Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Hey @verge and @rollingstone: Please stop this bullshit of having light gray text on a white background, it doesn't make your site look cool, it just makes it hard to read.

Love,

A person who loves contrast

“Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon is a federal crime.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/politics/trump-gun-nypd-revoke/index.html

Rich donors are paying as much as $300,000 per person to attend a Trump fundraiser in San Francisco today. What do they expect in return for their money?

It's good to see people finally being concerned with journal Board members forcibly pulling articles the journal published.

A friend just pointed out:

"ADHD creates impulse control issues and, consequently, advertising takes advantage of a disability.  Ergo, ad blockers are assistive devices and interfering with their operation for commercial gain constitutes a willful violation of the ADA."

Let’s do this.

Mike Karels died on the way home from #BSDCan, at the age of 67.

https://www.gearty-delmore.com/obituaries/michael-mike-karels

This man spent 40 years working on BSD. His code appears in #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, and everywhere.

If you have used the Internet, you have used code he wrote.

RIP, sir. You changed the world for the better.

What's probably his last talk: "I don't have much to say," followed by a spellbinding eighty minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSziyKlG1ws

[edited to remove echovita obit; apparently that's an AI scam site ]

Some of y'all are still confused as to why it seems that Silicon Valley billionaires are "turning to Trump." That's because you don't listen to Black people, you disrespect poor white people, and you ignore obvious statistics that have been staring you in the face for decades.

Silicon. Valley. Billionaires. Have. Always. Supported. Trump.

Not because they like the tax breaks. Because they are more likely to be racist, and racism is the greatest predictor of Trump support.

1/N

1. The most accurate indicator of Trump support, is racism. The 2nd most accurate, is sexism. Not "economic anxiety." The only anxiety that they have, is that Black people might have some money.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112509146141942999

2. Most Trump voters, were not working class.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109876824739991841

3. Most Jan 6 participants, were rich.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109880485930219870

4. Venture Capital, is the most racist part of the US financial/capital allocation system, by far.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109982115166606787

3/N

@jvagle True fact: the Privacy Act of 1974 was passed partially in reaction to Nixon's abuses—but commercial data collection and national security rationales have both grown tremendously in the last 50 years.

It just clicked in my brain. What I haven't been able to articulate about why I'm so anxious about #Windows Recall. I'm sure others have already gotten to where I am.

It's worse than "a system that tracks everything you do" and stores that info in a basic database that could be easily compromised.
It's worse than a nanny surveillance tool for companies to spy on their employees.

It's inescapable.

It doesn't matter if I make a dozen "how to disable recall" tutorials. The second YOUR data shows up on someone ELSE'S screen, it's in THEIR recall database.

It won't matter if you're a master #security expert specialist. You can't account for EVERY other computer you've ever interacted with. If a family member looks up an old email with your personal data in it, your data is now at risk.

If THEIR system is compromised YOUR data is at risk.

I just went from "vague feeling of unease" to "actively writing templates to canvas elected officials, regulators, and attorneys general."

On Eve of Opening Arguments, WSJ Launders David Weiss’ Russian Disinformation Problem

www.emptywheel.net/2024/06/04/on-eve-of-opening-arguments-wsj-launders-david-weiss-russian-disinformation-problem

How, on the eve of opening arguments in the Hunter Biden case, do you launder the fact that David Weiss reneged on Hunter Biden's plea deal because he was chasing false claims from a guy with close ties to Russian intelligence? The post On Eve of Opening…

it is not useful to tell people who do not control what operating system they use at work to use a different operating system at work.

I loved this:

1. How many photons does Voyager send per bit transmitted?
2. Many photons are received per bit received?
3. How close are we to the theoretic lower limit of what we need to receive

https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/816710/9062

The War Criminal Netanyahu Should Not be Invited to Address Congress https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/06/03/the-war-criminal-netanyahu-should-not-be-invited-to-address-congress/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

You would imagine that Big Journalism would consider it a huge story that a right-wing campaign is under way -- and escalating -- to deny voting rights to a MILLION people of color.

You would be, sadly, wrong.

It's happening, and our news organizations don't give a damn.

https://mailchi.mp/gregpalast/trump-plan-for-2024-taken-from-kkk-plan

In all fairness, the Teska Cybertruck is a classic design.

MAGA Trump supporters are doxxing the NYC jurors.

But how did the jurors’ names get out in the first place? The jury was anonymous, by court order.

Did Trump or his lawyers leak the names?!?