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cykonot

@cykonot@mas.to

Polyherbal cyberpolitics posting. Gay vegan living.

Avi is me in a hat and a short-sleeved flamingo-print button-up in a parking lot. I am mixed and 29 in the picture (30 now).

Background is a blooming palo verde bearing pendulous boughs laden with yellow blossoms almost completely obscuring the thin, skin-like green bark.

https://justmytoots.com/@cykonot@mas.to
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Tbsa, to random
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THEY AREN'T INDICTING HIM IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS CAMPAIGN, HE'S CAMPAIGNING IN THE MIDDLE OF
THEIR INDICTMENTS.

cykonot,
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@Tbsa law & order in 8 steps;

Step 1: delay case with legal spam
Step 2: use the legal buildup you made to justify delaying every case (dealing with them all at once would be UNFAIR)
Step 3: run for office
Step 4: use fact you're running for office to delay.
Step 5: explain trials by saying doj politically targeting you for being "the peoples oligarch"
Step 6: say you'll pardon allies and punish anyone who "comes after" you
Step 7: say witness tampering 1st amendment
Step 8: repeat

cykonot,
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@Tbsa Republicans make circular dialogues, where they respond to each argument with a new falsehood, the debunking of which eventually leads back to their initial lie. This creates the illusion of a reasonable disagreement, while preventing any resolution and -- critically -- allowing them to control the framing / narrative.

A gish-gallop which feeds into itself, fracturing reality and debasing objective facts as if they were simply opinions. "Race realists" "climate skeptics" etc

cykonot,
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@Tbsa they create a sort of semantic tautology, obfuscating the internal contradictions with a bigoted flattery few can resist.

The world is complicated. Justice does not always feel good. You must break their framing in order to break the cycle. Ridicule their myopia and force the conversation back to reality. Resist capitalist morality and the prosperity gospel they inevitably return to.

Chron, to news

A prison guard said she was forced to work while she experienced labor pains. Now, Texas is fighting her lawsuit by saying her fetus didn't have the "right to life." | Via The Texas Tribune

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texas-argues-fetus-doesn-t-right-life-new-18292079.php

cykonot,
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@Chron the Republican solution is to disallow women in the workplace.

marcelias, to random
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    cykonot, (edited )
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    @marcelias I like that they're targeting the conspiracy itself, rather than the "will no one rid me of this meddlesome democracy" talk because it seems less abusable going forward

    nixCraft, to debian
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    How to configure automated security updates on Debian automatically https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-keep-debian-linux-patched-with-latest-security-updates-automatically/

    cykonot,
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    @nixCraft software was not meant to be updated.
    Air gaps are the only solution.
    🧘🏽‍♂️

    Toastie, to oregon
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    "Because Greater Idaho is unlikely to become a reality, 'people dismiss it,' said Stephen Piggott, a program director with Western States Center. And that, he believes, is dangerous: 'People are not connecting the dots,' he said. 'The people who want to create a white homeland are backing it.'”

    The indomitable Leah Sottile brings a depth of reporting to the Greater Idaho movement found nowhere else.

    https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.8/north-extremism-oregons-greater-idaho-movement-echoes-a-long-history-of-racism-in-the-region

    cykonot,
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    @Toastie fascists trying to steal resources from large democracies with strong environmental movements.

    If anything, the panhandle should be absorbed by Washington. Their economy is more closely tied to Spokane than Boise.

    marcelias, to random
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    cykonot,
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    @marcelias even though our elected officials are mostly lawyers, you've done more than any I can think of to protect democracy

    Good job Mr elias

    lauren, to random
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    Presumably since Florida says students must be taught about the benefits to slaves of being enslaved, their next move will be to teach that the Holocaust provided Jews with the benefits of free transportation.

    cykonot,
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    @lauren if the people doing the slaving were not in any sense "guilty," it implies their victims deserved to be enslaved

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    Just had a job interview. Seemed good. Guess we'll see in the next few days. 🤷🏾‍♀️

    cykonot,
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    @StillIRise1963 good luck!

    QasimRashid, to random
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    EIon Musk’s Wealth
    2009: $.6B
    2023: $249B

    Jeff Bezos’s Wealth
    2009: $6B
    2023: $153B

    Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth
    2009: $.6B
    2023: $105B

    Federal Minimum Wage
    2009: $7.25
    2023: $7.25

    Billionaire tax rate: 8.2%
    Worker tax rate: 13%

    Pay workers.
    Tax Billionaires.
    Save our economy.

    cykonot,
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    @QasimRashid extinction-level problem

    Pwnallthethings, to random

    Students are such grifters. Why should I pay for your student loans? Make better choices. Get a job! Anyway, can't stay and chat, off to meet my billionaire buddies for a fishing trip in my honor on an otherwise unoccupied (and therefore worth $0) private jet flight to laugh about forgiven PPP-loans

    cykonot,
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    @Pwnallthethings "how could these companies account for systemic risk? Of course we bailed them out. Also, fuck them kids"

    nixCraft, to linux
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    now they switch to Ubuntu or Debian :P

    cykonot,
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    @nixCraft you trust canonical?

    nixCraft, to random
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    😂

    cykonot,
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    @nixCraft tempted to try sid tbh

    mastodonmigration, to Futurology
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    Subject: What's going on with Meta?

    To: @Gargron, @ruud, @jerry, @supernovae, @stux, @trumpet, @kev and other large instance admins

    Rumors are tearing this place apart out here about secret deals with . The latest is that Meta has held meetings with some of you and they will federate with large instances under contracts providing financial support (1) (2).

