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

So the politician, Davíð Oddsson, who privatised Iceland, crippled our healthcare, was the architect of our 2007 financial crash, and who has for the past few years been the aggressively pro-Trump editor of Iceland’s largest newspaper just passed

The damage he did to our society will take generations to unwind

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

Good news from around the world that nobody is talking about!

France has banned influencers from promoting dangerous cosmetic surgery and extreme dieting products to protect young people

Iceland legally guarantees equal pay for men and women, making the gender pay gap illegal

In Thailand, recycled billboards become shelters and save stray dogs

At 13 years old, Lucas Jemel Janova became the first patient in the world to be cured of a terminal brain cancer.

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freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

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johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

speaking as someone old enough to remember, the Cold War was very bad and imminently apocalyptic in ways our life today isn’t, but the psychic damage was different. We didn’t *know* about Able Archer until years later. I’d say this is much more of a constant assault on dignity and sanity.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

the AI alignment problem is entirely a smokescreen designed to distract from the capital class alignment problem

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social ("ophiocephalic 🐍") wrote:

Added the category "Political Corruption" to the Meta Nightmares page of the Free Fediverse wiki.

Also, went through and converted all paywall-free archive.ph links to Wayback Machine links. So cool and fun when the archive site you've been relying on suddenly starts weaponizing its visitors' bandwidth!

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

Also, do any of you know of any Democrats talking about this? Specifically, how Epstein was super far-right and influential to the movement?

Ahhhggg it's frustrating to think that the Dems are taking direction from some centrist think tank warning them not to use words like "white supremacy" lest they make their base uncomfortable.

jwz wrote:

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn't Want Palantir.

By the way, I have just been informed that "Peter Thiel" is an anagram for "Hitler Pete". The articles, produced in collaboration with the...
https://jwz.org/b/yk37

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cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

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

Okay I'm gonna freestyle this thread if you don't mind haha. I have a lot of unorganized thoughts and observations that I need to just get out of me. Writing it out as a thread helps me :)

Anyway, we're exploring the frenzy of APIs that launched in the late 2000s, early 2010s, once big tech realized that our "social graphs" were valuable.

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

AI has exposed my most precious secrets!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/01/my-secrets-exposed/

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

@cassidy I was thinking about it the other day, and I think I have a theory why techies write these docs all of a sudden: because they work.

Maintaining docs for people (in corporate environment, at least) is often an exercise in futility, because nobody reads them. Nobody expects docs to be up to date or usefully written, so they usually just ask the maintainer directly instead.

With AGENTS.md you actually see how it affects things and you see that your effort is not in vain.

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

It involves quite a lot of data entry

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jococruise/post/DVWjN8uj6mZ

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

November 2007—Google declares war.

Facebook is a relatively small and scrappy startup, but it's growing exponentially.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg managed to dodge a billion-dollar Yahoo acquisition just a year prior. Now, he must prove to his board that Facebook is more valuable under his leadership. He's succeeding.

The release of Facebook Platform is causing a frenzy of development, and Google desperately needs something to slow this budding ecosystem down.

Google's about to release Open Social.

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flexion@oldbytes.space ("/usr/people/flexion") wrote:

When this dialog pops up on your SGI, simply enter 01/01/1970..

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ZenHeathen@beige.party ("ZenHeathen :canada:") wrote:

Okay, #RaidersOfTheLostArk. Opening segment, the idol up through flying home.

Indy's pilot with the float plane. Is his name "Jock" or "Jacques"?

And is his accent British or American?

He flips from "oi, das jus moy pet snake reggay" to "c'maaan, show a liddle backbone, will ya?" from one line to the next.

This has been bugging me for *forty-five years*.

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

It's been a wild couple of days, here, have a cat

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fzer0@nerdculture.de ("A Light Shining In Darkness") wrote:

Peter Thiel is an anagram of Hitler Pete and it fucking shows.

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hugh@ausglam.space ("Hugh") wrote:

Last night I went to a 70th birthday party and ended up sitting next to Frank.

