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CatSaladđđ„ (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:<p>This alarm clock is missing a snooze button</p>
Charlie Stross<p>Pretty much EVERY book I've ever published got stolen by Meta and is listed in this database. That's over 30 books, a 25 year career output. (Need to find a UK class action lawsuit to join, or a US one that's open to non-US residents whose work was published in the USA).<br><a href="https://retro.pizza/@digitalraven/114199906574357235" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="\_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">retro.pizza/@digitalraven/1141</span><span class="invisible">99906574357235</span></a></p>
Randahl Fink<p>After multiple instances of longer detainment of tourists by ICE, both the UK, Germany, and Denmark now warn against traveling to the US. While Germany and the UK has general warnings for all tourists, Denmark specifically warns about being transgendered and traveling to the US.</p><p>It is likely we will see a significant drop in US tourism this year.</p><p>Welcome to the Trump economy.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>My ânot a book reviewâ of Careless People â the book Facebook doesnât want you to read.</p><p>With highlights on Irelandâs complicity and the lengths people farmers (as I call them) will go to to appease authoritarian regimes like China.</p><p><a href="https://ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-people/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="\_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-peop</span><span class="invisible">le/</span></a></p><p>Itâs clear from this that Ireland should be stripped of the authority to enforce GDPR and, really, people farmers â and the business model of people farming in general â should be banned in the EU.</p><p>(Donât hold your breaths.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/carelessPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>carelessPeople</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>facebook</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/peopleFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>peopleFarming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/surveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>surveillanceCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ventureCapital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>ventureCapital</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>tax</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/GDPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>GDPR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>humanRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a></p>
Brian Bilston<p>Happy World Poetry Day to all who celebrate. If youâre interested in writing poetry yourself, I hope this poem will be of some use.</p>
Prof. Sam Lawler<p>Good morning from the first just-slightly-north-of-directly-east sunrise of the year, with a sun pillar to greater emphasize the sun's location.</p>
Bread and Circuses<p>This is dark. Itâs not an easy read. I do not recommend it for those who suffer from crippling climate anxiety, or who are prone to being depressed by learning about the abject state of todayâs politics and economics.</p><p>That said, if youâre ready for a clear-eyed look at how bad things really are now â and how bad the people who run things truly are â then I suggest reading the full linked essay.</p><p>Here are a few excerpts...<br>\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_</p><p>The rich keep getting richer. That much is clear. But whatâs often left unsaid is how theyâre doing it â not just through the usual exploitation, but by actively steering the world toward catastrophe while shielding themselves from the fallout.</p><p>Letâs cut through the noise: the ultra-wealthy are not just accumulating wealth; they are hoarding it, stockpiling fortunes at a rate so obscene it makes the concept of money itself feel ridiculous. While the rest of us get lectured on cutting back â drive less, eat less meat, recycle, make do with less â they are securing their bunkers, buying up remote islands, and building escape plans for the very collapse they are accelerating.</p><p>And make no mistake, collapse is not just some distant dystopian fantasy. We are already deep into a polycrisis â climate change, biodiversity loss, resource overshoot, economic instability, and authoritarian creep all feeding into one another like an unstoppable chain reaction. Meanwhile, banks and corporations, who could be funding solutions, are instead dragging their feet or outright obstructing progress, ensuring the system remains tilted in favor of those who already have everything.</p><p>If the worldâs biggest banks truly cared about avoiding collapse, theyâd be moving mountains right now to fund large-scale climate infrastructure. But theyâre not.</p><p>And thatâs not a mistake â itâs a choice.</p><p>They have run the numbers. They know full well that unchecked climate change will devastate the poorest and most vulnerable long before it affects the ultra-wealthy. So, from their perspective, dragging their feet isnât just about short-term profits â itâs about preserving a system that ensures their continued dominance, even as the world burns.</p><p>Meanwhile, the rest of us are left watching as climate disasters pile up â floods swallowing cities, heatwaves killing thousands, wildfires turning landscapes to ash â while the financial elite sit back and continue cashing in.</p><p>At this point, itâs not just negligence. Itâs premeditated collapse.<br> . . . </p><p>If youâve made it this far, you already know the truth: this isnât capitalism failing. Itâs capitalism succeeding exactly as intended.</p><p>The rich are not scrambling to prevent collapse. They welcome it â because they know theyâll be the only ones left standing. While the rest of us are told to âsacrificeâ and âtighten our belts,â billionaires are building bunkers, buying private islands, and hoarding resources for the dystopia they see coming.</p><p>And why shouldnât they? They built this system to ensure that, when it all falls apart, theyâd be untouchable.</p><p>Because their goal is not to fix the system. Their goal is to extract as much as possible, as fast as possible, before everything comes crashing down.<br>\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_</p><p>FULL ESSAY -- <a href="https://archive.ph/Z9XYn" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="\_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/Z9XYn</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>ALTERNATE LINK -- <a href="https://medium.com/edge-of-collapse/the-rich-are-hoarding-wealth-because-they-know-whats-coming-c84afcb2e6c1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="\_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/edge-of-collapse/th</span><span class="invisible">e-rich-are-hoarding-wealth-because-they-know-whats-coming-c84afcb2e6c1</span></a></p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>Economics</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a></p>
abadidea<p>Odin basking in sunset glow last night. <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/dogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dogs</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/dogsofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dogsofmastodon</span></a></p>
Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr<p>Listen, you can draw your own parallels here:</p>
amos is writin a postmortem đ<p>i'm in hell</p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", is arrested at a German checkpoint in Haarlem. </p><p>She is later executed, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after the first attempt to shoot her missed.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>WomensHistoryMonth</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DutchHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>DutchHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="\_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
Filippo Valsorda :go:<p>Itâs disheartening to see AI reactionism lead my community to a 180° on copyright.</p><p>Everyone is merrily attacking LibGen now. If it didnât exist, big tech companies would still find training data, it just wouldnât be accessible to regular people.</p>
Kevin Beaumont<p>The fire that has grounded flights at Heathrow Airport, probably for days, wasnât at the airport but at a power substation miles away in a residential area with no 24/7 security or real perimeter.</p>
bert hubert đșđŠđȘđșđșđŠ<p>As Heathrow airport is knocked out of service for 24 hours by a single fire, now is a good time to ponder how resilient our (cyber) infrastructure is. And if it is ready for war(like) conditions. Spoiler: no. <a href="https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cyber-security-pre-war-reality-check/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="\_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">berthub.eu/articles/posts/cybe</span><span class="invisible">r-security-pre-war-reality-check/</span></a></p>
JA Westenberg<p>A system that rewards companies for enabling authoritarianism will inevitably and consistently produce authoritarianism.</p><p>Thatâs not a political opinion â itâs a design specification.<br><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-do-corporations-love-authoritarianism/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="\_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">joanwestenberg.com/why-do-corp</span><span class="invisible">orations-love-authoritarianism/</span></a></p>
Andrew Stroehlein<p>Empathy is the foundation of civilization.</p>
Natasha Jay đȘđș<p>Because today you want to see an octopus riding a shark đđŠ</p><p>đ„: University of Auckland, NZ</p>
David Ho<p>Itâs probably not a good sign when your closest ally issues a travel warning against you.</p><p><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/britain-issues-travel-warning-us-deportations-2047878" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="\_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newsweek.com/britain-issues-tr</span><span class="invisible">avel-warning-us-deportations-2047878</span></a></p>
heyokyay<p>Endless weekend</p>
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