Nostr notes by Daniel Keys Moran

Terrible mistake to think they don't know all this. ...

2026-10-30T13:44:13Z

Terrible mistake to think they don't know all this. They're planning to kill the overwhelming majority of the human race and replace us with white collar AI and blue collar robots.

All they're going to need you for is personal servants. (Which includes sex slaves, to be sure.)

How do they not understand global warming?!

They do. They plan to solve it by getting rid of almost all humans, 7 in 8, 9 in 10. Somewhere the actual number has been written down.

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2026-10-25T12:44:56Z

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2026-10-23T21:22:48Z

Society changes slowly, and mostly by people dying. When things ...

2026-10-21T17:47:57Z

Society changes slowly, and mostly by people dying.

When things move fast it's usually because there is political power behind it.

Vote.

Both inside the Singularity, and with an AI bubble highly likely ...

2026-10-10T14:16:34Z

Both inside the Singularity, and with an AI bubble highly likely to burst. Interesting times.

https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-financial-bubble-openai-billions-failure

BUT ... migrate all these agents into switches, power backups, ...

2026-10-08T16:11:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…sn2j
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BUT ... migrate all these agents into switches, power backups, etc? A more (but not very) likely scenario would be subversion of human operators, backed up by control of parts of the infrastructure gen AI can't currently access.

It's more involved than fusing a switch shut, fortunately. ...

2026-10-08T16:11:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…gu6e
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It's more involved than fusing a switch shut, fortunately. (Though if you can call lightning from a cloudless sky, well, maybe it's not. But that's fantasy.)

Most of the near-term scenarios involving AI murdering the human race involve things like hacked nuclear or biological weapons: not impossible, but unlikely today.

He turned to face the machine. “Is there a God?” The mighty ...

2026-10-08T16:08:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…q4wg
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He turned to face the machine. “Is there a God?”

The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of single relay.

“Yes, now there is a God.”

Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch.

A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down and fused the switch shut.

(Speaking as someone who's spent thousands of hours in data ...

2026-10-08T16:08:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…wz6g
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(Speaking as someone who's spent thousands of hours in data centers, unlike most of the people making pronouncements on the subject today.)

Fredric Brown actually wrote that story back in 1954, "Answer."

Asked elsewhere about the Skynet scenario. Depends mostly on how ...

2026-10-08T16:08:17Z

Asked elsewhere about the Skynet scenario.

Depends mostly on how quickly AI can perfect modifying its own code. All the AI companies claim they don't do that, but I don't believe them and you shouldn't.

Once models can reprogram themselves at those extraordinary speeds? I'm not *very* worried yet only because the hardware infrastructure in data centers is very amenable to a man with a hammer.

"Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, ...

2026-09-29T14:48:56Z

"Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men. The little man has no way to judge and the shoddy lies are packaged more attractively."
- "Gulf," Heinlein

Hearing that women have it harder than men wouldn't surprise ...

2026-09-27T19:11:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…ju2t
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Hearing that women have it harder than men wouldn't surprise me. But either way, doing the work is better than not doing the work. And the sort of people who *would* mock that are assholes.

Wear whatever the hell you like as long as your junk isn't hanging out.

From a thread on fat, middle aged men wearing spandex: I've ...

2026-09-27T19:11:27Z

From a thread on fat, middle aged men wearing spandex:

I've been in reasonably good shape my whole life. For all of the thousands of hours I've spent in the gym, I have literally never seen someone shame or mock someone else for getting out there and trying. Now, maybe that's the bubble of SoCal? I've never been severely obese myself, but I was up at 240 at one point.

The golden age of journalism, when there were four or five ...

2026-09-26T14:48:14Z

The golden age of journalism, when there were four or five national papers doing elite global reporting, with robust research and editorial staffs, is gone and is not coming back, ever. I don't miss much about the past, and wouldn't go back if I could. But I miss professional news.

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2026-09-25T16:58:39Z

It's fraud, yeah. Of course it is. It's funny, though. I ...

