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Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي) @ mitch @piefed.mitch.science
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I like coffee, Philly, Pittsburgh, Arabic language, anything on two wheels, music, linux, theology, cats, computers, pacifism, art, unity, equity, etymology, the power of words, and getting high off airplane glue. Will use Adobe Illustrator for food.

  • Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thought

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  • Ah, good thing those are cheap materials, then!

  • Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thought

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  • Goo in, goo out.

  • Postal traffic to US sank 80% after Trump administration ended exemption on low-value parcels

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  • Millions of small retail or craft businesses now out of business: "haha so true bestie!"

  • DOJ plans to label trans Americans as "mentally defective" to take away their guns

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  • White People: "guns are for everyone! That's why there is a second amendment. SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED."

    Black Panthers: "oh ok carries unloaded guns'

    White People: "wait actually now there are limits"

  • The Justice Department's deputy chief was caught on a hidden camera saying that the government will "redact every Republican" from an Epstein client list and "leave all the liberal, Democratic people"

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  • Honestly, doing this for would be such a hilarious operational vulnerability that I think it would be like a dinner bell ringing to th international spy community lol.

    If they release files with only Republican names blocked out, all it'll take is a single congressperson to read the full list of names that appear in the documents out loud during a speech and into the public record — then, Internet sleuths and journalists will be able to piece together names from details, they always do.

  • I didn't think it was possible to sum up reddit with a single image, but...

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  • I didn't think it was possible to sum up reddit with a single image, but...

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  • i had signed up to see if I am a match, which i would have donated if i had been selected. please show me where i mentioned actually donating bone marrow.

  • I didn't think it was possible to sum up reddit with a single image, but...

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  • a lot of people aren't old enough to remember that when the digg exodus happened, reddit didn't even have subreddits yet. it was just links on one page, and we built our little subculture in the comments of each thread. that's why there is such a culture of commenting before reading the article (if at all) — it used to be a big, disorganized blob of chatty nonsense, much like Fark or MetaFilter were at the time too.

    reddit is a lovely example of how tech companies from 1995 to 2020 fell into success and figured out what their product does later down the line. to quote homer simpson when asked what his tech company does, "we're a website that sells computers.... or.... a computer that sells websites, I haven't decided yet."

  • I didn't think it was possible to sum up reddit with a single image, but...

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  • i actually knew one of these powerusers in the early 2010s. he had leukemia, and i signed up to be a match to donate spinal marrow for him. i visited him in the hospital a bunch. he hasn't acknowledged me since. that was a real bummer, but, i tend to see friends where they don't exist so that might be on me.

    i am a little bummed that i got permabanned just because i was so close to all of the reddit founders and early employees. i personally prevented alexis from getting arrested for trying to openly smoke weed on the street in pittsburgh when it was still the kind of thing that got you put in prison for a few years if your skin is darker than popcorn.

    steve huffman in particular is a shitter and always has been. think of that kid you knew growing up who would make up that his dad worked at SEGA and that Goku was going to be in the next Sonic game — that's spez, still, to this day. he is "mr. namedropper." steve, genuinely, i do not care that you saw Beyoncé at the airport.

    ETA: since people are being weird about phrasing, i signed up to be a match. his alias back then was Dacvac. i literally sat in bars and watched him mod /r/pics on an iPad. believe me or don't, i'm just some schmoe online after all.

  • Trump Family Profits Even With Tepid Launch of Crypto Tokens

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  • Naked corruption. Investing in cryptocurrency is essentially enabling billionaires to abuse workers on a cosmic scale.

  • A decentralized end-to-end encrypted chat app

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  • Neato. Always cool to see a new approach. Synapse/Matrix is excellent, but, running a federated Matrix server is an exercise in frustration. So many version forks, so many hard crashes. :(

  • Top FDA official demands removal of YouTube videos of himself that criticized Covid vaccines

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  • Aw, look at that, you got the stink lines and everything.

  • Mexican cartels’ new money laundering businesses: Cryptocurrencies, concerts and timeshares

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  • I am not sure cryptocurrency even has a practical use outside of money laundering. I guess it's a casino, too.

  • What happens to Trump’s tariffs now that a federal appeals court has knocked them down?

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  • Collecting? Yes.

    Paying back out to the government? Not at all.

  • [ACTIVATE WINDOWS]

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  • I am a professional designer with two decades of experience and I gotta admit, you're smoking crack if you think GIMP (the project that is almost entirely held back by its stupid name) is superior to Photoshop.

    It might be able to get the job done for small tasks, but it is not a serious tool for serious people. I'm sorry. I'm as pro-FLOSS as anyone can get, and even I recognize that right now there's just no competition in the design department. Affinity is Mac-only, and comes with its own problematic aspects.

  • Alarm as US far-right extremists eye drones for use in domestic attacks

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  • I'm not sure why you put AI in scare quotes — image recognition is a form of AI, and one that predates any LLM or generative technology. OCR A was invented in 1966.

  • Alarm as US far-right extremists eye drones for use in domestic attacks

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  • I have been wondering for years why drone bombings aren't more common with terrorism groups now. They even have off-the-shelf drones that can fly entirely through vertical flow sensors and AI image recognition.

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • Meshtastic, baby!!

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • All my IT and InfoSec friends have called me alarmist for suggesting even the possibility of a GFW of America, but every day that passes, it looks more and more likely to happen, doesn't it?

    Start practicing circumvention techniques now, y'all, while it's still legal and cheap to do so. Learn amateur radio. Learn Meshtastic. Learn all the different censorship-resistant VPN technology out there. Host your own websites or services for friends, family, or your community. It doesn't make it impossible, but it does make it hard, and fascism is nothing if not lazy.