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R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵
@rl_dane@polymaths.social  ·  activity timestamp 27 minutes ago

New #blog post: A Time-Traveler's Guide to Affordable Computing

https://rldane.space/a-time-travelers-guide-to-affordable-computing.html

1467 words

Ok, I heard some fair complaints about my schlocky previous post, and this one is much more serious. Ok, what am I saying?? It's straight-up sci-fi comedy with a retrocomputing subject matter, but I took it seriously.

Initially, I was inspired by CJ's wonderful blost about his transition from being a long-term mac user to now daily-driving Linux, and wanted to share my own experiences as a long-term Mac user over nearly two decades, with a decade and a half separating the two times. But then my internal Sotolf mental processes went off and reminded me of how elitist and anti-common-person / anti-consumer / anti-human Apple was, and I went in a very different direction.

I hope y'all enjoy the humor. :D

Minor #CW: some of the humor is of a USPOL nature. It's very light, humor and presentation-wise, but the implications are pretty dark, if you take it seriously (which you're not intended or likely inclined to!)

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#100DaysToOffload #39

#rlDaneWriting #blost #humor #humour #retrocomputing #TimeTravel #ScienceFiction #Polemic #USPOL
Fight Back Against Fascism
@PattyHanson@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago
@jeffjarvis Financial decision, my ass.

From April 29, 2025

...Beyond primetime, CBS is poised to dominate broadcast in Late Night and Daytime. THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT is the #1 program in Late Night for the ninth consecutive season...

#Cowards#Resist#Fascism#USPOL

https://www.paramountpressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/releases/?view=111393-cbs-to-hit-a-record-17th-consecutive-season-as-the-most-watched-network-with-the-top-seven-primetime-shows#:~:text=Top%20seven%20shows:%20%231%20TRACKER,top%20seven%20plus%20%239%20ELSBETH)
Jeri Dansky
@jeridansky@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

Had you heard about sex workers getting caught up in ICE raids? I sure hadn’t.

Per Truthout:

In other labor sectors, worksite raids sparked massive outpourings of solidarity and creative resistance, including “Adopt a Day Laborer” campaigns and street vendor buyouts. But sex workers are left to fend for themselves.

“Our undocumented sex worker fam are terrorized and without resources,” wrote Cocoa Makati, coordinator of DecrimSexWorkCA. Sex work is migrant women’s day labor; massage parlors are their “Home Depot.”

https://truthout.org/articles/sex-workers-are-being-abducted-by-ice-and-abandoned-by-respectability-politics/

h/t @mu @sarahc @lisamelton

#immigration#ICE#SexWork #uspol
Molly White
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

FT: "Donald Trump is preparing to open the $9tn US retirement market to cryptocurrency investments ..."

Trump is seeking to direct Americans' retirement funds to a sector in which he and his family are heavily invested.

ft.com/content/07906211-5ab8-4
jbz
@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

🌏 Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites • AP

｢ And it’s dangerous for the country, Hayhoe said, comparing it to steering a car on a curving road by only looking through the rearview mirror: “And now, more than ever, we need to be looking ahead to do everything it takes to make it around that curve safely. It’s like our windshield’s being painted over.” ｣

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-national-assessment-nasa-white-house-057cec699caef90832d8b10f21a6ffe8

#uspol #climatechange #science
jbz
@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

🚀 American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history

｢ Young people are getting hit especially hard, as graduate/PhD program admissions are at an all-time low for the 21st century, as NSF and NASA grants and fellowships (as well as entire grant/fellowship programs) have been cut off and/or cancelled, and as postdoctoral and research scientist opportunities and positions have been rescinded amid funding uncertainties ｣

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/american-science-brain-drain/

#uspol #science #research
DrALJONES
@DrALJONES@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 13 hours ago

The billionaires called it an "excess of democracy", & they worked out how to defeat it:

THE PLAN

In 1975, Samuel P. Huntington said the "excess of democracy" was caused by mass education in the 1960s.

It followed that education had to be de-democratised. Along with the media.

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/an-excess-of-democracy-how-corporations-killed-the-campus,15165

HOW IT'S GOING

2025: SCOTUS complies:

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/15/headlines/scotus_greenlights_dismantling_of_education_department_unleashing_untold_harm

#Plutocracy #TrilateralCommission#USPol #PowellMemo#EuroPol#Education#Racism#Autocracy .

America must limit the education of marginal groups, said Huntington. Prior to World War Il, only 40 per cent of the population was educated beyond elementary level; by 1972, that figure was 75 per cent. The report summed up the threat thus — education raises political consciousness, which raises demands, which make democratic government unworkable: The more educated a person is, the more likely he is to participate in politics, to have a more consistent and more ideological outlook on political issues ,and to hold more “enlightened” or “liberal” or “change- oriented” views on social, cultural and foreign policy issues. ...Black political participation,’ the report said, ‘was the product primarily... of increased group consciousness.
America must limit the education of marginal groups, said Huntington. Prior to World War Il, only 40 per cent of the population was educated beyond elementary level; by 1972, that figure was 75 per cent. The report summed up the threat thus — education raises political consciousness, which raises demands, which make democratic government unworkable: The more educated a person is, the more likely he is to participate in politics, to have a more consistent and more ideological outlook on political issues ,and to hold more “enlightened” or “liberal” or “change- oriented” views on social, cultural and foreign policy issues. ...Black political participation,’ the report said, ‘was the product primarily... of increased group consciousness.
America must limit the education of marginal groups, said Huntington. Prior to World War Il, only 40 per cent of the population was educated beyond elementary level; by 1972, that figure was 75 per cent. The report summed up the threat thus — education raises political consciousness, which raises demands, which make democratic government unworkable: The more educated a person is, the more likely he is to participate in politics, to have a more consistent and more ideological outlook on political issues ,and to hold more “enlightened” or “liberal” or “change- oriented” views on social, cultural and foreign policy issues. ...Black political participation,’ the report said, ‘was the product primarily... of increased group consciousness.
DrALJONES
@DrALJONES@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 13 hours ago

Analysis: "Mystery buildings in Rafah"

Have Rafah's schools & health centres been preserved for Israel's mooted concentration camp?

Satellite data show the full scope of devastation in Rafah, but some schools & medical centres remain standing. Were they left intentionally, & if so, why?

Video analysis:

https://aje.io/oy4iku?update=3840173

#RafahConcentrationCamp#GazaGenocide #IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity#BDS#USPol#EuroPol .

¡Abbie!
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Trans Rescue
@trans_rescue@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 17 hours ago

The Canadians are beginning to wake up.
We certainly wouldn't advocate depending on asylum in Canada as a strategy yet, but this is a good sign.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-judge-halts-deportation-non-binary-american-trump-gender-edicts/

@lgbtqia
@lgbtq
@lgbtq_plus

#trans#TransRights #transemigrate#USPol #lgbtqia