    This is a time for leadership, not silence. Please, what's going on?

    (1) https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/110598855375585873
    (2) https://mastodon.social/@alexeheath/110596207691212890

    cykonot,
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    @Gargron @mastodonmigration why would you be aware of a "secret" Mr rochko

    lauren, to random
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    CEO of sub firm who died in implosion reportedly quoted as saying "At some point safety is pure waste." Can't help but wonder if his paying passengers knew about that quote, despite the onerous safety disclaimer they apparently each signed.

    cykonot,
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    @lauren @Mxhrad why are you defending the billionaires?
    Their existence is violence

    snazzyq, to random
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    i hate shopping at kroger because their self-checkout stations never have scales that work and so it thinks you’re stealing and in order to scare you it plays back a video of you from above so you’ll stop stealing but i am not so i just get sad because it shows that on the top of your head you are balding and you’re self-conscious and you’re not a thief you are just 30 and you shouldn’t be balding this soon oh why oh why must it be so

    cykonot,
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    @snazzyq just wear a hat 😭

    nixCraft, (edited ) to linux
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    You can press up-arrow or down-arrow to walk through a list of previous commands in most modern shells like bash, tcsh, fish, zsh and others in / / / . Another option is to hit CTRL+R & type the command to recall. See:
    help history
    man bash
    man fish
    man zsh

    cykonot,
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    @nixCraft you can also just search through your command history.

    I use vi mode, so I simply hit alt/ to begin searching

    thefreehunter, to Facebook

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    cykonot,
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    @thefreehunter meta will be very genuine and fair as it begins to bend other instances to it's vision using it's market share before finally defederating the unruly instances or at the very least applying onerous digital filters

    augieray, to random
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    I stopped supporting Spotify with my money because it hands so much of it to Joe Rogan. What about you? (I switched to Deezer.)

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7zz9z/spotify-rogan-rfk-vaccine-misinformation-policy

    cykonot,
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    @augieray is Deezer a hi-fi solution?

    Anyone have a preferred Spotify scraper?

    I currently use Spotify from a family member along with SoundCloud (and occasional YouTube). Spotify sounds awful and I resisted using it for years so I could enjoy flax. Gonna need to upgrade sound to appreciate getting quality back

    ainmosni, to random
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    My biggest problem with #capitalism is that it forces everyone to make earning money their primary objective.

    Not to provide valuable services for society.
    Not to make sure that people don't suffer.
    Not to preserve our environment.

    All these things are just optional side effects to the main objective of making money, and will be easily discarded if doing the opposite turns out to be more lucrative.

    cykonot,
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    @ainmosni the belief that capitalism is fair leads to a sort of economic moralism, where people internalize the capitalist reward structure and allow it to supplant social morals / goals with personal finance. Wealthy people are revered as virtuous and assumed to work harder / be superior to those struggling proles. This is not, of course, an inevitable conclusion which people draw, but rather the result of bootstrap propaganda meant to justify inequity. Moral decay & social breakdown results.

    arstechnica, to random
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    Comcast complains to FCC that listing all of its monthly fees is too hard

    Comcast blasted for seeking "loopholes" in rule requiring disclosure of all fees.

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/comcast-complains-to-fcc-that-listing-all-of-its-monthly-fees-is-too-hard/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    cykonot,
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    @arstechnica they can't list them but we should trust them to keep track of them and not do fake fees (again)?

    OKAY lol

    gersande, to random
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    If you see "parental rights" or "parents' rights" in the context of the autonomy and medical and social welfare of a child within the federal jurisdiction of Canada, it may interest you to note that that concept is fairly antithetical to the established legal approach (as imperfect as it often is). According to practice here — as far as I understand it, based on conversations with lawyers and social workers — the welfare of the child comes first and foremost, and the concept of parental rights is not really a thing, but in the eyes of the courts and the law should be framed rather as parental responsibility. Parents don't have the right to do whatever they want with their children. Parents have the responsibility to the welfare and wellbeing of their children.

    "Parents rights" is a gender critical, queerphobic, and ableist dogwhistle. Be on guard when you see it.

    cykonot,
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    @gersande the "parents rights" movement dehumanizes actual living young persons. It treats them like dolls, to be toyed with at their parents whims. It implicitly supports ALL child abuse, but is currently focused on forced detransitioning (incidentally taking away some parents rights) and conversion therapy. Not only that, the current push to legalize child labor is intimately wrapped up in it, as they would like to be able to fully control their child-laborers finances etc

    sundogplanets, to random
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    I had to find a couple of papers for one of my students to review and I just looked at all the new papers on satellite observations and predictions for satellite pollution and now I am super depressed.

    What's currently playing out in Low Earth Orbit is the worst parts of capitalism, on fast-forward (literally at several km/s if you want to get technical...) It's so bad. Orbit needs strong, international regulation 20 years ago.

    cykonot,
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    @sundogplanets here I talk briefly about the lack of any such framework
    https://mas.to/@cykonot/109892436032287499

    futurebird, to random
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    Parallel universes are real! You shall be sent to live in one... forever.

    You will get a choice between 5 universes that each have a similar collection of languages though technology & culture may be very, possibly hazardously, different.

    To make your choice you may request one (1) kind of typical artifact. This will be fetched from each universe, you may compare to make your choice.

    Electronics will be disabled. If the artifact doesn't exist... you get nothing.

    What do you request?

    cykonot,
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    @futurebird ledger from largest stock exchange

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