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@LordPhantom To be fair, the broad breath of shitty and inadequate OTP implementations and pricing models for the multitude of different web-based services out there means that there's always going to need to be some equivalent of this.

And tbh, a shared physical resource like a phone is much better than e.g. storing the OTP seed in a shared folder of a password manager, since it is actually a proper second factor.

@LordPhantom so what is the industry best practice 2FA that is better than TOTP on a phone?
Between paying artists next to nothing, hosting Joe Rogan, running racist ICE recruitment ads, to having a techno-fascist founder, I'm done... #BoycottSpotify

I hate the word content. Or at least the way people use it now.
It’s no longer a photo, it’s content.
No longer a video, content.
Not a travel story, not an article, not even a creative project. It’s content.

Everything’s been flattened. Art, noise, whatever, anything, into scrollable mush. It’s not expression anymore, it’s inventory. Creation now serves the algorithm, not the other way around. Everything’s a post, nothing’s a point. And just like that, everything’s been downgraded to filler.

@pluralistic
#PostAmericanInternet is a hashtag worth circulating.
"A post-American internet starts with abandoning the laws that give US companies – and therefore Trump – a veto over how your technology works"
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/#huawei-with-american-characteristics
#FOSS #politics
Pluralistic: The mad king’s digital killswitch (20 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

The sun will swallow the Earth.

The galaxies will fade.

Protons will decay.

Your LinkedIn bio will not survive this process.

This is a Good Thing™️

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/you-are-insignificant-that-s-a-good-thing

You Are Insignificant. That's a Good Thing.

A Short Guide to Being Infinitesimally Small

Westenberg.

Made a poster for anyone to use for protests and No Kings Day.

NOTE: I edited the image spelling of Ribbiter. Please use this version if you’ve not printed yet and see this. thank you!!

*Note: please feel free to use for your posters—just no altering text or images, please. Thank you!

Rosie the Ribbiter.
It’s sized to print at 11x17” at 200dpi.

PLEASE BOOST!!!

#activism #poster #resistance #portland #frog #noKings #50501Movement #protest #usa #usPol #MastoArt #Art #comic

Everything is terrible, but I'm really excited that I'm going to submit a shit-disturbing paper about Starlink tomorrow

(...and then wait for a painfully long time for the peer-review/academic publishing gears to turn)

Republican Senator Susan Collins helped Trump cut the US healthcare system and now shows up in Maine for a ribbon cutting ceremony, as if reality would treat her like Fox News.

It didn't.

When I left Twitter for Mastodon, so many people told me I was making a mistake and Mastodon was dead.

It was a difficult decision to switch because I had been on Twitter for 13 years, and I had accumulated over 16,000 followers.

But here we are, two and a half years later, and I am now followed by 17,000 here on Mastodon.

It is such an important milestone for me, because it proves that while the majority will often chose continuity over change, change often wins.

The future is federated!
♥️🐘