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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

New blog: The Next Thing Will Not Be Big https://blog.glyph.im/2026/01/the-next-thing-will-not-be-big.html

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
craiggrannell ("Craig Grannell") wrote:

Anyone know of a Safari/Mac browser extension that shows the number of open tabs? (I know I can view the number in the sidebar, but I’d like one that lurks in the toolbar.)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
glecharles@gardenstate.social ("Guy LeCharles Gonzalez") wrote:

New year, updated blog roll!

There are several new-to-me blogs in the mix that I discovered in 2025, along with some of my favorite YouTube channels.

All of them will improve your feed in 2026.

#SocialReboot #RSS #blogging

https://loudpoet.com/blogroll/

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

A few updates for #DNSKitchen beta testers:

* New website! It’s far from perfect, but I’m getting things settled in. We’ll have all of the kitchen/food puns back in place before long, too.

* New API! This is nearly complete, and you can read the docs at https://dns.kitchen/api.

* Bugfix! The one and only bug we had has finally been squashed. New zones no longer require a second save to be published.

* New tools! I’ve just set up a repo (aka "the pantry"), which has a Caddy DNS provider module and some Certbot hooks. (Coming soon: a Certbot plugin and a DNSControl provider) https://source.tube/neatnik/dns-kitchen

We’re no longer taking on any new beta testers, but the service will be ready for sign-ups soon.

Enjoy!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Obvious thing is happening btw - no world leader is willing to speak up about it. Because Elon is close to Trump and the administration - he's a protected person, basically.

The GenAI industry is also a protected industry - e.g. copyright law doesn't apply, either.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
mariyadelano@hachyderm.io ("Mariya Delano") wrote:

#AI / #LLM propaganda is so insidiously effective even for laypeople.

I’ve had multiple conversations with family members who: don’t speak English, don’t own computers (only mobile phones), and barely spend time online.

I told them that I am no longer working with most tech company clients because I don’t like AI and don’t want to support it (“AI” here = gen AI, LLMs).

And yet these people all reacted the same way: concern, shock, and comments like “but this is inevitable”, “this is the future”, “you’ll have to accept it eventually”, “won’t refusing it ruin your career prospects?”

These are people who know nothing about technology. They usually wouldn’t even know what “AI” meant. And yet here they are, utterly convinced of AI company talking points.

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

For a long while I thought Jason Koebler from 404 Media and Jason Kottke from the Kottke blog was the same person and I was astounded by his daily output. I'm still impressed by them individually though.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

“What if you held a tree long enough for it to grow around your hand?” For a piece called It Will Continue to Grow Except at That Point, Giuseppe Penone fitted a cast of his hand to a growing tree and the tree grew around it for more than a decade. https://kottke.org/26/01/it-will-continue-to-grow-except-at-that-point

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

Okay, nowhere to hide. I’m Jay. My writing goal today is six pomodoros (20min x 6 = 2hrs).

This is my face. If I don’t complete my goal, send my photo to the FBI.

(Is there like a #WritingAccountability hashtag or group on here?)

#WritingCommunity

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
DrALJONES wrote:

Report: Scottish anti-genocide activists take direct action on weapons manufacturer.

The activists broke into & smashed up Bruntons Aero Products in Musselburgh, Scotland.

The company collaborates with Leonardo, "a global leader in manufacturing weapons & developing laser guidance systems for the F-35 aircraft, & supplies the Israeli army with various military equipment."

https://aje.io/n0z5hc?update=4208937

#UKPol #USPol #Europol #DirectAction #GazaGenocide #press #palestine @palestine .

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

Class traitors who break from their socioeconomic status to speak up for those in the lower classes in a way that threatens their own place in the pecking order 😍😍

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@michaelshotter/115826123580795990

It's Science Fiction day?!

I know this is probably a "basic boy" pick, but no book blew my mind more than Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy.

I remember thinking, you can write like that?? I didn't know much about writing then (I still don't lol), but I knew that Douglas Adams had to be breaking a whole bunch of rules. My first (and maybe only) book where my favorite character was the narrator.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
michaelshotter ("Michael Shotter") wrote:

Happy National Science Fiction Day, everybody!

In honor of the day, my favorite book by Isaac Asimov:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5930799-foundation

#specfic #scifi #book #books #bookrec #booksofmastodon #bookstodon #booktodon #reading #sciencefiction

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

A gentle suggestion that the correct response to any right-wing tool going on about Rama Duwaji's boots is "go fuck yourself," additionally that "go fuck yourself" is the correct response to any right-wing attempt at DARVO or distraction. It's easy and fun and all they deserve in 2026 and beyond.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
CosmicCollective ("Cosmic Collective") wrote:

Here's your reminder to use alt text. Be inclusive. Help make your toots accessible.

