It’s difficult to overstate the significance of this right-to-repair fight.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement

@be I think it is a little more than that. I think they are building the tools and acclimating people to the idea of the internet/computers being entirely identity-verified spaces. so, first they build a system to capture every user's age at registration and share it upon request to any app asking. but they know kids will just lie when making accounts, this law isn't to prevent access, it's to aclimate us all to the idea of age gates being necessary for "safety" of children...but it's not working of course, the children keep lying. then it becomes age "verification" where you have to prove your age (with your legal ID most likely) instead of just stating your age. then you have already gotten used to having to associate your id with your user account to log in to your computer for the first time--you only have to show it once, and then you don't think about all the times the OS shares just your age with every single program or website that requests it...so now when the government quietly passes a law saying that the OS will share not just your age but your verified identity with every site, you don't have to change your behavior at all to comply...it doesn't affect you in any obvious way. except now the internet and your computer have done away with privacy in any way, and the rest of our rights will soon follow.

that's dramatic probably but I am being serious, I do think that's the ultimate goal.

Did AI kill 175 schoolchildren, aged 6 to 12, with a double-tap precision-guided missile strike?

No, AI didn't commit this war crime. Donald Trump did. Pete Hegseth did.

"The people in charge don’t seem to be pondering this, as it’s all a game to them. You can hear it in the despicable language of the lacquered and grotesque Hegseth and his middle-school braggadocio about ‘warfighting’ and ‘the warrior ethos.’”

Will Bunch, must read. Gift link.

https://share.inquirer.com/HAOS9l

Sorry, Ukraine, but what the actual fuck are you talking about? You swap "Iranian" with "Ukranian" and that's Putin's speech to bomb your country.

The official statement: https://chaos.social/@scy/116148273578274229

So it looks like Venezuela, Columbia, Mexico, then maybe .. Greenland?

Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair holding "The Trump Doctrine for Columbia and Western Hemisphere" (Reddit, linked comment)

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1on1nqr/comment/nmu1122/?context=3

#Venezuela #Maduro #trumpdoctrine #pressphoto #DC #worldnews #screenshot #breaking #news #Columbia #Mexico #Greenland #Canada #federalgovernment #president #SouthAmerica #geopolitics

Mark could speak up. He could take a stand. He could use even a fraction of his power to defend the institutions and principles he once claimed to cherish.

Instead, he cringes. He capitulates. He collaborates.

This man is a coward. And no amount of corporate jargon or performative masculinity can make that stain go away.

https://www.theindex.media/this-man-is-a-coward/

Uncredited quote-of-the-day:

"you should not borrow grief from the future"