Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

⚡️shout out to #minneapolis for showing up yesterday to resist #ice

I am proud of you all #minnesota #chingalamigra

https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/03/hundreds-protest-ice-in-minneapolis/

Just got back from the POSIX rally. Amazing turnout. Thousands of people holding hands and chanting “Better things aren't possible”

Tools of Capitalism

I went back and now I’ve got evidence that I, personally, saw the Safeway trolley in Glasgow on the 4th June 2025

I’ve seen a lot of weird abandoned objects in my time but this might be one of the strangest: An immaculately preserved trolley from Safeway, the UK supermarket chain that stopped being a thing in 2005

And I’m pretty sure this logo is a few years older than that!

wow that shithole continues to be a nazi bar somehow

who would've though that replacing two shithead that defended nazi with another shithead who defended the previous two and shifted the blame on us for "reacting too aggressively" would result in the same outcome

no politics my ass

context:
one of newer mods wrote this fashy shit:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250601200137/https...

gina saw it and then accepted him into the mod team, as per her own confession:
https://fosstodon.org/@Gina/114612485062169791

holy shit this smells to high heavens. yikes.

Why I'm never going to be cool with Crowdstrike https://medium.com/quinn-norton/how-antisec-died-654abf6aeff7

Signal (and many other messengers) stores push tokens in their database in plain text. Which allows law enforcement to subpoena them (though signal has never publicly admitted this happening) and then law enforcement uses these push tokens to subpoena apple to get personal information associated with it like your full name, address, phone number etc.

This way Law Enforcement can correlate your personal information with your signal account which means participants in conversations are deanonimzed. (Though content is still encrypted).

If you organize in large signal groups (or any Messaging app using push notifications) there is a high chance law enforcement and intelligence agencies can tell that you're part of a group or not.

I don't understand why nobody is talking about this more. It's extremely problematic.

Apple started publishing stats on how often this happens now. They were gag ordered to not speak about it before but they have changed course (https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments-spying-apple-google-users-through-push-notifications-us-senator-2023-12-06/)

You can find the stats here:

https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/push-token.html

🚨 GEEN NS TREINEN in geheel Nederland op vrijdag 6 juni wegens #Staking. Alleen internationale treinen en treinen van private vervoerders rijden.

🚨NO NS TRAINS in all of the Netherlands on Friday 6 June due to a #Strike. Only international trains and trains from private operators are running.

my kid: mimsy help, i cant fit my lunchbox into my backpack.

me: what else is in there, taking up space?

kid: my schoolwork, and a bunch of ducks

me: im sorry, what?

~kid proceeds to scoop 30-40 small rubber ducks out of the bottom of his backpack~

#parenting

As someone who works in higher-ed and also has taught middle school and high school aged kids, my opinion is not that LLM use is exploding among students because they're lazy or stupid or anything else

it's because our educational system has prioritized a very transactional "do this bullshit, and you get the credentials you need to have a life" approach for

well

maybe forever, really

and no one should be surprised that adversarial approaches by teachers and administrators are being met with an adversarial approach by students