Mastodawn

Almost 7 in 10 say Epstein files show powerful people rarely held accountable: Poll https://twp.ai/E6Gwzz

A dearth of ideas and this all you can do is rig the game and cheat. If Republicans had the better ideas- they’d get the votes without cheating. https://mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper/116092199367325906

velmore Feb 11

Neil Craig Feb 11

A very large CDN supplier emailed us today to say they are having to increase prices because their energy costs have risen up to 2x and servers are now 1.5x the price.

Sounds like AI crap making everything else more expensive, again.

velmore Feb 11

Michael W Lucas

Feb 11

Inspired by a discussion elsewhere:

I've been on the Internet since 1987, started a career building the commercial Internet in 1995, and have spent the last 25 years writing books about how to build foundational Internet infrastructure. I've consulted for and worked with any number of dot-coms, and the one lesson I've gotten over and over again?

The Internet's business model is betrayal.

We have no smart lights. No voice assistants. No Alexa or Siri. No video doorbell. Our thermostat and appliances constantly complain about their lack of Internet. None of this stuff is safe.

The Internet tech I do use? A desktop PC. Email on my phone is for travel only: airplane tickets, hotel reservations, hockey and concert tix. Location on my phone? Nope, we use a dedicated non-networked GPS in the car. The microphones are off.

How can a light bulb betray me? I don't know. I do know that the vendors have put a LOT of thought into it, though, and I can't out-think all of them.

velmore Jan 23

George Takei

🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Jan 23

Meanwhile Trump pardoned an actual cocaine trafficking former president of Honduras.

velmore Jan 23

Qasim Rashid, Esq.Jan 23

Jonathan Ross—the ICE fascist who killed Renee Good—is an 18-year ICE veteran, firearms instructor, & active shooter trainer.

The people claiming "ICE needs more training" are missing the point. Ross's 2 DECADES of training IS what led him to execute Good. ICE Training IS the problem. More money for more ICE training results in more trained killers.

The problem with fascists isn't that they're poorly trained, it's that they're fascists. You don't train fascists, you abolish them. Abolish ICE.

velmore Jan 23