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Boosted by jwz:
gnu_ebooks ("GNU ebooks") wrote:

people: we want macbook but repairable

framework: gotcha, thinkpad but fascism

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

GNOME can make middle click the AI button

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems."

From Nanna Inie and me in Tech Policy Press on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language in the discourse about so-called "AI".

https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bsletten ("Brian Sletten") wrote:

Loki hopes you’re ok and have a great weekend. He thinks you need a break.

Pic by @KNS.

#weekend #dogs #dogsofmastodon #norwichterrier #norwichterriersofmastodon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Yehuda@turtleisland.social ("Yehuda TurtleIsland.social") wrote:

The Oglala Sioux Tribe just announced that ICE abducted and disappeared 4 tribe members from Minneapolis.
(alt-txt divided over 2 of same images)
#Native #Indigenous #ICE #CBP #Felon47

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

Montana family preserves more than 1,000 years of Blackfeet history

Web:
https://www.ktvq.com/community/out-and-about/montana-family-preserves-more-than-1-000-years-of-blackfeet-history

Archive:
https://archive.ph/IEfWl

#WorldHistory
#USHistory
#MTHistory
#Montana
#History
#BSTS
#Fourosix
#MontanaToday
#histodons

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

okay, I think I finally have a Character (PC & NPC) store/load worked out and tested, using mongoDB, so the gradually emerging code for my "Galaxy Simulator" project can begin persisting stuff.

#Programming #Starship #Simulation

Boosted by jwz:
kellyromanych ("KellyAnn Romanych (she/her)") wrote:

Washington, D.C. — Congressman Shri #Thanedar will introduce the Abolish #ICE Act, legislation that would dismantle the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and end its current enforcement authority.

#USpol #AbolishICE

https://thanedar.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-shri-thanedar-to-introduce-abolish-ice-act

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

What's the difference between an archivist and a digital packrat?

That's not a set up to a joke someone please tell me because lol

Raindropio really is an amazing bookmarking app. My fav feature is every page I bookmark, Raindrop will archive the page for me automatically.

Sometimes, I organize my bookmarks FOR FUN HELP

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

Anyone have Stephen Colbert's email address? lol

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

Side note: that 70 death figure is way low since #ICE releases people they expect will die soon to keep the death toll low 🫠

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

:chef: Two brand new DNS Kitchen pages:

1. About - https://dns.kitchen/about
2. Stats - https://dns.kitchen/stats

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

If fucking Mike Masnick can do it (finally) so can you.

Say the thing. Say the thing. #SayTheThing

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/08/abolish-ice-before-they-kill-again-impeach-trump-noem-before-they-incite-more-murder/

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verge ("The Verge") wrote:

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards https://www.theverge.com/policy/859902/apple-google-run-by-cowards

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

The people with the biggest microphones aren't doing the thing. I love a good pithy monologue. But if it doesn't end with "abolish ice, fade to black," you're wasting our fucking time, man.

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

I'm just saying, these people died for us so we could have a tangerine during lockdown. No one came to save them.

And now we're hunting them down like animals. And no one can do shit about it because we gave ICE far too much power and money.

And for what? #AbolishICE. Say it motherfuckers. Say it.

https://time.com/5823491/undocumented-immigrants-essential-coronavirus/

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

I don't ever mean to diminish anyone's oppressed identities.

Just that, if 70 white women died in detention, if we found out that others were issued forced sterilizations, there'd be riots in the Hamptons.

https://theintercept.com/2020/09/15/hysterectomies-ice-irwin-whistleblower/

zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

I will not be participating in open source for the foreseeable future. Maybe at some point I'll come back. It's been my hobby for a long time. But it is clearly no longer a community that wants me here, or that has a shape where I would like to participate in.

I'll probably go touch some grass, too. Social media has been a lot.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Jdm2@boriken.social ("jdm2 🇵🇷") wrote:

@fromjason the first point, I already had a conversation with someone who was super interested in that Myspace HTML/CSS use. This person was born not long after the Myspace boom.

Not sure if it’s because of the DIY aesthetic or a less business-like web. Or both. Good call.

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

Seeing a lots of famously micro-step left-of-center white dudes getting real long in the tooth towards #ICE suddenly.

Which, fine, great-great-great. Love to see it.

But come on Stephen Colbert. Let's get it poppin' Gruber. Say the thing. Call for ICE to be abolished. Finish the damn job.

Because if it's unjustified death that riles you up. Boy, do we have some catching up to do.

https://americanoversight.org/resource/deadly-failures-preventable-deaths-in-u-s-immigration-detention/

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

Curtain call.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/arts/music/washington-national-opera-kennedy-center.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.DFA.Z4KU.Z7uxkFDrwgIK&smid=url-share

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
amydiehl@mstdn.social ("Amy Diehl, Ph.D.") wrote:

AI-generated porn is new tax on women’s presence online and in the public sphere, a tax that women must pay with their dignity. These tools affect women’s civil rights by making the public sphere hostile and intimately degrading to women at a massive scale. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/09/grok-undressing-women-children-us-action

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social wrote:

One of the ways I'm dealing with AI slop at work is that when I'm giving feedback on the work I'm making sure to never assign the responsibility of the bad code to the AI. I'm directly saying that "this change that YOU made needs to be corrected". I'm always assigning the output of the AI to the person who put me in the position of reviewing the work. It is their responsibility to read the code that they're trying to review, they are responsible for 100% of the code, so they also get 100% of the blame when it's bad. If a change is confusing or nonsensical I'll ask "why did YOU make this change?". I'll never ask why an AI made a change, that we cannot know. All we can know is why someone thought it was acceptable to ship garbage, and we can assign them the responsibility for the garbage that they're willing to ship

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

This piece by Elizabeth Lopatto is a huge service to us all. It cleary and searingly says the true thing (even if in question form): Apple and Google's claims that they should rule our phones *because they can be trusted to* are bullshit. Always have been. And the truly caustic thing is that the corruption eating these companies is eating our democracy too:

https://infrequently.org/2025/10/the-app-store-was-always-authoritarian/

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

The Verge is actually doing it. Actually connecting the dots between the fascistic tendencies of app stores with the profit motives of their proprietors.

FINALLY.

The open web has been roadkill in the profit games the mobile duopoly has set up, muscled out of view with policies and choices that were designed to leave no fingerprints. But we can all see it clearly now:

https://www.theverge.com/policy/859902/apple-google-run-by-cowards

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Bambu Lab: "We didn't ban third-party slicers, we just restricted the API so you have to use our proprietary software."

Same energy as "We didn't ban repairs, we just glued the screws shut and copyrighted the screwdriver."

#3dprinting

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

My office wall is more soothing than anything else in Minnesota.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/09/stare-at-my-wall-with-me/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4NHngkXLHM

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

And to be clear, not saying Apple are the good guys here. Just that their hardware success, especially with the M series silicon, Apple has perhaps stunted the realization of cloud-dependent devices.

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

For the second one, a little context for my thinking:

I think if it weren't for Apple and a few boutique hardware companies, mainstream consumers would be on Chromebooks or similar thin-client devices. Everything cloud dependent!

And I think if presented with an opportunity, opportunists will surely opportune. If there's an opening to legislate away our local compute, they'll take it.

Finally, i think our media would run with an AI-assisted attack narrative. Even if it's hyperbole.

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

So I've literally run my shoes down to the breaking point. They held for 650 miles which I find acceptable. Also really glad Altra still makes this exact model, so I didn't have to start researching another brand from scratch. #running