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• Post #4253939

  My sympathies. I suspect the package you received may not actually be from the shipper you ordered from—check the shipping numbers. That sounds like a "brushing" scam. If shipping numbers line up, report the seller. https://www.uspis.gov/news/scam-article/brushing-scam

• Post #4253938

  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116743026022460382 At a time when the threats are increasing.

• Post #4253937

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@philbetts/116842351810600608 To ask the question is to know the answer.

• Post #4253936

  Wow. Bluesky is buzzing like a hornet's nest that's been poked with a stick. What will we awaken to?

• Post #4253935

  @billyjoebowers YouTube.

• Post #4253934

  @graydon and here we have Paul Krugman and Gabriel Zucman discussing international wealth taxation. It's very strange to see Krugman being radicalized. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-again-with-gabriel-zucman

• Post #2711535

  "This report demonstrates that agricultural products from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in China, such as tomatoes, peppers, marigolds, and stevia are tainted by forced labor, coercive transfers of land-use rights from Uyghur peasants to large Chinese agribusinesses, and forced assimilation and political indoctrination of Uyghur laborers in these corporations." https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5053281&__cf_chl_tk=8UL9G9L.TJ60wHOV.MpddZ...

• Post #1225775

  Trump's threatened blockade of the Strait of Hormuz risks World War III. I'm calling my congressmembers (they are Democrats) and asking them to get Congress to kick Trump out. The Republicans own this war, I hope they will see reason.

• Post #1225774

  I would like to donate to the "Send Netanyahu to the Hague" fund. The US should have cut him loose decades ago. He was the missing stair; the dangerous person who insiders know to avoid, but outsiders like Trump do not. And I think the reason we didn't cut him loose was largely the Christian zionists.

• Post #1225773

  It is eerie the way my remarks on Chinese slavery just seem to fall into the void, and it is not only China. I think we need a new abolitionist movement. I focus on slavery in China because has the potential to harm human rights globally, by making global energy systems dependent on slave labor. For all their horrors, other slave systems do not do that.

• Post #1225772

  Why isn't it as easy to input data by drawing as by typing?

• Post #1225771

  "Apropos of absolutely nothing, we'd like to remind everyone that Kobo distributes to libraries via OverDrive, and it costs nothing to publish on Kobo. Come join us!" #indieauthors #publishing—https://bsky.app/profile/kobowritinglife.bsky.social/post/3mjk2zveqqk2y (The Kobo sites over here either don't belong to Kobo or have been unused for a while.)

• Post #1093709

  @rapsneezy @robin A lot of these people, it's not that they're opposed to authority, they just want to be the authority.

• Post #733349

  The United States, it turns out, was the conscience of the world, and it seems to have had a stroke. https://adviceunasked.blogspot.com/2026/03/global-brain-sclerosis-and-conscience.html

• Post #733347

  People who don't believe in copyright don't believe in paying writers, artists and musicians, not even the respect of crediting their work. I guess we are supposed to live on light and eat air.

• Post #733346

  Systemd birth date field notes. This is PII, and totally should not be stored in a plain-text, easily accessible database. For instance, a name + birth date is used by the health care system to authenticate patients. It's a common challenge question, too. Really bad idea, folks. Theory behind this apparently is that only the parent has admin access, which isn't likely, but if an age must be stored, just store an age in years, that's enough.