bloody xubuntu what do i have to do for you, bleed?

And relevant to nothing, does anybody know how the hell one gets xubuntu + xfce4 to pay any attention whatever to the settings you make in xorg.conf? I know it's reading it, if I put bad syntax in it fails to launch. So how the fuck do I make it pay attention to touchpad click zones?

(It's not that it doesn't have them. It's that they aren't the ones I set.)

Today's News (2020/6/2): Fascism On the March Edition

This is the roundup post on Trump's demifascism directly. There's more fascism in practice to come, but this is (I think) all the stuff really specifically directly rated to Trump.

1. Trump campaign senior legal adviser Jenna Ellis: Right Rev. Mariann Budde is a "pawn of the leftist media"
2. Barr promises "even greater" police action in D.C.
3. Live updates: Barr personally asked to push back protesters outside White House just before Trump spoke
4. Everyone at Facebook is qwhite complicit
5. Top Republican senators defend Trump's church photo-op after peaceful protesters cleared out
6. "Everything he has said is antithetical to the teachings of our traditions and what we stand for as a church."
7. Ahead of Trump Bible photo op, police forcibly expel priest from St. John’s church near White House
8. Governors Push Back On Trump's Threat To Deploy Federal Troops To Quell Unrest
9. I Cannot Remain Silent
10. 700 members of the 82nd are at Joint Base Andrews and Fort Belvoir, 1,400 more soldiers are ready, all issued bayonets
11. The DEA Has Just Been Authorized to Conduct Surveillance on Protesters
12. A letter to Defense Secretary Mark Esper
13. Trump’s Use of Tear Gas To Break Up A Protest Undermined Three Core Values Of American Democracy
14. This Is Fascism

( The articles )

Today's News (2020/6/2): A Potpourii of Violence Edition

This is basically the 'everything else' post.

But given Facebook's hard algorithmic promotion of fascist and ultra-rightist causes - literally the top ten articles on their site yesterday were Fox News and harder-right sources - I have a recommendation.

If, for whatever reason, you have some need to stay on Facebook? Then I strongly recommend the Facebook Container plug-in for Firefox, as well as never going to Facebook without an adblocker.

This combination basically eliminates most or all of their revenue stream from you.

1. Facebook employees stage virtual walkout to protest Trump posts
2. Louisville PD release video of David McAtee's death that they say shows he shot first; the problem? David had no gun, or was gunshot visible from David.
3. Philadelphia police toss canisters toward crowd trying to flee up highway embankment.
4. Police violence, the show of military force on US streets is like nothing I would have believed if I weren’t here
5. Major corporations publicly embracing Black Lives Matter donate to companies rated "F" by NAACP
6. Former MSNBC Social Media editor on MSNBC's insistence that police could never be blamed for killings of African Americans
7. Police violence, Minneapolis PD union chief: everything would be fine if we could use even more violence
8. Police violence, six officers charged after cops tase Georgia students in video
9. Truck driver who drove semi truck into Minneapolis protesters released from jail without charges
10. Story from LA: My occupied neighbourhood
11. When police think they’re ‘punishers,’ they cease to be police
12. “It’s Spiraling Out of Control”: Confronting a Failed Presidency, Trump Plays Politics With the Protests
13. Fear of destruction brings curfews, closures and police
14. Police violence, Kansas City PD makes an example out of someone
15. Minneapolis Police Union President: “I’ve Been Involved in Three Shootings Myself, and Not a One of Them Has Bothered Me”
16. Fox News reports Identity Evrupa (white nationalist) chain letter as real story
17. NC: "very unlikely" to hold RNC in late August as Trump desires

( The article )