Reddit Users
If you are thinking about deleting your Reddit account and becoming part of the Reddit Migration
Know that our wonderful Mastodon instance admin @jerry just installed 2 Fediverse Reddit-alternatives for you! ✨
Kbin: https://fedia.io/register
and
Lemmy: https://infosec.pub/signup
👉 Remember! It is a lot of work for admins right now! 👈
All the wonderful work Jerry & Team does for us is completely volunteered! And it even costs *them* money!
There are no ads and no CEO here.
If you can afford it, I strongly encourage you to support your instance’s admin(s) with a kind donation
If you want to support Jerry & Team, here is the link to donate (more ways to donate on Jerry’s profile page): https://www.patreon.com/infosecexchange
Be kind, generous, and patient with your instance admin(s), they do all of this for you 💚
@BobWilliams 💯 I am tired of giving my free content to billionaires.
“The report notes: “The government would never have been permitted to compel billions of people to carry location tracking devices on their persons at all times, to log and track most of their social interactions, or to keep flawless records of all their reading habits. Yet smartphones, connected cars, web tracking technologies, the Internet of Things, and other innovations have had this effect without government participation.”
https://www.wired.com/story/odni-commercially-available-information-report/
I’m going to keep repeating this - calling right-wing extremists who are armed, organized, and threatening violence, “militias” works to their goal of establishing legitimacy. They are terrorists. Call. Them. Out.
And if you’re in media and calling them “militias”, but refer to Daesh, ISIS, Al-Qaida, or the Taliban as “terrorists”, you should really think about why that is and the bias that you’re internalizing in your work.
Silvio Berlusconi just died. During his life he caused immense damage to both Italy and the EU.
For decades he used his media empire to propagate a culture of sexism, racism and utter disregard for culture and science. He facilitated organized crime and helped Putin gain a foothold within the EU both politically and financially.
Even though he was already waning politically after the 2012 crisis, the damage he has done within Italian society will take decades to undo.
Most of you reading this probably are too young to directly remember Nixon's Watergate scandal. Sometimes in our lives we live through events and don't realize that they are historic until many years or even decades later. Watergate was not one of those. We knew at the time that it was crucially important history.
Trump's federal indictment falls into the same category. You are watching enormously crucial history unfold in real time before you, that will affect this country and the world for many decades (at least) to come.
Please pay attention.
Map request. I'm looking for a digital download of a WW2 map of central Italy. There are a few that would be helpful, around a place called Venafro. These are GSGS 161 maps, in either 1:25000 or 1:50000. I have neighbouring sectors, eg 160, but cannot find these in any online archive. I know they did exist at one time, as I have this image of the map overlaid on terrain on Google Earth. Any help most gratefully received. Thanks.
"More than six thousand subreddits have gone dark to protest #Reddit’s API changes"
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/12/23755974/reddit-subreddits-going-dark-private-protest-api-changes
Life is kinda like when your foot gets caught trying to put on your underwear and you're standing there falling over sideways kicking and crying like a little bitch
I’ve heard the lyric “alligator lizards in the sky” hundreds of times, but I never saw a photo of an alligator lizard until today,
https://sfba.social/@ScruffyJunco/110528608925018028 #lyrics
Once again - the Reddit blackout begins tomorrow. Do NOT visit reddit. Do not lurk to see what your favourite subs are doing that day. Ideally all week. But a minimum for two days.
Do not open the app. Go completely silent.
Hopefully Reddit does the right thing and reversed their decision on the API and mod tools.
After next week - If the blackout continues and Reddit sends in a scab to any of your favorite subs - unsubscribe to the sub and stop posting or commenting there.
Mostly reclusive and carrying slightly damaged goods. A survivor by some accounts. Definitely in need of much therapy. ;)
Staunchly anti-fascist
Bear in mind that, while I may "like" your "toot", about a person, event or particular topic, if it links to the "bird-site" I will no longer boost and inadvertently contribute to their grift. Everyone has a choice and a part to play when crimes go unpunished.
"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers".
-Elric