Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Jimmy Carter makes history as he turns 100
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/01/jimmy-carter-100-birthday-president-record?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-AxiosNews

@dangillmor @pluralistic I’m sure you’ve heard this before, but get a Brother laser printer. B&W only. Toner cartridge lasts forever. Enshittification-free.

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/

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

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

https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp

@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.

@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.

@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

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.

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.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/internet-archive-major-label-music-lawsuit-1235105273/

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.”

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

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

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.

Continued…

#PayPal #Privacy #OptOut

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

“What does a ‘Chief Eschatology Officer’ do?”

“We plan how to maximize shareholder value during and after the end of the world”

“The end of the world caused by your company’s own actions?”

“Pretty much, yeh”

“Didn’t CEO used to stand for something different?”

“Not really”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Netanyahu – “Nothing Can Stop Us” – Not Even the Majority of Israelis https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/09/30/netanyahu-nothing-can-stop-us-not-even-the-majority-of-israelis/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I'm honestly a little disturbed that someone just tried to argue with me that the DOJ shouldn't be bothering with Alabama, since they turn red every election.

1. That's not the point of the DOJ - they're there to protect the interests of all Americans, not the Americans who vote blue.

2. States like Alabama routinely turn red because of voter suppression.

3. Ditching Alabama is directly harming all of the vulnerable people in the state. Like, come on.

“…when speed cameras are doing the ticketing, the proportion of tickets issued to Black and white drivers aligns closely with their respective share of roadway users. With human enforcement, in contrast, police officers stop Black drivers at a rate that far outstrips their presence on the road.”

Police stop more Black drivers...

I agree with every word of this.

"Kathleen Siminyu, a natural language processing researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute, said that while pursuing her undergraduate studies in mathematics and computer science, “I had lecturers who would say things in class like, ‘We can’t have a group for a technical project that just consists of the girls, because who is going to write the code? Girls are for writing documentation.’"
https://newafricanmagazine.com/30540/