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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Hell yes First Amendment

https://bookriot.com/texas-reader-act-permanent-injunction/

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

What I'm seeing, what I fear, is that most liberals are fine with a police state so long as they get to run it.

These issues are absent in the #NoKings movement because it has attracted the type of people who historically have not had the state turned violent against them.

When a tech CEO says he's going to eliminate crime, who do you think he's targeting? Historically speaking?

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Your occasional reminder that RFK, jr is absolute fucking trash

(gift article)

https://wapo.st/49gZB6w

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

And here we are. We are a proper police state, ruled by corporations, and placated by neutered politicians. And while Trump has thrown fuel on the fire, his exiting does nothing to extinguish it.

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

The counterpoint is, of course, that the work can continue post-Trump era. But we know—and the Biden presidency proved—that's a fantasy.

We went from protesting against humans in cages to making excuses for it.

We went from defund the police to giving our police forces record breaking budget increases.

We primaried our progressive candidates, elected DINOs, and gave democrats a pass on virtually all privacy and police militarization issues.

#ICE #PoliceState #NoKings

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

trying to download a 6GB virtual machine image and annoyed that’s it’s taking more than a few minutes

if 56k-me could see me now

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

I wouldn't go so far as to say #NoKings is a waste of time and energy. But it is a misdiagnosed movement.

Independent of Trump's efforts is the police state and Corporatocracy lead by big tech. These are terrifying issues that will outlive Trump by decades.

When you center a movement around one man, instead of systemic change, you'd be fooled into believing we won when that man is gone.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/804052/ring-jamie-siminoff-book-ding-dong-release-date-interview

#Google #Meta #Ring #Microsoft

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
freedosproject@fosstodon.org ("The FreeDOS Project") wrote:

PLEASE SHARE

Are you an #OpenSource project? Would you like to make your website (or web app?) easier to use?

I teach a university course on #usability testing, and I'm looking for clients to work with in spring semester. I'd love to help an open source project.

Timeframe is early March until early May, and you get a detailed report that tells you what's easy, what's hard, and what to improve. And it's FREE.

Interested? Email me so we can talk about details:
jhall @ freedos . org

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
ratfactor@mastodon.art wrote:

Okay, so all those t-rex puns from yesterday's drawing gave me the idea for this... Tea-Rex!

#dinosaur #drawtober #watercolor #tea

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

I'm finding myself very gently researching Linux-compatible laptops, while at the same time finding myself mostly back in macOS even on the Air with Linux installed—99% because of iCloud Drive and convenient syncing. (Especially with the iPad!)

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

The Internet Is Cool Actually https://rknight.me/blog/the-internet-is-cool-actually/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
tonymottaz@social.lol ("Tony Mottaz") wrote:

New server, new #introduction !

Hey 👋 I'm Tony. Professionally, I am a front-end web developer. Outside of that, my interests include being a dad (I have a ~4-month-old), husband (2 years), web technology, music (specifically teaching and writing for marching band and drumline), fall weather, philosophical conversations, books, photography, and TV, in roughly that order.

I'm excited to join the community here at omg.lol!

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:

Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a $60 to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/how-to-disable-meta-rayban-led-light/

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

Is anybody here using #SquirrelMail as webmail?

It is a PHP webmail without javascript.

I would like to have your feedback

https://github.com/RealityRipple/squirrelmail

#smolweb

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
mhoye ("mhoye (temporarily spooky)") wrote:

The expected, if demoralizing, result, I think, but a novel technique. Interesting to see if this holds up.

(Edit: It will not, see below...)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.17829

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

Two of my favorite logos: Sinclair Oil, and Yamato Transport.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

There appears to be an issue with social.lol’s upstream image object storage provider (DigitalOcean Spaces), resulting in errors when trying to attach media to posts. Nothing about it on the DigitalOcean status page yet, but other instances are reporting similar issues. Keeping an eye on it, and hopefully it will be resolved soon.

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

New post: "Collaboration or privacy: pick one" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/collaboration-privacy/

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

Remember when the founder of the #SocialWebFoundation was encouraging people to use #WhatsApp over #Signal? Because his boss owns #WhatsApp?

#ICE can compel #Meta to hand over lots of user metadata because Meta also uses metadata to spy on users, as a way to circumvent the encryption.

Conversely, Signal does everything in its power to minimize the amount of metadata it collects.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2025/10/21/ice-spies-on-whatsapp/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The result of the photo shoot with the new #Plushtodon in preparation for their launch at the end of November. See the @Mastodon blog for details.

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

This is how they Make America Great Again?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/23/the-era-of-destruction/

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

the thing about genAI tells is it's not about the obvious mistakes. it's the font and line art and colour palette on local shops' halloween posters. it's the general nightmarish body horror of right wingers' video clips. it's reading a blog post and realising it's just not conveying any information

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

A web browser is supposed to enable people to browse the web. Atlas is something else, built for an entirely different objective, that also just happens to let people view web pages too.

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

Up to this point, I’ve been blocking AI bots that function as scrapers or agentic assistants. But now it looks like it’s time to block an actual web browser (Atlas, to be clear) because the line between “browser” and “billionaire-enriching content ingestion tool” is being blurred into oblivion before our eyes.

https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/115419472139725665

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

Me and Drew and going live with some Divinity: Original Sin

https://youtube.com/live/VZy%5F%5FPaG76U

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

Not sure I have point here other than the fact that y'all need to take care out there as things look shaky even in the places that aren't fending off fascist politics

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

Just the production loss at this one aluminium smelter could increase the Iceland's trade deficit by 30-40% on its own. This is happening during a period where the global stock markets are at severe risk of "correction", globalisation is falling apart (tariffs!), and tourism is looking shaky with the Play Air bankruptcy and decline in Anglophone visitors

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

We already know that near future is likely to be "interesting" economically in the same way that 2008 was interesting, but small countries with homogeneous economies like Iceland are likely to be extra interesting because failure at a single company has an outsized impact

Case in point:

https://www.ruv.is/english/2025-10-22-production-partially-halted-at-nordural-aluminium-plant-456830

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Another war relic from Öskjuhlíð, which the British Army referred to as Howitzer Hill.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #abandoned #decay #plants #trees #history #WW2 #WWII

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

This is one of the pits the British blasted out of the hillside. The rocks excavated were used to construct runways at the nearby airbase, while the pits were used to hide fuel tanks.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #decay #plants #trees #history #WW2 #WWII