Mick Collins

Today's #AlphabeticalSoundclash :

Pepper Adams
Percy Sledge
Pere Ubu
Perez Prado
Lee Perry

"Embrace AI or get out"

Welcome to the out club.

Epic handshake meme. Two muscular arms (marked "Orcas" and "Buffalo") clasp together. The hands are overlaid with the text "Fucking up rich dickheads"

Millionaire trophy hunter gored to death by 1.3 tonne bull on African safari

https://metro.co.uk/2025/08/06/millionaire-trophy-hunter-gored-death-1-3-tonne-bull-african-safari-23845140/

typical Captcha window with tic box and text: Verify that you're human * I recognize Palestine CEASEFIRE now

Verify that you're human:
#GazaGenocide

Today I learned that ffmpeg will put you in the fuckin ground if you try and talk shit

Like holy shit

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Fuck "safety" being used as a euphemism for things like "control", or "revenue".
"Combined safety camera ahead"
It's not to keep you safe. It's to send you a fine.
"Online Safety Act"
Who does requiring personal ID to be stored online keep safe? It's there to control you.

This exactly.

I've been redundant daily in sounding alarms about MAGA-GOP doing everything they can to predetermine the outcomes of elections.

Add this to the list.

‪Max Berger‬:

Let's be clear about what's happening: the Republican Party is trying to rig the mid-term elections, so voters […]

So Canada's exports actually went up by 1% despite a 16% drop in exports to the US.

That means that missing 17% of our exports all went to our friends, mostly in Europe.

Pretty solid stuff […]

The Associated Press @AP AP BREAKING: The Trump administration is pushing an initiative for millions of Americans to upload personal health data to new apps run by private tech companies. Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @GeauxGabrielle Hi! Epidemiologist here! Don't do this. In the 80s and 90s this was done by Depts. of Health during the HIV/AIDS epidemic. "Somehow" the lists they created found their way into the hands of cops, landlords, & job sites to deny people human rights. It's partly WHY the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act exists

Good!

China declares all crypto-currency transactions illegal

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58678907

#Crypto #Cryptocurrency #China

#Troops on the streets like #LosAngeles saw may be coming to your town. https://www.commondreams.org/news/leaked-memo-dhs-pentagon-domestic-military

Where all of this is headed is complete political subjugation of Democrats -- and a Hutu v. Tutsi style genocide.

It may not succeed.

But that is where many of the most powerful people in the conservative movement want this to go […]

Once again, I'm not going to link to this BS, which deserves no oxygen. However, in case you come across it, you should know that:

- The NSA, a branch of the US Department of Defense, isn't involved in any way in US elections, which are run by states.
- The NSA doesn't audit elections, or […]

*Has anyone ever actually played this, and is it a fun game

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows
https://newrepublic.com/article/198708/trump-military-anti-immigration-dhs-leaked-memo

#TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

Let's talk for a moment about why you don't just volunteer unsolicited answers that involve completely different technology stacks to random women.

I'm going to use a recent example of someone proposing a different technology stack when I was talking about how I had a love/hate relationship […]

"He's a piece of shit, but let's get the political science stuff out of the way," Steven told me when I asked if he thought support of Tesla could be considered apolitical. "Elon Musk has platformed white supremacists and antisemites on X. He got rid of all the moderation. He put back accounts that were clearly neo-Nazis. He's changed algorithms to promote that type of hate. Him and DOGE did massive cuts in the government, including our civil services. He's cut cancer research. Did I mention he was a giant piece of shit?" "He's cut our aid to Africa, which Will result, without exaggeration, in millions of women and children and innocent people dying. Millions," he said. "I'm not a big fan of people who give the Hitler salute. I mean, I'm kind of fussy like that. He gave it twice at Trump's inauguration," he continued. "He's a Nazi. And he cheats at video games. You have another question?"

lol at this response to a “man on the street” interview with protestors at the Tesla diner

Under Trump, we can no longer trust US economic statistics.

> Most economists in a July 11-24 Reuters poll, 89 of 100, said they were concerned about the quality of official U.S. economic data, including 41 who said they were "very concerned".

...

> "I can't help but worry some deadlines are […]

A cute baby elephant

Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane

Maybe now is a good time to just quit LinkedIn and its owner M$FT: “LinkedIn removes hate speech protections for transgender individuals.” https://opentermsarchive.org/en/memos/linkedin-removes-transgender-hate-speech-protections/

Weird how the conversion from AT to AP strips the OP's headers out of the post

I wrote about the dangers of using Facebook and Twitter/X to communicate about disasters a few days ago and do not love how this topic keeps getting more relevant at an accelerating pace:

https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io/we-have-to-stop-using-facebook-and-x-to-warn-people-about-disasters/

Scientists in South Africa are making rhino horns radioactive to fight poaching A South African university has launched an anti-poaching campaign to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive isotopes that it says are harmless for the animals but can be detected by customs agents.

Now THIS is thinking

https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-rhinos-poaching-nuclear-5ac06bea1fba938ee2ce3b1f9bfa5675

Last night, I realized that software payment and software delivery don't match, and there's a better solution.

Before the Internet, software was released, and the bits that you got on cassettes, disks, or whatnot were everything. There was parity between software payment and software delivery […]

I've got a quick favour to ask. If you're reading this post on Mastodon (or the Fediverse), please click share.

How come?

I recently moved across to my own self-hosted single-user server (using GoToSocial.org). For a bunch of reasons, including visibility across the Fedi, it would really help out.

How do you measure editorial independence in 2025? The advocacy group Free Press has created a Media Capitulation Index, ranking commercial media and tech companies on a scale from one to five chickens, and giving a star to just a couple of organizations. Here's Nieman Lab's story; find the full […]

H/T to @kottke :

THIS is what I *want*. Everything in one feed: Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, Peertube, RSS, and if you can figure out how to get PieFed in there, I want that too.
Also, I want to be able to post once and have it show up on multiple services, specifically Mastodon and Bluesky […]

Trump budget chief Russ Vought testified PEPFAR sent millions of dollars to Russia to advise doctors on how to perform abortions & “gender analysis," but the global AIDS relief program has not operated in Russia since 2012. Lying to Congress is a crime. Hold him accountable! […]