AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>Five more high profile <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/BigLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigLaw</span></a> legal firms have capitulated to Downmarket Mussolini's fascist threats in order to keep raking in federal contracts; even as 500 of their contemporaries in US law are actively proving that fighting the Trump regime is an option:</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/trump-law-firms-pro-bono-deal" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a</span><span class="invisible">pr/11/trump-law-firms-pro-bono-deal</span></a></p><p>Trump says five more law firms agree to pro bono work to avoid punitive executive orders</p><p>"Donald Trump said on Friday that five major law firms reached agreements to together provide his administration $600m in pro bono legal work, among other terms, to avoid executive orders punishing them, a significant capitulation to the president as he attacks the legal profession.</p><p>The five firms – Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft – are among the most prestigious and recognized firms in the US.</p><p>Trump’s announcement on Friday on Truth Social means he has secured a total of $940m in pro bono work from some of the most powerful law firms in the US.</p><p>The orders come as Trump’s attack on the legal profession has divided the most prestigious firms in the US. More than 500 firms signed an amicus brief last week in support of a legal challenge to executive orders punishing the firm Perkins Coie. But many of the country’s biggest firms – including those that reached agreements announced on Friday – were conspicuously absent."</p><p>Frankly, I'm tired of repeating myself so I'll keep this brief. These firms are all kissing the fascist toad in the White House's ring because standing up to him, even when the law is on their side, risks too much of their ability to make money and that's more important to them than the law, or any sort of moral obligation to oppose fascism from those in a position to do so. Like every other Big Law firm before them, these folks have traded away their independence and integrity without any guarantee whatsoever that this represents the end of Downmarket Mussolini's demands; which means, even if they don't realize it, all of these law firms work for Trump now. Maybe these bigshot lawyers honestly believe, as former Skadden lawyer Rachel Cohen reported in the interview I shared above, that they can outsmart the regime, but that presupposes the Trump administration is playing by a set of rules - which is an idea that is wholly discredited by the blatantly unconstitutional executive orders and threats from the White House that brought us to this moment in the first place. </p><p>Finally I would encourage folks not to dismiss the almost 1 billion dollars in promises for pro bono services to the regime and causes Trump himself supports, that Der Leader has extracted here. Downmarket Mussolini is forcibly recruiting massive law firms to help him conduct an assault on our civil rights and the American legal system itself, and when he says the firms have agreed they “will not deny representation to clients, such as members of politically disenfranchised groups and Government Officials, employees, and advisors” he's making that explicitly clear. I mean let's cut the bullshit here, this is a regime that has argued that white people, and fundamentalist Christians are "politically disenfranchised groups" in fucking writing, so I don't think it's hard to imagine what kind of cases Trump is going to deploy his new minions to argue on behalf of his fascist, white nationalist regime. Trump just bought himself an army of lawyers to do fascism with, and it didn't cost him anything more than the paper his unconstitutional executive orders were printed on.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Courts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Courts</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/VichyEstablishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VichyEstablishment</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/KirklandEllis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KirklandEllis</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/LathamWatkins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LathamWatkins</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/AOShearman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AOShearman</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Cadwalader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cadwalader</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/SimpsonThacherBartlett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SimpsonThacherBartlett</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collaboration</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Cowardice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cowardice</span></a></p>
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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>I've been waiting for just over a week for the folks at TMR to clip this interview with former Skadden lawyer Rachel Cohen so I could share it here. Not only is Cohen's inside baseball perspective on the cowardice of Big Law firms groveling before Trump an interesting watch, but she's also one of the few people with knowledge of the situation willing to state what *I* feel is pretty obvious - that the Trump regime's war on Big Law is about trying to restrict the number of lawyers and firms that will bring totally legitimate cases against their fascist policies and activities, through a sheer question of numbers and resources.</p><p>The clip is only about 15 minutes long, but I guarantee you that Cohen here is spitting more truth than you'll find in all the articles about Big Law's capitalist cowardice and craven surrender in media sources like the Washington Post, the New York Times, or the Wall Street Journal. It's worth the watch:</p><p>The Majority Report: Trump's Revenge</p><p>"Sam and Emma are joined by Rachel Cohen, lawyer formerly of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, to discuss the country’s largest law firms bending the knee to Donald Trump."</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0bVdiTDzQo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=y0bVdiTDzQ</span><span class="invisible">o</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/VichyEstablishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VichyEstablishment</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/BigLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigLaw</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Law</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Courts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Courts</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Skadden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skadden</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/RachelCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RachelCohen</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/TMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TMR</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/SamSeder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SamSeder</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/EmmaVigeland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmmaVigeland</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collaboration</span></a></p>
