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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🍑") wrote:

black lives matter crowd cares about renee good

“all lives matter” people justify her killing

Very interesting

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

Another former house. It is interesting the way structures slowly disintegrate when abandoned.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #window #door #concrete

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

Here's a bonus photo of a cat in the Villikettir cat shelter in Hveragerði from about a year ago.

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

A Nazi loser was routed on the streets of Minneapolis today.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/17/another-day-another-rally-in-minnesota/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQg-G-Ebscg

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

No sooner do I thank The Verge for publishing Elizabeth Lopatto's excellent diatribe against the app store rentiers than they push this out without any mention of the intentionally hobbled terms and conditions Apple created to defeat alt stores:

https://www.theverge.com/news/863978/setapp-mobile-ios-store-shutdown

Boosted by jwz:
realGulDukat ("Gul Dukat") wrote:

#StarTrek #Sisko197

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

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-148-on-protocol-governance/

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CartyBoston@mastodon.roundpond.net wrote:

Damariscotta, Maine just now.

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

I can't decide if I'm surprised or not about this not being a bigger story on Mastodon/Fediverse.

On one hand, *gestures widely*.

On the other, Meta will get the final say as to what the new social web will become. Who knows what they're up to. But whatever it is, it won't be good for us that's for sure.

h/t @snoopy for sniffing out the blurb.

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

Fediverse Report – #149 – On Protocol Governance – Connected Places:

"There are only two organisations that are active in the fediverse that are a paid member of the W3C: Meta and the Social Web Foundation. With the Social Web Foundation also receiving funding from Meta, the company that built Threads now has more institutional standing in ActivityPub governance than any of the organisations actually ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/01/17/fediverse-report-on-protocol-governance.html

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
snoopy@peculiar.florist ("Snoopy") wrote:

connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-148-on-protocol-governance/

On the complexities of protocol governance.

There are only two organisations that are active in the fediverse that are a paid member of the W3C: Meta and the Social Web Foundation.

With the Social Web Foundation also receiving funding from Meta, the company that built Threads now has more institutional standing in ActivityPub governance than any of the organisations actually building open fediverse software.

Mastodon gGmbH, Framasoft, and others are not W3C members and cannot participate in the Working Group unless they are invited.

#CHATONS #fediverse #fedivers #ActivityPub #w3c #Mastodon #Peertube #Lemmy #mBin #Piefed #NodeBB #Iceshrimp #Pixelfed #Loops

Boosted by jwz:
mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

The. President. Is. Smelly. There needs to be a dedicated team of reporters on this. Scientists doing chemical analysis of every room he's been in. The media silence on this is deafening.

jwz wrote:

Just got a phishing email from airforce.mil.my, DKIM-signed and everything. Please don't call in an airstrike because I didn't click on the Contract Agreement.

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zakalwe@plasmatrap.com ("Seán Fenian") wrote:

@cstross@wandering.shop @Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy @schrotthaufen@mastodon.social I read a news article in the Guardian this morning that mentioned Palantir has been described as "the most evil company in the world".

Afterthought:
I have a little piece of time-travel micro-fiction in which the protagonist answers a question about why he has never traveled back and killed Hitler, by pointing out that Hitler existed at a historical cusp at which the timeline narrowed to just two choices, Adolf Hitler or Günter Schaller... and Schaller was worse, because Schaller was competent.

(My co-author on Agency took the same scenario and ran a different direction with it. In his version, Hitler came to power as a result of attempts to retroactively prevent a bloody revolt in Germany, which went wrong, and the subsequent attempts to try to fix that...
"The Holocaust was the point at which we realized that we weren't helping.")

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

It's dangerous to go alone! Take this.

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

New blog entry: how to buy "The Regicide Report": https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/01/the-regicide-report.html

Boosted by jwz:
SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

A street kid gets arrested
Gonna do some time
He got out three years from now
Just to commit more crime
A businessman is caught
With twenty-four kilos
He's out on bail and out of jail
And that's the way it goes
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2026/jan/16/trump-commutes-prison-sentence-of-us-rep-steve/

jwz wrote:

Hey look, here's Kimberly Guilfoyle's ex-husband sucking Ben Shapiro's dick: https://www.commondreams.org/gavin-newsom-shapiro-ice

"Newsom then boasted that there have been 'over 10,000' deportations he’s cooperated with since he became governor of California. 'California has cooperated with more ICE transfers, probably, than any other state in the country,' he continued. 'I vetoed multiple pieces of legislation that have come from my legislature to stop the ability for the state of California to do that.'"

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
kkarhan@infosec.space ("Kevin Karhan :verified:") wrote:

PSA for U.S. soldiers stationed in Germany

In case Shit Hits The Fan

Just in case you don't want to shoot on your NATO allies, consider calling

0800 / 190 - 9999

(toll-free within Germany from German landlines, mobile phones and public [pay]phone [booths])

ONLY when shit hits the fan [Abuse is a felony - like all emergency numbers, calls get traced!] and request further instructions on how to turn yourself in at the Feldjäger.

