Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

@LilahTovMoon The only power that man has, as long as he is a private citizen, is the willingness of others to break the law on his behalf. That's it. Break that chain and he is no longer a threat.

What I really want from technology these days is passivity. Physical buttons, and PASSIVITY.

No guessing, no anticipating, no predicting.
No autofill, no autocorrect, no autodrive and PLEASE God no autoplay.

Just be inert until acted upon!

35 major corporations paid their execs MORE than what they paid in federal income taxes between 2018 and 2022.

Each of the companies generated billions of dollars in profit over the same period.

When I say the system is rigged for the rich, this is what I mean.

Palestinian prisoners face rape, death in Israeli prisons, commission alleges https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/10/06/palestinian-prisoners-rape-death-israel/2411728235451/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Once again, for the people in the back: we don't build back doors because there is no way to build a back door that only good guys can walk through, motherfuckers.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack-327fc63b?st=byoB7m

Netanyahu and Putin want Trump to win, and Israel's head honcho is working overtime to make it happen.

https://theintercept.com/2024/10/03/netanyahu-putin-israel-russia-trump-election/

A fly landed on my monitor and I just spent several minutes trying to shoo it away by moving the mouse cursor at it. I think I need a nap.

Relearning modern HTML, and amazed to find that <a> tags have a "ping" attribute that fire off an async POST to whereever you like when someone follows the link. Explicitly designed for tracking user activity, in browsers since 2011.

According to MDN, Firefox is the only browser that doesn't send them. Not for any noble reason, there's just an 11 year old open bug to finish shipping it and it's not done yet.

(edit: boosting this? Want to learn modern HTML? See rec in https://hachyderm.io/@danderson/113261912941835525)

“Artificial Intelligence,” with its biased historical datasets and opaque procedures, has no place in deciding what asylum seekers and immigrants get to stay in the United States.  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/eff-140-other-organizations-call-end-ai-use-immigration-decisions

TRUMP IS PUTIN'S PUPPET!

Donald Trump asked Putin for orders 'advice’ about whether the US should help arm Ukraine in 2017 in-person meeting!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-asked-putin-advice-whether-222120592.html

🤦🏻‍♀️NEW: For the first time in 20 years, Purdue University will not have an on-campus polling place on Election Day this year. Voting rights advocates say the decision by the local board of elections is a blatant attempt to suppress the student vote in #Indiana. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/for-first-time-in-20-years-purdue-wont-have-election-day-polling-place-on-campus/

False Claims of Voter Fraud Lead to Real Instances of Voter Suppression https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/false-claims-of-voter-fraud-lead-to-real-instances-of-voter-suppression/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/oct/05/israel-gaza-october-7-memorials?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Jack Smith's bombshell immunity brief

In a sane world it would be Watergate-level news.

In a Trump-cancerous US, it's just a typical Friday.

Ponder for a moment the damage Trump has done to our democracy with this being the case!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/jack-smith-trump-immunity-brief-chutkan

@AlgoCompSynth @sarahjamielewis
Chrome wasn't objectively better than Firefox. Leaner, more stable yes, but Firefox beat Chrome on features and customizability.

Unfortunately, Mozilla decided to discard their advantages and compete on advertising budget, starting from Firefox 4.

For me, Firefox 57 was the one that removed the last must-have features from Firefox.

If Trump is reelected, Justice Alito may retire. Justice Thomas too.

Trump would then be the first president in more than 50 years to appoint a majority of the Supreme Court.

And not just a "conservative" majority — but a MAGA majority.

SCOTUS is on the ballot this November.

A few seconds ago, a commentator on MSNBC said that presidential debates should be fact-checked in real time in the same way that movies are critiqued by Mystery Science Theater 3000. Works for me.
#mst3k

How Joe Biden lost his grip on Israel’s war for ‘total victory’ in Gaza

As the Israel-Gaza war rages on, the Middle East conflict the White House once hoped to moderate has gone from “over the top” to out of control. #press

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/10/03/biden-israel-gaza-war-middle-east-crisis/?utm_source=press.coop

Biden’s Israel Policy Has Led Us to the Brink of War on Iran https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/03/bidens-israel-policy-has-led-us-to-the-brink-of-war-on-iran/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

TL;DR: Harvard students demonstrate how Meta's smart glasses can dox individuals in real time using facial recognition and public databases, raising significant privacy concerns. https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/2/24260262/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-doxxing-privacy #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum