Mastodawn

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@ozdreaming@infosec.exchange

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Another drop in the ocean. Parent, healthcare provider, IT/infosec hobbyist, bike commuter, cohousing resident, Susboid, and compulsive volunteer and over-committer. Loves language, music, singing alone and with others. Please contribute to your local instance admin. Trans rights == human rights.

MLKjr quote

"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows"

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Dan Gillmor 1d ago

Big Journalism is still doing stenography instead of showing the reality of the Trump regime's headlong race into fascism.

At TechDirt, @mmasnick shows how journalism could work if it located a spine.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/14/trump-bukele-plot-us-citizen-detention-in-salvadoran-torture-camps-while-defying-supreme-court-via-gibberish-responses-to-reporters/

Key quote: "If you don’t see all of this as one of the darkest days in American history, in which the President is openly embracing disappearing people without due process in the name of 'liberty,' you are a part of the problem. Fascism has risen in America..."

Trump & Bukele Plot US Citizen Detention In Salvadoran Torture Camps, While Defying Supreme Court Via Gibberish Responses To Reporters

In a stunning White House appearance that should alarm anyone who cares about constitutional rights, democracy, the rule of law or anything of the sort, Donald Trump and Salvadoran dictator Nayib B…

Techdirt

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mem_somerville 9h ago

Yet another wrong guy swept up in an #ICE snatch and disappear.

#MApoli we need to do something, this is egregious.

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/video/video-shows-ice-agent-smash-car-window-to-detain-man-in-massachusetts/

Video shows ICE agent smash car window to detain man in Massachusetts

A federal agent smashed a car window when a man refused to get out. His attorney says he is not the man the agents were looking for. WBZ-TV's Logan Hall reports.

CBS Boston

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AIF-Massachusetts 7h ago

@mem_somerville

Three actions anyone can take RIGHT NOW if they do not already have an action they are taking to support folks targeted by ICE:

1. Donate or volunteer with LUCE Massachusetts at www.lucemass.org

2. Program the LUCE Massachusetts phone number into your contacts and favorite it so you can quickly call them if you see ICE agents in your community

Number of the LUCE Mass hotline: 617-370-5023

3. Get some Know Your Rights materials to send to your friends and neighbors.

You can get Red Cards and Know Your Rights materials here:
https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas
https://www.ilrc.org/resources/community/know-your-rights-toolkit

#Immigrantrights #FuckICE

Red Cards / Tarjetas Rojas | Immigrant Legal Resource Center | ILRC

All people in the United States, regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. The ILRC’s Red Cards help people assert their rights and defend themselves in many situations, such as when ICE agents go to a home. Special thanks to our many partners who contributed translations in the various languages now available, making these red cards accessible to more individuals.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg 16h ago

Every arc of justice that has bent has bent against the forces of evil that curve towards power. The Civil Rights movement was no foregone conclusion. Stonewall? Getting the ADA signed? Ha. Roe? Workers’ rights? We can see now what force every win takes. We need to use force.

THE GOOD TROUBLE CHECKLIST

THE GOOD TROUBLE CHECKLIST

keep all your shenanigans in one place

Life is a Sacred Text

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the most validated enby Mar 2

happy Sunday here's a paper about car harm. attached is figure 2. it goes hard. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692324000267

Car harm: A global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment

Despite the widespread harm caused by cars and automobility, governments, corporations, and individuals continue to facilitate it by expanding roads, …

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Patrick 🌎11h ago

For real though I wanted to follow this guy to check out his parking skills

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Jae Hanley 6h ago

Everything just got a lot more dangerous in software

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/homeland_security_funding_for_cve/

Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program

: Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right?

The Register

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inquiline 10h ago

When I close the last tab, do I die?

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Arda Kılıçdağı 10h ago

Apparently, as @f and @ssg mentioned, Bluesky has started honoring account restriction / takedown requests from Turkish government.

Bluesky has been a haven for Turkish leftist people, because both the government and X has restricted access to the leftist accounts.

After people accepted Bluesky as a safe place, their "limiting access of accounts to specific regions" is frustrating, and exhausting.

I've been promoting ActivityPub / Mastodon for years, and I'll keep on doing so.

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I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it a thousand times more: If you love freedom but don’t care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is privilege.

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Kee Hinckley Apr 5

When old Soviet Union jokes are applicable to the US, you know something has gone terribly wrong.

Benjamin Geer Apr 5

@nazgul @benjamin The joke is even older than that, there’s a very similar one written down by a 12th-century Persian poet https://archive.org/details/AnvarisDivanAPocketBookforAkbar

Anvari's Divan: A Pocket Book for Akbar : Schimmel, Annemarie, and Stuart Cary Welch : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Internet Archive

BeeCycling Apr 5

@benjamingeer @nazgul @benjamin People have had to put up with the same crap since forever. 😫

Toni Aittoniemi Apr 5

@beecycling @benjamingeer @nazgul @benjamin Yes. MAGA is indeed nothing but a reversion into the baseline of toil & suffering experienced by humans under tyranny since antiquity.

