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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wendysiegelman ("Wendy Siegelman") wrote:

Teapot Dome. Watergate. They’re Nothing Compared to This.

With World Liberty, Trump created a vehicle for those seeking influence. If you are a head of state, it is in your political interest to buy Trump’s tokens or invest in his crypto ventures. by Jacob Silverman

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/opinion/world-liberty-financial-crypto-trump.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.uE8.Nqq1.CEQqsKYfPusD&smid=url-share

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺") wrote:

Me and Drew do another #Freebooters. This week we try a new format:

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/xkjXyr15LJFLP93kdb979v

Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
ricmac ("Richard MacManus") wrote:

In the latest issue of Web Technology News (WTN), I look at a trend I'm monitoring very closely: after a decade of smartphone apps dominance, the web is becoming the default interface layer again. Of course, this time it's for AI. Check out the newsletter for the latest news on this & other open web topics. https://webtechnology.news/the-web-is-becoming-ais-interface-layer/

Fedi folk mentioned: @paul, @joeri_s, @bramus, @simon, @ben

Subscribe to WTN via email or RSS, or on the fediverse @feed. And please spread the word!

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

time to re-up this thread. US military ethics demand one say “no” to illegal orders. Southern Command and the Nation are apparently losing a leader with an ethical compass.

https://masto.deoan.org/@jsonstein/114254223462700449

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TexasObserver@texasobserver.social ("Texas Observer") wrote:

"Greg Abbott ... prioritizes the agenda of billionaires against the people of #Texas. Texas public schools are part of our identity as Texans. They are enshrined in our constitution, and he has turned his back on them because he doesn’t care anymore. He’s been there too long. He stopped caring a long time ago." https://www.texasobserver.org/gina-hinojosa-campaign-for-texas-governor/

#politics #USpol #GregAbbott #elections #Democrats #news

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kb9ens@mastodon.radio ("Tom - KB9ENS") wrote:

And done.. I checked in for #FediFridayWinlinkNet

#Winlink is a tool #HamRadio operators can use to send email over the air to any normal email address. Handy for when the grid is down, or you’re just away from signal. Remembering how it all works is perishable so we have a meet up weekly to practice.

Lots of background and links to software over here: https://winlink.org/

Follow #FFWN for details! H/T to @bud_t for organizing.

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

So much lunch.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/17/all-for-moi/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Setting up i3, Chris's new life with Vim, and can you really sell multi-pack cans separately?

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/xkjXyr15LJFLP93kdb979v

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
joepie91@slightly.tech ("Sven Slootweg 🔜 eth0 ("still kinky and horny anyway")") wrote:

I feel like we need some sort of explicit distinguisher between types of FOSS:

1. Corporate FOSS: projects that directly serve the interests of a single corporation and is governed by that corporation, but the source code is freely available
2. Public/Community FOSS: projects that are intended to be both governed and used by a wide variety of different people. Usually characterized by actively trying to promote the project to potential users in some way (including 'community evangelism'), and by actively trying to attract contributors of some kind.
3. Personal FOSS: people's own projects that are essentially fully controlled by them personally, and written for their personal use, just the source code is shared freely for others to use if they want to. Usually few contributors, or may not even accept contributors at all.

All of these have wildly different characteristics and governance structures, and users should have different expectations of them, so it seems reasonable that we should be treating them as different things, even if they are all nominally "FOSS"? And it would probably be helpful for projects to explicitly declare which of these they are, too, to set the right expectations.

#FOSS #OpenSource

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

There was a 'womp' sound from the yard. I looked out the window.

Where the large pile of leaves had been, a dragon sat.

"Oi!" I called.

"The hoard was unguarded," the dragon said. "I claim it."

Every damn year. It'll leave once the leaves lose their golden hue. Meanwhile, I can't order takeaway.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:

C'mon let's stifle some innovation

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

The man has zero taste. He has anti-taste.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/17/he-is-embarrassingly-tacky/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
johnke@mastodon.ie ("John Kelly") wrote:

Every pro-AI presentation I've sat in has included some form of this graph

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jkirkendall@wandering.shop ("Jon-o-lantern") wrote:

In case you're wondering what the commercial real estate market in DC is like now, we just negotiated a ridiculously low rate for my office suite, from $50/square foot to $40/square foot.

For the first time in 18 years, my office rent is dropping significantly.

Good for me, but not great news for the economy over all.

