Ian @im@mastodon.sdf.org

Are there any recorded cases of a nation's populace identifying a growing fascist movement before it fully took control, and then successfully rooting it out without resorting to civil war? Asking for a friend.

Intelligence is no less a privilege than wealth or able-bodiedness, and sneering at people for having less of it is no less elitist.

Will future generations hold me and mine complicit for not arming ourselves, storming the detention centers, and liberating the children there by force? If they did, I'm not sure I could argue with them.

The idea of Star Wars has always been better than actual Star Wars. Fite me.

Words don't have meaning, meanings have words.

I know everyone will get offended with me for saying this, but [perfectly mainstream centrist opinion].

"How can you possibly compare mass shootings with [some other cause of death]"

It was tricky, I had to use fractions

If you are trying to figure out which side of a social conflict is really in power, make a general argument for freedom of thought and see which side takes it as a threat.

Real talk: filename extensions are just Hungarian notation.

#fbshare test 2

"Just as you can look at an arid terrain and determine what shape a river will one day take by assuming water will obey gravity, so you can look at a civilization and determine what shape its institutions will one day take by assuming people will obey incentives."
#fbshare

Just published a working DNS CERT record for my #PGP key. There is basically no good documentation on how to do this, which is a shame because it really wasn't that hard (if you're the sort of person who would do it in the first place) and seems easy enough to automate. I might release a script/howto if I ever get around to it.

Anyone know of any upcoming or regular #PGP / #GPG #keysigning parties in #Austin or thereabouts? If not, am I going to have to organize one?

@Botston is my hero. https://twitter.com/Botston/status/974800112047329280?s=09

#fb Testing my new RSS auto-publish applet via selfies. https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/w5ZHddr_kfeTT-F-pK4