Notices by Doc Edward Morbius ⭕ (dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud), page 2

"A new home for Debian in the Mastodon / ActivityPub fediverse: follow @debian (and possible future moves)" by Laura Arjona Reina https://larjona.wordpress.com/2019/07/27/a-new-home-for-debian-in-the-mastodon-activitypub-fediverse-follow-debianframapiaf-org-and-possible-future-moves/

Hell, it happens to me all the time. On my iPhone, Siri is turned off. And yet, when the head phones are plugged in and I try to start my podcast playback, there is always a chance of activating Voice Control by chance instead of starting playback. And since that records a few seconds of me swearing, the wind blowing, and nearby people speaking random stuff, I fear a lot of Apple contract workers listen it trying to figure out WTF I wanted to say. But all I want is to disable this shit.

We start with a talk in the Auditório: " "Just Don't Buy It": Consumer choices in free software activism" - follow the live streaming in https://debconf19.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/

We have to sell it to China, guys!
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RT @markmackinnon@twitter.com
There’s a new Top Gun movie coming out. And Maverick is wearing the same leather jacket - only this time it’s Communist Party of China-approved, so the Japanese and Taiwanese flag patches are gone (screenshot on right is from the new trailer)...
https://twitter.com/markmackinnon/status/1152241649893945346

I recommend people just turn off voice assistants whenever they can. That includes smart watches and the like! If you don’t depend on them, then there always the chance of activating them by mistake and of voice samples getting sent and stored where they don’t belong and listened to by people you don’t like. Don’t do this to yourself. Don’t do this to the people around you, either.

https://www.sarahsmarsh.com/heartland-in-the-news
"Smarsh maps her family’s impoverished lives against the destruction of the working class that the Reagan era wrought: the demise of the family farm, the dismantling of public health care, the defunding of public schools, and wages so stagnant that full time laborers could no longer pay the bills. Readers will learn what Smarsh did: the working poor in America are sold a lie. Working hard in this country probably won’t get you ahead after all."

That's my hood.

@natecull Gone With the Wind in the Willows of Oz

@natecull Sigmoid Freund

Civilisation and its Discotheques

@natecull The cats involved on gravity wave detection are Very Fat Cats indeed.

And immensely territorial over what they consider to be their spacetime domain.

@natecull #RealTrueFact: LINAC and SLAC are short for LINACat and SLACat.

(Do not ask me about LiGato, as I would have to kill you.)

@natecull Oh so THAT is where SimCity's Arcologies come from. Paolo Soleri:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Soleri

https://arcosanti.org/project/paolo-soleri/

UK ISP association names #Mozilla "Internet villain" -- for circumventint Net censorship and surveillance mechanisms.

No, seriously.

https://www.ispa.org.uk/ispa-announces-finalists-for-2019-internet-heroes-and-villains-trump-and-mozilla-lead-the-way-as-villain-nominees/

Complete Spy vs. Spy Casebook

https://archive.org/details/SpyVsSpyTheCompleteCasebook

Things we didn't do:
- Start the fire
- Shoot the deputy
- Steal the cookies from the cookie jar

Things we did:
- Tried to fight it
- Shot the sheriff
- Put the sham in the shama-lama-ding-dong

Things we will do:
- Survive
- Rock you
- Walk 500 miles
- Walk 500 more

Things we won't do:
- Get fooled again
- Back down
- That

Things we will never do:
- Give you up
- Let you down
- Run around
- Desert you

(Oops:
- I did it again)

Things we didn't do:
- Start the fire
- Shoot the deputy
- Steal the cookies from the cookie jar

Things we did:
- Tried to fight it
- Shot the deputy
- Put the sham in the shama-lama-ding-dong

Things we will do:
- Survive
- Rock you

Things we won't do:
- Get fooled again
- Back down
- That

Things we will never do:
- Give you up
- Let you down
- Run around
- Desert you

(Oops:
- I did it again)

'Djinn & Chthonic" would make an awesome premise / foundation for a somewhat darkish (and definitely undrground) superhero / superantihero literary series.

(Expanding on an earlier riff.)