Seriously, call your Senators now. This needs to be stopped before it goes any further. They want to drive LGBTQIA+ off the internet entirely, and Democrats are on board.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/25/influencers-starting-to-realize-how-the-kids-online-safety-act-kosa-will-do-real-damage/

A periodic reminder that while most fediverse services are provided for free, they are far from free to run. Many thanks to all who donate and support your instance. If you are in a position to do so, I encourage you to take a look at your instance's "about" page for details on how to donate (for example, https://infosec.exchange/about)

Some instances do require a fee to join - I personally feel strongly that everyone should be able to participate, regardless of ability to pay and I will do all I can to make sure these resources are available to those in the community who want to use them.

Thank you and have a great weekend!

The "free exchange of ideas" isn't really a marketplace. It's a potluck.

Everybody brings their own dish, and you're free to sample as many as you like. Some are familiar recipes. Some are classics with a twist. Some are interesting but not to your taste. Some are straight up bad. Some are life-changing. The point is, you can discuss recipes or cooking techniques or ingredients as you sample the food.

If someone brings, say, mashed potatoes, you can debate its appropriateness at the potluck. Will it get cold on the table? Do carbohydrates make up too much of our diet?

But if someone strides up and sets a big steaming pile of dog shit on the table, next to grandma's casserole and the mashed potatoes, that's a problem. And it's not because we're "afraid" of eating their dog shit, or we're worried dog shit will "revolutionize" lunch. It's dog shit. We tell them to get that dog shit off the damn table.

This is why we don't let Nazis come to the potluck. Some ideas are just dog shit.

blue team: *forgets to disable management interface*

red team:

overheard in a group chat type context:

'a group of my friends refers to the stock market as the “feelings horse,” as in “the feelings horse got spooked and now the money is smaller”'

I sent this chart to a dear friend yesterday because I think it's important for people to understand the risks they're taking even though the message we all get is that COVID is over.

Big picture: with every infection, the risk of every complication goes up.

You have not "gotten it over with" after your first infection.

I'm tired of it. You're tired of it. But #CovidIsNotOver.

If you have questions, read the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02051-3

When it all started going down at Twitter, there were a few employees who were very public about their Musk loyalism. I cringed, because I saw similar Ellison loyalism among some at Sun after Oracle. Those Ellison loyalists didn't last much longer than the rest of us (often just months) -- but they permanently destroyed relationships in the process.

I say this because some prominent Musk loyalists are now out at Twitter -- and likely only destroyed relationships to show for it...