Lol. RFK tried to file a copy of Mark Zuckerberg's misleading interview with Joe Rogan with the 5th Circuit for his (still ongoing) case claiming that Biden censored him on Facebook. And even the 5th Circuit said "nah, don't bother." www.courtlistener.com/docket/68910...
Ultranationalist Algerian influencers wage war on France – POLITICO
“The accounts who have the biggest following have an Arabic-speaking audience spreading over multiple countries,” a government adviser with knowledge of the investigations said. But they have “a wide echo in France,” he said.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
The Murder of John Lang: A Cautionary Tale on the Importance of Online Privacy
I want to share a deeply concerning story that highlights the critical importance of online privacy, especially for activists and those who speak out against authority. The death of John Lang, a well-known figure in the Fresno activist community, raises serious questions about surveillance, privacy, and the potential consequences of being targeted by law enforcement.
John was found stabbed inside a burning home, and what’s particularly alarming is that just days before his death, he expressed fears that Fresno law enforcement was stalking him and might end his life. He had been vocal about his experiences with police harassment, including a disturbing pattern of unethical practices by Fresno law enforcement, such as scanning license plates in retail parking lots to generate revenue.
In his efforts to protest these injustices, John posted his thoughts on the Fresno Bee, believing he was doing so anonymously. However, it later came to light that an employee at the Fresno Bee was sharing identifiable information (IP addresses) with law enforcement, leading to John being targeted. This tragic situation serves as a stark reminder of the vulnerabilities we face when we do not take proper precautions to protect our online privacy.
John’s case illustrates the dangers of not using tools like VPNs or Tor for online activism. Had he utilized these privacy measures, he might have been able to shield his identity from those who sought to silence him.
This tragic story serves as a cautionary tale about the risks of online exposure for activists. We must learn from John’s experience and recognize the importance of safeguarding our privacy in an increasingly surveilled world.
The Murder of John Lang and Police Gangstalking
From: Activist Predicts Death, Says The Cops Killed Him | Fresno People's Media Posted By: Dylan Donnelly January 26, 2016 The man who was found stabbed inside a burning home in Fresno last week is confirmed to be John Lang, a frequent poster in…Hack Liberty
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King to visit Auschwitz on Holocaust Memorial Day
He will be the first British monarch to visit the former camp when he joins survivors for a service.
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I get more & more mails from people who are happily using my #ProxLB (a loadbalancer for Proxmox) - feel free to leave me a note (if you like, even with some more details). This way, I can better understand the needs of the user base.
#proxmox #proxmoxve #lab #homelab #virtualization #vm #vps #vmware #alternatives #loadbalancer #lb #resourcescheduler #drs #opensource #community
GitHub - gyptazy/ProxLB: ProxLB - (Re)Balance VM Workloads Across Nodes in Proxmox Clusters. A Load Balancer for Proxmox - and more!
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Took my son to McDonald’s today after not going for years and was shocked at the price of a cheeseburger. So I looked it up and a cheeseburger went from $1 to $3 over the course of Biden’s presidency.
I can see why people voted for Trump since Democrats didn’t even acknowledge this problem.
Unfortunately for those voters, not only does he have no plan to lower prices, many of his policies are just going to make the problem worse.
This is cherry picking. Wherever you got those facts they give an incorrect conclusion.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics
"The BLS also found that prices in "limited-service restaurants" [fast food] increased by 47% since 2014."
So your McDonalds meal is likely at most 50% more than 2021.
That's an increase, and there was a lot of inflation coming out of Covid, but it is not 300% 2020 prices.
usatoday.com/story/money/2024/…
$15 Big Macs: As inflation drives up fast food prices, map shows how they differ nationwide
Here's how much prices for cheese burgers and signature meals at five fast-food restaurants increased between 2014 and 2024 amid inflation., USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
CIA says ‘more likely’ COVID-19 escaped from a lab
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/27/cia-says-more-likely-covid-19-escaped-from-a-lab?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Global News @global-news-AlJazeera
CIA says ‘more likely’ COVID-19 escaped from a lab
The intelligence agency says it has ‘low confidence’ in assessment and will continue to evaluate credible information.Al Jazeera
"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explains how the ultra-rich are beneficiaries of an unjust economic system where billionaires don’t make money, they take money. It’s impossible to have that much money without profiting off of other people's lack of it." teenvogue.com/story/billionair…
Billionaires Should Not Exist — Here’s Why
Wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few powerful billionaires at the cost of economic hardship and precarity for the many.Rebekka Ayres (Teen Vogue)
I have talked about accessibility a lot here. But now, it's my turn to ask some questions! I fully admit to being guilty of not capitalising the first letter of each word when writing tags, unless said words are usually capitalised. As a screen reader user, I do realise this can lead to confusion. But are searches on Friendica and elsewhere in the Fediverse case sensitive? If I write goodwriting will it show up in the same listings as GoodWriting? If not, which should I follow, and what about single words, such as writing, which screen readers say correctly? Should I capitalise those (or not) for consistancy?
#accessibility #blind #Fediverse #Friendica #hashtags #screenreaders
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Harvey Finkle black-and-white photographic prints digitized and available on Colenda
The Kislak Center is proud to announce the completion of an exciting and important digitization project of black-and-white photographic prints by Harvey Finkle! From the Harvey Finkle papers (Ms. C…Unique at Penn
Mastodon mehr nutzen – Jetzt alles auf den Schirm
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Mastodon mehr nutzen - Jetzt alles auf den Schirm • Verein für Computergenealogie e.V. (CompGen)
Im dritten Beitrag wird erklärt, wie Du Mastodon mehr nutzen kannst, indem jetzt alles auf den Schirm gebracht wirdBernhard Mosolf (CompGen - Verein für Computergenealogie)
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(Toy) balls found in #Egypt, dating around 1,500 BC (18th dynasty). They are hollow and made of linen, with an elaborated red, blue and green decoration, formed by strips of reed. Balls like these were also used for rituals and acrobatic performances.
