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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

These cat shelter photos combine a few of my photographic interests: Cats, obviously. But also reflections, wear and tear, and other kinds of visual real world distortions.

Two cats in a window. one is twisted around to look at the photographer, the other loafs.
A cat sits in a window and looks ahead.
You can see the very top of a cat's head peak above the windowsill

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

I've been taking photos of the cat shelter windows for a while now. These are from early last year.

A cat sits on a radio in a corner window. One wall is in a blue shadow. The other is yellow from the sunset.
A ginger cat seen through a window as it loafs on a cat tree.
Corner window cat on that same radio seen from another angle

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

On my walks I usually stop outside the local cat shelter, run by Villikettir Suðurlands, and if I can see any of the shelter cats lounging in the window, I usually take a photo. Villikettir are a very worthwhile organisation as they tackle harder cases, such as feral cats https://villikettir.is/ #caturday #cats

A black and white photo of a window. Two cats can be seen in the window looking out.

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Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

We're going deep into the CPU with this one...

🧩 **cpustate-tui** — A bare-metal TUI for visualizing x86_64 CPU internals

⚙ Inspect CPU before even your OS boots!

⚡ CPUID flags, timers, MSRs, XSAVE state & more!

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/mkulke/cpustate-tui

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #osdev #baremetal #x86 #lowlevel #systems

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Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha 🇪🇺") wrote:

A Tom Gauld classic, scarily on track

This is a Tom Gauld comic strip about a female writer whose fictional dystopian novel becomes a reality. The essential information is:  A writer decides to write a novel set in a horrific dystopia. Frame 1  - "I'm going to shut myself away and write a novel set in a horrific dystopia"  Frame 2 - 5 years later  "Finished"  Frame 3 - she steps out into a real life dystopia of women under control and armed guards, tanks and helicopters and exclaims "Damn!"

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

having a camera you can look at from your phone should be easy. being able to find information by searching for it should be easy. it's an engineering project to keep it hard enough that you have to accept constant surveillance as the price to pay to make use of the accumulated skill that we have literally lying around in the gutter on the street

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

good, let everyday folks speak up

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/17/nazis-us-domain-homeland-security?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

oh yah

https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2026/01/17

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Fucking hell, the on screen keyboard and autocomplete in iOS 26 is so much worse than before and it was already crap

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“Reality Is Breaking The "AI Revolution"”

https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is-breaking-the-ai-revolution

> Recently, senior executives at Salesforce have admitted, both internally and publicly, that they massively overestimated AI’s capabilities. They have found that AI simply can’t cope with the complex nature of customer service and totally fails at nuanced issues, escalations, and long-tail customer problems

When can I start to reply “I fucking told you so” to all of these reports without coming across as obnoxious?

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mos_8502@studio8502.ca ("mos_8502 :verified: 🇨🇦") wrote:

What scares me is not that ChatGPT is often wrong. What scares me is how close it has come to being right most of the time. A thing that gives the right answer 90% of the time is much worse than something that’s always wrong.

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“ChatGPT Wants Your Health Data • Buttondown”

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/chatgpt-wants-your-health-data/

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Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
CopernicusECMWF@masto.ai wrote:

How warm was Europe in 2025? 🔍 It was the third‑warmest year on record for Europe, with an average temperature of 10.41°C, 1.17°C above the 1991–2020 average and 0.30°C below the record year of 2024. #CopernicusClimate #GCH2025

Dive into the report: https://climate.copernicus.eu/global-climate-highlights-2025?utm%5Fsource=socialmedia&utm%5Fmedium=MA&utm%5Fcampaign=global-climate-highlight-2025&utm%5Fid=GCH-2025

@ECMWF @CopernicusEU @carlo_mastodon @OceanTerra

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
thomholwerda@exquisite.social ("Thom, Itanium™ influencer") wrote:

⭕ Left-wing
⭕ Use "AI"

Pick one.

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jwz wrote:

A PSA from Dr. Kingfish and myself:

Setting any Trek show in the Post-Burn-iverse is an unforced error.

Lower Decks-iverse 4eva.

