Libertarians must be obsessed about liberty now.
Talk to people everywhere. Pass out flyers. Print out business cards. Make a website. Start a newspaper. Rent a billboard. Make songs and movies about freedom.
You might be the last one defending freedom, but you must live with your conscience.
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Nearly 1,000 'Workers Over Billionaires' Protests Planned Across US for Labor Day
Nearly 1,000 "Workers Over Billionaires" protests will be held across the US for Labor Day to protest the Trump administration's attacks on workers' rights and safety net programs relied on by millions.
Nearly 1,000 'Workers Over Billionaires' Protests Planned Across US for Labor Day
"This is about workers showing up and demanding what workers deserve all across the country," said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
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Venezia 82, oggi Frankenstein e Sotto le nuvole
https://tg24.sky.it/spettacolo/video/2025/08/30/venezia-82-oggi-frankenstein-e-sotto-le-nuvole-1032446?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Venezia 82, oggi Frankenstein e Sotto le nuvole
Leggi su Sky TG24 l'articolo Venezia 82, oggi Frankenstein e Sotto le nuvoleRedazione Sky TG24 (Sky TG24)
Identificato il responsabile di Phica.net: è italiano, ma i server sarebbero all’estero
La polizia postale invierà un'informativa in Procura a Roma [....]
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Identificato il responsabile di Phica.net: è italiano, ma i server sarebbero all’estero
La polizia postale invierà un’informativa in Procura a Roma [….]Gaiaitalia.com Notizie | Veneto
I’d love to see their evaluation of how much this will save, plus their evaluation of what the costs would be to switch to another system if it all goes pear shaped. Plus of course data privacy etc etc.
(Councils are marks for these sharks)
theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a…
Coventry council to use Palantir AI in social work, Send and children’s services
Exclusive: Workers say £500k contract with US tech firm which supplies Israeli forces raises ‘serious ethical questions’Robert Booth (The Guardian)
US | FCC rejects calls for cable-like fees on broadband providers
The FCC says it doesn't have the budget or the manpower to enforce new regulatory fees on other sectors.
FCC rejects calls for cable-like fees on broadband providers
The FCC says it doesn't have the budget or the manpower to enforce new regulatory fees on other sectors.Matthew Keys (TheDesk.net)
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem fires 24 FEMA IT staffers, including the CIO and CISO; DHS says they failed security protocols and let hackers access Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) networks
FEMA Chief Information Officer (CIO) Charles Armstrong, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Gregory Edwards, and 22 other FEMA IT employees directly responsible were immediately terminated.While conducting a routine cybersecurity review, the DHS Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) discovered significant security vulnerabilities that gave a threat actor access to FEMA’s network. The investigation uncovered several severe lapses in security that allowed the threat actor to breach FEMA’s network and threaten the entire Department and the nation as a whole.
The entrenched bureaucrats who led FEMA’s IT team for decades resisted any efforts to fix the problem. Instead, they avoided scheduled inspections and lied to officials about the scope and scale of the cyber vulnerabilities.
Failures included: an agency-wide lack of multi-factor authentication, use of prohibited legacy protocols, failing to fix known and critical vulnerabilities, and inadequate operational visibility.
FEMA spent nearly half a billion dollars on IT and cybersecurity measures in Fiscal Year 2025 alone and delivered virtually nothing for the American people. Despite burning hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, FEMA’s IT leadership still neglected its basic duties and exposed the entire Department to cyberattacks.
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🛑 WARNING: WhatsApp confirms a zero-click spyware attack targeting iPhone & Mac users.
Hackers chained a new WhatsApp flaw with an Apple bug—letting them hijack devices without you even tapping a link.
🔥 Here’s what you need to know ↓
thehackernews.com/2025/08/what…
WhatsApp Issues Emergency Update for Zero-Click Exploit Targeting iOS and macOS Devices
WhatsApp patched CVE-2025-55177 zero-day linked with Apple CVE-2025-43300, exploited in spyware attacks.The Hacker News
interesting!
What size are the – like an apple or smaller like a grape? I thought maybe a quince but they look rougher than that.
The Inversion Of American Values
There’s a particular kind of person who cheers when the president deploys military forces against American cities over the objections of their elected leaders. They call themselves patriots. They wrap themselves in the flag while applauding the systematic demolition of everything that flag once represented. They claim to love America while celebrating the transformation of American governance into something the founders would have recognized as tyranny.
The Inversion Of American Values
There’s a particular kind of person who cheers when the president deploys military forces against American cities over the objections of their elected leaders. They call themselves patriots. They w…Techdirt
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NEW set of Photography TINGS.
The Allergies @ The 100 Club.
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#Fujifilm #fujifilmxt30 #Photography #CharlieAndGina #35mm #75mm #Monochrome
CRT Photography
The Photography site chronicling the journey of Charlie (Rhys) Taylor and his Fujifilm X-T30 named Gina.www.crt.photography
A Trip to Stockholm - Into Stockholm 39
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#urban #cruiseship #sweden #stockholm #photography #snapshots
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If only there was a way to fight chat control in europe available under an appropriate url…
OH LOOK - SURPRISE! THERE IS!!!