2026-09-24T15:16:02Z

It's fraud, yeah. Of course it is.

It's funny, though.

I know I am outing myself as an old man, but there did used to be a half honest business culture in the US. It's probably not 10% these days. This guy is just doing what the business culture taught him to do.

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2026-09-23T13:13:45Z

I did work for NPR back around the turn of the century. Engineer ...

2026-09-16T16:03:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…gfw3
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I did work for NPR back around the turn of the century. Engineer said I was talking in my highest register all the time -- I had 3, deep, middle, high -- use middle. It gave me somewhere to go for emphasis.

And sure, focusing on Earth is sane. We're generations away ...

2026-09-15T16:13:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…auvs
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And sure, focusing on Earth is sane. We're generations away from something like an O'Neill cylinder being a practical solution. But it's an engineering problem, and I think we'll get there.

Don't know why you think that, but it's wrong. ...

2026-09-15T16:12:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…ug9h
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Don't know why you think that, but it's wrong. O'Neill addressed radiation shielding in The High Frontier.

O'Neill colonies are the only practical solution. Mars is ...

2026-09-15T13:01:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…7hdh
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O'Neill colonies are the only practical solution. Mars is unlikely and the other bodies are worse. But there's no reason to think O'Neill's won't do the job.

RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/117268631445988643 I still ...

2026-09-14T09:27:30Z

RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/117268631445988643

I still enjoy TMIAHM, but Stross is right about this. The New Wave (heh, 60 years ago)... offended right wing American SF writers more for their ideological content than any linguistic or novelistic advances.

Well, we disagree. I'm armed: more people should be armed, as ...

2026-09-13T19:12:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…x2cs
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Well, we disagree. I'm armed: more people should be armed, as well.

I'm not a punching bag, and nonetheless this has made my life ...

2026-09-13T18:32:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…6nep
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I'm not a punching bag, and nonetheless this has made my life calmer and simpler. Someone threatening me would get a different response.

no, but thicker skins are bloody useful. This was a fairly ...

2026-09-13T18:23:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…znu0
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no, but thicker skins are bloody useful.

This was a fairly limited observation about dealing with douchebags. Threats are something else.

I'm hard to insult. Everyone should be. This isn't hardly ...

2026-09-13T17:13:25Z

I'm hard to insult. Everyone should be. This isn't hardly an original observation, but insults are either true, in which case what are you bitching about? Or they're lies, in which case you're dealing with a liar, or that notable pure subset of liars, a conservative.

You have to give the putzes some degree of power over you before they can insult you. Don't do that, okay?

Raylan sat on the edge of the bed, watching FatSam fold clothes. ...

2026-09-13T16:59:00Z

Raylan sat on the edge of the bed, watching FatSam fold clothes.

FatSam folded a pair of underwear in half, saw that the fly button had been chewed off, and tossed it out instead.

"Somebody," he told Raylan, "chewed the button off on that one."

"You talk in riddles," Raylan said.

None of this is a surprise. America fallen to fascism is a threat ...

2026-09-12T08:43:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…ddph
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None of this is a surprise. America fallen to fascism is a threat to everyone, and all the old alliances are dead and not coming back in my lifetime, no matter what happens with Trump.

But I do follow the politics elsewhere. This isn't a local problem, though the world's worst billionaires started out focused on the US. They're coming for everyone, though.

Posted a joke about Brits lecturing Americans about the metric ...

2026-09-12T08:41:18Z

Posted a joke about Brits lecturing Americans about the metric system.

Some of the non-Americans in the crowd didn't like that one. I blocked two of them, got blocked by a Canadian who was mad about Trump.

Interesting times coming. Got blocked a few months back by a Canadian after noting that they, Australians, and Danes had been on the verge of electing *their* local fash when Trump intervened in their elections with threats.

Always liked this one, only one note: "pause to appreciate a ...

2026-09-11T13:37:57Z

Always liked this one, only one note:

"pause to appreciate a beautifully written sentence."

