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Open Document Format is a vital component of freedom. Learn about the invisible architecture of lock-in – the layering of dependencies: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/30/the-invisible-architecture-of-lock-in/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
Gaza Is Costing Democratic Incumbents Their Seats
#GazaPolitics #PoliticalImpact #CampusProtests #ElectoralOutcomes
Hey, remind me which caliber rifles the SCOTUS uses to enforce their decisions?
Yeah, that's right, we can just fucking ignore them.
Klein: "Rufo is a very smart and often quite honest analyst of his own side. One thing I appreciate about him is he always says what he is doing clearly and in public."
The old George-Wallace-is-at-least-open-about-his-racism trope,an attempt to justify this journalistic horror.
Just to note:
When you take a self assessment for ADHD or Autism and it asks something like:
"do you have difficulty with ABC?"
And your response is
"I don't have difficulty with ABC. I've developed a System that I use to deal with ABC, and when I follow the System, I can do ABC. So it's not difficult."
... Then you have difficulty with ABC. Mark yes on the question.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@davatron5000/116836109824031952
#MASTODON: come for the shitposts, leave radicalized by a book about birds ✊🏽📗🪿
Capitalism is a scam.
A New Lawsuit Claims the Memory Crisis Was Manufactured on Purpose
> Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, which together control about 89% of the global DRAM market, are facing a class action lawsuit accusing them of coordinating production cuts and exiting older memory standards to artificially drive up prices during the ongoing memory crisis.
#dram #technology #ram #gaming #buildAPC #computer #memoryShortage
Nothing says Happy 250th Birthday America like 11 stars on a tacky gold eagle (representing the 11 states to secede from the Union during the Civil War). Might as well just raise the Confederate Flag above the White House. #uspol
ICE kidnaps beloved Utah father and community member
“My father is a working class person through and through.” Julio Irungaray Sr. was swarmed by militant thugs upon arriving home from a night shift last week in Salt Lake City, where he has lived and worked as a cook for more than 35 years after coming to the US from Mexico on a humanitarian visa. He was abducted and promptly transferred to a Wyoming County jail, where he now faces deportation. He lives with diabetes and other health complications that require medical care. Irungaray’s two children say they’ve been targeted by law enforcement in the past due to their activism around federal immigration terror and police brutality. His community is demanding his immediate release and due process rights, as Irungaray’s immigration case was under review at the time of his arrest and his petition for residency had already been approved. “He said, ‘Don’t be distressed, but please be careful,’” Irungaray’s son Julio Jr. told community members after speaking with his father by phone. “ICE told him that it didn’t matter if he was hiding right now because ICE is closely watching everybody in the community. He said never stop fighting because if we stop, then ICE is going to continue abusing us.”
#lazyWeb recommendations.
An android keyboard app with local, good, autocorrect and swipe entry.
No ads, no spying, just a local dictionary, some moderate predicative text suggestions. Bonus points if it learns my idioms from corrections, but that would be gilding the lily.
I feel like the old swipe keyboard and even Gboard used to be substantially better than they are today.
Non rooted, pixel, current android. I have fdroid and play store and willing to install my own .apk files.
This is on purpose. Roberts more than even most of you reading this, understands that if the public ever considers SCOTUS illegitimate - well, he has no army to enforce his rulings.
So he's cagey. He tries to pretend he's upholding the law and stopping Trump sometimes. But he's not - look at the rulings. Trump loses the absurd stuff, but the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society always win the cases that matter to the larger fundie fascist movement.
It's a strategy.
NEW: Former Louisiana death row inmate Jimmie “Chris” Duncan, convicted based in part on forensic evidence now widely regarded as junk science, is officially a free man.
“I am flooded with relief,” one of his lawyers said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-death-row-prisoner-freed-jimmie-duncan?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Louisiana #CriminalJustice #Prison #Law #Justice #Crime
I miss being young and assuming that most adults are idiots. Getting older and finding out it's true has been a bit of a let down
(AP) — More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed. https://apnews.com/article/earthquake-venezuela-us-deportees-immigration-hotel-survived-783140c04b418de2308f548402ace9af
A team of young marketers,
fluent in algorithms and trend data,
used generative AI to brainstorm a campaign.
They had no historical literacy.
They meant no harm.
And they set off a cultural bomb that is still detonating.
But ignorance is not an alibi.
The true catastrophe was not the ignorance of a junior team.
It was the system that allowed their ignorance to go unchallenged at every single level.
Four approval stages.
Zero objections.
Standard compliance reviews, deliberately bypassed for speed.
Executives signing off on campaigns they hadn't opened.
A legal team removed from the process entirely.
And when the crisis erupted,
internal staff who couldn't understand why anyone was upset.
This is not a story about one bad campaign.
It is a story about what happens when a corporation optimizes so completely for speed and scale that it quietly amputates its own institutional memory
— and doesn't notice until it is standing in front of a nation, bowing, with nowhere left to go
-- 🙏 to @aburtch
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-national-gift-insult-how-starbucks-korea-destroyed-tz0ve/
Imagine if a beloved global coffee brand launched a "911 Promotion" on the exact anniversary of the Twin Towers attack.
That is essentially what just happened to Starbucks in South Korea.
On May 18th, Starbucks Korea released what appeared to be an innocent merchandise promotion called
"Tank Day."
To an outsider, the name might sound like a bold, edgy marketing gimmick
— the kind of quirky campaign that performs well on social media and moves limited-edition merchandise fast.
But in South Korea, May 18th is not just a date. It is a wound that has never fully closed.
It marks the anniversary of the 1980 Gwangju Democratization Movement
— when civilians peacefully protesting a military coup were brutally slaughtered by their own government.
The dictator who ordered the massacre, General Chun Doo-hwan, sent actual military tanks to crush the uprising.
His blood-soaked nickname? "Chun Tank."
But the brand didn't stop there.
The campaign also featured the phrase "hit the desk"
— three words that carry the weight of an entire nation's rage.
In 1987, a young student activist named Park Jong-chul was tortured to death in police custody.
To cover up his murder, authorities claimed he had died of shock when an interrogator simply "hit the desk."
Every South Korean knows exactly what those words mean.
And if that weren't enough,
investigators later uncovered what appeared to be hidden numerical codes embedded in the campaign materials
— digits widely recognized as alt-right symbols used online to mock South Korea's democratic movements.
Overnight, a cute tumbler promotion became a monstrous mockery of the country's deepest historical trauma.
A brand that had spent decades positioning itself as the ultimate symbol of Korean lifestyle sophistication had, in a single campaign, transformed
into a symbol of something far darker.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-national-gift-insult-how-starbucks-korea-destroyed-tz0ve/
AI guardrails will always fail. NIST just proved it mathematically https://www.covertswarm.com/post/ai-guardrails-will-fail-nist-mathematical-proof
All gambling including “prediction markets” should be illegal https://www.hcn.org/articles/people-are-betting-on-wildfires-should-they/
BREAKING: States are allowed to count ballots mailed by Election Day but received after Election Day, Supreme Court rules. Barrett has the 5-4 opinion for the court, holding that federal law does NOT preempt the state laws. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1260_g3cn.pdf