On the digital high seas, there is no better place id rather be than right here- ☠️
#Paracord fun. Spent yesterday putting handles on these old Hibben throwing knives. Now I'm getting rid of the basic leather strap and giving my jade buckle the belt it deserves.
With the AG from Texas contacting children's hospitals across the country wanting the names of trans children I am so glad the Seattle children's hospital said NO. If you think it has nothing to do with you just imagine who else they will go after if they are successful. They already seriously damaged abortion rights (women's healthcare) What next? Do you attend a church? Which church? #The GOP taking away your rights one at a time
Third, Russia intends to expand the state-centered model of the internet at the international level. The amendment aiming to create the infrastructure for a national Domain Name System (DNS) could, if achieved as planned in January 2021, create a Russian segment of the internet
more here:
https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/deciphering-russias-sovereign-internet-law
The IRS Rolls Out A Direct File Pilot
Thanks to the Biden-Harris administration and the formerly Democratic Congress, the Internal Revenue Service is developing a way to file directly, not with the expensive intermediation of Intuit.
I suspect that the site will be oversubscribed for a while, but you can sign up to be notified when it opens further.
Update: Two hours after promising an imminent solution to Tuesday’s Top Level Domain RU outage, Russia’s Digital Development Ministry announced that access was finally restored, though the agency warned that some DNS problems might persist while the updated data were distributed throughout the domain name system.
more here:
Last week, there were localized disruptions to messengers platforms like WhatsApp and Viper (Telegram too?). Internet watchdog groups like Roskomsvoboda said that was likely to government regulators testing out censorship hardware/software
25th Jan
Russia social media outage likely caused by state internet regulator
https://therecord.media/russia-social-media-outages-roskomnadzor
#Tennessee leaders are cool with it, though. #racists #terrorists
'A self-proclaimed “tribe” of racist heathens is building a compound on a 122-acre property in Tellico Plains, eastern Tennessee. This group overlaps with Patriot Front (PF)... and the “Church of Aryanity,” a racist cult that refers to Adolf Hitler as “the Great One.” The leader of the Tennessee “tribe” is Brian Culpepper, who spent a decade in the white supremacist National Socialist Movement (NSM)...'
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ASCII Theater
MSCHF's latest project lets you stream pirated movies to your terminal in glorious ASCII, with color and captions, now playing Barbie
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