You wish more of your friends and family would join the fediverse, and you’re worn out trying to persuade them, and you’re more than a bit frustrated. Because if they’re still away on Bluesky or Instagram or whatever, they’re not in this part of your life.

Here is Tim Chambers facing the problem head on. I don’t know who needs to read this, but everyone needs to read this.

https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html

#mastodon #fediverse

Why the Right Hates Juneteenth

Wrote this two years ago - but worth reiterating, as America is ruled by a regime seeking to restore complete white male dominance in all spheres of life: Today’s MAGA GOP stands in the political, ideological, and spiritual tradition of the (neo-) Confederacy.

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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/why-the-right-has-a-problem-with

Back in 2006, AOL tried something incredibly bold and even more incredibly *stupid*: they dumped a data-set of 20,000,000 "anonymized" search queries from 650,000 users (yes, AOL had a search engine - there used to be *lots* of search engines!):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/19/privacy-breach-by-design#bringing-home-the-beacon

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/18/anarcho-cryptid/

#Pluralistic

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Environment #Canada has an ad campaign using unmade and made poutine to help citizens understand the difference between a Weather Watch and a Warning!

#Montreal #meteorology #weather

ICE has been grabbing American-born citizens and demanding to know where they were born ...

.... just because they happen to be from a latino background

They took one American man's driver's license and refused to give it back

There are almost too many stories of ICE's wild overreach, but this one struck me -- gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/us/hispanic-americans-raids-citizenship.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PU8.sARv.BeGIegZDifw8&smid=url-share

As people in the comments are pointing out, until he gets his license replaced, ICE could grab him again and he'd have no proof of American identity

Someone shared this gem recently but I can't find it nor recall who anymore(feel free to mention so i can edit)

Very strong!

'Although the tide may be turning, MAGA isn’t simply going to roll over and slink away. On the contrary, the administration’s power grabs will become even more aggressive and desperate, with growing efforts to intimidate, prosecute and even physically harm political opponents, as well as widespread efforts to suppress dissent with force.'

https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/trumps-parade-flopped-no-kings-day?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=diqr

From one of the people I trust most on LLMs - a clear explanation of a common and very dangerous security threat

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/