the fact that legislators are trying to say that computers are devices that require id verification and tracking to use should put fear into EVERYONE. FIGHT AGAINST THIS.

🏷️[ #art / #furryart ]

I like bluesky because it feels so much like tumblr

1. barely works
2. userbase is annoying (affectionate)(not that affectionate)
3. being queer on here feels like I’m actively participating in ruining some tech company’s investment

BLUESKY IS A WEBSITE THAT TURNS (post by jay.bsky.team claiming that bluesky is made with AI) INTO (picture of bluesky not working)

🚨Congress pushed the vote for HR 1897 because of public outcry but it will still be voted on soon. For those who aren't aware, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on legislation that directly attacks the ESA, severely impacting wolves and other wildlife.
📣Take action: https://bit.ly/4cv82LM

Bunnies in a raft pull up next to a spaceship capsule, which has just splashed down and is floating in the open sea. Visible in the capsule, two bunnies wave at the ones in the boat.

Daily bunny no.3285 made it home safely

Last year at LVFC @blockie.gay had an idea, and we followed through

Thank you to everyone for coming to the Cocksco Holesale open house! We're so happy to see how excited people were, and we'd love to run it again taking the bit even further

Individual First Aid Kits | Random Street Medic Get more from Random Street Medic on Patreon

New post up on my Patreon.

As the weather heats up, so will things on the street. So what better way to start things off than talking about IFAKs, an important piece of equipment for every street medic and activist in today's climate?

www.patreon.com/posts/155021...

Time IS valuable. And we’re running out of it as lawmakers continue efforts to repeal or amend Section 230, which will supercharge censorship and have major impacts on journalism and the U.S. populations access to important world and local news.

whatissection230.org

when you call the operator this is who you’re calling

Huge shoutout to all the wonderful folks I got to work with at FurtheMore's reg last weekend, everyone crushed it this year!

Ran some stats and at our peak we were handing out a badge every 13 seconds across 4 pickup stations. I'm very happy with that number.

This

Bluesky PBC is in tension between the comms tactics of Silicon Valley hypecraft and open web transparency.

The former model targets consumers, while the latter builds for community.

Taking the long view, trust is a more reliable competitive advantage than hype.

Reskeet if you use the metric system more than NASA does

A skrunkly, vacuum-packed fennec fox plush inside a plastic bag

She a little fucked up but she still works

@rechner.solutions

Journey to the Moon and Beyond, by Mort Garson 15 track album

Chill beats to watch the lunar insertion burn to

mortgarson.bandcamp.com/album/journe...

A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’ TeleGuard is an app downloaded more a million times that markets itself as a secure way to chat. The app uploads users’ private keys to the company’s server, and makes decryption of messages trivial.

This is insane: TeleGuard, a 'secure' chat app downloaded more than a million times, uploads users' private keys, meaning the company can decrypt messages. And anyone can get anyone else's private key by just sending the user ID to the API. Possibly worst ever www.404media.co/a-secure-cha...

Still know musicians and furries and artists on X because "the engagement is better there"?

Ask them if they're ready to participate in AI driven conservative state media.

Incredible how much these people don't understand their userbase is the product and are actively hostile to it. you don't have to like that bsky ended up as mostly a bunch of queer terminally online minorities instead of techbro crypto fuckboys but if it makes you that mad just fucking quit lol.

Southwest Airlines Now Taking Passengers To Destinations By Shuttle Bus DALLAS—In what the company is calling a "bold new leap" in comfort, convenience and overall quality of travel, Southwest Airlines announced Monday that it would be replacing its entire fleet of passen...

Onion never missing the mark

theonion.com/southwest-ai...

Palantir has student data, including immigration status, from the ed tech discussion platform Piazza.

Palantir paid Piazza $916,000 for access to this data. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

I blew the whistle on this in 2016 and the CEO contacted my employer.

circa early 90's wired telephone, ivory colored in the shape of a triangle with triangular buttons sitting on a white marble surface

"can a phone design cook too hard?"
asked and answered

Service Trips (UPT) SFMTA Bus 77,857,337 BART 53,222,212 SFMTA Trolleybus 46,447,945 AC Transit Local 33,931,071 SFMTA MUNI Metro 28,230,682 VTA Bus 22,626,518 SamTrans Bus 9,991,507 Caltrain 7,405,005 AC Transit Tempo 4,798,970 VTA Light Rail 4,723,010 SFMTA Cable Car 3,925,803 SFMTA Historic Streetcars 3,828,113 Marin Transit Bus 2,823,735 Concord County Connection Bus 2,572,370 SF Ferry 2,388,379 Golden Gate Transit Bus 1,432,232 Santa Rosa CityBus 1,423,226 Golden Gate Transit Ferry 1,421,356 LAVTA Wheels 1,353,810 BART eBART 1,273,133 Tri Delta Transit Bus 1,129,025 SMART 850,270 Sonoma County Transit Bus 744,550 AC Transit Transbay 536,641 WestCAT Bus 509,486 SolTrans Commuter Bus 491,870 SolTrans Bus 461,550 BART Airport Connector 432,021 Napa NVTA Bus 398,093 Petaluma Transit Bus 272,852 Union City Transit Bus 269,375 AC Transit Dumbarton 197,510 Vacaville City Coach Bus 196,473 Fairfield FAST Bus 185,764 WestCAT Commuter Bus 149,525 Napa NVTA Commuter Bus 57,376 Source: 2024 FTA NTD Metrics