#alttext #accessibility #disabilityrights #disabledlivesmatter.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
bookstardust@bildung.social ("radioactivestardust") wrote:

Fedi,
Ich hab nen Vorschlag für euch:

Ihr nehm nehmt jetzt den Link für die Petition gegen das Trans* Melderegister und haut das in eure Whatsapp uns Signal Messenger.
Einfach alle.
Ich hab euch ein Share Pic gemacht. Ihr müsst nur noch den Link einfügen, es dauert eine Minute.

Wir brauchen noch mehr als 20k Unterschriften. Wir haben nicht mal 10k geschafft. Macht euch ein eigenes Share Pic, setzt es einfach als Link auf den Status, aber verteilt halt bitte den Link!

https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/%5F2025/%5F07/%5F14/Petition%5F183950.nc.html

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Working with biological sequences… in the terminal 🔥

🧪 **SeqTUI** — A terminal-based sequence data viewer & toolkit.

🧬 View, translate, convert to FASTA, extract SNPs & combine huge alignments.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/ranwez-search/SeqTUI

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #bioinformatics #terminal #cli #opensource

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

I can’t think of a better way to start my year than to read Kitchen Confidential again. I’ve always enjoyed writing, but Anthony Bourdain made me love being a writer. This book made me pay attention to how others wrote. What a great book :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen%5FConfidential

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

Do I write the blog post I want to write, or do I get way too sidetracked trying to add footnotes/sidenotes to my blog?

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

Brynhildur Jenný útskýrir afhverju hún teiknaði myndasöguna Kötturinn og ég í gráu, með smá snert af lit #bók #myndasaga #bækur

Fáanleg í verslunum Pennans: https://www.penninn.is/is/book/kotturinn-og-eg

Brynhildur Jenný talks about why she drew the graphic novel The Cat and I in tinted gray-scale.

Attachments:

• video: A short video where the illustrator talks in a voiceover about why she used a specific kind of pencil.

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

The decor gives it away: this is a cheap brothel run by a blowzy washed-up pimp.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/02/the-scandals-keep-dribbling-out/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Found elsenet: seems to sum up the zeitgeist nicely!

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmOtrCRrlDA

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/

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

I've lost count of the number of times just this week that I have accidentally clicked an "AI" button in a service or software, which means a bunch of services are counting me as a regular active "AI" user despite me being about as hardcore "no generative AI, nowhere" software guy as they come.

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

"Millions of people are using AI! It's the world's most popular technology. People clearly want it."

Tech companies have been using every dark pattern available, every business deal and agreement, every subsidy they could find to jazz up numbers, so none of these user numbers can actually be trusted

Anybody who trots out the "this is an incredibly popular tech used by millions, be careful about regulating its harms" is being a manipulative dick. They know it, so you should remember it too.

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

"Guest Gist: 2026, Our Already Rotting Future"

https://www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2026-our-already-rotting-future/

> The difference is I’ve not yet encountered a calculator which asks its users, every single time it is switched on: “how about 43 x 756 today?”, or “want to know the square root of 7,568?”. The idea would be preposterous, even if we could guarantee the numbers would be correct.

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

“Our frail thoughts. — Ethan Marcotte”

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/our-frail-thoughts/

> I remain dismayed by what’s currently happening in tech, and at the same time I’m incredibly inspired by the people fighting for a better vision of it

Many of us are mourning the industry we thought we were part of, careers we thought we had, and the societies we believed we were building

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115772870672213549

I could offer a similar "theorem" for replies to this toot:

• Bad-faith replies from AI boosters trying to pull a fast one.
• "Moderates" who believe at least some of the outlandish claims made by AI boosters, and who like to pretend that they are not also boosters.
• Reasonable people who are legitimately uninformed or confused by bullshit put out by AI boosters.
• Reasonable people angrily agreeing.

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

🧵 My sense of justice was triggered by #Palantir corporate gaslighting two Swiss investigative journalists on LinkedIn.

This is something most people won’t even see, but I was angry, so I looked while my kid was still asleep.

Here’s what it looks like when tech bros attack journalists while you and I have too much food over Christmas.

Two Swiss journalists spent a year filing 59 #FOIA requests to document Palantir’s 7-year campaign to sell surveillance software to Swiss authorities (army and health services in particular).

📄: https://www.republik.ch/2025/12/09/warum-palantir-zum-risiko-fuer-die-schweiz-wird

The Swiss army’s internal report concluded they couldn’t rule out US intelligence accessing data through Palantir systems, despite reassurances.

Their story hit The Guardian, and #UK MPs are now questioning £825M in Palantir contracts.

📄: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/22/mps-question-uk-palantir-contracts-security-concerns-investigation

The journalists were rejoicing on LinkedIn. It’s a big deal to have your story picked up by mainstream UK media, especially after a year of hard work.

This is where it gets ugly.