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pratik@writing.exchange ("Pratik") wrote:
Phew! The crossposting from Pika to Mastodon using @echofeed worked without crossposting the last ten posts.
I cannot praise Echofeed enough. So simple to use yet so powerful.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
We happened to talk about Hitler and his pals on this week’s Do By Friday: https://dobyfriday.com/episodes/388
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jasonm@social.lol ("Jason :neobread_this_is_fine:") wrote:
These “woke” people and their
*checks notes*
caring about other people.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
The people who are now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two have links to the Heritage Foundation and its Project 2025.
Noah Peters is the author of the OPM Acting Director Charles Ezell’s January 27 memo (archive) providing guidance on the “Restoring Accountability To Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce” executive order, which is being described as the “Schedule F” order because it effectively reinstates that policy under a new name (“Schedule Policy/Career”). Peters also authored the January 20 memo (archive) from Ezell, which exploits loopholes to bypass limits on political appointments. Both of these memos are clear steps towards achieving a primary goal of Project 2025: to expand President Trump’s power, and to replace career civil servants with Trump loyalists.
As far back as 2023, The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 was recommending Peters for a position in Trump’s second administration. Peters had previously been appointed by Trump in 2019 as the Solicitor at the Federal Labor Relations Authority, where he “aided and defended Trump appointees’ anti-union FLRA policies that went against decades of the agency’s own precedents” according to Court Accountability Action and State Democracy Defenders Action.4 Peters returned to private practice in 2022, but recently quietly updated his LinkedIn profile to reflect a new title of “Senior Advisor” to the Office of Personnel Management. This appointment does not appear to have been announced anywhere else.
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Forty years ago. Jesus.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/29/i-should-tidy-up-more-often/
Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:
Severance fans/friends: I just migrated https://severance.wiki to its very own little server, and now the site runs as quickly as Milchick trying to thwart an OTC. Enjoy! #severance #wiki
Mastodon FeedGossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
@fromjason https://archive.org/details/SimpleSabotageFieldManualStrategicServicesProvisional/page/n3/mode/2up
here's a scanned copy for extra real-book verisimilitude.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
For anyone following, this is the section that really stood out:
https://arxiv.org/html/2412.19437v1#:~:text=3.2.2,to%2DAll%20Communication
...which builds on some really cool profiling and scheduling work:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
playdate@panic.com ("Playdate") wrote:
Heads up! Panic (makers of Playdate) is looking for a Web Services Engineer to maintain and expand our growing flock of Flask + Django web applications, and more.
The job is here in Portland, OR. We can also cover relocation if you're elsewhere in the USA. Panic is a small team with a lot of responsibility on each person, and we work best near each other. (Well, at least two days a week.)
Is this you? Or someone you know? Apply! (Or share!) 🙏 http://panic.com/jobs/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
(and no, none of those people spend their time in React if they have any say in the matter. The React ecosystem is a high-performer dead zone)
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Reading up on some interesting memory allocator work this AM, I was struck by how there only seem to be like a couple of dozen[1] people in industry that really understand this stuff. And you see the same thing in UI; only a small cohort actually at the top of the game in really making the system sing. And these people are *always* undervalued.
[1]: this is surely a gross underestimate, but it troubles me that I can't tell by how much
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Like, reading the deepseek paper, my overwhelming thought is "so wait, the secret sauce was...profiling the workload? Then deciding to program to the available hardware?"
I stare at the results of people carelessly composing UI systems without the faintest concern for how they will work in practice, but somehow imagined that wasn't how it's going in the rest of the industry. Woof.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The older I get, the more it seems that the rate at which we mint new programmers has sheered away from the rate at which we inspire people to want to learn about the computers they use.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Tesla’s Fourth-Quarter Earnings Report Sharp Drop in Profit - The New York Times
"The company, which is led by Elon Musk, said it made a profit of $2.3 billion during the last three months of 2024. That was a decline compared with $7.9 billion a year earlier, but 2023’s profit included a one-time tax benefit of $5.9 billion." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/business/tesla-earnings-elon-musk.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️🌈🖖🏽") wrote:
Yaasss that is how you do it! 🔥 https://www.comicsands.com/rampell-jennings-musk-salute?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:
this will likely be a recurring reminder as the weeks go by, but i'm so excited about this project. i have to share! (this is the first time i've been nervous to announce something on this side of the web!)