Frank used to work as a computer programmer, because this was the 1970s to 90s and people had normal job titles that described real things, instead of "full stack orchestration engineer" or "solutions architect".

Anyway Frank's employer was the Victorian Attorney General's department. He wrote, updated and maintained in-house software for managing the court system, trial documentation managements and so on using low level languages.

The point of this post is that there was nothing special about this period of history that made it possible for government departments to write and maintain their own software to solve their own problems then but not now.

The complete lack of any in-house capacity to do this kind of thing is a political choice. Frank is a reminder of that.

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

The bot accounts sure are busy the last couple of days, I wonder why that is

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

A single Tomahawk missile costs $2M
- We just dropped $200–400M+ worth on Iran.
- We’ve spent $1–2 billion just in munitions today.
- $2 billion would run one small rural hospital for 65 years.
- $2 billion could fund PBS for 5 years..
- $2 billion could put 45,000 students through college.
- $2 Billion could feed 2.5 million kids lunch for an entire school year.

... Imagine how big the DOGE refund checks would be if they had audited the military!

joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts") wrote:

I just published a new design for https://plainvanillaweb.com. Let me know if you like it, or if you find any issues. I also wrote up some notes on the new design in this blog post: https://plainvanillaweb.com/blog/articles/2026-03-01-redesigning-plain-vanilla/

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

I... think my workspace crawler is done? Supports globs for matching members, centrally-defined dependency specs, plus centrally-defined dependency groups

I thought workspaces were gonna be a whole thing to implement, but I think integrating this into the resolver is actually not gonna be too bad.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
NilaJones@zeroes.ca wrote:

@fromjason @mekkaokereke

Yes exactly!

In my local leftist community it happened with the bipoc folks, then happened again with the disabled folks (bipoc and white together)

People joined, were welcomed at first, then ended up leaving en masse, because there was no genuine inclusion

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

If you can stomach it, listen to this #BehindTheBastards episode. Better yet, The whole series on Jeffrey Epstein. I need to hear what smart people think of all this lol

The series doesn't go into graphic detail. It's more focused on his influence.

A lot of this info is new but still, I don't see many talking about the fact that Epstein was a powerful influential white suprematist who helped spark the alt-right

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000751725194

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

The other question is how many more Epsteins are out there? The ones who aren't getting caught, who are operating under the radar like Epstein did for a time?

How many more Musks are out there? The white nationalists who aren't as loud as a Musk, but still have his level of influence?

Surely, it doesn't stop with these two.

Anyway, since there's so many similarities between them there should be a hashtag dedicated to exploring their relationship.

#MuskLovesEpstein

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orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

New TUI dropped for managing LLM traffic and GPU resources 🔥

🌀 **ollamaMQ** — Async message queue proxy for Ollama

💯 Per-user queues, fair-share scheduling, OpenAI-compatible endpoints, streaming

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/Chleba/ollamaMQ

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #gpu #llm #ollama #backend #proxy #terminal

Attachments:

• gifv: 62b21f305749f59d.mp4

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

At minimum, all this sure does confirm our suspicions about Musk buying Twitter.

If all these powerful people are manipulating what we see on the Internet, if they all have this ability to form narratives at scale, then buying the internet's largest town square sounds exactly like what a rich and powerful white supremacist would do.

Anyway, Jeffery Epstein and Elon Musk sure do share A LOT of similar ideals. Almost as if they were in constant communication. 😅

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

Im having trouble wrapping my head around all this myself. It's one thing to understand white supremacy in the abstract. It's another to get a glimpse behind the curtain to see how the sausage is made.

I think the big question here is— was Jeffery Epstein's power and influence over our culture/society an anomaly? Like, was it exceptional?

Or, can all of these powerful people pull the levers like he did? And if so, what the fuck is real? You know? lol I sound absurd.

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

We have a white supremacist / nationalist sex trafficking/pedophilia ring of powerful men who had an exceptional level of influence over our culture and society. All obsessed with eugenics, crypto/bitcoin, race wars, population, making white babies, and probably much more that hasn't been revealed yet.

This sounds like the type of conspiracy theory that would have you laughed out of any room just a couple years ago. 😅😅