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grapheneos.org
A false narrative is being pushed about GrapheneOS claiming we're ending operations in France due to the actions of 2 newspapers. That's completely wrong. If both newspapers and the overall French media had taken our side instead of extreme bias against us, we'd still be leaving.
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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The Chinese tea that translates as 'black tea' is called 'dark tea' in English, as 'black tea' in English is what the Chinese call 'red tea'.
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Heads up (to those interested) to an attack by the French state on the FLOSS project @grapheneos.org which produces an exceptionally secure (and privacy-minded) Android-based OS.
@GrapheneOS is being threatened by French authorities for refusing to add backdoors and they're dealing with coordinated attacks in French media right now. They're pulling out of France entirely, moving all their servers, and fighting off a wave of bullshit one-sided reporting that makes them look like they're helping criminals. They need us to fight back. Support them however you can, whether that's a dollar, sharing their story, pushing back on the garbage news coverage when you see it, or just telling someone you know about what's happening. All of it matters because they're drowning in attacks from governments and media and bad actors who want them gone. This is the only Android OS that actually makes me feel like privacy isn't just marketing. They fight for us now they need us to fight for them. The EU is pushing Chat Control and creating an environment where governments feel empowered to threaten developers into compliance, and if we stay quiet we're letting it happen. Show up for them in whatever way you're able to.
November 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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grapheneos.org
We're in the process of our website and OS network services away from OVH due to the threats from French law enforcement. We're going to add nodes in South America, India, Japan and Australia as part of this. We also have 5 non-static-content servers in Canada to move off OVH.
November 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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It's not a lake, technically speaking, it's actually a giant pond.
November 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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So this place is now officially twiiter?
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d
me waking up and opening this app
November 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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One of my favourite places in our local city, the courtyard of 'the museum of the history of the Jews', a restored 14th building containing a synagogue and school/hospital, with the entrance to the mikveh at the top-right corner.
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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'This critique of zero waste is a variant on the argument that it is not in fact possible to decouple economic growth from growing resource consumption and environmental degradation.' #degrowth
cristofol.org Tòfol @cristofol.org · 3d
'Plastic, Clapp says, has been found floating in outer space. It has been found near the summit of Everest. In 2018, a plastic bag was photographed 36,000 feet below sea level, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest place on Earth.'

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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'Plastic, Clapp says, has been found floating in outer space. It has been found near the summit of Everest. In 2018, a plastic bag was photographed 36,000 feet below sea level, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest place on Earth.'

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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lrb.co.uk
‘As with climate change, the focus on consumers deflects scrutiny that should be directed towards industry. Not only do companies help establish false representations of consumer wastefulness, they are themselves waste creators on a gigantic scale.’

Brett Christophers:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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scma.bsky.social
Turns out it wasn’t a war against slavery but a war in favor of white nationalism with or without slaves. Idk I feel like this should have been taught to me in elementary school… 🗃️

Source press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
November 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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'Well, this depends on the outcomes.'

Bingo!
cristofol.org Tòfol @cristofol.org · 4d
Being charming to fascists is good politics; discuss.
November 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Being charming to fascists is good politics; discuss.
November 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Roses are red,
And so are my dearests.
They’re
Tweet saying “Ben Zeisloft @BenZeisloft Various transgenders, sodomites, apostates, and critical theorists.”
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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This group is unmanageable.
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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fonsiloaizap.bsky.social
Hoy, el Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Madrid ha aceptado el recurso de la Falange y ha autorizado su manifestación ultraderechista en Ferraz que habían prohibido. Así campa a sus anchas el fascismo en los tribunales en España.
November 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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After ten minutes of lurking, one is obliged to post. These are the rules, I make them not.
November 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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nytdiff.bsky.social
Change in Headline
Before: Europe Scrambles Over U.S. Plan to End Ukraine War Mostly on Russia’s Terms After: Ukraine Faces ‘Difficult Choice’ Over U.S. Plan to End War, Zelensky Says
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Franco died 50 years ago today.
November 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Gínjol says hi.
Gínjol, a Catalan sheepdog.
November 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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"So there is no support in physics for the idea that the past is “fixed” in some way that the present and future are not, or that it has some ontological power to constrain our actions that the present and future do not have."
Nor does 20th (21st) century physics countenance the idea that there is anything ontologically special about the past, as opposed to the present and the future. In fact, it fails to use these categories in any respect, leading some philosophers to argue that they are merely perspectival and, in a physical sense, illusory.[10] So there is no support in physics for the idea that the past is “fixed” in some way that the present and future are not, or that it has some ontological power to constrain our actions that the present and future do not have. It is not hard to uncover the reasons why we naturally do tend to think of the past as special, and assume that both physical causation and physical explanation work only in the past present/future direction (see the entry on thermodynamic asymmetry in time). But these pragmatic matters have nothing to do with fundamental determinism. If we shake loose from the tendency to see the past as special, when it comes to the relationships of determination, it may prove possible to think of a deterministic world as one in which each part bears a determining—or partial-determining—relation to other parts, but in which no particular part (region of space-time, event or set of events, ...) has a special, privileged determining role that undercuts the others. Hoefer (2002a), Ismael (2016), and Loewer (2020, Other Internet Resources) use such considerations to argue in distinct but closely related ways for the compatibility of determinism with human free agency.
November 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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determinism (n.)
1846, introduced by William Hamilton for "doctrine of the necessitarian philosophers" (who hold that human action is not free but necessarily determined by motives, regarded as external forces acting on the will or character of the person). See determine + -ism.Determinism does not imply materialism, atheism, or a denial of moral responsibility; while it is in direct opposition to fatalism and to the doctrine of the freedom of the will. [Century Dictionary] From 1876 in general sense of "doctrine that everything happens is determined by a necessary chain of causation," from French déterminisme, from German Determinismus, perhaps a back-formation from Praedeterminismus.
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Pretty in pink (it also has a wonderful smell).
A cut pink rose in a jar of water in front of a window.
November 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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A hypothetical use for AI (hear me out, I also think AI hates us) -- as a plagiarism detector! The plagiarism machine turns back on itself to become a plagiarism detector. I suspect that not even this post would escape the 'plagiarism' label -- how many posts would?
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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victorllb.bsky.social
Pau Casals va conèixer la seva darrera dona quan ella tenia 14 anys i ell 74. Després de tenir-la uns anys com a alumna, s’hi va casar quan ella en tenia 20 i ell 80. Per fer-ho una mica més anguniós, es va enamorar d’ella perquè li recordava a la seva mare.
November 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM