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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115967085240217609

“[H]e made an argument for tolerating Nazi rhetoric in our public discourse and it’s obvious from the discourse I saw in my feed reader – mostly from micro.blog accounts – and my replies, quite a few people found the argument compelling.”

It’s astonishing how many people will make excuses for their online heroes. Manu can advocate for Nazi shit because people enjoy his interviews. Manton can support bigots because people enjoy his software.

*Fuck that.* Stop covering for terrible people.

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

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/115967431998954575

Predictably, this film is also drawing negative reviews from people who would really prefer not to have the "AI" narrative challenged. It's informative (and entertaining) to see what the criticisms from such quarters are.

One review is headlined "‘Ghost in the Machine’ is Already Behind the Times" ... which is particularly hilarious because the film does an amazing job of tracing the historical roots of today's "AI" ideology.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"If “AI” is actually more expensive than paying actual people actual wages that’s still a good investment for capital because it is about breaking up the structures, networks and organizations that help workers organize and fight for labor standards and fairer wages."

(Original title: Winning the wrong game)

https://tante.cc/2026/01/25/winning-the-wrong-game/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
oantolin@mathstodon.xyz ("Omar Antolín") wrote:

There is much truth to this post about about #math textbooks.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com ("Laura Kalbag") wrote:

My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website.

https://accessibilityforeveryone.site

The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.

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

The evolutionary science here is garbage, but I respect the celebration of weirdness.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/27/dont-be-afraid-to-get-weird/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

this is so self evidently stupid i don't really know how to approach writing about it https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations

how deliberately ignorant of everything would you have to be to think this was a good idea?

this ignorant i s'pose

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

‘Nick Sortor, a pro-Trump influencer with 1.4 million followers on X, incorrectly identified Mr. Pretti, a U.S. citizen, as an unauthorized immigrant. Jack Posobiec, a Trump loyalist with 3.3 million followers on X, falsely described Mr. Pretti as having “run up on police” and drawn a gun… Photos of different men — dressed in drag or shirtless at a street festival — were wrongly identified as Mr. Pretti and shared widely.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/us/minnesota-shooting-false-posts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

That streetcorner gang of thugs is going to lose their leader. Good riddance!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/27/gruppenfuhrer-bovino-slinks-away/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
celesteh@hachyderm.io ("Charles ☭ :trans: is a Green") wrote:

I don't care if Monday's blue
Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too
We all know just what to do
Today we dump github.

Its Microsoft and they're real bad
Their AI slop it makes me sad
But we can act when we get mad
Today we dump github.

Don't be silent don't be meek
Nows the time we've got all week
We can find just what we seek
Today we dump github.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
PaulWay@aus.social wrote:

Hey #opensource and #freedom lovers in #australia . You need to hear about @hackuador 's request to get the source code for the MyGov token app. https://openmygov.au/

He needs funding: https://www.pozible.com/project/mygov-app-source-code-foi-review-1/updates

Why does this matter? Because you trust the MyGov token app to secure your access to MyGov services. It _should_ be a very simple thing to do - there are already well known public standards for implementing this. But then, if that's the case, why are Services Australia claiming that this would 'endanger national security' to release the source code?

Let's hope it's as simple as: because someone might get embarrassed to have their code published.

Because at the moment it's going to cost Fraser a fair bit of money to get anywhere on the appeal to the Administrative Review Tribunal, especially when they decide that this is so secret that it has to be discussed under the "Intelligence and Security Jurisdictional Area".

Anything you can donate to help Fraser out helps here. Unfortunately, with Pozible, it's an all or nothing thing - either he makes his goal, or he gets nothing.

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
caitp@mstdn.social wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Free%5FPress/115966973642265146

"do we reduce the work week? do we let people retire earlier?" no, you have mass poverty, homelessness, and anger, and the only thing keeping your lilly rich asses safe is your faschist police state. congratulations shithead. and the handful of upper middle class assholes won't even be happy with it

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
vmaderna@mastodon.art ("Victoria Maderna") wrote:

An oldie for #goblinweek! I think this might be the first goblin I painted traditionally.

