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for the robot ears 🤖 #techno mixcloud.com/PsyberWitch/23…

@FrankMcG They do VoD incredibly well, but live streaming events are a different animal. I hope they publish a write-up or at least stats. Heard rumors that there were over 60,000,000 concurrent streams last night.

Netflix systems being put to THE TEST. I don’t envy their team right now. And they’re considered the best in the world at this.

@NoMansSky Any word on when the beta will be expanded? I just dug out my old Xbox so I could finally play on PS5 (I tried, starting over is painful), got everything updated, connected, & saw it was full 🥲

More details here nomanssky.com/2024/11/cross-…

No Man's Sky PlayStation 5 Pro support 🧙No Man's Sky in 8K 🪄PSSR support 😵Sharper Resolution 🏎️Higher Framerates ☀️Improved Lighting 🪞Ultra Quality Reflections 💡High Quality Ambient Occlusion ⚡4K at 60FPS 🚀8K at 30FPS 😎Huge Upgrade to PSVR2 We can’t wait for folks to see what is possible in No Man’s Sky on PlayStation 5 Pro Free upgrade, out now 🙏

To young trans people in red states: I’m sorry. I really am. I thought you’d be growing up in a better world than the one I grew up in. I thought in the future trans kids could live normal lives no matter where they were born. I tried to help. I lose sleep worrying about how to secure a better future for the people who come after us. But they hate us too much. We’re different, and most of America will never forgive us for that. But I want you to know that there’s better places in America. I’ve been all over the country and I can say definitively that some places are substantially better for us than others. You may not get to start hormones before 18. You may not be able to come out later. But that doesn’t mean it’s over for you. Stay in school. Study hard. Take a career path that gives you agency over where you live. Use that and get the fuck out of here. You’re better than this place, and just because it’s dark and lonely now doesn’t mean that’s how it’ll always be for you. I’m sorry they’ve made it so difficult for us. But I did it. I went through all of this and made it out. Many of my friends didn’t, and I’ll always remember them and be forever angry over what their families and communities did to them. But you can do it. It’s going to be incredibly hard and will take lots of sacrifices, but you can get out and take control of your body. Get out. Whatever it takes. Don’t despair. Kick as hard as you can against the hateful current, and you will make it. Don’t give up.

@JoshSchwerin I thought felons can't vote anyway?

I have a confession and a plea to folks who are flirting with voting Jill Stein. When I was a 20 year old college student in 2000, I voted for Ralph Nader instead of Al Gore. I loved the progressive message Nader offered, and Bush and Gore seemed kinda the same to someone who was paying peripheral attention. I've regretted that vote for my entire adult life. Ultimately, George Bush won by a margin of 500+ votes in the state of Florida over Gore. And that was the ballgame. Ralph Nader peeled 97,000+ votes away from Gore. If only 600 of those 90,000 had voted for the major party candidate that more aligned with their values, things would have been very different. When I was in my senior year of college, 9/11 happened. The country and western world rallied around Bush's resolute response to the traumatizing terror attacks. I was in NY at the time, and it was a terrifying moment for the nation. But the consequences of Bush being in office at that moment were immense. Bush's disdain for his dad's nemesis, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, led him to invent a rationale to invade a country that literally had nothing to do with 9/11. End result? He killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people, thousands of American troops, and spent over a trillion dollars of taxpayer money in the process. Beyond the completely immoral and indefensible Iraq War, Bush was a complete disaster as a president. His "No Child Left Behind" effort turned public schools into standardized testing centers. He tripled down on fossil fuels and ignored climate change. His tax cuts for the rich helped contribute to the 2008 economic downturn that led to the Great Recession. He was a terrible president. In an alternate reality, Al Gore would have been president in 2001 when terrorists attacked America. Would he have gone into Iraq? Absolutely not. Would he have ignored global warming? 100% no! Gore was perhaps the preeminent proponent of fighting climate change at that time. Would he have passed massive tax cuts for the wealthy? No way. This is a sliding doors scenario. What would have happened? We can't be sure. But one thing is for sure: those votes for Ralph Nader (in Florida in particular) were EXCEPTIONALLY consequential for the lives of millions around the world. Gore would have offered a more forward-facing, environmentally conscious & peaceful presidency that wasn't so rooted in grievance and privilege. My point is: Either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will win the election. That is a fact. You might feel the need to submit a "protest vote" as I did in 2000. Just be ready to wear it when Donald Trump wins, strips away reproductive rights from all Americans, implements an economy-destroying tariff, dismantles the entire federal government, eliminates the Department of Education, prosecutes his perceived enemies, and devolves America into chaos. There are no perfect choices. But rest assured, there are only two. Trust me - I've been wearing my vote for a quarter century.

Let’s be very clear. Y’all got played so hard. She co-opted your politic and language hoping for the progressive vote and y’all bought into it, meanwhile she is equally committed to preserving Israel, her running mate turned out to be a transphobe and anti-abortion.

Hey it's me Destin, from Smarter Every Day. Now that it's time to elect America's next leader, I would like to share something very interesting and important with you. I've been paying attention to this for a while, and I think if you look for it, you see it too. 🧵 1/n

The guy playing the Republican Congressman in these is LOCKED IN, he's having so much fun being evil

This is a reminder that DDoS attacks during US elections could hinder voters’ access to some election information online but would not prevent voting. Read the #FBI and @CISAgov #PSA to learn more: ic3.gov/PSA/2024/PSA24…

I’ve had two tweets about dr*gs go off lately. And so I wanted to also share my tips for partaking at festivals (because drugs r bad mmmkay? But if your partake you can be responsible) 🧵

The last time Josh Hawley saw a gun:

“if donald trump wins youll never get gta 6”

everyone migrating to 🦋 or tumbl are fools. we should go back to our roots.

Obama: Some think I remember that economy when he first came in being pretty good. Yeah, it was pretty good, because it was my economy. It wasn't something he did. I spent eight years cleaning up the mess that the Republicans had left me

federal employees putting floppy discs into their work computers from 1996 and watching people accuse the government of having the technology to create hurricanes

I know there is disagreement with VP Harris’s positions on some issues. But I find it fascinating that there are some saying that they will “protest” her by not voting in this election. As if she will somehow be hurt by that decision. Well, let me tell those folks something.

cybersecurity awareness month

I noticed a nasty Amplification attack with CUPS when reading @evilsocket 's blog post the SIRT's findings are here -> When CUPS Runneth Over: The Threat of DDoS | Akamai akamai.com/blog/security-… Thanks @TriciaKicksSaaS for your help getting this out.

the backlash against Chappell Roan for saying “fine, I’ll vote for the Democratic Party, but I don’t like them” is so bizarre as a Canadian because it’s understood here that everyone votes begrudgingly for whomever they hate least in order to defeat someone worse