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jwz wrote:

@tante Ah yes, the pragmatic "kitten deli slices" defense. Popular defense. https://mastodon.social/@jwz/112650752624533349

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JauntyArt@crispsandwi.ch ("Jaunty Art") wrote:

Be Outstanding In Your Field*
Caveat Frog

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ERBeckman@hcommons.social ("Eric Beckman") wrote:

@inthehands Interesting thread!
As an aside, I recently learned that an ICE agent has never died in the course of performing their duties. Of course, ICE is young enough to still be on its parents health insurance. Even the antecedent agencies agencies had not lost an officer since 1946 (during the transfer of a detainee). Much safer than being a classroom teacher.

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arclight@oldbytes.space wrote:

@inthehands I'm going suggest reading the first half of "Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife" by Col. John Nagl. https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Eat-Soup-Knife-Counterinsurgency/dp/0226567702 You're essentially fighting an insurgency of well-equipped fanatics who lack local support, logistics, and discipline. Nagl is smart, he revised the Army's counterinsurgency manual, and he compares how the British in Malaysia effectively defeated communist insurgents while still keeping the public on their side.

The book is not so much on military operation but on winning hearts and minds, showing how one army did and another army didn't in very similar conflicts.

That's essentially your challenge - direct armed confrontation will not work, surrender will not work, but the current tactics seem to slowly be working. Tracking them, getting in their way, goading them til they lose discipline, not letting them have a good night's rest, pressuring companies not to do business with them - all that corrodes their morale. The danger is someone else will snap and shoot another poet in the face again. But they've already proven they'll do that casually so there's really no additional risk.

They're an occupying force. Make them feel that every day until they leave. Make every Minnesota winter day that much colder and more miserable for them. Be like the northern Midwest winter and make them hate life.

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weirdsatellite@mastodon.art ("Weird Spy Satellite") wrote:

Transmission #9770 from SBIRS GEO-5 (CLASSIFIED)

1. Future Lubricant Aqueduct
2. Immortal Absence Incinerator
3. Menacing Feedback

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

noted: JavaScript CVEs https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-01-16T06:35Z/

— will we ever learn?

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

This is still super rough, but it should offer a decent idea of what I'm trying to do with DNS Kitchen's "easy mode". The goal is to configure DNS for common scenarios without having to subject people to traditional DNS UI (which can be confusing and intimidating). By focusing on specific situations and offering a "wizard"-like step-by-step process for collecting relevant data, we can try to make DNS a little less awkward for people. :chef_happy:

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

European fascism was and has always been a response to the siren call of USA plantation #slaveocracy, #ManifestDestiny and post-Civil War #JimCrow. if capitalists have to pick between enriching themselves thru slavery or the labor of free citizens, they will go with slavery.

Karl Marx told us as much back in 1861:
https://libcom.org/library/american-civil-war-karl-marx

do you get why #BlackLivesMatter is the most #antifa shit you can say in USA?

#MAGA is the negrofication of the white middle classes.

deal with it.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
cory@follow.coryd.dev ("Cory Dransfeldt :demi:") wrote:

The only things that'll survive a nuclear apocalypse are roaches and #PHP

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I just got an idea for this year's #plushtodon that I'm very proud of but won't be able to share for months to not ruin the surprise. And of course something might prevent it from happening so no guarantees...

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

Anyway, here's the actual speech (which he did not link), with a machine-generated transcript on the right:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRXPTo381Co

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

Things Warren was wrong about include (but are not limited to):

- '21-'23 interest rates (and in fairness, lots of us were wrong about that, myself included)
- abiding faith in Americans not to vote in fascists again

Things she was right about include the desire of billionaires to avoid any social responsibility, the pernicious impact of capital on working people, the rot in today's SCOTUS, and the need for strong anti-trust regulation. Chiat acts like those are somehow disqualifying.

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

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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)

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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.