oh you’re non-binary? that’s interesting…

computers operate on a binary system—every piece of technology you use runs on 1s and 0s

DNA is built on base pairs—adenine only pairs with thymine, cytosine only pairs with guanine

electrical circuits are binary—on or off, current…

— stepfanie tyler (@wildbarestepf) February 11, 2025

!transphobes begin purge

Reddit knows the answer

Took a second but cinna is fat gussy saying like every other word and other is black y

Context: So, as you might know, the Drumpf administration offered a severance package to all 2 million federal workers to entice them to quit. This offer was sent out by some of Elon's flunkies that were recently employed by the Office of Personel Management. After this email, there have been several follow-up messages listing some questions and answers about the program.

Someone got the idea to respond to one of the emails asking more questions, and were automatically put on the list to be shitcanned.

Now to the comments:

Someone at our org CC'ed their supervisor on their resignation response and the supervisor got added to the list

Hahaha holy shit.

"Oh Mr. supervisor, I've just quit my job and it looks like I quit your job too. No takebacks."

Shocking that a bunch of clownfarts with no experience managing large organizations would make such a mistake.

Do you really think it's a mistake?

I had an out of office message…. Uhm… 😐

This whole thing has been hold and we don't even know if it will be allowed . But the drama coin is already being paid out. !fedposters

Wikipedia's "talk" page on the Gulf of Mexico/America/Cuba/Florida has been in an uproar the past few weeks because of 's EO to change its name. Some highlights:

If the international groups such as the United Nations group of experts on geographical names (meeting in April), the International Maritime Organisation and the International Hydrographic Organization opt-in to recognising the U.S. owned portion of the gulf as the Gulf of America, then I agree that we should concede to the name. Somejeff (talk) 05:12, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

To both sides of this "question", this entire discussion is moot, since the moment Donald Trump leaves office the next President of the United States will immediately reverse the name-change order. The Gulf of Mexico will remain The Gulf of Mexico so long as modern human society endures. Looneybunny (talk) 22:30, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

We should call it the Gulf of the Olmecs since they were there first

Google just announced there changing it on their maps Bamaboi445 (talk) 23:01, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Google is not Wikipedia. Accuratelibrarian (talk) 02:00, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

You had no problem with President Obama changing the name from Mount McKinley to Denali it's over if that's what president Trump wants that's what he gets you can still go on to Google maps and this nonsense on here Wikipedia and I still got to hear the same bullshit if it's good for the goose it's good for the gander it changes and it needs to be changed now today not yesterday because you don't like trump it don't matter I voted for Obama I voted for that change I didn't like that Mount McKinley got changed him out Denali but because I voted for it happened it going to happen fight it love it leave it it does not matter it's changing and we're not going to stop until it does 65.102.184.179 (talk) 10:07, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

In case editors don't realize, usage of this name has already begun: "an area of low pressure moving across the Gulf of America, interacting with Arctic air, will bring widespread impactful winter weather to North Florida, etc." StAnselm (talk) 04:25, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

That "source" is from the POLICTICAL OFFICE of a well-known extremist right-wing supporter of Donald Trump. It is not a reliable, nor independent source, and therefore should be discounted Looneybunny (talk) 22:37, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

I don't see why a mention would be a problem considering the fact that American schools (and media) will soon be teaching it as the Gulf of America. Jstewart2007 (talk) 04:09, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Also, the moment Donald Trump leaves office the next President of the United States, (who will, considering recent events, most assuredly be a Democrat), will reverse the order, and the "Gulf of America" will vanish as quickly as it appeared, just another example of exactly why Donald Trump was the worst pick for President in American history. Looneybunny (talk) 22:35, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

This Looneybunny person has posted similar comments on multiple reply chains even if it is questionably relevant

