Tony Bark
Arf! I’m Tony Bark. Artist by day, programmer by night. Gamer all the way.
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Tony Bark@pawb.socialOPto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL the word "fnord," from The Illuminatus! Trilogy, gives characters subconscious feelings of unease and confusion, thus preventing rational thought, every time the word appearsEnglish
2·2 months agoAnd to go a step further, any acronym that represents anything even remotely progressive is a fnord to MAGA.
Tony Bark@pawb.socialOPto
News@lemmy.world•New York becomes first state to impose one-year pause on new AI datacentersEnglish
1·2 months agoThese datacenters are being built or simply being green lit at a rapid pace. Putting a pause to things may not be the best solution, don’t get me wrong, but it certainly buys some time given the situation.
Tony Bark@pawb.socialOPto
News@lemmy.world•Campaign to overturn [Obergefell v. Hodges] uses 14-year-old junk science to 'prove' gay people are bad parentsEnglish
8·2 months agothey want to abolish non-financially productive marriages.
Of course. It’s always about work and money with these idiots.
Tony Bark@pawb.socialOPto
News@lemmy.world•The FBI Has Deputized Local Cops as Federal Agents. Communities Are Resisting.English
16·2 months agoAnd it’s coming from conservatives!
A lot of that is mostly the fault of the technology. But we still like it anyway.
Tony Bark@pawb.socialOPto
News@lemmy.world•Trump fires all commissioners of federal election agencyEnglish
26·2 months agoIt is mainly handled by the states, thankfully. This commission is actually fairly new and was designed to basically streamline things. So the US can technically live without it.
Trump is just getting desperate.
Tony Bark@pawb.socialOPto
News@lemmy.world•Trump fires all commissioners of federal election agencyEnglish
702·2 months agoThe Commission is tasked with testing and certification but they’re supposed to report to Congress every two years, handle federal funds, and handle communication on laws, procedures, etc.
Based on this news, Trump is so desperate to avoid accountability that he doesn’t even want to hold a pretend election, like North Korea does.
Tony Bark@pawb.socialOPto
News@lemmy.world•Trump admin turns to threats, coercion after courts reject president’s assault on votingEnglish
18·2 months agoEverything is ICE, apparently.
Tony Bark@pawb.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft eyes another wave of layoffs that could hit 5,000 workers next weekEnglish
23·2 months agoGo ahead, Microsoft. Snap yourself out of existence.
Tony Bark@pawb.socialOPto
News@lemmy.world•Acting DNI Pulte fires dozens of intelligence officialsEnglish
2·2 months agoHe’s been against them since his first term.
Tony Bark@pawb.socialto
News@lemmy.world•ICE arrests 10,000 in 5 days, a sharp late-June surge in Trump's deportation pushEnglish
32·2 months agoWith the midterms fast approaching, this seems like a further act of desperation.
Tony Bark@pawb.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Mark Zuckerberg Is Selflessly Building Yet Another Horrible Product Nobody Asked ForEnglish
12·2 months agoAnd he can’t be voted out. Zuck literally made himself king of his own little virtual empire.
Tony Bark@pawb.socialto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL That the government's mass surveillance programs operating under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, have never stopped an act of terrorism.English
51·2 months agoThe gap between the signing of the Patriot Act and when that article was posted is 14 years apart. I highly doubt anything has changed since then.
Tony Bark@pawb.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Windows 10 support quietly extended until Oct 2027, as users reject Windows 11English
20·2 months agoIt’s like XP all over again.
Tony Bark@pawb.socialOPto
News@lemmy.world•Federal judge bars Trump from implementing proof of citizenship requirement to voteEnglish
4·3 months agoI remember when I got told mine got purged sometime after I just became eligible to vote.
Tony Bark@pawb.socialOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Wikipedia Cofounder Larry Sanger Banned From Site for ‘Canvassing’English
231·3 months agoThey literally gave him three days.
Tony Bark@pawb.socialOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Wikipedia Cofounder Larry Sanger Banned From Site for ‘Canvassing’English
8·3 months agoYeah… The Post isn’t much of a shocker. It’d be more of a shocker if it were NYT.















Man, if only we had some sort of intelligence agency with some cybersecurity experts on hand.