It is okay to be Jewish.
It is okay to attend your local synagogue.
It is okay to celebrate Hannukah.
It is not okay to use white phosphorus on civilians in Gaza and Lebanon.
Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.
Reminder that the guy who made Infinity Train worked on this (Owen Dennis)
So now TWO companies have fucked him over by dropping his series with no fucking advertising or care
We gotta destroy streaming services man
Today marks the 78th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), during which more than 750,000 Palestinians were expelled and over 400 villages were destroyed to establish the State of Israel.
You're afraid of failing at drawing? Come on dude, this is not middle school, nobody's gonna care or mock you if your art is "bad". What exactly does "failure" mean anyways? When you achieve something one day, the steps you climbed on the ladder will be your failures.
The artist behind this painting, Criselda Vasquez, painted this portrait of her parents in 2017. The man in this painting, her father, was recently taken by ICE. He has lived in the United States for forty years. This loss has made it hard for the family to support themselves. If you want to support them, you can go to their GoFundMe here:
https://t.co/Mgp7W8m5xJ
This!. This!!. This!!!. A thousand times this.
Digital ID for social media does not make anyone safer. It creates a searchable, linkable record of everything you say, connected to your real identity. It is meant to discourage people from speaking freely.
When governments restrict VPNs, they are deciding which parts of the internet you can access, even though you pay for that access.
You do not need privacy because you have something to hide. You need it because those in power are always tempted to misuse what they can observe.
Once surveillance systems are in place, the real question is not if they will be misused, but when and by whom.
Entire chapters of internet culture grew up in Flash. When it was switched off, most of it should have disappeared forever. But it didn't, thanks to the efforts of the software preservation community.
Flash is just part of the story of VANISHING CULTURE, a new book exploring the fight to preserve our fragile digital history.
Join us at the book launch. 📖
📅 Thu, April 23
🕠 5:30 PM: Doors open & entertainment
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ https://t.co/fBrSesWFOn
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