David Cook

@davidtcook@aus.social
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Father of 2, fencer, photographer, cyclist, Lego builder, and able to replace you with a small shell script.
David CookMay 28
Dave WalkerAug 7, 2024
Drawing: Possible causes of your problems. I've been appalled at the scenes we've witnessed over the last few days. It's utterly unacceptable that people should have to live in fear because of the colour of their skin.
[Polite comments only, please.]
David CookMay 28
Jeri DanskyMay 28

Comments from people opposing the proposed sale of land in Australia to Tesla for a battery factory, with some censorship from the city collecting those comments:

“Because Elon Musk is a [redacted] human being and a [redacted]!” one person wrote.

“Elon Musk and Tesla are a [redacted] on humanity,” another said.

“Elon Musk is a full blown [redacted],” was another’s blunt assessment. While a further submission argued the site was not right for Musk: “Destroying trees to build a factory for a company owned by a [redacted] would be a vile choice.”

“We should not support and put money in the pockets of a [redacted] who openly [redacted] salutes, is [redacted] human,” was another’s take on Tesla moving into Marion.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/27/anti-musk-sentiment-runs-high-in-australian-city-as-95-of-submissions-oppose-land-sale-to-tesla

h/t @CanvasesByPeter
#ElonMusk #Musk #Tesla #Australia

Anti-Musk sentiment runs high in Adelaide as 95% of submissions oppose land sale to Tesla

Marion city council in South Australia censors strong language in some of the nearly 1,000 submissions that called for proposal to be struck down

The Guardian
David CookMay 28
Natasha JayMay 28
Sorry, I couldn't resist
David CookMay 28
boB Rudis 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦May 28
🚨 BREAKING: GreyNoise discovered a sophisticated backdoor campaign compromising ~9,000 ASUS routers worldwide. Unlike typical malware attacks, this operation uses the router's own legitimate features to create persistent backdoors that survive firmware updates and reboots.
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David CookMay 28
Tony FinchMay 28

from my link log —

Backyard cyanide from the cherry laurel.

https://suziepetryk.com/blog/cyanide.html

saved 2025-03-11 https://dotat.at/:/R5GBO.html

Backyard Cyanide

David CookMay 28
Bruce Sterling @brucesMay 28
David CookMay 28
mhoyeMay 27
From a private conversation elsewhere: "The Canonical interview process is the best advertisement for Debian that's ever been made."
David CookMay 28
Paul CantrellMay 27

Apropos of several things floating across my TL, I just want to say as somebody who teaches college:

Yes, absolutely, politically conservative students on campus end up feeling uncomfortable in their views, constantly challenged. 100%.

So do leftists.

So do centrists.

So do students who attempt to be apolitical.

Nobody gets to hang out on campus feeling comfortable and cushy in their worldview. That is…you know…kind of the point of the place.

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David CookMay 22
Jason LefkowitzMay 22

I cannot emphasize to you strongly enough just how right @jwz is about this

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/05/recent-movies-and-tv-30/

Recent movies and TV

Freaky Taies (2025): I have watched this three times. It is four interleaved stories, happening simultaneously in 1987, and the first one is a bunch of Gilman punks absolutely eviscerating some Nazis. If you aren't already in, I can't help you. It is "Pulp Oakland". The attention to detail is fantastic. Whoever made this.... was there. Also the Easter eggs! The cameos! The film references! ...

David CookMay 20
Jason CowardMay 19

Early fall colors and mountain snow in the West Needle range (2022).

#MountainMonday #Photography #Landscape #Nature #Outdoors #FallColors #Autumn #Colorado #Nikon #CaptureOne

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Jason LefkowitzMay 22

I cannot emphasize to you strongly enough just how right @jwz is about this

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/05/recent-movies-and-tv-30/

Show threadJason LefkowitzMay 22
I know when people talk about movies like this it feels like you’re being assigned homework. But CASABLANCA is the opposite of homework. It’s moving, anti-fascist, humanist. It stirs the soul. If you’ve been avoiding it because it’s in black and white, you have been denying yourself a delicious treat just because it doesn’t come in a flashy wrapper.
Show threadMichael WymanMay 22
@jalefkowit @jwz and the music just kicks ass.
Show threadMichael WymanMay 22
@jalefkowit @jwz there are a handful of movies I know I can put on if nothing else sounds good. Casablanca is top of that list.
Show threadViraptorMay 22
@mwyman @jalefkowit @jwz play it again, Sam...
Show threadDaughter of DiscordMay 22

@jalefkowit @jwz

There are a lot of great black and white films. Whenever I see people throwing the word "gaslighting" around, I ask them if they've ever actually seen the film the term comes from.

It really brings it home.

Show threadjwzMay 22
@CosmickTrigger @jalefkowit But when I say that I think Gaslight wasn't actually a very good movie, people think I'm doing a bit.
Show threadDaughter of DiscordMay 22

@jwz @jalefkowit

I dunno. I liked it. I don't like a lot of black and white films but there's a few that I like a lot.

Like "Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!"

