I don’t know if this would be possible given the bounty’s requirements.

Let’s say you come up with some new firmware for the fridge that replaces all the hostnames on the advertising calls with ‘localhost’. Great. But if all other features on the device need to keep functioning, including any phone-home firmware update functionality, the fridge will re-enshitify itself on its next update. It either needs new fridge hardware (not allowed in the bounty requirements) or some kind of network container (like pi-hole, also not allowed).

So the entire bounty is an exercise in futility. But… perhaps that’s the point.

This is a demonstration of why the law, as written, is fucked and needs to be changed. I think that may be the main point.

UBI so the landowner class can raise the cost of living, food and materials for living.

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Do the tracks still eat bicycle tires?

Yes, the tracks still eat bicycle tires.

Exactly. It’s a proven that will only show up at scale, and these little randomized studies will never demonstrate it.

I’ve only seen the animated series, so that.

Barakamon (2014)

After torpedoing his career, a young, lonely calligrapher gets sent to a remote island community where he befriends the local townsfolk and a precocious child. Its quite lovely and I think you’ll like it a lot.

And it looks like someone has put the entire series, with English subtitles, up on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/ip2T3BS3mgg

I’ll admit that this does sound kind of like a joke suggestion, but I’m serious, after a hard day, sit down, suck up your pride and put an episode or two of Bluey on. It’s a warm blanket on a cold day.

Quick reminder:

Dipavali (aka Diwali) is the Hindu “festival of lights”, a 5-day celebration symbolizing the spiritual victory of Dharma over Adharma; basically light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance.

🧐 Hmm.

Halloween, it is said, never gives up her dead when the gales of November come early.

Ages and ages ago, I was looking for free stencils of a fist for a screen printing project and found this one in the commons:

I swear I’ve seen it everywhere for the last 15 years.

Saving this for my next KYC identity check.

Ride or die indeed.

Skeets & toots ahoy!

Revision draft:

“The only boots worth licking are your dommy-mommy’s.”

Clever acts of civil disobedience.

Consider the risks, the disruption, the audience, the take-away message / discourse.

Protests need to get creative. The inflatable frog suits are good example: it’s ridiculous, it’s visibly passive, it’s practical, and it has great optics. Entire protest actions need to be designed with these things in mind.

Everyone (protestors and the public alike) are bored to tears of street marches, cute protest signs and the same dozen chants.

Blåhaj heard there was transphobia in there.

I have a better plan:

The way out of our present age of political violence is not scolding “we have to live here with one another,” at those who are not threatening anyone’s life, at those whose very existence supremacists refuse to accept. Rather the way out is standing between supremacists and their targets and telling them “no, you have to live with them, just like we live with you, and if you can’t do that, then you have a problem with us, too.” It’s turning to those who just aren’t comfortable with trans people and saying “we don’t negotiate about people’s rights over here, and if you want to see how hard we’ll fight for you against the billionaires and bosses who are robbing you blind, watch how hard we fight for them. If hating trans people is so important to you that you’re willing to get robbed to death to secure it, we aren’t the party for you.”

You know what? I think that message might just build a coalition.

https://www.the-reframe.com/eventually-youre-going-to-have-to-stand-for-something-2/

I would like to write today about what it is that I find so frustrating and toxic about [Ezra Klein]'s approach, and how if we are going to escape from this horribly fraught time, we are going to defeat the current dominant cultural belief of supremacy with a vision of unified human solidarity, and that means we are going to have to be better than Ezra.

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And wait, it’s not just cute.

The way out of our present age of political violence is not scolding “we have to live here with one another,” at those who are not threatening anyone’s life, at those whose very existence supremacists refuse to accept. Rather the way out is standing between supremacists and their targets and telling them “no, you have to live with them, just like we live with you, and if you can’t do that, then you have a problem with us, too.” It’s turning to those who just aren’t comfortable with trans people and saying “we don’t negotiate about people’s rights over here, and if you want to see how hard we’ll fight for you against the billionaires and bosses who are robbing you blind, watch how hard we fight for them. If hating trans people is so important to you that you’re willing to get robbed to death to secure it, we aren’t the party for you.”

You know what? I think that message might just build a coalition.

The only poor people at the Super Bowl are the ushers and concession vendors.

The I-5 corridor of the Pacific Northwest.