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Forcing companies to pay people for collecting, using and selling their data should have a form like this;

"Dear [company_name_here],

You are now legally bound and required to financially compensate the persons named within this document for selling and using their data, to the agreed amount rate of: $8,000 USD / CPC (Cost per Click). A termination of this agreement can be met upon stopping the collection, using or selling of user data.

Signed, [your_name_here]"

loo kat this hehcm

i didn’t think it was physically possible, but there’s finally something worse than curl | sh

Seeing another round of “it turns out that WFH has serious downsides because employees get all their social interaction at work and are getting unhealthy without that” stories and my first thought is “maybe we should fix that bit where people are forced to rely on their jobs for social interaction” rather than “let’s go back to the office”

So, it occurs to me that a silver lining of the near-duopoly of Android/iOS on smartphones, and device convergence, is that it is now possible to assemble a cheap travel kit of electronics circa-2006 that will cause maximum pain and friction for state border guard searches without being obvious. And the bits are cheaper than an iPhone.

E-ink reader, trad iPod clone, dumbphone, camera, writerdeck, Linux deck where you read your email in a terminal window over ssh using Mutt …

I'm very tempted.

Frank Langella is taking advantage of that huge expensive throne-room set and going NOMNOMNOM. He's no Raul Julia, but his Skeletor is less camp and more menacing.

Meg Foster plays a good Evil-Lyn, tho it wasn't this movie, but Leviathan that I saw most of growing up. There she is in the far more evil role as a callous deep sea mining executive.

Do I like the things that Rod Liddle wrote and put out into the world in his lifetime? No, of course not.
But do I feel we should respect the man for his contribution to journalism, the written word, and think we should at least be kind given that he's just died? Also no.

Did you know that #Poles were considered #black for a moment in time?

After #Napoleon sent some 5200 poles to #Haiti in 1802, 4000 quickly died of yellow fever, but those remaining were enthralled by their 'enemy'.

To the Poles, the Haitians fought for the same things they were missing: freedom from oppression. Consequently, some 500 would join the Haitians against the French forces.

Feeling like they shared the burden of tyranny with those new Polish friends, the first Haitian emperor, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, declared the Poles "NOIR" (black) after Haiti's independence. He had been inspired to the move by Haitian historian Louis Boisrond-Tonnerre, who had called the Poles "the white negroes of Europe".

#history

@wxcafe @patterfloof

oh lol, I bought a pair of vans in Rotterdam last summer & they're now spamming me in Dutch

Terf’s are really, really afraid we might see and read this major report. It documents UK based anti-trans critical organizations and their funding.

They were able to force the worlds biggest human rights organizations to pull their report down within hours from it’s release, that’s how much they don’t want the world to know.

Here it is. (Share it! Download it! Share it again!)

(Edit. Here’s the 2026 link) https://archive.org/details/report-a-growing-threat-the-anti-rights-movement-in-the-uk-july-2026_20260713

#transrights #humanrights

Every once in a while, the internet delivers sublime joy.

#humor #foundontheinternet #magritte #comewithmeifyoufearthetreacheryofimages

Via flickr https://flic.kr/p/28bk7PA (Bob Jensen)
#Fox #Bot

I'm amazed how often people think that @pidgin used to connect to some public API in #AIM, #YIM, #ICQ, #MSN, etc...

In reality we helped you break the #TOS constantly by using an unauthorized client that only worked thanks to the tireless efforts of reverse engineers.

#Pidgin #OpenSource

yay

RE: https://mastodon.social/@EUauditors/117030523517841711

Is it though? Is it? Is it transforming the world like lead in the water transformed ancient Rome and 1970s America? Is it transforming the world by tricking us into giving up our climate goals? Is it changing the world by burning it? Is it changing us by stealing our humanity and giving us collective psychosis? I don't see many productivity gains, but I do see dead kids, burning forests, financial instability and a mad rush towards tech without reflection.

“Please don’t scroll past this. The Wikimedia Foundation desperately needs your help. We are interrupting your reading to humbly request just $2, to support our union busting efforts.”

De posters op de stations ter vervanging van reclame worden ook steeds bijzonderder.