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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 2d

banning people like antivaxxers and fascists has never been about “censoring the opposition” or “stifling healthy debate.” at the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, that’s what they want you to think. it’s always been about limiting the reach of mass disinformation campaigns that seek […]

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Michael Stanclift @vmstan.vmstan.com.ap.brid.gy · 2d

If not now, when?

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Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

I'm finally getting to see what battery life is like on the iPhone Air, now that I have cellular. For my usage, I'm looking at 76% by 5:30PM, and 39% by midnight or so when I sleep. 'All day' battery life really is just that, for my usage patterns. Really the only thing that bothers me is […]

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Michael Stanclift @vmstan.vmstan.com.ap.brid.gy · 4d

It sounded like the marching band at the KU-UCF football game just briefly played the theme to Star Trek (2009) between snaps and even if it’s not true it’s stuck in my head now.

Michael Stanclift @vmstan.vmstan.com.ap.brid.gy · 4d

One of those days where you just look at the calorie total on the pint of Häagen-Dazs and just keep eating…

Michael Stanclift @vmstan.vmstan.com.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Be a grower, not a shower.

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Michael Stanclift @vmstan.vmstan.com.ap.brid.gy · 5d

I could really use your prayers during this difficult time.

Screenshot of a news article that says Chili’s controversial menu shake up leaves family scrambling for new options

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Bodil @bodil.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Pro tip, though: if someone is going "show me exactly where he's being racist" after reading DHH's little love letter to Tommy Robinson, they're actually being something called "disingenuous." Look it up. It's a common strategy on the right […]

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Ah no, es un Nick @nickgates.friendsofdesoto.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Sometimes you have to quote Mel Brooks at a toddler

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Google continues to bend the knee to Trump. https://www.404media.co/google-calls-ice-agents-a-vulnerable-group-removes-ice-spotting-app-red-dot/

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’

The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Evan Prodromou @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 5d

What would ICEBlock on the Fediverse look like?

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Michael Stanclift @vmstan.vmstan.com.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Let people enjoy things.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin.fedi.circumstances.run · 5d

one nice thing we have here is that there's no ceo of fediverse, and even if evan prodromou and eugen rochko blocked my annoying arse it wouldn't mean anything to anyone.

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Tim Bray @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 5d

The canceling of ICEBlock is more evidence, were any needed, that the Web is the platform of the future, the only platform without a controlling vendor. Anything controversial should be available through a pure browser interface.

#uspolitics

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

The word "democracy" has been poisoned by people who love dictatorship. BIg Journalism poisoned its own well. We need to talk up "local/community news and information" if we want people to care about saving both […]

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Glyph @glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Obviously, ICEBlock should not have been removed from the app store. Obviously, Apple should not place itself in the position of the “one throat to choke” if their throat is going to be this delicate and choke-able.

but also the author of this app is a dumb grifter who is incredibly cavalier […]

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 8d

As he heads to Quantico to address US military’s top brass gathered from around the world, President Trump tells reporters that "if I don't like somebody, I'm gonna fire them right on the spot.”

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Michael Stanclift @vmstan.vmstan.com.ap.brid.gy · Aug 31

Not having any youth soccer things to do this weekend feels weird.

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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 29

I can only assume that "actually" is some kind of Mastodon codeword given how often people here use it.

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Michael Stanclift @vmstan.vmstan.com.ap.brid.gy · Aug 29

I need an AI agent that just looks at the club soccer schedule for my children and tells us what to do about it.

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Kevin Leecaster @greenfire.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 29

Far-leftists are just plain weird. That's in relation to what they said in their quote post of me.

The fact that they believe that crap about Stalin after he made a deal with Hitler to divide up Poland is not weird. That's a sign of serious mental health issues […]

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$z= dictatorship of the proletariat now @imperialismsucks.bsky.social - 2m \ ‘= The USSR didn't want to fight any war. In fact he tried to prevent it. He even tried to get help from the allies against Hitler. So anyone saying Stalin sided with Hitler is an anti communist fascist. Ep webpage: sites.libsyn.com/416948/how-s... Media file: traffic.libsyn.com/secure/8d546... - - = 1 EXISIIN, | ISM | 8) \ AL | sOC | | \ HI Actually Existing Socialism: How Stalin Tried to Prevent World War Il w/ Michael Jabara Carley Michael Jabara Carley joins the show to talk about his extensive and decades long archival research into Soviet international relations. He focuses ... @ sites.libsyn.com @ Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social - 4h Republicans are doing this while half of the accounts on Bluesky are attacking Democrats which really demonstrates what the priorities of these anti-Democrat activists are.$

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 29

The latest version of @Iconfactory’s app Tot came out this week and it’s great! I use it regularly throughout my week as a holding area to stash little notes, quick lists, or draft up messages to post elsewhere.

Such a nice little text utility that you can use dozens of different ways. Also […]

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 13

Elon Musk's whining about App Store rankings is a strong signal that Grok is on the rocks https://www.platformer.news/musk-altman-grok-apple-competition-fight/

But I also think there's something telling about the exchange. Earlier this year, I took note of the incident in which Meta gamed benchmarks to try to make Llama 4 look better than it actually was. At the time, the story had not gotten much mainstream attention. In its aftermath, though, Mark Zuckerberg blew up his AI organization and reportedly has spent hundreds of millions of dollars recruiting top researchers in hopes of catching up to the competition.

In Musk's feeble antitrust claim this week, I see a similar adverse indicator: a case in which a giant of technology comes to understand that it has fallen behind, and immediately kicks up a cloud of dust to distract from it.

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Martijn Frazer @tijn.dosgame.club.ap.brid.gy · Aug 13

I don't want my computer to act like a human. There are humans already and they're much better at it.

The whole appeal of a computer is that it's not like a human at all.

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BrianKrebs @briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · Aug 13

Make America Guess Again?

"President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics told Fox News Digital on Monday that the agency should suspend monthly jobs reports, a change that could leave businesses and policymakers at least temporarily without the data they’ve used for […]

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