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If Germans own #Hitler - and we obviously do - then Americans definitely own #Trump .

Saying: "I didn't vote for him!" Is no longer enough. Now the question is: "Do you comply, or do you resist?"

The Germans who grew up after WWII also asked these questions to the generations of their parents and grandparents... and the latter often failed to have good answers.

Thanks to the magic of the Streisand effect, I just heard about - a book by former Meta employee Sarah Wynn-Williams.

Apparently the company is FREAKING OUT and seeking legal ways to stop its promotion. I can see why. This article about it in the Times made my jaw drop: nytimes.com/2025/03/10/books/r

I will definitely order it at my local bookshop.

🔗: bookshop.org/p/books/careless-

Facebook’s C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg rings the Nasdaq’s opening bell from Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on May 18, 2012, the day of the company’s initial public offering, while Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s C.O.O., looks on.
The New York Times · Book Review: ‘Careless People,’ by Sarah Wynn-WilliamsBy Jennifer Szalai

A web browser should *NEVER* be able to look inside your clipboard without an explicit user action (such as ctrl-v). Honestly, this should not be a controversial statement. Microsoft Edge is one of the browsers that ships this dangerous capability. Here is the dialog you need to hunt for to turn this API off.

Tell a friend to save a life:

❌ name.lowercased().contains(searchText.lowercased())
✅ name.localizedStandardContains(searchText)

The latter ignores case, but also ignores diacritics (cafe vs café), handles localized variants (ẞ → ss, etc), and is supported in SwiftData.

It hurts me to say this, as an , but people need to avoid the for 2 years, at least, 2027, when the can get a majority in and stonewall

If that doesn't happen (which would be a serious tragedy), then 4 years. And if we get a / Trump president in 2029, write off this country for a generation at least

"A Thru-Hiker Has Been Detained, Deported, and Banned From the Without a Hearing: Here’s What You Need To Know"

thetrek.co/a-german-thru-hiker

The Trek · German Thru-Hiker Detained, Deported, and Banned From US - The TrekAn experienced thru-hiker traveling to the US to hike the AZT last month says she was treated inhumanely and deported without justification.