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

Capitalism doesn't make products anymore, just tracking devices with the indicator light taped over, and the hero's journey plot printed on its packaging. 

#surveillance #bigtech

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billyjoebowers@mastodon.online ("billy joe bowers 🗽") wrote:

Tim Cook sucks.

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weirdsatellite@mastodon.art ("Weird Spy Satellite") wrote:

MASINT #5518 from Zuma (CONFIDENTIAL)

1. House of Oblique Blogs
2. Empty Couchfuckers
3. Misty Spice

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MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.world ("Mama's Pinky Toe") wrote:

The original title was "She Blinded Me with Syphilis."

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kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Popehat Agitates And Irritates") wrote:

/9 And you think ANTIFA is a progressive employer? Please. The health insurance sucks. There's no dental. And when I asked for compassionate leave for a relative's funeral HR said "the family serves as a pillar for bourgeois ideology, half-day only"

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kethinov ("Eric Newport") wrote:

@slightlyoff

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

listening to https://soundcloud.com/stanlepard/1996-internet-starter-kit-velkommen-original-mix in a loop just to feel nostalgia for a time where "I work on software" was actually something to be proud of as opposed to feeling a strong need to differentiate yourself from all the hype-driven environment-burners out there.

rip, Stan LePard.

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

#TMNT short coming this Christmas

https://youtu.be/%5FiZFMMx0LUM

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

We really, really need basic software freedoms, and we need them yesterday.

https://mastodon.social/@dtgeek/115340206186034640

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404media@flipboard.com ("404 Media") wrote:

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
https://www.404media.co/apple-banned-an-app-that-simply-archived-videos-of-ice-abuses/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into 404 Media @404-media-404media

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assignedmale.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Sophie Labelle ") wrote:

What is "plenary authority" and why is it a big deal that Miller said that Trump has it over the national guard?

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"It appears that the attorney general felt no obligation to be accountable to the American people about alleged efforts to cover up for Trump or his underlings, believing them all to be above the law."

~ Edith Olmsted

#Trump #PamBondi #Epstein #DOJ #corruption #CoverUp #complicity #oversight #guilt
/14

https://newrepublic.com/post/201475/photographer-pam-bondi-senate-hearing-notes

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HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social ("Imogen") wrote:

I prefer that there are no frequency variations on my electrical service. I am also not a fan of an over voltage condition.

Luckily we have the modern discovery of DC, also known as Direct Current.

By utilizing batteries we can insure frequency stability. In fact it’s so stable it doesn’t even have a frequency.

For more helpful tips be sure to subscribe. I also post cat pictures.

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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peak
Central bank says market concentration hasn't been this extreme in 50 years.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/bank-of-england-warns-ai-stock-bubble-rivals-2000-dotcom-peak/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

jwz wrote:

Having asked for a self-hosted document store and task tracker, I have learned that my choices range from:

• Here's a thin veneer over git, have fun explaining to your restaurant staff how to use "git-construct-ref --tickle-rebase-subtree".

• New Glimmer is a Dropbox clone, realtime video chat, mail server, calendar, address book, Excel, call center, some "AI" crap, a floor wax, AND a dessert topping! You can install it as an entire VM, or by piping curl through sh.

Nothing in between exists.

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Mastodon wrote:

We’re thrilled to be bringing you a upcoming feature to help you find your people on Mastodon: Packs. (Or something… we’re still figuring out the name.)
As always, we want to build this important feature for the community WITH the community.
Read this blog post about our approach and let us know what you think!

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/10/our-ideas-about-packs/

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

Fuck it, we blog.

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

My crow friends are allowing me to be closer to them. My peanuts are the talk of the town, apparently. I counted ten in the field and around my patio.

#Photography

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gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

I hate that Prime Day has become so commercialized.

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Newsletter: Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-94/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

stages of going viral on the fediverse:
1. friends and mutuals boost something you posted
2. people you're aware of and cool with boost it
3. complete strangers boost it
4. chatty strangers boost and reply, generally pleasant but a couple annoying remarks
5. post has officially Escaped Containment, boosts and replies coming from corners of fedi you didn't know existed
6. the worst most abrasive cranks on the entire network emerge from sewer drains to leave random nasty shit in your thread

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kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:

I think Mastodon's proposal for starter packs is a significant positive evolution of the way Bluesky rolled them out. I wound up on a bunch of packs there and it was…not a great thing for my specific brain and purpose.

I do hope the people in Masto's comments saying they must allow opt-out and removal will read the actual post, which features both blanket opt-out and individual removal.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/10/our-ideas-about-packs/

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sil ("Stuart Langridge") wrote:

@slightlyoff people who only learned how to build web apps with frameworks, when they learn how to build web apps with the web

Attachments:

• video: A very young and very sad looking baby has some new glasses put on his face by his parents and, after a few seconds looking around in absolute wonder, breaks into a beaming smile of joy

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paul@tapbots.social ("Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo:") wrote:

At the rate things are going, I expect an "Apple provides government with list of users who downloaded ICEBlock app" headline in a few more weeks. I’m feeling embarrassed for them.

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karlbode.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Karl Bode") wrote:

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

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twifkak@mas.to wrote:

@slightlyoff To me, that's the weirdest part to watch play out. In my experience, the argument that React is better DX than other options is easily falsifiable by spending even a few hours with another framework.

And in my experience, the argument that its DX shines once your app is large is belied by even a few hours trying to make a change to almost any preexisting React codebase.

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jamesbridle wrote:

This BBC Radio 4 three-part doc on fascism as a continuous, and continuously opposed, thread in British life is very good and worth a listen. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sbdx

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

Every time I watch a team of hard-working folks burn months on a React upgrade, I'm reminded of how thoroughly the JS-Industrial-Complex gaslit us.

You know who hasn't slogged through constant breaking change migrations? Web Components developers. New runtimes drop *every month*...and it's *fine*.

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

Apple knows how to take people to court. Ask anyone involved with browser choice or right-to-repair. It rolled over for DHS and gave Dear Leader a golden turd because it *wants things*; namely to protect the avenues of control over APIs (the App Store monopoly) that it taxes so heavily. And if lending that control to authoritarians for a bit is the price, so be it.

It's all part of the playbook, which is anti-democratic in practice, if not theory:

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-antitrust-playbook/

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

Ask: what did Apple *want* in return for bending the knee?

Answer: the end of the rule of law in Europe, and with it, an example for others.

Shot:

https://migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-apple-quietly-made-ice-agents

Chaser:

https://www.politico.eu/article/von-der-leyen-stands-by-the-eus-tech-rules-amid-trumps-threats/

https://on.ft.com/4q2f2FC