+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@qoto.org

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"In 2006, a retired AT&T engineer knocked on the door of the EFF's office in a rundown part of San Francisco's Mission district and asked, "Do you folks care about privacy?" With him he carried schematics exposing the largest US government domestic spying operation since Watergate.

That person was Mark Klein, who died on March 8 this year from cancer. He was 79.

After a life working in telecoms, Klein realized he had helped the NSA wire up a listening station in AT&T's San Francisco switching facility - the infamous Room 641A - that was being used to illegally spy on Americans.

The evidence he gathered and shared led to two lawsuits that exposed the extent to which US citizens were being spied on by their own government in the post-9/11 world. Klein faced legal pressure, death threats, and the constant fear of ruin, to get his story out and tell the public what was going on. But Klein regretted nothing."

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/15/rip_mark_klein/

#USA #NSA #Surveillance #ATT #MassSurveillance #PoliceState #Privacy

Took Luna to a dog park on a lake

@hfaust @kakafarm the typical claim is that older movies are formulaic but can you really say that tons of modern movies aren't? they are both formulaic and fail the formula lol, like everything about these cash grab movies should be by the numbers but they're still not great even if people still go to see them since there's nothing better to do.

you know what an exception appears to be? the sonic the hedgehog movies.

Xander at my neighbors house. We left the gate open and he went over to visit. #dogsofmastodon

@Doll

Here's the really long story about FSE and the FBI and Torswats: https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/fse-vs-fbi.html . It has a lot of weird information.

Also a response to some speculation by GotoSocial about FediList: https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/about-fedilist.html . This is probably of less interest in general: it is mostly addressing questions the people there had about it.

There, that's almost all of the writing I'd been meaning to do, I'm done writing for the foreseeable future.

https://news.sky.com/story/idf-admits-mistakenly-identifying-gaza-aid-workers-as-threat-after-video-of-attack-showed-ambulance...

Mount Everest is the world's highest located garbage dump and graveyard

#Everest

@phnt @dcc @Bad_Banner

> Block my site in the UK for all I care.

For FSE, they'd also have to block ssh, gopher, finger, and https://r4mptqlnfifktmufdx2ru5tas7uqboy4absuxog6apqwh24elpnqsmqd.onion/ .

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Assal Rad
@AssalRad
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Israel’s war crime checklist:

1. We didn’t do it
2. Okay, we did it but they were Hamas
3. Okay, not Hamas but they were suspicious
4. Okay, they were clearly civilians but it was an accident, we’ll investigate
5. Our investigation found no wrongdoing

https://xcancel.com/AssalRad/status/1908598485462770070#m

european political system is also easy, you vote and then the EU commission governs

"Toxic masculinity, toxic masculinity, toxic masculinity, toxic masculinity, toxic masculinity, toxic masculinity, toxic masculinity, toxic masculinity, toxic masculinity, toxic masculinity, toxic masculinity,

"White privilege", "white privilege", "white privilege", "white privilege", "white privilege", "white privilege", "white privilege", "white privilege".

Hey, why are you modern boys so wimpy?
Why don't you just man up?"

Bill McClintock hat wieder ein wundervolles Meisterwerk abgeliefert. Oh wow. :') 🎶 :blobcathearthug:

Echt, ich hab nasse Augen und Gänsehaut.

#Mashup #McClintock #Nirvana #ComeAsYouAre #YearOfTheCat #AlStewart

https://youtu.be/3w3LLvA5Ttk