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Written by David Blume on 2025-02-04 at 22:46

"Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website" is on-brand for 2025. https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use-ai-for-weapons-from-website/

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Written by David Blume on 2025-01-28 at 00:35

@pluralistic 's useful protip for the Department of Government Efficiency (DoGE): "It's pretty easy to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, actually" and shows them what to cut: https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/27/beltway-bandits/#henhouse-foxes

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Written by David Blume on 2025-01-26 at 19:14

Peach MoMoKo 桃桃子's X-23, to which Wesley_Shounen replied "Laura Mononoke".

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Written by David Blume on 2025-01-20 at 16:20

That's so much better than realizing memeCoin is being used to launder money for the Oligarchy.

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Written by David Blume on 2025-01-16 at 23:37

@pluralistic, re "Picks and Shovels" I don't understand: Marty just told the Reverend Sirs he wouldn't take 25% because he could do his job perfectly, they botch the acquisition, and Marty'd get nothing. Then he just takes the counter-offer of the lesser of his hourly rate or 25%. That's not better, that's far worse. Was the point that Marty was bluffing and the Bishop saw through him? Or just how bad Marty was at negotiating back in his youth?

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Written by David Blume on 2025-01-13 at 21:01

Absolutely epic rant from @pluralistic , reminding us of the value of Chesterton’s fence: Refrain from tearing something down until you know why it was built in the first place. (Eg., vaccines, cryptography without backdoors, protections in Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder) Read, enjoy, learn. https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/13/wanting-it-badly/#is-not-enough

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Written by David Blume on 2025-01-08 at 20:42

Good to see the response to Ann Telnaes's quitting the Washington Post because they wouldn't publish her cartoon. Click through for nice tributes. https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/with-gratitude #cartoon

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Written by David Blume on 2025-01-07 at 19:15

Pleasantly surprised that ghostty distinguishes C-i from tab right out of the box. (I use tab/Shift-tab to switch buffers in vim, but Ctrl-i/o to jump.) #ghostty

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Written by David Blume on 2025-01-02 at 18:22

Martial Solal and Johnny Griffin "What is this thing Called Love". A wonderful 4m jazz piano/drums/bass piece. Give it a listen while you're reading your feed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JSEYFr9bVM #music #jazz

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Written by David Blume on 2025-01-01 at 20:25

This image may prove useful sometime in the next four years. #cybertruck #trump #musk

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Written by David Blume on 2024-12-30 at 00:29

First step in prepping my possible migration from Chrome to Firefox in June is to retrain myself to use @ as the first character in all my site-search prefixes while still in Chrome.

Then in Firefox go to about:config page and set browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh flag to “true”, to add all my site searches.

Ex, @rt goes to: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/search?search=%s

[#]ublockorigin

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Written by David Blume on 2024-12-27 at 19:47

My favorite thing from 2024? The US Government switching from "we require a backdoor to all encrypted communications, you can trust us, no other state actor is nearly as sophisticated, nothing will go wrong" to "stop texting, use end-to-end encryption, like now". Glad we've settled that one for once and all. https://www.npr.org/2024/12/17/nx-s1-5223490/text-messaging-security-fbi-chinese-hackers-security-encryption #encryption #security #2024

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Written by David Blume on 2024-12-24 at 17:16

It makes me happy to see https://www.kitchenknifeforums.com/ active from 2011 to today. It's what I thought the web was going to be in the first place. Just people supporting each other, in something they love. #web

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Written by David Blume on 2024-12-17 at 17:03

🧾 → 🚢 → 📦 → 🎁

My holiday gift list uses the above keys for the status of each item.

🧾: Ordered, not shipped yet

🚢: Shipping

📦: Delivered

🎁: Wrapped

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Written by David Blume on 2024-12-12 at 07:53

"A system that can't shelter, feed, educate or care for its people is a failure. People in failed states will vote for anyone who promises to tear the system down." @pluralistic in https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/11/nimby-yimby-fimby/#home-team-advantage

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Written by David Blume on 2024-12-10 at 17:50

Yay, my @pluralistic Humble Bundle is paying off. I didn't know about the connection between his book Radicalized and current events. Now I'll just download it and read it in the way I like. https://craphound.com/radicalized-full/

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Written by David Blume on 2024-12-06 at 17:44

Got a calendar notification to cancel "Financial Shield" because the Morgan Stanley settlement's membership is expiring. Went there, and apparently there've been so many other breaches my complimentary plan got extended to 2033. So setting another reminder. #security-breach-life

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Written by David Blume on 2024-12-04 at 05:30

It's the greatest thing that my feed is full of people triumphantly sharing "U.S. officials urging Americans to use end-to-end encrypted apps" (instead of seeking backdoors). https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/us-officials-urge-americans-use-encrypted-apps-cyberattack-rcna182694

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Written by David Blume on 2024-12-01 at 06:15

Second: "Immigrants’ Resentment Over New Arrivals Helped Boost Trump’s Popularity With Latino Voters" commentary by @ben. The issue is about the struggles of working class people who saw other groups receive what they perceived as preferential treatment. https://werd.io/2024/immigrants-resentment-over-new-arrivals-helped-boost-trumps-popularity-with 2/2

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Written by David Blume on 2024-12-01 at 06:14

Two worthy links on Immigration: First, one of the most important The Daily podcasts of the year. "On the Ballot: An Immigration System Most Americans Never Wanted" It's a fair and revealing look at how we got here. Pro immigrant isn't necessarily pro immigration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgDdTV7A57w 1/2

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