Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

#goodnews

This guy, Richard Barnett, who was pretty proud of himself for defiling Nancy Pelosi's office on January 6th, was just found guilty on all 8 charges against him.

The death cult formerly known as republicans want everyone who's not rich, white, hetero or disagrees with their particular hateful flavor of christianity to suffer and die as miserably as possible.

Unless they can shoot you first with their combat weapons.

Sick, sick, sick excuses for humans.

Tennessee rejects federal money for HIV treatment, alarming those living with HIV-
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/tennessee-rejects-federal-money-for-hiv-treatment-alarming-those-living-with-hiv

Within the first week of Congress, the GOP intro'd a bill that would kill the IRS.

What would it put in its place?

A national sales tax that would let the rich off the hook AND make working people pay more.

It won’t pass, but what does this say about the GOP’s priorities?

First Look at blendOS: A Blend of #ArchLinux, #Fedora Linux, and #Ubuntu https://9to5linux.com/first-look-at-blendos-a-blend-of-arch-linux-fedora-linux-and-ubuntu

#OpenSource #Linux

Bill Barr asked Italian officials to discredit Russia probe — they responded with evidence linking Trump to crimes https://www.rawstory.com/amp/bill-barr-2659315495-2659315495

"Gaylor says that FFRF’s basic concern remains: This is still an event involving the most powerful U.S. public officials endorsing religion." Yep.

#secularism #ChurchAndState #SeparationOfChurchAndState #PrayerBreakfast #FFRF

https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/41872-ffrf-calls-national-prayer-breakfast-changes-subterfuge

This will take a few minutes to read, but really explains the problem with this plan that Kevin McCarthy had to agree to put up for a vote in order to get into his position.

VAT is normal in other western democracies but in those other countries, there are also high income tax rates for wealthier individuals. In those countries, regressive VAT taxes are paired with with progressive income taxes. The GOP suggestion is to replace our not-progressive-enough income tax with a very regressive sales tax. Definitely a boon for the very wealthy and a burden for everyone else.

Those other countries also provide their citizens with free national healthcare, family leave, free childcare and more. Americans go bankrupt and die young while every other nation continues to see their citizens make economic gains and live longer.

The FairTax Act, GOP plan for 30 percent national sales tax, explained-
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2023/1/26/23563563/fairtax-national-sales-tax-kevin-mccarthy

Apple users used to give Microsoft shit for baking Internet Explorer into the OS. Yet #macOS not only won’t let you uninstall Apple Music, but it also won’t let you prevent it from launching automatically whenever you connect your bluetooth headphones. This is user hostile design, and #Apple should be embarrassed.

But, anyway, I found a solution. Run the “noTunes” app and it will prevent Apple Music from ever launch. https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes

@SrRochardBunson @Lunatech @AdmiralFrosty Thank you for starting the convo. Although I was never religious, I’ve always been fascinated by religions & cults. Out of all the religions I’ve studied, I’m most partial to Buddhism, as it’s the least dogmatic or “religious”.

In regard to #Cult45 or #MAGA, seems pretty evident IMO that #evangelicals have made a devils bargain for power, by any means necessary -same as the #GOP & both use fear, as tool for control.

This is especially true when we have the courage to explore beliefs we were indoctrinated with - like those involving #religion , #race , and #class .
#criticalthinking #ReligiousTrauma #racism #colonialism

Nice and fresh fruits https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmemes/comments/10ke2qc/systemd/ 🤣 #linux

Imagine trying to enact a policy so unpopular that threatening an economic crash is the only way you can think of to get it done.

Yet, extremist politicians are doing exactly that: threatening default for the first time in history in order to slash Social Security and Medicare.

Science journals ban listing of ChatGPT as co-author on papers https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/26/science-journals-ban-listing-of-chatgpt-as-co-author-on-papers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Imagine if the NY Times take from the beginning had been:

Biden’s lawyers find classified documents on his premises!
By immediately notifying the authorities, returning the documents, and inviting further searches, they create a political problem for Trump: Highlighting the contrast between the right and the wrong way to treat the discovery of classified documents. Trump’s indictment for obstruction now seems inevitable.

Then: Pence, too, avoids obstructing justice …

https://findinggravity.substack.com/p/the-new-york-times-invents-a-biden

Lexmark has released a security firmware update to fix a severe vulnerability that could enable remote code execution (RCE) on more than 100 printer models.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lexmark-warns-of-rce-bug-affecting-100-printer-models-poc-released/

Currently playing around with @elk which I saw someone (I forget who) recommend to me. In lieu of any "desktop Mastodon apps" for Linux yet, it's a nice alternative to the main Mastodon web ui (which is perfectly usable, I just like trying different things). So go check it out if you like @ elk.zone

This excellent post by @jamisonfoser about egregiously bad journalism by @peterbakernyt &co. is very much along the lines of what I would have written if I had the energy: https://findinggravity.substack.com/p/the-new-york-times-invents-a-biden