Seriously, how long are the admins going to drag their feet on an official government change? Regardless of whether people like it or not the Government of the U.S. as well as major state and private institutions will refer to it as the Gulf of America going forward unless the change is reversed. The title of the article doesn't have to change but the intro to the page should at the very least include "also known as the Gulf of America in the United States" and there should be a new page on the dispute itself like the pages for the disputes around names of the Persian Gulf and Sea of Japan respectively, instead of relegating it to two clearly tacked paragraphs at the end of the etymology section. No one else outside of the Koreas calls the Sea of Japan the "East Sea" but the article intro still recognizes the dispute's existence, why isn't this any different? Syracuse58 (talk) 00:10, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Because it's Drumpf silliness and not something that has to be indulged here. Among all the other reasons given. Acalamari 02:54, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

I think we're going to be stuck fielding whatabouts from the people who erroneously believe that the United States should be allowed to rewrite reality like O'Brien from 1984 for a very long time if we don't start aggressively clerking this page. An RfC generally has a shelf-life of minimum six months. Can we please have a moratorium on discussions of American nicknames for the Gulf of Mexico for the next six months so that we have the clarity of consensus necessary to clerk these repetitive arguments promptly? Simonm223 (talk) 14:57, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

The nonsense is from those fighting so hard to pretend like the American government doesn't have the authority to name things. It's hilarious to see how quickly Wikipedians tripped over themselves to change Mount McKinley to Denali, and how hard they're ignoring the same arguments to change it back, same with this page. Ortizesp (talk) 15:20, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Funnily enough, although both the Gulf of Mexico and Denali name change were part of the same EO, Denali's wikipedia page intro has already been changed to include the tagline "Denali, federally designated as Mount McKinley"

Oppose, see the example of Clingmans Dome, which was changed by Wikipedia the very same day Biden changed it. Funnily, all these scruples about COMMONNAME and all those "voices of concern" were nowhere to be seen. XavierItzm (talk) 01:13, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

This is a comment for the RFC that isn't open right now. Comparing a relatively obscure mountain in Tennessee to an internationally important body of water isn't doing this argument any favors, politically motivated or otherwise. Departure– (talk) 01:57, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

We should rename the Atlantic Ocean to the American Ocean so that people stop worrying about the gulf name change since then it wouldn't be as big of a deal.

Strong Support It is important to address the elephant in the room here: There is a strong liberal bias on Wikipedia. By comparison, the Obama administration changed the name of Mount McKinley to Denali in 2015, and the Wikipedia editors were almost tripping over themselves trying to make the name change from Mount McKinley to Denali. I understand that the Gulf of Mexico is a different case in that the Gulf of Mexico is not entirely within the borders of the United States, as Denali/Mount McKinley is, but I think that at the very least the president's executive order must warrant changing the title to: "Gulf of Mexico, officially the Gulf of America in the United States." To me, any opposition to simply noting that it is officially called the Gulf of America in the U.S. is bald-faced activism protesting the name change more than it is actually rooted in reason, evidence, and consistency across articles. U.S. Federal Agencies will henceforth be referring to it as the Gulf of America. If someone sees the name Gulf of America on a U.S. Federal map and enters it into Wikipedia, they'll need to scroll down to the middle of the page and read a paragraph buried in the article containing irrelevant information such as a comedian Stephen Colbert's comments on the name to try to make sense of why they're seeing Gulf of America on a map. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia designed to transmit information; activism and bias should be discouraged. (For evidence of such activism and bias, just look at the opposing comments above describing this as a "stunt"; yet no one ever described Obama's name change from McKinley to Denali as a "stunt." Such opposing positions are not rooted in reason, only bias and activism.) Ambrosiaster (talk) 18:48, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

This really is the essence of false balance. "We shouldn't call something Trump does a stunt, unless we can also describe something unrelated that Obama did as a stunt." (We can unpack the facts if you like, but this isn't the Denali page; it's the Gulf of Mexico page.) Things can be qualitatively different from each other. Describing different things with different terms isn't bias, it's analysis. And sometimes the analysis can quite validly (if informally) be 'yeah, that's a stunt'. Biden claiming to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment was also a stunt. GenevieveDEon (talk) 19:17, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

