VPNs Are Not a Solution to Age Verification Laws
VPNs are having a moment. On January 1st, Florida joined 18 other states in implementing an age verification law that burdens Floridians' access to sites that host adult content, including pornography websites like Pornhub.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Extent: 256x256 (scaled x2)
"Onebit" colouring scheme.
Festnahmen bei Protesten gegen Regierung in Georgien
Bei erneuten Demonstrationen gegen die Regierung sind in Georgien mehrere Menschen festgenommen worden. Unter ihnen sind auch zwei bekannte Oppositionsführer.
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With Trump and Musk dismantling load-bearing structures of the federal government, the liberal argument that we cannot live without those structures is no longer relevant. We have to, whether we like it or not. We may as well work for autonomous regions on the model of AANES or the Zapatistas, because how else will we survive?
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und sie aufgefordert, sich umgehend für die Ausladung dieser Partei einzusetzen.
@afelia
#Didacta #demokratie #rechtsstaat #bildung #niewiederistjetzt
Wart ihr schon mal im #Planetarium? Meine Mutter ist Astronomin/Astrophysikerin und hat die Sternkarten für die Zeiss-Planetarien gemacht.
Dazu musste berechnet werden, wie ein Sternbild am Standort eines neu gebauten Planetariums aussieht.
Das Planetarium in der Prenzlauer Allee steht jetzt unter Denkmalschutz.
die ortsbegehung: Endlich Denkmal
Das Zeiss-Großplanetarium steht seit Januar unter Denkmalschutz. Die Kuppelhöhe folgte politischen Vorgaben im Kalten Krieg, unten drunter verbarg sich modernste TechnikAndreas Hergeth (taz)
We should not be watching the slow motion train wreck unfolding unchallenged in D.C. The fact people are confused and frightened is proof positive the Democratic party is non-functional as a political party. They should have had a coordinated response prepared long ago that they'd be deploying systenatcially now. We wouldn't be confused because they'd be making clear what they intend to do about this. That is the very least you could expect from a national party, and the fact that they've failed to do even this much means the party is defunct. I see a party that's phoning it in. They have no verve, no sense of urgency, no care for their constituents, and apparently no capacity to strategize.
Would love to be proven wrong.
A pixel art portrait of a dear old childhood friend of mine.
(Drawn last summer.)
> "The serious guys with guns"
Words cannot express the depths of revulsion I feel towards the liberals who believe so fervently and dogmatically in an image of the state as some justified, rational, rule-bound, benevolent, and intelligent authority ...that does not exist and could never exist.
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[) The serious guys with guns are required to get unauthorized personnel
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“Humans brought the heat. Earth says we pay the price” @TheRegister. Read more here:
theregister.com/2025/02/02/hea…
Humans brought the heat. Earth says we pay the price
Amid wildfire death and destruction, there are solutions, workable smart solutions, but who wants to talk about that?Rik Myslewski (The Register)
"we humans" doesn't sound like the most accurate way to frame it, as it erases those differences.
Academics and researchers, I'm not joking when I say now is the time to save your work/data in multiple places outside of your institution's server or Google or MS cloud.
A thumb drive. An external drive. Print out the critical documents, e.g., final drafts, copies of publications, approved grants & IRB docs, latest teaching/research statements, student evaluations, syllabi, other tenure packet items, etc.
In other words, save your work like it's 2002.
Wired magazine is making big US news orgs look stupid and incompetent. Wired understands what's at stake in the Musk-led database/payment systems takeovers -- and it's doing the reporting to tell the public what's going on. Example:
wired.com/story/elon-musk-gove…
Reuters is also seriously on the case.
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.Vittoria Elliott (WIRED)
"Prepare your pandemic supplies
I’ve said all this before, but it’s worth repeating and putting all in the same place. The folks in charge now aren’t going to warn you about a pandemic. They’re not going to warn you about tuberculosis or anything else.
So:
N95 masks or respirators. Goggles. Plant-based antivirals. Air purifiers. Corsi-Rosenthal boxes. Hand sanitizer. HOCL. Get this stuff now. Help other people acquire these things if they can’t. Normalize mask wearing. Don’t make it easy for podcast bullies to get someone fired for wearing a mask. At this point, I’ve simply resigned to living like there’s always a pandemic. The people who’ve made fun of me for this wound up with debilitating Long Covid.
I didn’t want that for them.
