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The Network State Coup is Happening Right Now.
The Nerd Reich: Elon Musk's attempt to destroy the United States government isn't random chaos. It's the methodical execution of the "network state" blueprint. [...] Everything Elon Musk and his tech...
https://jwz.org/b/ykhD
Mastodon Feedvioletblue ("Violet Blue") wrote:
Good news: The #Covid Safety Handbook is now at more retailers including Bookshop (indie, direct)! Our project is going places!
* Covid, TB, influenza, and bird flu are spread through inhalation. Our book is a one-stop prevention, relationship, and health boundary tool for all.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
My "should I hit the block button" rule of thumb checklist includes "would I call security to have this person removed from the building if they wandered into my office and said this to me?". It's getting more use here than in my office.
Mastodon FeedHas "yt-dlp --cookies" stopped working for YouTube age-restricted, or am I just lucky?
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
You are about enter another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mindlessness.
Consider one Mr Alex Russell. He has a headache. He senses something off, but he can't put his finger on it. He's looking at web page. With a carousel. And some links.
As is the style, it has three copies of React (3), between the document and two (2) iframes. None of which is shared. It's served as 200 requests across 40 connections.
Or at least it's the style...in **the Twilight Zone**
Mastodon FeedBack in the first weeks of the COVID shutdown, I gathered a pantry of food, board games, puzzles and hand gel. I wasn’t sure what would happen.
A few months later, mass graves were dug in New York City, refrigerator trucks stored corpses at overflowing hospitals, and the names of 100,000’s of victims were published in the paper.
Here we are again in that weird period of dread before oncoming disaster: “The Before Times.”
Only this time, it’s not a virus. It’s hate. Still, no one is safe.
Mastodon Feedlavaeolus@fedihum.org ("Henrik Schönemann") wrote:
I'm once again asking everyone who got the order to delete or change stuff on their websites etc. pp.:
Before doing so, ping us.
Either at @SafeguardingResearch or me
Also via matrix: @schoeneh:matrix.orgWe also got a forum to organize:
https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/And a form to report URLs for #SafeguardingResearch:
https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/wL4NNzKWUfZ+GrPV4deTxNgr0MoAvLgOA33eLC2ATUU/See also re #TransLives:
https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113916747117497296Please boost and share widely!
cc @thgie @markuswerle
Mastodon FeedFinally got my emacs setup just how I like it.
TCV 250:
https://jwz.org/b/ykhB
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Do not hire WATs. Do not indulge WATs.They are not useful, and they are not helping. They will waste your time and burn your money.
Hire dirty, grubby, grime-under-their-fingernails engineers. People who are not afraid of a torch and a wrench. People whose primary skill is in *Iooking* at the world, then building to that reality. Folks whose disdain for developer tool marketing is palpable. Sceptics and dissenters. Hire *them*.
Mastodon Feedth@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:
@bruces the TCV250 might not be Olivetti's first desktop system, although i think it is the most aesthetic
Mastodon Feedjef ("Jef Poskanzer :batman:") wrote:
Supermodels of Dune
Mastodon Feedmcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:
You don't have to be a fighter to fight fascists. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/1/31/2300356/-Cartoon-The-pacifists-playbook-for-frustrating-fascists
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It finally crystallised, after all these years. I now understand my groundhog day experience of being the first person to take traces for a high-profile service, or to read the JS a tower of bundlers and build tools "optimised": the JS community (principally the Over-Reactors) are theorists.
Web Application Theorists.
WATs.
They do not understand how it's going because *looking* is discouraged. These are not engineers. They do not engineer because they don't accept constraints as legitimate.
Mastodon Feedchu@climatejustice.social ("Chu 朱") wrote:
Hey Chinese Americans,
You know all those stories your grandparents told you about during the cultural revolution? Like how your neighbour's uncle got arrested for listening to the radio and and so and so snitched on this person or that person?
If you're lucky enough to have grandparents/aunts uncles old enough to remember any of this, ask them about life then. Ask them how they survived. Ask them what kinds of things they did.
