#FreeSchool ⬅️ (see hashtag) @freeschool@qoto.org

"Asking enslaved people if they actually want to work the plantations for free would kill the cotton industry."

-- Nick Clegg

#AI #AIcon #exploitation #BigTech

It's probably time to post this useful, controversial prism again. The Media Bias Chart
by https://adfontesmedia.com/

Moore's Law: Chips double in power every 2 years

Wirth's Law: Software slows down faster than hardware speeds up

My Law: Every Electron app uses 8GB of RAM to display text that would fit in a .txt file

We are losing.

Have we tried calling it “Silly Con Valley”?

❤️ ❤️ - Mehdi Hasan: „The great irony is of course that Donald Trump is the son of an immigrant. The grandson of an immigrant and married to an immigrant. In fact two of his three wives were immigrants, proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs that even Americans are not willing to do.“

☑️ ☑️ ☑️

#NoKingsDay #NoKingsProtests

BREAKING: Trump humiliated as official numbers are in — 7 million people joined the No Kings rallies, making it the largest single-day protest in U.S. history. 🇺🇸💪

Meta's insane profit margin

(by @SankeyArt)

The FREE DEF CON 33 Original Soundtrack is live! 33 Tunes from amazing producers. It is free to download, but if you'd like to donate, 100% of revenue goes to support the Electronic Frontier Foundation. https://www.eff.org/
https://defconcommunications.bandcamp.com/album/def-con-33-the-official-soundtrack
#DEFCON #DEFCON33 #EFF

Librarians, help us celebrate 1 trillion web pages preserved by the @internetarchive! 🌐
Use our resource guide, complete with templates, visuals & event ideas, to connect your community to the web’s history.
More ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/2025/10/07/calling-all-libraries-celebrate-1-trillion-web-pages-archived-with-the-internet-archive/

#Wayback1T #libraries #librarians

@Nonilex The US Congress has been too chickenshit to declare a war since WWII because it turns out they'd actually be responsible for it that way.

Letting the president do WTF-ever is way more popular because they can simultaneously pretend to have been for and against it with no vote on the record.

They don't care enough to stop Trump from killing Americans, of course they don't care to save anybody else.

Were you kind to someone for no personal benefit to yourself?

1) That helps.
2) That won't be enough.

This isn't a minmax problem. There is no best way to defeat fascism. There is no one thing that will do the trick.

We need tens of thousands, we need *millions* of acts of resistance. And every single one of them will help, and every single one of them will be insufficient.

Nobody can carry a stone big enough to outweigh the power and hatred of fascism.

But the scale doesn't care whether it's one stone, or a hundred, or a thousand, or a million.

Bring your pebble.

this is not a particularly new or original take but #rupertmurdoch is probably one of the top 5 human beings who is singularly most #responsible for the #fact that the #world is such a shithole today

>>>> Why encryption matters. A list of selected resources

On 21 October 2025, we celebrated the fifth #GlobalEncryptionDay. As part of the Global Encryption Coalition, APC is highlighting how #encryption is essential for keeping people, and especially marginalised communities, safe in uncertain times.

https://www.apc.org/en/news/encryption-day-2025-why-encryption-matters-uncertain-times-and-selected-resources-learn-more