So, set a good example."
the-sentinel-intelligence.net/…
It's All Hitting The Fan Now
You weren't wrong, just early.Jessica Wildfire (The Sentinel-Intelligence)
Copyright is a Civil Liberties Nightmare
If you’ve got lawyers and a copyright, the law gives you tremendous power to silence speech you don’t like. Copyright’s statutory damages can be as high as $150,000 per work infringed, even if no actual harm is done.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Sooooooooo....
THIS is how the 21st century's version of the Great Depression gets kicked off, eh?
it's also how the 20th century's version of the Great Depression got kicked off!
tariffs just be like that
From #CTAN:
François Pantigny submitted an update to the nicematrix package.
Version: 7.1 2025-02-01
License: lppl1.3
Summary description: Improve the typesetting of mathematical matrices with PGF
I'm giving away half my wealth over 5 years - not in my will, not after I die, right now. I’ve already sent $1M to eight organizations working to help Americans. There’s a lot more to come.
Let's talk about how we can build the American Dream. AMA!
reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1if…
OpenAI Makes Surprise Livestream Today for 'Deep Research' Announcement - Slashdot
Just three hours ago, OpenAI made a surprise announcement to their 3.9 million followers on X.com. "Live from Tokyo," they'd be livestreaming... something. Their description of the event was just two words.slashdot.org
AfD-Co-Chefin Weidel: Für den Euro, gegen den "Schuldkult"
Die AfD-Covorsitzende Weidel glaubt nicht mehr an eine Rückkehr zur D-Mark - und geht damit auf Distanz zu großen Teilen ihrer Partei. Bei Caren Miosga sprach sie in Bezug auf die nationalsozialistische Vergangenheit Deutschlands von einem "Schuldkult".
Es ist sinnlos, mit Menschen zu diskutieren, die unfähig sind, auf dem Boden der Tatsachen zu bleiben, einen anderen Standpunkt anzuerkennen als den eigenen, zuzugeben, dass sie sich geirrt haben (= etwas dazugelernt zu haben).
Versucht man es trotzdem, richtet man unterm Strich nur großen Schaden an.
Der einziger Grund, solche Menschen trotzdem in eine „Diskussion“ einzuladen, ist Sensationsgeilheit und das ist gefährlich!
Caren Miosga ist keine verantwortliche Journalistin.
The latest transgender research on one page (and more).
transgenderreport.com/trump-ce…
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Trump censors transgender research now (+ more LGBTQ news) - Transgender Report
CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.transgenderreport (Transgender World)
You think plushies are only for kids? Then how do you explain this?
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3 February 1907 | Czech Jewish woman, Margita Dolejšová, was born in Olomouc.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.
Starmer urged leaders to act bold,
To put pressure on Russia, be cold,
With sanctions in place,
They must not lose pace,
To stand up for justice and uphold.
#GuardianLimerick #Ukraine #Europe #Politics
theguardian.com/politics/2025/…
Starmer calls on European leaders to put more economic pressure on Russia
PM wants to ‘see all allies stepping up’, saying Donald Trump’s threat of sanctions has rattled Vladimir PutinRowena Mason (The Guardian)
The #Fediverse now has 12,281,466 users.
Within the past month, it grew by 1.5M accounts.
This represents the biggest month of growth since November 2022.
FediDB, Fediverse Network Statistics
FediDB is a cutting-edge service providing detailed statistics and insights into the Fediverse network.fedidb.org
OpenAI Makes Surprise Livestream Today for 'Deep Research' Announcement - Slashdot
Just three hours ago, OpenAI made a surprise announcement to their 3.9 million followers on X.com. "Live from Tokyo," they'd be livestreaming... something. Their description of the event was just two words.slashdot.org
- Networked actors in Haskell! forgefed.org/blog/networked-ac…
- We've used all our 2024 budget, yay! Waiting to sign the 2025 grant with NLnet
- I want to make ForgeFed practical and usable for implementors! Are you a forge feveloper? Let's talk ❤
- I'm going to try carving a shortest path towards a federated collaboration demo with usable UI - more on that soon!
--Pere
Anthony
Als Antwort auf Subjacent Banana • • •I think it's classic shock and awe en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sh…
combined with a recognition that they only have two years tops to accomplish whatever they're after (the system will react in force by then and slow them down)
combined with misdirection: they create chaos over here, everyone (including us) stares at it, and they go do what they really want to do over there where no one's looking.
combined with Trump and Musk both being narcissists who need people talking about them 24/7.
To me it makes perfect sense.
2007 non-fiction book by Naomi Klein
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