XWiki SAS<p>What drives us to build in open source?</p><p>🎙️ At <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@osxp_paris" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>osxp_paris</span></a></span> in Paris, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@CollaboraOffice" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>CollaboraOffice</span></a></span> asked: 👉 Why do you work in open source? 👉 Why do your customers choose you?</p><p>Our Sales Director <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@caubin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>caubin</span></a></span> shared XWiki’s mission: empowering orgs with fully open, flexible digital collaboration platforms. 💪</p><p>Also featured: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@openproject" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>openproject</span></a></span> , <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beta.birdsite.live/users/ionos_com" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ionos_com</span></a></span> , <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@beezim" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>beezim</span></a></span> </p><p>📺Check the full video!<br>Let’s keep building the future we want to see! 🌍</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DigitalAutonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalAutonomy</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/XWiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XWiki</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Community</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collaboration</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NEWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NEWS</span></a></p>
Corvus<p>There are so many different Linux distributions out there. This is awesome, I guess, as there is something for anybody out there. </p><p>Yet I wish, there would be less fragmentation. What could all those communities achieve, if they combine their efforts?</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/linuxdistribution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linuxdistribution</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/fragmentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fragmentation</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>collaboration</span></a></p>
BC BY-NC-SA<p>Das Tote Kapital & Gerald Fiebig – Das Tote Kapital & Gerald Fiebig<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Experimental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Experimental</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ambient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ambient</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>collaboration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/drone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drone</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/electroacoustic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electroacoustic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/improvisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>improvisation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/noise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>noise</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Augsburg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Augsburg</span></a><br>CC BY (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CreativeCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CreativeCommons</span></a> Attribution) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ccmusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ccmusic</span></a><br><a href="https://emerge.bandcamp.com/album/das-tote-kapital-gerald-fiebig" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">emerge.bandcamp.com/album/das-</span><span class="invisible">tote-kapital-gerald-fiebig</span></a></p>
FZ Jülich-JSC<p>New AI model developed! 🎉 ‘TopEC’ analyses enzyme structures, learns their chemical reactions & deduces their function from this. Involved were the FZJ, HHU Düsseldorf & Helmholtz AI. The model for machine learning at the molecular level was trained on the JSC supercomputer 💻 JUWELS. Read more at ➡️ <a href="https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ias/jsc/news/news-items/news-flashes/2025/juwels-in-action-researchers-develop-model-to-predict-enzyme-function-using-supercomputer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">fz-juelich.de/en/ias/jsc/news/</span><span class="invisible">news-items/news-flashes/2025/juwels-in-action-researchers-develop-model-to-predict-enzyme-function-using-supercomputer</span></a> <br><a href="https://social.fz-juelich.de/tags/HPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HPC</span></a> <a href="https://social.fz-juelich.de/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://social.fz-juelich.de/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://social.fz-juelich.de/tags/collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>collaboration</span></a></p>
GHGA<p>GHGA Retreat – Day 1 at Kloster Schöntal kicked off with exciting discussions on a wide range of topics! From data portals to international connectivity (<a href="https://genomic.social/tags/FEGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FEGA</span></a>, <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/ELIXIR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ELIXIR</span></a>, <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/EOSC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EOSC</span></a>), legal challenges, patient communication, and training plans, GHGA 2 is taking shape across all fronts. Perspectives from data producers and data hubs, along with workflow use cases, rounded off a fantastic first session. <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/GHGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GHGA</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/GHGAretreat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GHGAretreat</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/Genomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genomics</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/Collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collaboration</span></a></p>
