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denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

my train year is off to a great start! who doesn’t love a nice and short 254 minute delay!

A screenshot of travelynx, showing that I will arrive at Stuttgart main station on 01:28 with 254 minutes of delay

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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
frrstbrwn@theatl.social ("Forrest Brown") wrote:

If you care about stopping US imperialism, you should consider ditching as much US-based tech as possible. This post from @parismarx provides a lot of helpful alternatives and makes it easier to switch: https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/ #Imperialism #NoWar #BigTech

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:

I was hoping when large media covered Mobile Fortify, the ICE facial app we revealed in June, it would add substantial information. Instead this front page WSJ piece rehashes our reporting, presents it as new attributed to officials, and forgets to capitalize M in 404 Media.

I have covered this app for months, showing where it gets data from, how it is being used on American streets, and DHS's plan to roll out a stripped down version to local police. You wouldn't get that impression from reading this piece, it would appear new to you.

You can read our original coverage here (this is about half of it):

https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify-people-leaked-emails-show/

https://www.404media.co/you-cant-refuse-to-be-scanned-by-ices-facial-recognition-app-dhs-document-says/

https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-supercharged-facial-recognition-app-of-200-million-images/

https://www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-launches-face-scanning-app-for-local-cops-to-do-immigration-enforcement/

One of the WSJ's A1 stories today was reported 6 months ago by @404media.co , a team of just four journalists.

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

I’ve temporarily sacrificed my M1 MacBook Air by installing all of the company’s required security stuff on it. I’ve lost some of my work-specific Emacs configuration, but other than that, the Air is, uh, more pleasant to work on than the Win11 laptop was.

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

Venezuela shows that Trump operates closer to the American tradition than given credit for. And I wonder if, deep down, that's what scares us the most.

Trump operates in a way that denies us our ability to pretend what's happening isn't happening. We Americans expect a certain level of plausible deniability. Especially with geopolitical happenings. Otherwise, how could we keep our lunches down?

Trump's a fascist, sure. But mostly, he's a neocon without media training.

https://youtube.com/shorts/PWvBwKd3j18

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

The Onion again coming through with the truth

https://theonion.com/nicolas-maduro-charged-with-felony-oil-possession/

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
taylorlorenz ("Taylor Lorenz") wrote:

Crusaders pushing social media censorship and banning teens online are admitting that “mental health” is a coverup for suppressing dissent and young people’s progressive politics. https://mikemales.substack.com/p/authorities-are-recasting-young-peoples

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

Kolka says hello.#cats #caturday #catsofbluesky #catsky #blackcat #rescuecat

A black cat with a white spot looks curiously at the camera.

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

The future of cloud computing was almost a self-hosted utopia:

In the late aughts, Microsoft launched its “To The Cloud” campaign to showcase all the things we can do “in the cloud,” which was just remote access to a home device

Can you imagine how different the internet would be if we all had a small server next to our TVs? Our media and data in our hands free from corporate control.

Lol jk they would've found another way. But still, Microslop, we could've had it all

https://youtu.be/ocogCkZ6PAM

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mhoye wrote:

Anyway so.

A quote from Orwell's 1984. "The speech had been proceeding for perhaps twenty minutes when a messenger hurried on to the platform and a scrap of paper was slipped into the speaker's hand. He unrolled and read it without pausing in his speech. Nothing altered in his voice or manner, or in the content of what he was saying, but suddenly the names were different. Without words said, a wave of understanding rippled through the crowd. Oceania was at war with Eastasia! The next moment there was a tremendous commotion. The banners and posters with which the square was decorated were all wrong! Quite half of them had the wrong faces on them. It was sabotage! The agents of Goldstein had been at work! There was a riotous interlude while posters were ripped from the walls, banners torn to shreds and trampled underfoot. The Spies performed prodigies of activity in clambering over the rooftops and cutting the streamers that fluttered from the chimneys. But within two or three minutes it was all over. The orator, still gripping the neck of the microphone, his shoulders hunched forward, his free hand clawing at the air, had gone straight on with his speech. One minute more, and the feral roars of rage were again bursting from the crowd. The Hate continued exactly as before, except that the target had been changed."
Will Chamberlain on Twitter doing a 180 policy turn.
Matt Walsh doing a 180 turn.
Laura Loomer on Twitter doing a 180 policy turn.

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

New audio blog posted:
Should I ditch YouTube for real?

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

X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced :

"“We take action against illegal content on X, including Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), by removing it, permanently suspending accounts, and working with local governments and law enforcement as necessary,” X Safety said."

Remember, Jack Dorsey’s original vision for Bluesky was the gained ability to shrug shit like this off because he didn’t ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/01/05/x-blames-users-for-grokgenerated.html

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

I wonder why the river is called "Varmá" (literally "Warm River" in Icelandic)? 😝 #photos #iceland #winter

A photo of Varmá river. A frosted tree stretches out over the river and steam is all around.

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

For under 2 grand, I can buy a laptop with unfathomable levels of compute, powered by chips made of resistors so tiny they operate under different laws of physics. For just a few hundred more, a hard drive that stores more documents than I can write if I wrote 24-hrs a day for the rest of my life.

