Carolyn Bryant, the woman who got Emmet Till lynched, has died.

Anyone who thinks Emmett Till being lynched in 1955 is ancient history should remember that 18 current members of Congress are older than him and the white woman Carolyn Bryant who got him lynched just *today* died—and that without any accountability whatsoever.

In short, this systemic racism and racial terror against Black people is not ancient history. It's not even history.

It's contemporary reality.

Dropbox is the next company firing a significant amount of people to pursue the magical dragon "AI". Dropbox. A service that people just want to store their files, sync properly and make them shareable.

Sure they need some bullshit generators. The whole tech sector is just brain worms these days.

This Grey Heron has just arrived at one of its favourite perches that looks down on a side lake near the woods

#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon

Some of the things President Biden has done:
Aided Ukraine against Putin’s invasion
The CHIPS Act
The PACT Act
The Inflation Recovery Act (really a clean energy bill)
The infrastructure bill
A budget proposal to reduce the deficit

What Republicans promise:
Book banning
Persecution of marginalized people
Tax cuts for the wealthy
More gun violence
No rights for women
Destruction of public education
Authoritarianism

Easy call, old or not.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-is-old-get-over-it

My piece for @epochemagazine is out!

It's about Mad Studies, utopia, and my own experiences of madness as lagniappe

https://epochemagazine.org/61/mad-utopias-using-madness-as-political-praxis/

I played with HTTPS security settings today. I have documented what I did at https://co-shaoghal.net/index.php?page=173&offset=0#section242

If anybody knows how to get the Content-Security-Policy header working for @peertube, please let me know #MastoAdmin #PeerTubeAdmin #InfoSec