France is switching from Microsoft to Linux
"We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control."
PSA: If your guy is attacking the Pope chances are he’s not the good guy in the story
Toss this right here and dip I'll check back in a few months if I don't return they've found me and the passphrase is "sugar is sugar/salt is salt/if you didn't get off/it ain't our fault"
dontnobodygiveashitjason.org/sobriety-years
this goes hard as fuck
Sure the contraption that got us to the moon was cool but have you seen
I'm sure there will be no long-term consequences to all of us veering between hypervigilance over potential nuclear war and trying to go to work because none of us can afford to pay our bills and may still be trying to recover from health consequences from the pandemic we're pretending didn't happen
NEW — Iran had already presented a 10-point plan.
Then Trump wakes up today and threatens to blow up Iran's "whole civilization" if they don't bend.
And then, just an hour before his deadline, he announces a ceasefire, citing Iran's "workable" 10-point plan.
The richest 0.1 percent of the global population are hiding nearly $3 trillion in offshore accounts to evade taxes — more than the wealth held by the entire bottom half of humanity.
It would take about $93 billion per year to eradicate extreme hunger by 2030.
Taxing the rich is a global necessity.
Secret Election Funders (via NYT) U.S. politics has seen a stunning increase in dark money donations, undermining promises from the Supreme Court.
i’m so old i remember when obama called out SCOTUS for citizens united during a SOTU, predicting this would happen, and alito shook his head and said “that’s not true”
Kim: Three weeks of the war in Iran could have funded vision, hearing, and dental coverage for every senior in America on Medicare. I mean, it just gives you a sense of the trade-off.
Facts spoken by an ex-trumper...
“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián
Reminder this guy is still doing the worst possible stuff to our most vulnerable
Verge headline: I saved a doomed Windows laptop by embracing Linux by Stevie Bonifield Photo of an old ThinkPad opened to The Verge website
If your laptop is stranded on Windows 10, the solution isn't a new laptop. It's a new operating system.
Read more from @steviebonifield.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/905946/...
Lee on Epstein Files: We’re not going to stop “bitching” about this.
Why is somebody who has a lot of money able to buy this much protection? Why should you be able to get away with heinous crimes like this if you’re a president, a prince, or a CEO?
Iran Imposes New ‘Cash, Grass, Or Ass’ Fee For Strait Of Hormuz
Iran Imposes New ‘Cash, Grass, Or Ass’ Fee For Strait Of Hormuz
This just feels like the fucked up part of the movie and everyone is just sitting around like everything is everything.
Or it's just me.
I have read quite a lot of apocalyptic sci-fi.
BREAKING: One of the F-15 pilots on the downed U.S. fighter jet was rescued and is alive, a U.S. official says.
An image of Earth from space
An image of Earth from the window of a spacecraft
NASA released two images Friday taken by Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman as he and the other astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft continued their journey in space.
📸: NASA
FYI "Ain't this the one where they kill Jesus" is not an appropriate way to ask your Catholic mother which holiday this is.
"...of the former United States of America, having fled there in middle age following The Great Collapsing Hrung Disaster of Galactic Sidereal Year 03758..."
I'm into it Douglas Adams would understand.
When you have a grudge so old you can't remember the source you don't let it go: you double down, right?
That's the correct and healthy emotional response, yes?
Why do we live in such a childish, stupid country? A country that wastes its money on useless billion dollar aircraft carriers, when it could be spending those tax dollars to actually help its citizens like sane countries.
I don't understand why that doesn't come up more often, particularly given recent reports that he is fully leading "war prayer" services.
catholicreview.org/hegseth-cont...
Ugh, going after the chaplain services sounds like a broader path to insert Christian Nationalism into the military besides the other obvious nazification going on here
This is a man who has never pleased a woman.
Don’t let this go by unnoticed
Like you can't quite catch your breath.
The key is don't start trying to take big huge breaths of air that way lies madness just trust me on this one.
Looking at your feet helps. Helps me anyway.
