Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

This project -- a mobile app that helps you understand corporate spying on you, and do something about it -- is a GREAT move by Consumer Reports.

CR, a venerable nonprofit, was slow to understand and adapt to the digital era. But with a much savvier board and leadership, and support from people like @craignewmark, the organization is making brilliant moves to help all of us.

https://www.permissionslipcr.com/

At the protests in Los Angeles tonight, there were multiple stringers with professional camera rigs acting aggressively, shoving people, getting in people's personal space, and trying to provoke fights. After the protests disbanded, at least three of these stringers were seen huddling with LAPD.

Model: Tajh Jordan (Flawless.Shade@Insta)

Photograph: Michael James Schneider

#BlackFriday #DragQueen #Portland

I have a video from tonight, with audio, of Zak Holman appearing to encourage paparazzi videographer Keith Johnson of Wow Media LLC to file what I believe amounts to a false police report. A reluctant Johnson is repeatedly asked to file a police report for an assault that did not occur, and even after Johnson says he's good and not hurt, he is being pushed and even coached on exactly what to say. Someone forgot to mute their microphone.

@RIDDLES

#notbathrooms #notwaterfountains

Wow. A genuinely impressive win in the fight against ransomware. FBI seizes Hive ransomware gang's leak site and victim decryption keys, saving $130 million in victim ransom payments.

More by @carlypage: https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/26/united-states-hive-ransomware-seized/

“People of Frenchness”

@jaredwhite

LAPD is asking citizens to "please be on the lookout" for people who hold specific political beliefs.

What does an "ANTIFA member" look like? If you think you've spotted an "ANTIFA member", or even if you're just curious about what to look for and need guidance, you can call the LAPD phone numbers listed in this bulletin and ask them for help identifying ANTIFA members.

So I've been building a 100% analog polyphonic synthesizer with an unique twist. To use only vacuum tube era technology from the 1930s.

Over 300 neon gas diodes create the sound you hear. Pretty awesome for technology from 100 years ago.

Still a work-in-progress, but I wanted to post a video of it with the innards spread out across the workbench. : }

I call it the "Neon String Machine"

#synthesizers #music #electronics #audio #synthwave

Read my lips:

An audio show that can only be played in an Apple player on an Apple device is not a podcast.

An audio show that can only be played in Spotify is not a podcast.

Repeat ad nauseam for any other proprietary audio show platforms.

A #podcast is an #RSS feed with enclosures of audio files which are playable across the whole ecosystem of podcast players.

Any reporter who reports on exclusive audio shows and calls them “podcasts” are doing a grave disservice to their audience.

Oh no, jajajaja
Must be in Puerto Rico
#mastodonp

@TruthSandwich @shuttersparks Why is it that whenever I purposely avoid using some old line that everyone knows, someone will always pop in and use it anyway?

We're heartbroken that Cellar Door Books, our local beloved store in Riverside, California, who hosts regular Drag Queen story time in Riverside, is being evicted by Canyon Crest Towne Centre, just days after hosting its first Drag Queen Story Time of 2023.

#LGBTQ #RiversidePRIDE #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #queer #dragqueen

I'm having a shit day today.
I know it has been many years, but today (26 January) always pulls me down. My mother passed away 23 years ago on this day. She was 48. Cancer took her.

This was taken a couple years before she died.