#MastoArt #goblin

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

Black and white January: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos/black-and-white-january-2026/

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

Books as signifiers, the paradox of tolerance, and Nazi bars: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/paradox-of-tolerance/

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

"Books as signifiers, the paradox of tolerance, and Nazi bars"

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/paradox-of-tolerance/

On how books work as social signals.

And a cursed book.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:

I've been trying to keep on top of remembering to put things in the shop (which is A Task, lemme tell you) so there's a bit of range at the moment. https://wagtails.art/shop/
If you ever see me post anything you like, feel free to inquire. A lot of the time if it's not in the shop I've just forgotten

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

Ah, nuts.

Sly Dunbar, reggae drummer and producer with Sly and Robbie, dies aged 73 | Music | The Guardian https://share.google/tq6si7vuCgLD6nK3U

Boosted by jwz:
chriswarcraft.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Chris Kluwe") wrote:

For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL: When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Now listen! Here's what we're going to do! We're going to decrease ICE funding, and increase police funding! We can't have any ICE abuse, but we need more police abuse!
🙂🙃

And I don't want any of you ungrateful Black men that have had guns pointed in your face for no reason to complain about it!🤡

We can't have ICE driving to elementary schools and following school buses! That is horrific! Barbaric! Abusive!

We're back to stationing police officers in elementary schools and on school buses! That way they can beat and arrest Black children without even having to drive over from the station!🤡

Boosted by jwz:
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Bovino is out, and others too, following outrage about them lying about what was on video on both Renee Good and Alex Pretti. This is right! Hold people accountable

But I don't want you miserable people pointing out that the first thing cops say after an incident is always a lie! That's different!

"Man dies after medical incident during police interaction."🤡

Black people are very fragile! Sometimes they just die while you're interacting with them!

https://www.famous-trials.com/george-floyd/2720-original-mpd-statement-on-floyd-a-medical-incident

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

Discord... but for the terminal enthusiasts 🔥

🌀 **Oxicord** — A Discord TUI client for power users.

💯 Instant startup, infinite scroll, Vim-style navigation, rich Markdown & more!

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/linuxmobile/oxicord

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #terminal #discord #cli #client #opensource

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

bit.ly, in 2026?

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

my browser dev tools usage is like:

90% DOM inspector
9% console tab
0.9% network tab
0.09% looking for the "Disable JavaScript" toggle

how bout you?

Boosted by jwz:
jsr@social.jsr.com ("John S Russell") wrote:

If saw a young mountain lion in person, there’s a Much higher than zero chance that instead of backing away slowly and calling for help, I would go pspspspsps.

Boosted by jwz:
jripley ("John Ripley") wrote:

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

Sometimes I remember that there are people who exist that make content for LinkedIn.

Attachments:

• video: Man dancing with a pillow under a white button up shirt. Wearing sunglasses. In a house with flower wall paper.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
tjw@social.lol ("Timothy Wood") wrote:

I do a double-take these days when someone mentions not wanting to get on "a list". Get on all the lists. Flood the lists. We're only weak when we are alone.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
ericmwalk@social.lol ("Eric") wrote:

🧑‍💻 Spent a little bit of time tonight fixing a "bug" that has been bothering me in my Omg.lol Publisher plugin. Now if you have existing Frontmatter items it will perserve it on posting instead of deleting them 🫣

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
freakazoid@retro.social ("Charles U. Farley") wrote:

#Isetta might be the perfect #retrocomputing project, at least in terms of architecture and capabilities. It can run #6502 and #Z80 code, has a graphical OS, and can run games with reasonable resolution & number of colors.

The biggest barrier to growing a larger community around it seems to be that all the components are surface mount, which scares a lot of people. One must also source all the parts other than the board, and a separate board is required for programming the flash chips. An assembled version would make it a lot more accessible.

Surface mount is definitely the way to go. It's really not that hard, and it dramatically increases options for parts and allows for a much smaller board.

Something like Isetta in a case with a keyboard, LCD screen, and battery would be awesome. LCD interfaces aren't much different from VGA.

https://hackaday.io/project/190345-isetta-ttl-computer