I'm sorry to inform you: You are now officially out of good reasons to not fightchatcontrol.eu
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.fightchatcontrol.eu
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Selbstgespräch. This #photo was taken during a #lightpainting course this summer. I didn't do much lightpainting before, but I think I should explore this in more depth. I wonder what he’s saying to himself...
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#photography #art #light #water
'natural prevalence'
#LoveTrees #LoveNature #ProtectOurPlant #Ecology #ClimateChange #Fauna #Green #WaterColour #WaterFall #Aquarell #Krita #MastoArt
Fioritura di alghe con clorofilla nel Sud Australia
Questa immagine, acquisita dalla missione Copernicus Sentinel-3 tramite il suo Ocean and Land Colour Instrument, mostra alte concentrazioni di clorofilla in giallo-verde lungo la costa del Sud Australia, vicino ad Adelaide. La clorofilla-a è un indicatore chiave della presenza di alghe nell’oceano.
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"[G]iven the post-neoliberal thrust of much Biden economic policy, why did Trump and the GOP end up walloping Democrats in last year’s election, especially among working-class voters? Khan’s answer, in short, is that the Bidenites didn’t have enough time.
“There’s no secret that people were very concerned about cost of living,” Khan says, by way of explaining Kamala Harris’s failure. “Initially, there was a surge in pricing during the pandemic, because there were legitimate supply-chain issues. As those supply-chain issues got resolved, prices didn’t come down as quickly. We have seen companies be quite open about how, be it the supply chain issues, be it tariffs, these can be very useful covers for inflating prices.”
Neoliberalism, she says, was too entrenched for post-neoliberalism to overcome in short order: “Big picture, the [Biden] administration in a whole bunch of economic domains really did break with the 40-year Reagan-Bush-Clinton neoliberal playbook…. But at the end of the day, you’re going to need more than four years to fully undo the destruction of that 40-year regime.”"
unherd.com/2025/08/lina-khan-w…
#USA #FTC #Antitrust #Monopolies #Competition #Oligopolies #PoliticalEconomy #Neoliberalism
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Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission
Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.
Il tasso di natalità diminuisce, mentre il numero di cani in Svizzera ha raggiunto un livello record - Una tendenza destinata a continuare
rsi.ch/s/3068813
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🐞 Agroecology promotes biodiversity instead of pesticides.
💡 Learn more about Agroecology at "Horta Comunitária do Sudoeste" at agroecologymap.org/l/466
#Agroecology #Agroecología #Agroecologia #Agroécologie #Agroökologie #Agroekologi #Agroøkologi
The rebellion of my daughter in besieged Gaza
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/30/the-rebellion-of-my-daughter-in-besieged-gaza?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The rebellion of my daughter in besieged Gaza
My special-needs daughter resisted the genocide with a dream.Hassan El-Nabih (Al Jazeera)
Pakistan jails 75 opposition leaders in mass conviction over 2023 protests against Imran Khan’s arrest
Both the PTI and other opposition and rights groups called the convictions a clear case of political persecution and attempts to silence all forms of political dissent in the country.
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A Trip to Stockholm - Into Stockholm 37
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🔄 Agroecology promotes crop rotation for healthy land.
💡 Learn more about Agroecology at "Jardin d'Avenir" at agroecologymap.org/l/506
#Agroecology #Agroecología #Agroecologia #Agroécologie #Agroökologie #Agroekologi #Agroøkologi
Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws
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Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.
Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws
Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.
Alarm as #US far-right extremists eye #drones for use in domestic attacks
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…
Experts say extremists openly talking of how home-built drones will be critical tool in so-called second civil war
Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws
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🛤️ Agroecology promotes short food chains with less waste.
💡 Learn more about Agroecology at "Hacia El Sol" at agroecologymap.org/l/464
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"Classic cars will still need a smog test in California after lawmakers reject Jay Leno bill":
calmatters.org/politics/2025/0…
"The state’s influential environmental organizations opposed it." #politics
California kills Jay Leno’s classic-car smog exemption bill
California lawmakers rejected a proposal to exempt classic cars from smog testing as they considered bills that would cost the state.Ryan Sabalow (CalMatters)
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in reply to Ian Betteridge • • •Even if they come up with some fictional savings, those are savings in *staff* costs. So they have - like good little capitalists - already ruled out improving services by spending the £500k on more *staff*. (Which would likely be a bigger service improvement.)
How did we get to a place where people managing essentially human activities are able to spend money on technology to reduce spend on humans?
They have swallowed the neoliberal mantra 'hiring people is inefficient'.
Esther Payne
in reply to Ian Betteridge • • •This frightens the hell out of me.
Social work already was under invested in and I grew up not trusting social workers.
Anyone who remembers various social work decisions that turned into a scandal will I suspect, be incredibly worried about this becoming a norm.
FediThing 🏳️🌈
in reply to Esther Payne • • •@onepict
Presumably by the time something goes wrong with local government decisions, the people responsible have moved on? (In some cases with brown envelopes to fall back on...)
Is there any precedent for holding government decision makers legally responsible after they've changed jobs?