I stopped trying to write great sentences very early in my career. That pause takes you out of the story. A great sentence, for my purposes, is invisible. A novel is not poetry.

Your mileage is welcome to vary.

Someone pointed out I was using Fahrenheit the other day. ...

2026-09-11T09:34:33Z

Someone pointed out I was using Fahrenheit the other day.

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2026-09-05T16:17:55Z

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2026-08-28T14:57:42Z

I will trust the news again when the headline reads, ...

2026-08-27T21:36:59Z

I will trust the news again when the headline reads, "Canadians think Trump is a Nazi douchebag."

Some sentence just sound better with the word "idiot" ...

2026-08-26T15:29:54Z

Some sentence just sound better with the word "idiot" appended. "Yes, vaccines really work, idiot." "Yes, you do have a blinker on your car, idiot." "Yes, the stripper really thinks you're different from the others, idiot."

I'm not saying they're more effective that way. Just that they sound better.

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2026-08-18T15:06:29Z

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2026-08-14T16:03:42Z

Taking yourself seriously is a trap. You're a ridiculous ...

2026-08-13T18:14:20Z

Taking yourself seriously is a trap. You're a ridiculous creature like everyone else. If you don't learn to laugh at yourself, the universe will hammer on you until you do learn, or it breaks you.

But you should take your time seriously. Your work. Where you invest your energy. Your time goes away, and it doesn't come back, and yours is as valuable as anyone's.

Modern conservatives are rapists and murderers; and child rapists ...

2026-07-28T13:00:42Z

Modern conservatives are rapists and murderers; and child rapists and child murderers. They used to lie about why they'd do such things: "Freeeeeedom."

They're out of the closet. "Look at what we can do! AND YOU CAN'T STOP US!"

To paraphrase William Buckley, "conservatives stand athwart history, yelling STOP! ... Or we'll murder you and any innocents lying around, and pass off any kids left alive to our pedophile masters, if we ourselves can't get at them."

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2026-07-26T23:14:00Z

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2026-07-22T15:18:46Z

RE: https://flipboard.com/@tomshardware/tom-s-hardware-c60sbsq8z/-/a-SMbP_XgxRie4ux0pkhpxfw%3Aa%3A1829740277-%2F0

Yeah, we're either in the hockey stick part of the Singularity, or this crashes hard. I know which one I think is happening.

quoting
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AI tech companies have ‘hidden debt’ worth around $1.65 trillion, report claims — amount is 122% of debt reflected on the balance sheets of Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle
[https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/ai-tech-companies-have-hidden-debt-worth-around-usd1-65-trillion-report-claims-amount-is-122-percent-of-debt-reflected-on-the-balance-sheets-of-alphabet-amazon-meta-microsoft-and-oracle?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub ](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/ai-tech-companies-have-hidden-debt-worth-around-usd1-65-trillion-report-claims-amount-is-122-percent-of-debt-reflected-on-the-balance-sheets-of-alphabet-amazon-meta-microsoft-and-oracle?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub )

Posted into Tom's Hardware [@tom-s-hardware-TomsHardware](https://flipboard.com/@tomshardware/tom-s-hardware-c60sbsq8z )

I think I ordered this already? Happy I did, if this is the one.

2026-07-22T02:28:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…qrjc
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I think I ordered this already? Happy I did, if this is the one.

Which bit?

2026-07-21T14:07:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…5h89
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Which bit?

I've never questioned any woman's account about how men ...

2026-07-21T13:26:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…wylp
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I've never questioned any woman's account about how men have behaved around them. There are more straight than gay men in the world by a fair amount -- which means young girls had ten or more times the interaction with predatory older men than I did, to my best guess.

I was a cute teenager once. Men hit on me. No grown woman did ...

2026-07-21T13:26:24Z

I was a cute teenager once. Men hit on me.

No grown woman did that til I was near 18, by which time I'd been approached by probably twenty men. (Admittedly I was hanging out in places where teenagers shouldn't hang out, but being on your own early will make that happen.)

