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jwz wrote:

Schrödinger's Mask.

Aren't masks amazing? When it comes to disease, their use is an imminent threat to an officer's health and safety, but when it comes to accountability, their absence is an imminent threat to an officer's health and safety.

Who could have predicted this outcome except everybody:

LA County's mask ordinance is now in effect, but law enforcement and LA officials are declining to enforce it against ICE:
https://jwz.org/b/yk17

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

Found a powerful markdown tool for the terminal! 🔥

📚 **ekphos** — A markdown research TUI inspired by Obsidian.

💯 Supports Vim keybindings, inline images, wiki links, graph view, fuzzy search & more!

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/hanebox/ekphos

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #markdown #notes #research #devtools #terminal #obsidian

Attachments:

• gifv: e8da1cfbe91489aa.mp4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
lily@glaceon.social ("9579cfc2-3e7d-35c7-af3b-cddda26f71bd") wrote:

birds have language and can even lie. sometimes while being chased by a predator, they will cry out about a different predator, in order to make the thing chasing it hide.

https://youtu.be/doj%5Fwt9ER%5FQ

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

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

With a little bit of heavy-handed monochrome processing

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

For anyone surprised at Moxie Marlinspike pushing an 'AI' thing, remember that the last big thing he pushed was a cryptocurrency integrated in Signal.

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

From a year ago, a raven perches on the Hveragerði church. #iceland #bird #birds #raven

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
legoktm@wikis.world ("Kunal Mehta") wrote:

Happy 25th to #Wikipedia, the largest repository of knowledge in human history!

To celebrate, I wrote for @freedomofpress about how Wikipedia would not exist today without the robust free speech and press protections in the U.S., and that we need to sustain and expand them if we want to survive for another 25 years.

https://freedom.press/issues/wikipedias-25th-birthday-proves-the-power-of-free-speech/

#FreeSpeech #PressFreedom #Wikipedia25

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

Thursday is the new Friday

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
jdapena@mastodon.online ("José Dapena Paz") wrote:

#Chromium embedders: imagine full extensions support, on your lightweight //content-only product. No more complex rebasings or //chrome hacks! Just clean APIs without chrome::Profile. Shin, from @igalia , has been working on this.

From an #Android prototype to a demo in the @WolvicXR browser, landing upstream in //extensions. A path to real extensions on TVs, cars, and custom #browsers. Read more in her new blog post! ✍ https://blogs.igalia.com/mshin/2026/01/13/our-journey-to-support-extensions-for-embedders/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social ("mandy brown") wrote:

“Burnout shifted its meaning: from a symptom experienced by people struggling to change society to one experienced by people trying too hard to succeed within it.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/loss-of-an-ideal

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

'"Filmmakers" should NOT be Peddling AI Cinema Studios'

> They're using the the platform to push you shit. Shit you don't need, but now they're pushing shit that is going to destroy your fucking livelihood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqqT4gqB5UQ

> This is poison to the entire film-making community

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
placebo@mastodon.ie ("Aleksei☃️") wrote:

What I have to deal with every day.

#catsofmastodon

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

Went to see my mastodontist today. He recommended a new toot paste, and encouraged me to FOSS every day.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Alexis@beepboop.one ("Alex Daily! :frl:") wrote:

Like my ancestors before me, I hate tradition.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
MOULE@moule.world ("MOULE :Logo:") wrote:

I imagine the Fediverse like a decentralised collective of cooperative-run libraries covered in moss and fungi, that are safe and accepting spaces for all except bigots, where people can infodump to each other about the most specific topics, are quiet sensory safe havens, have FOSS on every computer, and have a cat café that's also a repair café.

Outside, hundreds of bicycle racks line the walkable, breathable arcade by the community garden, with thought-provoking street art replacing ads.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/115893929232236164

Also available as video on PeerTube:

https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/sUzA6ZCSW7bv16DGuwRg5L

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

A former window.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #abandoned #decay #window #concrete

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

Beam me up.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/15/doubly-fortunate/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dabeaz ("David Beazley") wrote:

The thing is, there's a big difference between code written by someone who doesn't know what they're doing versus code written by someone who doesn't care about what they're doing.

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

Nazis just stole accepted American policy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/15/shes-right-you-know/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4x4KM%5FQESTw

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“If users notice your software, you’re already a loser – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/10/if-users-notice-your-software-youre-already-a-loser/

> If you’re adding sparkly icon “now with AI!” features to your software, you’re in quarterly driven failure mode

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

Fed up with all the Nazi shit on the internet.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/15/remember-when-democrats-were-criticizing-people-for-calling-republicans-nazis/

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

I need US politicians to pay attention to the Polish PM's warning here:

> “an attempt to take over [part of] a Nato member state by another Nato member state would be a political disaster,” and “the end of the world as we know it.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jan/15/european-nations-troops-greenland-trump-europe-live?CMP=share%5Fbtn%5Furl&page=with%3Ablock-6968c73e8f0876b1bcdd3b7e#block-6968c73e8f0876b1bcdd3b7e

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
alice_i_cecile@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Alice I. Cecile") wrote:

With our even-numbered Bevy release comes a new #bevy Jam! This is a nine-day jam: see the full rules at https://itch.io/jam/bevy-jam-7 😄 ⁠The jam-theme-voting channel over on Discord (discord.gg/bevy) is now open for theme suggestions!

Timeline:
January 14: theme suggestion opens
January 24: theme voting opens, theme suggestions close Feb
7: theme selected and jam starts
Feb 15: jam concludes!

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

Google: "We found that this gambling ad doesn't violate our policies against gambling ads, but you can personalise your ad experience to block the kinds of ads you don't want."

Me: "So, can I block gambling ads?"

Google: "No, we don't allow gambling ads so a toggle to block gambling ads doesn't make sense. What are you talking about?"

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

“Trump Is Risking a Global Catastrophe - The Atlantic”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-greenland-risk-global-conflict/685616/?gift=%5FIXYI0Wrwnxuvm7JZ0fMfHIS37bmW6qvKfwBJXB4%5FF0

> If Trump makes good on his recurring threat to use force to gain the island, he would not only blow apart America’s most important alliance; he could set in motion a series of events that could lead to global catastrophe—or even to World War III.

The past few days has been like living through the Cuban missile crisis except the Soviets don't seem to realise what they're doing and keep joking around

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

show's over folks! emerge from the woodwork and continue using X

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
StefanEJones@dice.camp ("Stefan Edward Jones") wrote:

3/ Stop worry about what you would do if you were a 1930s German. Figure out what you can do NOW:

https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/goodtrouble/

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/organize-trump-musk-putsch/

https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/hold-steady/

https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/organize/

https://commonslibrary.org/defending-democracy-with-humor-and-dilemma-actions-tactics/