Posts by dangillmor@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AxxjjCF6E6k1p1urrc by dangillmor@mastodon.social
2025-09-07T05:41:21Z
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Reuters bends knee to China dictatorship and removes video of Xi and Putin talking about changing out body parts. Presumably lots of people have copies, so it's important for them to post them promiscuously -- and if possible anonymously -- to boost Streisand effect.https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/reuters-withdraws-xi-putin-longevity-video-after-china-state-tv-pulls-legal-2025-09-06/
(DIR) Post #Axzzae2rTVI31j3XXc by dangillmor@mastodon.social
2025-09-08T05:31:46Z
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Re AT Protocol "versus" ActivityPub "There does not have to be a “winning” protocol. We do not build a better open social web for everyone by fighting and arguing about protocol superiority." Strongly endorse; collaboration on ths will work way better than competition.https://writings.thisismissem.social/statement-on-discourse-about-activitypub-and-at-protocol/
(DIR) Post #Ay5EwjklP32eChNnqi by dangillmor@mastodon.social
2025-09-11T03:09:23Z
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Yes, we should despise Big Tech/Telecom's vile CEOs. But as @pluralistic says in his latest Pluralistic post, first blame the policy monsters -- among them, Robert Bork, Bruce Lehman, and Ajit Pai -- who enabled Tech's vicious and destructive monopolists https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/say-their-names/
(DIR) Post #Ay7KxSP4NoJ2izslJA by dangillmor@mastodon.social
2025-09-12T01:57:41Z
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If this is what it seems, it's absolutely contemptible behavior by UC Berkeley -- contemptuous of freedom of speech and academic freedom, for starters.https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/uc-berkeley-turns-over-personal-information-of-more-than-150-students-and-staff-to-federal/article_a4aad3e1-bbba-42cc-92d7-a7964d9641c5.html
(DIR) Post #AyMVdEF1U27u6ozZQm by dangillmor@mastodon.social
2025-09-19T08:58:03Z
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When a company says it has "no plans" to enshittify its product, you should take that to mean it will proceed fairly soon with enshittification. Today's example is Samsung:https://www.theverge.com/news/780757/samsung-brings-ads-to-us-fridges
(DIR) Post #AyOegxKRari8iYIe1I by dangillmor@mastodon.social
2025-09-20T07:39:22Z
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Trump regime now requires press to sign a document agreeing not to obtain or possess "unauthorized" information.https://archive.ph/3GGyUAnyone who agrees to this is not qualified to call himself or herself a journalist. But I'm betting most Big Journalism orgs will go ahead and sign.
(DIR) Post #AySF5KYL4ty3WIbJ8C by dangillmor@mastodon.social
2025-09-22T00:58:59Z
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South Korea president makes it clear that American trade extortion could trigger a financial meltdown in his country.Occam's Razor suggests Trump and his billionaire backers want a global collapse. Wipe out 90% of people's assets, go bargain hunting -- and own it all.https://www.reuters.com/world/china/south-koreas-president-lee-says-us-investment-demands-would-spark-financial-2025-09-21/
(DIR) Post #Aykhqf5ReYrfn6Ljf6 by dangillmor@mastodon.social
2025-10-01T00:53:43Z
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Our "mainstream" media are consistently botching their jobs, directly -- and IMO willfully -- assisting the fascists who are destroying our nation. Occasional pieces of real journalism do not begin to fix Big Journalism's malpractice. Mike Masnick has more:https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/30/the-mainstream-media-is-catastrophically-failing-to-meet-the-moment/
(DIR) Post #AyqiHIKVXMs3yir1Au by dangillmor@mastodon.social
2025-10-04T00:28:03Z
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"With five congressional seats at stake, virtually all of our national legacy media made the choice not to send anyone" to cover a hearing on whether what Texas did was illegal.Democracy Docket is there, however. More evidence that we now have to rely on small outlets.https://newsletters.democracydocket.com/legacy-media-skipped-this.-we-didnt
(DIR) Post #AzAxKLeN27ADcRG1U8 by dangillmor@mastodon.social
2025-10-13T18:58:37Z
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"Trump the Peacemaker" -- a trenchant view from the Guardian's political cartoonist:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/oct/13/ben-jennings-on-trump-the-peacemaker-cartoon
(DIR) Post #Azit7XOuKusqzDS6ls by dangillmor@mastodon.social
2025-10-30T02:53:00Z
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If you are a California voter, please vote Yes on Proposition 50, a hopefully temporary measure to counter the Trump-Republican rigging of U.S. House districts for perpetual GOP control.They declared war on democracy. Support Prop 50 to fight back.https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/quick-reference-guide/50.htm
(DIR) Post #B0CTN8R8VajRsZe9Ym by dangillmor@mastodon.social
2025-11-13T00:51:00Z
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This guy runs the Windows unit at Microsoft, and he's telling you that the company intends to infiltrate "AI" into every aspect of the operating system. If you use Windows, this is an injection of a living, self-replicating virus into your digital existence. Yes I use Linux.
