Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com
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I saw a great comment on Reddit in response to "Why do some people prefer Unix to Linux": https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1fjtg9v/comment/lnqiylg/
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On top of all the cutting-edge #enshittification tactics @pluralistic lists here, HP also provides the hardware and data centres that power Israel's military and that allow it to enforce its apartheid state
https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/30/life-finds-a-way/#ink-stained-wretches
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@marinheiro @dangillmor @pluralistic it is not a printer. It is an ink vending machine. The fact that it happens to produce printed output is a marketing mistake.
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@dangillmor @pluralistic My HP inkjet wouldn’t print in black & white when the yellow cartridge go low—but the black cartridge had plenty! I’ll never buy another HP printer of any kind.
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@dangillmor As someone who had to throw away a perfectly good printer because it suddenly decided that even HP ink was not really HP ink, I learnt this the hard way. Never again. @pluralistic
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This meeting could have been an email. This email could have been a slack message. This slack message could have been an emoji. This emoji could have been a knowing look. This building could have been a grassy field, this job could have been a rounding error, this company could have been an abattoir. This economy could have been a rat in a cage pressing a button over and over.
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A $621 million suit for ~$41,000 in "damages" for archiving thousands of musical recordings that would otherwise be lost to history.
This is nothing short of an effort to end the @internetarchive from major music labels and we should all be furious.
@realTuckFrumper Treating churches unlike any other business is a holdover from the time when the churches were the government.
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If you haven’t already, I would recommend reading the book In Defense of Looting by Vicky Osterweil.
“Looting rejects the legitimacy of ownership rights and property, the moral injunction to work for a living, and the “justice” of law and order. Looting reveals all these for what they are: not natural facts, but social constructs benefiting a few at the expense of the many, upheld by ideology, economy, and state violence.”
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For a long time we’ve existed in this world where citizens commonly say “we just should just kill THEM all” and politicians are more decorous. Trump by contrast just says what your drunk uncle says.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/post/3l5d6f6ie3a2s
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JD Vance literally voted AGAINST the bipartisan border bill
Because Donald Trump told him to
Trump killed the border bill because he wanted to campaign on the issue
TRUMP AND VANCE are why we don’t have a better immigration policy right now
@realTuckFrumper The woke Democrats have also created sunspots and the precession of the equinoxes.
@Free_Press The same tired vacuous 'defense' is the bogus you are being antisemetic' attack.
@chrisgeidner The current purpose of most sheriffs and many other so-called 'law enforcement' personnel is to remove humans they don't like.
@realTuckFrumper It is wonderful how egotistical tyrants feel entitled to impose their fantasy of the world on everyone else.
@realTuckFrumper Why 'must' the GOP reform a broken institution when they want it that way?
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PayPal is updating their Terms of Service to automatically give merchants access to your data starting in November and they've already opted you into it.
The EU has better privacy laws than North America, so if you're there you won't even have these settings.
OPT OUT BEFORE THEY START:
Go to Settings > Data & Privacy > PayPal Shopping and toggle it to off.
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@mattblaze But that is just an "opinion". My opinion may be different. How are we to judge our relative sincerity and aptness of thought?
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After 2 women die in ‘ambush’ outside Hardin courthouse, what can Kentucky do better? https://www.rawstory.com/after-2-women-die-in-ambush-outside-hardin-courthouse-what-can-kentucky-do-better/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
