H. Poteat @nsqe@octodon.social
Privacy Superhero @ GitHub. Working on woke. Still trying to save the world. Queer. Awkward & dorky. Not a Heather.
@munin Yep. It'll be like VIP cards on steroids. Like, what's next: Amazon tracking what time of the month I buy tampons so it can just go on and put sweat pants in my cart and cheesy movies on streaming?
@chris_martin @Savagejen @parataxis @username I mean, yeah, but they do, though. That's kind of exactly how phishing works.
About damn time, @xor! Welcome.
Slow clap to whoever runs spicychicken.club. That's a top-tier domain name.
Raise your hand if you sent people emails from "billclinton@whitehouse.gov" in telnet via open relays when you were in sixth grade
@parataxis .....uh yeah except before Bill Clinton was in office because I'm old...
"G.G.’s case is about much more than bathrooms. It’s about a boy asking his school to treat him just like any other boy. It’s about protecting the rights of transgender people in public spaces and not forcing them to exist on the margins. It’s about governmental
validation of the existence and experiences of transgender people, as well as the simple recognition of their humanity."
For those who may have missed it:
Remember how Gavin Grimm took his case to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court didn't make a proper decision, they kicked the case back down to the 4th Circuit?
The 4th Circuit ruled on Gavin's case today. The ruling is one of the most beautiful legal holdings I've ever read, and I strongly encourage all my #trans and #trans-ally friends to read it.
http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Published/161733R1.P.pdf
@sarahjeong It's like it's endemic of a larger issue: like DHS has assumed a much larger scope of authority in the last few months than it's ever had (for some unknown reason...), and it's just charging ahead. You see it in this court action, you see it in ICE grabbing people outside churches, you see it in the demands for social media passwords at borders.
@sarahjeong What's /really/ interesting here, I think, is how Congress is reacting. Several representatives, both Dem /and/ Rep, have demanded that DHS explain wtf it was doing and why it thought that was even remotely constitutional.
Twitter sued Customs and Border Protection for trying to unmask one of their pseudonymous alt agency accounts. Within 24 hours of Twitter filing the lawsuit, the government withdrew its subpoena. What happened here?
I explain it all: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/alt-twitter-account-trump-customs-lawsuit
@nolan ....Suddenly very interested in toot.cafe.
🎺.☕️ And BTW: the reason I'm boosting toots about how admins have access to your DMs is because you deserve to be aware. That's why it's nice to be on an instance where you can trust the admin.
In case it's not clear: I will never sell your data or give this instance to someone who will. You all are my *family*, and I protect my family.
If for whatever reason you *didn't* trust me, I'd rather give the SSH keys to someone you did and give up the instance than keep being admin.
@masklayer Not all things are easily searchable, though. And I'm finding that people use hashtags here far less, probably because of the longer text field.
@wxcafe Yeah, I'd think there would be better ways to approach anti-harassment (e.g., through culture) than by crippling functionality, though.
@acostoss Oh...that's a shame. It seems like the anti-harassment culture here should be strong enough that we shouldn't have to cripple functionality to reinforce it. It's useful to be able to form communities by finding people who are discussing the things I'm interested in, which aren't always hashtagged.
Wait...I can't search for content #onhere unless it's hashtagged?
Remember that good thing birdsite did yesterday? They won.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/twitter-sues-feds-over-attempt-to-reveal-identity-behind
@coeur66 No, zero, please make some to fill the void that is lacking
