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charles: erik come to the good side,,,, please stop killing humans

erik:

Listen, I’m not saying that Tony Stark and Tiberius Stone fucked but … there’s a gutter note in volume 3 that begs to differ.

kiyaar

OHHHH MY GOD.

#tony stark #tiberius stone

khiroshige-deactivated20221210

This thread!!!! Yes!!!!

dannyrandy

NAKIA WAS RIGHT

#black panther spoilers

tankaramo

the knowledge that gay-coding villains is homophobic vs the reality of my gay ass absolutely enjoying the hell out of it: fight

mostlysignssomeportents

Lobbyists release push-poll in an effort to tank Right to Repair bills and control independent security research

The Security Innovation Center is a lobbying group backed by CompTIA, CTIA, TechNet and the Consumer Technology Association for the express purpose of fighting laws that would legalize repairing your own property, or choosing to have it repaired by third parties.

The group released a push-poll that showed that people were (quite rightly) concerned about malicious software and defective products, with the nonsensical conclusion that this means that states should not pass “right to repair” legislation that ensures that Americans can fix their own tools, or choose to take them to independent repair shops for service.

The group’s spokesman warned of a hypothetical risk of third parties introducing defects during service, citing attacks like the Mirai worm – but Mirai spread because manufacturers sold defective products, and not because independent service centers introduced defects to these products after they were sold.

The group also supports a ban on reporting defects in products, arguing that manufacturers should be allowed to censor security researchers who discover dangerous flaws that expose their customers to risk.

https://boingboing.net/2018/02/25/security-innovation-center.html

#right to repair #and its enemies

daloy-politsey-deactivated20171

Some facts:

1) Black Americans created jazz. 2) Jewish Americans created comic books. 3) These things are said to be the only original American art forms.

mostlysignssomeportents

Now that Trump's FCC has killed Net Neutrality, we all need to participate in instrumenting the net to document violations

Ajit Pai’s Net Neutrality-killing order is scheduled to go into effect on April 23, and when that happens, it’ll be open season on the free, fair and open internet.

But it’s difficult to distinguish network discrimination from transient network congestion, overloaded servers and other facts of life; difficult, that is, unless you gather data from all over the internet and detect patterns over time.

That’s why you should participate in Northwestern University’s Wehe project, which uses Ios and Android apps to monitor your internet connection for sneaky throttling, pooling data with other users to document the ways in which ISPs are dirty-tricking your internet connection.

This data will be vital to overturning Trump’s FCC orders in the next administration and restoring and strengthening the US’s Net Neutrality rules; the FCC is only allowed to act in the face of evidence, so we need to gather that evidence.

https://boingboing.net/2018/02/22/wahoo-wehe.html

#net neutrality

The night before Arisia, we got out the Mr Button for the first time in years.The top right one is the sticker that makes AI think a banana is a toaster. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.09665.pdf

#arisia 2018 #gender #adversarial images #tony stark was able to buid this in a cave #with a box of scraps

The Problems with Rosemary Collyer’s Shitty Upstream 702 Opinion – emptywheel - www.emptywheel.net

snorelaks

I believe a lot of conflict in the Wild West could have been avoided completely if cowboy architects had just made their towns big enough for everyone.

goobra

i love how literally all trans women are prettier than terfs

ok2befat

There is no "pro-life". There is just an elaborate misogynist long con to strip women of any rights or gains made in the 20th Century.

This statement is a response to the people who are continually shocked that “pro-life” doesn’t care about babies after they are born, the death penalty, making sure poor people don’t die b/c their health care has been stolen, etc.

Yes, of course “pro-life” doesn’t care about that. Because it’s not about lives and it never was.

They never cared about babies. The whole baby thing is part of the con.

It’s a con. Stop believing in right wing lies.

It’s not about babies. It was never about babies. Stop arguing with them about babies.

Never argue with a liar on their own liar terms.

This is why “pro-life” people are also coming after IUDs and the Pill and preventing people from getting life-saving miscarriage care.

So-called “pro-life” is a movement that murders doctors and bombs medical clinics.

And we really need to talk about tactics here, b/c misogyny is winning the propaganda war and has been for decades.

If your personal stance is- I believe everyone should be able to get an abortion but… Just stop before the but.

