Mastodon Feed: Posts

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
nash@labyrinth.social wrote:

a lot of fedi platforms are designed to be alternatives to existing mainstream platforms, which is fine. but what I wanna see is more experimental fedi platforms!! I wanna see ones that play with all sorts of new ideas about how we can socialize online!

there's so much possibility once you start thinking beyond the basic text/image/video post feed format. we could come up with some seriously funky stuff, & it would be FUN

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

I love how recipes start with "preheat the oven" — vastly underestimating my oven and over estimating my cooking ability

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

HMRC / GOV.uk developers are saints.

Good ol' multi-page accessible HTML forms. No front-end bullshit. No "developer experience" blocking my progress. No design dribbbled with a 10px grey-on-grey font.

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

“What Trump really wants with AI - by Brian Merchant”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/what-trump-really-wants-with-ai

> Trump is in fact overseeing an enormous state project, directly and indirectly shepherding national resources towards an industry that’s in turn led by a handful of tech giants.

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

I have a tax return and other business loose ends to tie up, but also someone is wrong on the internet. I am paralysed for choice.

What is my 3rd option to escape? (wrong answers only.)

Boosted by jwz:
MatWright ("Mat Wright") wrote:

Vegas taking a 27% cut by valuing the Canadian dollar at par is giving me the giggles - this is bordering on one of the most successful boycotts in history - FAFO you fucking US fascists - we are NEVER coming back

#CDNpoli #Vegas #USpol #USpolitics

https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/we-miss-our-best-friends-las-vegas-hotels-accepting-canadian-dollar-at-par-to-spark-tourism/

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
rauschma@fosstodon.org ("Axel Rauschmayer") wrote:

*Everyone* is in “Avengers: Doomsday”…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZmKPBLN7BM

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

You've got to be kidding me!

I literally blogged yesterday about spam and the AI non-consent problem, now GitHub are spamming.

https://dbushell.com/2026/01/22/proton-spam/

Boosted by jwz:
midacre@mas.to ("Michael Crews") wrote:

Coprolites aren't my favorite fossil but they're a solid number two.

#dadjokes #paleontology

Boosted by jwz:
hannah@posts.rat.pictures ("historic drystone sheep dyke") wrote:

Looks like they added geopolitical news to the weather widget

Boosted by jwz:
TomSullivan@mstdn.social ("Tom Sullivan") wrote:

Navy vet responds: "If I had done this to an enemy prisoner under my control in the warzone, or if as an officer I had allowed this by any man under my command, I would still be in prison right now. This is the American government doing it to an American."
t.co/yS20aOweAH
https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426

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

such a lovely evening

Boosted by jwz:
20002ist@thepit.social ("Hoarse e-Books") wrote:

Trust the New York Times to come up with the most dystopian, morally repellent take on a cultural phenomenon.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
vga256@tomodori.net wrote:

happy to belatedly discover this full 2.5h interview with Newton software engineer Steve Capps which goes into serious depth on the NewtonOS development and history of apple

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsaGx0loR3M

(conducted by the director of the Love Notes to Newton doc)

#newton #macintosh #vintageApple

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

https://people.well.com/user/jeffs/humor/jargon/graphics/73-10-31.png

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

Crunchy Lives!

https://people.well.com/user/jeffs/humor/jargon/A/ad-hockery.html#crunchly73-10-31

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

In 2026, if you're an experienced tech commentator, I simply cannot fathom how you can give an app developer the benefit of the doubt for exclusively using X as their platform of choice.

There is one single accurate assumption that you can make about those people: they don't mind hanging out with nazis.

That's it.

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

since a random change in administrators at RIT seems to have killed off the account I used there to archive things, I have reposted "The Hacker Jargon File" on my account at https://www.well.com/~jeffs/humor/jargon/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
requiem@masto.hackers.town ("requiem 🦫") wrote:

Someone sponsored a pile of copies of 1984 at our local indie bookstore so they could give them away for free.

They were gone in less than 3 hours.

I found out this morning that another anonymous person donated $500 to restock the supply.

I assumed anyone who wanted to read 1984 would have done so by now, but clearly that's not the case.

Good news for the community, good news for the bookstore, just plain good.

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

That got me thinking: could you use this to re-program genAI agents? Turns out: hell yes.
https://ike.io/open-a-folder-all-your-agents-are-mine/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
cory@follow.coryd.dev ("Cory Dransfeldt :demi:") wrote:

@slightlyoff it’s all nonsense — one of the most blocked analytics URLs on my devices was embedded in Apple’s books app. I built a PWA to read ePubs instead. https://follow.coryd.dev/@cory/115941664863348895

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

Every app store justification is an admission:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-22/apple-says-ec-is-using-political-delay-tactics-on-app-changes-to-impose-fines

See also:

https://infrequently.org/2026/01/naked-power/

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

Tesla didn't remove the Robotaxi 'safety monitor' – it just moved them to a trailing car
https://electrek.co/2026/01/22/tesla-didnt-remove-the-robotaxi-safety-monitor-it-just-moved-them-to-a-trailing-car/

And yet it's working: the stock went up again.

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

The University of Minnesota is pretending neutrality about the statewide protest tomorrow. Screw that.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/22/the-least-we-can-do-do-better-university-of-minnesota/

Boosted by jwz:
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Every representative who voted yes voted for more brutalization of our neighbors, more kidnapping of our children, more trampling of our rights, and more murder from this government.

The House had a clear opportunity today to impose meaningful restrictions on ICE and Border Patrol, and it failed.

Boosted by jwz:
spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon.ie ("Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives") wrote:

Of course Trump's Board of Peace logo is AI slop. Very few nonsensical things have ever made more sense than this.

Boosted by jwz:
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

While ICE is killing innocent people, teargassing babies and pastors, and kidnapping our neighbors to ship them off to foreign torture prisons, seven House Democrats just voted with the GOP to give the regime’s secret police even more funding.

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

I love this thought from @gruber, writing about how Democrats need to stop acting incrementally (if at all): “The only way to counter ‘move fast and break things’ is to move fast and fix things.”

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jeridansky@sfba.social ("Jeri Dansky") wrote:

Just called my representative to plead that he vote against funding DHS, given all the atrocities we've seen from ICE, and the staffer taking my call said he did indeed plan to vote against the bill providing such funding.

If you're in the US and haven't made such a call, you might want to do it *now* before the votes happen.

#uspol #DHS #ICE #Congress

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

I have connived my way into using a Mac for tech writing again at work, so I am going to try swapping Emacs’s meta key back to left Option from Command, letting Command behave like a Mac Command key again. (I couldn’t do the equivalent on Windows before.)