In the spirit of civil disobedience and protest, people stood up and were demanding justice for Jordan Neely in the subways. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UviieCwwmRU&feature=youtu.be

On birdsite (through a proxy for your privacy): https://nitter.net/ScooterCasterNY/status/1654974675682721798#m

RIP to Benjamin Dupuy, a socialist Haitian fighting against white imperialism. He worked on a film called Bitter Cane that worked to show how the Haitian President worked with the United States to continue to oppress the Haitian people.

It's not lost on me how much of these blocklists contain so many proxies to IPFS content. I'm always afraid to think how much dark content is moving through those systems, how much I'm unintentionally peering (because IPFS Desktop doesn't have a "confirm if you want to seed" option). I don't even think that's something that would be considered AFAICS.

Here we go. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

I'm looking for this repository on GitHub that had a script one could use to block a bunch of domains via a hosts update. Don't want to use a VPN for something I can do locally. Does anyone know of one? It's something that could be used in uBlock origin.

A bit long (I like ~15 minute long podcasts), this is speaking about the very likely collapse of the "economy" as more banks silently fail and the federal government is trying to shy away from that fact. https://soundcloud.com/thesocialistprogram/first-republic-bank-rescue-secret-collusion-between-the-government-and-wall-streets-biggest-banks

The State needs to pay any and all of his expenses for as long as he was unjustly held by them. Ugh. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/15/florida-man-serving-400-year-sentence-freed-exonerated. Don't know how I'm just seeing this but it's probably to keep the blood pressure low.

Whew, this is annoyingly relatable:

It’s just odd because it’s written almost as though we were trying to organize a company that wasn’t already unionized. Like, we’re all already in the union, man.

Mind you: companies against striking (and the rights of workers) move like this a lot. Basically saying "fuck you, come back and work". https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/disney-demands-showrunners-work-during-writers-strike-wga-1235480879/

My partner shared https://kimkardashianruinedmylife.com/ and so you have to see it too.

That'd unseat them because if more people could vote and generally raised their political knowledge, it'd be clear that neither of the bipartisan groups can serve the public.

oh I'd be interested in this! I came to this idea only through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKH3oew8D-s that passively mentions it (her series on the 70s is a trip).

Anything near the Omni Shoreham!

Today, it feels like the Republican (and Democrat, if we're being honest) party took the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy (Southern Strategy of using racism against Black people as a political radicalizing strategy) and threw it to anyone who's not a wealthy cishet white male.

XBox spent too much money on buying up companies instead of investing in their staff and resources. Not surprised in that behavior. I actually want XBox to fail and burn to permit these people to work elsewhere and to make space for a vendor, publisher and developer (three separate ones) that can focus on the needs of indie creators (RIP Xbox Live Arcade). https://www.gamesindustry.biz/phil-spencer-were-not-in-the-business-of-out-consoling-sony-or-out-consoling-nintendo

RhythmBox isn't a bad music player. Tbh, it does everything I want: play the music I have on my computer, submit my stats to things, so I can see it later and allow me to make playlists. I would like something that makes it easier to see lyrics for the currently playing song but tbh, that could be done as a side-car app.

Has anyone tried making a custom desktop environment for the Steam Deck? As in a custom overlay that replaces Steam's with something that could plug into multiple game vendors (I'm thinking Itch, GOG, Humble Bumble, Epic, Origin, EA) and lean on how Steam's control mapping works to homogenize this. If I had all the time in the world, this is something I'd want to do and release it openly (with some paid services that would also be open).

what should I be doing in DC 16-17 May at night?

(side-note: I'll be in town for https://summit.codeforamerica.org/)

Cop killings are lynchings. We have yet to pass an anti-lynching law, but that'd be against the nature of the United States.

Again, the casual murder of citizens, namely Black people, is in the fabric and programming of the United States. And as much as it runs counter to our collective understanding of the United States, this is what the State wants to do.

Shit activists have been saying for $0.10: https://gizmodo.com/cnn-blurs-faces-of-u-s-secret-police-in-viral-video-1844438285