All those lessons are about to become very useful. I heard my grandma tell the same stories and got bored of them. I sure wish I listened when I had the chance and took the lessons in.
There are fewer and fewer who remember those days but there are still some. Ask for their stories. You won't regret asking.
Mastodon Feed2025 Year In Review.
Q1: Q2: Q3: Q4:
https://jwz.org/b/ykg_
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🍑") wrote:
Interestingly, two days before Oracle deleted my account and all servers associated with it, I publicly criticized Oracle's CEO in a viral post for promising dystopian AI surveillance technology to his investors.
https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113879369270806353
What a weird coincidence.
Mastodon Feedchipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:
I've been regularly donating to the Transgender Law Center for years. Less now than I used to due to underemployment, but still managing it, and groups like that are going to be more important than ever now.
https://mastodon.social/@Moltz/113930651807121028
Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:
I’m on Signal now. 🔒
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
benwerd@micro.blog ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:
I want you to do these four things right now werd.io
Mastodon Feedcodinghorror@infosec.exchange ("Jeff Atwood") wrote:
I'm giving away half my wealth over 5 years - not in my will, not after I die, right now. I’ve already sent $1M to eight organizations working to help Americans. There’s a lot more to come.
Let's talk about how we can build the American Dream. AMA!
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ifd3ys/im_giving_away_half_my_wealth_to_make_the/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I get why Republicans and the press are failing, but why are there no protests outside D elected's offices? The minimum they must do is fight, and voters have to demand they at least try. Why isn't that happening?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
Disclaimer: I am not a constitutional scholar, but I still harbor a quaint belief in the rule of law and stuff.
I don't see how Musk can operate in his current role without Senate confirmation. The appointments clause requires any principal officer of the United States (who exercises "significant authority") to be confirmed first. And if locking agency heads out of their own systems isn't "significant authority", I don't know what could be.
Sigh.
Mastodon Feedr_flash@mastodon.r-flash.eu ("Adam P") wrote:
Mastodon FeedWhat's with all the raver and douchestep kids wearing the little plastic clip-on bean sprouts? They're everywhere and nobody I've asked - including people wearing them - have any idea. There's a thousand-comment Reddit thread that reached the...
https://jwz.org/b/ykg9
Mastodon FeedDNA Lounge Update, Wherein the toilet project streams forward
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2025/02/01.html?utm_source=sp_ma
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I'm rooting for everyone Latine, Latino, Latina, Latinx, Caribbean, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban, Haitian, Jamaican, Colombian, Venezuelan, Ecuadorian, Chilean, Brazilian, Argentinian, Bolivian, Costa Rican, El Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Nicaraguan, Panamanian, Peruvian, Uruguayan, Honduran, Belizean, Trinidadian, Antiguan, Bahamian, Bajan, St. Lucian, Grenadian, Paraguayan, and Uruguayan. ❤️
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The Opt Out Project:
"Yes, you can live without Big Tech. If data is the new oil, then I’m here to help you go electric."
Been looking for a resource like this! https://www.optoutproject.net/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
kenshirriff@oldbytes.space ("Ken Shirriff") wrote:
What is the origin of the word "mainframe"? Digging through archives, I traced it back to 1953. The IBM 701 computer was built from "frames": power frames, a storage frame, a drum frame, and the main frame. This 1953 drawing from the Installation Manual shows the dimensions of the "main frame". 1/n
Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:
I’m not perfect, and I don’t claim to be “better” than anyone else. I’m just always trying to make myself better than who I was yesterday, and I recognize the painful twists and turns that go hand-in-hand with that effort. Nobody grows without feeling discomfort. Nobody sheds the most harmful parts of their worldview without first having their conscience stripped to its raw core. It hurts. It’s uncomfortable.
But it’s so worth it.
Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:
When I reflect on the gaslighting, the deflection, and the tone policing from a couple of weeks ago, it helps to realize that it came entirely from a small group of privileged cishet white guys working in tech. This is a demographic that traditionally doesn’t deal well with being made to feel uncomfortable. They have big problems dealing with change.
Their views aren’t informed by what’s truly good or right, but rather what’s best *for them*, especially when it protects their status quo bias.
