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Public service announcement.

(Created by https://bsky.app/profile/campfireharve.st )

a blog post by my friend eevee which is, y’know, preaching to the choir about exactly what you think, but. yeah. https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/
The rise of Whatever

This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

Examples of things that people with average computer literacy can “just” do:

- just reboot it

- just email it to yourself [unless it’s over 25MB or contains an executable in which case you’re not gonna “just” anything]

- just use an iPhone instead

Examples of things people with average computer literacy absolutely cannot “just” do:

- just use Linux

- just run your own email server

- just replace this polished, slick-onboarding but expensive software with a foss alternative but make sure you use this fork because the official one had some drama and it’s kind of poorly maintained and also just simply be someone who doesn’t need accessibility features or just implement the accessibility features yourself in a special dialect of C++ that just needs a particular build of gcc from 1997 available on an ftp server that only appears during the Witching Hour on a new moon

- just use a VPN, one that’s not a privacy-violating scam I mean

- just set up a separate media server and torrent all your shows and connect all the kids’ devices to it and just don’t catch a virus or get scary legal threats in the mail doing this

- just refrain from decking your smug “helpful” computer-literate cousin in the face

Trump has deleted the entire US Global Change Research Program website -- a research program required by federal law.
I know many people have downloaded and preserved documents from that website in recent days. The problem is bigger though: the entire future research effort has been cancelled. Existing documents can be saved. End future research blinds the public and policymakers to current and future risks to the country and public health.
Ten years ago today, the Supreme Court made it possible for couples like Brad and me to marry in every corner of this country. It was a moment we never thought we’d live to see and one we’ll never take for granted. Now, we must stay vigilant to ensure that right is never taken away. Love is love. Then, now, and always.

@cwebber

1990: "HACK THE PLANET!!!"

2025: "NOT LIKE THAT!!!"

This guy near me on my flight ✨ works in cybersecurity ✨ and is trying to use it as a means to rizz women. These are but a few gems overheard:
- "You know why they can't use Signal in the government, it's not secure. Me and my buddies decided to do a challenge and we hacked into it in 12 minutes. The Chinese, the Russians? They're doing it in real time"
- "The hackers get into the hospital system and remove the allergies from your medical record, then change it so you get delivered the medications you're allergic to. It's that vicious. I have to do retinal scans to get into my work to deal with this every day"
- *being asked what church he attends* "I don't have one right now. Line of work like mine, what I see every day.... makes it hard for a man to have faith......." *trails off dramatically*

I'm about to crash out