Alban
@conciliator.bsky.social
lurker extraordinaire. battlenug on letterboxd
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If you own a computer it should be illegal for a company to not let you easily install your own software. This includes crap like tvs and refrigerators. Let me put Debian on my dishwasher.
December 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
If you own a computer it should be illegal for a company to not let you easily install your own software. This includes crap like tvs and refrigerators. Let me put Debian on my dishwasher.
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(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne
December 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne
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three wise men... don't see much of that nowadays
December 16, 2025 at 3:26 AM
three wise men... don't see much of that nowadays
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[somberly] You cannot serve both god and money [upbeat music hits] Until now. Introducing god as a service
December 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
[somberly] You cannot serve both god and money [upbeat music hits] Until now. Introducing god as a service
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MAGA guy solemnly modifying his well-worn K*LL YOUR LOCAL PEDOPHILE shirt to say VOTE FOR YOUR LOCAL PEDOPHILE
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
MAGA guy solemnly modifying his well-worn K*LL YOUR LOCAL PEDOPHILE shirt to say VOTE FOR YOUR LOCAL PEDOPHILE
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86% of these tracks will receive the same payment from Anna’s Archive as from Spotify
Spotify says ‘anti-copyright extremists’ scraped its library
This is not the Christmas present that Spotify would have been hoping for: a huge chunk of its metadata being released on filesharing.
This is not the Christmas present that Spotify would have been hoping for: a huge chunk of its metadata being released on filesharing.
Spotify says ‘anti-copyright extremists’ scraped its library
This is not the Christmas present that Spotify would have been hoping for: a huge chunk of its metadata being released on filesharing.
musically.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
86% of these tracks will receive the same payment from Anna’s Archive as from Spotify
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"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
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The founder of the Futurist movement was also co-author of the Fascist Manifesto.
Modern day fascists are trying something similar with crypto, A.I. and space flight, but it's more of a grift than an attempt at creating a coherent ideology plus aesthetic.
www.piratewireservices.com/p/the-other-...
Modern day fascists are trying something similar with crypto, A.I. and space flight, but it's more of a grift than an attempt at creating a coherent ideology plus aesthetic.
www.piratewireservices.com/p/the-other-...
The other crypto-fascism: how “Futurism” and the tech-right are making inroads into Latin America
Roughly 80 years ago, a similar “disruption and innovation” movement by the same name brought about the birth of fascism in Italy. The parallels are striking
www.piratewireservices.com
January 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The founder of the Futurist movement was also co-author of the Fascist Manifesto.
Modern day fascists are trying something similar with crypto, A.I. and space flight, but it's more of a grift than an attempt at creating a coherent ideology plus aesthetic.
www.piratewireservices.com/p/the-other-...
Modern day fascists are trying something similar with crypto, A.I. and space flight, but it's more of a grift than an attempt at creating a coherent ideology plus aesthetic.
www.piratewireservices.com/p/the-other-...
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Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
🧪
December 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
🧪
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering*
ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin
DETECTIVE:
ME: are you getting apricot notes
ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin
DETECTIVE:
ME: are you getting apricot notes
December 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering*
ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin
DETECTIVE:
ME: are you getting apricot notes
ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin
DETECTIVE:
ME: are you getting apricot notes
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Muskism intensifies
December 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Muskism intensifies
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Dave found this pack of anti smoking playing cards from his youth that I'm now obsessed with
December 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Dave found this pack of anti smoking playing cards from his youth that I'm now obsessed with
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Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
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SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
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Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organizations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.
December 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organizations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.
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Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
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Altman: ok so the machine's primary use will be to make deepfake porn of all your actresses, sometimes with child faces. I told people they will be able to fuck these deepfakes. Also, as I said, it encourages them to commit suicide and family annihila-
Disney: say no more. Here's a billion dollars
Disney: say no more. Here's a billion dollars
December 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Altman: ok so the machine's primary use will be to make deepfake porn of all your actresses, sometimes with child faces. I told people they will be able to fuck these deepfakes. Also, as I said, it encourages them to commit suicide and family annihila-
Disney: say no more. Here's a billion dollars
Disney: say no more. Here's a billion dollars
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i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me
December 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me
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This is absolutely awful. This was one of the best resources for climate indicators data, and my go-to share for help answering public questions.
Luckily I captured some of them on my new U.S. climate page a few months ago: zacklabe.com/united-state...
Luckily I captured some of them on my new U.S. climate page a few months ago: zacklabe.com/united-state...
Additionally, it appears that all of EPA's previously extensive "indicators of climate change" pages have been scrubbed entirely. The pages no longer exist; there are numerous dead links on the current/live EPA site, and no indication they have been moved to a new URL.
December 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This is absolutely awful. This was one of the best resources for climate indicators data, and my go-to share for help answering public questions.
Luckily I captured some of them on my new U.S. climate page a few months ago: zacklabe.com/united-state...
Luckily I captured some of them on my new U.S. climate page a few months ago: zacklabe.com/united-state...
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im sorry but i just don't think all of public affairs and government at the federal level should just be Genuine Asshole, Who Is Shockingly Stupid and Incompetent, Tells Obvious Childlike Lie in Angry Voice
December 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
im sorry but i just don't think all of public affairs and government at the federal level should just be Genuine Asshole, Who Is Shockingly Stupid and Incompetent, Tells Obvious Childlike Lie in Angry Voice
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Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair
December 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair
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