ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

US #privacy groups (citing previous reporting by WIRED) are warning Senator Schumer not to ram through #NSA spying powers.

https://www.wired.com/story/section-702-surveillance-reauthorization-privacy-letter/

During a trial on charges that #Trump committed fraud by inflating the value of his assets, his defense attorneys put up a slide claiming that his 63-story building at 40 Wall street is a 72-story building.

You cannot make this shit up.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2023/11/13/live-from-trump-fraud-trial-don-jr-returns-to-witness-stand/?sh=3dc8c2bc3fa6

Why isn't a bigger story that the entire House of Representatives is in chaos because a Republican member deposed a Republican Speaker of the House to end an ethics investigation into his child rape charges? I mean, I hate this question formation as much as you, but why the hell?

#NaNoWriMo update, Nov 14th: 27324 words, 2263 written today.

This novel has fully three different species of intelligent telepathic corvid.

I know what I like.

(It's corvids.)

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children." —Madeleine L'Engle

#NaNoWriMo with #iAWriter

mystery master: murder by the dozen, screenshot, macintosh (1984) https://mobygames.com/game/macintosh/mystery-master-murder-by-the-dozen/screenshots/gameShotId,573433/

I’m going to say this again: I really like @mammoth’s recommendation feed ”For you” and its smart and healthy recommendations algorithm that brings up things I like to see without any monetary gain. Not all algorithms are evil, they help the user at best, when they are opt-in.

I have discovered a lot of new follows and it really makes the change in my way of using the Fediverse. We should really consider something like this as a standard, opt-in, as a choice. It kinda already is because we have Mammoth, but only for limited scope of users (iPhone only).

Good job, Team Mammoth!

#Mammoth #Mastodon #Algorithm #Algorithms #SocialMedia #Fediverse

Let's celebrate the 400 anniversary of the publication of "Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies" also known as the First Folio.

The Folio includes all of the plays generally accepted to be Shakespeare's, with the exception the following plays which are believed likely to have been written, at least partly, by Shakespeare; Pericles, Prince of Tyre, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Edward III, and the two lost plays, Cardenio and Love's Labour's Won.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2270

#books

The lobby of an abandoned resort
More abandoned places at https://www.abandonedamerica.us/abandoned-places

What most ancient Greek poets forgot to mention was that in addition to guarding the gates of Hades, Cerberus was also a floofy chonk.

#dog #dogs #dogstodon #dogsofmastodon #cerberus #humor #humour #funny

She’s been writing and fighting for democracy since I first met her 15 years ago. Now she needs our help. Can you kick in a few bucks?

Fundraiser by Conover Kennard : Conover Has Throat Cancer

https://www.gofundme.com/f/conover-has-throat-cancer?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer

Chased a toy under the rug #tortie #cats #MastoCats

#BloomScrolling Trafoi, #Italy. September, 2016 #TravelPhoto #Wanderlust

Henry Blodget steps down as Insider CEO, replaced by Barbara Peng; Insider changes its name back to Business Insider to focus on business and technology news (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/insider-co-founder-henry-blodget-steps-down-as-ceo-amid-strategy-shift-11a91da7?mod=followamazon
http://mediagazer.com/231114/p6#a231114p6

What should I dream about? I will abide by the results of this poll.

#StableDiffusion #AIArt #AIGenerated #AI #GenerativeAI #GenerativeArt

🆕 blog! “Chapter 14 - Wednesday I'm In Love”

Welcome to NaNoWriMo, where I - and thousands of other plucky souls - try to write a 50,000 word novel in a month. You are reading "Tales of the Algorithm". A compendium of near-future sci-fi stories. Each chapter is a stand-alone adventure set a few days from now. Everything you read is possible - there's […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/11/chapter-14-wednesday-im-in-love/
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#NaNoWriMo #TalesOfTheAlgorithm

In 1999, I was wearing all black because the summer camp I went to for a week had a white on black shirt that year. There was a whole crew of us.

A police officer came up to a group of us hanging out in a bus stop and asked — memory timidly — "Are you anarchists?”

I've remembered that interaction ever since, and think of it every time I discover I'm wearing all black.

Yes, as a matter of fact, I am, I can now say. Not like "throw things through windows" anarchist, though I sympathize sometimes, more a "I don't trust you in the position of power, we will have to get it done ourselves as we always have" anarchist.

Nobody can take care of us but us. That can be a big us or a little us, but nobody's going to do it for us. That much is clear now.

You don’t have to be old enough to vote in order to protect your digital rights. EFF wants young people to step up and defend themselves against an onslaught of government censorship and surveillance. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/young-people-may-be-biggest-target-online-censorship-and-surveillance-and

What should I dream about? I will abide by the results of this poll.

#StableDiffusion #AIArt #AIGenerated #AI #GenerativeAI #GenerativeArt