On display at Museum August Kestner
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'I don't give a damn about the West,' says Lukashenko as the EU threatens sanctions
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/01/27/i-dont-give-a-damn-about-the-west-says-lukashenko-as-the-eu-threatens-sanctions?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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'I don't give a damn about the West,' says Lukashenko as the EU threatens sanctions
Final votes are still being counted and the result isn't expected to be released until later on Monday morning but state television predict Lukashenko winning with almost 88% of the vote.Gavin Blackburn (Euronews.com)
As I pointed out last week, the US owning TikTok would mean that it would be restricted from removing or moderating any content inconsistent with the First Amendment. That would be a disaster.
wake up babe robot tentacles are a thing now
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
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I was born to womansplain why this is sooo inaccurate, lol
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Why is it that people I know who decide to jump into #Linux for the first time go for Garuda? I mean, there's nothing wrong with it per-se, but it's also not an incredibly user friendly distro for first timers. Vim should not be a default, it should be an opt into, for example. Flatpacks should not be pushed over native packages, and yet they are (and then they cause issues as a result!)
Just... ugh.
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Billionaires even in Australia (and I presume everywhere else) are sucking up to him, asking for what will make the US a better "investment opportunity." I urge Australians to elect politicians who will thwart
Digested week: Toadying Brits finally come to realise Trump has no need of them
Truss, Braverman, Farage and Fox flock to US hoping for a seat at president’s inauguration – to discover he has moved onJohn Crace (The Guardian)
#Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde re empathy, analysis & human relationships. Human beings can disagree yet don't need 2 resort to vicious thoughtless outbursts. It is often by perceptive & perspicacious questioning that human beings reach meaningful solutions. shorturl.at/xMgDE
The ‘nasty’ bishop is not alone – and Trump should brace for more episcopal fireworks
The very people the new president thought he could rely on look like they can’t be counted on to rally to his cause after all, writes Catherine PepinsterCatherine Pepinster (The Independent)
Como comprar ingresso na Ticketmaster
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Liberux NEXX Is a New (Still in Development) Linux Phone
Liberux NEXX (crowdfunding): a Linux-powered phone that you've been waiting for with an 8-core CPU, 32GB RAM, 2TB storage, and zero data tracking.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
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in reply to LunarWanderer • • •torproject.org/download/
Shit's about to get real, on the internet, I would strongly recommend.
The Tor Project | Privacy & Freedom Online
www.torproject.orgocean
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in reply to ocean • • •qprimed
in reply to PhilipTheBucket • • •I hate to +1 but yeah, this. get familiar with Tor. learn what it can do and when to use it. play around with hosting .onion sites to distribute information safely. use orbot on your phone similarly.
some distributed messaging apps like briar use Tor as their internet transport mechanism, so... why not go all in and really learn to use Tor for real. now. while is easier to do so.
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in reply to PhilipTheBucket • • •BrundleFly2077
in reply to LunarWanderer • • •Long, wild read. Also, wtf is this website?
forum.hackliberty.org/
Huh?
Hack Liberty
Hack Libertybreakingcups
in reply to BrundleFly2077 • • •His writings sound like that of someone suffering from paranoid delusions. We'd have to take every claim he makes about the news site feeding info to law enforcement, the gps trackers, the FBI being in on it, the undercover cops tailing him, AT&T being in on it at face value. He's seeing patterns where there are none.
Apparently all this started during a messy divorce. Our minds can do funny things under stress, like deluding ourselves into a persecution complex and making everything fit that, rather than having to deal with an uglier truth.
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in reply to Grapho • • •TownhouseGloryHole
in reply to Grapho • • •LunarWanderer
in reply to Scubus • • •That makes sense, I reviewed the footage and it doesn't look like a thermal camera. I read this one of the comments:
"Professional photographer here. That was not a thermal imaging camera. That was a canon 1DX camera. A popular photography and video camera. The big thing around it was a camera stabilizer gimbal, most likely a Movi M5. That set up is used for filming high-end videos and commercials, sometimes TV shows. A police department would not have a set up like that. I use set ups like this to film car commercials. That was not a thermal imaging camera."
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in reply to breakingcups • • •Yeah I'm inclined to believe it based on the actions of numerous other police departments, but I'm also highly skeptical of it because of things like his message about if they find him dead naming not only the Fresno Sheriff but also his neighbor and a coworker. If I came across this on Facebook I for sure would write this guy off.
I do find it odd they ruled his death a suicide but then stated that he had three separate stab wounds to the chest. I have a hard time believing that someone could do that to themselves a second or third time, but who knows.
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in reply to BrundleFly2077 • • •Can't find'em in ground.news/ either...
Breaking News Headlines and Media Bias | Ground News
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Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)0x0
in reply to ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed • • •I'd get dental records but now I'm confused...
American journalist (1980–2013)
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)SatanClaus
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in reply to LunarWanderer • • •labbbb2
in reply to LunarWanderer • • •Is it American police or American mafia?
So better not to trust any feds at all.
Awful. Rest in peace.
Thank you for this story, but anyway, "we have nothing to hide"
P.S. US once were a "police of the world" so I think it's harder to hide your identity (in case of privacy and legal things) there, or I'm wrong?