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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Hey, US TikTok users, did you know that one of the worst of the vile techlords -- Larry Ellison, who's totally in bed with Trump -- now has control of your personal data from that site?

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/tech/tiktok-us-deal-closes

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

Whatever else you take from this, the point @acollierastro makes here at ~19 minutes is essential. If you don't practice it, you can't do it:

https://youtu.be/7pqF90rstZQ?si=7odo7QbrsckPymWV

Back when I did a *ton* of interviewing at Google, folks sometimes asked what they should do before going for interviews; my answer (for working programmers) was "take a couple of weeks, or a month of weekends, and just write complete programs, end to end, that do something."

Complete programs. End-to-end. That do something.

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

RE: https://mastodon.world/@ApostateEnglishman/115947722406231307

Oh, this is good.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
sarahjeong.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("sarah jeong") wrote:

going into people's houses without a warrant. applying for a warrant to investigate a person they already killed. just wild fucking frontiers in 4th amendment law

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e62gb2ushvtvjvqcbrxeaw2n/post/3md4wcjv4qs2j

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

What we’ve seen in Minnesota should make you furious, but it should also inspire you.

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• video: 83646f28a157368e.mp4

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

haha wait I can embed the planet gifs directly into the map. Also, I love Iron Vault :P

#StarForged #Obsidian #TTRPG

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• gifv: quick micro-tour of Iron Vault with Excalidraw

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

uv is amazing. Makes Python as easy to run as Rust.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
jdforrester ("James Forrester") wrote:

Bike in the snow

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

pivot to ai is too long winded, time to get back to basics https://vibegraveyard.ai/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
ned@beige.party ("Ned Yeung") wrote:

"Take a moment to look at the inhumanity captured in this extraordinary photo running on the front page of tonight's Minneapolis Star Tribune. It shows federal immigration agents immobilizing a protester on the ground and spraying chemical irritant directly into his face. The scene reminds me of the brutality used against civil rights protesters in the 1960s. We look back at those old photos and wonder how the authorities could have behaved so savagely; many years from now, young Americans will look at these photos from 2026 and wonder how anyone could have justified shooting a woman in the head as she tried to drive away, arresting 5-year-old schoolchildren on the street, or holding a man down and spaying chemicals into his face.
Thanks to the Star Tribune reporters and photographers for documenting this work; they create accountability, they make democracy work, and they make all of us in journalism proud."

#uspol #fascism #hate #hatecrime #occupation #minnesota

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
wackJackle@norden.social ("Weltzeitgeist") wrote:

Fuck, I have to change my opinion on leaf blowers.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

If Manu Moreale had chosen to blog about the specific moral false dichotomy that he came across instead of reaching for the most ridiculous example imaginable, he wouldn’t have half of the IndieWeb questioning his moral judgement.

Just blog about real stuff! No one will get lost in the meta-noise of bad examples, and we can have real conversations about real things. There’s no reason to hide behind made-up stuff. Why turn to an analogy when the real deal is right there?

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:

This post bugs me on multiple levels. Like why the shit would you reach for what he did as an example? I can think of a billion other examples of Godwin's law. Like I said elsewhere, I will never understand why oppression and oppressive acts is always a fucking intelectual masturbation exercise for these tech people. Trust me bro, not once did I read your example of Godwin‘s law and think, you know what? This really has some intellectual heft! Moral false dichotomies – Manu https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/moral-false-dichotomies

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

The situation in Minneapolis is not like anything we’ve seen before.

It’s not just an uptick in raids.

It is a full-scale military occupation, confronting you wherever you go.

You can’t drive more than a couple blocks without seeing roving bands of cars with tinted windows containing masked men in full military equipment:
helmets, balaclavas, long guns, tactical equipment, crowd control munitions.

They pull up to bus stops, leap out, grab a brown person, shove them in the car, then speed away.

They don’t check papers.

Some people have been held in detention centers for weeks before it came out that they were US citizens.

We are witnessing a #racial #pogrom.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
orci ("J.R. Orci") wrote:

New masks, same assholes. #FuckICE

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

She also plays saxophone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyBhtbqk-Z4

(So jealous. I can't even play kazoo (due entirely to my own poor life choices).)

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

Here's a pretty little song I stumbled across. Rachel Mazer's "Counting Flowers":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzDtTTBqpt4

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

I'm beyond excited to share that #Teardown2026 will be happening 24-26th July.

We're in a cool new space too: the Jupiter on Burnside. Our 60s mall era is dead, long live our 60s motel era.

I'll miss the mall but it'll be nice to run an event somewhere with furniture and internet.

Ticket sales, calls for participation + volunteers, and general info on the @crowdsupply website: https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2026

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jaykuo@universeodon.com ("Jay Kuo") wrote:

As the Trump regime feels itself increasingly backed into a corner, it’s reacting in the way it best knows how: with lies, distractions and smears. That provides a clue about what to expect over the next few months. Read the Status Kuo, link in the replies.

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

predicting 0°F tonight, with a high of 9°F tomorrow. lovely.

Boosted by jwz:
MiBaWi@m.ai6yr.org ("Michael Barthel / MiBaWi") wrote:

#Minnesota - ICE out Minneapolis - statewide general strike against the ICE terror! Heartwarming at -10º Fahrenheit / -23º Celsius

Boosted by jwz:
Emmeline@hoosier.social wrote:

This is what #generalstrike and people power look like in #minneapolis. #news #Politics

Boosted by jwz:
malvarma@tiny.tilde.website wrote:

@davidgerard has sam altman even tried prompting chatgpt to solve their money problems? He should try:

"Write me a plan to pull off the largest IPO in history with a heavily indebted and unsustainable business."

"Pretend you're the CEO of OpenAI and write a letter to Donald Trump to convince him that shovelling billions of US tax dollars into my failing company will make it more likely for him to become king of Greenland."

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

New #Textures album sounds decent. I like it more than what I heard from them before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8xJv-WGZgo

#NP #NowPlaying

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
johnzajac@dice.camp ("John") wrote:

"If there’s a conspiracy, it’s the entire city conspiring to be free."

👏

https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/from-minneapolis-ive-never-seen-unity

Boosted by jwz:
mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

Only goons, henchmen, and stooges would take orders from these bozos. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
teahands@mastodon.gamedev.place ("TeaHands") wrote:

Switched to Linux this week (yeah yeah, better late than never) and I've had to install a load of Steam games just to check everything's working properly you know, and long story short I'm once again addicted to Mini Metro.

What a game.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

I’ve been working on this for a while, but let’s make it official: I started a little Tumblr-like microblog about software craft and quality!

You can sign up via RSS or a weekly newsletter digest. There’s already almost two months of content in there, if you just want to check it out.

Hope you like it!

https://unsung.aresluna.org/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha 🇪🇺 :mastodon:") wrote:

"Little Owl' by Harriet Mead, English wildlife artist specialising in metal sculptures #WomensArt #owl 🦉

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ AN EVENING WITH BLACK FLAG at DNA Lounge tonight: Fri Jan 23, 8pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2026/01-23.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #aneveningwithblackflag #blackflag #hardcore #punk #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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