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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I can't use this argument because I disagree with it. Science is just testing observations to get the best hypothesis.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/22/an-interesting-argument/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
dandean@indieweb.social ("Dan Dean") wrote:

@baldur I struggle when trying to talk with people who treat everything like an intellectual exercise like Manu appears to be doing. They seem to exist in a world without consequences – they are not subject to the harms less privileged folks must grapple with. In their experience, the ramblings of a racist mass murderer are “intriguing” rather than evidence of potential future intent against them.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

@xlthlx It's funny.

He effectively argued that we should allow Naziism into our public discourse and is now surprised that this caused many to back away from him and not want to talk to him directly.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

American Poutine is basically hot dish

RE: https://www.threads.com/@comixgail/post/DT0OApuFJsP

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
dansup wrote:

❌: Tumblr
✅: https://wafrn.net

Spread the word.

We have a federated Tumblr alternative with mobile apps that isn't controlled by a US oligarch or techbro ❤️

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
dansup wrote:

Just look at WAFRN for example, they built a kickass Tumblr alternative with both ActivityPub and AtProto/Bluesky support.

And they have a fast growing community, because they focused on building a better Tumblr, and have a vibrant ecosystem with many contributors.

Rockstar project, and devs, they are a shining example of how to get this right and shatter expectations with constant evolution.

Kudos @gabboman and team

Learn more about WAFRN: https://wafrn.net/

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

The flies are such slave-drivers.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/22/iyetlivesorta/

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

"China Wins as Trump Cedes Leadership of the Global Economy

The president used a keynote speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to renounce the last vestiges of the liberal democratic order."

yup, NATO and the post WW2 “rules-based” world order are dead… they are just so big that have not finished falling over yet

http://archive.today/ovkXC

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dtm@mastodon.cc ("David Todd McCarty") wrote:

Trump’s Dream Team for his Peace Board:

Pol Pot
Idi Amin
Joseph Stalin
Vladimir Putin
Benjamin Netanyahu
Ruhollah Khomeini
Kim Jung Un
Victor Orban

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

'Geraldo Lunas Campos, 55, became unresponsive while he was physically restrained by law enforcement on Jan. 3 at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility called Camp East Montana, the report said. Emergency medical workers tried to resuscitate him, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

The autopsy listed the cause of death as “asphyxia due to neck and torso compression.”’

"Federal officials described his death as a suicide.”

http://archive.today/Rl4rC

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

Mozilla's Firefox vibe-coding style is literally just "no emojis bro"
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/main/AGENTS.md#code-style

lol

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

Arguing that you shouldn't judge people for liking Mein Kampf or something similar is not the same as arguing you shouldn't judge people for liking Fight Club

I'm sceptical that so many people, who mostly seem to be in or adjacent to tech, don't seem to see the fundamental difference between tolerating Mein Kampf and a controversial creative work

If you are defending Nazi propaganda specifically, when so many other examples were available, I have to assume you chose to do so deliberately

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

blogged: Hmmarkdown 2

https://dbushell.com/2026/01/22/hmmarkdown2/

— I did it again, and probably broke a few pages too!

Sometimes I wonder why I don't just use Astro or 11ty like a normal person.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

"Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback":

https://www.404media.co/comic-con-bans-ai-art-after-artist-pushback/

Nice to see such a firm response and policy in this case.

Also, Karla Ortiz (quoted in the article) is a kick-ass artist:

https://www.karlaortizart.com/portfolio

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
CursedSilicon@restless.systems ("Cursed Silicon") wrote:

HEY #retrocomputing folk in the PNW. VCF PNW needs more exhibitors because it's a much larger space! Go register!

https://vcfpnw.org/

(Boosts also appreciated <3)

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

So what do you people think the above post is about? Because this is seeing a bunch of nonsense reactions that make me worry about the average level of reading comprehension on Mastodon.

ETA: I had to remove a few quote posts of the first post in this thread because a bunch of people were seeing something in it that existed only in their head.

