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We don't need #tariffs that force jobs that don't need as much education back into the US. We need policies that make the education needed for the jobs we have more affordable, and tax and labor policies that create more good paying jobs in exchange for zero billionaires. Of course you're not going to get that with the wealthiest people dominating the media, institutions and both major parties. They are going to sell you on bullshit that puts us at each other's throats and won't fix shit. #uspol
Today would be a good day for all the chickenshit, cowardly, bootlicking universities and law firms who bent the knee to admit they made a mistake and announce they are joining the resistance.
By the way, I would never hire a law firm that can't even defend itself, and I would never trust an educational institution that ignores history.
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When I was a kid, I listened to the 1975 Neil Sedaka album "Sedaka's Back" so many times that I knew the words by heart.
"The Immigrant" brought me to tears often. The song hit #1 on the Easy Listening chart in 1975. Would it be so popular today?
I dare you to listen to these lyrics and not cry.
[lyrics below]
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@wdlindsy yep, and Harvard University lost their federal funding because they didnt submit to the administration's unreasonable, (EG submit to being controlled by the admin) demands.
I'm pleased with Harvard, taking a stand against this tyranny.
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@TexasObserver The CEO of #UnitedHealthcare that was shot by #Luigi Mangione will be remembered as Brian Thompson.
But the first #ICE member to die during an illegal #rendition will simply be remembered as an #American #Gestapo. 
#Resist. #DoNotComply and #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in #USpol.
#ICYMI: “People are scared to go out because they go out with their kids, and they don’t want to go to a place where (people are) going to show up with guns to check whether they’re a U.S. citizen or not. That was very upsetting for a lot of people.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-raids-abbys-bakery-valley-los-fresnos/
The Texas Observer · ICE Raids on Beloved Bakery Reverberate Through Rio Grande ValleyHomeland Security Investigations arrests at Abby's Bakery shake up a small town in politically shifting Cameron County.
musk/45 and doge remain a clear and presrnt damnger to the United States and the American people.
"The employees grew concerned that the NLRB's confidential data could be exposed, particularly after they started detecting suspicious log-in attempts from an IP address in Russia, according to the disclosure."
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
I knew this was happening in the background but this is the first story I've seen about a faculty member being swept up in the visa revocations
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/uh-visa-revoked-math-professor-20277600.php
#trump is in the FIND OUT phase, because absolutely everyone is suing his regime.
Now including #california who is stating that he did not actually have the power to impose the tariffs he did, and they're trying to essentially void them.
Then federal judge James Boasberg has probably cause to find Trump in contempt of court.
On top of judge Xinas about to do the same over #kilmarabregogarcia.
Harvard is suing too, over DEI issues.
This is insane.
scoopzapp.com#TariffWhirlwind California Suing Trump Administration Over Tariffs #usa #trump #politics #news#TariffWhirlwind California Suing Trump Administration Over Tariffs #usa #trump #politics #news
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@dsm @welcomebot whats up friend
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@ThatWouldBeTelling @JoshuaSlocum @charlie_root @mangeurdenuage @mischievoustomato
> Unfortunately for the Internet I accept the principle "You will own nothing and you will be happy."
You're here, not Twitter.
> IP addresses?
Access to the network is not the same thing as access to your systems. FSE has hopped hosting providers, it survived the machine exploding, and it is now on an ARM cluster that is no longer even in a proper datacenter with wireguard supplying the unconventional network topology changes required.
> Ditto domain names,
P2P CAS fixes this; I am making such a system instead of throwing up my hands.
> And you pretty much have to be big or graf to not put your site behind someone's CDN, right?
Actually, this part of Revolver already works and will get even weirder in the interim. IPFS does this too (but slow and with a great strain on the resources and it appears to have fallen all the way down). There's Tor. These decentralization strategies are all reaching "actually usable" levels; not all "mission-critical" reliable but "good enough for most uses" reliable.
> I mean, when Facebook for example will in error hammer your site for some photo optimization on their side and not give a fuck what else can you do?
This actually happened on a regular basis because FediList is now using Revolver as a storage system; FSE still worked fine. I killed off most of the AI crawlers, it's still doing about 44.2r/s.