NB: The above user is currently blocked from editing in the main space, as a sanction for having edit warred on the Gulf of Mexico article. GenevieveDEon (talk) 19:26, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Correct. And the editors who were warring to include comments from comedian Stephen Colbert and to revert the changes with even more frequency than me were not temporarily blocked from editing. Further evidence of bias and activism. Thanks for pointing that out. Ambrosiaster (talk) 19:31, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

That's an interesting linguistic tic you've got there, always pairing "bias and activism". GenevieveDEon (talk) 19:33, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Still waiting on that analysis you alluded to in your prior post. Ambrosiaster (talk) 19:34, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Nope. I mentioned that it's possible, which it is. I'm not here to perform for you; your own biases are showing. GenevieveDEon (talk) 19:37, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Figured that would be your response. Ambrosiaster (talk) 19:39, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Support in a way its very similar to Deadnaming if the federal government wants it to be Gulf of America then that is what it should be called. Did we have this type of vote when Ellen Page changed her bame to Elliot? I know its not a human but it still applies here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fruitloop11 (talk • contribs) 14:22, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

You mean his name'. And no it's not, because Eliot Page is the leading authority on what his own name is - it's within his power to choose it, and he did. He is, in fact, the individual affected. Neither the President of the USA, nor the US government generally, are the Gulf of Mexico, nor do they own or control it. It's international waters, and it is beyond the power of any arm of the US government to change its name unilaterally - even in common usage within the USA, never mind globally. GenevieveDEon (talk) 15:20, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

You are so terrified, I can tell your hands start shaking every time you type. The fact is it WILL be changed you need to stop harassing all support voters. Imagine if someone was allowed to harass you while you voted Harris, which you 100% did. Even another user has warned you to stop Fruitloop11 (talk) 15:33, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

Please refrain from personal attacks. You are wrong about my voting, for a reason that should be apparent upon reflection. GenevieveDEon (talk) 16:05, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

I'm literally about to report you for harassment. the admins will see user:Wildfireupdateman giving you a warning and the harassment you made against User:Ambrosiaster user:AnotherWeatherEditor and many others. and no, I will not call Ellen Page Elliot Page until you stop bothering people. Fruitloop11 (talk) 16:19, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

You are welcome to try. GenevieveDEon (talk) 16:26, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia Jannies hid this one in spoilered text simply titled "Enough."

Thank you. This user's engagement certainly veers more on mud-slinging than it does on civil discourse in my opinion as well: (1) She told me I have a linguistic tic and (2) She tried to undermine my position by claiming that I had a very temporary ban for an edit war. She is free to reason through it, but she is mostly engaging in name-calling and attempting to shame the support voters. Ambrosiaster (talk) 16:37, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

I knew before I posted she was going to reply to me, so I was on the defense. I think anyone will see this person isn't using the discussion board the way it is intended. It's all about bullying someone who doesn't have the views as you. Fruitloop11 (talk) 16:49, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

This strikes me as in line with Facebook's actions of lightening censorship and Twitter's actions of existing past 2022 of trying to be in line with the new Trump government because if I'm not mistaken they're facing a pretty serious federal anti-trust lawsuit. What shows up in Google maps does not necessarily reflect what is in common usage. Departure– (talk) 01:24, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

You do understand that this is merely a question of entering in the lead ", officially Gulf of America in the United States," not to change the title wholesale. As pointed out earlier, the moment that the Obama admin changed the name Mt McKinley to Denali, liberal Wikipedia editors changed it forthwith and added the hashtag #ThanksObama! Common usage was moot at that time because everyone knows that the common used term was Mount McKinley, not Denali. But now all of a sudden common usage returns to the forefront. Ambrosiaster (talk) 04:18, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

In sum, stop treating common usage as a dispositive factor. It was not dispositive for Mount McKinley, and in that case, the entire article name was changed—a much more drastic measure than is being proposed here. Ambrosiaster (talk) 04:20, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:No personal attacks: "Comment on content, not on the contributor." Better read up the policy. Also WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. Gotitbro (talk) 04:58, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

I hope that is not directed at me. Defining someone who posted #ThanksObama in the edit line of the Denali article as a liberal is a personal attack? Read the link I shared above: While redirecting the Mt McKinley article to Denali, an editor inserted the political line into the edit #ThanksObama. That to me is far less neutral and inappropriate than me defining such an individual as a liberal. Certainly a conservative didn't write #ThanksObama. No one was attacked personally here. Ambrosiaster (talk) 06:13, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Is Ambrosiaster Wikipedia's biggest ?

