Dungeons & Dragons is in the business of selling fantasy. Not the stuff with the magic and monsters -- the part where you *actually believe* that you and several other likeminded adults will be able to coordinate your schedules on a regular basis.
Apparently some ISPs decided @SDF was "dark web" and blocked it. How long until @tildetown gets the same thing? Your mastodon instance? Netflix?
but the more alarming thing is how ICE now handles US citizens who arrive at its facilities demanding answers. they are told now, to leave for their "personal security".
"personal security," huh? ICE is a fascist organization that needs to be dismantled with the responsibilities it holds assigned to new organizations. you can't fix an organization that has that kind of thinking.
This looks bad: https://www.blackhat.com/us-18/briefings/schedule/#tlbleed-when-protecting-your-cpu-caches-is-not-enough-10149
Worst case scenario seems pretty bad for anything cloud-hosted. Anybody has more info?
Just in: Supreme Court rules that government generally needs a warrant if it wants to track an individual’s location through cell records over an extended period
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/22/politics/supreme-court-ruling-cell-phone/index.html
The children will go bathing
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8si6x5/monday_methods_the_children_will_go_bathing_on/
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TL;DR: If this goes through--and currently it looks like it will--we'll have to move our company out of the EU and we might have to stop serving European users, if doing so without implementing upload filters would be illegal. All thanks to lobbyists and bureaucrats, with not a single citizen ever having asked to have their Internet censored for them.
This morning we reached 42%, now we've just raised over the 50% bar! Y'all are wonderful! \o/
Keep sharing and talking about #PeerTube: together, we have 15 days left to make it happen!
https://frama.link/joinpeertube
Real resistance and solidarity is happening in Portland, OR right now.
As the Trump admin is kidnapping children and terrorizing families, we will do EVERYTHING we can to stop this.
Occupation of #ICE detention center in #PDX is happenimg NOW and is ongoing. SHUT. IT DOWN.
If a similar action is not beimg held near you, make it happen.
Portlanders, get tf doen to 4310 SW Macadam Ave if you can. Stat. We have ppl on the ground. We need bodies. We need support
After the chaos over #YouTube's inexplicable takedown and enforced monetisation, Blender is now testing its own #PeerTube instance:
And so #Youtube won't allow the #Blender Foundation to share its creative commons licensed videos on the platform if they don't monetize it? Really? https://www.blendernation.com/2018/06/19/blender-foundation-youtube-update/ #b3d
@kristina I found a news article about parenting that confirms my existing opinion. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/18/over-controlled-toddlers-grow-up-unable-to-cope
@jbond Exactly. Since most of those old pages don't tend to have ads, they're invisible to Google. Classic Authoritarian High Modernism (http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-called-legibility)
Bad laws are bad. Now we have some examples of #SESTA / #FOSTA actively preventing political speech.
https://theintercept.com/2018/06/13/sesta-fosta-sex-work-criminalize-advocacy/
