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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social wrote:

Some poor kids from West Virginia joining the National Guard and getting shot and killed while on colonial occupation duty in Washington DC by an Afghan refugee who fled the US war there is operating on GREEK TRAGEDY levels.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town ("Kilroy_Was_Here") wrote:

@kb6nu @HopelessDemigod

I like going through very old radio publications.

They have not changed since the 1930s. Even that's pushing it.

What? Computer controlled? Automatic? That's just you letting the harnessed gremlin inside the tuner turn the capacitor and inductor knobs. That's what the "control" cable is. It's actually a little zapper that wakes him up.

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

#HeadDesk #HeadDesk #HeadDesk

https://mastodon.social/@theleftistlawyer/115628224849909212

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

And suddenly Albania VPN use is through the roof. (I understand there are a number of other countries that also ban ads…)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

Gov. Walz replies "release the MRI results" after Trump calls him "seriously retarded" and Trump vows to end all immigration from "third world countries"

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

What do judicial ethics codes have to do with climate deception?

It all comes down to simple math.

Every year, the Supreme Court receives many thousands of cert petitions.

To grant a writ of certiorari,
four of the nine justices must agree to take one of these cases.

Given that lower threshold,
any time a justice recuses themselves based on conflicts of interest
it reduces the likelihood that a case will be heard.

In this case, multiple justices have conflicts of interest that should take them out of the running to consider these suits
—if such principles matter to the Supreme Court’s Republican majority.

One of these conflicted justices is Amy Coney Barrett.

Barrett’s father,
Michael Coney, worked for nearly three decades as one of Shell’s top attorneys,
during which time he was also a
“major participant” in the American Petroleum Institute.

Coney was at Shell in 1988,
when the company issued a “confidential” report
projecting that the continued burning of fossil fuels would cause
“fast and dramatic” increases in global temperatures that
“could have major social, economic, and political consequences.”

He was at Shell a year later,
when the company produced another “confidential group planning” document predicting that,
if fossil fuels were not phased out,
climate change would cause
“more violent weather—more storms, more droughts, more deluges”
that would create so much chaos that
“civilization could prove a fragile thing.”

He was still there as Shell began redesigning its own infrastructure to prepare for that
“violent weather”
the company knew was coming.

And Coney remained at Shell over the following decade,
while the company played a lead role in Big Oil’s fraudulent campaign to lock us into those nightmare climate scenarios it predicted.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
macrumors ("MacRumors.com") wrote:

iPhone 17 Lineup Drives Smartphone Growth in China https://www.macrumors.com/2025/11/28/iphone-17-drives-smartphone-growth-in-china/?utm%5Fsource=dlvr.it&utm%5Fmedium=mastodon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

Worth reading today:

“How the 19th-Century Know Nothing Party Reshaped American Politics
From xenophobia to conspiracy theories, the Know Nothing party launched a nativist movement whose effects are still felt today”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/immigrants-conspiracies-and-secret-society-launched-american-nativism-180961915/

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

Today in History: Jean-Baptiste Lully born, Florence, 1632 (Italian-French composer, dancer and instrumentalist)

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

Today ion History: Albania declares independence from Ottoman Empire, 1912

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

Today in History: Joe Ossanna dies, 1977

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FOssanna

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
zackwhittaker ("Zack Whittaker") wrote:

Business Insider reports that Oura is planning to expand its Oura wearable rings beyond health tracking to allow for payments, authentication, and more.

Well, Capitan Buzzkill (me) here wrote about Oura's security and privacy practices earlier this year, and found:

• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• As such, Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.

More: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/oura-ring-deal-raises-valid-concerns-about-users-health-data-security/

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

Today in History: Friedrich Engels born, 1820

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

In this house, "The Holidays" consists of the period from when the last bite of pie is eaten at Thanksgiving to whenever it is Krissy decides to take down the Christmas tree, which is usually January 2nd but sometimes a day or two later. Regardless the holidays have a hard out at January 6, aka the 12th Day of Christmas. After that it's just Yuletide Malingering.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io ("amos") wrote:

I've been a big fan (and user) of @zachleat's glyphhanger for years.

But the last update was 4-5 years ago, so... it was time to port (some of it) to Rust:

https://github.com/fasterthanlime/fontcull

(subset your fonts, y'all!)

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

@ia feature suggestion: option in settings for when you duplicate a file to give it a version number instead of "copy".

