Every Cabinet position is filled with the worst possible person for the job. This is done on purpose to make the government fail at all the things it should be doing. We knew this would happen, of course.
Amazon’s cloud computing services, the authors wrote, “have become vital to ICE’s crackdown on immigrants, with their data storage being used for mass surveillance and deportation.”
AT&T, which received $382 million in Department of Homeland Security contracts between 2022-24, “serves as the digital backbone for Trump’s deportation machine.”
Home Depot “has appeared to be collaborating with Trump’s ICE mass immigration sweeps on their property, putting thousands of customers and employees’ safety at risk.”
Microsoft—which gave the Trump Inaugural Committee $750,000 in 2024—has received at least $45 million in homeland security-related contracts in recent years.
Palantir has partnered with ICE to use the company’s artificial intelligence system to identify, track, and deport suspected undocumented immigrants—and is reportedly helping the government build a database of Americans’ private information in likely violation of multiple laws.
The only one of these I still use at all is Microsoft. I realize now that I have a moral imperative to stop giving them money.
I used the opportunity to make my first post on Twitter in a year. Another guillotine picture, of course. Guillotines are the only appropriate thing to post there now.
...on state television, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard official warned parents to keep their children away from protests, saying, “If... a bullet hits you, don’t complain.”
Bad move, Tehran. Now another country might give these protesters guns. My country has just the kind of idiot in charge who would arm then.
I posted a thing from Colombia on January 1, and then real world stuff started threatening them. I'm staying quiet on there for a while. Maybe I'll add Piefed post flairs to more of my old posts.
I considered making a !FloatingIsFun@fedia.io post for this, but these were used for war, not fun. It sure was creative, so I'm tagging this as #balloons anyway.
CryptPad is a browser-based office suite like Google Workspace, and one of its document types is rich text, text that can be italics, strikethrough, subscript, and stuff.
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* But this is turning into a self-demonstrating comment||I'm still trying it myself|It doesn't look
Generally, I use RetroArch with the cores Recalbox uses on all of my emulation rigs. Most of the heavy lifting is done by the RetroArch cores for Final Burn Neo, Beetle, FCEUMM, Gambatte, SNES9x, Genesis Plus GX, PCSX Rearmed, ParaLLEl N64, mGBA, Flycast, and PPSSPP. Most of my devices run Emulation Station, using ES-DE on Windows when not playing online matches with Fightcade.
This article is saying other countries should repeal their equivalents to the DMCA's anti-curcumvention, just like Cory Doctorow says, and I agree too. The whole reason those counties passed DMCA-like laws was that we threatened to tariff them if they don't. Well, now we're tariffing them anyway. We're no longer holding up our end of the bargain, and neither should anyone else.
Me too. I would say Pac-Man or Galaga, but Super Mario Bros. 1 is the oldest one where I'll sit down and dig into it for a while. 40 years later, the character's weight and momentum make it feel better than plenty of modern games.
Every Cabinet position is filled with the worst possible person for the job. This is done on purpose to make the government fail at all the things it should be doing. We knew this would happen, of course.
Take everything they say as examples of what not to do. Don't do what Donny Don't does.