atwater's life was (thankfully?) short, but his legacy lives very very long
Reagan talked about welfare queens in Cadillacs, Trump talks about Somalian thieves in Mercedes Benzes, because being *real* racist has been a core strategy Republican politicians for a very long time, even if prior to Trump a lot of folks who should have known better enjoyed pretending otherwise.
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This CD was stolen from my car in the 90s, and I never replaced it. I mean, I downloaded the MP3s of it from the original napster or some DCC server, so I could still listen. MFers at RIAA still claim that was theft, and I say that I was just stealing back what was rightfully mine to begin with.
Cassette, CD, vinyl record, digital or all of the above—which formats of this album have been part of your collection over the years? Explore our tribute here: album.ink/nasillmatic
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As expected, here's the appeal to Michigan's closeted racist population. They've already got the out and proud bigots. Watch for the incoming "i can't bring myself to vote for someone like him" ads this week.
just saw this absolutely cracked ad during the michigan game about how thanks to aoc and ilhan omar, white people can't show their faces in public anymore
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Not a single word of this is hyperbolic in the slightest. Buy your friends in cybersecurity the drink or chocolate of their choice right now. We are not doing well
wrote about "Black October," the PHP vulnerability, and the AI-fueled dread and panic I'm seeing among almost all of the cybersecurity experts I've ever known. I think people w/ LLMs are brute forcing software the same way they brute forced social media w/ slop www.404media.co/php2shell-bl...
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Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.
We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.
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Just like when Antifa sent a pipe bomb to a civil war reenactment? Checks notes... oh right, that was a right-wing nutjob from Virginia who got kicked out of his re-enactment battalion for being too racist. He got 9 years in jail for the bomb: www.justice.gov/usao-wdva/pr...
DSA fans really need to update your priors about DSA- which is now dabbling in anthrax attacks against Dem members of Congress
This post is from more than a year ago. It's maybe becoming more relevant than anyone wants. and it's still really fucking terrifying
Who is tabletopping "US/Russia alliance escalates tensions against an assumed EU/Ukraine alliance". Because while I don't think that's the most likely scenario, it is also far from the least likely. And it is really fucking terrifying.
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Replying to @squarelyrooted.bsky.social
a really big question i’m sure is not getting enough attention is whether or not we can make the public telephony system defensible against AI. if not we may be reverting to a society where the only secure mode of authentication is to appear somewhere in the flesh.
Starting tomorrow, but lasting no more than a week, every decent baseball fan in the country is a Brewers fan. Don't like that? Well, then you can root for a 4 game Brewers' sweep, and go back to your own fandom before bed on Thursday.
so the final four are * a team that has never won the World Series in its 28 seasons * a team that has never won the World Series in its 57 seasons * a team that hasn’t won the World Series in 77 seasons * Dodgers
I feel like ICE is about to find out how well-armed California is. "Drunk guy passed out on my lawn attacked me and my daughter when we kicked him awake and told him to move, so I shot him." is not going to result in charges. But ICE agents from Texas don't think that happens in Commie California.
lol Maga ICE pig charged w felony, homeowner not charged. “An off-duty federal immigration officer was shot early Friday morning after he passed out drunk on a Fresno lawn and then assaulted a homeowner, according to the Fresno Police Department.”
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A team like Kentucky has to be the dream job for football. You have heritage in basketball (and the engaged alum ba$e), you have decent recruiting grounds and conference prestige, but also no expectations and the ability to go for the win like that and not have anyone be mad if it didn't work.
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I pray for the safety of the people on the Gulf Coast tonight, and after Isaias passes through, I look forward to some wet fields on Saturday. marynumbers.beehiiv.com/p/when-the-w...
I went to this place >15 years ago, with a pretty big group (like 10) and no reservation. For much of the night, we were the only people in the joint. It was good, but not spectacular, especially by Vegas steakhouse standards. How/What did they do to get to this? www.sfgate.com/travel/artic...
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