Nicole Aptekar @nicoles@social.tchncs.de

The last known Tasmanian Tiger (now extinct) photographed in 1933

“On July 30, 2011, Alex Schaefer set up an easel across the road from a Chase bank and began painting the building in flames. However, before he had finished the police arrived, asked him for his information and if he was planning on actually carrying out an arson attack on the building. Ridiculous. Later they turned up on his doorstep … a year later he was arrested for drawing the word ‘crime’ with a Chase logo in front of an LA bank.” (via Artist…

http://migurski.tumblr.com/post/160158242960

I turned my report on Sen. Feinstein's town hall into a Medium post, with some clarifications and additions. There was no leadership, no fight, and the whole thing was pretty discouraging.

https://medium.com/@zachlipton/dianne-feinsteins-san-francisco-town-hall-politics-as-usual-8ec47aeea003

It's a black day for #russian internets: a bill draft was proposed by Russian government that bans usage of #VPN, #Tor, and other anonymizers. This happened only 10 days after a Tor exit node administrator #DmitryBogatov was arrested. Being anonymous is now a crime in Russia... #freeBogatov https://rublacklist.net/27859/

Okay, my new Mastodon instance is live! Since @Mus made https://oulipo.social where you can't post the letter 'e', I am proud to announce:

DOLPHIN TOWN!
https://dolphin.town

A Mastodon instance where you can only say the letter "e". Follow me there! I'm @e

https://mastodon.social/media/LJI3bE6pUg_kpuXcPoo

ee_eeeEeeEee
https://dolphin.town/media/oeO-N8ZZ9Pg7lZMY864

https://dolphin.town/media/MXpvApTbblY9MkLz36A

https://dolphin.town/media/asNnuVXCT1ljDIOgTCo https://dolphin.town/media/nz14Wc4nbY6d4NWBjgg https://dolphin.town/media/Ebd2N8rvNBzZjDE9Mdo

my favorite part about dolphin town is that like
it's federated, so you literally just effectively have a town of dolphin people trying to communicate

Sometime in the last few days, my mac pro decided it was a fine idea to upgrade itself to 10.12.4, and now I can no longer screen share into it.

Is screen sharing working for anyone else with 10.12.4 machines? Anyone have any ideas? I miss my cad machine...

Twitter sued Customs and Border Protection for trying to unmask one of their pseudonymous alt agency accounts. Within 24 hours of Twitter filing the lawsuit, the government withdrew its subpoena. What happened here?

I explain it all: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/alt-twitter-account-trump-customs-lawsuit

Also, I wrote about the gentrification of weed yesterday. Artisanal chocolate edibles really pair nicely with systemically racist drug enforcement. http://waxy.org/2017/04/the-portlandification-of-pot/

For me the hardest part of making a Mastodon bot was figuring out the OAuth dance to get my access token.

Twitter offers a UI that does this for you, so I made one for Mastodon! It works on any instance, but it does require you to run a `curl` command (that it generates for you) at the very end. Hope you find it useful!

https://tinysubversions.com/notes/mastodon-bot/index.html