Early morning, Loch a' Chroisg:

@ChrisMayLA6

It's often forgotten, by the way, that there were foreign troops in Russia until the mid-20s - the Russian Revolution emerged out of a decade of war.

It has always suited western propagandists to link Stalinism with Bolshevik ideas, rather than this origin in the chaos of endless war and very real threat from abroad.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tess/117193085651919984

Fascinating thread (and discussion)

@thomasfuchs I switched this year to ProtonPass @protonprivacy It works really well.

If you're at the 2026 Global Gathering in Estoril this week, come meet Lockdown Systems at our Booth and Circle! ⭕️🐢

Our collective member @erioldoesdesign will be there to talk about @cyd and what it means to share, preserve, and delete information on the social web, in an age of digital surveillance and censorship.

Clawing Back Your Data in the Age of Social Surveillance

When: Friday, September 4th, 15:30-17:30
Where: GG venue, Spyware Village, Booth 57

https://wiki.digitalrights.community/index.php?title=September_4_2026_Agenda

We will also have a Lockdown Systems Booth on Saturday! Come chat with us and pick up some stickers! ✨

When: Saturday, September 5th, 13:00-15:00
Where: GG venue, Lockdown Systems, Booth 5

https://wiki.digitalrights.community/index.php?title=September_5_2026_Agenda

#GlobalGathering2026 #LockdownSystems #GlobalGathering #GG2026 #Cyd #DataDeletion #Surveillance

I don't know how to get strangers to stop sending me their addresses and other PII because they think I'm a data broker.

@UnePorte
Je ne peux qu'appuyer les propos de @nitot : ton point de vue est clair, étayé, ancré dans des réalités et lucide quant aux conséquences d'un éclatement qui semble inévitable.
Je complète ton regard avec la série d'épisodes du podcast Sismique à ce sujet qui vient enrichir le panorama au sujet des IAgen et tout ça consolide et complète largement ce que j'avais déjà en tête.
Merci !

Alors alignement cosmique, Outrage de Ida Lupino passe *deux fois* au cinéma ce mois-ci. Une fois à l'Étrange Festival, présenté par Ana Mouglalis au Forum des images... Et au Lucernaire, dans le cadre du nouveau ciné-club de Sorociné. https://www.lucernaire.fr/cinema/outrage/

#paris #cinemastodon

a computer can never be held accountable, so a computer should make all management decisions

Super Official Pronouncement

By the power vested in us, the Internet Users of the World, we hereby declare that as of this date forward the name Google has officially been changed to Evil in each and every occurance of the word.

It is no longer allowed to refer to products like Evil Maps, Evil Mail, Evil Docs and Evil Photos using their former names.

Thank you very much for your attention to this matter.

1Password users, stop wasting all your energy posting on social media about them sponsoring Omarchy and *contact support*. No one cares about the number of @'s the corporate handle is getting. Support tickets roll up into actionable metrics.

You can email support@1password.com. You will probably get an AI response and need to request to be escalated to a human.

@itgrrl nah haven’t seen any with particularly outstanding Linux support - but AMD is well supported, it’ll be the cameras and speakers and shit like that worth double checking

@siracusa @jsnell Putting icons onto uniform grey shapes … 🧐

@Remittancegirl

The right-wing opposition to equality and diversity is at one with their opposition to sound science - or any thinking based on reason and evidence.

They believe in authority (in a variety of guises - tradition, religion, force, etc...) - which is inherently opposed to both equality and free-thinking.

Most of all, they can't see the complexity at the heart of the idea of equality: that it's not about our abilities or achievements, but about how loved we are. It doesn't matter if one person can run or calculate faster than another; what matters is that there is no objective viewpoint - no 'authority' outside of ourselves - to say one person is more or less valued than another.

@rolle but why not kubernetes? @upcloud offers it as service.

@futzle now I’m wondering who paid who for the publicity?

@picofarad
> you all don't have third parties there

No we totally do, and we have a proportional representation voting system (MMP) for our elections. So 4 of them currently have seats in Parliament (our equivalent of both houses of Congress), and after the imminent election, it will probably be 5.

Many of us on Mastodon have pointed out that right-wing opposition to immigration is completely irrational. Given falling birthrates, increasing numbers of retired people, and the economic growth the right also advocates, increasing immigration is the only realistic solution.

But we also know that the right tells a lot of lies - or at least that its politics is performative. This LeMonde article - https://archive.is/20260830125629/https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2026/08/30/the-debate-that-pits-the-opening-against-the-closing-of-borders-is-increasingly-disconnected-from-the-real-european-issue_6756982_23.html#selection-3469.72-3469.86 - starkly exposes how the irrationality and dishonesty interact.

Giorgia Meloni frequently scare-mongered about "mass-immigration", and perpetrated performative cruelty on mediterranean asylum seekers - but in fact she increased immigration by 10%. The far right regimes in Hungary and Denmark did exactly the same - whipping up anti-immigration feeling while quietly actually increasing immigration.

The article's positive proposals around the developed world investing in poorer countries are also good.