Stephen Leviathan

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Someone who thinks about liberty and democracy and, while we're at it, anarchy. Always trying to learn.

https://youtu.be/uoiN89GvVXg

Same guy who has been trying to get Trump Bibles and Ten Commandment posters into every Oklahoma classrooms.

Video: 2 OSDE board members tell FOX23 they saw images of naked women in Supt. Ryan Walters’

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Microsoft sent me an email telling me to throw my computer in the trash. 🤷

Does it feel hopeless right now? Do you feel powerless? Let me offer you the following facts:

1. Tesla is tanking so hard right now they had to parade a bunch of cars in front of the fucking White House just to try to boost sales.

2. Target and Walmart have seen sales tank so drastically in the last month they are immediately rolling back their anti DEI stances.

3. Congress has never in history seen this amount of call volume. They typically get 40-50 calls a minute. They are currently trying to field upwards of 1,600-2,000 calls every minute.

4. The Resistance has been so vocal at town halls that the GOP had to officially instruct Republican congressmen to stop doing them.

5. This administration hasn't been able to make a single tariff stick for longer than 3 days because of all the fallout.

You. Are. Powerful.

They expected you to just put your head down and roll over and do nothing. Instead you resisted. You fought back. You showed up. And you continue to show up.

You're showing up for education. For veterans. For trans folk. For women. For immigrants. For people of color. For free speech. For international allies. You're showing up for what's right and you're refusing to obey fascism in advance.

And what's more, there is no coordinated response among the elected officials, judges, and appointed GOP heads. They're floundering. All of them. They weren't expecting this. And they have no idea what to do about it.

Elon Musk's favorite supposed data expert, who he's retweeted at least a dozen times, claims she can only process 60,000 rows of data before her "hard drive overheats".

Perhaps someone should rescue her from where she's apparently stuck twenty years in the past, which is the only possible explanation for those hardware limitations and the apparent lack of access to cloud compute.

Unless, of course, she's just completely making shit up.

#USpol #USpolitics

It’s a shame to see Sci-Hub falling for web3 hype and adding a pumpfun memecoin ticker to their webpage. Blockchain-based DNS does not automatically mean “decentralized”, and 3DNS — the company behind .box — is based in the US and would be subject to US court orders.

Someone unaffiliated with Sci-Hub created the memecoin, claiming to be fundraising, but said only 20% of proceeds would go to Sci-Hub. Founder Alexandra Elbakyan herself condemned this.

#SciHub

having succeeded in purchasing positions of influence inside the White House, the billionaires and tech VCs have now set their sights back on Wikipedia
So, this has been in the works for a while, arguably most of last year. I intend to transfer my personal ownership of the Mastodon trademarks and assets, incl. copyright over my code, to the Mastodon non-profit, and transition to a different role at the organization.
For anyone wondering how Mark Zuckerberg's new "masculine energy" selective moderation policy is working out... (Also, patience for anyone trying to set up a Pixelfed account this afternoon! Looks like there's a *lot* of people quitting Instagram right now!) #Zuckerberg #Meta #Pixelfed #Instagram
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This week, had a family member celebrate the end of fact checking on Facebook. I asked him why he was wanting people to be able to lie to him. He said that that's part of free speech. You know - fair enough.

Later in the same conversation, he complained about how Google AI just makes shit up and confuses him, and he wants Google to fix it. Or, you know, fact check what the AI tells people.

@eff Is it capitalism? I bet it's capitalism..