@ShadSterling

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Capitalism is a denial-of-service attack on human potential
just gonna go ahead and point out that the window of time when Artemis’ comms will be blocked by the moon later today will be approximately the length of the album “Dark Side of the Moon” by Pink Floyd, sooooooo, yeah
@beccadax Yeah, we live in a two-tier world, where flight software and other mission-critical components show that we know how to make systems reliable, but for the great majority of human-facing software we just...don't.

Trans folks who have flown recently or soon:

I'm creating a list of experiences of trans travelers with airport security, because there is a lot of scary stuff out there, and it's hard for people to know what the "ground truth" is. Please add your experiences when you go through security!

PLEASE boost & share!

The form is here to provide anonymous airport security experiences: https://forms.gle/Ui2jq8u8qEGEfCMw6

You can see the responses as I approve them (can take days) here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12IHWmQgBww2rW7Smi-wQxYTpE0FacE2A7KRvJzL1x4M/edit?usp=sharing

Trans+ Airport Security Experience Form

Please provide your experience as a trans person traveling through airport security. If you went through airport security at multiple locations along your journey, please submit additional forms for each security checkpoint you went through (for instance, if you flew from Dallas, connected in Toronto but had to also go through security there, and continued onto a third destination, you would complete one of these for Dallas and one for Toronto).

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President Trump celebrated Easter and horrified all decent people by threatening to commit war crimes against Iran, and his praise of Allah in the same statement gave a tremendous gift to the tiny number of people who bet against extremely long odds that he would praise Allah on Easter. Today also happens to be the anniversary of the Hands Off protest (which in hindsight seems like the first, or maybe zeroth, of the No Kings protests), which somehow seems appropriate.
Telling the kids this is the real Easter story

I cannot tell you what to do, watching the US president and his horrific regime trying to plunge the world into flame and darkness. I can’t tell you because I have no idea either.

All I can tell you is this:

You have to know, with total and completely clarity, that nobody is coming to save us.

And knowing that, you will feel lost — but strangely clear.

And suddenly the work will be on you.

And you will do it, because that is •just what you do•, because you •know• that nobody else is coming.

And you will still have no idea what to do, even as you are already doing it.

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The ideal "countercomputing" (coined by way of "counterculture") device would be something that could be built with basic soldering and mechanical skills you can learn in a weekend, out of parts that are readily available, and which can provide the essential services of a computer outside the more modern "always networked all the time" systems.
“If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. …” - Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), ranking member, Europe & Regional Security Cooperation Subcommittee
I think it’s worth asking again — and seriously — what exactly do we have a 25th Amendment for if not for this?