Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

“The U.N. cybercrime convention is a blank check for surveillance abuses,” EFF’s Katitza Rodriguez told Scientific American. “It can and will be wielded as a tool for systemic rights violations.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/0724--un-cybercrime/

Woke up in UTC+1 to discover that my instance has been blocked by tech.lgbt [ETA: and then unblocked? I feel crazy]

Am hearing it's because we're accused of antisemitism.

I'm a "wrong-half" American Ashkenazi Jew (four patrilineal great-grandparents lived in "rootless cosmopolitan" Bialystok).

I reject the idea that murder by Israelis must be supported by all Jews, or that opposing this murder is somehow a condemnation of Judaism.

#genx #reading

Really hate to see Harris endorsing a terrible Trump tax proposal. Pure pandering -- no panacea for workers in a crappy system, and bad for America's economic health.

https://newrepublic.com/article/184738/economists-thoughts-trumps-half-baked-tax-cut-ideas

It's bad enough to shame people for voting based on the primary issue of stopping genocide, but it's even worse to claim they're a "one issue voter."

The money being spent on bombing Gaza could be spent on paying our teachers, funding our healthcare, fixing our roads, or making college affordable. But instead its being used to kill innocent children.

Stopping genocide isn't one issue. It's literally every issue.

I started building a website on @glitchdotcom but it's "glitched" on Brave. Just brings up a blank page. If you tell me to switch Browsers I will block you because that wasn't the point. Why is it glitched on Brave? Works on Safari, but I refuse to use Safari.

Flojaune Cofer, an epidemiologist and Sacramento mayoral candidate, wants to confront homelessness and gun violence by solving their root causes rather than ramping up criminalization. "It’s one thing to fight a symptom, it’s another thing to eradicate a disease." https://boltsmag.org/the-epidemiologist-running-for-mayor-to-bring-public-health-to-sacramento/

Masks keep you safe.

Vaccines work.

Never Again means Never Again, no matter who does it.

Global Warming is real.

Billionaires are an existential threat to society.

This is just your periodic reminder that you are sane and the gaslighting isn't working on you.

Between October 7 and November 14 2023, 9,500 takedown requests were sent from the Israeli authorities to social media platforms, of which 60 percent went to Meta with a reported 94% compliance rate. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/digital-apartheid-gaza-unjust-content-moderation-request-israels-cyber-unit

Locking up items to deter shoplifting is pushing shoppers online
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/11/retail-theft-cvs-walgreens-locked-cabinet?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Axios @axios-AxiosNews

Trump couldn't land his plane in Bozeman yesterday because he owes the airport $12,000 and the police department $58,000 from 2020.

This is also why he's not having rallies in the swing states. He hasn't paid any of the venues or local governments.

That's why he did his "press conference" from Mar A Lago. 😂

https://dailymontanan.com/2024/08/08/when-trump-comes-to-town-he-brings-excitement-leaves-unpaid-bills/

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/11/2262167/-Deadbeat-Don-Why-He-s-Not-Holding-Rallies

https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/trumps-bozeman-rally-highlights-unpaid-costs-from-past-montana-visits

Inside of you, there are two wolves, a horse, a cow, a goat, a dog, a cat, a bird, a spider and a fly. But I don't know why you swallowed the fly. Perhaps you'll die.

#Curmudgeonry

I have no words. A police officer drove at 74 MPH in a 25 MPH zone without sirens, struck and killed a person in a crosswalk, got away with a second-degree negligent driving and a $5,000 fine, failed to pay the fine, and is now contesting the citation. He didn't even have a valid driver's license when the incident occurred. And he is still employed by SPD.

#DefundThePolice #DefundSPD #SeattlePolitics

https://publicola.com/2024/08/09/kevin-dave-officer-who-struck-and-killed-23-year-old-student-is-challenging-his-traffic-ticket/

@mhd The nice thing about working with older OS's:

There are books.
Books are cheap.
After you go on a holiday, the OS is still the same

:)

Special shout-out to the design genius who decided that “clean face free of any controls or display” is an important feature for dishwashers, making it so that I have to open (and thus stop) the running dishwasher to see how much time is left.

Textbook Lawful Evil, well done, I hate it.

"July 7 to 13 was the week #Pornhub, the most popular pornography website in the U.S., restricted access to its content throughout #Kentucky in response to a new state law. Kentuckians in that July week showed more interest in the search term #VPN than in any other week over the past 17 years" https://www.bgdailynews.com/news/ky-turns-to-privacy-software-after-adult-site-restricts-access/article_e92dfdca-69de-52f4-98ea-ae2e4ee72b1d.html