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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Do not use Microsoft products or services. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/17/ice-microsoft-technology-immigration-crackdown

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

A recurrent theme across the arc of React's conquest of the frontend discourse has been the substitution of people who were unafraid to say when they didn't know things with confident-sounding imbeciles, *even as the price of looking around and finding out fell through the floor.*

I'm not sure that CSS-in-JS represents the absolute peak of this epistemic failure, but it's certainly in the running.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

New article on too many satellites and ways that we SHOULD be allocating orbits (by Gregory Radisic with me as second author) https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430

Been up for about 30 minutes and I already got a media inquiry. Nice.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

What's the opposite of ADHD? What does that person look like?

Like, in a Mr Glass / Unbreakable sort of way.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Hopped out of bed to do a thing. Did four unrelated things. Hoped back into bed.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Ha! Despite my fears, my teenager didn't balk at green colored pasta. She even declared it to be "better". Not because of any difference in flavor (there isn't), but simply because it's green :-)

#cooking #darktable

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I have no idea how to talk about this without sounding like the type of conspiratorial that gets you uninvited to parties.

Not that I have an urge to give my two cents. I don't think I have anything valuable to offer the discourse, other than pointing out that maybe the most egregious shit happening in the world has no political affiliation.

Maybe my one question is - do reformists still exist? lol

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

So, Eyes Wide Shut hits a little different now. Out of pure curiosity, is anyone suggesting the movie was about Epstein directly or indirectly?

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

If you ask social scientists about this theory they harrumph about how there isn't one single neat cause for crime. If you ask chemists, they say Oh my god, yes leaded gasoline obviously did that, how could we have been so stupid?

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
savetheclocktower ("Andrew Dupont") wrote:

Apathy and laziness are underrated traits in the workplace. Companies think they want the person in charge of sending these emails to be “passionate about email marketing,” but they should actually hire someone for that role who is a normal human being

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116087450282460037

Solidarity will get you the Activist Lifetime Achievement Award every time.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Anyone with hard opinions on TinaCMS?

I want to add a little CMS to an #11ty blog project. Not necessarily fromjason, I'm cool with my set up.

But it would be cool if I could one day make a static site blog for a non-techie friend.

Tina looks promising, right?

https://tina.io/docs/frameworks/11ty

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
BruceMirken@mas.to ("Bruce Mirken") wrote:

#JesseJackson was an ally to #LGBTQ people before it was fashionable; when most politicians were scared to say the word "gay" or publicly be associated with us, Jesse Jackson did just that. And in 1987, when people with AIDS were too often shunned, discriminated against and treated with fear and contempt, Jackson publicly hugged people with AIDS at the LGBTQ March on Washington. Hail and farewell. #RIP https://wehoonline.com/jesse-jackson-lgbtq-legacy-west-hollywood-obituaries-missing/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy ("David Roberts") wrote:

Raided the camps to confiscate the letters from the kidnapped kids. Classic Good Guy behavior.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tgw3d4hvw3x5ijrxax7lg26u/post/3mf3cjpixvk25

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

He says it like it's a bad thing

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
eamon@social.coop ("Eamon") wrote:

There's tremendous value to being a strict LLM Abstentionist in the current political climate, whether or not there are any "valid use cases for LLMs" (there are—not nearly as many as most people think, but sure, more than zero) or the LLM was "created ethically" (to my knowledge no such model exists, but yeah, it's technically possible that someone has or will eventually build one).

Tech workers especially who refuse to interact with this technology are telling their coworkers and employers that ethics and morality are more important to some people than convenience and profit. This is a bold stance to take during good times—and downright foolhardy in the current job market—but the more people who draw the line here, the better the outcomes will be for literally everybody on the whole planet (except, perhaps, for some billionaire investors).

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
catsalad@lgbtqia.space ("CatSalad🐈🥗 :neocat_floof__w:⁠💤") wrote:

Wallflowers that always scoop the cat poop rarely gets questioned.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

All I can think when I see a bio like "... Rect, Next.js, web performance, accessibility" is "did they stop screening for arsonists at the fire brigade recruiting office?"

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

Please, can we all stop pretending that Christianity is a loving, gentle, tolerant religion? It never has been and never will be.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/17/the-video-corporate-media-doesnt-want-you-to-see/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ7Pz%5F59A

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Also, if you're interested in a high-level, somewhat outdated but still relevant overview of the concept:

https://fromjason.xyz/p/freelance/from-jason-2-0-is-an-11ty-powered-digital-garden-with-multiple-plots/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
waprivacy@pnw.zone ("Washington Privacy Organizers") wrote:

#waleg update: There's a committee hearing tomorrow morning on SB 6002, the Driver Privacy Act, regulating Flock and other ALPRs.

If you're in Washington, please sign in OTHER (Strengthen) - and consider also providing written testimony. The action has details, links to sign in, and talking points. This thread has the highlights and direct links if you don't want to use the ones in the action (1/N)

https://www.takeaction.network/xactions/47677

#flock #privacy #surveillance

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Gonna work on filtered views this evening. Ability to view posts based on

- plot (obvs)
- tags
- intended audiences
- date: thinking by month and/or year
- post type: Thought, Note, Essay

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

“Selling Safety”: A Journalist’s Guide to Covering Police Technology:

"This guide helps journalists see through the spin. It breaks down how policing technology companies market their tools and how those sales claims – which are often misleading – get recycled into media coverage."

This is rad. I’m glad this guide exists. But, I also wonder why journalists need to be told that they shouldn’t just repeat press ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/02/17/selling-safety-a-journalists-guide.html

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

If you're a journalist who covers law enforcement, don't let their claims about slick and effective technology go unchallenged.

https://www.eff.org/document/selling-safety-journalists-guide-covering-police-technology

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:

Humbly requesting stories about something you've done / are doing lately to withdraw support from the death cult and/or create alternatives for yourself and others. Nothing is too small, or too imperfect, or too late; i just need a little positive energy of this particular flavor to feel less alone and angry today.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
phooky@hexa.club wrote:

AI is already dead; we are pivoting to crabs. Within 5-6 years 80% of all jobs will be crabs. Begin hardening your dermis into a tough durable exoskeleton now or be left behind. Economic carcinization is coming

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Discord has enshitified, what do we do now?

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/rbm59smVVydVqvpMGaL9C9

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

https://mastodon.social/@Nfinitywaltz/116086862559673098

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Discord has enshitified, what do we do now?

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/rbm59smVVydVqvpMGaL9C9

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
kat@is.burntout.org wrote:

At last some good news!

Look Mum no computer, is UK eurovision entry for 2026

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/feb/17/look-mum-no-computer-uk-entry-eurovision-2026

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clygz17y5kdo