Stan Stewart aka muz4now<p>Collaboration magnifies the creativity of the individuals involved <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>collaboration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MusicCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MusicCommunity</span></a> <br><a href="https://muz4now.com/2018/collaboration-two-heads-are-better/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">muz4now.com/2018/collaboration</span><span class="invisible">-two-heads-are-better/</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>Open-Source Is Just That</p><p><a href="https://vale.rocks/posts/open-source-entitlement" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vale.rocks/posts/open-source-e</span><span class="invisible">ntitlement</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSourceEntitlement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSourceEntitlement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Community</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collaboration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechNews</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>Why Lotus Domino?</p><p><a href="http://www.moohar.com/blog/why_domino" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="">moohar.com/blog/why_domino</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LotusDomino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LotusDomino</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WhyLotusDomino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhyLotusDomino</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechTrends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechTrends</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collaboration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Software</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Innovation</span></a></p>
Joaquim Homrighausen<p>Is anyone aware of a good European Android and iOS app for "e-mail, calendars, contacts, etc" with support for ActiveSync, and other "modern things"? 🤔</p><p>(Extra plus if it allows for e-mail aliases to be defined and used.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>android</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ios</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/app" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>app</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/email" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>email</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>collaboration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/european" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>european</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>europe</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>Silence Is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/silence-is-collaboration-academics-must-speak-out-against-fascism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/silence-is-collabor</span><span class="invisible">ation-academics-must-speak-out-against-fascism/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SilenceIsCollaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilenceIsCollaboration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicsAgainstFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicsAgainstFascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpeakOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakOut</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collaboration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreedomOfSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialJustice</span></a></p>
CornOnTheGob<p>Yes, hello. Obsessive creative here, in to ttrpg, d&d, conlang, worldbuilding, esoteric and occult study and practice. Many more interests! Writing, various and weird music, art studies, zine creation, collaboration.Tropes, litrpg, goblin sensibilities. Positive and creative interactions!</p><p>A primary project and obsession is the development of a goblin language. Some facets of this project are shaping up for a public release of materials soon! A lot has already been developed. It is a dream of mine for goblinkind to have their own community driven language and systems of writing- for practical communication, bad poetry, tabletop gaming, larping, and conventions,as well as for esoteric studies and practice.</p><p>If things line up for it, I would love to eventually get the materials for this goblin language such as a dictionary and grammar, as well as a number of fey wild fantasy scripts that have been designed- to be digitized and turned in to fonts, to be released in a very open source way along with the debian repositories, if they will accept materials by that stage.</p><p>Although presentation materials for a public release are not yet polished, a large amount of design has been completed by this point.</p><p>It is good to meet you!</p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/goblin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>goblin</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/conlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conlang</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/gobliteracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gobliteracy</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/goblinlanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>goblinlanguage</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>collaboration</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ttrpg</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/worldbuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>worldbuilding</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/zine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zine</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/sigil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sigil</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/occult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>occult</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/esoteric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>esoteric</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/ink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ink</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>painting</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/goblinart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>goblinart</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/geblin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geblin</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/sylvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sylvin</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/surfneblin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surfneblin</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/fey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fey</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/feywild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feywild</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/feywilds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feywilds</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/dnd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dnd</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/gnomish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gnomish</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/goblins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>goblins</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/conlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conlang</span></a></p>
