Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@social.cleverlibre.org

While many people bemoan the fall is active users on Mastodon, the other fact is that Twitter usage is also shrinking. And only 0.2% of Twitter users pay for Twitter Blue.

So it's not as though Twitter is in a state of strength either.

https://gizmodo.com/twitter-twitter-blue-elon-musk-mastodon-1850082165

A client has a few MO Disks that they want to pull the data from for a time sensitive sentimental reason. I don’t have a drive that can read them. Does anyone I know here have a TMT7-9100 USB drive? There are 6 disks in total - they’d probably pay to get the data.

Another PDP-10 was installed today at the datacenter: A Systems Concepts model 40 or SC40 running Mars TOPS-20 7.

SC Group - Mars System ASC20, TOPS-20 Monitor 7(21733)

ssh sc40@hie.sdf.org "login new new" to play tourist. Eventually this machine will be part of TWENEX.ORG

BIG NEWS: #TyreNichols’ murder reminds us that #police traffic stops can turn deadly. 400 unarmed drivers killed in 5 years.

I'm introducing the "Safer Traffic Stops Act". It would pay local governments to transfer traffic enforcement from armed police officers to cameras or civilians.

Your daily #Pratchett

"The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it."

Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

Bluetooth has been shit my entire adult life

@thepoliticalcat @stopgopfox Did Biden at least ask Erdogan for a favor? No? I guess Republicans will label him as weak.

Luckily just a basic SQL injection

woahhh so scary

Everything out of the Fascist Party’s mouths = lies &/or projection/confessions. Exhibit A:

Alleged Chinese spy balloons were spotted on several occasions during #Trump’s administration, including three instances where they traveled near sensitive US military facilities #China

https://breaking.iavian.net/article/329113

Talking to friends in Austin who are enduring yet another large-scale catastrophic infrastructure failure, and I’m wondering if any of the shitbird VCs who were encouraging everyone to move to Texas have yet noted that the policy regime they’re so fond of is harming so many people, so consistently.

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), who has been passing out assault rifle lapel pins to his colleagues this week, cowers in terror behind an officer at the U.S. Capitol during the insurrection Jan. 6, 2021. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-andrew-clyde-assault-rifle-pins-house_n_63defb68e4b01e928871b032

Why is wanting software that doesn’t need a persistent internet connection to edit text a radical position

But their emails.
But their documents.
Supreme Court justices used personal emails for work and ‘burn bags’ were left open in hallways, sources say
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/04/politics/supreme-court-email-burn-bags-leak-investigation
h/t @danielschuman

The US appeals court just ruled men under domestic violence orders can own guns

Every day in America, three women die from domestic violence

This country won’t stop at taking our rights, they want to take our lives

To sum up where the Fediverse is right now:

1. @EU_Commission backs it
2. The @w3c backs it
3. @fsf backs it
4. @eff backs it
5. Twitter Co-Founders @ev and @biz back it
7. Web browsers like @mozilla and @Vivaldi back it
8. Prominent 3rd party client devs like @paul back it
9. @gruber and @davew back it
10. @georgetakei back it

Am I missing anyone?

Oh yeah, YOU back it!

@AnnemarieBridy My guess is a billionaire conservative donor asked for it to be gone. Harvard is a law unto itself. Literally. They have their own article in the Massachusetts Constitution, since they predate the state and the nation. And they pay no property taxes.

@lupyuen I would call it a success; "99.5% of all Fediverse users unaffected by crashed Mastodon instance."

Unlike "100% of .... users affected." in typical scenarios.

"A slate of new board members installed by DeSantis earlier this month replaced college President Patricia Okker with a placeholder president until former GOP House speaker and education commissioner Richard Corcoran can assume the job, installed a DeSantis appointee as the new board chair, moved to hire a former [GOP] lawmaker as the school's new general counsel and began the process of abolishing programs aimed at increasing diversity, equity and inclusion on campus..."
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/sarasota/2023/01/31/richard-corcoran-becomes-interim-president-of-sarasotas-new-college/69858928007/

The #NewYorkTimes is all in on the sanitizing of DeSantis’ fascism.

Now understand why civil rights leaders say that Chicago's plan to make murders go down by giving police officers an arrest quota, is doomed to fail.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2022/1/5/22869450/police-cpd-lori-lightfoot-david-brown-arrest-increase-crime-quota-demotion-clearance-rate-murder

Cops are just going to arrest the poorest, Blackest, people in the city for petty crimes, starting them down a poverty spiral that will ruin their lives.

This *reduces* trust in a way that can't be made up by "positive interactions."

"You arrested my mom, but later you smiled at me." Doesn't exactly win hearts and minds.