Despotic Machine

He belongs in prison.

He belongs in prison.

There are only nine meals between mankind & anarchy. -Alfred H. Lewis

Is there any plan to try to fix federation with hexbear.net?

I hope not.

Grain of sand

Data point

Nobody Wants to Talk About Jacob Applebaum

techno-fascist

birdtray-config.json

Edit the following strings:

"advanced/tbcmdline": [
        "/usr/bin/flatpak-spawn",
        "--host",
        "flatpak",
        "run",
        "--branch=stable",
        "--arch=x86_64",
        "--command=betterbird",
        "--file-forwarding",
        "eu.betterbird.Betterbird",
        "@@u",
        "%u",
        "@@"
    ],
    "advanced/tbprocessname": "betterbird",
    "advanced/tbwindowmatch": "Betterbird",

In Birdtray under Advanced - Thunderbird command line - call Betterbird as follows:

/usr/bin/flatpak-spawn --host flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=betterbird --file-forwarding eu.betterbird.Betterbird @@u %u @@

This is what populism, scapegoating, and hateful rhetoric have given us.

Ich schäme mich für Deutschland.

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

https://annas-archive.org/torrents

BetterBird is great. I got it running via Birdtray under Cinnamon with some minor tinkering in the birdtray-config.json file.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov–Ribbentrop_Pact

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement

https://archive.ph/20250225141340/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/musk-federal-workers-another-chance-justify-jobs/

Skeezix stop posting bad attitude please. 😉

Oh yes, Jeffrey Sachs, who’s 2023 hot take on the Ukraine war so appallingly inaccurate that 340 of his economist colleagues wrote an open letter condemning him for it. They stated:

Your interventions present a distorted picture of the origins and intentions of the Russian invasion, mix facts and subjective interpretations, and propagate the Kremlin’s narratives.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230806172854/https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/03/20/open-letter-to-jeffrey-sachs-on-the-russia-ukraine-war/

When your world news comes from youtube, chances are you are getting the wool pulled over your eyes.

Recently read this guy’s posts here - good stuff on this topic:

https://substack.com/home/post/p-156951112

This most recent article is about LLM’s specifically, but the previous articles deal in more fundamental terms with human agency in the modern tech world. Definitely a good read IMO.

Fair enough. I’ve done worse in my time as a keyboard jockey.

Why don’t you use chained commands, or better yet simply create an alias that chains down/up, then use the alias instead?

I personally never bought nor have used a smartphone, and always use VPN services. I stopped focusing all my time on my IT career, work minimal hours now, and bought a small piece of farmland where I spend as much time as possible offline and outside. Just me and the police drones and spy satellites. 😆

Find someone else to argue with.