RESPOND_EU<p>🤝 SPOTLIGHT ON OUR PARTNER!</p><p>⚖️ GTI is a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hungary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hungary</span></a> -based think tank dedicated to researching corruption, collusion, and public procurement inefficiencies.</p><p>🔍 In <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RESPOND" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RESPOND</span></a>, GTI contributes its expertise in big data, econometrics and qualitative methods to analyze public spending and help build a new repository for stakeholders.</p><p>🔗 INFO : <a href="https://www.eu-respond.eu/partner/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">eu-respond.eu/partner/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HorizonEurope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HorizonEurope</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalSociety</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collaboration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EUProjects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EUProjects</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Transparency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transparency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PublicSpending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicSpending</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Data</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PartnerSpotlight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PartnerSpotlight</span></a></p>
RESPOND_EU<p>🤝 SPOTLIGHT ON OUR PARTNER!</p><p>⚖️ GTI is a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hungary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hungary</span></a> -based think tank dedicated to researching corruption, collusion, and public procurement inefficiencies.</p><p>🔍 In <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RESPOND" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RESPOND</span></a>, GTI contributes its expertise in big data, econometrics and qualitative methods to analyze public spending and help build a new repository for stakeholders.</p><p>🔗 INFO : <a href="https://www.eu-respond.eu/partner/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">eu-respond.eu/partner/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HorizonEurope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HorizonEurope</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalSociety</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collaboration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EUProjects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EUProjects</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Transparency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transparency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PublicSpending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicSpending</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Data</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PartnerSpotlight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PartnerSpotlight</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>To the surprise of perhaps nobody with a pulse, yet another Big Law firm has preemptively surrendered in advance to the Pork Reich's fascist agenda to avoid Trump's revenge for *checks notes* taking completely legitimate cases against him and his fascist allies - including "representing two Georgia election workers who sued his (Trump's) former attorney and adviser, Rudy Giuliani, for defamation."</p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-doug-emhoff-firm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/trump-do</span><span class="invisible">ug-emhoff-firm</span></a></p><p>'Absolutely Shameful': Critics Slam Latest Law Firm to Cave Amid Trump's Revenge Threats</p><p>"Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP proactively reached out to President Trump and his Administration, offering their decisive commitment to ending the Weaponization of the Justice System and the Legal Profession," Trump said on his Truth Social network. "The President is delivering on his promises of eradicating Partisan Lawfare in America, and restoring Liberty and Justice FOR ALL."</p><p>According to Trump, Willkie—whose partners include former Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff—will provide a total of at least $100 million in pro bono services to veterans, active duty U.S. troops, and Gold Star families; law enforcement and first responders; to "ensuring fairness in our justice system;" and combating antisemitism.</p><p>The firm also agreed to commit to "merit-based hiring" and refrain from "illegal" diversity, equity, and inclusion hiring, promotion, and retention. It must also "not deny representation to clients, such as members of politically disenfranchised groups... who have not historically received legal representation from major national law firms... because of the personal political views of individual lawyers."</p><p>Setting aside the fact that forcing the law firm run in part by Kamala Harris's husband to grovel and capitulate without a fight is a huge propaganda win for Der Führer, Trump's increasing control of Big Law is a much bigger story than folks outside of the legal world may realize. I think most people grasp that like virtually all of the stories about white shoe DC law firms agreeing to work for Trump, even if they don't realize that's what they've done yet, the story of Wilkie's preemptive surrender is primarily about cowardice, greed, and collaboration. </p><p>What I'm not sure a lot of people who aren't familiar with how civil rights law actually functions in America understand however, is that every time Trump forcibly recruits one of these DC firms, he's also knocking out a valuable plank of resistance to his authoritarian violations because there are literally only so many lawyers available to take civil rights cases, and those cases are typically done pro bono. While it would be nice to imagine a legal system not entirely dependent on lawsuits and rich lawyers engaging in a little reputation washing to protect the civil rights of folks persecuted by a fascist government, that is in fact the situation in the really real world we're living in. At the rate he's going so far, Trump is not only going to force all the best law firms in DC to work for the regime, but he's also going to drastically reduce the number of cases that can be brought against his government for even clear civil rights violations, simply because there won't be any lawyers left able to