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Galaxy Brain meme with 3 panels. Top panel: Building a project locally with a PR applied Middle panel: Getting Github Actions to build the project with the PR applied for you Bottom panel: Using the build Github Actions already made when the PR was submitted

Open Letter to Samsung: End Forced Israeli-Founded Bloatware Installations in the WANA Region <p>In recent months, we have received numerous reports from users across West Asia and North Africa (WANA) expressing alarm over…</p>

"In recent months, we have received numerous reports from users across West Asia and North Africa (WANA) expressing alarm over a little-known but deeply intrusive bloatware application—AppCloud—pre-installed on Samsung’s A and M series smartphones."

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

People who don’t consider themselves “criminals” underestimate how quickly things they take for granted having the right to do can become criminalized under authoritarianism. I have friends who’ve been imprisoned for years for protesting (Egypt) and defending a client as a human rights lawyer (KSA).

It is time for us, as volunteers running a real-time communication platform, to address burnout. Doing this is important for the future of our work, and we will be leveraging ✨emerging technologies✨ to achieve it.

libera.chat/news/burnout

as it turns out there are worse options than hypocrisy, politically speaking

7. My colleagues are afraid. Our work is scrutinized for forbidden works like "gender" and "climate". The pipeline of talent has been cut off. We can no longer train graduate students and postdocs. These are individual dreams crushed, causing collective damage that will take generations to undo.

NY Times graphic. Conventional computer: One task starts after another completes AI computing: tasks are divided into small parts and happen at the same time.

The @nytimes.com just discovered parallel computing.

YouTube video by Nicco Loves Linux Mozilla is NOT SELLING your DATA! (But they did mess up…)

Good commentary from Nicco Loves Linux. Just released this morning. Of course, he's a KDE dev, not a lawyer. He does make the point of it's concerning and they goofed on the messaging, but not worthy of a "delete Firefox and switch to Lynx" level of panic.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDpK...

Reminder:

There will be a boycott against American corporations, especially Walmart, Best Buy, and Amazon on February 28th!

It's 24 hours of not buying anything from a corporation. Easy to do. If you truly *need* to buy something, please find a small business to get it from.

The number of conversations I've had where people tell me, "I've got nothing to hide." Or "I'm not that interesting" when I share my concern about our lack of digital privacy. When framed as, but did you know they might increase your insurance rate because of your driving data? That perks them up.

Mercator*

This hit me kind of hard.

ADVENTURER: Dragon! We are here for your gold! Prepare to die!
DRAGON: My gold?
ADVENTURER: Yes! We climbed this great mountain, swam it's flooded caverns and-
DRAGON: Fair enough
ADVENTURER: Wait, what?
DRAGON: It's yours
ADVENTURER:
DRAGON: How are you carrying it out of here?
ADVENTURER: Um... /1

How we're responding to the war in Gaza What to know about the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and MSF’s medical and humanitarian response.

If you want to send money to Gaza, here's how to do it, so it benefits everyone there and not a few scam jockeys in Lagos or Los Angeles.

- Medecine Sans Frontiers has been operating emergency desalinization plants in Gaza that are providing a vital water supply.

Do not follow police me, do not tone police me, honestly do not police me at all, I am a furious goat and I will chew on your wiring

Yup

Screenshot of tweet by "depths of wikipedia" which reads: The "Ship of Theseus" article has been edited 1792 times since it was created in July of 2003. At present, 0% of the phrases in the original article (seen below) remain.

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Israel, Palestine, and the need for principled free speech Pointing out hypocrisy isn't good enough

"It’s incredibly difficult for people to learn about anything — including why their presuppositions are wrong — if they are living in terror of being labeled a bigot for saying the 'wrong' thing."

www.slowboring.com/p/israel-pal...

(the quote is from www.vox.com/2023/10/20/2... )

Screenshot of quote saying: "Bradley Strawser, a former US Air Force captain, has an unusual job: he is a moral philosopher working for the US Navy. His title is professor of philosophy in the defense analysis department at the Naval Postgraduate School; his actual job description is teaching America’s special operators how to fight wars as ethically as possible."

@etvpod.bsky.social I'm wondering whether I should find this reassuring...

"... against far-right converts like Wolf, she warns, but will instead create more of them."

Naomi Klein — my life being mistaken for a notorious conspiracy theorist At first Naomi Klein thought it was funny that people kept confusing her with her fellow writer Naomi Wolf. But when her doppelgänger turned into one of the world’s most notorious conspiracy theori...

"If Klein’s side of the political divide devotes all of its energy to gleefully denouncing people on social media instead of formulating a radical alternative to an economic system that’s increasingly not working for most people, it won’t win... "

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fd6b...

"Because we’re social animals we tend to go along with the trend, and because we live under capitalist acceleration the trend is always one way, because our system only has one gear."

Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster Breaking through the illusion of convenience that's used to sell us automation

"the global capitalist system doesn’t care whether or not you want to use the technology, or whether you believe it should be used to save your time. You will have to use it, and you’re not in charge of how it will be used systemically"

brettscott.substack.com/p/tech-doesn...

The Onion going unbelievably hard with the ultimate editorial on the current crisis. No notes. www.theonion.com/the-onion-st...

So, like 80% of the DMs had to be redacted?

"people in the fintech industry are weaponising the fact that there’s these far-right-type people involved to try and say any pro-cash position is regressive and conspiratorial ... People now basically associate ‘progressive’ thought with Visa and Mastercard. That’s kind of scary.”

New "holy shit what an awful fucking human being" has dropped.