Kind: Reads

God's kindness to Jacob and his merits.

I’ve written a lot over the years about my “ideal” tech but I never seem to find it. As I’ve jumped from device to device, tech stack to tech stack and even ecosystem to ecosystem it’s become pretty clear that I’m always searching for something that simply doesn’t exist. I believe I ca...

Why Is Twitter Shutting Down Chinese Activists’ Accounts? by Adam Rawnsley

Elon’s mass firing of security staff and increased reliance on automation is going to make it easier for tyrants to shout down and silence their critics, former staffers warn

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Is what we do development anymore?

In what’s being described as a Humpty-Dumpty incident, Rackspace customers have lost access to their hosted Exchange service, and by extension, lots of archived emails. The first official word of …read more

Why would he entertain avowed Jew-haters? Because he thinks his most loyal supporters — white evangelical Christians — agree with his guests.

Hello! You’ve Been Referred Here Because You’re Wrong About Twitter And Hunter Biden’s Laptop by Mike Masnick

Hello! Someone has referred you to this post because you’ve said something quite wrong about Twitter and how it handled something to do with Hunter Biden’s laptop. If you’re new here, you may not know that I’ve written a similar post for people who are wrong about Section 230. If you’re being wrong about Twitter […]

How religious Judaism helps shield the American president’s disparagement of globalism, cosmopolitanism, and other features of progressive secular Jewry from claims of anti-Semitism

Hachyderm has reached 30,000 users. A 'small sized' service in regard to scale. However, in the process we have hit very familiar 'medium sized' scale problems which caused us to migrate our services out of my basement. This is the outage report, post mortem, and high level overview of the process of migrating to Hetzner in Germany. From observation to production fixes. This is the story.

Mastodon Growth Numbers Might Not Mean What You Think They Mean by Hilda Bastian

Mastodon’s growth in the last month has been extraordinarily fast – but just how fast? Did the number of users jump up…

Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi said the "Twitter Files" would show a political scandal, but the information itself did the opposite

Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi’s First Amendment follies.

With Ye on Infowars and Elon Musk lifting the floodgates on Twitter, the right wing is getting the free-speech thunderdome of its dreams. Or nightmares.

Twitter is a private company—not the federal government.

What Do We Do About Kanye West Now? And Elon Musk, and Donald Trump, and Nick Fuentes, and Alex Jones, and every other person who takes up more energy than they are worth.

They believe everyone must be as craven and corrupt as they are.

Scapegoating marginalized groups is a deliberate fascist tactic to build power.

Why Republicans refused to see the truth about Trump until it was too late.