Matt Linton

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The little scambait competition happening by the bathrooms in W1 is the closest I've come at this con to feeling OG Alexis Park vibes. That needs to be a village next year.

#DC33 #Defcon

Congrats! <3

Is this a store or a detective show?

Defcon protip: Wear some shokz headphones while walking around and you'll get an audio clue when Bluetooth phreaking is afoot

Wait back up... Does Elon not know that DC is essentially already federalized?

Like, that's its whole deal

If you're early career or low on resources and wanted to go to defcon but can't afford a hotel room, DM me. I have one crash room available.

Shortage of volunteer firefighters could force more towns to move to paid firehouses, costing taxpayers Between 1985 and 2020, the number of volunteers dropped by more than 20%, according to the National Volunteer Fire Council.

Step 1 for reducing firefighter burnout and volunteer attrition is probably requiring for-profit care homes and medical centers to hire private EMS transport when they need it, rather than offloading their care to the public.

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If I get killed in some disaster I really, really hope my parents, wife, or kid do not create an AI version of me to speak to their own political opinions using my literal voice and image.

I would never do that to my child.

My hypothesis is that, outside of censorship on TikTok and Insta, people wouldn't have normally found 'un-alived' as the next slang for death. Perhaps I'm wrong and it would have been the retro-cool thing in the future, but 'un-alived' is too on-the-nose Orwellian for me to think it would have.

I get it, for sure.

That's what I am reflecting on. If social media literally alters the public vernacular (and it does) then censorship of social media absolutely must have an effect on the way we think and speak well outside of the apps themselves - and there's evidence in front of us now.

Mekka's not wrong and my first thought is "Of course this is how Government censorship succeeds in actually crawling through our culture".

If there are words you won't write in books because you can't say them on TikTok or Insta, then you're being successfully censored.

Not sure how to feel about the fact that running your own mail server is now considered so nuts that the AI's consider list serves to be a form of self-harm 😂

Suppose I wanted to donate cash to organizations who were _effectively_ countering or blunting the harmful policies the government is implementing - particularly for marginalized communities.

What organizations should I prioritize giving money to?

The most frustrating thing about cotton candy flavored Vapes to me is that occasionally people smoke them in areas where I could reasonably expect to buy cotton candy and then I get super disappointed when it turns out there isn't any

California governor signs executive order to support boys and men and improve their mental health California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order aimed at supporting men and boys and improving their mental health outcomes.

The California governor took a bold and possibly effective step to lower gun death rates across the state.

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Remember UK, you didn't _just_ vote for age verification to access adult sites, you also voted to make yourself create an account on said sites that will individually track everything you read and watch there. Have fun with that, especially when that data is inevitably breached!

"I'm a Trump supporter, but I don't think raids is the answer"

BZZZT, WRONG. You voted for these raids. Trump campaigned on them.

I hate that the payment processor duopoly is slowly proving the insufferable cryptocurrency libertarians philosophically right

Just remember, the folks who signed up to do Search and Rescue are as pissed as you are about this. Stuff like this is why I resigned from a FEMA rescue task force after 13 years.

The corollary to "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" is that any sufficiently advanced irony becomes indistinguishable from sincerity. 😜

2,000 National Guard troops expected to be called up to assist at ICE detention facilities, sources say | CNN Politics Roughly 2,000 National Guard troops across multiple states are expected to be mobilized to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement at detention facilities, according to a US official and a source familiar with the planning.

The national guard:

JOIN To serve your community in times of need.

STAY to be pressed into service as a prison guard.

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What I'm torn over is this trend:

GOP: "The government shouldn't fund this public good."
(Good put at risk)
Left: "Everyone donate to this public good to keep it alive!"
(We do.)
GOP: "See, they didn't need government funding, they're still fine." (enjoys public good without funding it).

@anthropic42.bsky.social I have to admit, I'm really torn on this one. Do I support a public radio station in a small community, even though it's most likely a community who voted for exactly these cuts and will think their vote had no negative impact if blue state donors paper over the damage?

Is it slippery and slightly flexible? Yes.

Will it "hold knots"? Also yes.

/r/preppers: "Paracord doesn't hold knots"

My brother, you are not tying the correct knots or you are not tying them correctly.

According to my NextDNS analytics and blocklists, something in my home tries to send tracking info about me to the internet on average once every 21 seconds.

NextDNS has been a really great privacy decision. This is ONE day's traffic.

Yeah, I could do all this with Unbound and pushing local DoH servers and maintaining them, but even as much as I love running infrastructure, for $2 a month it's just too easy a win.

This NextDNS blocking UX feels like a trap.

It defaults to "on" and you have to either accept web censorship based on unknown third-party criteria OR essentially say "I DO want to see child abuse material".

It's the "Yes or no: do you still beat your wife?" of UX settings.

Dear streaming customer, as of $very_soon your streaming bundle, $things_you_like will no longer include $main_thing_you_like. To see that you'll need $different_tier.

We value your business, which is why we constantly renege on the deal we made with you.

- Every streamer ever