Notices by Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)
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Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 13:14:35 EDT Ji Fu I've been using this all week and it makes me happy webamp.org/ #Winamp #Nostelgia now if only we can integrate it with #funkwhale @Funkwhale -
Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 12:33:07 EDT Ji Fu ♲ @bunnyhugger@iviv.hu: ♲ diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/… @psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com:
An Indigenous Archeologist’s Journey to Find the Lost Children of the Residential Schools | Scientific American scientificamerican.com/article… scientificamerican.com/article…
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Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 12:31:17 EDT Ji Fu ♲ @OBDsity@mastodon.thirring.org: There's a Bunny hidden in this image.
Can you find him?
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Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 11:32:36 EDT Ji Fu @HSTG I don't know, but I also don't know how your inquiry is relevant to my post. -
Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 11:31:47 EDT Ji Fu @perfect brains yep, also illegal -
Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 17:01:36 EDT Ji Fu ♲ @RabbitsPlantsandYoga@kind.social: This is my first post on any form of social media in almost a decade. I've spent the last 3 weeks worried that I don't have anything valuable enough to share.
Today I'm telling my inner saboteur to suck it and I'm doing something that scares me: putting myself out there.
Hi everyone. I'm Lake. Look at my bunny. 🥰 #rabbit #bunny #rabbitsofmastodon
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Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 16:49:11 EDT Ji Fu ♲ @fodworeq@social.re: ♲ diaspora.koehn.com/posts/7f9a7… @bkoehn@diaspora.koehn.com:
Setting aside the adolescent histrionics, this is a good look at how a business with a dominant position destroys itself from within.
wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-ki… wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-ki… -
Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 16:44:06 EDT Ji Fu "It is undisputed that President Bush did not secure a congressional declaration of war from Congress before he ordered his military to invade Afghanistan. That made their war illegal under our form of government.
How can participating in an illegal war be considered “patriotic”? Dwyre doesn’t explain that.
The U.S. was the aggressor under Nuremberg"
A Warped View of Patriotism on Pat Tillman – The Future of Freedom Foundation fff.org/2024/04/24/a-warped-vi… -
Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 11:24:14 EDT Ji Fu Lately I've been really hating LifeSiteNews, but for once this is right.
Not enough Republicans say the truth: Abortion is an abomination because it kills babies - LifeSite lifesitenews.com/opinion/repub… -
Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 11:09:31 EDT Ji Fu I think Biden mistakes this politically. Its not only conservatives who have these issues, but feminists too.
Really, the only long-term solution is a separation of sport and school. ground.news/article/finalized-…
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Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 11:00:46 EDT Ji Fu #Sunak is trash
Controversial UK government plans for deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda clear their final hurdle after a marathon tussle between the upper and lower chambers of parliament lasting late into the night. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his ruling Conservatives have been seeking to push through legislation that will compel judges to regard the East African nation as a safe third country
msn.com/en-in/news/India/sunak…
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Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 09:53:14 EDT Ji Fu As the end of the school year approaches, the Michigan Science Center has received an overwhelming number of applications for field trip support, and we need your help to provide those field trips and transportation to our under-resourced schools across Metro Detroit that lack the funding and need our support.
We’ve created a program called SOS, and throughout the year, we can help these students. However, there is such a great need in 2024 that we will have to suspend this effort right now without your support, as we have over 2,000 students on the waiting list.
In February, 260 elementary students from Holland Elementary had the chance to visit Mi-Sci with SOS funding, which supported their field trip and paid for transportation!
One Holland Elementary teacher, Cynthia, shared that shortly after their visit to Mi-Sci, her 5th-grade class learned about the history of flight. She was able to immediately connect what the students were learning in the classroom to their experience at Mi-Sci, interacting with our Above and Beyond exhibit. This exhibit allowed her students to build and fly their own virtual jets, learn about forces of flight with motion-sensing technology, experience a 360-degree view of Earthfrom orbit, and much more.
Please consider making your gift today. misciactivecampaign.lt.acemlna…
Your gift of:
$11 will send one student to Mi-Sci
$100 will send 10 students to Mi-Sci
$250 will send 25 students to Mi-Sci
$500 will send 50 students to Mi-Sci
Your support for the SOS field trip fund will make an immediate impact on students. Thank you.
