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[Zispinhoff @zispinhoff]

This Nation has not earned the blood of my sons.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

🚨 Section 8 of Flock Safety’s contract caps liability at just $100.

100,000+ cameras. 49 states. 20B license plates scanned every month. $8.4B valuation. If your data is leaked, lost, or misused: max payout is $100.

Billions for them. $100 for you.

Y'all okay with this?

[Zispinhoff @zispinhoff]

@Freedom_Toons The glass pane one, is that Fringe reference?

[𝕲𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖈 𝕱𝖗𝖊𝖓 🇺🇲 @GermanicFren]

This is what peak autism looks like

[FULU @FuluFoundation]

⚠️ Tomorrow (May 20th), Amazon is ending support for all Kindle models from 2012 or earlier.

Affected Kindles will no longer be able to purchase, borrow, or download new e-books or audiobooks... even though you already fully OWN that device.

If you have one of these Kindles, Dammit Jeff on YouTube has you covered with videos on jailbreaking and de-Amazoning your device:

🔗 Jailbreak video: https://t.co/uvWMNYKlTV
🔗 De-Amazoning video: https://t.co/ccMCw1WP89

[Cultivated Laser @CultLaser]

@rahul Fuck you and your big brother ass company.

[BFI @BFI]

Badger, badger, badger... MUSHROOM, MUSHROOM 🍄

Jonti Picking's flash animation - and earworm - set the world alight in 2003, becoming one of the internet's most iconic memes. Now preserved in the BFI National Archive.

[Free Talk Live @FreeTalkLive]

You have every right to know what your government is doing, and they have no right to know what you are doing.

That is why they are called public servants and we are called private citizens.

Instead, the relationship has been inverted. The state hides behind secrecy, classified files, and redactions while demanding total visibility into your finances, communications, movement, and behavior.

A society where the rulers live in privacy while the population lives under surveillance is the very definition of tyranny.

[Josef Prusa @josefprusa]

BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork, with the same networking binary black box in question today. Why are they willing to burn the goodwill over it?
There's something most have sensed but never seen it all in one place, the five-law framework China built between 2017 and 2023 ⤵️

So maybe their hand is forced as their "network" is too valuable already? Each law on its own, interesting, okay... Read them together, and add any Chinese company with big reach to the mix you get the complete picture.

1) National Intelligence Law (2017)
All organizations and citizens must "support, assist, and cooperate" with intelligence work. The same law makes it illegal to disclose that cooperation happened. Cooperation is mandatory, and silence about it is mandatory too.

2) Cryptography Law (2020)
Commercial encryption must be state-approved and state-reviewed. When authorities request it, companies must provide decryption keys or plaintext. The state on both sides of that equation is the same one.

3) Data Security Law (2021)
Article 2 gives the state extraterritorial reach over data that touches Chinese national security or public interests. So EU/US data hosting does nothing to make it safe, because jurisdiction follows the company, not the server location.

4) Counter-Espionage Law revision (2023)
The general definition of espionage was expanded to cover "documents, data, materials, or items related to national security and interests." Industrial data is one of the intended targets since the revision.

5) Network Product Security Vulnerability regulation (2021)
Any company or researcher that discovers a software vulnerability must report it to MIIT within 48 hours. From there it flows to CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database of Information Security), operated by the 13th Bureau of the Ministry of State Security. Microsoft's threat intelligence team documented Chinese state-hacker zero-day usage rising after this took effect. Shows the willingness to use the “tools” China built.

Together they describe a system with no neutral exits. Cooperation is required, encryption is real but the spare keys live at the ministry, jurisdiction follows the company across borders, industrial data is in scope, and discovered vulnerabilities flow to an intelligence agency 😬

3D printing became strategic for China in 2020 and joined the “Made in China 2025” plan soon after. Why does 3D printing matter so much? 1/x

[Jeff Geerling @geerlingguy]

Bambu Lab 3D printers: never again.

They're breaking the open source social contract (for the nth time...), and I'm past hoping they'll amend their ways.

https://t.co/NXzMlKHaYu

[FULU @FuluFoundation]

“Hey babe, before we watch this movie, let me call the authorized DVD technician to unlock my DVD player.” ☎️💿

Yes, this was an actual solution suggested because breaking a region lock on a DVD player could violate Section 1201 of the DMCA.

The wildest part? The Copyright Office admitted multi-region DVD players probably break the law people wanted an exemption for, yet still used that as justification to deny the exemption.

Apparently, ownership is optional.

[Zispinhoff @zispinhoff]

@Outfit_Luxy @LibertarianG0th I think you might want to see this.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

If you pitched this as a screenplay every studio would reject it for being too on-the-nose.

A 73-year-old architect walks to confession in 1926 and gets hit by a tram on the Gran Via in Barcelona. He's mistaken for a vagrant because of his worn clothes and left at a pauper's hospital. He dies three days later. His name is Antoni Gaudí. The cathedral he leaves behind is less than a quarter complete. The plans to finish it sit in his workshop as plaster models and detailed drawings.

Ten years after his death, in July 1936, FAI anarchists break into that workshop. They smash the plaster models. They burn the archive of drawings and calculations. They pry open Gaudí's tomb. For the next 50 years, architects piece together a destroyed playbook from photographs and broken plaster fragments.

The geometry was the real problem. Gaudí designed the church using upside-down hanging-chain models because the math for hyperboloid intersections did not yet exist on paper. He had solved it physically. Computers finally caught up to him in the 1980s. By 2010 the project was 50% complete. By 2015 stone elements that took months to hand-carve were being modelled digitally and machine-cut in days.

Now the kicker. The building is funded entirely by people paying admission to see scaffolding. €134.5 million of income in 2025, all private, none of it from the Spanish state or the Vatican. About 4.7 million tourists a year buying €26 tickets to watch a cathedral get built. The unfinished state was the product.

On June 10, 2026, exactly 100 years to the day after Gaudí died, the cross goes up on the Tower of Jesus Christ. 144 years from groundbreaking. 172.5 meters tall. The tallest church building in the world, beating Ulm Minster, which took 513 years.

When asked why his project was taking so long, Gaudí said one thing: "My client is not in a hurry."

Turns out neither was he.

[Zispinhoff @zispinhoff]

@SMRdeka @ShamashAran Standard divisive Leftist horseshit. Too many lineup changes, too.

[Zispinhoff @zispinhoff]

@LibertarianG0th So I just got done re-watching it, because the last time I had, it didn't stick.

Damn, it feels ominously prescient now.

Damn it.

Great recommendation. Cap is best Avenger.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

“California's 3D Printer Law
Would Criminalize Open Source, Enshittify The 3D Printing Space”

Read it again: Criminalize Open Source.

For the back row:

CRIMINALIZE
OPEN
SOURCE
3D
PRINTERS.

[Zispinhoff @zispinhoff]

@loyalmoses I'm having trouble believing this is real.

Do it on X, or wherever you get the most exposure. Or paid the most, I don't know, I kinda want one.

[Zispinhoff @zispinhoff]

I friggin' love Sensurround's "Nyandethal" stuff.

This so simple, even Cave Catgirl understand. So why not you?

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

https://t.co/1hjMXbI6FC