There's no cure for saturating the pipe, but you can set up a lot of pipes.
> See also DoDS.
FSE's had its share of DDoSs, yeah. You do need more pipes.
> So it's "landlords all the way down,"
Well, I could argue the point with you or I could hack on the thing that eliminates these problems so that I can release it and then not have these problems.
> Essentially both, thanks!
> MIT had no serious UNIX systems at all when started there
Ha, yeah, I expect they didn't exist. TOPS/20 and ITS and CTSS and VMS and Project MAC and whatnot; I hear it was a zoo back in the day, and Unix was not taken seriously until they had no choice.
> Multics was killed by Honeywell, UNIX™ became big, such is life.
Well, to hear Ken or dmr or McIlroy tell the story, it was basically dead when AT&T pulled out, and AT&T pulled out more gradually than it should have. I haven't heard it from the other side. TradeMinister (I hope he is okay; last few times I spoke to him he complained of being old and sick) was at BBN and has his name on some RFCs with three-digit numbers.
> Unfortunately for the Internet I accept the principle "You will own nothing and you will be happy."
You're here, not Twitter.
> IP addresses?
Access to the network is not the same thing as access to your systems. FSE has hopped hosting providers, it survived the machine exploding, and it is now on an ARM cluster that is no longer even in a proper datacenter with wireguard supplying the unconventional network topology changes required.
> Ditto domain names,
P2P CAS fixes this; I am making such a system instead of throwing up my hands.
> And you pretty much have to be big or graf to not put your site behind someone's CDN, right?
Actually, this part of Revolver already works and will get even weirder in the interim. IPFS does this too (but slow and with a great strain on the resources and it appears to have fallen all the way down). There's Tor. These decentralization strategies are all reaching "actually usable" levels; not all "mission-critical" reliable but "good enough for most uses" reliable.
> I mean, when Facebook for example will in error hammer your site for some photo optimization on their side and not give a fuck what else can you do?
This actually happened on a regular basis because FediList is now using Revolver as a storage system; FSE still worked fine. I killed off most of the AI crawlers, it's still doing about 44.2r/s.
There's no cure for saturating the pipe, but you can set up a lot of pipes.
> See also DoDS.
FSE's had its share of DDoSs, yeah. You do need more pipes.
> So it's "landlords all the way down,"
Well, I could argue the point with you or I could hack on the thing that eliminates these problems so that I can release it and then not have these problems.
> Essentially both, thanks!
> MIT had no serious UNIX systems at all when started there
Ha, yeah, I expect they didn't exist. TOPS/20 and ITS and CTSS and VMS and Project MAC and whatnot; I hear it was a zoo back in the day, and Unix was not taken seriously until they had no choice.
> Multics was killed by Honeywell, UNIX™ became big, such is life.
Well, to hear Ken or dmr or McIlroy tell the story, it was basically dead when AT&T pulled out, and AT&T pulled out more gradually than it should have. I haven't heard it from the other side. TradeMinister (I hope he is okay; last few times I spoke to him he complained of being old and sick) was at BBN and has his name on some RFCs with three-digit numbers.
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@SilverDeth
> 700 MB of data on a PSX disk, and it was overwhelmingly FMV.
On *three* disks in the case of FF7.
> (And he turned half of them ear-worms to boot, the Maestro indeed).
Oh, man, did I mention I got to see him with the Black Mages and the LA Phil? It was pretty great. Also packed: LA had a lot more nerds than expected.
Unfortunately the entire night was ruined by the MC being the guy that played Tidus.
> 700 MB of data on a PSX disk, and it was overwhelmingly FMV.
On *three* disks in the case of FF7.
> (And he turned half of them ear-worms to boot, the Maestro indeed).
Oh, man, did I mention I got to see him with the Black Mages and the LA Phil? It was pretty great. Also packed: LA had a lot more nerds than expected.
Unfortunately the entire night was ruined by the MC being the guy that played Tidus.
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@thendrix @NonPlayableClown @epsi @bigmattoidchimpin @sysrq @ins0mniak @Stellar @realcaseyrollins No one can unsee the N-GAGE.
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