Still, it’s run by a large American tech company and has a federation model that makes self-hosting and true decentralization somewhere between difficult and impossible.

Isn’t Bluesky still US big tech?

People are complaining about the blurriness, but I’m old and this picture is astonishing.

I doubt the courts would be respected even if they ruled against it. Trump is currently ignoring the courts to have people illegally kidnapped and deported to foreign prisons, with no due process, some of them to be enslaved there for life:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/what-to-know-about-the-el-salvador-mega-prison-where-trump-sent-hundreds-of-immigrants

From that article:

CECOT prisoners do not receive visits and are never allowed outdoors. The prison does not offer workshops or educational programs to prepare them to return to society after their sentences. … Bukele’s justice minister has said that those held at CECOT would never return to their communities.

The Trump administration has not identified the migrants deported, provided any evidence they are in fact members of Tren de Aragua or that they committed any crimes in the U.S.

“Medal” I think, not “metal”. But yes. They think only white people can achieve anything on merit.

Yes. And the language is Danish.

The recent New Yorker article, The Cruel Kids’ Table, was particularly worrying because it illustrated how fascism has moved from the fringes into mainstream youth culture. We could be looking at a generation of enthusiastic young fascists in the wake of Trump.

Ban Facebook and X/Twitter. They’re facilitating sedition.

I agree, if you can find something more local with warranty support it’s preferable.

If you stick to official sellers and sellers with plausible-sounding positive reviews, AliExpress can be fine, and shipping is often quick, though warranty support is a bit of a gamble. There are loads of cheap N100/N150 boxes and other Mini PCs on AliExpress.

Here’s a review of the book in the NYT that gives a taste of some of the awfulness:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/books/review/careless-people-sarah-wynn-williams.html

https://archive.is/Gq7O8

Mozilla has one too. And Fastmail. You can invent a different email address for every site, then block the ones that get spammed.