#DC #DMV #WashingtonDC

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
fsf@hostux.social ("Free Software Foundation") wrote:

You can use #FreeSoftware to get crafty, such as #Inkscape: https://inkscape.org/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Trump's insane tariffs are wiping out countless small businesses. His apparatchiks and big-business pals don't mind -- that's plainly one of their goals.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/how-much-trump-tariffs-are-costing-small-businesses.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"In honor of the October 18, 2025, No Kings Day demonstrations happening all over the country, I’m offering the first of three installments of 'The Patriot’s Glossary of MAGAtarian Doublespeak.' May it help illuminate the MAGA attacks on facts and reality, and may we hold onto the truth that will make us free."

#Trump #MAGA #truth #language #lies #fascism #MoralInversion #doublespeak #reality #HannahArendt #NoKings
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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Alice@beige.party ("Alice McFlurry :bc:") wrote:

My mom abandoned me when I was young because she thought being a yoga instructor was more important than being a mother and I remember watching her drive away as I stood in the doorway, crying “mamaste.”

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

Firefox 144 seems to fuck up loading profiles when you have too many tabs for it to load.

Five tabs, fine.

50 tabs, it's fucked. I get blank windows and the profile is broken henceforth.

Others report this with 20 tabs.

Only workaround I can think of:
* FF 143, fresh profile, readd your tabs. Haven't tried yet.

FF has fucked up hard here, tralala.

I could be wrong of course, but I just spent 3 hours on this bullshit and making lots of tabs seems to be how to get it to fuck itself up.

I'm on Linux, the 20 tabs was on Mac. I got this happening with both the snap and the deb. (I'd try Windows, but FF win doesn't seem to install in Wine these days.)

I welcome other ideas of course

[note: suggestions "lots of tabs is a wrong thing to want" will be regarded as mastodon at its worst, don't do this.]

EDIT 1: opened in safe mode, closed the window with 50+ tabs. just five tabs in browser. opened again in unsafe mode - does the blank-windows thing again. Looks like too many tabs fucks the profile irretrievably.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nick_Stevens_graphics@mastodon.art ("Nick Stevens Graphics") wrote:

One for those of you watching this on a phone!

Attachments:

• gifv: 2001 docking scene

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
leahmcelrath.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Leah McElrath") wrote:

⚠️ Senators Move to Force Vote to Bar Ground Strikes in Venezuela Senators Kaine, Schiff, and Paul are forcing a vote because they’re worried “the Trump administration’s order of covert C.I.A. action in Venezuela could be the first step toward an all-out war” and want to go on record. Gift link:

Senators Move to Force Vote to...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"My main takeaways from listening to the Supreme Court oral argument today are

-the writing is on the wall for the Voting Rights Act

-the Republican justices are now throwing racist spaghetti at that wall; they'll pass of whatever sticks as the opinion's rationale."

~ Madiba Dennie

#SupremeCourt #Trump #JohnRoberts #corruption #racism #WhiteSupremacy #VotingRights #fascism
/8

https://bsky.app/profile/audrelawdamercy.bsky.social/post/3m3bcbngb5c2r

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

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
xankarn@mastodon.online ("Alexander Karn") wrote:

Know your protest rights.

Six essentials from the good folks at #ACLU

#NoKings

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
evoterra@podvibes.co ("(ant)Evo Terra #RhRR.us") wrote:

Get out on the streets this #saturday. We need your presence at a #NoKings rally.

#resist

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

OMG, this is sooooooo problematic on so many different levels at once

https://www.businessinsider.com/even-top-generals-are-looking-to-ai-chatbots-for-answers-2025-10

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"MAGA is trying to scare us into staying home, but in doing so, they’re showing us their hand. The more people turn out for these events, the more media coverage they receive, and visuals are shared online -- it becomes clear just how big the movement opposing Trump in America has become."

~ Melissa Ryan

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
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https://www.altrightdelete.news/p/community-courage-joy-and-defiance

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

“Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers | TechPolicy.Press”

https://www.techpolicy.press/europe-cant-defend-democracy-on-us-servers/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Professor Stanislav Vysotsky, an expert on fascism: 'Yes, this is classic authoritarianism. It’s an intentional framing of the opposition as violent and dangerous in order to dehumanize them, which then justifies a violent crackdown. Authoritarians routinely paint their opposition as a menacing existential threat to peace and safety for just that reason.'”

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"No Kings organizer Ezra Levin was asked by HuffPost why rhetoric from Republicans has gotten so hysterical about the rallies: 'I don’t think it’s that complicated. The one thing an unpopular authoritarian regime is scared of is mass, organized, peaceful people-power. That is it."

~ Ron Filipkowski

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/5

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-230-101625