Pooh isn't fucking around. ...

2026-07-13T14:27:25Z

Pooh isn't fucking around.

Researchers have stopped using rats in experiments, and they’re ...

2026-07-08T20:43:19Z

Researchers have stopped using rats in experiments, and they’re using Republicans instead – on account of Republicans aren’t as cute as rats, they breed faster, they’re harder to kill, and nobody cares if one dies.

And there’s still *some* things you can’t get rats to do.

very affordable. Friendly to American expats. Though, since ...

2026-07-06T21:07:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…v2pr
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very affordable. Friendly to American expats. Though, since trump, a little touchier about all your paperwork being in the correct shape.

I have one child left in Southern California. If he leaves, I am ...

2026-07-06T21:06:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…q58l
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I have one child left in Southern California. If he leaves, I am most likely moving to Ensenada. Mediterranean climate, highest proportion of researchers and scientists of any Hispanic city. ~10 universities, two of them first rate.

I speak Spanish well enough, have lived in three Mexican cities previously -- Cabo, Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara.

RE: https://io.mwl.io/@mwl/116829064432820484 There's a ...

2026-06-28T18:09:51Z

RE: https://io.mwl.io/@mwl/116829064432820484

There's a burger joint in West L.A., the Apple Pan. Top 2 or 3 burgers in L.A. there.

Hunting for apartments on the Westside, once, I skipped a place I really liked, because it was one block from the Apple Pan.

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Me: "Okay Lucas, it's getting hot. That means drink more water. Maybe tea, or add a slice of lemon, but no drinking calories. No soda or milkshakes. Whatever you do, no frozen cokes! Yes, you love them, but those things are death and you know it."

The view every time I leave my apartment:

Does Samuel Alito really want to live in the world his theology ...

2026-05-19T01:48:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…axll
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Does Samuel Alito really want to live in the world his theology implies? Of course he doesn't.

He just wants you to live in that world.

Been a lot of chatter about the intellectual inconsistency of ...

2026-05-19T01:48:18Z

Been a lot of chatter about the intellectual inconsistency of fascists in my feed, recently.

They're perfectly consistent, once you stop listening to their ridiculous lies: "I get what I want."

Fascism is not an ideology. There's no there, there. It's the worship of power.

Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump Zelensky has written off ...

2026-04-23T22:49:33Z

Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump
Zelensky has written off the United States.

https://archive.is/Ggr7b

... good. The American empire was of some modest value in the mid 20th century, opposing the Soviet Union when it was still vigorous enough to be a real danger.

But lately the only difference between it and Nazi Germany is that there are crimes it hasn't committed *yet.*

This is huge for Who fans. The first and third episodes of The ...

2026-03-13T10:39:39Z

This is huge for Who fans. The first and third episodes of The Dalek Master Plan have been found.

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/tv/news/doctor-who-episodes-missing-daleks-master-plan-b2937732.html

List of entities the fascist Ellison family will control: BET ...

2026-03-12T14:24:49Z

List of entities the fascist Ellison family will control:

BET
Cartoon Network
CBS
CNN
Comedy Central
CW
DC
Discovery Channel
Fandango
HBO
Miramax
MTV
Nickelodeon
Paramount
PlutoTV
Showtime
TBS
TikTok
TNT
Warner Bros

If you object to hate crime laws, but are in favor of stiffer ...

2026-03-11T17:06:48Z

If you object to hate crime laws, but are in favor of stiffer penalties for killing cops, what you're saying is which people you're ok being killed.

The U.S. is at least one of the first entities, historically, to ...

2026-03-09T23:06:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…6k57
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The U.S. is at least one of the first entities, historically, to define citizenship that way. It's the superior definition, the one truest to the best parts of the 1776 revolution.

The fash who want to turn the U.S. back to historical blood and soil citizenship? One, fuck 'em, they're fash. But two, they're historical illiterates, in addition to their highly developed viciousness and sadism.

