“I can’t help but feel like Vince Gilligan is giving women their own version of Walter White with Carol, to cheer as an antihero while wildly misunderstanding the point of the character the way dudes did with Walter. I keep watching Pluribus and trying to honestly assess how I’d feel if she were a man. But I’m pretty sure, if she was a man, I wouldn’t bother watching it at all.

Like, am I the only one who is driven crazy by her total lack of curiosity? Or trying literally anything that’s not just shouting at people who are being very nice to her and trying to help her at every turn? Does it not occur to her to ask them: listen, if this is so great, why don’t you reverse the process on just one single person and let them tell me so themselves, if it’s reversible? If one person became an individual again and said to me “Shit, no, man, it’s amazing,” even if I didn’t choose to do it myself, I’d give them the benefit of the doubt.

But as it stands, she sounds kinda like an antivaxxer, and it worries me that people are regarding that as something brave and iconoclastic, when I have a feeling that Gilligan really is setting her up to be a monster like Walter was - to splash around in those same waters.”

#Pluribus

MyTerms/ IEEE P7012 - the ‘No…., but’ Browser/ App Standard Privacy Signal AKA The cookie banner zapper….

https://hendersoni.substack.com/p/myterms-ieee-p7012-the-no-but-browser

Yikes!

“ A mistake in Mozilla’s signing infrastructure previously disabled NoScript and all other Firefox extensions signed by Mozilla in Tor Browser. Because NoScript enforces the higher security levels, this single point of failure compromised privacy for millions of users. The solution: host NoScript yourself, sign it yourself, update it yourself. Version 13.5.2.1984 equals AMO’s 13.5.2 in functionality, but now the Tor Project controls the entire update pipeline without waiting for Mozilla.”

https://www.sambent.com/tor-browser-15-0-3-noscript-goes-independent/

#Mozilla #Tor

small joy: remembering that with this project there is no reason i can’t name a log analysis folder “anal-logs’ and giggle at it each time

@SchellX

@_elena

Peertube supports syncing channels with youtube. EWU is on there already but if you have other channels youd like to see on peertube you can also set them up yourself.

I wrote a short how to for it here https://lemmy.world/post/39621439

If we’re just saying things we thing might be good for business;

Personally I think Alex Karp should be tortured before his execution without a trial, so he can first retract his support of war crimes, before having his head removed with a very dull knife.

I think that would do a lot of good for the anti-fascism and anti-oligarchy industry.

https://gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo-says-making-war-crimes-constitutional-would-be-good-for-business-2000695162

And to answer my own questions:

9months to 2 years to build data centers in china.

https://www.datacenter-asia.com/blog/how-long-does-it-take-to-build-a-data-center/

He was probably thinking of this claim about hospitals: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/china-hospital-10-days/

Equating “data centers” with hosptials, as if they are in any way the same… This really begs the question, why did he not compare to building data centers in china, is it perhaps because they take just as long regardless of the location because data centers are a lot more complicated then hospitals (and hospitals are just one of the many critical services that actually depend on datacenters these days)

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: “Data centers take about 3 years to construct in the U.S., while in China ‘they can build a hospital in a weekend’”

https://fortune.com/2025/12/06/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-ai-race-china-data-centers-construct-us/

https://web.archive.org/web/20251207000000/https://fortune.com/2025/12/06/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-ai-race-china-data-centers-construct-us/

#Nvidia #AI #DataCenters #ChinaVsUS #JensenHuang #TechRace

Current #FunkWhale #playlist

https://funk.gravitywell.xyz/library/playlists/1

“Survivor footage shows U.S. forces opening fire on shipwrecked crew after strike. Sailors in life vests waving arms—gunned down in water. ‘Executed the ones who survived the bombs.’”

