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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I regret to inform you that after a stretch of reasonability, Jonathan Chait is back on his bullshit:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/elizabeth-warren-democrats-billionaires/685615/?gift=VjLv3Dd1h8jJ03YjTtjfrTog6F4FvH3Nz2ztDuI1dPA&utm%5Fsource=copy-link&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=share

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jdp23@neuromatch.social ("Jon") wrote:

I'm one of many people testifying CON on HB 2112 (age verification for "adult content") at tomorrow's hearing here in Washington.

If you're against 2112 -- or age verification for "adult content" in general ... why? After I've testified, I'll follow up with email to the committee with people's perspectives.

And if you're a Washington state resident, it's easy to "sign in CON" to the hearing on HB 2112 to let legislators know you oppose age verification. Just select your position (CON), fill out the rest of the form, and click "Submit Registration"

https://app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifier/Add?chamber=house&mId=33607&aId=167961&caId=27188&tId=3

#waleg

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
bengo wrote:

Friendly reminder #ActivityPub protocol development will go back behind permissioned closed doors (unless you pay w3c or are deemed an invited expert) at w3c in the near future. RIP 2018-2025 open ActivityPub governance in SWICG.

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

the data centre push:

"Pushing people’s retirement savings into AI-related stocks and/or data centre investments (the latter being a policy explicitly championed by Chrystia Freeland and Carney’s fellow former BoC Governor Stephen Poloz) further ties individual Canadians' financial well-being to the AI industry"

oof https://thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/sand-castles.html

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
patatas@social.patatas.ca wrote:

I could’ve probably saved some time and just said “yep, that’s capitalism all right” but instead I sweated over this blog post that I’ve been wanting to write for a few months now #CdnPoli

https://thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/sand-castles.html

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai wrote:

@tofugolem

You know, I think this is kind of funny because they’re so disorganized, that people could literally sign up for ICE collect a paycheck and never respond to any orders to go anywhere.

It would be a shame if the website was overwhelmed by a lot of prank applications

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
transworld@masto.ai ("Transgender World") wrote:

Black trans woman is being targeted by the FBI

https://www.reddit.com/r/transgender/comments/1qcwm6y/black%5Ftrans%5Fwoman%5Fis%5Fbeing%5Ftargeted%5Fby%5Fthe%5Ffbi/

Read the comments!

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
atax1a@infosec.exchange ("mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)") wrote:

confidential to queer people the TESCREAL bundle is not your friend it is comprised of fascists who want us dead

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
linkachus17@furry.engineer ("LinkyKatsumiVT") wrote:

Mornyan Fedi :neofox_comfy_mug_256:

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

A former house.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #abandoned #decay #window #door

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

Modern web needs like 100MB just to say "Hello World". I went the other way.

Introducing GASM: A Gopher server in pure i386 Assembly.

💾 Binary: 1.5KB
🧠 RAM: 24KB (Verified with pmap)
🚫 Dependencies: 0 (No libc, pure syscalls)
🦕 Min Spec: Intel 386DX (1985)

Probably runs on the shittiest hardware you can find, or on your Ryzen 9.

https://github.com/someodd/gasm

#assembly #gopher #lowlevel #linux #retrocomputing #foss

Boosted by jwz:
corbet@social.kernel.org ("Jonathan Corbet") wrote:

So @lwn is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet. It is a DDOS attack involving tens of thousands of addresses, and that is affecting the responsiveness of the site, unfortunately.

There are many things I would like to do with my time. Defending LWN from AI shitheads is rather far from the top of that list. I *really* don't want to put obstacles between LWN and its readers, but it may come to that.

(Another grumpy day, sorry)

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
newsguyusa@flipboard.social ("Steve Herman") wrote:

I’m hoping one of my former colleagues in the briefing room will ask the press secretary why the White House is again propagating phrasing of a white supremacist author who praises Hitler and traffics in antisemitic conspiracy theories.

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dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

There are two kinds of California Voters, people who hate Gavin and won't vote for him, and people who hate Gavin and vote him because he's the only game in town.

He does not have the juice. No podcast can save him.

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dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

It should go without saying that Gavin Newsom does not have what it takes to fix the country, but he also absolutely does not have what it takes to win a national election.

Pandering to the far right only serves to legitimize the far right candidate he will inevitably have to run against.

He. Is. Absolutely. Not. The. Guy.

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

*endless screaming*

https://www.engadget.com/ai/wikimedia-announces-ai-partners-including-meta-and-microsoft-162834383.html

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jacobtlevy.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Jacob T. Levy") wrote:

Happy 13th birthday to the most essential artwork of the current era, @kcg.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ‘s “This is fine,” to all those who celebrate.

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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Chuck Schumer again says that in 2026 Senate Dems will be focused on “affordability.” He is a disgrace as Senate minority leader. The Trump executive branch is occupying a U.S. city, rounding up people on the basis of their skin color, shooting at and killing citizens for peacefully protesting and observing. That’s the imperative focus.

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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

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virtualbri@mastodon.online ("Brian Tatosky") wrote:

It's name is Almond Basket.

Modeled in Blender by me, textured in Substance by Mark Shimer, one of our in house artists.

#StarTrek #Blender #VFX

jwz wrote:

XScreenSaver 6.14 is out now, including iOS (soon) and Android. A whopping eighteen new savers this time! As I mentioned last month, I wrote a new XScreenSaver module that is API-compatible with Shadertoy, which means that I am now able to pull demos written that way into the XScreenSaver fold. These 18 savers are the first of that batch...
https://jwz.org/b/yk19

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

The headline is censored so let me uncensor it for you: JD Vance is a piece of shit

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/drew-magary-jd-vance-21293327.php

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
lokeloski ("Loke_") wrote:

FOUND IT

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This captures something important that I've been struggling to articulate all year; these MFers went after universities and science funding because those institutions make claims to truth based on more than "the party says so."

Now we're at the logical conclusion:

https://youtu.be/FyStPztM7eo?si=CUcJgjg8w3V98LvJ

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

I genuinely think the Icelandic government should reject this proposed ambassador outright. It's impractical to have an ambassador who jokes about invading the host country. Generally not considered to be good diplomatic practice.

"Anger in Iceland over incoming US ambassador’s ‘52nd state’ joke"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/15/anger-iceland-incoming-us-ambassador-52nd-state-joke

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

In the last few days I've been seeing more and more videos like this one.

https://www.tiktok.com/@wakandan%5Fsentinel03/video/7594513240143482167

People are fed up, and there's a general understanding that the time for peaceful protest is over. Don't get me wrong, they were important to do, to show dissent to the power and to show ourselves that there's a lot of us. But now it's just getting to a point where they "make the violent revolution inevitable" (quoting JFK).

#uspol

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

It's been a day. Here's a cat.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
archaeohistories@ohai.social ("Archaeo-Histories") wrote:

A kid with a Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab kit, a real educational toy sold by the A.C. Gilbert Company in 1950–1951. The kit actually included low-level radioactive uranium ore samples (in those little jars), a Geiger counter (the metal box he's peering into), headphones for listening to the clicks, and other items like small mineral specimens.

© Historic Photographs

#archaeohistories

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

Simply horrifying. The whole of DHS has got to be disbanded. We did just fine without them before.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:

DHS was only formed after 9/11. We were FINE before it and will be BETTER when it’s disbanded.