i'm combining my 10 years of journalism experience with my love for the #indieweb by launching GOOD INTERNET, a regular periodical magazine in both print and digital formats. and this is a non-profit, completely independent endeavor!
https://goodinternetmagazine.com/
ultimately, Good Internet will cover a lot of different aspects of the small web: unplugging from the corporate web, fighting #enshittification, migrating from data-harvesting corpo social media, creating your own personal website, using code and website-building as an art form, federation, and creating websites for fun. it will be approachable for beginners and enjoyable for seasoned indie web travelers!
the #smallweb can be hard to keep up with if you aren't "plugged in," especially if you want to find other hobby website owners, folks coding for fun, weird web projects, or artists taking back their digital ownership. it's overdue that this side of the web has an analog publication!
having a central publication about the decentralized parts of the personal web makes me even more excited to share this hobby with those who might not even know about it--all within beautiful, high-res, high-quality pages.
the idea here is to have a physical celebration of this hobby in addition to being informative, helpful, and accessible.
consider signing up for email notifications when we launch the first issue in may 2025:
https://goodinternetmagazine.com
(if you're interested in #writing an article or op-ed about this side of the web/personal websites, coding an interactive article, or want to know what that even means, send an email to hello@goodinternetmagazine.com! taking pitches for may 2025!)
#internet #socialmedia #personalwebsites #blogging #blog #print #magazine #writer #technology #tech #coding #programming #html #webdev #webdesign #web #smalltech #css #html #dev #web
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
"Over the last week, the guide has surged to become the 5th-most-accessed book on Project Gutenberg, an open source repository of free and public domain ebooks."
Here’s the direct link to the guide. It’s a fun read. https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/
Mastodon Feedvagina_museum@masto.ai ("Vagina Museum") wrote:
It's the most wonderful time of the year: #ThresholdDay! Did Janeway and Tom Paris fuck when they were giant space newts? We did our very best to answer this burning question https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/109774034927735223
Mastodon Feeddenschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:
i'm now hosting https://linkding.link for myself - primarily because the project name is just perfect. (it's german and literally translates to "link-thing")
also, thanks for making me aware of that, @jer (via https://fnordig.de/2025/01/21/my-default-apps-of-early-2025/)
Mastodon Feedxiann@mas.to ("Christiann ✨ sticky comics") wrote:
Taking a break from the #doomscrolling (stickycomics.com) #comic
Mastodon FeedLukeBornheimer@sfba.social ("Luke Bornheimer") wrote:
The Board of Supervisors unanimously rejected the appeal of the Mid-Valencia Curbside Bikeway Project, and construction of the curbside bikeways will begin on February 10 👏
Thank you to everyone who emailed and/or gave in-person public comment!
For more, follow @StreetsForward.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
My Feeds (OPML). Enjoy! https://fromjason.notion.site/My-RSS-Feed-fromjason-xyz-18a35fd1db8d801f9622c7a89e386c5b?pvs=73
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Cool goop found on space rocks.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/29/soup-in-spaaaaace/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
jon@henshaw.social ("Jon Henshaw") wrote:
Slow 👏 to @404mediaco and @jasonkoebler for this headline:
“OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us”
https://www.404media.co/openai-furious-deepseek-might-have-stolen-all-the-data-openai-stole-from-us/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
ellie@ellieayla.net ("Ellie") wrote:
If the maps near you are kinda bad, don't show useful cat paths or bike racks or awesome local ramen shops, you can fix it.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/
Or if you want to get you feet wet just fixing the open-hours and name of a cafe, https://every-door.app/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Using the new Reeder app. Everything is fine except I can't find where I can export my OPML file? Does it no longer provide that ability or am I just missing it?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
austinross@social.lol ("Austin :spinning_pinwheel:") wrote:
📱 Why don’t developers test their apps in Zoomed Mode? Are people with poor eyesight just expected to guess what text is between the ellipses that peppers the screen?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
No one wakes up thinking “gee I hope China saves us from US Predatory Capitalism(tm)”
We got here because everything is a scam, grift, trap, monopolized, private equitized, or venture capitalized. And the people we elect to save us can’t agree on anything except protecting their own pockets.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
raucao@kosmos.social ("Râu Cao ⚡") wrote:
Oops.
