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

(This is part of why I’ve been writing less. Mostly I’m just sitting back and hoping things won’t be as bad as I think they might get.)

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

Trump's economic policies have made the US dollar more vulnerable and the overall finance system more opaque.

The US federal infrastructure is weak, limiting its capability at containing the damage.

The zeal many governments have for "AI" means they're likely to delay taking action at critical moments in the immediate aftermath of a bubble pop.

There's a non-zero chance we might be heading into a perfect storm of an economic crisis.

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

“Desire to Pop”

https://tante.cc/2025/11/23/desire-to-pop/

> I love the abstraction of the “AI” bubble popping. But the very probably effects haunt me.

Been having similar concerns. Except I think things are genuinely worse than most expect. The usual suspects are clearly trying to position LLMs as something being sabotaged by the bubble not its cause and the overall prospects are pretty dire …

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

Idly remembering the time I recommended “Just Enough Research” where I worked, a book so good I keep buying it again and again, and the only chapter my coworkers read was the one on how to do a minimally harmful survey, because they were dead-set on doing a survey, no matter what

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Did you sign the #Starbucks #union pledge? It's easy, and it increments the counter. Businesses eventually react to numbers.

https://www.nocontractnocoffee.org/

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matthewfacciani.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Matthew Facciani") wrote:

There’s a lot of political commentary about Marjorie Taylor Greene resigning, but one important point is this: she entered Congress in 2021 with an estimated net worth of about $700,000, and is leaving in 2025 with a net worth of roughly $25 million.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
jetsilver@ohai.social wrote:

@brian @isagalaev The strike is indefinite.

Honk if you drive past a picket line!

https://inthesetimes.com/article/starbucks-workers-united-union-red-cup-rebellion-strike-picket

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

@pluralistic I found it!

schismogenesis:

> That's when you decide how you feel about an issue based on who supports it.

Love that word.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/25/black-boxes/

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

@pluralistic hey there what's that term you use for when someone thinks an argument or observation is defacto false because it comes from a different political party? I had it bookmarked and can't for the life of me find it.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
vinoth@infosec.exchange ("Vinoth (Mobile security)") wrote:

I am disappointed that IACR is framing the root cause as an "unfortunate human mistake," effectively throwing a distinguished member of the community under the bus.

This is a system design issue. No critical system should have a 3-of-3 quorum requirement.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

@vermaden

This post is an example of why no one listens to #FreeBSD advocates. They start by not understanding a Linux thing, and then claim a totally unrelated FreeBSD thing was there first and is better.

The soft reboot thing in RedHat is about providing an immutable base image (FreeBSD does not do this) and then a lightweight way of restarting userspace to use it.

The thing you link to is the reroot feature of FreeBSD, which was a copy of a Linux feature. Linux has had pivot root for a long time, the thing that is added is an administration layer that uses this functionality for a quick update path, integrated with the normal update flow. This does not exist on FreeBSD.

Similarly, FreeBSD has had jails for ages. Linux has also had shared-kernel virtualisation for almost as long. OpenVZ shipped five years after Jails (and before Jails had things like isolation for SysV IPC and so were actually useful for isolating workloads like Postgres). The value of Docker / OCI containers is not that you can create an isolated environment, it’s that it has a distribution model built on immutable layers and an orchestration model that lets you cleanly separate persistent data (volumes) from the software that runs on them so you can upgrade by simply rebuilding the image and then destroying and recreating the container. And FreeBSD now, finally, has an alternative to OCI containers on Linux: OCI containers on FreeBSD.

If you spent half the effort understanding why people like and use some of these features on Linux as you do telling people that barely related features on FreeBSD are better, then you might actually do some useful advocacy. As it is, you just reinforce all of the negative stereotypes the Linux users have about FreeBSD.

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social wrote:

Unpacked our Nativity scene yesterday. Removed all the Jews, Arabs and foreigners. Ended up with a jackass and a handful of sheep.

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

I love a post that focuses on looking how systems actually work, and I *particularly* love authors that aren't afraid to read a JS bundle:

https://pub.towardsai.net/i-reverse-engineered-200-ai-startups-73-are-lying-a8610acab0d3

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
lukito@gamedev.lgbt ("Lukito") wrote:

Day 4,731 of begging visual designers to take the most basic course in linguistics and multimodality.

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

I’m so excited. Tomorrow, I take a trip to Savannah Georgia where I’ll stay in the historic district for a few days. It’s a little writing retreat. A personal mini-vacay.

Pro tip: sometimes you can get hotels dirt cheap the days leading up to Thanksgiving. I’m staying in a beautiful hotel in downtown for so cheap.

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

tweaking my little storyteller service today, hardening it a bit from a recent spate of attacks. here is today's test:

https://people.well.com/user/jeffs/tmp/StorytellerTest.pdf

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange ("Security Writer :donor:") wrote:

THEN MAKE YOUR WEBSITE BETTER

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

Me: I want to have more friends

Tech companies:

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

Mostly mundane, but lacking in my name, fortunately.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/22/are-you-in-the-epstein-emails/

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

Over on Whatever today I confirm that, indeed, all those emails authors and other writers are getting promising access to readers and book clubs and such are 100% scams, share all the scam emails I got just this morning, and note why they are all awful and bad:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/11/22/yes-all-those-author-services-and-book-club-emails-are-fake-and-no-dont-send-them-any-money/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I’ve got stickers 👀 #Merchtodon

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

My very first cat, Kisa Lísa. From the streets of Reykjavik, she became a beloved family cat. She's quite the legend in the family, and now there is a book about her life for those who are interested and able to read Icelandic.www.penninn.is/is/book/kott... #cats #caturday #catsofbluesky #catsky

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

Hank Green proves the arc of AI-Doomerism is long, and it bends towards bullshit

#AI #aidoomerism #OpenAI #RegulatoryCapture

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

preparing gear for today's "Safety Marshal" gig at the Federal Building in #ROC at noon.

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

I had to post this one because it's just so genuinely ugly. That said, we never had trains in Iceland, so this must have been interesting for people to see back in the day. Again, this was taken in the States. I have no idea where exactly.#photography #filmphotography #slide #trains #history #usa

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

I'm not sure if this is Chicago like the previous pictures. All I know is that my grandfather numbered all the slides from America. This one is number three.#photography #filmphotography #slide #streetphotography #history #usa #america #vintage

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

A Chicago city street in 1958. This photo was most likely taken by someone my grandfather knew working at the Naval Air Station in Iceland. I really like the vintage signs.#photography #filmphotography #slide #streetphotography #history #usa #america #chicago #vintage

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

some encouraging words

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/21/us-activism-protests-boycotts-mutual-aid

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

so very weird

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/nyregion/congressional-aide-new-jersey-hoax.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

Mice are a common issue here in Hveragerði, old housing stock plus an abundance of commercial greenhouses make for a mouse-friendly environment.

Probably the reason why the town also has a lot of cats.