Bonus: The Denali Wikipedia talk page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Denali

Opppose (changing the name back to McKinley on the website) per WP:COMMONNAME and WP:CRYSTAL. This move request is premature and entirely based on a political maneuver that likely is not going to affect the common nomenclature of the mountain. Its status among governmental figures is not relevant to the article's name. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 15:19, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

In the above discussions, it's been made clear that both are common names. If "McKinley" is the name that the government and Associated Press are going to use, it should be given precedence as the title. Derpytoucan (talk) 18:02, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Are the majority of reliable sources going to follow the federal government and the Associated Press? Is every publication that adopts the AP stylebook going to discard Denali completely? It's too soon to tell, and we shouldn't react on the spur of the moment. XOR'easter (talk) 20:03, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

How many times is the goalpost of "well not ALL RS call it McKinley" going to be moved over the next four years? There's already a precedent that's been set when the article was renamed in 2015. If McKinley is a common name, and its the name that the federal government and Associated Press are going to be using, it should be the article's title. I'm fine with waiting until the Secretary of the Interior has actually made the name change official, and perhaps seeing how other RS call the mountain when reporting on that event, but implying that we need to wait any longer to rename the article is absurd, especially given the aforementioned instant renaming in 2015.Derpytoucan (talk) 21:31, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Stop WP:BLUDGEONing the discussion. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 23:53, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

I don't see this as bludgeoning. @Derpytoucan makes a good point. anikom15 (talk) 03:13, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

Repeatedly replying to multiple commenters is textbook BLUDGEON. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 13:22, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Talk about projection because that's exactly what you're doing. Esotericmadman (talk) 13:33, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

Bonus bonus: The edit page for the Gulf of Mexico webpage:

106 edits in the last 24 hours alone

I've always believed that Wikipedia is a goldmine for drama and petty squabbles between self-centered know-it-alls, but I usually can't care to look into it because I find the layout of their website atrocious.

!ifuckinglovescience what is the scientific consensus?

Faux News drama in the comments

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1imit4g/trump_instructs_treasury_to_halt_penny_production/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1im9gpd/trump_orders_treasury_to_halt_minting_new_pennies/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1im972o/trump_takes_aim_at_wasteful_government_spending/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1im6dei/trump_directs_treasury_secretary_scott_bessent_to/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1im4m7z/trump_orders_treasury_secretary_to_stop_minting/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1ilxn7n/trump_orders_treasury_secretary_to_stop_minting/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1ilxi38/trump_says_he_has_directed_us_treasury_to_stop/

President Trump's order to freeze penny production is a perfect example of what makes this administration different.

Penny production has been pointless for years. Everyone knew it, but nobody else cared enough to actually act. Sure, it's "only" $179 million a year. But looks at…

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 10, 2025

🚨REPORTER: "The penny is gone, is the nickel next!?"

Trump's reaction is great 💀 pic.twitter.com/6lo0DBpBgq

— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) February 11, 2025

President Trump has ordered a stop to penny production. Good!

