Coder, husband to Melissa, dad to Corwin & Richard. I am large I contain multitudes. He/him/his. Now on Mastodon @cypherfox@mas.to and @cypherfox@counter.social
Greater Seattle Area
Joined March 2007
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Welp. That’s about it then folks.
I wish you all well. Find me on Mastadon: @cypherfox @mas.to or @cypherfox @counter.social
Any Mastadon link is blocked by Twitter which…tells you all you need to know about how bad it’s gotten. Remove spaces:
https://mas. to/@cypherfox
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"the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness"
Democracy works when practiced thoughtfully.
Demagogues rile up the madness of crowds… The first task of would-be politicians is to resist demagoguery.
It’s better to lose to a thoughtful crowd than win a mad one.
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mas.to/@cypherfox aka @[email protected]
I prefer counter.social/@cypherfox but it’s not part of the federation.
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Morgan Schweers retweeted
I'm sorry but if you are unreliable, I do NOT think you should be a narrator. Conveying trustworthy information is LITERALLY your job. If you are tragically lacking in self-knowledge or blinded by your own unwitting biases, maybe you are not the right person to tell the story
Morgan Schweers retweeted
inspired by real events please enjoy this one page RPG called "I do not want a mastodon" in which you are given a mastodon you do not want by well meaning people who do not understand that you do not want a mastodon
My kids found an old eBay ViewMaster from eBay’s annual report one year. The elder kid called it ‘VR for old people’ and the other called it ‘like power point’, where you press the lever to switch slides.
I created @ cypherfox on counter.social as a backup. Not leaving yet, but this place & it’s new management isn’t doing so well.
#CounterSocial (CoSo) has problems but I appreciate the focus on fighting disinformation & trolling, and none of the other options impress me.
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Morgan Schweers retweeted
BREAKING: Elon Musk called for a meeting with Twitter workers and displayed a document with a list of rules to protect free speech on the platform. This document was quickly leaked online showing the 34 rules.
To see this leaked document look up "Elon Musk Rule 34" on Google.
I don’t… I can’t even…
“So this is how liberty dies…with thunderous applause.”
There is no context in this speech, even beyond this snippet, that makes this any better, at least according to the news sources I’ve been able to search. This is a horrifying naked power grab. 😔
Tim Michels: "Republicans will never lose another election in Wisconsin after I'm elected governor."
He’s saying the quiet part out loud.
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Morgan Schweers retweeted
I am generally against the idea of people filing humorous amicus briefs, but this one from The Onion is outstanding: supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/2…
Morgan Schweers retweeted
HUGE decision from the CA10 today holding (finally!) that there *is* a constitutional right to record police in public and that it was CLEARLY ESTABLISHED in 2019 when this cop violated it. And you know what that means…
#AbolishQI
#EndQualifiedImmunity
ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10…
Remembered out of the blue:
🎶Those were the days, my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day...
We'd live the life we choose,
We'd fight and never lose!
Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days...🎶
It's all just kicking my ass today...
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I feel this thread in my goddamn bones. Not perfect, but true enough.
This is not how it was supposed to go. Things were supposed to get better. Not perfect, but better. Instead the brain-damaged Chick Tract wielding idiots are back in charge, and the fight begins anew.
Dammit.
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