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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha 🇪🇺") wrote:

"The joy of not being sold anything"

📷 Photographer: unknown
Artist: Banksy

#StreetArt #Banksy

A blank billboard sign in black and white, with graffiti on it "THE JOY OF NOT BEING SOLD ANYTHING" Underneath it is a partially obscured station sign "MAIDEN" suggesting it may have been taken in Maidenhead, UK A man walks underneath the billboard, unknowing he is being photographed

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ada@ublog.kimapr.net (":neptune: Ada Freya - Neptuwunium") wrote:

tumblr post from eraserheadadult th the current default state of operating systems & internet browsers looks fucking indistinguishable from when i gave the family desktop one billion viruses downloading Free Neopoints Hack in 2005 not to be a millennial but back in my day getting blasted in the eyeballs by ads on your desktop the instant you turn on your computer used to mean something was extremely wrong

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jwz wrote:

Welp, after my spamnesty, including a restructuring of my fail2ban jails and drastic reduction in the number of regexps being processed, performance was pretty good for a while. But in the last 8 days I've already put a 30 day ban on over *1.6 million* IPs that hit the honeypot. And now fail2ban is using a bunch of CPU again. fail2ban.sqlite3 is 2.5G.

We used to be an internet.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
phillip@social.lol ("Phillip :usa_distress:") wrote:

@fromjason Love this essay! It lends itself as an entry point to framing social media companies in the same lens as other “disruptive” tech startups like Uber and Lyft:

- Pick an existing “resource” or industry
- Sell at a loss to kill competition
- Enshittify to make line go up
- Hope and pray that people don’t wake up to their power

In this case, the “resource” is human connection and creativity, but with the gamified flair from casinos.

I didn’t know about that example with Vine, though of course the article is from Taylor Lorenz :D

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
falcennial ("millennial fulcrum") wrote:

@fromjason wise.

my most despised of them is the depression. god it can go fuck itself.

guess which one I hang out in mostly. 💀

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Damn someone made a DB of ICE agents who are also on LinkedIn lmao

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Since we're talking about #Bluesky and #ICE I'm reasonably sure that the Bluesky app was/is throttling external links to a website that lists ICE agents.

Look at the bottom address bar. Bsky dot app holds onto the link for about 13 seconds before it finally forwards me to the website. This is different than normal load speed.

I tried this with multiple other links published to the app and couldn't not duplicate.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

soOoOOoOoooo

do i have to unfollow, one by one, everybody i follow from the hipster nazi bar, including the bridge?

#bluesky #fuckICE

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jefposk.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy wrote:

Logged in to bluesky just long enough to block ICE. You should too. Also, fuck bluesky, it's run by Nazis. Come to Mastodon! Peace out.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
fkamiah17@syzito.xyz ("MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 🏴") wrote:

G'nite folks.

#FuckICE

A lamp post with a yellow sign on a city street.  In black capitals: SOMEWHERE IN AMERICA, A LITTLE GIRL IS HIDING IN AN ATTIC, WRITING ABOUT ICE.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca ("Bruce Elrick") wrote:

General strike!
General strike!
General strike!

https://minneapolisunions.org/system/files/2026-01/press%5Frelease%5F-%5Fjanuary%5F16%5F2026.pdf
#strike #generalstrike #ice

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Kamala Harris using campaign email lists to sell her new book, while making it very unclear the terms in which that money goes to supporting candidates would fit perfectly as a Veep episode.

So please: Make a contribution of ANY AMOUNT today, and I will send you a copy. of 107 Days. If we raise more than the books cost, every dollar will go toward helping Democrats in every corner of the country and at every level of government.&10;If you've stored your info with ActBlue, we'll process your contribution instantly.
Book cover: fictional character Selina Meyer from the show Veep. Portrait photo, her hand holding her head. The photo is heavily blurred everywhere but her face  overly "photoshopped"&10;&10;"Selina Meyer A Woman First: First Woman"

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

When demand exceed supply, the market inevitably responds with slop to fill the gap.

Maybe that's what's happening with people's FYPs.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/slop-is-everywhere-for-those-with-eyes-to-see/

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya "Fucking Bitch" Bidniss") wrote:

the vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence.

ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval. And the noise has the added benefit of drawing large crowds of bystanders who can quickly outnumber the ICE agents, who then have to decide if they want to escalate a situation or perhaps abandon their activity altogether.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/minneapolis-ice-watch-protesters-violence-research

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Grutjes@mstdn.social wrote:

Wow. Bluesky has just welcomed and verified ICE.

For anyone still thinking Bsky is a real alternative to Twitter: No, it's not.

Mastodon is. Bsky is just X at its infancy.

#ICE #Bsky #Bluesky #fascism

Verified account tracker @icegov.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app Jan 17, 2026