2, if a country has criteria for how to become a citizen -- if ...

2026-03-09T23:06:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…xd60
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2, if a country has criteria for how to become a citizen -- if citizenship is an ideal, with criteria associated with it -- then you fulfill those criteria and become a citizen.

There's certainly a blood-and-soil America, with various borders surrounding the land that qualifies for that.

But there's also the immigrant's America, the America where citizenship is based upon adherence to the ideals, though often violated, of self-governance as articulated in the Constitution.

What do you mean, Nazi-Americans aren't Americans? This is a ...

2026-03-09T23:06:33Z

What do you mean, Nazi-Americans aren't Americans?

This is a simple one. In some parts of the world, being born in a particular country makes you a citizen of that country. This is still true in most of the Americas, and the U.S., though fash hate it.

But there are two ways to be a citizen (maybe more.)

1, be born there to ancestors who were also born there. This is "blood and soil" citizenship.

Fellow elsewhere said Republican behavior would do them terrible ...

2026-03-09T04:45:46Z

Fellow elsewhere said Republican behavior would do them terrible damage in the midterms.

... sure. Assuming that there is a midterms election, followed by an even vaguely fair Presidential election in '28, then yeah, their behavior is nuts.

It is evident to me that they are going to try to stop the midterms. How much success they will have? Depends on how believable the threat of punishment is to the people who will have to subvert them.

I'm not kidding when I say we should hang people.

In WWII, there was only one right side. It wasn't perfect, ...

2026-02-04T01:34:32Z

In WWII, there was only one right side. It wasn't perfect, there were many abuses, but on the other side there were Nazis.

You're having a hard time picking a side? Fuck off.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/115635779318419465 ...

2025-12-26T01:57:46Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/115635779318419465

Billionaires are planning to murder most of the human race. Don't doubt it.
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Nicely written. ...

2025-12-23T11:01:58Z

Nicely written.

as a story premise it long precedes Black Mirror.

2025-12-11T09:27:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…y9dn
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as a story premise it long precedes Black Mirror.

Grief bots, LLMs pretanding to be deceased people. Noooooo. Nope ...

2025-12-10T22:12:51Z

Grief bots, LLMs pretanding to be deceased people.

Noooooo. Nope nope nope. People should have the decency to stay dead.

That's not the same thing as a person who transitioned to a machine substrate. But fuck me, you think people are mad about gender transition, wait till you see that one.

The Taliban comes off better in this comparison. They don't ...

2025-11-01T18:43:45Z

The Taliban comes off *better* in this comparison. They don't deny the existence of global warming.

I'd say we're at 14 of 14. ...

2025-09-28T09:00:34Z

I'd say we're at 14 of 14.

The thing to remember about that "First they came for" ...

2025-09-25T11:18:38Z

The thing to remember about that "First they came for" thing is that A, the guy who wrote it was a complacent Nazi until it was his turn, and B, our modern Nazis have read the damned thing and are using it as a roadmap.

ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel for observing that Kirk's murderer ...

2025-09-17T23:31:10Z

ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel for observing that Kirk's murderer was MAGA.

If you're paying for *anything* with Disney, you should stop now. Pirate if you have to.

There is no meaningful difference between Charlie Kirk and ...

2025-09-17T19:17:07Z

There is no meaningful difference between Charlie Kirk and Charlie Manson. Neither of them killed people themselves. Both of them had targets they wanted dead.

The NY Times wasn't always as bad as it is today, honest. But ...

2025-09-15T01:47:25Z

The NY Times wasn't always as bad as it is today, honest. But it was never good.

"I think our compulsory voting, preferential voting system ...

2025-08-09T05:41:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…z7e2
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"I think our compulsory voting, preferential voting system & independent election authority" ...

I wouldn't bet against twenty or thirty billion dumped into your election system by hostile forces. "It can't happen here" is almost always false where fascists are concerned. Any shred of power they get will be used to subvert, and the billionaires backing them are patient.

