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Boosted by jwz:
BenCotterill ("ʙᴇɴ ᴄᴏᴛᴛᴇяɪʟʟ") wrote:

UK urged to cut out US Big Tech for sake of digi sovereignty • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/06/uk%5Furged%5Fto%5Funplug%5Ffrom/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
hacknorris@mstdn.social wrote:

honestly. what is better?

#gameDev #ai

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

Another voice not from yours truly. More thoughts and responses from listeners about quitting #YouTube.

View them all at
https://chriswere.wales/voicenotes

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• audio: A voice not, where I chat about quitting Youtube.

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

We're all being held hostage by this demented maniac.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/06/a-stupid-person-is-in-control-of-the-us/

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

The future of news is happening where no one is looking » Nieman Journalism Lab:

"I spend a lot of time in Haitian and immigrant communities across the United States. In Brooklyn, Miami, Chicago, and the Midwest, I keep seeing the same thing: the people keeping their communities informed aren’t reporters. They’re the pastor who delivers immigration updates before the sermon. The barber who streams local politics on Facebook ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/01/06/the-future-of-news-is.html

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

"the chatbot itself apologized while its maker, xAI, remained silent" — this is nonsense. The chatbot is a product and a tool of its maker, it doesn't have agency. The output it produces is legally produced by the maker.

Journalists subconsciously (or consciously!) anthropomorphizing chatbots are helping to remove this accountability.

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

As opposed to being a new "industrialisation", it really looks like we're dealing with a wholesale looting of an economy, end-to-end, from schools to the office. The bubble is a convenient mechanism for this but might not be necessary as you can still suck education and healthcare dry after the pop

So, I don't think the "AI" Bubble and the world's current political woes can be separated. They are two sides of the same project and I don't think you can beat one without also beating the other.

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

I've been hesitant to predict the end of the "AI" financial bubble because I'm not convinced that a bubble pop will even slow down the push for "AI"

The US gov's "AI" efforts provide cover for dismantling education and science and funnel all that money to cronies and oligarchs

"AI" is a convenient story that lets them, effectively, turn education and science into a money hose for oligarchs while at the same time destroying the infrastructure of inconvenience that are schools and universities.

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

Happy All Traitors to the US Constitution Can Fuck Off Into the Sun Day, I hope it is a blessed day for you

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

“Code is a liability (not an asset)”

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/

Maybe if Cory says it people will listen

> Meanwhile, "software engineering" is a discipline that subsumes "writing code," but with a focus on the long-term operations of the system the code is part of

Writing code forces you to pay some attention to the practice of software engineering. Delegating that to a statistical model lets your software engineering skills degrade until they have the substance and integrity of a wet fart

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

Also, the three "Beatles" songs released after John Lennon's death (the last after Harrison's death) are not, to my mind, Beatles songs, they're songs that happen to have all the Beatles performing on them:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/11/02/that-new-last-beatles-song/

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

As someone mentioned in the comments, not the Beatles without John and George and shouldn't be advertised as such, but if they toured with Julian Lennon and Dhani Harrison, I'd buy a ticket.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@joe%5Fhill/post/DTKmB6JjvVz

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

"The ceasefire did what it was meant to do – make Gaza invisible"

"It became clear to me that the real goal of the ceasefire was not to stop the violence or death, nor to protect people or limit bloodshed & genocide."

"The real goal was to stop the world from talking about Gaza.. the crimes being committed there.. the daily suffering of people."

"Mass death in Gaza continues."

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/2/the-ceasefire-did-what-it-was-meant-to-do-make-gaza-invisible

#GazaGenocide #USPol #EuroPol #FakeCeasefire #press #racism #palestine @palestine .

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

U.S. President Donald Trump's "Donroe Doctrine" essentially claims a U.S. right to lead the entire Western Hemisphere, and to control any critical assets within it. To Trump, that includes Greenland. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/06/world/politics/trump-greenland-nato-europe/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #nato #europe #venezuela #donaldtrump #nicolasmaduro #greenland

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

good point

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

Happy Anniversary! (not)

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

JFC

“Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/climate/nasa-goddard-library-closing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

a sad end for a valuable institution. Franklin would have been appalled

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/business/media/corporation-for-public-broadcasting.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

VCs fund companies who get on the latest hype train. Solving a real user problem is a secondary concern; "product market fit" is seen as something you do only after you build, a sales problem.

But when the product doesn't solve any real problems, showing "progress" to your board is impossible!

So managers invent metrics. Many people are going to come back to the office this week and set goals based on what activity is easiest to measure, rather than what is important.

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/your-metrics-are-an-avoidance-strategy

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

New configuration manager in town! 🚨🐁

🌀 **dotstate** — A modern & secure dotfile manager TUI

💯 Sync configs via GitHub, manage profiles, auto-handle symlinks and keep backups.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/serkanyersen/dotstate
➡️ Website: https://dotstate.serkan.dev

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #dotfiles #terminal #devtools #productivity #opensource

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• gifv: 72db27983d8a90ca.mp4

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕"):
simon@bne.social ("Simon Elvery") wrote:

I like to use a 'linear calendar' (there must be a more canonical name for this format) to plan out my year on paper. There are a few ready-made PDFs floating around, but I was unsatisfied with them all so I made my own. Customise and print it here: https://elvery.net/linear-calendar-generator/

I recommend printing at A3 if you have the tools.

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

I did get a little bit obsessed by the branch that hung over the river yesterday. #photos #iceland #winter

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

did you know Chromium default stylesheet applies `opacity: 0.7` to `select:disabled` ...how did I never notice before!

https://codepen.io/dbushell/pen/ZYOWOGq

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/main/third%5Fparty/blink/renderer/core/html/resources/html.css#L967C9-L967C22

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

Another angle on yesterday's raven pair, this time during a quieter moment. #photos #iceland #bird #birds #raven

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

Rusty and colourful.#Iceland #photography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #rust #sky

Boosted by jwz:
DocPop@pixelfed.social ("Doctor P. Popular") wrote:

Girl Mobb piece on Clarion Alley. #SFGraffiti #Graffiti #ClarionAlley #Mural

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

I love waking up at 4 in the morning to come here to see what all the Europeans are up to.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

This raven pair gave off strong "Statler and Waldorf commenting on passing hikers" vibes. #photos #iceland #bird #birds #raven

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("George Monbiot") wrote:

This explains so much. People with psychopathic traits and low cognitive ability are over-represented in online political activity. If someone is being cruel, obnoxious and ridiculous, don't try to reason with them. Chances are you won't get anywhere. Just block. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dark personalities in the digi...

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

Japan’s new Smartphone act requires that Apple allow browser vendors to use their own engines in Japan. However, Apple looks set to use the same tactic it has used in the EU to avoid complying with the same provision of the Digital Markets Act for the last twenty-one months.

Read our full analysis here:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/how%5Fapples%5Fkey%5Ftactic%5Fcould%5Fprevent%5Fjapans%5Fsmartphone%5Fact%5Ffrom%5Fimproving%5Fbrowser%5Fcompetition/

Namely, Apple demands that browser vendors lose all their existing Japanese users and produce a brand new browser, rather than simply updating their existing users.