Matt (is the guy) @matt@istheguy.com

did someone hack their account or is this just what they do? the dog has a gun

Via the interwebs... Happy Caturday...

this was the best thing I ever tweeted

@doot You either die a shitposter or live long enough to become an infosec expert

@RIDDLES

#notbathrooms #notwaterfountains

Since I just saw someone post on it (no shaming them, I didn't know for years myself), the 'two wolves' meme comes from a story that's a Christian parable made into a fake Indigenous story that even uses a racial slur in the original version. While I don't want to speak over Indigenous voices on this one, the general consensus I've seen is to not use it, so better to spread the word.

For more information, here's a good post covering the situation: https://apihtawikosisan.com/2012/02/check-the-tag-on-that-indian-story/

#racism #meme

The five police officers in #Memphis who murdered #TyreNichols this month are being indicted. The footage is expected to release tomorrow.

It's great that they're moving this quickly, but change is absolutely still necessary. We must ensure that the next murder by cops is prevented, not just punished.

#Police have a monopoly on violence, and they know it. These cops felt they could get away with this, and plenty of cops have. Do not let the system itself get away with it just because these cops are being sacrificed by the state.

#BlackLivesMatter #BLM #ACAB #Tennessee #Protest #PoliceBrutality

People often confuse interpersonal racism for systemic racism. A Black cop is more likely to go to jail for murdering an innocent Black man, than a white cop would be. Convicting these cops may be fair, but it is not a reduction in systemic racism.

This is Black cops becoming agents of white supremacy, and then being held accountable because they're not shielded by that same hate.

We can hold the Black cops accountable, but not the system that they work in.

#tyrenichols #BlackMastodon

RT @AbdulPadela@twitter.com

The relationship between agriculture and human trafficking went over my head for along time because 1) I associated human trafficking exclusively with sex slavery and 2) I knew undocumented immigrants did agriculture but didn’t understand the bigger picture of what that meant https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1618668309519675392

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AbdulPadela/status/1618719854806327296

oh, you're trying to connect two different kinds of magic?

you're gonna need an abracadaptor

Note that Google are still hiring for open positions. If you get a Google recruiter asking to chat (and you aren't interested), I strongly suggest you (kindly, because they need a job like everyone else and they weren't behind the layoffs) reply to say that you are not interested in working for companies that layoff the way they do (and link to your preferred article about it).

If enough people do this, this will get up to execs.

No, I don't use smart appliances in my home.

I'm really privacy and security conscious. As it stands I use MFA keys on everything I can, strong unique passwords, hide my SSID on the home network, use ad blockers, and really wouldn't even consider putting in smart TVs, smart fridges, or anything like that.

I even have one of those ring doorbells you can use through alexa as well so I can see what's going on all the time.

Do you ever wonder if there were any dinosaurs with flesh or if they were all entirely made of bones.

I love e-ink ereaders because they're like this vestige of when tech was good

The battery lasts like a month

They work fine (better) without an internet connexion

You can interact with them using the file manager and it's perfectly good

The files are an open format

It isn't surveillance ad-tech

Don’t mind us, just checking out Mastodon.

A friend found this observation helpful, so I thought I'd repeat it here:

From my own experience, I'd say that there's an emotional pattern/habit that happens when you've been raised in an authoritarian environment.

This pattern is, basically, a deep-seated terror that your own observations and reason are simply Wrong, and even Bad, where they diverge from what you're being told to think.

When the training "works" on someone (creating a fresh new authoritarian), they often seem to gain an instinct for how to play on those fears in others. They know how to push those buttons that make part of you think they must be right, and you're wrong.

It's like a mind-virus, a social cancer. The negative feels it induces in those who disagree are so strong that sometimes it's just easier to give in.

(One reason it often doesn't work well on neurodivergent people is that the things it demands are even harder than fighting it, whereas most people find them relatively easy, and hence giving in to be the easier choice... but I digress.)

In reality, though: you're right and they're wrong. There is something to fear, but it's really just about social rejection for... insisting on the truth, insisting on compassion.

The pattern doesn't like that, because it makes people less controllable. ...but the pattern is the bullshit, not you.

I’m going to tell you the story of the man who solved a crime.

Not, like, a cop who put together the clues and got his man, but a person who took a crime as old as civilization and fixed the problem where it got you in trouble.

The man: Artur Virgílio Alves Reis.

The place: 1920s Portugal.

The crime: Counterfeiting.

The problem he fixed: That the money is counterfeit.

(This is going to be a long 🧵 . Just trust me.)