This newbie who just celebrated 100 days of #selfhosting was able to install #Apache and #Varnish on her #Ubuntu VPS (to prevent the "Mastodon Hug of Death" for link preview cards on her self-hosted Ghost blog). She's very proud of herself for all the sudo commands she successfully ran today. And she's weirded out talking about herself in the third person, so: I did it YAY.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this Linux / self-hosting journey I'm on. Thank you for all your support & encouragement 
Blocking Garland’s nomination
Allowing Garland to become a feckless AG
Acquitting Trump twice
Stacking the court 6–3
Abusing the filibuster
Sabotaging election security
Fueling division and dysfunction
Mitch McConnell didn’t just enable Trump—he architected the road to American fascism.
Burn in hell, Mitch.
My wife didn't have time to prep her coffee before a Zoom meeting this morning, so I took 15 minutes to put on a whole ass tuxedo (with hand-tied bowtie) and deliver it to her butler style.
It's no coincidence that alt-right people have taken up AI generated artwork so intensely. It allows bypassing all the ethics and care of typically left-leaning artists. To show the ability to wield aesthetics without the social values tied to those aesthetics is a power move.
This is well covered in "AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism" https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/
Saying the quiet part out loud: billionaires don't want the little people around, they want us to quietly go away and stop existing on their dime (because obviously all the dimes belong to the deserving poor, er, billionaires).
This is eliminationist rhetoric, aimed at you (and me).
Oh does the White House love to play down and forget all about Signal Gate!
We don't.
Let's keep reminding everyone how incapable the White House is in about anything
Discussing military operations via a 3rd party channel is incredible wrong and stupid, nothing less
Fire their asses
Yikes: DOGE deploying AI to hastily port SSA’s COBOL to Java. https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/
"'I was born in Chicago, Illinois, and am a United States citizen,' Noriega said in his statement, adding that on Jan. 31, after buying pizza in Berwyn he was surrounded by ICE agents and arrested. Officers took away his wallet, which had his ID and Social Security card. 'They then handcuffed me and pushed me into a white van where other people were handcuffed as well.'"
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/03/14/us-citizen-arrested-berwyn-ice-chicago-attorneys
It's Friday. Don't forget to vibe push to PROD on your way out!
Red-fruited Pixie Cup lichen (Cladonia pleurota) and moss at eye level in a landscape of lichens and mosses
Yesterday, Trump targeted another major private law firm for retribution. Wilmer Hale has joined the ranks of firms fighting back, filing a lawsuit. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278933/gov.uscourts.dcd.278933.1.0_4.pdf 1/ #LawFedi
Measurement unit differences between the U.S.A. and most of the world.
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