Yet, note taking apps charge ten bucks a month for life, for compute located 300 miles away, storage I don't need, and sync-and-share abilities I already pay for.

What a silly time to be alive.

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monkeyben@mastodon.sdf.org ("Ben Todd") wrote:

Hey Guys, gals, people and pets, Satya Nadella is getting tired of people calling AI Slop output AI Slop. If everyone can stop that's be great as it is upsetting Microslops share holders.

Don't start calling Microslop Microslop or use the #microslop tag as it might burst the AI bubble and then Microslop might have to take SlopPilot out of Windows. As you know, that would be terrible.

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microslop-trends-on-social-media-backlash-to-microsofts-on-going-ai-obsession-continues

#microslop #microsoft #copilot #sloppilot #AI #genAI #AISlop #AIBubble

The Microsoft four coloured squares logo next to the Microslop name.

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

This explains EVERYTHING about 2026 so far in one cartoon:

(Source: https://www.austinchronicle.com/comics/this-modern-world-14/)

A Tom Tomorrow cartoon strip with FAR too much dialog to copy. TLDR: two scientists are talking. The older one explains that the US president's brain is such a dense vortex of narcissistic self absorption that it has collapsed in on itself, creating a localized black hole (and we're all trapped in the event horizon). "On the bright side—it could be a form of subjective immortality, as long as we don't mind spending every moment of eternity thinking about Donald Trump!"

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pikesley@mastodon.me.uk ("Rational Market Hypothesist") wrote:

I just found out that this is a real thing that exists and I'm just dumbstruck

https://info715734.wixsite.com/website

Imagine if Britain was real

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claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

The only explanation for the Democratic "leadership's" perpetually weak behavior in opposing Republicans is this: the Democratic Party doesn't currently exist to oppose Republicans. It exists to oppose any leftist alternative from taking policy control. And it's *very* competent at doing that.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e7gbntp2tzobn7cfi37viei3/post/3mbouzsn5dk2f

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAhahaha*gasp*HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Screenshot of a post on X from the official Homeland Security account: NO ROOM AT THE INN! Hilton Hotels has launched a coordinated campaign in Minneapolis to REFUSE service to DHS law enforcement. When officers attempted to book rooms using official government emails and rates, Hilton Hotels maliciously CANCELLED their reservations.

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

Pro tip: Now might be a good time to try canceling some of your subscriptions to see if they give you a discount or free months.

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

Maybe if infectious disease had some of the same stigma we attach to lice, people would be more responsible.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/05/speaking-of-disease/

On a more serious note: the records of trying to treat lice during the Great War are just so disturbing. In addition to all the misery of the trenches, 95% of soldiers had lice. The report I'm reading collected over 10,000 lice from a single shirt.

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/health/vaccines-dementia-heart-elderly.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.CFA.TIiT.g-Au1gTmhYY1&smid=url-share

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AssociatedPress@flipboard.com ("Associated Press") wrote:

Flu season surged in the US over the holiday and already rivals last winter's harsh epidemic
https://apnews.com/article/us-flu-cases-cdc-subclade-k-29cc5a68eb100585c8e0dbd2ec47b3eb?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Health @health-AssociatedPress

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
servelan@newsie.social ("Servelan") wrote:

Mark Kelly tells Hegseth to go fuck himself, vows to fight demotion - National Zero

https://nationalzero.com/2026/01/05/mark-kelly-tells-hegseth-to-go-fuck-himself-vows-to-fight-demotion/

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

""Over twenty-five years in the US Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that. My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my service and sacrifice for this country."

Sen. Mark Kelly"

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

"Please, go find people who don’t know all of the weird internet things you do, and spend more time with them."

— Robert Evans, Behind The Bastards Podcast

Adding to my list of goals lol.

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

yup

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/05/trump-must-give-up-fantasies-about-annexation-says-greenland-pm

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
quixoticgeek@v.st ("Quixoticgeek") wrote:

People: "but I can't use a bike for transport cos sometimes it snows"
The Dutch: "hold my stroopwaffle"

A person cycling away from the camera just to the right of the frame. They are cycling on a snow covered cycle path. In the background a couple of brick buildings built in the style of the Amsterdamse School. The street lights are on, a few cars are visible too. The road is clear of snow.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
North@chaos.social ("Nick Poole") wrote:

I fired the parts cannon at the dryer, replacing all of the electronics, and to say it works again almost doesn't feel correct. The new dryer that has parasitized my old one works.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

Ukraine’s banks became a real-world test of infrastructure resilience

Under cyberattacks and power outages, they went beyond digitization: they built a shared continuity infrastructure so customers can still access cash and services when the grid fails.

It’s a blueprint other countries can use without waiting for a crisis.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/05/ukraine-war-banking-system-eu-doesnt-have/

Five state-owned banks—led by PrivatBank—control 70% of Ukraine’s top banking assets. EBRD researchers warn this concentration will need to be addressed after the war. Chart: National Bank of Ukraine / Euromaidan Press