I covered the stupidity of government losing money to make pennies years ago: pic.twitter.com/GreLFnVU7e

— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) February 10, 2025

Trump's "pragmatic" argument for ending penny is a trial balloon for his technocrat billionaires who want to take us into a de facto CBDC

"CBDC" label doesn't matter
Transactional financial privacy does

Digital "money" is a surveillance trap, but it's fine if Trump does it

— David Knight Show LIVE 9am EST, M-F (@libertytarian) February 10, 2025

https://scored.co/p/19AKhfFazc/getting-rid-of-the-penny-introdu/c

https://scored.co/p/19AKhfFK8v/trump-orders-an-end-to-the-penny/c

https://scored.co/p/19AKd8oBf6/make-no-cents-trump-orders-end-t/c

https://scored.co/p/19AKd7gc9m/for-far-too-long-the-united-stat/c

https://lemmy.world/post/25412503?scrollToComments=true

https://lemmy.ca/post/38873950

https://lemmy.world/post/25409964?scrollToComments=true

https://lemmy.world/post/25378488?scrollToComments=true

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42996537

They're still Redditors lol

Also I'm not sure if anyone posted this on here, but Kanye paid millions for a Super Bowl ad in the LA market where he was shilling his clothing brand, and the only item they sell is the swastika shirt.

https://yeezy.com/

@Kongvann i found some chud nonsense

!chuds !nonchuds

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II's Pan Ptacek has hit up transvestite streamer Gilticus.

(According to the streamer)

The actor who played Pan in the game came across Zhenya's cosplay and wrote in a private message expressing his gratitude for her playing the game. A little later, he wrote more, "I don't remember ever seeing such a beautiful woman before." When people started writing to him saying that "such a beautiful woman" wasn't a woman at all, he replied that he didn't care about that and wasn't going to retract what he said

Trans WOMAN in question

Dirty sly chasing in progress revealed by streamer neo-egirl

https://m.twitch.tv/gilticus/clip/ColdbloodedEvilSlothImGlitch-PvCuq8vuXGg9p2aN

https://m.twitch.tv/gilticus/clip/FrozenSuperKumquatHoneyBadger-WNXTT1VeICknKXZF

https://m.twitch.tv/gilticus/clip/CreativeProtectiveRedpandaBudStar-d9Fu4vQzvv_H0Cbw

!chuds

Ewer, 28, showed an unhealthy interest in her student that was noticed almost "immediately" after she started working at Brady Exploration School in August 2023, the DA Office's investigation revealed.

In November 2023, after the boy hinted at an improper relationship with Ewer in a classroom assignment that another teacher saw, authorities at the school contacted the Lakewood Police Department.

They soon uncovered evidence of a disturbing sexual relationship between the pair, including explicit text messages and signs that drugs, guns and alcohol had been introduced, per prosecutors.

Thousands upon thousands upon thousands" of messages were sent by Ewer to her student and vice versa, with references to many sexual encounters, according to prosecutors.

Ewer introduced the teenager to illegal and deadly drugs including fentanyl, First Judicial District Attorney's Office Special Victims Prosecutor Brynn Chase told her sentencing hearing.

She also attempted to get the boy to bring a gun to their sexual encounters as well as shoot a fellow faculty member in their school, the sentencing hearing heard.

Ewer told the boy "to bring the gun to school and shoot another faculty member in the leg," Chase said at the hearing.

Average dimwit American (aka teacher's) understanding of firearm usage

Ewer was sentenced to four years in jail on January 31, after pleading guilty last November to sexual assault on a child and contributed to the delinquency of a minor, both felonies, a month before her trial was due to start.

"I'm really sorry; this will never happen again," she said, as per the office.

Probably because nobody will let you around the 'tarded kids anymore

Before her brief spell there, Ewer had worked at several Jefferson County public schools in various roles, including teaching assistant, paraprofessional, and school nurse, since 2015.

https://old.reddit.com/r/csMajors/comments/1imcka6/comment/mc224l0/?context=8

I remember going to WiE hours with my homework and they couldn't help me with a vectors problem. Maybe they are better in CS?

https://old.reddit.com/r/csMajors/comments/1imcka6/comment/mc27uk4/?context=8

Apparently the correct answer to someone not knowing how to turn off a computer should be "so true queen 💅" and not "lol".

https://old.reddit.com/r/csMajors/comments/1imcka6/comment/mc3ucxe/?context=8

Trans woman becomes worse at CS once she starts taking more estrogen. If she stayed as a masculine trans dude she'd probably be a monster.

