The Other AMF @TheOtherAMF@witches.town

1982

"Extensive data collection and possibly surveillance by government and private organizations could, in fact, suppress or 'chill' freedoms of speech, assembly and even religion by implicit threats contained in such collection or surveillance"

Nah, that's not likely to ever happen.

https://mastodon.social/media/Eya4oOqsOttVsTCJv1Y

https://archive.org/details/80_Microcomputing_Issue_26_1982-02_1001001_US

hey so, postfurs (well, and other people who do it): a thing to note: if yr doing hypno or -anything that can drop succeptable people- it should be CW'd under a tag if yr posting it into the public timeline (I'd go as far as to say *at all, ever*, but lets start with baby steps)

this is a huge bystander consent issue, and one where the after effects of it can be pretty fucking bad

its not just people who are do hypno who can get hit, its dissociative people and a lot of people w/ PTSD

tag

that.

it takes very little from it.

and half yr TF narratives are basically hypno, too, but, baby steps

*puts message in a bottle and throws it into the void*

The new meme is being nice to random people on the timeline spread the word

when you have an office of power whose only barrier to entry is rhetoric, the only kind of people you will get to fulfill that role is the kind of people who a) want power and b) are very good at rhetoric

This is Wendy Carlos, who is a composer and one of the pioneers of electronic music.

She was involved in the development of the Moog Synthesizer and helped to establish the Synthesizer as a proper musical instrument in the public eye.

Her most wildly known works are her soundtracks for the Stanley Kubrick's films "A Clockwork Orange" and "The Shining".

As you can tell from the pictures she's not only a huge nerd but also very fond of cats. #transhistory

[RITUAL FOR ANARCHY]

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reminder that most dehumanizing/hateful things ppl say are either https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_words or https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitement within the US, technically, and thus unprotected speech by the constitution they keep citing, compared to the speech they're often trying to silence with threats and harassment

reminder that if you want ppl to be able to use the built in keyword filtering (the menu icon on the home timeline) you gotta re-duplicate your CW tags inside the CW fold. CW descriptive text is currently ignored, unless it changed in the past 12h

#Bullying Is Driving #LGBTQ People Out of Tech, Study Finds - NBC News - http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/bullying-driving-lgbtq-people-out-tech-study-finds-n752646 #news #cw 🙁🙁

Whenever someone misgenders me I try to remind myself their code was just written for my old API

happy international workers day!!

"[Loyalty Day] was first observed in 1921, during the First Red Scare.[2] It was originally called "Americanization Day,"[3] and it was intended to replace the May 1 ("May Day") celebration of the International Workers' Day,[citation needed] which commemorates the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago."

good lord the USA is a fucking ideological wasteland

sired: simba, by mufasa

shired: cis white middle-class hobbits