Go back 70 odd years and the Democratic Party, which was strong ...

2025-08-09T00:44:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…55kl
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Go back 70 odd years and the Democratic Party, which was strong in the South, was racist and in favor of redistributive policies.

The Republican Party in the same time frame was mostly pro-civil rights, mostly northern, and mostly pro-business.

Watching the worst parts of both parties coalesce into the modern Republican Party has been interesting.

Economic policies and racism are only mildly correlated, ...

2025-08-09T00:44:49Z

Economic policies and racism are only mildly correlated, historically.

Southern conservatives used to be pretty comfortable with the idea of redistributive policies. That was before black people had a chance to get some of it though.

I'll find another anonymous service. "I wouldn't ...

2025-08-04T02:26:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…c2au
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I'll find another anonymous service.

"I wouldn't trust you as far as I could throw you. No! Not that far." - Jamie Summers, the Bionic Woman

Our system flagged an unusual increase in third-party service ...

2025-08-04T02:25:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…luaw
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Our system flagged an unusual increase in third-party service registration emails. As a result, we have implemented these measures to protect the overall reputation of Proton Mail."

~~~~~

So that's that: two new accounts in two weeks, second one is an "unusual increase in third-party service registration emails." All OK, we *VALUE YOUR PRIVACY* -- just give us a real world email or phone number, no sweat.

Dear Proton Community member, Your Proton account is currently ...

2025-08-04T02:25:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…cyg5
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Dear Proton Community member,

Your Proton account is currently restricted from registering on third-party services.

To lift this restriction, you need to add a verified recovery email address or phone number, or consider upgrading your account.

- Learn how to add and verify your recovery email address and phone number.

- Find more information on upgrading your account.

Why did this happen?

Just for the record, ProtonMail is run by a fascist Trump ...

2025-08-04T02:24:55Z

Just for the record, ProtonMail is run by a fascist Trump supporter -- I went to go use it for a couple accounts I wanted to be more-anonymous-than-usual, for reasons that perhaps need not be explained in the current political environment.

Registered the first about two weeks ago; second today. It accepted the first, gave me this on the second:

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"Your Proton account is currently restricted from registering on third-party services

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2025-07-22T19:16:57Z

Dude, if you're still posting "first they came for" ...

2025-07-15T01:19:28Z

Dude, if you're still posting "first they came for" -- that was a decade ago. They're building death camps now.

A guy who I've known many decades said that my embrace of the ...

2025-07-08T16:56:57Z

A guy who I've known many decades said that my embrace of the far left had lowered his opinion of me a lot.

We were talking about wealth taxes, qua my earlier post about 90% tax rates. But not just income taxes, estate taxes, real estate taxes, generally speaking, asset taxes.

The billionaire class has to cease to exist. What the bootlickers defending them seem to not understand, is that this is the *nice* way to make that happen.

Look, Nazis picked Jews as their targets the last go round ...

2025-06-07T09:22:37Z

Look, Nazis picked Jews as their targets the last go round because they were about 1% of the German population, and powerless.

They picked trans people this time for the same reason. They're rancid cowards and ensuring that worse happens to them, than to their targets, is the only answer.

That democracy is incompatible with obscene wealth has never been ...

2025-06-07T04:37:58Z

That democracy is incompatible with obscene wealth has never been more obvious, has it?

When a conservative says "the poor will always be with ...

2025-06-05T10:22:34Z

When a conservative says "the poor will always be with us," it is a statement not of fact, but of intent.

"If someone says something Nazi on your page and you say fuck ...

2025-04-12T01:06:36Z

"If someone says something Nazi on your page and you say fuck you and kick them off, that's fine.

If someone says something Nazi on your page and you don't, you're a part of the problem."

- Steve Perry

- They don't care about abortion; they care about controlling ...

2025-04-06T18:55:34Z

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- They don't care about abortion; they care about controlling women
