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Oberst Enzian
@oberstenzian
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Queer, Black, Anti-Fascist, pervy creative and thinker.
Geoffrey Giebelhaus
JA WestenbergEvery "founder mode" essay is a man realising he's difficult to work for and deciding to publish an 8,000 word manifesto about why that actually makes him a Very Special Boy
RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116471682425566994
None of this matters since we’re all just going to let this keep happening. And the only folks who seem motivated to stop this crazy train are lone wolf assassins who barely know how to shoot much less carry out what barely counts as a plan.
And the rest of us are just going to watch those “crazy” people and mock them for even trying. What are the rest of us doing? Just watching it all while pretending that observation is the same as direct action.
memeorandumA dark chapter returns: Stripping citizenship (Heather Digby Parton/Salon)
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/26/a-dark-chapter-returns-stripping-citizenship/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260426/p49#a260426p49
Dr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoThis is Black Thunder, a Sioux man taken around 1908. Across the 18th and 19th centuries, boundaries between Black and Native worlds were not fixed but lived through enslavement, escape, intermarriage, alliance, and shared confrontation with a nation expanding over both. Yet records rarely capture that complexity. The portrait names him but does not explain. A man made visible, a history only partially told. Library of Congress. Source: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3c07322/
Electronic Frontier FoundationCA’s social media ban weaponizes legitimate parental concerns, using them to hand over more censorship and surveillance power to the government. Beneath shiny “protect the children” rhetoric, AB 1709 is misguided, unconstitutional, and deeply harmful to users of all ages. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/act-now-stop-californias-paternalistic-and-privacy-destroying-social-media-ban
Act Now to Stop California’s Paternalistic and Privacy-Destroying Social Media Ban
California lawmakers are fast-tracking A.B. 1709—a sweeping bill that would ban anyone under 16 from using social media and force every user, regardless of age, to verify their identity before accessing social platforms.That means that under this bill, all Californians would be required to submit...
𐁂𐀑𐀐𐁐@nixCraft the .com bust led to effectively no dev hiring between 2000 and 2006... we're in for a loooooong wait for dev jobs to return. I also don't see a 2006-style recovery ever happening because I don't buy the layoffs are actually AI, the AI angle is spin. They are offshoring + capacity reduction. The overlords, on principle, don't want to hire US citizens to code, and that's not going to change. Why hire a lazy American when you can hold an ICE gulag over an H1-B worker if you need on site.
nixCraft 🐧Some org started rehiring junior devs because AI companies keep increasing their token costs. It is becoming cheaper to hire humans again to handle basic tasks, like aligning a button on screen, fixing typos or even performing PHP+MySQL coding.
You just have to wait until the AI bubble bursts or the VC money dries up. Approx 40% to 50% of AI data centers planned for 2026 in the U.S. are likely to be delayed or canceled as banks and VCs are refusing to provide further financing 😂
spaghettiwesternNBC News Drops Bombshell Report on Trump War Battle Damage: ‘Far Worse’ Than Trump Team Said
NBC News Drops Bombshell Report on Trump War Battle Damage: ‘Far Worse’ Than Trump Team Said - sh.itjust.works
American military bases and other equipment in the Persian Gulf region suffered extensive damage from Iranian strikes that is far worse than publicly acknowledged and is expected to cost billions of dollars to repair, according to three U.S. officials, two congressional aides and another person familiar with the damage.