Just a guy up in the PNW. I came to Mastodon in 2018 wondering if I would find myself more inclined to socialize than I did on the birdsite but I didn't end up establishing an active presence then. I still post infrequently, I am mainly inclined to lurk and listen. But hello.
#SecondLife resident, #CriticalRole fan, other nerdy things
Reddit seems to have deleted a post with 7400 upvotes and the title:
"I traced $2B in grants and 45 states' lobbying behind age‑verification bills"
.... US Corpos do not want us to see this but luckily we still have this github repo.
Here the relevant reddit post that was removed:
And here the github repo
https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
Ageless Linux: Software for humans of indeterminate age. We don't know how old you are. We don't want to know. We are legally required to ask. We won't.
Not shocking if you've listened to Karp speak for more than 5 minutes.
Absolute real-life movie villains.
The New Republic: Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power
What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.
Georgia House passes bill to let pharmacists dispense birth control without prescriptions. Yes, the Georgia in the U.S
Also, this is what eventually happens if you keep voting conservatives into power.
Conservatives become fascist, liberals appease them, and only leftists oppose. The US does not have a healthy left, so there were no brakes on the train when the country started going fascist.
“we estimate that a million satellites could mean that a teragram (one billion kgs) of alumina accumulates in the upper atmosphere – enough, alongside launch emissions, to significantly alter atmospheric chemistry and heating in dramatic ways we do not yet understand.
There is no public mandate for a single company in one country to make changes on that scale to the planet’s atmosphere.”
https://theconversation.com/a-new-space-race-could-turn-our-atmosphere-into-a-crematorium-for-satellites-276366
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