Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net

Israel has destroyed all the universities in Gaza. Every single one of them. That is a war crime, pure and simple. It’s the obliteration of education and Palestinian future. Every university in the world should be outraged.

https://twitter.com/fbhutto/status/1748288558069149733

@palestine
#Gaza
#universities

Remember when there was a debate over whether hospitals were being bombed? 100 days later, NONE of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are fully functional, according to the World Health Organization.

Source: NBC - In Gaza’s collapsing health system, doctors preside over deaths that should be preventable https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/gaza-hospitals-collapsing-rcna132439

After the death of my previous bill to provide for a right to inspect source code of software used to generate evidence in criminal cases, I thought I'd just give up on it, but this case is convincing me to give it another try once the next filing period comes around...

AT&T is sending out letters warning they want to kill virtually all landlines (and perhaps related data circuits where fiber is unavailable) across essentially their entire coverage area throughout California. This would have devastating effects. Related CPUC meetings will be taking place through March.

Landlines provide crucial services for individuals, businesses, and other organizations in a wide variety of situations -- not just emergencies when cellular and Internet service tends to rapidly fail, but also for vast numbers of people in areas with poor, unreliable, or in many cases (even in large sections of major cities!) NO cell service, NO fiber, etc.

Landlines often provide the only available communication in a wide variety of security and safety situations, from elevators to interior spaces of all sorts where cell service simply doesn't work.

Many disabled and other persons have crucial equipment that depends on landlines. Often they are not tech-savvy and do not have friends or relatives to help them through forced technology changes.

AT&T has been shirking its public safety responsibilities for years, while still leveraging their effective monopoly on services in so many areas.

Their new effort must be stopped. I'll have much more to say about this as the situation progresses.

New COVID wastewater updates from CDC and Biobot suggest that we just reached the peak of this wave.

Every state that is reporting has high or very high COVID levels.

Reminder: viruses don't magically vanish, it will take weeks for levels to come down. Keep taking precautions.

On being listed in the court document of artists whose work was used to train Midjourney with 4,000 of my closest friends and Willem De Kooning (1/3)

Unboxing your new graphics cat

Folks remembering #AaronSwartz today - remember that he was moving publicly-funded research out from behind a paywall.

Then remember the only reason the case went forward is because federal prosecutors, specifically Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann, wanted to make an example of him.

“Theft is theft, and it doesn’t matter if you use a crowbar or a computer” were Heymann’s words at the time.

Notice how federal prosecutors aren’t bullying Sam Altman for the wholesale theft of content network-wide, to build a machine that spews bullshit and further destroys our ability to determine the truth?

It’s because he’s doing it for private profit, while Aaron worked for the public good.

Never let yourself be tricked into believing the legal system is a justice system.

@gamingonlinux

@AnthonyCollette "Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living." Karl Marx

#SignsOfTheTimes