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government regulating the web :drake_dislike:
big tech deplatforming people :drake_dislike:
open decentralized web where users are empowered to choose sites with different moderation policies :drake_like:

What's that you say? A whole lot of planning and promotion for the Capitol Riot took place on... Facebook?

I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

web.archive.org/web/2021011501

Gout
Gout
Limping about
These are the joints I can’t do without
Come on
I’m walking on you
Come on

Hmm... If I make my goal <learn Rust and apply it to a project>, I'll get a failing grade next review period if anything happens on my paying projects and I don't have time.

If I make my goal <close one ticket a week>, I'll get "Exceeds Expectations" just for doing my job.

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I'd really like a way to talk about a... corelessness in my life that won't be mistaken for either nihilism or fishing for sympathy.

Why do we insist on pretending that your job has any place for personal growth?

<Set some goals for the year.> Bitch, my goal is to do work and get paid. Let's not pretend the business will bend toward anything _I_ want.

I need to talk less about politics.

I need to _read_ less about politics.

We live in a year when Julian Assange is a free man and Baked Alaska is a fugitive.

👑👏All 👏Men 👏Are 👏Kings👏👑 behead them.

nice, this should come in useful

>In keeping with our tradition of providing primary source documents to the research community and the public at large, The Program on Extremism has launched a project to create a central database of court records related to the events of January 6, 2021. This page will be updated as additional individuals are charged with criminal activities and new records are introduced into the criminal justice system.

https://extremism.gwu.edu/Capitol-Hill-Cases
If you are concerned about privacy and security in computer systems, please read On Trusting Trust, it changed my view when I first read it.

http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf

i know they authorized a bunch of new TLDs several years back, but getting on the Fediverse and seeing all these bizarre hoatnames is just tickling me.

Gotta get one of those .horse domains.

Does anyone know if Lonnie Coffman* was inside the Capitol, or in the crowd that went to the Capitol, on the 6th?

* This is the guy with 11 Molotov Coctails in his truck.

Here's a Political Spectrum:

Visionary <----------> Managerialist

The Visionary believes in the possibility of a better world and wants to change things to get there.

The Managerialist is only concerned with running the current government more effectively.

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