Playing the silly game of analyzing ambiguous nazi salutes, is a huge waste of time.

Y'all provide hours of entertainment for racists by going back and forth with Black folk about if something was or was not a nazi salute.

A dude could spend years liking every pro-nazi post. Y'all still debate.

The fun in it for them is not even the nazi salute. They're not greeting each other with this one.

The fun in it for them is the ambiguity of it all. They enjoy watching you get spun up for hours, analyzing elbow angles and debating various forms of salute...

And then not doing anything about it🤷🏿‍♂️

People that throw ambiguous nazi salutes have already made their views clear, by everything else they've done up until that point.🤷🏿‍♂️

So if you have to see a nazi salute before you figure it out? That means that you have missed every clue train up until this point, and the clue station is now closing

Over the weekend, I did an interview about my forthcoming book *The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI* (a book about being a better AI critic), and the interviewer said she was surprised that I wasn't an AI booster, based on my demographics and work history:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621568/thereversecentaursguidetolifeafterai/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/15/vernacular/#hypercardian

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Edit: Update: y'all are amazing and I'm talking to several people now! So while I appreciate more emails, as y'all are lovely, I'm probably good!

Hi internet friends. I have a bit of a weird request.

I am looking for a German technical writer/translator who knows their Web Development basics and would be able to translate @bw 's excellent https://htmlforpeople.com into German (casual edition). Here are some of the facts:

• All the markdown files are ~31k words in total.
• I will pay for your time, I don't expect free labor. However, that also means you need to be able to send me an actual invoice ("me" being a German legal entity with a business license who just so happened to get frequently audited by the tax office).
• The contents will be available publicly to everyone under the same original license. My goal is just to make that content available to German speakers. I'm not entirely sure if getting paid for a translation is a violation of the CC's Non-Commercial clause, so I checked with Blake before posting this and he's fine with me doing this (thanks again!)
• I will host the contents, you don't need to worry about any of that.

If that's something you can help out with, please say hi via email to [email protected]. And if you know someone who you think would be a great fit, feel free to forward this post!

Oh, and also: This post is only applicable to you if you are a human and you will use human translation skills and your human brain to translate the text with the love and attention it deserves. If you want to pitch me using an LLM for the translation, I will block you. Sadly, this also means I can only consider working with you if you have a public website or profile or anything that demonstrates me you actually do technical writing stuff, because I really don't want to pay someone just to throw the text into an LLM. If you think you could scam me into paying you to then just use an LLM, you will learn that I have a less-friendly personality, too. Don't be a jerk, please.

If you want to hire someone with a guarantee that they will not be using any AI in their work, let me know, I'm still available (and semi-looking).

More information on the types of work I'm looking for on my profile page pinned post  

#GetFediHired #NoAI

I just discovered Packet. An application that brings Android's 'Quick Share' to Linux.

https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.nozwock.Packet

#Android #Linux

NASA animation shows global temperatures warming, slowly at first, then very rapidly. And it won't slow without serious intervention.

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

This project really made me smile. Andrew Warkentin has created a virtual museum with over 600 operating systems, all set up and ready to run on a regular computer. The collection covers everything from the Manchester Baby in 1948, which was the first stored-program machine, to early Android versions from 2011. He’s been gathering these images since 2003.

It’s clearly fun, but what really impressed me was how useful it is. If you teach or work in security, it’s hard to find a collection of old systems you can actually start up. You can show students how operating systems managed memory, permissions, and networking before today’s safety features, and you get to do it on a live system instead of just looking at screenshots.

Here are a few reasons why it stood out to me:

1. Everything is already set up. Running old software is usually a hassle because some systems only work with certain emulator versions or need special patches. Warkentin has already handled all of that, so you don’t have to.
2. The collection is huge. It includes the earliest mainframes and CTSS, many DOS versions, early Windows, classic Mac OS, the Lisa, and even rare hobby systems that most people have never tried.

There is one thing to keep in mind. Most of the images only include the software that originally came with the operating system, like calculators and text editors, so they’re a bit limited at first. Finding old software for systems like CTSS can be tricky. Think of this as a history archive you can use, not a complete app store.

But above all, I think this is a fantastic way to preserve history. A lot of early software has already been lost or can’t be read anymore. Keeping working copies that people can still use helps keep that history alive. If you used any of these systems growing up, try starting one up and see what memories come back. And if you’re a teacher, this could be the best classroom tool you find all year.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/945246/virtual-os-museum-dos-windows-mac-os

#Cybersecurity #InfoSec