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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

Today in Labor History January 20, 1872: Filipino soldiers staged a bloody revolt against Spanish rule known as the Cavite Mutiny. Around 200 locally recruited colonial troops and laborers rose up hoping that it would escalate into a national uprising. However, colonial government forces quickly put down the mutiny. They executed many of the participants and cracked down on the independence movement. Nevertheless, it marked the beginning of a movement that would eventually lead to the Philippine Revolution of 1896

#workingclass #LaborHistory #mutiny #rebellion #uprising #Revolution #philippines #colonialism #indigenous

A historical marker for the Cavite mutiny (1872) at Fort San Felipe in Cavite City, Philippines. By Ramon FVelasquez - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29770491

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

Russia isn't scared of NATO. It's scared of an alliance that would actually fight.]

European intelligence warns Moscow could strike NATO within 2-5 years — despite 1.2 million casualties in Ukraine. The logic? Russia doesn't need to win. It needs NATO to hesitate.

Former Norwegian Defense Attaché Hans Petter Midttun argues Ukraine should anchor a new European coalition. Four years fighting a nuclear power is credibility no other nation can match. https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/20/the-alliance-russia-fears-isnt-nato-its-a-coalition-that-will-actually-fight/

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

Today in Labory History January 20, 1930: Korean anarchist military leader Kim Chwa-chin was assassinated. When he was 18, he publicly burned the Korean slave registry, releasing 50 families of slaves and providing each family with enough land to live on. This was the first emancipation of slaves in modern Korea. He also organized branches of the Korea Association and the Association for the Performing Arts in Hongseong as ways to help organize for Korean national liberation. He was imprisoned in 1911 for subversive activities. He later fled to Manchuria to escape Japanese occupation, but then fought against the Japanese when they invaded Manchuria. After his assassination, the Korean anarchist movement was heavily repressed by the Japanese army, in the south, and by pro-Kuomintang forces, in the north. By 1931, most of its leaders were dead.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #korea #anarchism #slavery #abolition #japan #occupation #manchuria #liberation #KimChwachin

Photograph of Kim Hyeong-gyo, with thin moustache. By Unknown author - http://blog.makenp.com/index.htm?mn=news&mdis=1&premdis=1&mi=itry&mk=1&sarea1=&sarea2=&stype=&slength=&sval=&mode=bread&nlk=91&page=&blogcate=3, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3885829

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Fionnbharr@mastodon.ie wrote:

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
― John F. Kennedy

#quotes

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dilmandila@mograph.social ("Dilman Dila") wrote:

If you develop for #linux please make offline installation possible, for people in countries with restricted internet. Came back home last night and today I want to install Luminance HDR but their only option for linux is via the terminal, and yet, while I can access full internet on my phone using a VPN, I can't access any on my laptop/workstations, so I can't install this program, unless I use Wine. I'm in #Uganda They cut off internet during elections and it has now been partially restored.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
NinaBernstein1@journa.host ("Nina Bernstein") wrote:

“None of this means that America is destined to become a fully fascist country. For now, we are trapped in the space between the liberal democracy most Americans grew up in and the dark, belligerent authoritarian state that our government seeks to impose.” Organize. You still have a right to protest. Use it or lose it. #GIFT #RESIST https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/opinion/resistance-libs-trump-fascism.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.EFA.TxRD.YadghWqbChgu&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

2pm today walkout planned to demonstrate support for democracy in the USA

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

Stephen Miller is wrong about Star Trek, as he is about everything, but I wouldn't mind seeing the franchise end.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/20/death-to-star-trek/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngb-yW3hHpI

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Mr_Xarii@pixelfed.social ("xvr") wrote:

When you are small
but also big

#wintergoldhänchen #goldcrest
#birdphotography #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdsofpixelfed

A goldcrest hangs on a mossy tree searching for food
It tourns it's head a little  and the golden feather line is vissible now

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
beecycling@wandering.shop ("BeeCycling") wrote:

Remember, any politician who talks about running the economy like a business, or a household budget is treating you like an idiot. National economies, businesses and household budgets all work entirely differently. There are different things they can do and can't do. If your household is over-spending you can't lay off one of your kids. If your business needs more cash you can't levy taxes like a government. And if the government starts trying to downsize headcount, you're in deep trouble.