take those cases at rates targeted people can afford. </p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/BigLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigLaw</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/WilkieFarrLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WilkieFarrLaw</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collaboration</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/VichyEstablishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VichyEstablishment</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Courts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Courts</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Law</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/DougEmhoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DougEmhoff</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/RudyGuilliani" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RudyGuilliani</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ElectionDenial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionDenial</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>I'm often leery of sharing stories like this because the point isn't, and cannot be, that anti-trans policies and the dehumanization of trans people in our society is bad, because it also affects cis people, particularly women, in horrifyingly negative ways. One of the primary reasons we've facing down a politically empowered fascist Trump regime, is that Americans as a society have already accepted the idea that some people don't matter, and aren't human enough for the full spectrum of human rights; even if the folks making those arguments rarely admit what they're actually arguing for in a big picture sense. As in the case of Muslims, migrants, student protestors and women who want to control their own bodies, our society's casual disregard for the human and civil rights of trans people has acted as a permission gate for the Trump regime's larger project to strip the rights of anyone they don't like, or who dares to speak out in dissent.</p><p>Despite my reservations about centering cis experiences when talking about the anti-trans pogrom however, the fact is that cis women *are* negatively affected by the war on trans existences in both a micro and macro sense; whether it's hate-fueled transinvestigators invading women's bathrooms to "protect women," or the way anti-trans propaganda serves as a stepping stone for larger patriarchal efforts to possess women's bodies, this is a very real consequence of a normalized anti-trans pogrom that dehumanizes, otherizes, and criminalizes trans people (particularly trans women.) Furthermore, as the story of Dani Davis, a Florida woman fired by Walmart for being tall enough to trigger abusive behavior from a raging transphobe, demonstrates - the reality is that a society that isn't prepared to stand up for the human rights of trans people, isn't likely to stand up for the human rights of women, or workers, either. </p><p>For more on that, let's turn to this short (14 minute) video by Mike Figueredo from THR:</p><p>The Humanist Report: Walmart Fires Cis Employee *BECAUSE* She Was Harassed by Transphobic Customer in Bathroom</p><p>"A Walmart employee named Dani Davis was accosted and threatened by a transphobic customer during her shift, and she was subsequently fired because of it. The customer followed her into the bathroom and accused her of being a man and yelled transphobic slurs at her. Days after she reported the incident to her supervisor, she was fired because she supposedly posed a “security risk” to others in the store. In this video we’ll talk about this disturbing story and discuss how transphobia harms ALL women; both trans and cis alike."</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nauz7001Q0U" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=nauz7001Q0</span><span class="invisible">U</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/TransRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/AntiTransPogrom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiTransPogrom</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Walmart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Walmart</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/LaborRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/DaniDavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DaniDavis</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transphobia</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collaboration</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Patriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Patriarchy</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CultureWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CultureWar</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>For an example (both good, and bad) of the type of analysis I'm talking about, take a look at this March 30th piece by Kenan Malik in The Guardian:</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/30/just-like-mccarthy-trump-spreads-fear-everywhere-before-picking-off-his-targets" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/mar/30/just-like-mccarthy-trump-spreads-fear-everywhere-before-picking-off-his-targets</span></a></p><p>Just like McCarthy, Trump spreads fear everywhere before picking off his targets</p><p>"Seventy years on from McCarthyism, America seems to be entering such a moment. Over the past month, we have seen the mass deportation to a notorious foreign jail of hundreds of people declared to be illegal immigrants and gang members, without evidence or due process; the arrest, detention and threatened deportation of foreign students, including Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Momodou Taal and Yunseo Chung, for protesting about the war in Gaza; the blacklisting of law firms representing clients of whom Donald Trump does not approve; the mass sackings of federal workers.</p><p>Fear works here in two ways. The targets of repression are groups about whom it is easier to create fear, and so easier to deprive of rights and due process. Doing so then creates a wider climate of fear in which people become less willing to speak out, and not just about Palestine. Already, “whole segments of American society [are] running scared”, as one observer put it.</p><p>Institutions such as universities, Schrecker concluded about the 1950s, “did not fight McCarthyism” but “contributed to it”, not only through dismissals and blacklists but also through accepting “the legitimacy of what the congressional committees and other official investigators were doing”, thereby conferring “respectability upon the most repressive elements” of the process.</p><p>It’s a process repeating itself today. Earlier this month, after cancelling $400m (£310m) in federal grants and contracts, Trump made a series of demands of Columbia University, including that it change its disciplinary rules, place the Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies department under “academic receivership” and adopt the contested International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism that its own lead drafter, Kenneth Stern, condemns as having been “weaponised” into “a blunt instrument to label anyone an antisemite” and to “go after pro-Palestinian speech”. Last week, Columbia capitulated."