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

If databases must be breached to keep them accountable, make it so.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/13/oh-no-another-major-data-leak/

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

Today, I'm hoping to see that beauty bred.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/13/pray-for-the-gallant-heroes-who-must-meet-this-behemoth/

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

I will, one day. But actuarially speaking, not today.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@mygrlprl/post/DTdc-YxD05i

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TimmyMac@vivaldi.net ("Timmy Mac") wrote:

I'm old enough to remember when we introduced "Homeland" into our national vocabulary. I thought it was weird and creepy then, and I think it's weird and creepy now.

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

oh my god the .meow tld is fully funded!!!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dotmeow/meow-next-round-gtld-application/posts/4578690

in case you missed my earlier posts, ... why?? but also, follow @dotmeow right neow.

meow.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
susankayequinn@wandering.shop ("Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱") wrote:

the kids remain undefeated

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DSLCvids@fosstodon.org ("DSLC Videos") wrote:

Recent @DSLC club meetings:

:rstats: The Art of Data Visualization with ggplot2: The TidyTuesday Cookbook: & Chapter 1 Introduction https://youtu.be/TKD%5Fi8orDwY #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

From the @DSLC :rstats:​chives:

:rstats: Mastering Shiny: User feedback https://youtu.be/hCl%5FgGVEyY0 #RStats

Support the Data Science Learning Community at https://patreon.com/DSLC

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Pentapod@mstdn.ca ("Emily C Taylor") wrote:

Went to an aquarium supply store last night and was delighted to see the staff in N95 masks and all customers still required to wear masks also. I wish I saw more places still doing this. The sign behind the till particularly got me 😂

“COVID-19 SURCHARGES
$50 If we have to explain about masks
$100 If we have to hear why you disagree”

Anyway if you need any fish-related supplies, go support Aquarium Central. 🫧🐠🐟🐠🐟

#YEG #CovidIsNotOver

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

I dread the day that Pete Buttigieg, or whichever slick-talking centrist they place on the ballot, runs for office. And I'll be told to be a good liberal and vote for them. And, I will. If it slows down the march towards fascism.

A new crime wave, another budget increase born of manufactured consent. The domestic military industrial complex carries on in the peripheral of American news media. Plausible deniability is restored.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

The Illinois AG writes about case after case after case.

Oh look, masked ICE agents showed up to a hospital with a man whose leg they broke. They refused to ID themselves but forcefully accompainied the man during treatment. A city official arrived to confront the federal cops and they cuffed and detained her. ICE didn't even have a warrant.

In another they beat and detained a man in front of his pregnant partner and daycare center full of preschoolers who witnessed the forceful kidnapping.

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

‘saying only that it would “most likely involve lunch.”’

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/envoy-from-greenland-offers-to-meet

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

But more than anything, I think of an entire generation of kids traumatized by the fear of being kidnapped in the streets. Or their parents disappearing in the night.

And that trauma will turn into anger; that anger into societal exile. Which means more fuel for the underlying beliefs that Latinos are inherently criminal. Another decade of mass incarceration.

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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

if you want stable and reliable software, give developers stable and reliable employment

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matuzo@front-end.social ("Manuel Matuzović") wrote:

As a sponsor of this year's State of the Browser conference, I have one online ticket to give away. I'd love to give it to a student or some who otherwise can't afford it.

If your interested, send me DM. :)

https://2026.stateofthebrowser.com/

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Ishtarmuz@mindly.social ("Dale West") wrote:

https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/12/26/jeanne-villepreux-power-argonaut/

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

When I was in Savannah a couple of weeks ago, there was a weird energy.

People making eye contact with me more than I ever remembered. I generally do not like people perceiving me in public (lol), so I notice when they do.

They weren't bad looks. Just blank stares. Maybe I was looking particularly cute that day. Maybe I look like the people they see on the nightly news, in a town that perhaps doesn't have many that look like me. But I don't remember those looks in my past visits.

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

And to be fair, I don't know what level of Latino-specific solidarity would stop the anxiety dreams, and just overall lingering fear I have.

In the early morning I found myself in the maps app, zooming in and out of Mexican cities. I daydream about crossing the border into Canada from Glacier National Park. I calculate how many hours it would take me to drive there from here.

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thegoecampus@academiccloud.social ("Göttingen Campus") wrote:

RESEARCH IMAGES CONTEST OF THE YEAR

The entries are in and everyone is invited to vote!

To generate a fair result, voters are shown pairs of images at random for 25 rounds. You pick the one that explains the research most clearly and creatively. There will be in-person exhibitions later in the year. Further info: https://goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-event

Vote here: https://pollunit.com/polls/0fpi7xcwtingmohz-g5ueg by 24 January.

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

Nothing has scared me more in the past decade than the center-left's response to ICE. I've never seriously considered an exit plan more than this last year.

To argue that we should advocate for more training in response to what is clearly an ethnic cleansing, is personally terrifying.

To call these people Nazis in the same breath as advocating for reform, necessarily means that dehumanization efforts have, at some level, worked on liberals.

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

I'm aware that there will be some people who will celebrate my death regardless, but at the moment I know those particular people are crenelated shitwipes, not actual decent humans, and I'd like to keep it that way

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

Today is a reminder that even if I didn't actively want to live my life in a way that centered on kindness and empathy for everyone, including people who are unlike me, it would be a good idea not to be a bigoted shithead in public because then people would say not nice things about me when I died and they wouldn't necessarily be wrong to do it

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nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

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augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

I'd rather live in a neighborhood full of immigrants than one full of armed, masked ICE agents. Just sayin'.

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

Scott Adams dead at 68. That's how old I am! I better not celebrate too hard.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/13/scott-adams-is-dead/

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emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter:

Labeling resistance to "AI" as "denialism" is an attempt to dismiss it out of hand.
The narrative of the denialism frame is that those opposing "AI" are afraid, under-informed and/or engaging in wishful thinking. None of that is true: The people who oppose the "AI" project are actively fighting and refusing to accept the premise of tech bros and AI boosters.

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/resistance-isnt-denialism/

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

NOM NOM NOM.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/13/its-good-to-be-back/

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

The idiots who fall for this "lunar hotel" idea will meet a well-deserved fate. Silicon Valley is a weird, strange place that has lost its tether to reality.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/13/ars-technica-loses-its-mind/

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

If we’re truly unlucky, the Greenland crisis will be “resolved” with a Sudetenland-style concession, with at least one of the participants making an unironic and oblivious “peace in our time” kind of statement

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/115887342621053928

All you need to know to understand how actually-existing crapitalism operates.

(You don't deal with a mafia organization by fining them on a per-offense basis: you deal with them by jailing their leaders, confiscating all their assets, and ruthlessly hunting down all their cronies.)

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

ICE training session exposed.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/13/how-ice-training-works/