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David Sloane
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Tech stuff, nerd stuff, Dem stuff Boston-ish He/Him, BLM, ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ, ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ, โ˜ฎ๏ธ, ๐Ÿ—ฝ, ๐Ÿˆ
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A terrible agreement that Trump will gladly violate, without a moment's hesitation
Here is the proposed agreement the Trump admin sent to UCLA, which administrators fought tooth and claw to keep secret ucop.edu/communicatio...
ucop.edu
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"Where everybody lies about everything of importance, the truthteller, whether he knows it or not, has begun to act; he, too, has engaged himself in political business, for, in the unlikely event that he survives, he has made a start toward changing the world.โ€

Hannah Arendt - "Truth and Politics"
It's surely not much consolation, but the AI companies are losing even more money on discounted .edu subscriptions than they do with corporate and consumer customers
Well you need a stage, or at least a raised platform? And people on the raised platform will sometimes need to sit? And you wouldn't expect the President to sit on a regular chair?
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Tomorrow, 10/21, 8:30am!
Downtown Boston, JFK Federal Building

Emergency Mobilization! Justice for Rumeysa

Tuesday morning there will be a hearing to determine whether Rumeysa Ozturk will have her right to work in the U.S. restored.

Rumeysa was brutally [โ€ฆ]

[Original post on kolektiva.social]
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And we appreciate yall in more ways than yall will ever know.

0/$157 $PhoenixCalida

Please help if you can

Theres also PayPal and venmo if that's better
Community blocklists remain undefeated
At last, a fantasy series that centers men
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I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kingsโ€”idk man, go, donโ€™t go,

โ€ฆbut if you do go make sure to link up with an org thatโ€™ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you donโ€™t go, make sure to link up with an org thatโ€™ll help you get into longterm organizing
Greetings and safe travels from two good cats
If you're going to share your observations, I'm personally more curious about Security Onion and Wazuh. But both uses sound interesting.
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The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight
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โ€œALL of Florida lost its [interlibrary loan] services as of October 1. This, of course, most harms those in rural communities. That means those with the most to lose and with the weakest access to education and entertainment materials are now wholly dependent on what their own library ownsโ€ฆโ€
The Current State of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (October 2025 Edition)
Grant money that should be going to library projects is going to state-sponsored propaganda, among other IMLS updates.
buttondown.com
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He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that heโ€™s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe
The boyโ€™s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.
www.bostonglobe.com
This is quite a swing. In 2013, Benioff brought Obama 2012 staff to Salesforce events, to talk about how the campaign used Salesforce.
Good thing we don't have to worry about actual Thought Police, it's just a rhetorical device. Whew.
Sounds like a disruptive business opportunity ๐Ÿ˜Ž
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Hear ye hear ye a message of hope and inspiration from our courageous leader in exile, Link. May all his loyal followers take heart!
DoD is surely too big for a cyber insurance policy, but imagine the price hikes after cutting infosec training