Dimestorehalo @Dimestorehalo@qoto.org

kid, please, i've got USB cables older than you

Andrew Tate, in failed attempt to respond to Greta Thunberg's burning tweet with a video, tipped off his location to Romanian authorities, by including pizza boxes in the video. He and his brother have been arrested for alleged Human trafficking.

PSA to all admins: I highly recommend a #FediBlock of #mastinator (ie. the entire mastinator.com domain).

Mastinator is a service that allows a person to anonymously follow people on the fediverse. No big deal you think? Your public posts are probably already anonymously viewable from your public profile anyways and all it is doing is aggregating public info? That is what its creator claims---it is just a convenience service!

Well no, it is mode concerning than that. It does this aggregation by following any account a mastinator user types into its service then replicating *all* your non-DM posts into a sort of "proxy inbox" in the mastinator.com domain that is completely out of your control and viewable by everyone!

In other words, if you are followed by mastinator.com it effectively turns your follower-only posts into public posts and lets people you have blocked keep following you by following the mastinator replica of your posts!

Innocent intentions or not this violates user consent.

I was just followed by @everyone. I blocked that instance immediately after seeing its goal is to swallow people’s toots and rebroadcast them, even follower-only ones. It’s block evasion, pure and simple. I recommend everyone to block that shit with haste. The developer has a very “if the protocol allows it I don’t see the problem” attitude.
More background here: https://coales.co/@msh/109595980918905804

Every once in a while, Humboldt calms down enough to be very sweet

People aren’t lazy, they are burnt out and taking healthier opportunities.

Employee retention is am EMPLOYER problem, not an EMPLOYEE problem.

The DeSantis administration was sued for failing to release official records relating to its infamous migrant flight to Martha’s Vineyard. Then it dumped the documents right before Christmas, hoping no one would notice. But we noticed. I’m doing my part to amplify this story.
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/a-top-desantis-aide-behind-the-marthas?sd=pf

Gold.

RT @luismbat@birbsite

Who would have thought that adding a Sierpinski Triangle Fractal as musical notes would actually sound good!😅

On her birthday, we remember Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols, one of the greats the world lost in 2022. 🖖

Learn more about Nichols' contributions to helping build a more diverse workforce at NASA: https://go.nasa.gov/3jsFcnr
#NASAhistory

BREAKING: A #Republican District Attorney, Anne Donnelly from Nassau County, has opened a #criminal #investigation into #GeorgeSantos—the first of many to come.

George Santos will be gone by the end of his term or well before then. He should RESIGN.

No discussion of the rules of equity that determine a stay. No discussion of the fact that the government eliminated the emergency that justified the policy eight months ago. No discussion of the fact that the stay isn't even of the thing being appealed.

All this is too much even for Justice Gorsuch, who joins the three liberals in dissent.

The Imperial Supreme Court indeed.