Jew s cope that the sjws think they suck and are about to kill them

https://old.reddit.com/r/Jewish/comments/1imz2oe/anyone_else_finding_themselves_feeling_unsafe/

Kayne

https://old.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/comments/1in68nv/ye_fka_kanye_west_is_being_sued_by_a_former/

Australia is now Austria

All Australian must be eaten by dingos

https://old.reddit.com/r/aussie/comments/1inf6tp/bankstown_hospital_workers_brag_about_killing/

https://old.reddit.com/r/circlejerkaustralia/comments/1ini0zv/remember_kids_god_forbid_your_hospitalised_in/

"Jews should all hide in the attic"

https://old.reddit.com/r/moderatepolitics/comments/1imz01m/judge_denies_attempt_to_block_jewish_students/

Jew murdered and r*ped by subhuman savages.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Jewish/comments/1ineu9e/jewish_actor_wears_pin_to_support_hostages_to/

Gazans cope that they suck and are about to die

https://old.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/1in4brt/netanyahu_says_gaza_ceasefire_will_end_if_hamas/

People like this belong in cages

https://old.reddit.com/r/IsraelPalestine/comments/1in5jf5/israel_and_usa_made_me_fall_in_love_with_hamas/?sort=top

Redditards love schizos

https://old.reddit.com/r/Indiana/comments/1inda5p/spotted_in_lafayette_today/

Tulsi Gabbard now officially oversees and manages the entire US intelligence community. https://t.co/5ahm2XisNH

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 12, 2025

@Redactor0 @BrasilIguana @Gaydinosaurtrain @SCUM !historychads decided to just go ahead and make a post.

Despite Japan being closed to outsiders during the Edo period between 1603 to 1868, they still had some idea of the outside world. One interesting case was what they knew about the fledgling country of America. The following is a collection of different pages from a book about America's history called Osanaetoki Bankokubanashi written in 1861. After doing some digging it seems like this book was in earnest, it believed what it had written, taking its sources from two other books about America.

Here is George Washington (with bow and arrow) pictured alongside the Goddess of America.

Here is Christopher Columbus (seated at center) reporting his discovery of America to Queen Isabella of Spain.

Now it's the American Revolution. Here is George Washington defending his wife "Carol" from a British official named "Asura" (same characters as the Buddhist deity).

And here is Washington's "second-in-command" John Adams battling an enormous snake.

Here is Washington and his wife "Carol" meeting an extremely youthful Benjamin Franklin, who has an impressive squat.

Here's the incredibly jacked Benjamin Franklin firing a cannon that he holds in his bare hands, while John Adams directs him where to fire.

And here is George Washington straight-up punching a tiger.

Best buds John Adams and Ben Franklin must have had a falling out, because John Adams fires an arrow at Ben and then rides away like a cowardly little b-word. Of course Ben Franklin is a total badass, so he just stands there and lets the arrow fly by without even flinching.

During a calmer moment, John Adams is just chillin' in the countryside, having a quiet picnic with his elderly mother...

But then! While John Adams is too obsessed with the food and drink, a huge snake comes along and eats his mom!

Maybe the snake was a child of that other snake John Adams killed, or maybe it was sent by Ben Franklin as part of their feud?

Here is Washington leading his army from behind in a carriage. The American flag has no stars, only stripes, and the author seems very impressed that the carriage has not one but TWO horses.

Meanwhile, John Adams wants to get revenge on the snake that ate his Mom , so he goes to ask a magical mountain fairy for help!

The mountain fairy does Adams a solid, and summons a gigantic eagle!

Together, John Adams and the eagle kill the enormous snake that ate his Mom. The power of teamwork!!!

