I am now on BLUESKY!
I am not leaving Mastodon, but will be posting on both sites now. I have a lot of archives that I can post on Bluesky that I have already posted here, but there will surely be a lot of redundancy.
If you are on Bluesky and wish to follow me there, too, please do so.
I'm at https://bsky.app/profile/whoreofblahbylon.bsky.social
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B.J. Novak is on sale today for $2 from your preferred ebook store. I read it about a decade ago, and just realized I recall very little of it. This happens to me with short story collections because they tend to run together in my head.
Regardless, I do remember enjoying most of the stories. Maybe I'll give it a re-read. #Bookstodon #Fiction #ShortStories @bookstodon
After Failed AG Bid, Gaetz Decides To Not Return To Congress #MattGaetz #Congress #MAGA #HouseofRepresentatives
Gaetz officially announced that he will not be returning to Congress in January.Red Painter (Crooks and Liars)
@Wen @RabBrucesSpider1
Exactly so. Took me several seconds to actually look!
One of my favourite selective attention demonstrations: https://youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo?si=OYGhbspkj0e9ljeb
#cia #US #États-Unis #ukraine
ça et tout le reste :
- les massacres et les bombardements de civils pendant 8 ans dans le #Donbass : 15 000 morts
- les #laboratoires en Ukraine dans lesquels le fils #Biden est impliqué
- la #corruption généralisée a tous les niveaux du système ukrainien
- le plan d'épuration ethnique global planifié pour le Donbass début 2022
etc etc ...
tout s'est révélé vrai
With Hollywood mainstays like Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi escaping the hostility of the United States, how can America possibly hope to maintain its cultural impact? It may be time to admit that the American dream is now dead and it's only go…The Babylon Bee
#Vidéo, #Manif : https://contre-attaque.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/can-2.mp4
Vendredi 22 novembre, la colère a embrasé les rues de Montréal, au Canada. Lors de la venue d’une délégation de l’OTAN dans la ville, une manifestation pour la Palestine et contre l’impérialisme a défilé en fin d’après-midi....
Lors de la venue d'une délégation de l'OTAN à Montréal, une manifestation pour la Palestine et contre l'impérialisme a défilé l'après-midi.B (Contre Attaque)
In the early years of Christianity, popes were personally chosen by St Peter.
That stopped when he got confused in his announcement and made a jar of preserved aubergine pope.
What? Peter poper picked a pack of purpled pickle? A pack of purpled pickle Peter poper picked.
😉
"Trump kann aus solarer Revolution nicht aussteigen"
Für ihre Forderung, den Ausbau der LNG-Infrastruktur sofort weltweit zu stoppen, finden die "Parlamentarier für eine fossilfreie Zukunft" wachsenden Zuspruch.#USA #Erdgas #FlüssigerdgasLNG #COP29Baku
In this blog post, I share my experience and why I stopped using OpenBSDSolene's Percent %
Even if you're rightfully concerned, they become non-issues in the author's platform of choice: Qubes OS.
The reason (I think) they mentioned all of those explicitly Linux things, is because they've also stopped using OpenBSD VMs in Qubes OS.
I've been expecting something like this since the XZ hack, but still ... frustrated/annoyed/sad to see Microsoft and 13 (!) partners jointly announcing that their answer is to “educate” open source maintainers.
It's nice that they're compensating maintainers for the time spent on that training, but ... compliance with corporate security policies is still a whole lot of ongoing, unpaid work after that? Sigh.
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/announcing-github-secure-open-source-fund/
Applications for the new GitHub Secure Open Source Fund are now open! Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until they close on January 7 at 11:59 pm PT. Programming and funding will begin in early 2025.Martin Woodward (The GitHub Blog)
This is a good PR thing for Microsoft/GitHub on first glance but the more you look at the details the more it becomes clear that this is a simple solution that doesn't fit the issues that dominate the domain. Sure you can give Open Source maintainers access to GitHub people and GitHub Copilot but who are you helping? Worst case is more open source projects having to deal with the extra work of double checking and fixing the generated code.
https://fosstodon.org/@donmccurdy/113512775802077660
I've been expecting something like this since the XZ hack, but still ... frustrated/annoyed/sad to see Microsoft and 13 (!) partners jointly announcing that their answer is to “educate” open source maintainers.Fosstodon
In this searing investigative report on #Bluesky, @davetroy asks how are the users flocking there safe from EXACTLY THE SAME THING that happened at Twitter/X?
https://america2.news/without-sky-social-media-and-the-end-of-reality/
"Notably, Musk has not made any mention of Bluesky and the exodus of some 20 million people from X. In the past, he has railed against Threads and Substack. This time... crickets. It's as if he has a plan in mind to use Bluesky to his advantage. Perhaps he intends to buy it. We don't know. Plan accordingly."
People are flocking to Bluesky in droves, but creators and users should think critically about the risk of capture by potentially hostile investors.Dave Troy (America 2.0)
Yeah I signed up for BS, but notroot.online ain't going nowhere. I run it on a server I already had.
I wonder how long before there's another migration to the Fediverse... this time from Bluesky.
The 2024 presidential election was particularly bleak for Democrats, as Republicans swept every battleground state in the Electoral College and even won the popular vote for the first time in 20 years.Carl Gibson (Alternet.org)
Hope you're not leaving here.
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