*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@social.cleverlibre.org

From The Atlantic.

"Editor’s Note: This article is part of our “Democracy Undone” series about the erosion of liberal democracy around the world.

PETERSBURG, Virginia—Talking with Olavo de Carvalho can be an exercise in self-restraint. As I walked into his house for an interview recently, he was sitting behind his desk, his gray hair neatly combed back. More than 100 smoking pipes were lined up on a rack, and thousands of books were stacked on the shelves of his home office alongside at least 20 rifles. He greeted me with a deep frown and wide eyes before pointing at a printout of a recent article I had written and bellowing, “What the fuck is that?”

So began our second meeting."

#Brazil #politics

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/12/brazil-olavo-de-carvalho-jair-bolsonaro/604117/

It's fun to find pictures like this, and pages on the web showing I am not the only lover of arcane, vintage #retro Technology.

Next computer, no text yet but photos on Jason's blog page.

https://jasongullickson.com/blog/the-next-project.html

see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_Computer

Happy Birthday, Gladstone! 💕🎉🎁🎈🎈🎇 #xp
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RT @TreasuryMog
It's my "official" birthday today and I am 5 years old. I share it with the man I was named after..William Gladstone..my party is tonight at 8pm.
https://twitter.com/TreasuryMog/status/1211220057658974208

"Everything is Broken"

"Once upon a time, a friend of mine accidentally took over thousands of computers. He had found a vulnerability in a piece of software and started playing with it. In the process, he figured out how to get total administration access over a network. "

https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1

Desktop-First Mobile Computing

"However the introduction of the PinePhone ( https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/) may change all that.

The PinePhone is an open-source computer in a smartphone form factor. The hardware provides all of the resources necessary to support a workflow like the one described above. More importantly, unlike other smartphones, the device is open enough to accept a standard desktop operating system, so using it I’m the way I use my laptop (connecting it to desktop peripherals and treating it like a desktop computer) is completely feasible."

https://jasongullickson.com/blog/desktop-first-mobile-computing.html

From The Atlantic:

"Bowers didn’t make his anti-Semitic statements on Twitter or Facebook or even Reddit, but rather on a small social network called Gab. It was founded in 2016 as an alternative to Twitter and other large social platforms, and indeed looks and operates similarly to Twitter, allowing users to follow and reply to one another, and to reshare short status updates.

But while Twitter, Facebook, and other mainstream social networks abide by ever-evolving sets of community standards, Gab allows users to say pretty much anything they want. Andrew Torba, the Silicon Valley Trump supporter who created it, said that he wanted to offer an alternative to mainstream social networks, which he and others feel are biased against conservatives."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/what-gab/574186/

Oscar is beautiful. Sleep well, friend.

#caturday still #cats #mastocats #catsofmastodon #xp
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RT @OscarPsychic@twitter.activitypub.actor
Yes, I am a handsome ginger boy ready to hit the hay for the night!
https://twitter.com/OscarPsychic/status/1208606089647939586

Peaceful Mind, Peaceful Life. #xp
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RT @SelfLoveGuide@twitter.activitypub.actor
What's your small, happy, thing?
https://twitter.com/SelfLoveGuide/status/1211059334765010944

Calvin and Hobbes, much favourited here.

*Memo to Sys Admins everywhere :*

Please configure the Max Toot Characters allowed to match your instances custom number, if you have it.

Active users enjoying the power and speed of the Pinafore client ( https://pinafore.social, free. Awesome. Try it out!).

Really a PAIN in the butt to chop my posts down at 500 chars, arghhhhhh.

Pretty please, boss? Need it....

China and Russia relations are interesting and important. A good novel by Tom Clancy talked about the possibility of Chinese expansion into scarcely occupied Siberia, and it is an interesting hypothesis, what if scenario. #strategy #geography #economics #trends #xp
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RT @TheEconomist
Russia is the first European power to fall into China’s orbit. That is a reversal—even a rejection—of history. Our story fr…
https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1210872146693632000

Population Growth trends in an easy to assimilate form. Watch the huge growths in Africa, Asia. Birth control is needed, we can't keep going like that and keep the Planet and people in good shape.

#Geography #History #Science #math #xp
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RT @easygeography@twitter.activitypub.actor
Awesome interactive graphic showing future population growth ... watch Africa population explode while the develop world remains constant #population #…
https://twitter.com/easygeography/status/1210848094520258561

Hypersonic missiles, leave defense shields in the dust. Russia on the lead.

#Science #Defense #xp
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RT @AutomaticEarth
Debt Rattle December 28 2019 | Russia's first hypersonic missile reaches 27x the speed of sound. China is testing 5x. The US? Nothing so far. Not even the claims they can defend vs Russia appear credible.

https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2019/12/debt-rattle-december-28-2019/
https://twitter.com/AutomaticEarth/status/1210878620341813249

Mom Love, similar across species. 💕🐈🐱

#cats #CatsofMastodon #MastoCats #meow #xp #Moms
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RT @TreasuryMog
Happy #Caturday
https://twitter.com/TreasuryMog/status/1210853328848064512

Bitches the Cat started this #blackcatappreciationthread on Birdsite, it's got almost 800 !! Replies, many many many lovely Blackies, little Panthers. 💕🐈🐈

#cats #mastocats #catsofmastodon #meow #xp
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RT @BitchestheCat
Send me pictures of your black cats so we can show the world how well they photograph. We’ll start with our Aunt Ellen. #blackcatappreciationthread
https://twitter.com/BitchestheCat/status/1210634237247938560

💕🐈🐱

#black #cats #love #xp #mastocats #cats #catsofmastodon #meow
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RT @aurora_f
@BitchestheCat Here’s Beetle.
https://twitter.com/aurora_f/status/1210635440455331841