Service Cost per Vehicle Mile (OE/VRM) Napa NVTA Commuter Bus $5.00 WestCAT Commuter Bus $6.85 SolTrans Commuter Bus $7.76 Vacaville City Coach Bus $8.11 AC Transit Dumbarton $9.34 Sonoma County Transit Bus $10.65 Union City Transit Bus $10.73 WestCAT Bus $10.92 Napa NVTA Bus $11.37 BART $11.85 Tri Delta Transit Bus $12.44 Marin Transit Bus $12.54 LAVTA Wheels $12.61 Petaluma Transit Bus $14.52 SolTrans Bus $15.40 Santa Rosa CityBus $16.06 Concord County Connection Bus $16.37 AC Transit Transbay $19.61 BART eBART $20.17 VTA Bus $20.57 Fairfield FAST Bus $21.44 AC Transit Local $28.82 SamTrans Bus $30.96 Caltrain $31.80 AC Transit Tempo $32.45 BART Airport Connector $34.39 SMART $35.10 SFMTA Bus $38.38 Golden Gate Transit Bus $45.59 SFMTA Trolleybus $46.76 SFMTA MUNI Metro $48.38 VTA Light Rail $52.08 SF Ferry $113.98 SFMTA Historic Streetcars $126.00 Golden Gate Transit Ferry $201.93 SFMTA Cable Car $406.14 Source: 2024 FTA NTD Metrics

Service Cost per Passenger Mile (OE/PMT) Union City Transit Bus $0.00 Vacaville City Coach Bus $0.00 WestCAT Commuter Bus $0.61 SolTrans Commuter Bus $0.89 BART $1.15 Caltrain $1.34 AC Transit Transbay $1.48 Napa NVTA Commuter Bus $1.49 AC Transit Dumbarton $1.61 SF Ferry $1.71 AC Transit Tempo $1.85 SMART $1.93 Sonoma County Transit Bus $1.98 BART eBART $2.50 Marin Transit Bus $2.58 Santa Rosa CityBus $2.67 Golden Gate Transit Ferry $2.88 LAVTA Wheels $2.98 Napa NVTA Bus $3.00 SFMTA Bus $3.04 VTA Bus $3.05 SFMTA Trolleybus $3.61 SFMTA MUNI Metro $3.65 Concord County Connection Bus $3.91 Tri Delta Transit Bus $4.06 AC Transit Local $4.16 Petaluma Transit Bus $4.31 Golden Gate Transit Bus $4.42 WestCAT Bus $4.91 SamTrans Bus $5.01 VTA Light Rail $5.59 SolTrans Bus $5.64 SFMTA Historic Streetcars $6.19 BART Airport Connector $6.47 Fairfield FAST Bus $10.29 SFMTA Cable Car $16.62 Source: 2024 FTA NTD Metrics

Service Farebox Recovery (FR/OE) Golden Gate Transit Ferry 31.1% BART Airport Connector 31.0% AC Transit Transbay 25.6% BART 24.9% Caltrain 24.3% SFMTA Cable Car 22.3% WestCAT Commuter Bus 21.6% SF Ferry 21.3% BART eBART 17.5% SolTrans Commuter Bus 14.8% AC Transit Dumbarton 13.1% LAVTA Wheels 12.3% Vacaville City Coach Bus 11.0% SFMTA Trolleybus 9.8% Marin Transit Bus 8.8% Santa Rosa CityBus 8.7% AC Transit Local 8.5% AC Transit Tempo 8.3% Concord County Connection Bus 8.3% Golden Gate Transit Bus 8.2% SFMTA Bus 7.6% VTA Bus 7.3% WestCAT Bus 7.0% Petaluma Transit Bus 6.9% Napa NVTA Commuter Bus 6.5% SamTrans Bus 6.4% SMART 6.2% SFMTA Historic Streetcars 6.1% SFMTA MUNI Metro 5.9% Tri Delta Transit Bus 5.1% Fairfield FAST Bus 4.8% Sonoma County Transit Bus 4.6% Napa NVTA Bus 4.5% SolTrans Bus 4.2% Union City Transit Bus 4.2% VTA Light Rail 3.6% Source: 2024 FTA NTD Metrics

BART is the GOAT

They has been asked to provide more service with less funding than any agency in the nation and yet they still deliver fast, reliable, frequent, safe and affordable transit

Thank your local ATU 1555, AFSCME 3993, and SEIU 1021 members today 🫡

sad little KSR32

Came across this great quote recently…

“A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.”
- Ruth Brown (author/illustrator).

VOY s7e5 "Critical Care" - So the premise of this episode is that a society whose stupid hat is "bad at admin" hires people from a society whose stupid hat is "bureaucracy" to build them the Allocator, an evil computer that tells them to invent the American healthcare system

ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Could Spark a New Era of Intimate Surveillance OpenAI plans to allow sexting with ChatGPT. A human-AI interaction expert warns of a privacy nightmare.

Good to remember that OpenAI reserves the right to call the cops on you and your chat logs are not in any way privileged.

And remember digital security advice is always best delivered as a schoolhouse rock style parody song ;-)