Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Revealed: Trump and Putin are stronger allies than we even knew https://www.alternet.org/trump-putin-2669389690/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Hill I will always stand my ground on:
It is absolutely unreasonable & dangerous to forbid people from bringing their own water into a music venue (or anywhere else) unless you're providing free filtered water inside. Selling bottled water is not a substitute.

And don't even give me excuses about people putting vodka in their water bottle. People also bring pills & gummies or they pre-drink at home. Deal with that problem directly.

Don't run a fucking dehydration extortion scheme.

We won't survive another Trump presidency https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/surviving-trump/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Alarm as Pentagon confirms deployment of U.S. Troops to Israel https://www.rawstory.com/alarm-as-pentagon-confirms-deployment-of-u-s-troops-to-israel/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The New York Times Finally Admits Gaza is an Outdoor Prison https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/14/the-new-york-times-finally-admits-gaza-is-an-outdoor-prison/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Did Trump Discuss the Missing Russian Intelligence Binder In His 7 Putin Calls As A Private Citizen? https://politizoom.com/did-trump-discuss-the-missing-russian-intelligence-binder-in-his-7-putin-calls-as-a-private-citizen/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

As Russia Overtly Helps Trump Get Elected, Trump Continues to Check in with Vladimir Putin

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/10/08/as-russia-overtly-helps-trump-get-elected-trump-continues-to-check-in-with-vladimir-putin/

Report: In One Year, More Than 100,000 Deaths in Gaza—Aided by $17.9 Billion From the US https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/us-israel-funding-gaza-palestine-deaths-october-100000-17-billion/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Trump and Putin Stayed in Contact, According to Bob Woodward's Latest Book https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-russia-bob-woodward-book-1965779?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

PG&E, a monopoly I have no choice but to use, has dropped support for my web browser because they say it's used by less than 5%(!) of their customers.

Report: Blinken Signed Off on Israeli Policy to Attack Humanitarian Aid Trucks https://truthout.org/articles/report-blinken-signed-off-on-israeli-policy-to-attack-humanitarian-aid-trucks/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@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