Fuzz Butt

@fzzbt
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Out of work tech worker jaded by the industry. I mostly lurk, except for when I don't.

Leftist; Progressive⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️; Father to late teen and twenty-somethings; Cat 😻 and Dog 🐕‍🦺 lover; Pittie ❤️ ; Musician 🎹🎸; Author📖.

Bluesky@fzzbt.bsky.social

I used to wonder how IBM could possibly consent to create a system to help Hitler organize his concentration camps.

Then I look around at all the tech companies aligning with fascism today.

Rollins: Raise Chickens To Lower Egg Prices: VIDEO

She can't be serious 🤦🏻‍♂️

Comic Sands
My partner @BrianEnigma and I are collaborating on this project: https://americaisgoinggreat.com/ — a timeline of articles since the inauguration in an attempt to track America's decent into a fascist hellscape and the #resistance against it. Thanks @molly0xfff for your timeline template!
America is Going Just Great

A timeline of America's descent into a fascist hellscape

My partner used @molly0xfff 's static timeline generator to track all the crap Trump has been “flooding the zone” with since his return to office. Keeping it up to date has been overwhelming at times. https://americaisgoinggreat.com
America is Going Just Great

A timeline of America's descent into a fascist hellscape

>Two plus two equals four. Russia invaded Ukraine. Mass graves don’t tweet.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/profiles-in-cowardice-the-nobody-saw-this-coming-brigade/

Profiles In Cowardice: The Nobody Saw This Coming Brigade

Republican senators have seen the mass graves. They’ve met Zelensky. They’ve walked through bombed cities and witnessed firsthand the evidence of Russian atrocities. Yet now, faced with…

Techdirt

WTF Mozilla? I'm hoping they just forgot to delete this verbiage from their terms of service, which suggests they are still working with the personal data removal service OneRep.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/subscription-services/

Last year, Mozilla said it was dropping its partnership with OneRep after a story I published showed its founder had created dozens of people-search services and was even running one of the larger ones whilst selling services to help people remove their information from these sites.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/mozilla-drops-onerep-after-ceo-admits-to-running-people-search-networks/

Mozilla Subscription Services

Mozilla

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @DrPen

You are most welcome from the many many people that make the Internet Archive and its services go. (we appreciate the "thank you"'s -- it makes it all worthwhile)

Since 2004, Internet Archive has collaborated with a group of libraries and research organizations on the End of Term Web Archive. 💾 Learn more about the effort: https://eotarchive.org/
End of Term Web Archive

The End of Term Web Archive is a collaborative initiative that collects, preserves, and makes accessible United States Government websites at the end of presidential administrations.

End of Term Web Archive
Emily L. Hauser (@emilylhauser.bsky.social)

Last year, as I watched this happening in real time, all I could think of was this statement I wrote when I was at CPE: [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Bluesky Social

We had a great time talking with Cory Doctorow

Watch or listen to the full episode wherever your podcast is.

https://youtu.be/0N3q-qHVdg8

@pluralistic
#picksandshovels #antitrust #podcast #copyright

Episode#15: Picks, Shovels, and Digital Chains: Cory Doctorow on Tech’s Power Grift

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