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

“The Minnesota agency tasked with investigating the killing of a U.S. citizen by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has withdrawn from the case, alleging federal authorities have restricted its access to evidence.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/bca-withdraws-renee-good-ice-shooting-investigation/

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

It's fucking egregious that state sponsored violence is so commonplace in our country, so engrained in our culture, that you can defend loss of life by simply reminding people that if you make a mistake, if your fight or flight kicks in while being charged at by a cop and you flee, your murder is justified.

A trained cop can murder someone out of fear. But a regular citizen must have the nerves of a navy seal when interacting with a man who can kill you then go on paid vacation.

#ICE

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
iftas@mastodon.iftas.org ("IFTAS") wrote:

The 2025 Social Web Trust & Safety Needs Assessment Report is now available.

Volunteer moderators are burning out. Spam is rising. Legal threats are growing.

The 2025 Report reveals where things stand, and what must change.

Read it now: https://about.iftas.org/2026/01/08/the-2025-social-web-trust-safety-report-is-here/

#TrustAndSafety #Moderation #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #Moderators #FediMods #MastoMods

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
parismarx@mastodon.online ("Paris Marx") wrote:

Every day, thousands of women and children are victimized by people on X using the Grok chatbot to generate scantily clad and naked photos of them.

It’s time for governments to take action. Elon Musk’s X should have been banned long ago. They don’t have an excuse to delay any longer.

https://disconnect.blog/elon-musks-x-must-be-banned/

#tech #socialmedia #elonmusk #x #grok #twitter #everythingapp #deepfake

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
cory@follow.coryd.dev ("Cory Dransfeldt :demi:") wrote:

ICE should be dissolved and all ERO agents should be prosecuted and/or barred from any future public service. #Politics #UsPol

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
WillFlux wrote:

I was lucky enough to see a kingfisher fishing at Rye Harbour last week.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

@fromjason

This just reminded me why the only algorithmic, corporate platform I still use is LinkedIn: it’s to practice #sensemaking where the PMC gather.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ambiguous_yelp@veganism.social ("🌱🏴‍🅰️🏳️‍⚧️🐧📎 Ambiyelp") wrote:

@fromjason

Briar Messenger does something similar it has three modes Internet (Tor) WiFi and Bluetooth, WiFi and Bluetooth can apparently be used to create mesh networks in crowds even when the internet is out

Meshtastic also does something similar but requires a custom lora radio node to be in range and basically only has the bandwidth for texting

of course both FLOSS and E2EE

#BriarMessenger #Meshtastic #FLOSS #E2EE #PSA #Privacy #Anonymity #Security #InstantMessaging #Tor #MeshNetwork

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

RE: https://graeber.social/@DGI/115860282294677156

Big reason why American's definition of violence is so narrow and never includes or considers state/billionaire-sanctioned violence. Why the #NoKings movement has only ever communicated "non-violence" as a core tenet.

In this country, we believe in self-defense but only if the perpetrator is poor. State violence and economic violence are actions we must absorb quietly, lest we lose the support of the people who can actually enact change—professional-managerial class.

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

https://bitchat.free/:

"traditional messaging apps depend on centralized infrastructure that can be monitored, censored, or disabled. https://bitchat.free/ creates ad-hoc communication networks using only the devices present in physical proximity."

This is Jack Dorsey’s app, for whatever that is worth. But since FireChat disappeared, I don’t know of many apps like this that are easy to install.

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

Meta renews commitment to make Threads part of the fediverse (2023):

"The addition of ActivityPub to Threads may finally bring a new era of decentralized social media that many internet enthusiasts, such as myself, have longed for. In a strange twist of fate, Meta is now positioned as the unexpected hero who may save everyone from the travesty of Musk’s X while simultaneously making the fediverse a reality to all ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/01/08/meta-renews-commitment-to-make.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
qrper@mastodon.radio ("Thomas (K4SWL)") wrote:

Vacation POTA: Pedestrian Portable at Carolina Beach State Park

https://qrper.com/2026/01/vacation-pota-pedestrian-portable-at-carolina-beach-state-park/?swcfpc=1

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eliothiggins.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Eliot Higgins") wrote:

Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jasonkoebler ("Jason Koebler") wrote:

ICE has recently bought the capability of monitoring the location histories of entire neighborhoods worth of phones. The data is likely harvested from apps that sell your data, which filters up through data brokers and eventually to companies that sell to ICE:

https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/

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

#Cats Christmas/Chanukah

(by my friend Marcia Weisbrot)

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
Herne@corteximplant.net ("Problem Fox") wrote:

@adele
Account setup :blobfoxcheck:
Tested via NOCC :blobfoxcheck:
Thunderbird setup via POP3 and tested :blobfoxcheck:
XMPP setup in Covnersations :blobfoxcheck:

Thanks for another great smol service!

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

brb just had the most evil idea for a web component

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

Trying a clear “skin” protector for the MacBook Pro—first time for one of these in years, since I stopped putting them on phones. I give myself about three days before I rip it off because a bubble won’t go away or I’ve noticed a trapped dust particle.

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

Good morning! Fascism sucks.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

ChatGPT falls to new data pilfering attack as a vicious cycle in AI continues
Will LLMs ever be able to stamp out the root cause of these attacks? Possibly not.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/chatgpt-falls-to-new-data-pilfering-attack-as-a-vicious-cycle-in-ai-continues/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

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

Imperial boomerang:

"The imperial boomerang is the thesis that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial%5Fboomerang

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

New blogpost: AI will compromise your cybersecurity posture
https://rys.io/en/181.html

The way “AI” is going to compromise your cybersecurity is not through some magical autonomous exploitation by a singularity from the outside, but by being the poorly engineered, shoddily integrated, exploitable weak point you would not have otherwise had on the inside.

LLM-based systems are insanely complex. And complexity has real cost and introduces very real risk.

1/🧵

#AI #InfoSec

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

Sherman’s #MarchToTheSea has entered the chat.

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

Brace yourselves. Everything is going to get worse until the tyranny meets a bloody end.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/08/her-name-is-renee-nicole-good/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Oh good grief Jensen, just cut to the chase and call them "rebellion-free slaves" already, your target audience know exactly that you mean
https://mastodon.online/@tomshardware/115850473965635484

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
pandoc@fosstodon.org wrote:

Pandoc in the browser, with a friendly interface. This app is a web-assembly version of pandoc, the documents never leave your computer:

https://pandoc.org/wasm-demo/convert.html

#pandoc #wasm

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
infernusgoatus@kvlt.zone (":googlyeye: Stlex :googlyeye2:") wrote:

This meeting could have been a nap.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
mfeilner ("Markus Feilner") wrote:

"Yet, it turns out no one is buying Copilot."
#Microsoft #Copilot #AI #KI #Bubble

"But why is Copilot’s growth and/or sales so bad? Well, one study tested these ‘agentic’ AIs, including Copilot, and found that they flat out failed to complete even simple tasks 70% of the time, rendering them somewhere between useless and an active hindrance.
The same is true for Microsoft’s cash baby, ChatGPT."

No shit, sherlock?
https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/the-ai-industry-is-starting-to-unravel

(Danke, Mathias!)

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

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health with Isolated, Encrypted Health Data Controls:

"OpenAI’s announcement follows an investigation from The Guardian that found Google AI Overviews to be providing false and misleading health information." https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/openai-launches-chatgpt-health-with.html

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

Play the game: You Have Billions Invested In Generative AI by Woe Industries https://woe-industries.itch.io/you-have-billions-invested-in-generative-ai