- They don't care about balanced budgets; they care about defunding programs that are directed at people they hate
- They don't care about authoritarianism if it's theirs
- They're not even really hostile to health care ... for white people.
- They *do* care about gun control, because they might need someday to shoot POC

They love buzzed the hell out of that poor woman. And I imagined ...

2025-04-06T18:53:53Z

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They love buzzed the hell out of that poor woman. And I imagined what would have happened if, say, Susan Smith had shown up begging for forgiveness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Smith

There'd have been no love buzz for her.

Once you accept that conservatives are lying about *almost all* of their publicized beliefs, the rest of it hangs together really well.

And the truth is, they don't believe abortion is murder. They ...

2025-04-06T18:53:03Z

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And the truth is, they don't believe abortion is murder. They believe it's a sin, yeah, in the reductionist sense of women shouldn't be having sex outside of marriage and they *deserve* to be pregnant as punishment, but murder? No. They are anti-women; even the female ones are anti-women.

One meeting I went to in Orange County, they had a lady get up and explain that she'd had several abortions, and now she was torn up and traumatized by it.

I used to do clinic defense. I did research for a book on ...

2025-04-06T18:52:45Z

I used to do clinic defense. I did research for a book on Operation Rescue, thirty years ago now -- went to a Catholic Church where OpResc was popular, ingratiated myself, went to meetings, went to a couple of their protests on their side. (I'm a liberal. Always was -- this isn't a conversion I'm discussing, from their side to sanity; I'd been volunteering at NOW a couple years when I did this.)

Look, if you don't get what's happening, I can explain it ...

2025-04-05T05:22:06Z

Look, if you don't get what's happening, I can explain it very simply:

The Republican Party exists to tax you and give your tax money to billionaires.

That's it. All the rest, all the bigotry and religion and kidnapping and threatened wars, exists to distract you so that they can continue to steal.

I could write a million words worth of analysis and not get significantly closer to the truth.

Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the ...

2025-03-18T00:10:06Z

Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.

- Stokely Carmichael

An NSA tech I knew told me my mailing list was being monitored ...

2025-03-14T23:52:14Z

An NSA tech I knew told me my mailing list was being monitored after 9/11, and suggested I tone it down.

Today? I'm certain I, you, and everyone who's ever posted on social media, have a score in a database maintained by the Nazis -- and they'll work their way down the list as quickly as they can.

It won't be *that* fast. Too many powerful families split across the liberal/conservative divide. Too many armed people who'll take action if they and theirs are threatened.

But it's coming.

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2025-03-05T06:49:38Z

Autocorrect is convinced that ducks are a huge part of my life.

Certainly tech billionaires are your enemies. But you might want ...

2025-02-09T00:23:31Z

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Certainly tech billionaires are your enemies. But you might want to consider which of those two words is the critical part.

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2025-02-09T00:23:10Z

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https://observer.com/2020/11/big-tech-2020-presidential-election-donation-breakdown-ranking/

I'd be a lot more tolerant of the anti-tech bro sentiment if ...

2025-02-08T23:22:03Z

I'd be a lot more tolerant of the anti-tech bro sentiment if people could be bothered to use open source. Instead people give money to their enemies.

Fetterman is Manchin/Sinema 2.0.

2025-01-31T08:10:48Z

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Fetterman is Manchin/Sinema 2.0.

Google is changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of ...

2025-01-28T11:54:38Z

Google is changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, in Maps. Because they're evil, which, in turn, is because they're run by Nazi billionaires in league with Trump.

Ditto Denali > McKinley.

If you're not running open source, the Nazis are going to be *completely* up your ass. If that feels like a non sequitur, I assure you it is not.

All the Nazi scum bitching about "woke" shows ... Doctor ...

2024-12-24T00:17:32Z

All the Nazi scum bitching about "woke" shows ...

Doctor Who, 1968.

I've been bitching about billionaire media since the New York ...

2024-12-22T16:10:51Z

I've been bitching about billionaire media since the New York Times helped George Bush invade Iraq. But they are wholly out of the closet these days