@benjamingeer @nazgul @benjamin The writing of that one is so much more eloquent.

@benjamingeer@piaille.fr @nazgul@infosec.exchange @benjamin@piaille.fr
I wasn't even sure where it originated from, but I can confirm "proving you are not a camel", implying the presumption of guilt, is indeed a very common expression in Russia and I suppose in other ex-Soviet countries too. I think it won't be wrong to refer to it that way in the context of justice, even if the joke itself is much older 😅

@nazgul I think all of us who grew up during the Cold War have whiplash.
Or something. 🥴

@nazgul
related point:

"there's no news in Pravda and no truth in Izvestia"

pravda means truth, and izvestia means news.

referring some unnamed media outlets in the usa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda#Soviet_period

Pravda - Wikipedia

Marty Fouts Apr 5

@zetabeta @nazgul Thanks. I’ve been trying to remember the pravda/izvestia joke for a while and kept forgetting izvestia=news

Zoidberg For President Apr 5

@nazgul The wrong was there all along. It's not the "communism" part that was wrong with the soviets, it's the state-centric system that allows for fascism to thrive, and capitalism is made for this...

חנן כהן • Hanan Cohen Apr 5

@nazgul
I know a different style of this joke.
Q: how to you find a tiger in Moscow?
A: you catch a cat until it confesses.

@hananc @nazgul
its not another form, itis another side ... another side of ... hm ... this particular (in)human interaction

Optimistic Moron Apr 5

@nazgul
Lenin (and Stalin and Khrushchev) would be SO proud!

Reiner Jung Apr 5

@nazgul reminded me of another joke from R. Reagan:

"Two men, an American and a Russian were arguing. One said, in my country I can go to the white house walk to the president's office and pound the desk and say "Mr president! I don't like how you're running things in this country!" The Russian said "I can do that too!"

"Really?"

"Yes! I can go to the Kremlin, walk into the general secretary's office and pound the desk and say, Mr. secretary, I don't like how Reagan is running his country!"

Reiner Jung Apr 5

@nazgul This is also a first that I cite Ronald Reagan.

@prefec2 @nazgul
I thought it was going to be "the American said 'i can do that too!'" and that would be the end

@prefec2 @nazgul I don't think anyone liked how reagan was running his country. They might have acted like they did. But their life struggles said otherwise

@nazgul good joke anyways

enoch_exe_inc Apr 5

@nazgul And you’re just noticing this now? It’s been like this in the US since forever ago.

@enoch_exe_inc @nazgul

True.

Ariatorus Apr 5

@nazgul Trust me comrade, this one will be on the front page!

I am Jack's Lost 404 Apr 5

Major Denis Bloodnok Apr 5

@nazgul Huh. I know that one as a joke that ends "after four hours, the Met [1] come out of the woods with a rabbit covered in bruises saying "all right, all right, I'm a squirrel!"."

[1] the UK's Metropolitan Police.

@nazgul They’ll never get it lol.

@nazgul shit... We have so many checkpoints across the Sonoran Desert now. It has been like trying to drive from Moscow to Almaty for years now.

Geruhn@IndieCup Canada '23 Apr 5

@nazgul
USA: We don't want communism!
Trump: But we have communism at home!
USA: Wait what?

Chris Welbon Apr 5

@nazgul Citizen stops by the same Moscow newsstand every day, glancing at the newspapers, never buying. Eventually the news agent says, what are you looking for?”

The citizen replies, “Obituaries.”

News agent says, “Obituaries are at the back.”

Citizens replies, “Not the ones I’m looking for.”

Jeff C. 🇺🇦Apr 5

@rotorglow @nazgul Really feeling this one, lately.

Alex Gordienko Apr 5

@nazgul @ChrisFerguson I’ve heard a slightly different ending:
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: When a new law issued for foxes it’s too late…

Robin Barton Apr 5

@nazgul It is the old blank cheque idea. Give the government the right to avoid due process and they can apply it where and when they wish.

Sharony Baloney Apr 5

@nazgul
Ooh, I heard another one the other day:
Man goes to newsstand every day, asks to see the front page, then says “nevermind” and gives the paper back without buying it.
Newsman finally asks him what he’s looking for?
Man: An obituary
Newsman: Those are in the back of the paper
Man: Not the one I’m looking for

Simon Zerafa Apr 5

@Sharonybaloney @nazgul

Very old joke in the Soviet Union, but applicable in other times and places 🙂

@nazgul I've been wondering something and recently Foreign Man in a Foreign Land make a joke in his stream / video about it so now I wonder if there's a term for this idea and maybe some studies.

It's the idea that default people (whoever is catered to and normalised, wherever you live) have delayed development for risk aversion, to summarise FMiaFL's phrasing.

I'd put it more like "WTF is wrong with people that they don't treat anyone in out-groups like actual gd humans worth considering before shitting all over them?"

Kee Hinckley Apr 6

@MxVerda I understand that seeing your own privilege can be difficult, but the lack of empathy just baffles me. Empathy was a core part of my upbringing.

@nazgul @GottaLaff