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in case folk outside the UK aren't abreast of our news, the British press just hounded a black academic to death

You can report suspected or confirmed IDF war criminals to the Hind Rajab Foundation, and they will try to get the war criminal's country of residence to follow international law by prosecuting them

the virgin loss.jpg versus the chad xkcd Seven Years

There's a lunar eclipse next week. Just in case you need one more beautiful moment of the universe.

“My basic assumption was, you know, the judge had obviously made his mind up about our guilt before the trial even began, and so it didn’t take me by surprise at all when I actually was sentenced to 50 years in the Bureau of Prisons. I knew, like, this is about making an example, this is about creating a narrative that, you know, anyone who resists the Trump administration’s agenda of mass deportation, is going to be made an example of, is gonna be treated this way, that if you stand up, if you speak out, we will bury you. I knew that that was what this was about the entire time that we were going to trial, and it was why I said from the very beginning, “I’m not gonna plea to anything.” You know, like they offered us plea deals, you know, we could have signed to 15 years for material support for terrorism. And I took the risk that I took of, you know, going to trial because I was like, I’m not going to create evidence of this non-existent terrorist conspiracy. That goes against everything I believe in.” — Autumn Hill

i really fucking hate IT Security Guys like, as a labor class. they are usually some of the most belligerent and out-of-touch members of the computer-toucher taxon, and the most divorced from actual use cases. this is how we keep getting shit like hospital staff password cycling that results in nursing stations having video game-style postit note passwords all over them. 'well changing your password every two weeks is shown to be most effective at preventing hacks" thats great man did you do any research on this outside of your actuarial model. because Kathy down at the NICU cant fucking remember "b5h1Jh1HH#15" has been changed to "6h3%!1mn" on station 4, shes on 2 hours of sleep and has long covid

last computer security guy i talked to interrupted me in the middle of having a friendly conversation with him where i said i stole all the software i wanted and admonished me about malware?? and i said bro who the fuck do you think youre talking to. i have been pirating shit since i was, literally, 12 years old. and i have gotten zero viruses, ever. and he smugly retorted 'how would you know?' and i said because i scan my shit and watch my ports and pay attention? and then he went on this long lecture about how actually, most real malware cant be scanned for, blah blah, which is 1. categorically false unless youre talking about idk, advanced state department shit and 2. he was baffled when i explained to him that unless i could actually feel a difference in my own GPU/CPU power or bandwidth, or unless my files were being ransomed, i literally did not give a shit. if some hacker has managed to install secret malware that is undetectably cryptofarming my computer in a way that is undetectable to me through power consumption, wear n tear, process wastage etc, then why the fuck would i care. 'what if youre part of a DDoS attack" is it making youtube load slow? is my ping going up in Barotrauma? are my files being ransomed? no? then it has no material impact on me whatsoever. i dont have a principled stance against hacking, only a material interest in making sure my computer runs.

bluh bluh 2fa is more secure WHEN I AM LOCKED OUT OF MY ACCOUNTS BY 2FA, THAT SCENARIO HAS IDENTICAL MATERIAL CONSEQUENCES TO LOSING ACCESS TO MY ACCOUNTS THROUGH OTHER MEANS. KILL YOURSELF

encourage everyone to read the tags especially from people working in med, this shit is STILL going on, even as someone else points out that it has been determined to be bad security over and over and is no longer best practices

I fucking forgot that Harry Potter ends with Harry going “I wonder if my slave will make me a sandwich”

everyone got taken out by the dogshit epilogue that this got buried but oh my god lol

why would you ever outsource fun to chatgpt? are you stupid? you can make mediocre shit by yourself too.

I have been in multiple situations where a friend group I'm not so familiar with starts making jokes about being into weirdo pervert stuff and there is a slight edge of competition to who is The Most Freakish I know for a goddamn fact that I have everyone beat in the pervert department but I can't say anything because they're probably just talking about light BDSM at most and I like things that are complete social suicide in 90% of spaces

like oh when you like puppyplay and choking its subversive and edgy but when I talk about getting my sexual awakening at 8 years old from the really fucking weird plant vore sequence in the third ice age movie it's WEIRD and EMBARRASSING i see how it is,

oh so this post stops getting notes when I make that addition, i see how it is,

This is what I’m talking about 😤

true power comes to those who wear the pencil skirt without tucking

someone dropped a bitcoin on my head from on top of the empire state building in an act of guerrilla trepanation but since there weren’t any evil spirits in my skull the hole just sprouted a flower and now everybody says i look like a damn pikmin smh