• This ain't the USA: these MPs (like the average police officer in Germany) will be calm and friendly if you are…
• I'm confident they appreciate cooperation and transfer cooperating withnesses to MILCOINTEL if they're willing to talk.

#NotLegalAdvice but I'd certainly advise against doing some stupid shit IF Trump decides to start yet another war in Greenland to distract from the EpsteinFiles and his CivilWar he's pushing for.

Do what's right, morally first!

• Write down that number just in case of said "Article 15 situation"…
• Anonymously share said info if you can without risking to be deanonymized yourself; don't trust anyone!
• Expect paranoia in US MIL/INTEL circles.

#USpol #fascism #military #troops #US #GI #DEpol #GLpol #deescalation #PoW #USA #Germany #USmilitary #German #Feldjäger #MilitaryPolice #PSA #CrimeOfAggression #WarCrime #WarCrimes #Germany #NATO #allies #Trump #war #CivilWar #Greenland #EpsteinFiles #Article15 #MIL #INTEL #military #intelligence #counterintelligence #MILCOINTEL

Boosted by jwz:
batkaren@mastodon.online wrote:

Are the 12% of dems who oppose abolishing ICE all in Congress?

Boosted by jwz:
ianbetteridge@vivaldi.net ("Ian Betteridge") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.online/@SciPolTech/115912181470508957

Fight fire with fire.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
bobmonsour@indieweb.social ("Bob Monsour") wrote:

@fromjason This is one of the many reasons that I love RSS. I get stuff written by people I care to know more about.

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

@fromjason something relevant to your article that I'm not sure you're aware of, but YouTube is trying to automate content creation by offering tools to creators to basically generate ideas for videos for them. Of course I tried to find something to link you to, but couldn't, because searching for this type of feature only offers articles for how to use AI to generate videos or video ideas. I've seen at least three YouTubers mention this feature, most recently Folding Ideas in his Jarhead video, and I believe Drew Gooden, and I forget the third.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
dazo@infosec.exchange ("🔗 David Sommerseth") wrote:

@jrdepriest @fromjason

I remember the early 2000, with so-called "thin clients" which where essentially graphic terminals which rendered images from a centralised server.

This was claimed to be the future for office workers. And was actually just a reinvention of the X11 capable graphic terminals from the earlier 90s and the text terminals from the 80s.

When thin-clients didn't get traction, software based solution surfaced (RDP, Citrix, VNC, SPICE, etc).

All have the same goals ... Less system administration work, higher security, unified desktop experience for all users, better utilisation of computing resources - since all can be managed centrally by the sysadmins. And lower costs and higher ROI.

The common denominator through all these periods - as long as the acquiring cost of individual computers are at an acceptable cost level, the centralised terminal approach will not be prioritised.

Of the stronger arguments for individual systems is that replacing lots of individual systems over time is an easier cost to plan for than upgrading high performance servers at regular intervals, and the setup time and preparation of a new server can take more time. It also gives greater flexibility in computing power, power users gets more capable hardware while others get cheaper hardware. In addition, a centralised approach is more vulnerable for downtime if the server or networking fails, all users are affected at once. A situation individual computers are far less prone to experience.

The centralised computing approach will surface again and again, every 10-15 years, with similar arguments. And I still believe it will still "fail" for most use cases, as long as the cost of independent computers are available at a reasonable price.

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

This bag of Lays potato chips can interact with my phone’s touchscreen. That’s weird, right??

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jrdepriest@infosec.exchange ("J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF:") wrote:

@fromjason

They act like there isn't a thriving aftermarket for used PCs (especially corporate cast-offs) and that Linux isn't real, widely available, and runs on lower spec'ed systems.

They'd have to outlaw Linux and make reselling PCs illegal.

I have a 15 year old laptop that still works if I plug it in (the batteries fail eventually).

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

This is the Computational Web. Where Web 2.0 was about platforms and read/write, Web 3.0 is about achieving absolute control over computational power. It's the cloud bayyybeeee!

In short, they want us all on the cloud. For everything. Thin clients and subscriptions. AI is the anchor that locks us down.

If you view this absurd trillion dollar infrastructure investment through the computational web lens, I think things make more sense.

https://ainowinstitute.org/publications/compute-and-ai

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz ("Jennifer Moore 😷") wrote:

@Wyatt_H_Knott @fromjason

I've been calling it "signup-walled". But I do agree it's a _kind_ of paywall.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

If you just left Bluesky today to join or come back to Mastodon, welcome (back)!

We are glad you are here with us :blobheartcat:

#Bluesky #Mastodon #Fediverse

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
thiswomanswerk@blacktwitter.io ("Andrea's about to qualify") wrote:

"Significantly, struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the eradication of racism or classism while supporting sexist oppression are helping to maintain the cultural basis of all forms of group oppression."

bell hooks, "The Significance of Feminist Movement" in Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center