Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Our lawmakers should follow the lead of our neighbors in Illinois who are protecting free speech. Politicians have no right taking away the freedom of students to read just because they personally disagree with a book & want to further a political agenda. https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/education/illinois-bans-book-bans-as-indiana-opens-door-to-more-library-materials-challenges/article_8a016198-095e-11ee-a793-67ee41749054.html #HoosierMast #Indiana #ACLUIN

US Internal Refugee Crisis: 130-260k Trans People Have Already Fled

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/us-internal-refugee-crisis-130-260k

"8% of all transgender people have already moved ... as a result of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. An additional 43% of ... are likewise considering moving."

Okay, Mastodon friends, I rarely ask for amplification about my day job, but I personally pushed for my employer to make a big investment in enabling the fediverse, and I'd love for everyone to show that the support is appreciated. On June 28, you can join us for a (FREE!) hands-on conversation about how the Fastly team worked to support @Mastodon while the service was under a *massive* DDOS attack. Everyone who cares about scaling the fediverse should join: https://learn.fastly.com/security-mitigating-ddos-and-traffic-surges-with-mastodon @devs

The US Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has decided that internet-facing management interfaces can’t be secured properly, and has told US government agencies to disable them. They have 14 days to comply. #CyberSecurity

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/cisa-bans-remote-management-of-network-devices-596865

Got all the HAL games out of storage to take an updated family picture! 😍 #MSX

On This Day, June 14: Grenfell Tower fire kills 72 in London https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2023/06/14/On-This-Day-Grenfell-Tower-fire-kills-72-in-London/4211686700349/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

In light of the recent #redditblackout , it seems appropriate to repost the fantastic @catvalente essay:

Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media

I’m so tired of just harmlessly getting together with other weird geeks and going to what amounts to a digital pub after work and waking up one day to find every pint poisoned. Over and over again. Like the poison wants us specifically. Like it knows we will always make its favorite food: vulnerability, connection, difference. I’m so tired of lunch photos and fanfic and stupid jokes and keeping in touch with family across time zones and making friends and starting cottage industries and pursuing hobbies and meeting soulmates and expressing thoughts and creating identities and loving TV shows and reading books and getting to know a few of your heroes and raising kids and making bookshelves and knitting and painting and fixing sinks and first dates and homemade jam and, yes, figuring out what Buffy characters we are, listening and learning and hoping and just fucking talking to each other weaponized against us. Having our enthusiasm over the smallest joys of everyday life invaded by people who long ago forgot their value and turned into fodder for the death of thought, the burial of love.

These were our spaces, little people who just wanted to connect. And one by one, they get turned into battlefields where we have to fight just as hard to exist as we do in the real world. And every time a few more people you never thought the Absorbaloff of hatred and gleeful sadism would slurp up don’t come along to the next safe place, and start trying to take it away before anyone can get there.

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start