Dr. Equivalent the Incredible @drequivalent@mastodonsocial.ru

And people were PISSED. Even rich liberals were up in arms yelling about how they couldn’t get across town (boo hoo). The marches weren’t there to put pictures on social media— they were there to disrupt people’s daily experience. The problem was that they kept to the same routes, to the point where it became expected. We let the cops guide us too much by the later days and the tactic lost effectiveness. It got cold.

I went to the first Women’s March in NYC, and all I could think was how ludicrous it was that we had a pre-assigned path with street closures announced in advance, and yesterday’s march was no different. I kept comparing it to when we marched, organically, after the Mike Brown murder verdict, after the Eric Garner murder verdict. We took over streets. We shut down parts of Manhattan, tunnels and roads in and out of the city.

Cops are there to make sure you stick to a predefined route. The whole spectacle is allowed to go on because they know you’ll blow off steam, pat yourself and your friends on the back for it, post the best signs to social media, and that the state machine will continue to toss people into the mill and grind us down. They don’t bring about change. They don’t even really inconvenience anyone.

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this is how particle physics works

В открытый доступ попали персональные данные большинства американцев http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=48873

Spotlight: Hammond, a podcast application for GNOME written in Rust https://baptiste.gelez.xyz/~/LiberationTechnology/spotlight-hammond-a-podcast-application-for-gnome-written-in-rust/

suddenly, some deep shit from vihart

https://youtu.be/deg1wmYjwtk

#nextcloud was swept up in the attempt of the Russian gov't to censor @Telegram@twitter.com - our IP address was blocked.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/17/17246150/telegram-russia-ban

https://isitblockedinrussia.com/?host=https%3A%2F%2Fnextcloud.com
We requested unblocking by @roskomnadzor@twitter.com
Happy that gov't censorship is messy. Might not be, some day, so #DECENTRALIZE !

german is easy:

vehicle? drive thing

plane? fly thing

drum kit? hit thing

tools? work thing

literally the worst take: tl;dr version "it's okay for us to be rude because we have Asperger's syndrome"

I have autism. That's an explanation not an excuse, and if you can't see the difference, you've been raised wrong. It doesn't make it okay, and it doesn't mean you shouldn't try to improve. What is it with some autistics using their disorder to claim the rules don't apply to them? Being spoiled rotten as kids? Not expected to behave? It's the only explanation I have.

PSA:

#infosec and #crypto people will understand!

https://t.co/8Be09kOz9O