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Husband, cat daddy, union man, neurodivergent, author of *This Used to Be the Future* and the three *Penny Rants* books.

"Unlike any tech conference I've attended in the last few years, the top issue at the 2025 OpenInfra Summit Europe at the École Polytechnique Paris was not AI. Shocking, I know."

Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam - https://www.zdnet.com/article/europes-plan-to-ditch-us-tech-giants-is-built-on-open-source-and-its-gaining-steam/

Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam

One topic dominated the recent 2025 OpenInfra Summit Europe, and it wasn't AI.

ZDNET
I like following people who oppose NHS privatisation. If that’s you, could you pls share this post and follow me, and I’ll follow you back? Trying to find ‘my people’ 🤣💙

Pam Bondi deleted a government study showing that right-wingers commit more terrorism. The right cannot think coherently so instead of making their own studies, they censor legitimate ones.

But don't worry Pam, we saved it for you! https://web.archive.org/web/20250911165140/https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/306123.pdf

Wayback Machine

I do not know another way to express to people that trying to appease fascists by “being a good minority” or totally deferring to them publicly has saved absolutely no marginalized group or profession in human history. They are coming after us anyway. Even if you scold peers for not being nice.
@cwebber This has been my experience as well. The future really sucks sometimes.

My Antifa team leader is pissed.

Having the organisation reclassified has placed us under a totally new compliance framework and making the process changes is going to throw out all our KPIs for Q4. Nobody's getting a bonus in this performance review cycle. What total bullshit.

Unequal enforcement of Meta’s content policies and the time people spend in “content jail” is silencing speech. The chilling effect is real. It’s time for Meta to live up to its claims of supporting free expression. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/when-knowing-someone-meta-only-way-break-out-content-jail
When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of “Content Jail”

BY RINDALA ALAJAJI | September 17, 2025This is the second installment in a blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. During our Stop Censoring Abortion campaign, we set out to collect and spotlight the growing number of...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

It's interesting to me how saying "Women are allowed to dislike men", was so often interpreted as "Women hate all men."

It's not even remotely what I said. Are there women who hate all men, I'm sure there are, but this is pretty clearly not what I was saying. A good amount of my friends are men, hell, I'm even married to one.

Misogynists have created this myth of the blue haired man hating feminist. They have to do this, because the basic idea of wanting equality is asking so very little. They want us to be demure, and beg for crumbs, while they are actively trying to take our rights away.

Yes, Women are allowed to dislike men, we don't owe them attention, we don't owe them sex. Just like men are allowed to dislike women, and not owe them attention or sex. We just want to live in a world where this doesn't end in harassment and violence. Saying no shouldn't ruin anyone's life. If you can't see beyond your realm of experience here, maybe shut up, and listen, and realize you are privileged.

Never did like Scooter much.

“Never, ever, under any circumstances, underestimate the hypocrisy of former Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker.

College for me (and mine), but not for thee.🙄” - The Resistance