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Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 09:38:29 EDT Ji Fu #Modi must be stopped. #Trump is a kitten compared to him. #Election #India msn.com/en-in/news/India/asadu…MSN -
Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 19:12:06 EDT Ji Fu The two leadimg causes of homelessness are zoning laws and landlords.
SCOTUS weighs homeless policing amid housing crisis - Marketplace marketplace.org/2024/04/22/sco… -
Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 16:04:26 EDT Ji Fu @todbrilliant it can only change if we change it. -
Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 16:02:25 EDT Ji Fu If #Bowling For Soup had released #1985 today it would becalled 2005 (same time has elapsed) Feeling #old?
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Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 15:58:57 EDT Ji Fu If #Bowling For Soup had released #1985 today it would becalled 2005 (same time has elapsed) Feeling #old?[youtbue]https://www.youtube.com/watch?=zaAYUZqZvlA[/youtube]
2005 (1985 Parody) i.devol.it/watch?v=zaAYUZqZvlA -
Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 12:38:18 EDT Ji Fu Is TikTok's time finally up? On Saturday, the House of Representatives passed a measure that would require a change in the app's ownership or ban it if that doesn't happen.
Called the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, it's essentially the same divestiture-or-ban bill I wrote about in this newsletter back in March, now tucked into a larger bill (H.R. 8038, the insanely named 21st Century Peace through Strength Act) that deals with everything from fentanyl trafficking to Russian sanctions, Iranian petroleum, Hamas, and boatloads of foreign aid.
The most talked-about part of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act would ban TikTok unless it completely breaks ties with its Chinese parent-company, ByteDance, within 270 days.
But the bill goes far beyond TikTok, and could be used to justify a ban on all sorts of popular apps tied to China, Russia, Iran, or any other country that gets deemed a foreign adversary.
Specifically, the bill makes it illegal "to distribute, maintain, or update (or enable the distribution, maintenance, or updating of) a foreign adversary controlled application." And the bill's definition of "foreign adversary controlled application" is really broad.
It specifically defines TikTok, ByteDance, and subsidiaries or successors thereof as foreign adversary controlled applications.
The definition would also apply to an array of websites, apps, and "augmented or immersive technology" (with a focus on large social media entities), if they are headquartered in, principally based in, or organized under the laws of a foreign adversary country or if any person or entity with at least a 20 percent stake is based there.
And it would grant the president broad power to determine who meets this bill, opening the measure up for all sorts of potential abuse.
There are multiple ways in which this legislation likely violates the Constitution.The most obvious constitutional problem is the First Amendment. The bill suppresses the free speech rights of Americans who post to TikTok and of those who consume TIkTok content.
It may also amount to a bill of attainder—a law punishing a specific person or entity, without a trial—and those are unconstitutional.
And it may also violate the 5th Amendment, as Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) noted in a Reason article last week.
Paul thinks the Supreme Court "will ultimately rule it unconstitutional because it would violate the First Amendment rights of over 100 million Americans who use TikTok to express themselves," and "rule that the forced sale violates the Fifth Amendment. Under the Constitution, the government cannot take your property without accusing and convicting you of a crime—in short, without due process. Since Americans are part of TikTok's ownership, they will eventually get their day in court."
Paul's point brings up an important—and often overlooked—factor in all of this: No one has produced evidence of any specific legal infractions committed by TikTok, let alone proven such offenses took place. There's a ton of speculation about what TikTok could be doing, but that's it. A lot of people seem sure that TikTok is a tool of the Chinese Communist Party and you're a fool if you think otherwise. And maybe it is! But that still doesn't mean we can simply sanction the company with no due process, as Paul points out.
Speculation about what the app's ties to China mean may be a good reason for certain people to approach TikTok with caution. But they cannot justify legal action against TikTok.
TikTok Measure Passed by House Is Unconstitutional in Multiple Ways reason.com/2024/04/22/tiktok-m… -
Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 12:15:14 EDT Ji Fu Over 2,000 #shell companies have directors aged 123 years or older,
#Moody’s found. The oldest known human lived to 122
archive.ph/nDQSS
#scam #crime #economy #business #problem #newslibranet.de/photos/fu/image/95…
One listed director — at 942 years old — would have been born in the 11th century.
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Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 12:04:17 EDT Ji Fu Democrats and Republicans Unite To Give Weapons Manufacturers $59 Billion
Democrats and Republicans Unite to Give Weapons Manufacturers $59 Billion reason.com/2024/04/22/democrat…