So that's it, really interesting blend between a modern idea like the US and more mythical storytelling. Reads a lot like tales of Alexander the Great or of bible characters like David. Cool illustrations too. There are more pages, but I can't find any translation, despite them looking very interesting. Here's the whole book: https://archive.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/bunko11/bunko11_a0380/bunko11_a0380_0002/bunko11_a0380_0002.html

Talks (well signs) about reddit at 4:25

!simps discuss

Pete Davidson debuts new look for Reformation’s Valentine campaign after spending $200k on tattoo removal. pic.twitter.com/Il65OutKY1

— Buzzing Pop (@BuzzingPop) February 11, 2025

!tmz

@hypernovasaiz

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𝕴 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖐 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖎𝖓 𝖆𝖑𝖑 𝖔𝖋 𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖑𝖎𝖛𝖊𝖘 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊'𝖘 𝖇𝖊𝖊𝖓 𝖆 𝖌𝖚𝖞 𝖑𝖎𝖐𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘, 𝕿𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖚𝖒𝖓𝖎 𝕿𝖘𝖚𝖗𝖚𝖔𝖐𝖆

𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔶 𝔴𝔞𝔫𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔰𝔢𝔢 𝔲𝔰 𝔣𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔣𝔢𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔯𝔬𝔫𝔢𝔰

ℌ𝔢 𝔴𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔩𝔦𝔣𝔢 𝔞𝔱 𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔭𝔬𝔦𝔫𝔱 𝔬𝔯 𝔞𝔫𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯, 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔞𝔟𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔲𝔯

𝔔𝔲𝔢𝔢𝔫𝔰, 𝔴𝔢 𝔠𝔞𝔫'𝔱 𝔩𝔢𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔗𝔞𝔱𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔫𝔦𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔩𝔦𝔳𝔢𝔰 𝔤𝔢𝔱 𝔲𝔰 𝔡𝔬𝔴𝔫 𝔓𝔈ℜℑ𝔒𝔇 𝔗!

𝔎𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔭𝔬𝔫𝔶𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔩 𝔥𝔦𝔤𝔥, 𝔰𝔦𝔰

Codeberg released an emergency statement regarding a powerful alt right attack that endangered the safety of everyone who has ever used codeberg. Sources say this is was probably organized by a DOGE-Steve Bannon alliance

We stay strong against hate and hatred

Codeberg public relations team

Wed 12 February 2025

Category: Announcement

Intro

Codeberg is currently suffering from hate campaigns due to far-right forces, and so are our users. First and foremost, we apologize for everyone who has recently received a notification email from our system containing offending and potentially traumatizing content. We are working hard on containing the effects on our users and systems.

Most importantly, your private data was not leaked. All emails have been generated through Codeberg's servers using the notification feature and the abusers had no access to your email address directly.

Fighting hate and far-right forces is important to us. Read to the end of this article to learn why.

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What has happened?

In the past days, several projects advocating tolerance and equal rights on Codeberg have been subject to hate attacks, such as massive spam of abusive messages in their issue trackers. We have been monitoring the situation closely and have tried to clean up the content as quickly as possible.

Often, content remained available only for a few and up to 30 minutes. Due to constrained personal capacities, some rare cases have remained online for longer. We appreciate all your reports to [email protected] that help us identify abuse quickly.

On 12 February 2025, an abuser has escalated the attacks to a next level. Instead of targetting individual projects, they have started to create abusive content and mentioned Codeberg users in chunks of 100 each. Depending on the notification settings of users (if you are a user on Codeberg, you can modify it in your settings), these generate notification emails that contain a copy of the post that includes the mention - and thus the abusive content via email.

Although our staff reacted quickly, blocked access to the used functionality and deleted the user accounts, they managed to generate a large amount of notification emails already.

Since this attack is not only harming Codeberg users but the platform itself, both via technical means (we had brief downtime of our systems and our mail server was suffering a lot), as well as by harming the reputation of our platform and trust users have shown us. We expect this incident to be in response to our swift moderation of the previous campaigns that targeted only individual projects.

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How could this happen?

Please understand that Codeberg.org is driven by volunteers mostly. We have sufficient capacity to run the platform under normal conditions, and normal conditions also include some headway to deal with abuse campaigns that come and go. We suppose that most readers did not notice the spam campaigns of the past days, and we are happy that we managed to contain them quickly. We are fighting with advertisement spam, phishing and malware week to week.

However, our capacity was obviously exhausted this time, when it comes to attacks that target us specifically. And we apologize for this.