#WarCrimes #USMilitary

https://theintercept.com/2025/12/04/boat-strike-survivors-video/

https://archive.is/o9BJq

“Across U.S. prisons, LGBTQ inmates—especially trans women—are disproportionately assigned to clerical jobs: typing, filing, data entry. Staff justify it as ‘they’re good at paperwork’ or ‘less likely to be violent.’ Pay: pennies per hour. Many say it’s forced feminized labor that trades on stereotypes while keeping them visible & vulnerable to harassment.”

#PrisonLabor #TransRights #LGBTQPrisoners #QueerIncarceration

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/lgbtq-prison-life-office-administrative-work

The evolution of pizza delivery is the plainest example of our everything-to-the-top economic decline.

=Ordering a pizza in 2005=

Customer: I would like to place an order with free delivery!

Business: Thanks! One of the drivers on our payroll will arrive shortly!

Customer: Great! I will tip them at least $3, or more if anyone in our household is attracted to them or likes their jokes!

Driver: I will now buy other things with minimum wage plus tip income, and write the gas and mileage off my taxes!

=Ordering a pizza in 2025=

Customer: Why is this pizza $30?

Business: We don’t know. If you need delivery, please order through the app.

THE APP: With our fees your pizza is now $45. Would you like to tip the driver? Otherwise, we won’t pay them.

Customer: Wait, none of this is going to the driver? What are these fees for then?

THE APP: They are for The App.

Business: We also have to pay for the privilege of being on The App. If we don’t, we’re aborted from the internet.

Driver: If you don’t tip, I’m yeeting that pizza through your front window, because I just depreciated the value of my car for negative money.

Customer: Why did I pay $15 in fees to get my pizza yeeted?

The App: Good question. The fees are now $17. I recommend blaming a foreign war or food stamps for this.

I keep hearing about new AI software because of crazy shit people let it do, mainly deleting entire codebases or drives… So I’ve been playing with google AntiGravity lately (in a VM because im not an idiot)

Wisconsin lawmakers push to ban VPNs in age verification bill A.B. 105, claiming to “protect children” by blocking privacy tools. But it’s technically impossible & harms businesses, students, journalists. “What the actual fuck?”

#VPNBan #PrivacyMatters #TechFail #Censorship

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/01/lawmakers-want-to-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing/

It’s almost winter, and you know what that means: hoodie season. It also means you now have the opportunity to not only buy a very nice new hoodie, but one that supports human artists (and websites).

https://aftermath.site/destroy-ai-aftermath-kim-hu-hoodie-shirt/

#FuckAI #DestroyAI

@dannotdaniel I do wish it wasn’t chrome based, but it has every single feature I want in a browser, the (closed source) UI is hands down the best UI of any browser I’ve used, out of the box it already includes ad blocking, rss reader, and calendar, along with DAVx compatible services to sync with.

And they actually Improve it… like new features aren’t just shoveling in AI or whatever mozilla thinks is worth forcing on all their users. Vivaldi actually puts out regular updates that are worth reading the release notes about.

Their mobile version is great too

@dilmandila @blakefox @operationpuppet I am more then happy to have other folks content hosted on my peertube instance, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call mine “reliable” since its literally just my home server and there are no backups of the videos.

It is fairly easy to setup your own, Mine has been going for over a year now mostly just mirroring youtube channels i like, but if you want to test run on someone else’s feel free to use mine

Pay No Attention To The Chipmaker Behind The Curtain:

Nondisclosure agreements are obscuring the beneficiaries of the AI buildout.

Spend three minutes reading this 925-word newsletter to learn about:

• The nondisclosure agreements propping up the AI mirage.
• Banks’ Great Robbery scheme gone wild.
• A poison pill in your kids’ phones.
• Why Wall Street does not want to hear from its shareholders.

https://www.levernews.com/pay-no-attention-to-the-chipmaker-behind-the-curtain/

Trump’s NYC meetup with Mamdani, shared views on tariffs, govt-run stores, price controls. But immigration clashes loom. X reveal: Indonesian fake MAGA stars, Nigerian/Saudi bots fueling astroturf activism & election chaos. Foreign bot networks… changing U.S. politics right now.

Full breakdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtKNl6TlXLk