@jensorensen Excellent comic!
Disclaimer: not a native speaker
I would call it "The great backlash", to emphasize that this is the result of extremely concentrated campaign of active rollback of progressive achievements by reactionary forces, and not the "normal" and "natural" regression [towards the mean] that some [myself included] might read into it.
@jeffowski
It kind of looks like The Thinker, but with his head between the knees! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy#/media/File:Le_Penseur_by_Rodin_(Kunsthalle_Bielefeld)_2014-04-10.JPG
Everything is terrible BUT I have calculated the maximum angle from which the HOA snitches can view our backyard during their automotive reconnaissance, which allows me to leave a large triangle of lawn unmowed in the middle of it.
@aral
I wanted to block just @ThinkIsrael but given the recent Threads thing, the first action under the cursor (block domain mastodon.social) seems more and more reasonable...
“Asked whether there were ‘any changes to the President’s policy toward Israel and Gaza as a result of yesterday’s strike,’ White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre declared, ‘[n]othing has changed.’
In an earlier statement … White House National Security spokesman John Kirby asserted, ‘We make no bones about the fact that Israel is going to continue to have American support for the fight that they’re in to eliminate the threat from Hamas.’”
“The state department has a process in place. And to date … they have not found any incidents where the Israelis have violated international humanitarian law.”
– John Kirby, Whitehouse Spokesman
Who are you going to believe, your eyes and ears or us?
These bastards all belong in the dock at The Hague.
@aral
"to date they have not found any incidents where the Israelis have violated international humanitarian law"
... under the lamppost
... in front of the White House.
As we hear reports that it will take 10 years (🤯) to replace the 1.6 mile Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore, remember that China built the Danyang-Kunshan bridge and Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay Bridge in 4 years each.
Danyang-Kunshan Bridge is 102 miles long, and 100 ft above the water.
Jiaozhou Bay Bridge is 16 miles and 623 ft tall, earthquake and typhoon proof, and can withstand a direct strike from a 300,000 ton cargo ship. That last point is unfortunately topical.
I have friends that happily drive their kids around strapped into child seats in Teslas. I ask them a few questions about this, and I've never had a friend of mine who is a parent answer these questions satisfactorily:
Do you know that Tesla doors might not open if there's no power?
Do you know how to manually open the doors?
Have you timed how long it would take you to get your kids out?
@etherdiver@be@mekkaokereke I think it's to save cost at the expense of uninformed buyers. It's the least expensive model that has the worst mechanism.
The electricity and water use required by data centres is becoming cause for concern. Iowa and Ireland are calling for moratoriums on new development projects. Microsoft’s global water consumption grew 34% from 2021 to 2022. And estimates say that around 80% of content in data centres could be stuff we never use again, stored by default to consume energy in perpetuity for no purpose at all.
@axbom@strypey
"Water used for cooling evaporates, and data centres do not have systems in place to capture that."
👍
I was confused how data centers "used up" water for a long time, because I assumed a closed loop like liquid-cooling a desktop.
There is an increase of account takeovers due to insiders at telco firms simply giving control to people paying them/compromised support staff accounts. Do a check on systems where this single factor would permit an account compromise. And change the configuration. These are opportunistic trawling attacks. This is becoming more common as attackers replicate the success.
The attacker uses other channels (like people search websites) to enumerate and guess the phone number attached to an online account and then checks against the telco they have control over.
The insider only briefly temporarily forwards the victim number to a 3rd party then switches it back to normal once they’re in. This is how they stay quiet since most victims will not have leverage or telemetry to understand how they got hacked.
It was their cell phone provider.
Make it so account recovery systems require multiple factors and remove telephony-based recovery for VIP accounts entirely.
Go check your systems now. Go try to access all your stuff like you forgot your password.
I am very serious. This is based on private knowledge but is compelled by the compromise of the SEC. This is common now.
#AdversarialInteroperability is one of the most reliable ways to protect users from predatory corporations: it's when someone reverse-engineers a product to reconfigure or mod it (interoperability) in ways its users like, but which its manufacturer objects to (adversarial):
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
“One effect of the perceived double standard has been to poison European efforts to build global solidarity in support of Ukraine and isolate Russia. ‘They see violations of international humanitarian law, the flattening of entire districts, and they ask how is that different from Kharkiv and ask us to condemn it,’ a European diplomat in the region said. ‘The Europeans are quite silent. The Russians/Chinese will exploit this in the future and are already exploiting it.’”
@aral Europe and US: Exploit the world for centuries, invade, bomb, kill and threaten anyone and everyone, while being total hypocrites about it and use freedom, democracy and European "values" as justification for there crimes.
The rest of the world: Sees clearly through the lies and deception.
European diplomat: The Russians and Chinese will exploit this.
Remember kids: EU/US exploiting the world = good, RU/CN exploiting the western lies = bad.
@frameworkcomputer all of them are extremely cool!
The iPhone supports 4k @ 60 fps DisplayPort natively though, a USB-C to DP/USB-C cable is all that's needed, or?
@SwiftOnSecurity@jasonkoebler@404mediaco Sounds like regulatory capture, where TM is the government, scalpers are Big Co incumbents with huge legal departments who can jump through all the hoops, and fans are the small/new companies being left behind/out to dry.
I'd like to be snarky about this, but it's sad to watch #Twitter's slow death. That stupid, beautiful site has been vital to me in my development as a poet. And as someone who can probably be described as Very Online, I used to find the site good in a bunch of other ways as well. But at some point, you have to go. He's deleting old tweets to save a bit of money on storage space. And meanwhile, all the tweets on the Arab Spring, the Mumbai attacks, etc, are gone. They're just...gone.
The latest VC-funded startup: We might be a scorpion but we promise we won’t sting you. Look, we’ve even painted pink hearts on our stinger!
Folks: Aww, hello cute new scorpion! I’ve been stung by every other scorpion that said the same thing but I think the smartest I can do right now is to pet you and hope this time will be different.
@Loukas@aral The rake is a quantum object. According to Heisenberg's uncertainty principal if you know its location, you can't know its spin (up/down).
“‘Tesla years ago began exaggerating its vehicles' potential driving distance—by rigging their range-estimating software,’ the article published today said. ‘The company decided about a decade ago, for marketing purposes, to write algorithms for its range meter that would show drivers “rosy” projections for the distance it could travel on a full battery, according to a person familiar with an early design of the software for its in-dash readouts.’”
“I tend to think that most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism. And I think that this is actually true of most fears of technology, too. Most of our fears or anxieties about technology are best understood as fears or anxiety about how capitalism will use technology against us. And technology and capitalism have been so closely intertwined that it’s hard to distinguish the two.”
