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

Minnesotans know how to have a good time -- stand in blowing snow at -10°C to protest against evil ICE.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/10/i-didnt-get-shot/

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ausir@wandering.shop ("Paweł Ausir Dembowski") wrote:

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scdollins@genart.social ("Steven Dollins") wrote:

The four-chambered heart

#Genuary10 Polar coordinates

#Genuary #Genuary2026 #AlgorithmicArt #CreativeCoding #Processing

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• gifv: Looping animation of colored arcs orbiting the image center such that their positive and negative silhouettes form heart shapes walking around a circle.

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j9t@mas.to ("Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇳 🇵🇸") wrote:

Fellow *non*-Americans—are you using any or all of the U.S. support for Israeli wars and the Israeli genocide on Palestinians, the U.S. attack on Venezuela, the annexation threats against Greenland, or other U.S. policy decisions to move away from U.S. products and services?

(Votes are anonymous. Please reshare for reach!)

#usa #uspolitics #bigtech

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jmaris@eupolicy.social ("Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO") wrote:

In fact, one of my first experiences with a C15 was herding multiple cows inside one. Ask yourself, reader, do you need to carry anything larger than multiple cows?

If not, then the C15 is for you.

There are also convenient benches for humans.⬇

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• video: f75d5403b20623d3.mp4

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jmaris@eupolicy.social ("Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO") wrote:

I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside".

I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇

#C15 #carBrain #CarDependency #SUV #NoSUV #Pickup_truck

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theverge@flipboard.com ("The Verge") wrote:

I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great
https://www.theverge.com/tech/858910/linux-diary-gaming-desktop?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Gaming @gaming-theverge

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404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:

https://www.404media.co/researchers-are-hunting-america-for-hidden-datacenters/

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IndivisibleSF@sfba.social ("Indivisible SF") wrote:

We mourn the death of Renee Good and vow to protect our communities against ICE. Join us at Trump Regime Takedown every Saturday to raise your voice against ICE and the MAGA regime and learn how you can protect your neighborhood. https://buff.ly/zulA8rA

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StreetArtSouthWest@kind.social ("Street Art South West") wrote:

Piece from SeeNoEvil 2011, Bristol, UK

#streetart #streetartphotography #bristol

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malte@radikal.social wrote:

If you're looking for a book to teach you something about Palestine, or more specifically what it says about a person, a country how they treat Palestinians, then Perfect Victims by Mohamed El-Kurd looks promising https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2499-perfect-victims #BookRec #Palestine

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

"Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center
The opera, which has performed at the arts center since 1971, was concerned about declines in attendance and donations during President Trump’s second term." - NYTimes

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

As I already touched on in my newsletter a month ago, I'm increasingly worried that one of the risks we're facing is a sudden and rapid (in historical terms) collapse of the US similar to what happened to the Soviet Union and the Eastern Block

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/but-i-worry/

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

With every report about cities or states in the US pushing back against the violent authoritarianism of their federal systems, I'm reminded of Tainter description of the prelude to collapse in "The Collapse of Complex Societies"

> There is, first and foremost, a breakdown of authority and central control. Prior to collapse, revolts and provincial breakaways signal the weakening of the center. Revenues to the government often decline. Foreign challengers become increasingly successful.

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jjcelery@mastodon.ie ("JJ Celery") wrote:

I saw LLMs compared to a drug in this toot, but in conversation with Himself today we concluded it's like a cursed amulet.

You *believe* it gives you +10 INT. Meanwhile it drains INT and WIS over time, and you don't notice.

Everyone around you knows it's bad for you and generally for the realm, but you won't stop wearing it, they're just jelous of your newfound powers, and they would know how awesome it is if they only tried! Why won't they try? Just try the amulet!!

https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115839163441384816

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kityates@mas.to ("Kit Yates") wrote:

In light of the Royal Society's continued inaction on Elon Musk, it seems appropriate to share this again.

