volt4ire 🌹 @volt4ire@mastodon.social

I'm so glad Daft Punk broke up before the NFT craze so I never had to have my heart broken by them creating one

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RT @matthew_d_green@twitter.com

If I’m China and I really am using Huawei to infiltrate Western networks, my incentive is to *not* blow the op during the early stages when carriers can still choose other options. That’s why I read these stories as incompetence, not malice.

“ease tensions” meaning being more amenable to American saber-rattling

RT @adam_tooze@twitter.com

For this reason, Green Party participation in German government may actually ease tensions with the Biden Administration on Russia and China. https://twitter.com/danielremler/status/1383452694354952213

lmao https://hard-drive.net/u-s-government-reaches-agreement-with-wario64-to-announce-covid-vaccine-availability/

ugh whyy?? https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22388548/edward-snowden-nft-freedom-of-the-press-stay-free

c'mon man

RT @nytimes@twitter.com

Breaking News: The Biden administration will keep its cap on refugee admissions at the low level set by the Trump White House, walking back an earlier pledge. https://nyti.ms/3eadvJw

also the reason that cryptocurrency folks are so into Austrian Economics

it's fitting that they'd choose a technology that's all about imposing artificial scarcity for means-testing welfare https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/04/13/2243237/australias-ndis-gets-a-government-app-with-blockchain-but-no-ethics

This is a great decision from @Defcon@twitter.com! https://forum.defcon.org/node/236655

RT @hacks4pancakes@twitter.com

@defcon@twitter.com @thedarktangent@twitter.com I know you’re gonna get shit for this so let me just 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 🥃🥃🥃💯🙏 “We plan to REQUIRE wearing masks and being vaccinated to participate in-person.” before you do.

the Liberal party of Canada is so, so bad

RT @pressprogress@twitter.com

A Liberal MP is sponsoring a petition calling for criticism of police to be classified as a form of hate speech.

Anti-hate groups say that using hate speech laws to shield police from public criticism is “extremely inappropriate.”

https://pressprogress.ca/liberal-mp-sponsors-petition-calling-for-criticism-of-police-to-be-classified-as-a-form-of-hate-speech/ #cdnpoli #mbpoli

Flying croissants could also explain those unexplained drone sightings at Heathrow airport a few years back https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56757956

they should call it GNGNU (for "GNGNU's not GNU")
http://gnu.tools
https://twitter.com/zacchiro/status/1382685896902852611

🎉🎈🥳 http://gnu.tools

RT @zacchiro@twitter.com

« This is a new umbrella for GNU people seeking transparent decision-making and built around consensus. It's the result of a decade of struggle to make #GNU inclusive, transparent, and community-driven. » https://mastodon.xyz/web/statuses/106069306245387186

dat browser fingerprint tho https://gizmodo.com/gaze-upon-my-browser-extensions-and-despair-1846675808

Don't say you'll host the anime porn if you haven't read the manga

RT @brfreed@twitter.com

“We are one foot away from 1984. … “I never actually read the book, so I don’t know all the themes of the book. But I have heard the concepts, and I’ve seen some things, and I thought, ‘Whoa! That’s sketchy as f---.’ ”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-04-14/qanon-daily-stormer-far-right-have-been-kept-online-by-nick-lim-s-vanwatech

This is a great photoessay of buildings in China modeled on the US' Capitol building https://supchina.com/2021/04/12/documenting-chinas-u-s-capitol-inspired-buildings/