2026 price hikes hit ACA health insurance plans as subsidies expire for millions of Americans
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Couldn't attend CCC, but loved the transcript. There's hope!


*On December 28th, I delivered a speech entitled "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet" for 39C3, the 39th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany. This is the transcript of that speech*:

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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Trump administration delays tariff increases on furniture and kitchen cabinets by a year
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"Shifting software to commons-based production is a way to reduce the liability that software imposes on its makers and users, balancing out that liability among many players"

Well yes, *of course* open source software has role to play in @pluralistic 's inspiring vision of a post-enshittification future pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c…

Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings* | The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Oxford Academic


This article examines language patterns in U.S. television news coverage of police killings. First, we document that the media use syntactic structures—such as passive voice, nominalizations, and intransitive verbs—that obscure responsibility more often in cases of police killings than in cases of civilian killings. Through an online experiment, we demonstrate the significance of these syntactic differences, revealing that participants are less likely to hold police officers morally responsible and demand penalties when exposed to obfuscatory language, particularly in cases involving unarmed victims. Further analysis of news data shows greater use of obfuscatory language when the victims are unarmed or video footage is available—situations in which obfuscation may have the greatest impact. Exploring the causes of this differential obfuscation, we do not find evidence that it is driven by either demand-side factors or supply-side factors associated with TV station ownership and political leaning. Instead, our results suggest that narratives crafted by police departments are more likely drivers of media obfuscation. This article highlights how syntactic choices and their semantic consequences in media shape perceptions, extending beyond coverage volume and bias.


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Yes, this is ripe for fraud, but my prediction: nothing will happen and MN will continue to be one of the most corrupt states in the union.

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Νομίζω έδωσε την κατάλληλη αγωγή στο παιδί μου.

Πατέρα, φανταστικά τα μουσεία με τα κλεμμένα στο Βερολίνο και το check point Charlie, και οι εορταστικές αγορές κλπ κλπ, ΑΛΛΑ η πόλη δεν είναι σαν τα Βαλκάνια.

Bohemian Rhapsody 2SID Turns Queen Into C64 Sound
#Commodore64 #C64 #SID #DualSID #MOS8580 #GoatTracker #Chiptune #8bitMusic #Nordischsound #C64Music #CSDb
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La complainte kurde : Roboskî
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"PARIS – Une paix véritable n’est possible que par une confrontation où la vérité, et non les bombes, s’exprime ; où la justice, et non le silence, prévaut, écrit Ercan Jan Aktas, journaliste et écrivain kurde réfugié en France, à propos des pourparlers de paix engagés entre la Turquie et le PKK alors que les […]
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8 Best Exterior Door Materials That Keep Your Home Safe
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The photo of my Grandson playing one of my #C64 games on my new C64u seems to have made it into one of Christian Simpsons (CEO of Commodore)

Relevant clip here:
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#commodore #commodore64
@EC64


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Dozens feared dead, 100 hurt in bar fire at Swiss resort
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Sonic 3 spoilers (????)

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The Art of Remembering Death (Memento Mori) and Life (Memento Vivere)
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TURQUIE. Le racisme dans les stades de foot menace le processus de paix
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"TURQUIE / KURDISTAN – Le racisme anti-kurde des supporters de football turc est de nouveau exacerbé alors que l’État turc est en pourparlers de paix avec la guérilla kurde. Alors que certains y voient une volonté de sabotage du processus de paix, le journaliste Nazim Tural souligne que le racisme dans les

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Hmm? Oh, hi!

New year, new social media to terrorize, huh?

Hi. I'm Sai. Like, in shy, which… it is also applicable. I'm an artist, tho not a professional -mainly because I'm not getting paid- and I fled the conventional social media and their now unavoidable awful environment a few years ago. Been posting drawings on Mastodon this last year -you can see most of my stuff on #SnoringBeauty-, and I felt like spreading a bit. Besides, never had tumblr, so… why not something similar?

I'll try to be a bit more active than simply two drawings per week, maybe doodles and silly stuff. And puns. And Simpsons references. And Simpsons puns. Probably some coding stuff and 3D modelling too, we'll see.

Fear me. :BlobCat_Googly_Knife:

Toodle-oo!

#introduction #SnoringBeauty

Tony Sheather - THE HIDDEN TERROR
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"Author: Tony SheatherTitle: THE HIDDEN TERRORDate: 2018, SpringSource: Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, #73, Spring, 2018, page 15
The world is now too familiar with daily stories and tragedies of terror. The most conspicuous culprits are fundamental Moslems in both the Middle East, remnants of AL-Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS and the disillusioned, disenfranchised or

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In 2025, quitting social media felt easier than ever
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Enzo Maresca leaves Chelsea after just 18 months as manager
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Found these two Chinese AI security projects via Ollie Whitehouse. I didn’t yet look at them, but this is cool!

We’re so often blind to what’s not in English.

Take a look!

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Welcome to the Public Domain, ARCTIC ANTICS (1930) ❄️

🐧 Another 10 Silly Symphony shorts join the public domain. No rattling bones like last year's THE SKELETON DANCE, but we do get up to some Arctic Antics 🐻❄️

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#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree

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Oregon vs. Texas Tech predictions and best bets for the Orange Bowl: Can the Ducks handle an elite defense?
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The Vintage Item That Collectors Consider A Rare Thrift Store Find (It Can Be So Valuable)
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