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

We just added a new example to the Ratatui repository! 🐁

📈 volatility-surface — 3D perspective projection in the terminal.

🦀 Powered by Rust & @ratatui_rs

➡️ Try it out: https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui/tree/main/examples/apps/volatility-surface

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #graphics #3d #terminal #dataviz

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

As a bonus, here's "Bad Apple", rendered as a multi-resolution Hilbert curve.

Thanks to @janamarie for the idea!

#genuary

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

Executives don’t want to just sell juice. They want to empower you with an agentic, customizable, and seamless juice experience.

But no one has stopped to think about what any of that actually means. Before designing a "solution," you need a good, *shared* problem definition. If the beautiful clarity within the design team shatters on contact with any handoff, you didn't finish the job.

Read more in this week's Product Picnic:

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/your-problem-framing-is-sabotaging-your-strategy

#UX #design #softwaredevelopment #tech

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

If you enjoyed the article, why not subscribe? Product Picnic comes out every week, for free.

Thanks to @iris_meredith @danhon @vickyharp @RayNewman @Chronotope @mulegirl @dcr @se_davidobrien @NicMakesStuff and everyone else not yet on Fedi for the writing that made its way into this week's issue.

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

Looking through my drafts…

Turns out, the “Open” in OpenAI represents us. It’s Open(up to)AI.

It's like asking Ronald McDonald for love advice. He may give you comforting words, but you just know he wants to sell you a cheese burger.

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Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕"):
vale@fedi.vale.rocks ("Vale") wrote:

Proud to announce TechConf.Directory, a directory of tech conferences around the globe.

I’ve found it quite difficult to find conferences. That is true no more!

I’ve made all the data fully open and available via a fully queryable API as well.

https://techconf.directory

#Conferences #Tech #Programming

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
picandocodigo@mastodon.online ("Fernando Briano") wrote:

"Community-owned social network Tŵt has announced the launch of a six-week campaign titled “Pethau Bychain” (Little Things), which seeks to promote a more mindful, people-first digital culture ahead of the release of its new app on St David’s Day."

"Tŵt operates within the wider Social Web, also known as the Fediverse, a decentralised network of independent social media services."

https://nation.cymru/news/welsh-social-network-launches-campaign-inspired-by-dewi-sant/

#Wales #Fediverse

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
faltzuthewiz@eliitin-some.fi ("Faltsu") wrote:

Been thinking about this post lately

Post by Cliff Jerrison @pervocracy: It's very hard to maintain mental health because so many coping strategies are based on the idea that your anxiety is unwarranted, and right now needs more of an "okay, extremely warranted but you still gotta water the plants or you'll have fascism AND dead plants" approach

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

Somebody should start the rumour that the EU’s economic retaliation will mostly target “AI” services and products as that would maximise the impact on US tech while minimising the harm to the EU’s economy, it being mostly based on food, tourism and industry

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Boosted by jwz:
jamisonfoser.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Jamison Foser") wrote:

a whole bunch of terrible people support ICE's murder of Renee Good, and the vast majority of them are Republicans. But by a 2-1 margin, they are outnumbered by people who disapprove of the murder, and portraying this as Americans being split along party lines overstates support for the murder.

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netblocks ("NetBlocks") wrote:

⚠️ Update: With #Iran's internet blackout now past hour 280, the nation of over 90 million remains cut off for another day leaving friends and family unable to check in with loved ones. Meanwhile, traffic on select platforms points to an emergent strategy of whitelisting.

