Dissident by Birth

@jfew
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"One day, everyone will have always been against this"
Poster spotted in Toronto, Canada

RE: https://mastodon.social/@coreyspowell/116270760514177310

In the space of the same week we’ve got one tech oligarch peddling a thinly veiled anti-Semitic notion that introspection was invented by intellectuals from “Vienna in the 1910s, 1920” to weigh down the “great men of history” with…[checks notes]…guilt?

Now another tech oligarch shits on _extrospection_ too, saying we should make his racist deepfake porn generating AI model responsible for scientific research going forward? Fucking burn it all down. 😑

#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", was arrested at a German checkpoint in Haarlem.

She was later executed, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after the first attempt to shoot her missed.

#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WW2 #DutchHistory #Histodons

Everyone go home and logoff, this meme wins the internet for today.

#Dune #memes

Paul Brainerd Dies at 78; Pioneered Desktop Publishing With PageMaker

His software brought printing into the digital age, allowing users to stop manually splicing columns of text and graphics and instead create layouts on a virtual pasteboard.

The New York Times

Hackers in the 1990s:
We will write code so powerful that no government will be able to stop it! They can't outlaw code if it's printed in a book!

Hackers in 2026:
Some fascists in some parts of the world are making moves towards maybe threatening us, though nobody knows how their laws are supposed to work, let alone how to comply with their conflicting requirements. Anyway let's bend over backwards to comply in advance and lock threads so we don't have to be held accountable for our cowardice.

its wild that "treat people with basic dignity" became a radical political position. i remember when it was just called "not being a dick." we used to have that
@trixter here, have some good vibes
Starting to think the real risk is not AI replacing junior staff, but senior staff quitting because they just can’t take this AI bullshit any longer and just opt for early retirement.

My god, it’s a gilded junk shop!

(I knew it was bad, but all the tacky gewgaws seem to have multiplied.)