Mastodawn

A few days after the fact, I've finally found something I want to say about the killing of Charlie Kirk: I'm concerned that someone was apparently willing to carry out a political assassination in general, but I'm thrilled that the world no longer suffers from Charlie's presence. Both can be true at the same time.

Charlie was a professional extremism launderer; specifically, his job was to maintain the public perception of an open and vigorous debate of topics that should not be debated. Like the personhood, and worthiness of rights, of categories of people. Regardless of his killer's specific motivations, the bigotry that Charlie made a career out of spreading is the most effective driver of political violence ever invented.

#assassination #bigotry #charlieKirk #charlieKirkShooting #extremism #freeSpeech #hateSpeech #humanRights #politicalViolence #politics #propaganda #rights #USPol

Adam Beer Sep 13

David Roberts Sep 11

If there's one thing I wish I could get every earnest liberal to understand, it's that, from the point of view of an authoritarian psychology, efforts to persuade, to "reach out" & "find common ground," are *viewed as evidence of weakness*.

Adam Beer Sep 13

Sim Sep 11

omg the top posts of /r/music

Adam Beer Sep 12

Blogfeedser Sep 11

About #CharlieKirk with #alttext added.

Adam Beer Sep 9

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Sep 9

Tonight, the Israeli military carried out a drone strike targeting a civilian vessel hundreds of miles away, solely on account of the passengers' intention to symbolically challenge the blockade that Israel is using to starve Gazans to death.

Although the Tunisian National Guard initially denied that a drone strike occurred, the Global Sumud Flotilla posted both video footage and eyewitness testimony that appears to confirm that the boat was, indeed, struck by a drone. It seems most likely that, once again, the denial of the Tunisian National Guard simply indicates the complicity of international institutions in the perpetration of genocide in Gaza.

The Israeli military has attacked every single flotilla protesting the blockade around Gaza since 2010.

The violence of the Israeli state is systematic, indiscriminate, continuous, and targets anyone who could interfere with their program of ethnic cleansing. Backed by Christian Zionists, they perpetrate this violence right up to the limit of what they can get away with. In addition to the tens of thousands they have murdered and the millions they have displaced, rendered homeless, tortured, terrorized, and imprisoned, this also makes life more dangerous for Jewish people everywhere.

There is no excuse for Zionism.

http://crimethinc.com/Gaza2024

Adam Beer Sep 6

Alex Russell Sep 5

Strongly agree with a good 3/4 of this by @pluralistic:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/03/unpunishing-process/

The best outcome would have been for Chrome and Android to have been spun out into non-profits, endowed with the cash Google has been paying Apple to avoid any more competition across apps/search/web.

It has not helped matters that neither DOJ, nor most civil society orgs (save @owa), could see through private-equity-adjacent logic to understand the public interest in these software projects. Own goals all around.

Pluralistic: The worst possible antitrust outcome (03 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Adam Beer Aug 18

Mark Connolly 🍻 🚴🏼‍♀️ (he, him, his)Jul 30

Huge news in Ontario today! This will benefit people who cycle, but it will also benefit people who drive cars — though some of them might not know it yet.

"Justice Paul Schabas concluded Wednesday that the bike lane removals will not reduce congestion. In his written decision, Schabas highlighted expert evidence ‘which establishes that bicycle lanes, and in particular separated or protected bicycle lanes, reduce motor vehicle traffic congestion by providing an alternative method of transportation that is safer for all users of the roads.’”

#Cycling #BikeTooter #ONpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-ford-bike-lane-toronto-court-ruling-1.7597460

Ontario court strikes down Ford government's plan to remove Toronto bike lanes | CBC News

An Ontario court has deemed the province's plan to remove three major Toronto bike lanes unconstitutional. In response, the premier told CBC News: "I believe, and the people of Ontario believe, that they elect parties to make decisions — they don't elect judges."

CBC

Adam Beer Aug 18

The Air Canada strike situation is an unmitigated disgrace.

First of all, getting no pay for mandatory work while the plane is on the ground is fucking insane, and it apparently being industry standard practice (which I had no idea of before today) makes it so much worse. Unions explicitly agreeing to it in the past doesn't make that any less true; I dearly hope those unions had damn good reasons at the time, because any union worth its salt would know that this is textbook wage theft, and sends the message that this type of labour is not valuable. A message that is, of course, a lie, because if it wasn't valuable it wouldn't be mandatory!

The other prong of this hellscape is that forcing people back to work should never be allowed, in any industry, in any context. Causing economic damage is precisely the purpose of strikes; that's what motivates the company to give the workers what they want. If the company is so big and central to the economy that a strike will significantly damage the entire economy, then that's not a reason to force people back to work; it's a reason to break up the company!

#airCanada #airCanadaStrike #airlines #antiTrust #business #canada #canPol #canPoli #CUPE #strike #union #unions #workers #workersRights

Adam Beer Aug 13

Accrescent Aug 4

Accrescent depends completely on donations to run. Today we share a significant update in our new blog post on the future of Accrescent: https://blog.accrescent.app/posts/the-future-of-accrescent/.

New releases of Accrescent and our developer console are also out, with Android 16 updates and Material 3 changes. Check them out!

https://github.com/accrescent/accrescent/releases/tag/0.26.0
https://github.com/accrescent/parcelo/releases/tag/0.12.0
https://github.com/accrescent/console/releases/tag/0.12.0

#security #privacy #accrescent #android #appstre

The Future of Accrescent

Accrescent is a novel Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability. We’ve been building Accrescent since 2021 to improve the security and freedom of everyday Android users by providing an alternative to Google Play which doesn’t compromise on technical excellence and protecting our users. Aligned with this mission, over 42,000 people worldwide trust Accrescent to deliver their apps safely. Now, we need your help to continue. Accrescent has always been free to use because we believe security shouldn’t have to come at a price. We also understand we’re trusted by our users to secure a sensitive and significant portion of their lives — the apps they use — so we’ve built Accrescent transparently, making our code open source so others can run and inspect it as they please.

Accrescent Blog

Adam Beer Aug 3

I was unfortunate enough to find myself in a church this morning. I saw this and immediately imagined some moron seeing it and going, "Le gasp! D.E.I. has infected the churches now! 🙀"

🤣

#atheism #blasphemy #cultureWar #DEI #reactionary #sacrilegeSunday

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