Show threadPiers CawleyMay 22
@jalefkowit @jwz I was in my late forties when I finally saw it and… *fucking hell* why did I wait so long? What a film. Genuinely as good as, possibly better than, everyone says it is.
Show threadKatMay 22
@jalefkowit
Then lighten the mood by following it with Barbwire, the most hilariously terrible remake.
@jwz
Show threadPhDogMay 22

It's a good-ass movie.

@jalefkowit @jwz

Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®May 22

@dogfox @jalefkowit @jwz

If the cinematic emotion during the singing of "La Marseillaise“ doesn’t transmit thru the screen, something in you might be broken.

That’s okay.

You just need a tune-up.

#Casablanca

Show threadStefan Edward JonesMay 22

@paninid @dogfox @jalefkowit

I occasionally play it when the current situation has me down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-E2H1ChJM

Casablanca La Marseillaise

YouTube
Show threadViolets and VelvetMay 22
@paninid it's not cinematic, and i am not nationalistic (though i am a VOL) but this is my bring on the tears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llkwpwdk2ro
Yma o Hyd - Dafydd Iwan | Dafydd Iwan sings Yma o Hyd with lyrics and English translation | S4C

YouTube
Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®May 22
@velveteen100 what is a VOL?
Show threadViolets and VelvetMay 22
@paninid UTK grad
Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®May 22

@velveteen100

The campaign to name our next dog “Smokey” started today.

Show threadDreaming of dad jazz.May 22

@paninid @dogfox @jalefkowit

I get choked up thinking about it.

The woman playing Yvonne singing with tears running down her face?

That's Madaline Labeau who was a refugee from the Nazis who fled with her Jewish husband Marcel Dalio to Canada. He played Emil the croupier.

The cast was full of refugees. Those emotions were real.

Show threadDreaming of dad jazz.May 22

@paninid @dogfox @jalefkowit

Fun side note. Conrad Voight who played Nazi officer Major Strasser?

Also a refugee.

He fled with his Jewish wife to protect her.

Show threadPhDogMay 22

Holy shit! I had no idea. That's amazing.

@michaelcoyote @paninid @jalefkowit

Show threadDreaming of dad jazz.May 23

@dogfox @paninid @jalefkowit

It was somewhat shocking on one hand but on the other it made so much sense.

Show threadHal PomeranzMay 22
@jalefkowit @jwz @mycrowgirl Always makes my list of top movies at all time. The humorous notes are what keep the movie from drowning in its own sentimentality.
Show threadVenya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦May 22
@jalefkowit We bought this on BluRay about a year ago because I realized we'd never seen it and it was EXCELLENT
Show threadJason LefkowitzMay 22
@venya One of those movies where you get mad when you finally see it because it turns out to have been as good as the annoying movie nerds were always saying 😆
Show threadXCondEMay 22

@jalefkowit @venya all right, nerds. I’ve downloaded Casablanca and I’m watching it tonight.

If you’re wrong, I’m coming back tomorrow with choice words.

Show threadJason LefkowitzMay 22

@xconde @venya Challenge accepted 😆

Hope you enjoy it!

Show threadXCondEMay 27

@jalefkowit @venya quick update to say that I enjoyed Casablanca.

Thanks for the push to watch it, and here’s looking at you, kids!

Show threadJason LefkowitzMay 27
@xconde @venya 🫡
Show threadbabble encatMay 22
@jalefkowit I quite liked Twelve Angry Men too, also black and white
Show threadLuke KaniesMay 22

@jalefkowit @jwz this was exactly my reasoning for forcing my kids to watch it. They grumped, but overall I think they liked it. And yeah, suddenly a lot of cultural references clicked.

I’m working my way up to The Seven Samurai with them :)

Show threadROTOPE~1 May 22
@lkanies I don't think the kind of attention span needed for 7 Samurai exists anymore.
Show threadbarsoomcoreMay 22
@jalefkowit @jwz if you haven’t seen CASABLANCA, then you don’t understand “cool” as a concept because nothing has ever been cooler than Humphrey Bogart in CASABLANCA.
Show threadSoozcatMay 22
@jalefkowit @jwz The only issue with watching Casablanca now is that its script has been referenced in so many other movies and used as pop culture tropes so often that it feels like one big meme.
Show threadSimon CozensMay 22
@jalefkowit @jwz being right? I'm shocked, SHOCKED.
Show threadTim MMay 22
@jalefkowit @jwz Bookmarked and noted... esp given that reaction to the murderbot book (I thought I was the only one)
Show threadmhoyeMay 22
@jalefkowit @jwz The Casablanca/Maltese-Falcon double feature I saw at maybe 15 was one of the better things to ever happen to me, pop-culture-understandingwise.
Show threadDigital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄May 22
@jalefkowit @jwz And really, you need to see Casablanca so you can understand the epic movie Barbwire.
Show threadRC2014May 22
@jalefkowit @jwz I watched it a year or so ago with low expectations, because, well, black and white. But wow it is a good film. And the quality of the Blueray release a couple of years ago is amazing. Thoroughly agree that people should watch Casablanca.