You might wonder why there are not more technical countermeasures in place to prevent this type of abuse. Technical measures evolve over time, and we have implemented several protections on multiple levels that are trying to contain the amount of abuse you see day to day.

However, doing proper rate-limiting is hard. We need to ensure that legitimate usage of our API and interface is possible, including custom scripts that import or synchronize massive amounts of issues from projects on other platforms. There are some rate-limits tailored to the previous abuse vectors we have seen, which was mostly aggressive advertizing, and so it would not have been possible to create these massive postings if they would have contained a hyperlink to another website, for example.

However, just spamming notification emails to users is a new abuse vector to us, and we did not sufficiently prepare for this. For that, we are sorry.

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What will Codeberg do?

Currently, we are investigating the details of the attack and we have implemented short-term countermeasures and monitor activity on the platform closely. Further, we are responding to hundreds of emails from our users that ask about the incident. Some request the deletion of their data in response.

Next up, we will make plans on how to improve our protection against this and future kinds of abuse attacks on Codeberg itself to reduce the likelihood of similar things from ever happening again.

If you want to help with development work on Forgejo, the free/libre and open source software that powers Codeberg, please reach out. Go developers who can commit some time and patience to implement one our more technical measures in the codebase are much appreciated.

Unrelated to the current incident, we have worked with NLnet in the past weeks and secured funding for some moderation cowtools. A meeting was scheduled for later today at 20.00 CET to talk about technical architecture for a feature that allows reporting abuse directly in the app and the goal is to implement it for the next release of Forgejo.

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Far-right forces endanger free/libre software projects

We will not be discouraged in our fight against far-right ideologies. They are currently on the rise in many parts of the world, and we believe it is important to protect all kinds of marginalized groups. However, if you believe this does not affect your project, you are wrong. Far-right forces pose a threat to all of us.

Extreme right forces actively target members of our communities and discriminate based on ethnicity and gender, political background, sexual orientation, disabilities, nationality and faith. However diversity is an important asset in free/libre software communities and it is what makes our software great and development productive.

By targetting (Editor's note: Codeberg can't afford a spell checker) some of our most active translators, nicest designers, best developers and all other motivated contributors, they are hurting the free/libre software ecosystem as a whole.

Don't be fooled if right-wing forces promise to "promote open source" in their political agenda. This has nothing to do with the values of our movement! This is about national patriotism and protectionism, and they will happily accept splitting our community on their way.

We all know that the free/libre software ecosystem won't work this way. Every human is an integral and equally important part of it, and targetting some of our community members threatens the ecosystem as a whole.

Let's together stay strong and united against the emerging threats. We stay strong against discrimination of all kind, including but not limited to sexism, transphobia, homophobia, racism, antisemitism and ableism. And we hope that you all join us for this mission.

A big shout-out to all the projects that collect facts and resources against hate and discrimination and that have been the primary goal of these attacks. Support them if you can.

If you ever considered supporting the fight against right-wing forces, for example by joining political movements and parties, organizing protests or getting involved in online communities with this goal - now might be the best time to move ahead.

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Again, we apologize for the disruption of your work and the abusive content delivered to your mailboxes. We are doing our best to contain the situation.

We'd like to thank everyone who signaled their support in the current situation, via e-mail, Mastodon and in Matrix chats. This means a lot to us.

Thank you for your trust and support!

Your Codeberg Public Relations team

Context: Someone emailed users the BIPOC word

PREVIOUSLY: https://rdrama.net/h/slackernews/post/254464/ceo-of-data-privacy-company-onerepcom

The data privacy company Onerep.com bills itself as a Virginia-based service for helping people remove their personal information from almost 200 people-search websites. However, an investigation into the history of onerep.com finds this company is operating out of Belarus and Cyprus, and that its founder has launched dozens of people-search services over the years.

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https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/113980130896539182

https://www.mozzarella.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/subscription-services/

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/mozzarella-drops-onerep-after-ceo-admits-to-running-people-search-networks/

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