Graph from NetBlocks showing network connectivity in Iran from January 2, 2025, to January 20, 2025. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity, ranging from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents the dates. The green line representing Iran's connectivity remains lower than normal most of the time period due to protests, with a sharp drop on the evening of January 8. The drop in connectivity aligns with protests across the nation. The minimum and current connectivity levels are indicated as 1% and 1%, respectively. The chart has a dark background with a red horizontal arrow labeled 'SHUTDOWN', indicates the period of disruption.

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

reading: "The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button"
https://paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/shadcn-radio-button/

— good thing Shadcn isn't the most popular [whatever it is] in React, right?

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

Saw a post on here early today that said "geopolitics used to be easy" because it was clear who the "good guys" were (US and Britain). And all we must do is go back to the time when Trump wasn't our president and things will sort itself out.

They literally did the thing. They did the go-back-to-brunch meme and I didn't even take the bait.

Edit: AND THEY DID IT ON MLK DAY

Close up of persons face. They're wearing sunglasses. In the reflection reads "Bitch what the fuck"

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jwz wrote:

<< facepalm >>

"Unfortunately, I don't know how to contact the xscreensaver upstream (couldn't find a public repository for this program), so I'm reporting this here. Perhaps the Debian package maintainer can help forward this upstream?"

This is the world we live in now, people.

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

At any rate, it helped to have a little meter running in my mind.

It also helped me not to think about my time on corporate social in absolute terms.

I think a lot of folks think about the enormous task and adjustments needed to delete these accounts and it's too much.

But reducing the meter? Now it's about attrition. It's about what can I do to keep that meter lower than it was yesterday? Maybe I move a group chat. Or I read some of the essay in my bookmarks tonight instead of scrolling.

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Boosted by jwz:
cazabon@mindly.social ("C.") wrote:

@mhoye @jwz

jwz gets worse than this on a regular basis. It's not just suggestions from people who don't understand the problem and can't be bothered to learn - he gets stuff where they're not even making their *own* useless suggestion.

The number of times he's posted a specific technical problem, only for Joe Rando to post some nonsensical (or at least non-obvious) long reply of what he should do, and then when asked to explain it says "I don't know what it means, I asked Claude and this was its response".

I don't even get how anyone's mental state can result in that approximating "helpful". I mean, "I don't understand the question you've been working on for days or weeks, so I pasted it into a search engine that had a confabulation module installed, it generated a statistically plausible set of words in response with no understanding of the problem and no connection to reality, and I copied and pasted that as a reply".

Dude, you're not helping. You're the opposite of helping. You're distracting and wasting time while accomplishing less than nothing.

I wouldn't believe (mostly) these people are out there if jwz didn't have them on display for the world to see.

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

Privacy is too abstract of a concern and is a poor motivator for springing people into action.

What helped me reduce my time on corporate social media, and then eventually deleting it, was assigning a value to my time spent scrolling.

Every time I saw an ad, I thought— that's another dollar I just gave Zuck.

Of course the going rate for 1 ad impression is far less, but consider what that ad represents—stock price, lobbying, data centers, power, influence. Maybe a dollar is about right.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
misty@digipres.club ("Misty") wrote:

This is what computing feels like.

Screenshot of an older Mac game. A simple, low-colour pixel drawing of a dog leaping into a computer. The computer and the space background look like clip art, while the dog is rendered in a simple MacPaint style.

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Boosted by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
AlicesAstroInfo@mastodon.cloud wrote:

Activity is dropping off dramatically as the darkness falls here on the West Coast. I don't think there's supposed to be a second peak on this storm, but keep an eye out and listen to the space weather experts.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
thiswomanswerk@blacktwitter.io ("Andrea wants [redacted]") wrote:

@fromjason Yes. I had a disagreement with someone on here back when Tyre Nichols was murdered; about needing to see the video footage to determine, idk, if it made sense for extrajudicial execution by gang (the police) violence?

Nobody's talking like that with Renee Good. She's not unworthy-of-life until proved worthy; She already always worthy and we're outraged right off the back at the loss of life before we have "all the facts."