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@mms I once mentioned we could have IRC server as a low-maintenance backup, in case Teams or Slack goes down. Everyone laughed.
But I was serious. I'm not against new stuff, but IRC server can run on a potato and it's just pure unbloated communication experience 
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Hearing about a young hacker whose being extorted by the University of Washington, not cool UW.
The student claims they built an app to help kids get the course schedules they want, a hack as old as time, and the university decided to expel him until he ports his app to the university's internal systems.
This would be unpaid labor.
Until then his class registration is on hold and he can't register or attend his last few classes. 🥴
The @washingtonpost editorial board published a scathing article condemning the ICC for issuing an arrest warrant to Netanyahu.
Every word of their argument was propaganda, a contradiction, or a flat out lie. Here I bring the receipts that legacy media refuses to acknowledge.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/rebuking-the-washington-post-for
How do we get to where letters like this are too ordinary to astound us—or aren’t needed at all? 😭
Meantime, let's celebrate those who do get it.
“A white woman in #Florida was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison for fatally shooting her neighbor, a Black mother of four, in a case that sparked outrage and yet another national reckoning over gun violence and racism.
A jury convicted Susan Lorincz, 60, of manslaughter in August for killing Ajike Owens outside of her home”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/susan-lorincz-ajike-aj-owens-white-woman-shot-black-neighbor-manslaughter-sentencing-watch/
A white woman in Florida with a racist history will be sentenced on Monday for shooting and killing Ajike (A.J.) Owens, her Black neighbor, last year.
Great to see Dorothy Bishop, emeritus professor of developmental neuropsychology, #resign from the #RoyalSociety as they refuse to acknowledge that #Musk has breached their code of conduct, or remove his fellowship of the society.
She explains more on her blog:
https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-i-have-resigned-from-royal-society.html?m=1
CW: blog contains quotes of Musk's #transphobia
Beam me out!
nullagent
Jeff Jarvis
David Gerard
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
Vee
Laffy
Andrea Junker 
Stingray's Badger Friend
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