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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
morel@pdx.social ("Morél") wrote:

New Years Resolution:

Separate myself *even more* from the mega-corps.

#NewYearsResolutions #Privacy

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:

Mood:
#caturday

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

The bird bath is frozen over.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
killyourfm@layer8.space ("Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒") wrote:

WHOO-HOO! Tickets for New Year's Eve acquired!
(Source unknown)

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
kibcol1049@mstdn.social ("Col") wrote:

The infuriating and stupid public transport slogan “See it, Say it, Sorted” is far better in Latin. Translated with the correct grammar, imperatives and participle, it comes out as the wonderfully appropriate: Vide, Dic, Rectum. (The Oldie)

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

Couple that with the meteoric rise of the Centre Party (our version of Trumpism), the "centrist" government's plans for the construction of a deportation camp, portrayal of foreign students as criminal cheats,, the collapse of the left, and Iceland's political outlook is—shakes a Magic 8 Ball—"outlook not so good"

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

A worrying development in Iceland in the past year was the fact that a group echoing the iconography, language, and tactics of Naziism started to march (sorry, "patrol") in Reykjavík. This is the first time since the 1930s that a group with that message was marching in Iceland's capital

In this year's "Skaup" a recurring joke was to portray this group as a group of loveable but misguided lads being annoying but largely harmless, more or less as sports enthusiasts "just being boys"

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
v@catgirl.cloud ("a little bit insane") wrote:

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

So, Iceland has a tradition of airing a parody sketch show on New Year's Eve, Skaupið, that mocks the past year. It's almost always quite dire, largely because Icelandic TV and pop music is generally quite dire.

But it is a decent gauge of what's getting normalised in Icelandic society each year.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
praxeology@post.lurk.org ("Hart of the Wud") wrote:

Imagine that it's 1925 and I am a clever, experienced mechanical engineer. I look around at the "tech" world of the time and notice some disturbing things:

- the rising power of literally fascist CEOs like Henry Ford
- What began as an inefficient, quirky novelty toy for rich people, the automobile, has become "normal" and started to dominate public space
- rising levels of fossil pollution
- the rising monopoly power of Oil companies
- dangerous levels of stock-market speculation
- brutal exploitation of people and environmental destruction in mining and rubber producing (mostly colonial) regions
- the use of debt to get less wealthy consumers to buy cars
- scores of innocent pedestrians injured or killed by automobiles
- urban planning that increasingly favors more expensive cars over other users of the streets
- declining sense of importance of shared forms of transportation like trolleys and trains

As an engineer, I look at all those rising issues and then I say:

"What we need is an Open Source Model-T Ford with some slightly better safety features."

In retrospect, that would seem like a pretty inadequate response.

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

I recently saw a post with a meme that had two skulls, one saying ‘yes, but that wasn’t real socialism’. The implicit argument was that socialism is often used as an excuse and ends up with totalitarian regimes that kill a load of people.

One thing struck me about that: there’s no right-wing equivalent. People on the left point at Stalin and Mao and say that they were people who used left-wing ideals to build authoritarian states and ended up killing a load of people. They weren’t real communists. But, at the same time, people on the right wear ‘Hitler was right’ t-shirts. There’s no claim that Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, and so on were not real embodiments of their ideals.

Both extremes have given rise to dictators who have committed atrocities, but the ones on the left have been roundly disavowed by the movements that they rode to power. Falling to authoritarianism is seen as a failure by the left, but as success by the right.

So I saw this meme as a pretty strong endorsement of the left. Probably not how it was intended.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
tess ("Dana Fried") wrote:

Anyway I'm very happy that people have started to realize that following dramatic and romantic storylines in sport can be a lot of fun - and is one of the primary ways women engage with women's sports.

Perhaps the networks will take notice and do a better job of covering and treating women's sports as something other than a lesser version of the men's game.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
yvan@social.lol ("Iván") wrote:

Having a blog of my own on the #indieweb was first in my bucket list for a long time.

A few weeks ago, I discovered omg.lol and realised that was exactly what I was looking for: an easy and painless door to my little piece of the internet.

Today, 1st January, I took the step and created my address: yvan.omg.lol. It is a WIP, but I am really looking forward to creating and posting some stuff 😄

Thanks @adam for making it so easy!

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

*** AI furniture intensifies ***

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6327-Wheeler-St-Philadelphia-PA-19142/10403865%5Fzpid/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
Pionir@masto.bike ("David S") wrote:

@fanf42 @pluralistic

Illustrating your final point:

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
yosh@toot.yosh.is wrote:

Related: https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
yosh@toot.yosh.is wrote:

When people say: "billionaires shouldn't exist" that isn't a call to violence. "Being a billionaire" isn't some inherent property in the way that say, skin color is.

Wealth taxation is a perfectly acceptable way of eliminating all billionaires. That doesn't mean billionaires stop being people, they just stop being billionaires.

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

The outlook for me, personally, is no better or worse than it was a year ago.

But globally?

Ugh.

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

One of the downsides to sitting down and attempting an end-of-year review, with a forward outlook, is that things genuinely look worse than I expected, and I say that as somebody people routinely label as a pessimist.

We're going to need much better coping mechanisms.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
eleanor@chaosfem.tw ("Eleanor") wrote:

PSA I guess: "No means no" applies to much more than just sex. If you ask if someone wants to do something, and they say no, then don't be pushy and say things like "oh come on, it's fun!" or repeatedly push them to do the thing. Maybe they know themselves better than you do?? If you're disappointed that they don't want to do the thing, then that's a you problem. All consent should be informed and enthusiastic regardless of the context.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
mihobu@social.lol ("Michael Burkhardt ☃️") wrote:

Today it’s been three years since I came to the #fediverse on social.lol. Thanks to @adam, members of the omg.lol community, and my many fedi-friends for making this a great place to be.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
vaurora@mstdn.social ("Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦") wrote:

I ironically stopped reading halfway through this article and then noticed the open tab and finished it. It's worth reading the whole thing.

"We used to read things in this country"

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack

Boosted by jwz:
augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

I'm feeling Dorothy Parker, who sent this telegram to her friend after a difficult year:

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Good news everybody, we’re now the ghosts of Twitter past!

jwz wrote:

Congratulations to New York from San Francisco for having a mayor who isn't in charge of your economy because his great-grandparents invented the world's most sad, basic-ass pants.

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

@davidgerard I can’t believe the British invented time

why would they do that to us

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stevelieber ("Steve Lieber") wrote:

Starting the new year by changing the HVAC filter because this house is not going into 2026 breathing last year’s bullshit.

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internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org wrote:

Welcome to the Public Domain, THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) 🦅💎

🕵️ Sam Spade is on the Case of the Disappearing Copyright as The Maltese Falcon novel joins the public domain.

Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/public-domain-day-2026/

#PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
JulianOliver ("Julian Oliver") wrote:

An enviro defense group reached out asking for my security take on using BigAI in activism work. After giving them the take (basically "don't"), I took liberty to talk about the ethics of using it in the first instance, especially in the context of human rights and climate activism.

Sharing here in case useful on the same grounds elsewhere.

#bigai #bigtech #climate #humanrights

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

Happy New Year from PST, everyone!