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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
unlofl@mstdn.social ("unlofl [Promoted Toot]") wrote:

I want some Ea-nāṣir shitposts, but all the ones I've seen recently are of incredibly poor quality!!!

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
ceejbot@toot.cat ("C J Silverio") wrote:

I am engaged in trying to hire TWO roles, and BOTH of them are replacing me in very different modes, leaving me to do blessedly only one of the two engineering things I'm doing right now.

Uh. If you're in the US and either know Rust well and are into the backend service thing OR you are a manager who could effectively support the humans on a medium-sized broad-skillset platform team, you might want one of these two jobs. Finding managers who take the management skill seriously can be hard. :(

Inquire within.

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

One of my oldest and best friends posted a hell of an account of life in Minneapolis right now.

This whole thing rings so true. “A series of snapshots,” she says — and every one of us here is accumulating our own heavy stack of such snapshots.

Original post: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1T31r4jeeX/

Marisa Brandt. January 16. Some notes from Minneapolis these days: There is a before and an after. No, there are multiple befores and multiple afters. Before Christmas, ICE was here, but it wasn't like this. Before I saw one of my neighbors kidnapped on the street less than a block from my house. Before Renee Good was killed. Before I saw the men in tactical gear outside my house. And now. I am looking forward to some new afters. Here are some things I have noticed. Like everyone else, this disaster appears in my mind as a series of snapshots. I can't put it into a coherent narrative. The days blend together, the horrifying incidents and moments of connection both pile on top of each other in a bewildering kaleidoscope.  I volunteer with a hospice service. When I went to visit my current hospice client at the home she shares with her daughter and son-in-law, her 70-something daughter was packing up big bags of food to deliver to people sheltering in place in their neighborhood. She had her husband's phone number written in sharpie on her arm in case something happened to her while she was out making deliveries.
At our morning standup, a co-worker in a second-ring suburb shared that over the weekend her husband had been chipping ice off their driveway when a man with no shoes ran up to him. There was a language barrier, so they went inside the heated garage to get google translate up. It turned out the man was running from masked federal agents. My suburban co-worker and her husband hid this man in their garage until the unmarked vans patrolling their neighborhood were gone, gave him some shoes, and drove him somewhere safe. Safer, because nowhere here is safe if you have brown skin. I've been spending part of my mornings standing guard at my local elementary school. (I watch the alley that is in front of the school, because that is one of the places in our neighborhood I have seen ICE agents lurking). I started doing this in mid-December; every week there are more people. We wear safety vests and whistles. People come up to offer help, to see about joining us, to give us money for mutual aid. One woman walked up to us and asked if we could use cash to buy food (we also do food delivery to families that aren't able to leave their homes to go grocery shopping, or go to work to earn money to buy groceries). When we said yes, she pulled a thick stack of twenties out of her wallet, handed them to us, and walked away. Our immigrant neighbors thank us, over and over. I am absolutely destroyed by our inability to stop of any of this, to provide anything other than the most basic help.
Literal ice has been a problem as well. A woman slipped and fell while doing school drop-off. She was holding a toddler, and fell right in front of me. I picked up her daughter, who she'd managed to protect as she went down, and reassured her that we would take care of her mom. She was near tears, but holding it together. When the school nurse came out, I said "hey, look, it's the school nurse! she will know just what to do!" and the little girl gave me the most beautiful smile and yelled "YAY!" (Unfortunately, the problem was well beyond the school nurse - her mom had broken her leg in three places.) And on and on. I am so tired. There are many moments of connection with my neighbors, but I would much rather have found another way to create neighborhood bonds. I am ashamed that we didn't build them before this, in all honesty, and that I knew so few of my Somali neighbors. Truly we are all in this together. I don't have any huge conclusion to any of this - it is ongoing, I am still in the middle of it, I can barely process many of the things that have happened over the last few weeks. But I'm hoping to keep getting the word out about what is happening here.

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

@pluralistic This is the same insight that those resisting cold-war authoritarian states brought to bear; modern authoritarians demand silence more than overt support. That's a choice Apple and Google are now making every day:

https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/the-power-of-the-powerless-vaclav-havel-2011-12-23

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

@pluralistic At root, this is about power structures. Apple and Google are now complicit in the authoritarian system, roped into it through incremental self-deceptions. A lust for illegitimate power led to state capture (corruption), and from there the logic of user abuse is a self-fulfilling.

As Samuel Bagg points out, this is *corruption*;

https://www.samuelbagg.com/book

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

I quote @pluralistic here because his work has helped us all understand how technically and ethically threadbare the app store justifications are. Now that they're silent in the face of widespread, above-the-fold abuse of women and girls, the jig is well and truly up. Tim and Sundar's next arguments before any self-respecting regulator are forfeit.

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andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.social/@caitp/115929601509266397

Maybe Americans who have already given up on their gym resolutions for the year could switch out their goals of doing reps with doing fucking rep calls

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Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Next week, Democrats can freeze out funding for ICE — but only if they work together as a unified opposition. That means we must flood Congress with calls to demand ICE Out For Good.

Contact your senators: http://indivisible.org/ice-out-senate?source=mastodon

And your representative: http://indivisible.org/ice-out-house?source=mastodon

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Boosted by jwz:
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Lindsey Halligan headed to criminal contempt judgment. This opinion and order is from a Trump-appointed judge, giving her notice of referral to disciplinary proceedings if she does not stop using the title of U.S. Attorney. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.586311/gov.uscourts.vaed.586311.23.0.pdf
In the rest of this thread, selected quotes from an opinion unlike any I have ever seen. 1/

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Boosted by jwz:
mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/20/2 OH MY FUCKING GOD complete auth bypass in inetutils telnetd for over a decade and obviously nobody inside that decade should have been running a telnet daemon but wow

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fj ("Frédéric Jacobs") wrote:

What the #NerdReich of Silicon Valley VCs (Thiel, Praxis, Chamath ... ) don't understand is that not everyone lives in a world where everything is transactional.

