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Sean Sean @liberal.city

Dad of two awesome kiddos. Lucky to be married to my best friend. Interested in interesting things: progressive politics/social democracy, infosec, Linux, organized labor, Yankees, NY Giants,Rick & Morty, Andor, CBS' Ghosts, The Orville, cord cutting before it was cool (since 2012), The West Wing, The Wire. American by birth, citizen of the world by choice, progressive social democrat.

Formerly @TheSean before the Masthead.social instance disappeared Feb '23

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A new trolley era
  • @uriel238 @mondoman712
    In the days before Wannsee Conference (Nazis setting up death camps) but after the invasion of Poland where most executions occurred by firing squad, there were German tourists who would travel to partake in the firing squads. So the trauma is not universal across the human experience and there's some circumstances that would cause individuals to kill. Lynchings and massacres in the US, are examples of this occurring without a war to give cover to killings.

  • 'It was so scary': Trump fans at Missouri Caucus 'literally attacked fellow Republicans'
  • @FlorianSimon
    I can read the article without any ads. I'm using Brave browser on my Android phone. Is it that they used to be clogged with ads, like articles were broken up across 16 pages with a ad in between each page? That might have been the case for Cracked awhile ago but doesn't seem to be the case now.

    cc: @shalafi

  • "Time for degrowth"
  • @BruceTwarzen @veganpizza69 @someguy3
    In the north east there are a significant number of roadways that bar commercial traffic, have the ban include SUVs and pickup trucks

  • Is decentralised federated social media over engineered?
  • @Aatube @[email protected] @1984 @mindlight @[email protected]
    The private key doesn't need to be memorized, it stays saved on the device that the client software is on, allowing the user to integrate mobile device's biometric reader (fingerprint/face/iris/whatever) to confirm identity, or use security key, there are already different ways to implement it that doesn't require pw memorization.

    I've got a long unmemorizable string for Firefox sync, Brave, Proton Mail/Pass, it's still more secure than pw memorized

  • Is decentralised federated social media over engineered?
  • @Aatube @[email protected] @1984 @mindlight @[email protected]
    Couldn't it be like public-private keys such PGP protocols, where the users have the private key and the platforms have the public key? It's seems quite good privacy, some would even say it's "pretty good privacy".

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  • @PlasticPigeon I can reply on Lemmy with Mastodon (with Mastodon character limit), and never tried to comment on pixelfed or peertube, but Beehaw can interact with all lemmy and kbin. I primarily use Mastodon and a secondarily Beehaw.

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  • @PlasticPigeon
    I have a Mastodon account, and a Beehaw (more civil version of Lemmy, more moderation, no downvoting), and i have no pixelfed or peertube (fediverse YouTube) accounts and yet I can access any account/community/hashtag from any service by either of my accounts. Mastodon has a character limit that beehaw/lemmy doesn't but Mastodon is about following individuals while lemmy is about subreddit/community/magazine/etc that anyone can participate in.

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  • @LuckyBoy @SuckMyWang the bulk of the costs of nuclear weapons budget is hidden in the Energy Department, not the Department of Defense's budget. The military expenditures of the US is mostly the expensive and very profitable conventional weapon platforms.

  • Two Cyclists Killed By Truck's Lumber Load In California
  • @frostbiker @Treczoks
    I've got a local grocery/corner store (long shelf life but also milk and eggs) that is a Amazon delivery point and I don't know there's a size limit but it essentially turns the corner store to a big box store all without a 18-wheeler coming down the street. It would be nice to have competition with Amazon, that the same corner store could provide the same last mile service to a myriad of retailers, it wouldn't take much a infrastructure investment for that transition.

  • Seven of the 9 men running for House speaker voted to overturn the 2020 election results
  • @ArtVandelay @ProdigiousWumpus Jerri Ryan, she's packing heat, big gun nut. Also her messy divorce cleared the way for Barack Obama's 1st US Senate election.

  • The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, everyone 🤦
  • @mondoman712
    Best driving experience in the world? The Netherlands, because when you shift a significant number of people off the roads into alternative transport the remaining drivers have less traffic and higher average speeds than an over-reliance on cars.

    Risak is just committing the same mistake Robert Moses made 80 - 50 years ago, building more roads to "solve" traffic but it just induced more car traffic - - and then repeat again and again.

  • New York judge finds Donald Trump liable for fraud | CNN Politics
  • @Doomsider @wlh0242
    Just like Hitler, Trump never got a majority of popular votes

  • 55% of women say listening to Joe Rogan is a red flag
  • @dingus @Bipta
    Are gen z likely to be uniformly iPhone users?

    That's like the most conformist thing that I have ever heard. The study results are that 21%(F) 25%(M) find having an android phone is a green flag in their partner, while 7%(F) 6%(M) have it as a red flag, so it's not that bad as far android/iPhone is concerned.

  • How right-wing groups are plotting to implement Trump's authoritarianism
  • @alignedchaos @mister_monster Republican House blocked what now?

    You mean Senator Mitch "whaddya do if another justice needed to be appointed to fill a vacancy in an election year with Trump in office? {giggle to himself} I'd fill it" McConnell somehow used the Democratic held House in '20 to fill RBG's seat with the help of Republican minority?

    https://youtu.be/AkDV1sqJFdw?si=PDBzvnDAOotAM3wG

  • fuck cars, rural edition
  • @kier and in some countries like US, Canada, the Philippines, Australia (probably other countries that I've not been to), there are people who live in areas that definitely are not rural, are aping the rural aesthetic when they don't have any excuse to be so car dependent

  • Why the Proud Boys' sentences matter: They're scaring the rest of MAGA straight
  • @SoylentBlake @maniajack direct democracy isn't anywhere close to a panacea and doesn't address the neoliberal mindvirus that you identify as the root cause. Individuals voting on legislation won't be much better than the representative "democracy" we have now, with most of the adult population determining their vote on tribalism not any effort to take a deep dive understanding in the content of the legislation. We'd end up at Idiocracy before fascism but that's a mob of dictators instead of one

  • fuck cars, rural edition
  • @kier @kingludd there's a cultural harm that you're not a real man/'Murican/Christian/conservative/etc if you aren't living a life of the non-cosmopolitan by riding a bike or interested in anything else other than car-dependency and all the ancillary things that come with that, since that starts to bleed into the suburbs and even urban areas. There's white-collar workers doing their morning commute in full-size pickups telling themselves that mass transit is for dirty poor people not therm

  • An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon (for when someone says it's too complicated to catch on)
  • @JustinHanagan @Son_of_dad the inability of fediverse from catching on is less to do with any on boarding process for new users, but rather that people have grown accustomed to their gilded cage and pre-existing fully developed network. I'm still on FB, simply because that's where I can still connect with some friends and family. I don't have all of my cousins' phone numbers, and friends from college or HS still post big life events on FB (found out over the years about 4 HS friends died).

  • An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon (for when someone says it's too complicated to catch on)
  • @Son_of_dad @JustinHanagan
    Since you didn't read it, here's the screenshot of the guide I it's entirety