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

* also, the atproto appview is open source in theory but not in practice, cos if you want it to actually scale to the existing network you need a proprietary database

people on both bluesky and blacksky networks are gonna see a lot of weirdly broken shit

because federation is an inherently defective user experience if you're here to socialise and not because of an obsession with federated networks

mastodon users know this personally, and at least masto has existed long enough to patch up the worst problems. (w00t to that "more replies" functionality!)

loud decentralisation theatre with a fuckload of absolutely centralised points of control is also a tell of fashtech, in case you were wondering about bsky corp being literally coiners, rationalists and neoreactionaries

https://awful.systems/post/5833209

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

FEDERATION ON THE FEDIVERSE:
* start up a Mastodon/Akkoma/GoToSocial on a hosting box. You are now a full member of the network.

FEDERATION ON ATPROTO:
* well, the appview requires several terabytes of storage for every post ever made.

(it's absolutely not a blockchain, just oddly reminiscent.)

Something Essentially Contrary to the ActivityPub Method

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115935077191230670

So, the replies to this as well as the larger discussion I've seen about Manu's post leads me to believe that they don't teach people about Karl Popper or the paradox of tolerance any more?

Like, the reason why you scorn and exclude people who overtly or covertly signal support for Naziism is paradox of intolerance 101.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:") wrote:

The cat printer was running low on ink.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

☝️ @davidgerard might be of interest to you, Proton trying to force Lumo on customers 🤮

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

blogged: Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem
https://dbushell.com/2026/01/22/proton-spam/

I was going to forget about this but @protonprivacy Support has some gall trying to bullshit me

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Just to be clear btw - am I saying GenAI can’t ever be used for vulnerability research? No.

I know some very smart people - like in the 0.1% of the industry, with decades of experience - who’ve ferreted out new vulns after spending months of work with GenAI per vuln.

But.. almost everybody using these tools ain’t doing that. I don’t think it’s cognitive amplification is it’s just spraying turd at people. It’s going to have a profoundly negative impact within companies.

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

Really happy to see other ecosystems getting inspired by Ratatui ♥️🐁

🌀 **RatatuiRuby** — Build TUIs with Ruby powered by @ratatui_rs

🦀 Rust handles rendering + your Ruby code handles design.

📚 Docs: https://www.ratatui-ruby.dev

#rustlang #ratatui #ruby #tui #terminal #opensource #library #programming

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

Pretty sure the whole “NATO acts like it can unilaterally give your mineral rights to America for free and in perpetuity” thing is giving a few people in the Nordic countries, at least, pause

Boosted by jwz:
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

#curl is RFC 9116 compliant

https://curl.se/.well-known/security.txt

https :// curl.se / .well-known / security.txt

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

coding befter I finish my morning coffee 😴

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
The14@mastodon.world ("The-14") wrote:

Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology
#Tech #DigitalSovereignty #TechColonialism #BigTech #CloudComputing #CyberSecurity #AntiImperialism #DigitalIndependence #DataSovereignty #Geopolitics #USDominance #DigitalResilience
https://the-14.com/europe-wants-to-end-its-dangerous-reliance-on-us-internet-technology/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rpbook@gts.phillipsuk.org ("Russell Phillips") wrote:

The Green Party have told Pantir to "pack its bags and get the hell out of the NHS"

"my letter today to Palantir makes clear we will use every method at our disposal to force them out. Doctors have made clear they do not trust Palantir with patients’ private data, and with its appalling track record, I am with the doctors”.
https://greenparty.org.uk/2026/01/22/zack-polanski-tells-defence-surveillance-corporation-palantir-to-pack-its-bags-and-get-the-hell-out-of-the-nhs/

#UKPol #NHS #Palantir

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I like to window-watch the parking lot and take bets on how many times people hit "lock" on their key fob.

- one-click-confident girl (walks away while pressing the button, doesn't even look back)
- insecure dude (click click click click click)
- final boss: same guy, but comes running back 2 minutes later to violently test the door handles

Human psychology in a parking lot.