Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

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

A 2017 study identified Craigslist as a protective factor against homicide: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Craigslist-Reduced-Violence-Against-Women-%E2%88%97-Cunningham-DeAngelo/36229421fc4f63c7aa0e298e8f710510d8710b02

“Using the geographically-staggered rollout of ERS, we estimate that ERS reduced the female homicide rate by 10-17 percent, with the reduction driven by street prostitution moving indoors and by helping sex workers to screen out the most dangerous clients.”

This whole situation is heartbreaking but also inspiring. In case it wasn’t on your radar, an Oakland abolitionist community organizer and baker died from injuries she sustained during a theft incident that turned violent.

Even in their grief her family are unwavering in their commitment and belief in the possibility of restorative justice and are asking that state violence not be used in the pursuit of her case.

https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/jenangel

61
Cherries
bloomed along
the still river

when our heads
were broken
for speaking

for peace.


Risa remembers that the cherry trees on the Potomac were in glorious bloom when she, and a million others, went to Washington to protest the Vietnam war. She felt the trees were sympathetic, raining down petals as tears. 209/

It should be YOUR choice as a website as to whether or not you want generative AI being trained on your data! - How to Block ChatGPT From Using Your Website Content - https://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-block-chatgpt-from-using-your-website-content/478384/#close

Pfizer made a record $100 billion in 2022, almost $57 billion of which was from its #COVID-19 vaccine and Paxlovid.

Yet they still want to charge people $130 per dose, and refuse to share vaccines and treatments with the world.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/31/the-covid-pandemic-drives-pfizers-2022-revenue-to-a-record-100-billion.html

#VaccineEquity

You guys. Please click over and read this thread about a train wreck that caused massive chemical spill in East Ohio.

https://twitter.com/moreperfectus/status/1623854130375847936?s=46&t=2KuXBM0XPVc-xxnCF_3PxQ

Ohio abortion law meant weeks of ‘anguish,’ ‘agony’ for couple whose unborn child had organs outside her body - https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/08/health/ohio-abortion-long/index.html

BREAKING: Putin plans to destroy nation of Moldova.

Ukraine intercepted the Russian plans and handed them over to their western neighbor Moldova.

Putin's plan for 2023 is clearly to expand his war of aggression, surrounding Ukraine on another front.

Moldova must be defended.

@lauren
Starlink could not exist without the US government. The US funded most of the research upon which Starlink's depends, it is a primary customer, it sponsors Starlink's use of space in international regulatory forums, etc. While Starlink is technically a private company, it is very much a product of our government.

From those to whom much is given, much is expected.

It is reasonable to demand that Starlink not oppose US government goals and policies.

🚨 IMPORTANT 🚨

Be aware: mastodon.lol is shutting down.

If you're on that instance, migrate your account RIGHT NOW!

NEW: Elon Musk fired a top engineer over his declining view counts.

Plus the reason the site went down yesterday, fears about an upcoming FTC audit, and more, and more.

https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer

From @zoeschiffer and me.

Reddit has been hacked.

Attackers gained access to:

* internal documents
* code
* some internal business systems.

Reddit believes, at the moment, that users' passwords and accounts are safe.

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/10y427y/we_had_a_security_incident_heres_what_we_know/

The anti-vax movement is in large part a pandemic of statistics illiteracy.

There is no middle ground when it comes to Russia's continuing atrocities against Ukraine. By cutting off a Starlink capability that Ukraine was already depending upon, Musk is acting against the interests of the United States which is actively supporting Ukraine financially and militarily. This has the effect of directly supporting our adversary Russia and Putin. The United States should move with all possible speed to legally end, suspend, and/or not renew any and all business relationships with Musk and any of his companies, as quickly as practicable.

are those my only two choices?

Missouri votes against banning children from carrying guns in public - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/09/missouri-rejects-ban-children-carrying-guns-in-public and yet #murica wonders why it has vastly more gun deaths (and gun suicides) than anywhere else on the planet...

Missed hearing about the Twitter outage because I was on @ethanz’s podcast answering questions about why I moved to Mastodon 😹

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64577731.amp

Senior Twitter employees admit under oath that Twitter made exceptions to its racism policies to accomodate racist tweets by Trump, even going so far as to change their polices to avoid having to enforce them on Trump's tweets.