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
gerikson@awful.systems wrote:

Neal Stephenson comes out strong and funny against GenAI here:

…substack.com/…/a-remarkable-assertion-from-a16z

“Hypothesis 1: it was written by a clanker”

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lapcatsoftware ("Jeff Johnson") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/115587958313504337

Reminder that StopTheMadness Pro is on sale now!

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

“Black Friday deals 2025 - Piccalilli”

https://piccalil.li/links/black-friday-deals-2025/?ref=main-rss-feed

Lots of web dev and related deals available today

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

Nature journals have fallen into disrepute, I guess.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/28/dont-trust-anything-from-the-anhui-vocational-college-of-press-and-publishing/

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

The EU has supported me, @pixelfed and @loops more than my own country!

I’m forever grateful to @nlnet, our patrons, kickstarter backers, open collective and liberapay donors for funding us and helping sustain active development for all our projects.

It isn’t easy or cheap to build, run and maintain a dozen fediverse projects, but your support has really helped.

Thank you.

Your support is needed more than ever as we build a better TikTok ❤️

https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Friends don’t let friends buy from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: https://weaintbuyingit.com/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dyckron@mstdn.ca ("Ron Dyck") wrote:

"Like more extreme forms of religious fanaticism, the discourse of political populism is rife with incendiary appeal. It is a language of action and empowerment, and it tends to oppose secular liberalism, which it views as weak and corrosive.

One does not need to dig very deep to find historical examples. In The Doctrine of Fascism, Mussolini states: 'The right to national independence [arises] from an active, self-conscious, political will expressing itself in action and ready to prove its rights.'

Similar passages can be found in Hitler’s Mein Kampf: 'He who would live must fight. He who does not wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.'

Eighty years from the end of World War II, we know what such invocations look like when they are followed to their natural conclusions."

100 years on, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men is a poem for our populist moment https://theconversation.com/100-years-on-t-s-eliots-the-hollow-men-is-a-poem-for-our-populist-moment-269487

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

The US-led Civil-Military Coordination Center, the new command hub for Gaza, is in Israel, not in Gaza.

There, officials from dozens of countries are housed in an Israeli settlement built on the ruins of a Palestinian village.

The CMCC's surveillance & control programs are being built in collaboration with Israel turning "the promise of peace into yet another instrument of control."

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/11/26/it-is-israel-not-gaza-that-needs-stabilisation

#USPol #GazaGenocide #Europol #Racism #USImperialism #CMCC #Palestine @palestine .

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
talia_christine@beige.party ("TC💖") wrote:

These are the voyages of the Starship Enter-pies. Happy Thanksgiving! 🖖

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
hdv@front-end.social ("Hidde") wrote:

✏️ Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system? https://hidde.blog/filtered-open-web/

new blog post… I remembered @baldur's many warnings over recent years and tried put them into the 'open web'/LLMs context.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

"Your parcel has been delivered." — you've got some nerve UPS, I just walked three miles in heavy rain to find where you abandoned it 😐

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

For this Black Friday I'm bringing the "everything bundle" back out of retirement one last time, which lets you buy all four of my ebooks at a 60% discount

https://payhip.baldurbjarnason.com/b/UwFnP

I'm also going to be discontinuing two of those ebooks – I am Uncluttered (Yellow) and Bad Writing – after the sale to focus on the books I think are likelier to have an audience over the next couple of years

"I am Uncluttered (Yellow)" will still be available in print albeit less prominently on my site than before.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

Huge yikes.

Kagi is now partnering with Brave to power its search results — and they seem to be dismissing their users’ concerns regarding this partnership with a company that’s notorious for being led by a proud anti gay rights supporter.

Just as I’ve consistently advised against using Brave’s products, I now advise against using Kagi as long as it contributes to a homophobic business.

There can be no neutral politics when it comes to people’s rights and lives.

https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-with-brave

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Charlie@toot.cafe wrote:

Someone on the Steam subreddit was asking for Valve to make a #SteamOS phone (seeing how the new VR headset is Arm but also playes x86 steam games). And I thought "Hey, I've already got #PostmarketOS on a phone. We know Valve is using some 'FEX' library. How hard could it be?"

As it turned out, remarkably easy. (Though, it helps that someone already wrote a guide for it: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Steam )

Pretty sure it's a YMMV situation, but my milage was pretty good.

#FEX_Emu