Mastodawn

The more media mergers we see, the more copyright is doing the opposite of its intended purpose: instead of encouraging creativity, it’s discouraging it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/copyright-should-not-enable-monopoly

Copyright Should Not Enable Monopoly

There’s a crisis of creativity in mainstream American culture. We have fewer and fewer studios and record labels and fewer and fewer platforms online that serve independent artists and creators.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Spellbind0127 Dec 12

taskschd.msc Dec 12

Good to remember that fossil fuels (i.e., ethanol) and beef use loads of water. 🌽

#StopCorn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_c6MWk7PQc

Why is Everyone So Wrong About AI Water Use??

YouTube

Spellbind0127 Dec 12

Fedi.Tips Dec 12

⚠️ Scam alert: if anyone ever asks you to "temporarily change" the email address on your Mastodon account, DO NOT DO THIS.

There is currently a scammer posing as a server admin telling people to temporarily change their Mastodon account's email to an address supplied by the scammer. This is a scam, don't do it.

Real admins will NEVER ask you to do this.

You can see examples of this scam in the thread at https://ohai.social/@redsad/115708030185038699

(Thanks @markwyner for the warning about this! 🙏 )

#FediTips

captain acab :antifa: (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image is this for real? someone said they accidentally reported my account and said to contact this person now they say they want me to change my email address edit: confirmed scammer. do not respond to a text like this

ohai.social

Trump regime wants to force ALL visitors to the U.S. to install government-controlled spyware on their phones, and submit detailed personal data -- even DNA, apparently -- to the authorities.

(If they're trying to wreck tourism, including the World Cup, this is the way.)

https://papersplease.org/wp/2025/12/10/cbp-wants-all-visitors-to-install-and-use-its-smartphone-app/

CBP wants all visitors to install and use its smartphone app – Papers, Please!

Spellbind0127 Dec 12

Andrea Junker

Dec 11

The fact that far too many people cannot recognize fascism unless it looks exactly like Nazi Germany is very dangerous.

Spellbind0127 Dec 12

Qasim Rashid, Esq.Dec 12

The people who support $12B in corporate welfare to farms and forgave $80B in auto bailouts and forgave $700B in bank bailouts and forgave $755B in PPP loans want you to know that forgiving medical debt and student debt is socialism😐

Spellbind0127 Dec 12

Verdant Square Network Dec 11

ICE Tackled a US Citizen in the Snow. He Says He Was Targeted For Being Somali. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/ice-somali-minneapolis-operation-metro-surge/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon via @MotherJones

Spellbind0127 Dec 11

What the ****

https://www.businessinsider.com/billionaires-made-39-trillion-during-the-pandemic-coronavirus-vaccines-2021-1

Billionaires made $3.9 trillion during the pandemic — enough to pay for everyone's vaccine

The increase in wealth of the 10 richest billionaires could pay for everyone worldwide to get the COVID-19 vaccine, per an Oxfam report on inequality.

Business Insider

Spellbind0127 Dec 11

Why are we doing this. A year would be a maybe if their doing something that involves national security. 5 years for every day tourists is a hell no from me.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/travel/social-media-tourists-visa-border-patrol.html

U.S. Plans to Scrutinize 5 Years of Social Media History for Foreign Tourists

Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don’t need visas, would have to share five years’ worth of social media.

The New York Times