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Christine Lemmer-Webber

@dustyweb.bsky.social

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Co-author/co-editor of ActivityPub (what connects together the fediverse, including Mastodon, etc). Executive Director of the Spritely Institute. Lisp/scheme enthusiast, chaos transfem, sketcher of tiny creature drawings. https://dustycloud.org

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · Mar 28

The safest form of computing is still abstinence

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I said more about the tradeoffs on the fediverse: social.coop/@cwebber/115...

Christine Lemmer-Webber (@[email protected])

@[email protected] It's not necessarily, I have been advocating MNT's stuff for a long time. But let me say that I think that if you *are* disappointed with Framework's actions then consider that MNT...

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 1d

Is this right? *Tomorrow* they're going to start denying, in some way or another, X gender markers at US borders / on US passports? www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com/u-s-customs-...

It's not quite clear: will they "infer" a binary gender, or will they deny the validity of the passport?

CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIS

CBP enforces binary sex codes and stricter US passport validation in APIS effective October 2025. Key compliance updates for business travelers and airlines.

www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 1d

It's going to be absolutely critical that we be able to hack on and trust the hardware we use. I think the hardware from MNT is the best bet we have for a computing future we still have a say in mnt.re

I hope the MNT Reform Next is going to make MNT's stuff more accessible to more people

MNT Research GmbH

MNT Research makes open source hardware laptops, mobile devices and keyboards that are modular and repairable. Designed and assembled in Berlin, EU.

mnt.re

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 3d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 3d

No money in the red kettles. Mutual aid instead.
(And no, I'm not taking questions about this.)

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 3d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2d

audio on for community whistling repelling ICE/BP from the scene

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 2d

jesus christ we're dealing with the weebiest weeb

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 2d

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vv @vvv.gay · 3d

@dustyweb.bsky.social made an animation for one of my songs. Looking back on it and how awesome it is :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=88JU...

In Unexpected Places #Blender #GreasePencil #MusicVideo

YouTube video by EncryptedWhispers

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vv @vvv.gay · 3d

@dustyweb.bsky.social made an animation for one of my songs. Looking back on it and how awesome it is :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=88JU...

In Unexpected Places #Blender #GreasePencil #MusicVideo

YouTube video by EncryptedWhispers

www.youtube.com

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Kyla @boysek.bsky.social · 4d

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 4d

just make your AI model a corporation. boom, AI personhood, just like that

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 4d

wow big depresso today

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4d

I had incredibly low expectations for our broken brunchlord press when kakistocratic authoritarianism came knocking, but every single day they demonstrate I still somehow over-estimated them

Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 4d

Incredible things are happening, as ever, at The Paper of Record.

two articles in a row that feel like very 2025 slaps in the face:

Frank Bruni, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Nate Silver

‘Democrats Fumbled This a Bit’: 3 Writers Assess Where We Are With the Shutdown

Marc Rowan

Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 4d

A win! A federal judge has granted Chicago and the State of Illinois a restraining order against the Trump administration, blocking the deployment of the National Guard in Illinois.

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its she cruelcab @coolcab.bsky.social · 4d

it is legit astonishing that we've basically made an anti-learning machine and are aggressively pushing it on all students

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wint @dril.bsky.social · Sep 20

is the posting strike over yet

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 4d

you know what fair

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 6d

"Top US researchers rush to relocate to Europe. U.S.-based applicants to a prestigious EU research scheme have increased five-fold." 🤔 www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Top US researchers rush to relocate to Europe

U.S.-based applicants to a prestigious EU research scheme have increased five-fold.

www.politico.eu

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 5d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 5d

These people are fucking monsters

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 6d

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 6d

Most of the tech is developer-facing so far, but that'll change soon enough!

Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 6d

Incredible shit happening in @spritelyinst.bsky.social land rn, can't wait for the upcoming announcements

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 6d

1. In a devastating new Pew Research Survey, only 3 in 10 transgender adults report being accepted by their parents.

And only 1 in 10 say they are accepted by their extended family.

This is the lowest number ever found in surveys asking similar questions.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents

The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 6d

The tank's role is to draw aggro

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 8d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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