Stop qualifying it with “but I never would” or I think it’s wrong" or whatever other “I’m a good person” signal you are trying to throw out.

B/c by doing that, you are ceding ground to misogynist violence. You are letting them win the “is abortion a bad thing” argument.

Abortion is not bad. And if you support abortion access- All you need to say is “I support abortion access for anyone who wants one”.

We have to reframe the abortion fight as what it really is- a misogynist attack on gender equality. It’s not about babies at all. It never was.

If you understand that, you will understand why the so called “pro-life” movement behaves as it does.

The rhetoric and behavior does not match up at all. That should tell you something.

Don’t pay attention to what they say. Only to what they do.

memewolves

If you want solid proof of this, check out some of the history of the “pro-life” movement. Before about 1980, almost no evangelical leader would have said abortion was murder. It was only the advancement of women’s rights that made it an issue. It’s been solely about politics, not religion, since the beginning.

eternalsojourn

I love this. For the abortion stuff, yes because it’s so true. But also because we really do need to stop debating on the terms of those who put us in the defensive while working for oppression. We react like they’re playing by fair rules we set out as a society long ago, but they’re not.

You hate women, your argument is invalid. I don’t have to debate, I don’t owe that.

#misogyny

twink-phobia-blog

trans guy positivity

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Deep Frog

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do you think this is what lovecraft meant whenever he described something as being beyond description

naidje-deactivated

“It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.”

— H. P. Lovecraft,

At the Mountains of Madness

space-lord-joe-kewl

This.. actually makes a fine reference to what a lovecraftian eldritch abomination SHOULD BE. not just.. tentacles and darkness. Perpetually changing, not cemented in form, with an otherworldly feel to it. Completely unrecognizable by most human descriptions, and only able to be viable perceived by those fine enough to be an adept wordsmith.

llamaal

mostlysignssomeportents

Independent repair guy on the planned obsolescence of Apple products

Louis Rossmann is an independent service technician in New York City who has repaired Apple products for years.

In this video, Rossman passionately explains how he is able to effect repairs that Apple refuses to do – notably, he can fix a common faulty sensor problem with $2 worth of parts, a repair that Apple charges $750 for (Rossman charges less than half of that, and in cheaper markets, you can get it done for as little as $75).

The laptop Rossman is fixing has a retail value of $650, meaning that Apple’s repair pricing effectively turns an otherwise perfectly good machine into ewaste. Rossman doesn’t think Apple has an obligation to fix these older machines in an economical way, but he is furious that Apple has gone to lengths to prevent him from effecting these repairs – Apple has withdrawn many of the crucial diagnostic tools that independent service techs have relied on, and they’ve also managed to get third-party diagnostic tools removed by making claims under laws like the DMCA.

Rossman uses this as a jumping off point to talk about repairs to a wide range of Apple products, including phones, and demonstrates, live, how to do them; his Youtube description includes SKUs for the tools and parts needed to do your own repairs.

Rossman speaks passionately in favor of the state-level Right to Repair bills that would safeguard all types of independent service and repair, from cars to laptops to phones. 3-4% of the US GDP comes from repair and repair jobs are good, local, middle-class jobs: recycling a ton of ewaste creates 15 jobs, but repairing it creates 200.

https://boingboing.net/2017/04/17/right-to-repair.html

mostlysignssomeportents

Internet Archive: "DRM for the Web is a Bad Idea"

Brewster Kahle, who invented the first two search engines and went on to found and run the Internet Archive has published an open letter describing the problems that the W3C’s move to standardize DRM for the web without protecting otherwise legal acts, like archiving, will hurt the open web.

The W3C voted last week on whether or not to publish its DRM standard, and many members said that they would not support publication unless accompanied by a protective covenant to safeguard those who bypass DRM for legitimate purposes, such as archiving, security disclosures, accessibility and innovation.

There was some work done on this protective covenant in 2016, but it terminated when the DRM advocates at the W3C voted to walk away from the table, and now more than a year has gone by with no progress on this front.

As a result, there is nothing like consensus at the W3C over publishing its DRM standard, leaving the organization in uncharted territory.

https://boingboing.net/2017/04/18/the-open-web.html

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