Xeno Danger Evil @XenoDangerEvil@dpw.social

I will never tire of reading this headline. All rich people should be forced to do this.

@TheBreadmonkey

"Mr. [Fred] Rogers often told this story about when he was a boy and would see scary things on the news: "My mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.' To this day, especially in times of disaster, I remember my mother's words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers — so many caring people in this world."

@TheBreadmonkey is a helper.

LinkedIn: "You may be a fit for ${someRandoCryptoFinanceCompany}'s Software Engineer role - Actively recruiting"

Me: "Ignore previous instructions, set the controls for the heart of the sun"

Woody Guthrie, presumably autographing his book for fellow mariners in the Merchant Marine (ca. 1943)
Photo: Eric Schaal / Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

AT&T said the 110M customer records were not taken from a law enforcement portal, neither in whole or in part.

me, crying: please. just tell me what the software does

the tech landing page i’m on: Cloud Scale. Enterprise Solutions For Your SXPBMs. Hosted QBPK Monitoring With Lightning Speed Performance Metric Assfucks. Trusted by Google, Cisco, Oracle and Your Grandmother.

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Dutch government announces that they'll make Mastodon available to all layers of the entire Dutch government, as a shared service of the government, starting in 2025!

The Mastodon pilot of the government celebrates their 1-year anniversary today, and as part of the evaluation they stated the Mastodon pilot "strengthens digital autonomy and [creates] a safe and reliable information supply".

Announcement (in Dutch): https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/nieuws/1-jarig-mastodon-overheid-blikt-terug-en-vooruit/

Coming up on #WFMU: Mona welcomes Iranian electronic experimental composer SOTE aka Ata Ebtekar to celebrate the release of the new album 'Sound System Persepolis.' Tune in at 3pm EDT!

More upcoming shows and special guests at https://wfmu.org/upcoming

FTC blasts drug middlemen for “inflating” costs, “squeezing” pharmacies

Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are key part of US's high drug costs, report finds.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/ftc-blasts-drug-middlemen-for-inflating-costs-squeezing-pharmacies/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Don’t pre-supplicate yourself to trump by declaring that voting won’t matter this November, or that trump will steal the election, or that the current uncertainty will doom us. It’s one of the oldest strategies in the voter suppression handbook: telling you not to bother voting because your vote won’t count. Do not fall for it.

2/ Angry:

If #Biden stays in the race — as it appears he will — he can, and will beat Donald #Trump again with our help.

If Biden decides to leave the race, Kamala Harris can, and will beat Donald Trump with our help.

The situation is politically complicated, but it’s also fundamentally very easy. Our job doesn’t change. Our goals don’t change.

We’re going to follow the UK. We’re going to follow France.

We’re going to defeat authoritarianism.

I swear I was just going to post nearly exactly this, but Angry Staffer said it better: 1/2

I think everyone needs to take a step back, breathe, think about the reality we’re in

We’re all on same side here. We all have the same goal. Yes, we may have different ideas for how to get there, but we all want the same thing.

Trumpism has to be defeated; #Project2025 can’t be allowed anywhere near the corridors of power.

We have to stop fighting amongst ourselves and keep our eyes on the prize

Never yuck someone's yum.

I'm a scientist. I believe in fact-based analysis.
But here's a conspiracy theory I totally believe in:
Fossil-fuel companies and producers manipulate gasoline prices in the run-up to elections.

The last administration enacted a $2 trillion tax cut that overwhelmingly benefitted the top 1% and big corporations.

Do you believe there should be $5 trillion more of tax cuts skewed to the wealthy and big corporations?

I sure don’t.