Here is the eleventh and penultimate part of my story "Is There Life on Mars?"
It's for subscribers only, but that's a good occasion to subscribe, don't you think? (it's free and I only have a "paywall" because of stupid AI scrapers).
https://glitched.earth/is-there-life-on-mars-part-eleven/
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In history class, I never understood how “advanced” civilizations could collapse. It just didn’t seem plausible.
Anyway, I’ve seen enough. I get it now.
But then the pandemic hit, and democratic socialist policies like fees-free were sacrificed on the alter of paying for pandemic response policies. Leaving the 1 year free as a hanging chad when Hipkins lost Labour the 2023 election with the dopey anti-tax 'captain's call'.
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When NatACT First took power, they presumably wanted to avoid pushing that same student vote to the left, so they kept the policy. But pushed it to the final year of study.
This had the predictable effect of tanking any ability for the policy to encourage working class young people into tertiary study. So now the regime can claim the policy is a failure - 'middle class welfare' - and scrap it altogether. Freeing up more public money to bribe campaign donors with.
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Lot River
unfortunately beige dot party guy was (imo) effectively spreading FUD about tor in their replies https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/116564215081314961 so i increased my cortisol level significantly on the off chance it helps anyone
Fwiw, the media appears to be angry at the Dems for holding their Epstein hearing in Palm Beach. To properly cover it, they'd have had to send a guy - and they hate that.
That's the best i can come up with for an "innocent" reason to bury the story and continue putting "Democrat "Field Hearing" in scare quotes.
@emmadavidson @troberts ash but see, all those are State Govt costs, so the Federal budget remains rosy :-(
@gregatron5 the glib answer is to run your own Forgejo. Private/personal/small company implies that you don't particularly care about the social aspect and really just need a tightly controlled forge.
Correct. This is my answer as well. If you use @omgdotlol, an instance of Forgejo is in beta. But I’m sure there are other folks doing the same.
@farah @artemis tbh my question is how much of that "prickly" is the authentic self you've been struggling to hide, and how much is the defense mechanisms you've put up to hide yourself? I know it's not that simple and it's impossible to really distinguish between the two, but it's still worth thinking about. The people I find myself most conflicted about are those who are very easy to love when they show me who they've been hiding, but very hard to be around when they're fighting to hide
@raphaelmorgan @artemis Oh dang! That’s some deep stuff to think about
May 9th:
90. Baltimore oriole
91. Northern yellow warbler
92. Hermit thrush
May 11th:
93. Gray catbird
May 12th:
94. Northern mockingbird (lifer!)
95. Chestnut-sided warbler
We've come to an icky time in security when the concern about using outdated, unpatched software starts to become overshadowed by the fear of downloading some backdoored update.
@ajroach42 One line of toys created and manufactured as two designs in three families of plastics at four sizes by fewer than five people ain’t too shabby for a few weirdos in the Appalachian mountains. Kumiai-ki rules!
The fees-free scheme seemed like a Labour election strategy. They promised to add 1 free year of tertiary study per Parliamentary term. So conveniently for Labour, students turning 18 would have a strong incentive to turn out at the next election, and vote to keep Labour in power.
18-21 year olds are a demographic with consistently low voter turnout. So getting them out to the polls can be enough to swing a tight election, as it was in 2017.
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But then the pandemic hit, and democratic socialist policies like fees-free were sacrificed on the alter of paying for pandemic response policies. Leaving the 1 year free as a hanging chad when Hipkins lost Labour the 2023 election with the dopey anti-tax 'captain's call'.
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For many NGOs and civil society teams, security isn’t just one tool — it’s a stack.
From VPNs to password managers and 2FA, these tools are, in theory, meant to boost security. In practice, it can also create friction across workflows, devices, and teams.
This raises a practical question: how do we balance strong security practices with tools people can realistically adopt and sustain?
We’re exploring this trade-off in a 1-2-minute polis.
Share your thoughts here: https://pol.is/6dmdzed9mu
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Caption: But in a red-hot rematch,
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Just put out dried mealworms for the birds and tried one on a whim. Little fuckers are delicious and we should all be eating insects.
@torproject genuinely curious if there's any future for privacy-preserving on the Android platform if Google go ahead with locking us into the Play Store, where they can veto any truly useful privacy-preserving apps
@jackeric @torproject grapheneos is right now the most secure general purpose computing device, and entirely maintains its own hardware and software. you speak with an assumed authority in the replies of the tor project, where you know scared and vulnerable people might see what you write. if you're serious, you need to understand that this an extremely irresponsible thing to do.
i honestly can't find it within me to give you the benefit of the doubt. nihilism won't save anyone, especially if you go so far as to ? associate android and the play store ? your terminology "veto" is the crux of your entire concern, and i have absolutely no clue what you could mean by that.
there is so much more work to do in the middle of wartime than try to neg tor for fucking hiring someone so they can keep people safe. "truly useful" is no true scotsman i think. the people stuck on widely surveilled platforms are not an acceptable casualty!
i have seen people i used to trust plant vulnerabilities in everyone's code, multiple times, this year. there still remain people i trust, like the grapheneos project, to protect users. you are fundamentally mistaken about the critical nature of the situation. when the us goes to war, it does not spare its own citizens.
on the off chance you made a severe error in judgement, the grapheneos project depicts a vision for the future without depending on google. if you waste their time with replies like these—don't.
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