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well this meta Stack Exchange thread is a complete shitshow

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334900/official-faq-on-gender-pronouns-and-code-of-conduct-changes

Thread by AOC: "I know the term “prison abolition” is breaking some people’s brains. The right is already freaking out. Yet the US incarcerates more than an […]"
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1181207065072676864.html

Tom Scott is an international treasure.

Whoo boy, this is the most public statement I've ever signed:

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-project/

Let's hope some good for #GNU comes of this all.

You wouldn't boost a toot.

You remember the vpn provider #privateinternetaccess financially supporting the neonazi social network #gab, don't you? Their defense was "free speech" yaddayadda... I've been bugging them on twitter for a while now and guess what. They blocked me for critizicing them publicly. So much for free speech. Don't buy from PIA!

I hate 3g dongles wvdial is trash pppd is trash usb-modeswitch is trash

For the record, E2EE is not enough itself. Implementing a backdoor at the client app level allows to decrypt the whole conversation and send it to the mothership.

This is a nice reminder that non-free software can easily be abused to deny people's basic human rights

Watch how they dehumanize us. Not only the govt, but also the liberals reaching for "some citizens might get accidentally caught up in this" because that's the only reason they can imagine the fully-humans caring. And the others making the argument that we should be treated less badly because some of us create jobs, not because all humans deserve better.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/us/dna-testing-immigrants.html

And watch, born US citizens, how they test things on us that will be deployed on you in due course.

I don't care how much flak I get for this. I'm saying it anyway.

Anyone who kinkshames ageplay better block me now because anyone who thinks that pretending to be younger than you physically are is the same thing as being into people who cannot give consent are fucking assholes that I want nothing to do with.

This isn't a subtoot, but if you think it's directed at you, that's a hint you might wanna look at your behavior to figure out why.

brains are like russian roulette but with spoons

Attacking anyone because they enjoy programming in a language that you personally don't like/disagree with is actually garbage trash behavior.
I mean it's fine to make suggestions but it feels like way too many of y'all turn it into "ew don't use that language because it's bad," and that's not the right way to go about things.

TIL today: Lambert, from Alien, is canonically a trans woman?? Like for real, it's talked about in her file in the movie

This is WILD i had no idea and i love this new knowledge