Ad blockers are also cybersecurity. Say it with me.

They reduce malvertising, watering hole attacks, and general malicious script execution. It’s not all about you, ad firms.

To recap: Supreme Court justices nominated by a president who lost the popular vote and confirmed by Senators representing far less than half the country have eliminated abortion rights, green-lighted anti-LGBTQ discrimination, and ended affirmative action.

In one year.

I feel like I shouldn’t have to say this, but here we are.

If you get into a disagreement with someone here or for whatever reason the person you’re messaging with asks you to disengage, just stop. I’ve been around since the dawn of online arguments and I’ve never seen a person realize the error of their ways because someone was trolling and/or being an asshole to them in the replies.

If someone asks you to stop, stop. If they block you, take a cue from Elsa and Let It Go. Don’t find alternate ways to continue engaging. I’m sure it the parting shot feels good, or you think you have the perfect reply to help them see the reality of a situation, but it isn’t so.

Please, just stop and think: AITA in this situation?

I refer to this as “stallmanising”

Named after Richard Stallman, stallmanising is to be so obnoxious about your perfectly good and just cause, that you actively turn people against it.

Don’t stallmanise your causes.

#pride

HOW TO SPOT A RIP CURRENT:

IT'S WHERE THE WATER LOOKS EASIEST AND SAFEST, with no waves breaking or rolling in.

NEVER ENTER THE SEA HERE.

If you get caught in a rip, DON'T FIGHT IT. You can't swim back to shore against it; you will become exhausted and drown.

Instead, SWIM ACROSS IT, parallel to shore. You'll soon be out of the current and can then easily swim back.

Boost, please, and make sure your friends and family know this when they hit the beach.

Okay, Mastodon friends, I rarely ask for amplification about my day job, but I personally pushed for my employer to make a big investment in enabling the fediverse, and I'd love for everyone to show that the support is appreciated. On June 28, you can join us for a (FREE!) hands-on conversation about how the Fastly team worked to support @Mastodon while the service was under a *massive* DDOS attack. Everyone who cares about scaling the fediverse should join: https://learn.fastly.com/security-mitigating-ddos-and-traffic-surges-with-mastodon @devs

Anyone using Mastodon who has a set of skills or services to offer should advertise these regularly, because this is our platform and people should be able to use the platform that they use to support themselves alongside of organising communicating and becoming informed.

Russia's economy is imploding with the coup. By Monday they won't even be able to afford Lindsey Graham.

They think they have won. They aren't even bothering to hide anymore.

They think their angry orange avatar is impervious. They think they will help him take the chair back, by hook or crook, and he will rule with an iron fist.

They think they can bring everything back to an illusory ideal glorious golden age.

It is imperative for us, for our lives and everyone else's, to disabuse them of the idea that they are special. We will do this in myriad ways:

By voting (and running in opposition)
By activism (and boycotting)
By advocating (and demonstrating)
By asserting our rights (and insisting on justice)

And if they try rolling over us and invoking our ire, our righteous rioting will become revolutionary.

Serious post: if you're still on twitter, please understand that I will eventually lose all respect for you. You are in the proverbial Nazi bar. Leave. Just fucking leave. At this point, I don't give a fuck what your reasons are for staying. Stay on twitter, and you're complicit. End of fucking story.

Friends, Hackers, Notacultists... lend me your ears!

Veilid is nigh. Cult of the Dead Cow, hackers.town, and friends have joined forces to bring you a platform that can change the future of private and secure communications.

The Launch for this platform will happen at DEFCON ( @defcon ) August 10-13th in LasVegas (We hope to see you there!)

If you'd like to help us get this party started, we are offering some threads with unique artworks to commemorate this team effort. There are several options to choose from, and also a donation option.

https://www.customink.com/fundraising/veilid-run-with-the-herd-to-restore-the-future

Any funds raised here will be used to help with the costs of the launch party (a lot of work and personal funding has already gone into this) and remaining funds will be put into the general fund of the Veilid Foundation (a non-profit organized to foster adoption of the Veilid platform)

*the two team logos will be on the sleeves. They get added later today.

I don't often advise people to go to Google.com, but I'm doing so now and that you search "Katamari" See the bouncing little ball on the right-side column? Click on it and have fun!

Boobytrap backwards is:
Partyboob.

Carry on.

Twitter learned, and Reddit is fast learning, that people are not addicted to the platform, they’re addicted to the community they found there. Ruin the community, and people will leave the platform. It really is that simple.

Anyone who bans books before banning guns has admitted they prefer a dead child to an educated one.

Where are you on the political scale? Please boost wildly!* 😃​

(*) Yes I mean Wildly not just widely

In space there is no acetone.
#StarTrek