RE: https://chaos.social/@samvie/116516495594727248
So, #2MR-Euphorie ausgenutzt und gleich Bahntickets und Unterkunft in Berlin für den #FediDay am 11.-13.9.26 gebucht. 🪅
Ach wie schön. ✨ wir freuen uns, dass du kommst!
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hypebot
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d@nny disc@ mc²
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still cant sign our plural identity commits [private key is an actual problem or queer infighting
my (vegan) younger kid is a good cook. I asked him for his vegetable stock recipe and he sent this ❤️
@regehr so, the next generation knows (kind of) how to write with pen. good!
By me: I'm suing the U.S. government under the Freedom of Information Act.
https://this.weekinsecurity.com/plot-twist-i-am-suing-the-justice-department-and-fbi
@zackwhittaker Thanks dude! Nice way to get all your followers blacklisted! Do we have to unfollow you now?? 😅
Fireworks Plant Explosion Kills at Least 21 People in China
https://www.bloomberg.com/en/news/thp/2026-05-05/urgent-explosion-at-a-fireworks-plant-in-china-kills-at-least-21-people-state-media-says?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Emerging Markets @emerging-markets-bloomberg
Alex Akselrod
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“hey so cruises are getting a bad rap because of all the norovirus outbreaks, we’d like to hire your firm to change the perception - can you do that?”
“absolutely!”
“ok, thank you, you’re hired, can’t wait to see what you come up with.”
“RELEASE THE MICE!”
Cory Doctorow
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@pluralistic I really enjoyed Radicalized, but I *Loved!* Unauthorized Bread. I have retold the story countless times and used it as an example in discussions on walled gardens and vendor lock-in. It's a story people intuitively understand, absurd, but scarily plausible.
I was more than a little sad when the story was over, I so wanted to read more of Salima's exploits. Peak cyberpunk, such a great little glimpse into a not-so-impossible future.
I'll definitely look out for the graphic novel.
Stop what you're doing and watch this if you haven't seen it yet - strong evidence of an astroturfed digital campaign waged by foreigners to undermine Canada
I hope that journalists follow the money, and that any Canadians involved are held accountable.
Unfortunately, our legal system is at least a quarter century behind where it needs to be.
@dcdeejay good story! It wasn't clear where the money comes from. YouTube ads? Or is anyone supplying additional funds?
theruran 💻 🌐 :cereal_killer:
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On this May the 4th (be with you), I would like to offer my personal philosophy.
Cory Doctorow
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My goodness @pluralistic's neologisms are so delicious:
"This is the defective reasoning that caused Comrade Trump to hormuz the world into the full Gretacene."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/04/hope-in-the-dark/#hormuzed-into-the-gretacene
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:
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Did you know you can pass a bill that states 1 + 1 = 3 ?
Like. Your legislature can propose, vote, and pass a bill that doesn't follow the rules of math, science, etc. Representatives don't have to understand tech, or numbers, or computer protocols. Or really anything. It's just words on paper (or a screen) that more than half of their body voted for.
And it's law.
Who knew.
Anyways, here's a fun article to read: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/vpn/utah-becomes-first-us-state-to-target-vpn-use-with-age-verification-law
Cory Doctorow
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"This is the defective reasoning that caused Comrade Trump to hormuz the world into the full Gretacene. Whereas once the case for the energy transition was driven by activists who warned people about the future consequences of inaction, Trump has summoned up a new army of people who are worried about the present consequences of inaction: such as not being able to drive your car, use your gas stove, or fertilize your crops. Trump has summoned up another army of people, who are worried about the politics of oil, the fact that oil leads to wars and can be mobilized as a weapon when it is withheld from your country."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/04/hope-in-the-dark/#hormuzed-into-the-gretacene h/t @pluralistic
Cory Doctorow
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RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116515890823883674
THIS!
“Remember, fossil fuels are *fuels*, while renewables are *infrastructure*.”
#Climate #Solar
#Renewables #Solarpunk
Meanwhile, *not* transitioning to renewables *absolutely* requires an endless cycle of incredibly destructive and genocidal extraction. Remember, fossil fuels are *fuels*, while renewables are *infrastructure*. Fuels need to be dug up and destroyed every year for so long as we insist on setting old dead shit on fire to survive. We dig up a *lot* of fossil fuels.
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Cory Doctorow
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RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116515863634209592
This essay is fantastic, and helps to give me hope in these dark times.
No one is better at keeping hope alive than Rebecca Solnit, the historian and essayist whose *Hope in the Dark* got me through the first Trump administration and whose *A Paradise Built In Hell* inspired my novel *Walkaway*:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/301070/a-paradise-built-in-hell-by-rebecca-solnit/
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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/2026/05/04/hope-in-the-dark/#hormuzed-into-the-gretacene
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@lufertec Ah that's a bug that triggers some times. Thanks for reporting it. Investigated and fixed in https://github.com/pachli/pachli-android/pull/2269. I'll roll out a patch release with this tomorrow.
@pachli I love you! Pachli rocks our world
when misty said she and ash would get married but didn't i thought that was the saddest thing in the whole world
misty i know you won't love me like him but i would do anything for you
Trump Says He Will Bring Up Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai in Xi Summit
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-05/trump-says-he-will-bring-up-hong-kong-s-jimmy-lai-in-xi-summit?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Alito simply cannot stand that Jackson has spoken as his equal and professional peer and questioned his ethics, integrity, practice of the craft of adjudication. He’s set off, in a way that most women I know will recognize. 12/
And he responds as lovers of patriarchy do: he calls his peer, a woman who disagrees with him, irresponsible for doing so and says her views, which she supported with factual information (the rule, the precedents, etc), are “baseless.”
Patriarchal posturing on full display. 13/
