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Wow. Avast, AVG, Avira, CCleaner, LifeLock, and Norton are now apparently all owned by *the same company*.

alt text should answer the questions "what the hell is this" and "why the hell are you showing me this"

So yeah, all those people calling for "reform" and "change from the inside" and "work within the system to improve it"? *This* is what that leads to, and why we do not care for reforms - all it ended up doing was laundering Facebook's reputation

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abortion, facebook 

Actually, as a bit of backstory for those who weren't there for this: Stamos, as the newly hired CSO, was the Weirdly Defensive Nerd jumping in front of Facebook to defend it from public criticism about how Facebook was a danger to privacy and safety.

He was insistent that there was nothing fundamentally wrong with Facebook, it just needed the right person to safeguard that safety, and the people criticizing Facebook were just alarmists/extremists (paraphrased, it's been a few years).

And well, here we are, this is what you get, an unavoidable megacorp snitching on people who are trying to get an abortion

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I sure wonder what Alex Stamos and friends have to say now about how Facebook isn't evil, and how it's very important to shore up privacy from the inside

uspol, growing us fascism 

PSA: when you are committing crimes against any government at any level, please don’t use commercial internet services to talk about doing so or planning to do so.

Don’t post about specific actions you’re taking, because those services WILL turn you in.

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Hey all, I'm looking to get a weighted blanket, and I have no idea where to start.
Does anyone, anyone at all, have resources for buying from a good reputable seller?
I'm in Texas, if shipping is a thing to keep in mind.
Please boost! :boost_ok:

Being LGBTQIA does not indemnify you against racism, ableism, patriarchy, imperialism, sexism, or any of the host of other bigotries woven into the fabric of majoritarian Euro-tradition/US culture.

It is not anti queer to say that queer people (white queer people in particular) can have harmful politics. You have to pick whether you want queer friendly white supremacy or actual liberation.

And if it’s the latter you simply have to stop being shitty.

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You don’t need to appropriate the word “tribe” to talk about creating a sense of belonging.

You have “found family”, “affinity spaces”, and a whole lot of other terminology that don’t require erasing global indigeneities through shallow trendiness.

White queers once again, begging you to clear the low low bar of simply not doing bigotry as you self advocate.

Knock it off.

They said "Live with the virus" because "Die for Capitalism" performed poorly on the focus group.

#CovidIsNotOver

I need to have a... conversation with the person who invented artificial 'grape' flavouring

The hardest problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and Doctor Who special episode numbering

Looking for people with lived experience of psychosis to tell me if the plot of the novella I'm writing (the MC has psychosis) is exploitative/shitty. Obvs I don't think it is but I want to check!

Please :boost_ok:

#amwriting

Workers at Ohio shop of national outdoor retailer REI have voted to form a union. This #labor victory follows successful union drives by REI workers in Berkeley, CA and NYC

The cry that killed Web 2.0 was "Don't read the comments!"

Then to show what we'd learned for an encore we created platforms that were nothing but comments.

Write an apocalypse story that doesn't make it seem like you hate cities challenge.

GitHub is very much lacking a tool to find PRs that touch the same files as yours. This becomes very problematic when you have over a thousand of them, like we do in #GodotEngine.

While we're waiting for GitHub to recognize this issue, I've made a custom tool for Godot maintainers and contributors :)

yurisizov.github.io/godot-prs-

For a moment it's on my account, but we should move it under the org soon enough.

I really love mastodon's private account notes feature, since (among other uses) it lets me keep track of why I blocked or perma-muted someone. This helps me reassess if someone should remain blocked later on once enough time has passed.

As generative algorithms put content farms on steroids and make search results even lower quality than they already are:

There's nothing more powerful and informative than finding community.

I've always sourced a lot of information directly from people, and that's becoming extra important as the web fills up with garbage content.

So, uh, seriously: thank you all for being a part of my life. Y'all make good living possible 💖

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