(DIR) Post #B0W8ySuLZfwj7acpyy by dangillmor@mastodon.social
2025-11-21T01:51:59Z
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This is an important document, about the growing entanglement of Big Tech's most evil people/companies and the US government -- and increasingly, the EU.https://www.authoritarian-stack.info
(DIR) Post #B0pFjOS9XC6ujeJZ0i by dangillmor@mastodon.social
2025-12-02T00:03:08Z
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Committing war crimes or outright murdering people, or both. That's what the president of the United States and his military henchmen are doing on the open seas, in your name and with your tax dollars. Read this from one of our best national security journalists:https://www.forever-wars.com/pete-hegseth-and-adm-mitch-bradley-belong-in-prison/?ref=forever-wars-newsletter
(DIR) Post #B1KZuRdw2GRInX89PU by dangillmor@mastodon.social
2025-12-17T04:49:39Z
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#pitchforkshttps://www.thenerdreich.com/r/751f9e4d?m=f0ce0c0a-ffa5-43f9-a41c-5654b860ddd5
(DIR) Post #B1nwExJQ6GtHqyJSbo by dangillmor@mastodon.social
2025-12-31T01:23:07Z
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One of the finest investigative journalists of our times, a veteran of CBS news foibles himself, has posted a definitive explainer -- with deep context -- of the "60 Minutes" takedown by "oligarch functionary" Bari Weiss. https://www.forever-wars.com/watching-bari-weiss-murder-investigative-journalism-at-cbs/?ref=forever-wars-newsletter
(DIR) Post #B2IMJXRCphE9elukaW by dangillmor@mastodon.social
2026-01-15T02:30:53Z
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US Big Tech is conspiring with European (and American) fascists to wreck the EU's ability to even modestly regulate this rogue industry, which has unparalleled -- and growing -- power over people's lives. Fascism and tech are an unholy, and maybe unstoppable, alliance.https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1916422/us-tech-giants-allying-with-european-far-right-to-strip-back-eu-rules
(DIR) Post #B2TDNtKEMFx9aLlJAm by dangillmor@mastodon.social
2026-01-20T06:24:05Z
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Mozilla is asking for your opinion about what it's doing, and the survey appears to be aimed at getting you used to the idea that "AI" will become an integral focus area. I told them that I want Mozilla to focus SOLELY on improving Firefox and Thunderbird, with zero AI in the product.https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201
(DIR) Post #B2WvuNY8V0OO33Ro5A by dangillmor@mastodon.social
2026-01-22T01:08:44Z
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Trump's secret police says it will invade your home without a judge-signed warrant. https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-trump-00d0ab0338e82341fd91b160758aeb2dAny doubt that the corrupt Roberts court will rubber-stamp this? (Never mind Congress, where the majority party utterly loathes the Bill of Rights, except the Second Amendment.)
(DIR) Post #B2hncLGvHcl4C7ODs8 by dangillmor@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T03:12:15Z
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You'd think that every news report of Trump's dispatch of Tom Homan to Minnesota would prominently remind people that Homan was caught on video taking $50,000 in cash, plainly an intended bribe. Sadly, you would be wrong. I'm still looking for any mention of it.Reminder: https://newrepublic.com/post/200788/tom-homan-50k-cash-bribe