</p><p>On some levels, this is great analysis; Malik's examination of the role fear and "anticipatory obedience" had in both the Red Scare and the installation of Trump's would-be fascist dictatorship, is spot on. He's absolutely right to suggest that Trump's attempts to transform society and seize control of its institutions to shape them in his (fascist) vision is well in line with the effects of McCarthyism, and that the capitulation of the establishment was presaged by the exact same thing during the Red Scare. By that same measure however, do a quick page search for "fascism" or "dictatorship" and you won't find either word in this article. There's nothing wrong with giving readers a historical analogy to get a handle on what is happening in our society, but without the additional context of where this new (old) brand of Trumpian McCarthyism is going and what purpose it serves, all you're really accomplishing is telling readers to relax and remain calm because "we've been here before." </p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/McCarthyism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>McCarthyism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collaboration</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/RedScare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedScare</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>If you're wondering why the pundit class and the mainstream media organizations that employ them have been so tepid in their criticism of Trump, so unwilling to name the fascist beast and draw the logical conclusions the regime's actions imply, perhaps it's because they know they've been complicit in this fascist nightmare? As Joan Westenberg notes in this brilliant March 15th drag out piece, the normalization of the fascist ideology the Trump regime is running on now has many fathers in American society, and not all of them are folks who'd want to be known as supporters of MAGA fascism; but that's precisely the role they've served, for personal gain:</p><p><a href="https://www.theindex.media/the-pundit-class-played-devils-advocate-now-the-devils-at-the-door/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theindex.media/the-pundit-clas</span><span class="invisible">s-played-devils-advocate-now-the-devils-at-the-door/</span></a></p><p>The Pundit Class Played Devil’s Advocate. Now the Devil’s at the Door.</p><p>"A revolving door of New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post columnists made a career of platforming people who—either blatantly or through implication—argued that transgender people shouldn't exist. That democracy had "gone too far." They raged against "wokeism" because they couldn’t conceive of a world where it wouldn’t prevail. They bemoaned "cancel culture" not because they cared about free speech, but because they mistakenly believed the right-wing ideologues they dined with had been cast out for good.</p><p>In their intellectual stupor, they decided that the forces of social change were so overpowering and unstoppable that the world needed a voice to speak up against them in an infernal balancing act. And it felt daring, didn't it? To be the literary equivalent of the Cool Girl—not like those Other Girls who care about freedom, equity, history, and common sense.</p><p>They dressed themselves up as the beatniks of cultural commentary. They convinced themselves of their "underground" status. They basked in institutional protection, indulging in a self-congratulatory circle-jerk of mock dissent where the stakes were always someone else's problem. They positioned themselves as lone voices against an imagined tide of unthinking dogma, pretending that they were fighting against orthodoxy when, in reality, they were just reinforcing the status quo with a hipster filter. They weren't holding truth to power. They were selling a brand: rebellion without responsibility, provocation without principle, and the posture of dissent with none of the burden of consequence.</p><p>They dined on the aesthetic of courage without ever taking a risk. And why not? The market for disaffected liberals playing footsie with fascists was lucrative and full of opportunities for highbrow grift."</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Media</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/NYT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NYT</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/WaPo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaPo</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/WSJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WSJ</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collaboration</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transphobia</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MigrantRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MigrantRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Normalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Normalization</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Complicity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Complicity</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/PorkReich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PorkReich</span></a></p>
heise online English<p>Virtual browser environment: Use Firefox, Chrome & Co. in Docker with Neko 3.0</p><p>Neko is a virtual browser for more privacy, shared searches or as a VPN alternative. With the update, Neko supports the Firefox fork Waterfox.</p><p><a href="https://www.heise.de/en/news/Virtual-browser-environment-Use-Firefox-Chrome-Co-in-Docker-with-Neko-3-0-10337659.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">heise.de/en/news/Virtual-brows</span><span class="invisible">er-environment-Use-Firefox-Chrome-Co-in-Docker-with-Neko-3-0-10337659.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Browser</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chrome</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Containerisierung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Containerisierung</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Docker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Docker</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Fernwartung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fernwartung</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/IT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IT</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collaboration</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Server" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Server</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Software</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a></p>
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