Greenlanders don't share their values. Greenlanders can't be bought.

📺Full Interview: https://www.viory.video/en/videos/a3110%5F18012026

#MakeAmericaGoAway #Greenland #NuDetNuUK

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
davep@infosec.exchange ("David Penfold :verified:") wrote:

"Took a picture of my wife standing in front of a horse and now she won’t talk to me. 😖"

via Mike Bales

A woman with blonde hair in front of a horse of a similar hue, giving the impression she has a horse's head.

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zkat@toot.cat wrote:

Using Obsidian as a VTT is pretty tops tbh

#Obsidian #TTRPG #StarForged

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

I wrote up a longer piece about scammers pretending to be me, how you can tell it's not me, and why neither I nor any other "big name" author is likely to be emailing you at all, and certainly not with obviously "AI"-generated verbiage. Please feel free to share.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/01/20/reminder-scammers-are-out-there-pretending-to-be-me-and-other-authors-as-well/

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

No please not shrimp Jesus

(Likely) an AI generated image of a shrimp floating above water with Jesus' torso.

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bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

I am currently at a Dagstuhl seminar (my first!), "Trustworthy System Architectures for the Age of Custom Silicon." Slides for my talk yesterday (not recorded, unfortunately):

https://speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/software-co-design-motivations-and-reflections-with-respect-to-security

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

It got in to the WiFi oh my god

Sign with WiFi icon: WiFi zero sugar.

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

I don't know who needs to hear this, but when it comes to web performance, if you're measuring in seconds, you're admitting defeat.

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

Oh no what's happening

Bottle of Tide detergent with the zero sugar logo on it

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

Wait you guys science has gone too far

Picture of a bag of dominos sugar with the Zero Sugar logo on it.

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

Say what you will about America, but we have perfected the science of Zero Sugar soft drinks.

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Boosted by jwz:
gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

Every day, Republican Congresspeople wake up and are advised by staff which of his posts they haven’t seen.

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Boosted by jwz:
gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

“Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns Thing People Don’t Want boom could falter if people continue not to want it”

Who wants to be the one to explain markets to the head of a multi-trillion dollar company? Is he just used to people not wanting Windows and it selling anyway?

A screenshot of a Financial Times article headlined: “Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns Al boom could falter without wider adoption”.

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Boosted by jwz:
fraying@xoxo.zone ("Derek Powazek 🐐") wrote:

We may have to stop selling our CBD products in November because Republicans and the booze lobby snuck a hemp ban into the law last year.

So let's have some fun until then.
https://milkbarn.farm/pages/loophole

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Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

What @n1xnx says is what a lot of us have been lamenting since the ICE invasion started. Shouldn’t local police protect citizens from ICE?? Why this hasn’t happened is a really good question. Factors to consider:

- “Obstructing a federal agent” is illegal, and local police / politicians feel constrained by that (even if the agents themselves don’t seem constrained by the actual law at all, only by what they think they can get away with)

- Police can in theory cite federal agents for e.g. traffic violations or illegal plate swapping after the fact, as long as they’re not “obstructing” the agents — but how do you cite a masked person with fake plates who refuses to give ID?

- Some police are visibly supportive of ICE, chumming it up with them and giving literal fist bumps; a nontrivial subset are outright closet Nazis. A lot of people don’t really see any need to go past “ACAB” as a full explanation for all of this — and certainly The ACAB Hypothesis is…um, not really being proved false right now in Minneapolis.

- I think some police quietly resent ICE for stepping on their turf, but that does not seem to have boiled up into actual confrontation in MSP. One police leader here painted it in early Dec as “some people want to instigate a confrontation between Minneapolis Police, and that’s not going to happen.” Police culture says that police should be a neutral party in a dispute between ICE and residents, and actually protecting residents would be taking sides. (Duh, yes, taking sides that way is your literal job, you dumbasses…but I digress.)

- Some police (especially leadership) really want to get on the community’s good side after the murder of George Floyd, and see this as an opportunity, but unfortunately this has materialized entirely as non-interventionist support: “We responded to a 911 call and help a distressed resident after her husband was abducted!” “We transported children left parentless on the streets by ICE safely back to their home!” “Our officers volunteered at the food shelf!” OK, nice, good for you buddy.

So yeah, I’m wondering this too, and am bitter about it. https://tilde.zone/@n1xnx/115928447564126393

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jwz wrote:

PRANIC LIFT 777.

Weyland-Yutani: "Building Better Cyberdecks"
https://jwz.org/b/yk2L

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

Apple and Google's quisling era unearths the lies they've told to justify monopoly power over software for the most consequential computing platforms of our lives. If the app stores can't move against Musk/Grok, they should not be trusted with any of the powers they demand:

https://infrequently.org/2026/01/naked-power/

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

Iceland's foreign policy at the moment:

"If we stay very very still, maybe nobody will notice us."

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

Another short voice note from myself. Check out my series at https://chriswere.wales/voicenotes

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
maique@social.lol ("maique :prami_pride:") wrote:

Back to basics.

Profile of a person named maique, with a cartoon avatar, travel interests, and links to various photo platforms on their phone screen.