Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social

We can't (and shouldn't) bring back the old, good internet.

We can (and must!) make a NEW, good internet.

https://doctorow.medium.com/enshitternet-c1d4252e5c6b

#enshittification #interoperability #labor #news #FreedomOfReach #bossware

@Huntn00

That's about it. Allows for the saving of old comments, pictures, data etc. I use it as a timeline reference that I can reflect on for writing or artwork.

On this day in 1955, white men lynch voting rights activist Lamar Smith in Mississippi.

The whole group at #GSU2023 with the signed gun sense bill.

Why US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66304002

Exclusive: Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump's team is behind voting system breach | CNN Politics https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/13/politics/coffee-county-georgia-voting-system-breach-trump/index.html

@Huntn00

I have this same fear of loss. So much amazing content on #mastodon

Allow me to suggest using favorites and bookmarks as a way to "follow up" on things during holiday or other downtime.

I tend to carry thousands of favorites.

Thank you, Kristen Clarke. Good to have the DOJ taking action against racist school systems, again
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/students-racist-taunts-confederate-flag-kentucky-madison-county-schools-doj-settlement/?s=09

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.
—Richard K. Morgan

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an #atheist vs #faith

#Theists:
Challenge: without using the #Bible or personal #revelation (both are hearsay), show credible evidence for #God.

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an #atheist vs #faith

“Today the risks of artificial intelligence are clear — but the warning signs have been there all along.” Listen to these women! They’ve been sounding the alarm for a long time.

#AI #LLMs #ML #BlackMastodon https://mastodon.online/@dgodon/110880115860332495

Judge warns Trump: ‘Inflammatory’ statements about election case could speed trial - FAaFO, #AmIRight? 😂 https://apple.news/A9FQ5iCnCROK8rmLF5qMMxQ

"Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise."
Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

Mary Hunter Austin died #OTD in 1934. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain describes the fauna, flora, and people of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California. via @wikipedia

Books by Mary Austin at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/201

#books #literature

https://www.reckon.news/news/2023/08/experts-remain-divided-on-facial-recognition-technology-despite-another-wrongful-arrest.html

“Trump appears to have given up on winning the cases against him on the legal merits and is instead trying to win by whipping up a political base to reelect him, or even to fight for him.”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #Republicans

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-11-2023

@Huntn00 @MikeDunnAuthor If it had actually been fought to eradicate fascism, the allies would have finished the job by defeating Franco. But they didn't, letting down the veterans from the Spanish Civil War (which is the war the originator of the quote fought and died in, by the way) who supported the allies by joining their armies or the French resistance after fleeing the country.

Near-infrared view of Saturn and the rings taken by Cassini in July 2017. Saturn is also showing ‘ringshine’, light reflected off the rings and onto the night side of the planet.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill

“Because of the way they are treating my people in the South, the US government can go to hell” and [US President Dwight D. Eisenhower] “has no guts’ for not sending in the military to protect the Little Rock Nine.”

He called Eisenhower "two-faced" and described Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus as an "uneducated plough boy".

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#BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #StillWeRise #BlackHistory
#Music

Sue the hospital, the state, the person who released and anyone who saw the records. Take food out of their children's mouths. Cost the hospital so much they have to shut down an entire wing. Cost the State so much they have to raise taxes.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tennessee-hospital-faces-civil-rights-investigation-over-release-of-transgender-health-records_n_64d79898e4b063cc0974f6f6