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adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

An important message for those who are always out there calling for "nuance" whenever they encounter strong opinions about sensitive issues.

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DTd-AQJEsBj/

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• video: An Instagram reel by isaiahfrizzelle

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

I wrote a three-month review of my new baby. https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/baby-review

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

hmmmm

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cp8456m8mnkt?post=asset%3Ac78a11a9-1f7f-44b5-98bb-144bd009f204#post

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

yup
sounds like Greece or Argentina

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy9yxlz70dvo

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
FluentInFinance ("Andrew Lokenauth") wrote:

An entire generation under the age of 30 are now realizing that getting good jobs will never be within their reach.

Society isn’t ready for the consequences of this. A generation with zero stake in the system would rather watch it all burn down.

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

Looks like home.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/16/too-soon-too-accurate/

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

“Spot the Difference”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/spot-the-difference/

> Powerful forces have convinced us to invest in computers, but not in one another, not in people; and we’ve dismantled democracy with a shrug -- but hey, at least the kids have Internet.

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

To be clear, “acceptance” doesn't mean giving up or apathy. Maybe it means something different for everyone.

For me, it means accepting that Trump is a symptom, and when he leaves, everything that allowed him to take over will remain.

It means accepting that no one, least of all Democrats, are coming to save us. All we have is us.

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

I think we are all in different stages of the five stages of grief, and it makes it impossible to communicate with each other.

You can immediately tell who's in denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. I definitely went through all of the in the past decade.

I find bargaining to be the most annoying lol. At any rate, we should probably keep this in mind when conversing on the web. It's something I want to try to do 😅

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falcennial ("millennial fulcrum") wrote:

my point of view is just this.

corporate owned social media users: cruisin' for a bruisin'

fediverse users: kvetchin' for a sketchin'

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

Good morning to all of Threads but especially to everyone in the Twin Cities, who remind us that it's good to look after your neighbors when there's ice on the ground

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Prusa really, really needs to fix a bunch of stuff in their "buddy" firmware right now.

I hope they get their multi-tool state management fixed, not only for the XL but also the upcoming INDX launch. It seems there are just too many edge cases, and in the worst case the machine likes to bang a loaded tool against the frame or another parked tool. Not cool.

#3dprinting

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

You know, Kristi Noem would never drop an F-bomb in a newspaper.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/16/oh-dearie-me-oh-me-oh-my/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkLNZwpCn0k

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

I just released the new version of my reverse engineering TUI! 😼

🕵️‍♂️ **binsider** — A swiss-army knife for binary inspection and analysis.

💯 Supports static & dynamic analysis, strings, ELF layout, syscall tracing & hexdumps

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/orhun/binsider

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #reverseengineering #binary #elf #security #devtools

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• gifv: 0078f75ca8e674ca.mp4

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

Photo, from last summer, of a meadow pipit at the very top of a tree, chasing an insect #iceland #bird #birds

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

"The mirage of AI deregulation"

> But the pattern itself—the systematic preference for executive discretion over deliberative process—reveals an approach to governance that will shape AI policy regardless of how individual cases are decided. This is not deregulation. Not in the least. It is hyper-regulation by other means.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee4900

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sir_pepe ("Peter Kröner") wrote:

🚩✊ Friday is Dependency Deletion Day! Today on the chopping block: rimraf (103,000,000 downloads/week). Unless your Node.js version is from the Cretaceous, rimraf delegates to fs.rm under the hood anyway, so you might as well just skip the middleman. Free your node_modules, use fs.rm!

https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/fs.html#fspromisesrmpath-options

#javascript #webdev

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• video: eaff0f062b5ee047.mp4

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"Software is no longer seen as an asset, as something to care for, to maybe even take pride in. It’s a throw-away product. Like a napkin. Just get one quick, wipe your mouth and throw it away. Like a novelty t-shirt."

(Original title: Software as Fast Fashion)

https://tante.cc/2026/01/15/software-as-fast-fashion/

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

“The Darnella test of social media and smartphone regulation – Hi, I'm Heather Burns”

https://heatherburns.tech/2026/01/16/the-darnella-test-of-social-media-and-smartphone-regulation/

> In her own small way, she really did change the world. It did not go unnoticed.

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

“Abolish the senses - by Brian Merchant”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/abolish-the-senses

> the main thing that you need to know about big tech and AI in 2026 is that they are key pillars of a political economy that is enabling the new American fascism, or whatever it is that you’d like to call the particular brand of dim yet horrifying socially mediated authoritarianism that has crystallized under Trump 2.0.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
matt@oslo.town ("Matt") wrote:

It turns out the leader of the #GreenParty of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 previous had an account on Mastodon (hello @ZackPolanski 👋 ) and so did Green MP for #Brighton Pav' (hello @sianberry 👋)

So I emailed the party to ask if they would consider moving away from #Twitter/X in light of recent events and reboot a Mastodon effort.

I shared links to mastodon.green and a set of UK-based instances, including toot.wales.

You too can email office@greenparty.org.uk to ask that they get an official #Mastodon account.

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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha 🇪🇺") wrote:

TIL: The earliest use of the word "terrorism" identified by the Oxford English Dictionary is a 1795 reference to tyrannical state behavior, the "reign of terrorism" in France."

The term was coined to describe the actions of the state during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, where agents of the Committee of Public Safety, referred to as "Terrorists," enforced the government's policies with violence against perceived enemies.

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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: