George Takei :verified: 🏳️🌈🖖🏽<p>This is horrifyingly correct.</p>
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JA Westenberg<p>Billionaires don't 'create jobs' - consumer demand creates jobs. Billionaires just hoard the profits those jobs generate.</p>
War and Peas 🧿
Gernot Wagner<p>define "greenwashing"</p>
Tuta<p>🚨Best News of the Year: We've stopped a backdoor law in France</p><p>Encryption backdoors must never be allowed. We at Tuta will continue to fight against mass surveillance! ✊ </p><p>👉 <a href="https://tuta.com/blog/why-a-backdoor-is-a-security-risk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tuta.com/blog/why-a-backdoor-i</span><span class="invisible">s-a-security-risk</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>encryption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/backdoors" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>backdoors</span></a></p>
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Charlie Stross<p>Bear in mind that while the Nazis built concentration camps everywhere they could (including the bits of the UK they'd occupied—the Channel Islands), the death camps were very specifically located *outside* Germany.</p><p>This pattern will be repeated. The worst atrocities will be conducted out of sight and out of cellphone coverage.<br><a href="https://toot.wales/@Greenseer/114250281388903757" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">toot.wales/@Greenseer/11425028</span><span class="invisible">1388903757</span></a></p>
Star Trek Minus Context<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StarTrek</span></a></p>
Erik Wesselius<p>According to an eyewitness who tried to intervene, a family walking their kids home from school in New York was snatched and abducted by ICE and NYPD officers in broad daylight last Friday.<br /><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/immigcoalition.bsky.social/post/3llig3me4is2m" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/immigcoalitio</span><span class="invisible">n.bsky.social/post/3llig3me4is2m</span></a></p>
nixCraft 🐧<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linux</span></a> vs. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Windows</span></a> background disk I/O: Is this true?</p>
Steve Herman<p>Shortwave listeners noting China already taking over some frequencies used by VOA and RFA as USAGM has silenced its own transmitters. Especially critical with thousands of casualties in the Myanmar M7.7 quake where survivors would normally be receiving vital info from our Burmese language services.</p>
Low Quality Facts<p>The new administration has vowed to reduce wasteful government spending, so I made this guide to help people understand how that works.</p>
flexghost.<p>“If the punishment for breaking a law is a fine, then that law only applies to the poor."</p><p>Prosecute Elon</p>
Chris Oldwood<p>Thought I’d spend the morning getting a feel for what it’s like working with an AI generated codebase.</p>
Alexander Karn<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/April5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>April5</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HandsOff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HandsOff</span></a> protest will not topple the regime. But it is a necessary step for keeping truth and democracy alive. Here’s what we can accomplish:</p><p>1. Cultivate active, engaged citizenship.</p><p>2. Build and foster broad solidarity.</p><p>3. Incentivize political leadership.</p><p>4. Take control of the narrative.</p><p>5. Signal to non-Americans that we are not done yet.</p><p>5. Take the temperature of police and security forces.</p><p>6. Enact a culture of non-violence.</p><p>Check your area. </p><p><a href="https://handsoff2025.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">handsoff2025.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
mcSlibinas<p>There's a meme and there's a meme with dates. Numbers give a power.</p><p>Steal and share, keep meme alive :batman:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>meme</span></a></p>
MEActNOW<p>Are we even an independent country anymore!? Feels like an arm of Russia 🇷🇺 now 🤢🤮</p><p>The guy paid $400,000/month by Russia to push Kremlin propaganda now has White House access.</p><p>America is gone.</p><p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tim-pool-was-paid-by-russia-but-will-joins-white-house-press-pool/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thedailybeast.com/tim-pool-was</span><span class="invisible">-paid-by-russia-but-will-joins-white-house-press-pool/</span></a>?</p>
Chad McCullough
David Ho<p>This is cool. The Guardian recreated a searchable climate future risk tool (wildfire, extreme heat, drought, hurricane, and coastal flood) for the US that was developed by FEMA but deleted by the Trump administration’s ‘climate’ purge.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/mar/26/extreme-weather-risk-tool-fema-trump" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/ng</span><span class="invisible">-interactive/2025/mar/26/extreme-weather-risk-tool-fema-trump</span></a></p>
Eric supports DEI!<p>Kitty tails <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CatsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CatsOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SilentSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SilentSunday</span></a></p>
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