I wrote it last March when I resigned my position as associate editor at a Royal Society Journal.

Things haven't got better since then.

https://kityates.substack.com/p/why-im-resigning-my-editorship-at

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

Any of us can be murdered at any time. A cheerful demeanor won't help you.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/10/i-dont-expect-to-be-shot-but-you-just-dont-know-anymore/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0gyLICnWQE

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SeanAloysiusOBrien@tenforward.social ("Headphone Jacques Clouseau") wrote:

dang this sounds like a very good reason for airplanes to have air quality sensors

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cloudhop@equestria.social ("Erik McClure") wrote:

Bose recently did an unambiguously good thing, by publishing the API for the audio hardware they were originally going to brick: https://www.theverge.com/news/858501/bose-soundtouch-smart-speakers-open-source

However, I've seen some people say "don't praise Bose for this, they didn't do this until there was backlash".

SHUT UP. Shut the FUCK UP. I'm DONE living in a society where you get dragged through hell if you make a mistake, EVEN AFTER YOU CORRECT THE MISTAKE. I'm so fucking tired of hearing stupid excuses for this kind of puritanism like "they should've known better" NOBODY KNOWS BETTER UNTIL *AFTER THEY MAKE THE MISTAKE*. THAT'S HOW LEARNING *WORKS*.

And before you say "Companies aren't your friend" PUNISHING THEM FOR FIXING THEIR MISTAKES WON'T MAKE THEM DO THE RIGHT THING EITHER. If other people, or companies, see someone get punished for both messing up AND fixing the mistake, they just won't bother at all!

People HAVE to be allowed to make mistakes. They HAVE to be given a chance to improve.

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joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("Joe Groff") wrote:

@eramdam still can’t believe they called the low level virtual machine WASM and the weird assembler LLVM

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Kids are overrated.

Showed my 10 yr old a live concert from the 90s and remarked that there was no one with a smartphone recording instead of enjoying the show.

She asked me if the band were still alive.

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

The ethical case against using LLMs for work is straightforward and unambiguous

The productivity case against using LLMs for work is complex and requires an understanding of volatility, variability, biases, security issues, lock-in, and more

But it turns out that if you don’t have any time for ethics, you also don’t have any time for understanding complex systems, so neither case matters to them

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dsalo@digipres.club ("Dorothea Salo") wrote:

Feel free to tell Discord what you think about AI.

https://discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV%5F5BGtstVUidXadts

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orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Having Wi-Fi issues on Windows? 💀

📡 **WifUI** — A TUI for Wi-Fi management on Windows.

💯 Scan networks, connect securely, view signal details & manage connections.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/sohamw03/wifui

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #terminal #windows #wifi #networking #devtools

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• gifv: f0600bfb9e3ea273.mp4

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

I do appreciate a complex pattern of arborization.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/10/shadows-in-the-snow/

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

(These two cats are siblings, but from a different litter, and they both belong to one of my neighbours. Every cat from that family tree has turned out to be an inveterate climber and they've all climbed onto my balcony at one point or another.)

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

For this #caturday, some of the local cats hanging out in and on top of a commercial greenhouse. They're friends with the staff, who occasionally forget the cats are there when they leave at the end of the day, so the owner has to go and let the cats out when they don't show up for meals

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MastodonEngineering ("Mastodon Engineering") wrote:

The December edition of Trunk & Tidbits is posted.

It was a quieter month in terms of commits due to the holiday period, but some solid progress was made. Plus, the latest stable releases, end-of-life for Mastodon 4.2, and news about #fosdem

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/01/trunk-tidbits-december-2025/

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

What the actual fuck

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hollywoodreporter/post/DTU-V1PDp6c

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

“Un-Listed”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/un-listed/

> Silicon Valley tries to soothe us into submission: here, have an app, have a hack, use this agent. And pretend that you’ll be spared the violence built right into the software.