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Exclusive: how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat

"According to the White House, the number was erroneously saved during a “contact #suggestion update” by Waltz’s iPhone, which one person described as the function where an iPhone #algorithm adds a previously unknown number to an existing contact that it detects may be related." 😂

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

The Guardian · Exclusive: how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chatBy Hugo Lowell

dear #DuckDuckGo or other search engine: I want a little button next to every #search result that lets me exclude it from all search results for me, personally, forever. With an option to block the entire domain.

I'm definitely looking at #pinterest but there's just a lot of #AI slop out there. Tons of AI-generated websites. Even without the AI search "helper" things, I get a lot of shit that is just really low quality.

I don't think I see this witih DDG (there is a "give feedback" button with unclear effects on my personal search experience) and I'm not familiar with many other search engines now (except google and no). But if there's something out there that already has this functionality, I'll be happy to check it out and happy for the referral.

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Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? 30 Days Until Martial Law...? (By Jessica Wildfire • 20 Mar 2025.) the-sentinel-intelligence.net/ Salacious title, but worryingly possible.

She links (Safe Travel Trans Americans Passport Policy) 19thnews.org/2025/03/safe-trav
(TGNC Checklist under Trump) lambdalegal.org/tgnc-checklist

(Travel State gov page on passport help on sex marker) travel.state.gov/content/trave
(Reddit thread A Guide for Americans to Leave) reddit.com/r/AmerExit/comments

(SF Chronicle on the Insurrection Act) sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo

"Meanwhile, corporate media asks, “Can he do that?” These stories are engineered to distract the public with technicalities. While everyone’s debating what they can and can’t do, they are doing it.

We know this administration’s pattern of loose interpretation when it comes to law and historical precedent. There’s no reason to believe he’ll stop here, instead using this act to use force against anyone his administration considers a threat, regardless of their status or what they’re protesting.

You also have to remember this country has a long, established history of censoring speech and leading witch hunts. During WWI, god help you if you didn’t buy enough liberty bonds or called yourself a pacifist.

We’re the land of moral panics.

Every single one of this administration’s actions have been building toward this moment, when the president suspends our civil and human rights. It explains why they’ve taken such aggressive action toward federal agencies, firing tens of thousands of workers and purging their ranks of anyone who might say no. They’ve already been testing boundaries, daring courts to stop them as they shut down government operations and kidnap U.S. citizens."

(some bullshit from an insecure asshole puppetted for power) whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac
(How to move out of the USA) forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybl

The Sentinel-Intelligence · Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? 30 Days Until Martial Law...?It could happen.
#politics#pol#US

I currently run/moderate a discord server with about 120 members. I'm looking to move away from that platform to something I can host myself (or worst case, through a service). We use voice chat, text chat/channels, user roles, and media uploads. Desktop streaming and video chat is a plus, but not required. Ideally users could choose between browser-based, desktop, and mobile clients. I'd like to prioritize ease of adoption too, since most of these folks are long term discord users.

I'm looking at Matrix right now (and considering hosting with etke.cc) but I would appreciate any suggestions!

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Want american Democrats to ACTUALLY DO something already?

(Update: indivisible.org/ )

Consider Direct Action instead!
But as well as that, we *do* need a non-corrupt (yet! there's always time, ofc) replacement party that is ACTUALLY left-wing.

Tea Party and MAGA supporters did it. Don't follow their strategies completely, but DO LEARN FROM them.
We all deserve better -- even the Leopards Eating People's Faces party.

How many of them would have supported having their faces eaten if they KNEW it wasn't hyperbole or something?
Or if they took time to imagine and plan for the risks: their or loved ones' faces being eaten by leopards?

lgbtqia.space/@MxVerda/1139337

Now we just need a name and bunch of furries to advise how to protect our information technologies.

IndivisibleHomepage
#US#USA#UnitedStates
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@swacknificent @TCatInReality @StillIRise1963

Prompt and Push. No one more than anyone. Punch Fascists. Tolerate No Intolerance. Ideal Outcomes.

These all feel like mottos or mission statements more than names, but eh. Hopefully this inspires someone. -- oh my god:

NOT DEM.

Varied Mountain Climbers?
"Everyone climbs the mountain in their own way."
After the (I wanna say Hong Kong?) Protests,
back when Blizzard censored an eSports player for mentioning or holding a flag or something?

(Or maybe enlightened leftists, for a laugh based on enlightened centrists.)

#US#USA#UnitedStates

@IceCubesApp I like your app and use it quite a lot. One small gripe at the moment: when I am scrolling and reading down the timeline there seems to be some sort of update which catapults me somewhere completely different and I can’t get back to where I was and it feels onerous and wearisome. Would be great if the timeline stayed as it was whilst I’m reading through. Otherwise all fine and works very well.
#icecubesapp #suggestion

Um zu wissen, was Unwahrheit ist, müsste man erst mal wissen, was Wahrheit ist. »Die Engländer«, notiert Oscar Wilde, er hätte auch schreiben können: Die Menschen »entwerten Wahrheiten zu Fakten. Wo eine Wahrheit zum Faktum wird, verliert sie jeden intellektuellen Wert« [...} Es gibt unzählige Möglichkeiten, Unwahrheit zu verbreiten. Die Lüge ist bloß eine, und nicht mal die wirksamste.

jungewelt.de/artikel/491405.zu

junge Welt · Zuckerbergs GewissenBy Felix Bartels

Y'know,

I really miss an algorithm for my feed.
People tend to go on barricades when they hear this. But I would wager they are burnt from "commercial" application of such.

I see too many posts I really don't car eabout, like knottin' a sweater. And the tech posts I never see as the current "algorithm" is "show all post by date, newest on top".

A self-hosted, under your control configured algorithm can be benevolent.

As Mastodon is right now, It is borderlining useless. Interessting (to me) posts need to happen in that moment I am on the site. An hour later (or less) and they are gone.

And I do not have time to keep reading continuously.

#MastodonApp Dear Mastodon App Team, first of all many thanks for your app which works very well and reliably on iOS. Just one small point which I have noticed recently is the following: when I try to press on the purplish button to „load new posts“ which appears at the top of the screen I often end up inadvertently activating a link underneath and get sent off to wherever. Maybe it would be possible to put a neutral zone around the purplish button to reduce this??? #suggestion #Mastodon #App

I am looking for suggestions about noise-cancelling headphones. There are two use cases for me:

1. when in bed and I am listening to relaxing music, potentially sleeping on them.
2. when I'm working, remove distractions from noise from external sources (ex: grass trimmers)

Mainly connecting to an android phone, but I would really appreciate multipoint (like phone+workstation). No Apple products. Stores in EU/UK appreciated.

Thanks 😇