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

Letter from a Birmingham Jail:

> I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice

Dr King was a radical.

https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles%5FGen/Letter%5FBirmingham.html

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

@fromjason @morrick

I disagree with the Elements of Style on this and I always have. The punctuation should go inside the quotes only if it was part of the original phrase being quoted.

My name is Michael but everybody calls me "Mike".

That makes logical sense. The nickname is in double quotes.

My name is Michael but everybody calls me "Mike."

The nickname is "Mike-period"? Would you write

"Mike." is my nickname?

That period does not belong inside the double-quotes.

As for emphasis, what exactly does an italicized "." sound like? If you want it to be emphasized, make it an exclamation point or interrobang.

The only time I include the punctuation as emphasis is in headers which, in Markdown, are thankfully line based.

I'm sorry if this sounds confrontational. I have very strong opinions about punctuation and quotation marks. I didn't mean for it to sound so angry, just passionate.

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

Fox News delivers a "scientific" take on the location of heaven. It is predictably inane.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/19/old-man-babbles-about-the-bible-as-science/

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

NeatStats:

"NeatStats makes it easy to learn about the visits that your site receives (from both humans and robots alike). We respect everyone’s privacy by only recording the most basic information that every web server already recieves with each visit to your site: IP address, User Agent, and HTTP Referrer."

The folks at omg.lol are looking at building an analytics tool. Exciting! https://neatstats.net/

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

@adam @cory hell yeah!

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

The Computational Web and the Old AI Switcharoo explores how each iteration of the web starts with a promise and ends with a power grab.

Shoe horning AI into all of our apps sets a precedent that our devices must be tethered to the cloud to work.

Web 3.0's power grab may be an attack on local compute. Because that's what would make big tech the most money.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/the-computational-web-and-the-old-ai-switcharoo/

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

I wrote about it here! The Computational Web and the Old AI Switcharoo explores how each iteration of the web starts with a promise and ends with a power grab.

Web 3.0's power grab may be an attack on local compute. Because that's what would make big tech the most money.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/the-computational-web-and-the-old-ai-switcharoo/

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

While writing in markdown, you italicize a word at the end of the *sentence.*

Do you include the period or does the period live outside the italic marks?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ieure@retro.social ("PunnO)))") wrote:

Single Board Computers Near You

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

interesting to read what James is doing with RSS here
https://jamesg.blog/2026/01/19/announcing-artemis-roll-up

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

Covfefe is that you?

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

“You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

her ghostly presence

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

It's the "Clever Hans" effect: folks genuinely don't seem to realise how often *they* actually wrote/edited the code to get things working.

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

US doomerism has truly cooked a lot of people’s brains, it seems. Trying to make things less bad is always worthwhile. Drawing a line and sticking to your principles always matters. Sometimes the strong turn out to be weaker than they seem.

And sometimes you get lucky.

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

Is British media seriously pretending that the EU deployment to Greenland was to safeguard the arctic against Russia and not a message to Trump?

‘Cause that’s the impression I’m getting from them this morning

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

Your terminal is now a texture! 🤯

💠 **bevy_tui_texture** — A Bevy plugin for rendering TUIs using Ratatui and wgpu

⚡ Display widgets on 2D sprites, 3D meshes or UI elements, all with WASM support!

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/tt-toe/bevy%5Ftui%5Ftexture

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #bevy #gamedev #wgpu #graphics #wasm #devtools

Attachments:

• gifv: bb10527b5d1906b5.mp4

Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
vasilis@social.vasilis.nl ("Vasilis") wrote:

Since I am a bit too busy the coming weeks to curate an event, I have extended the deadline for the The Web You Want conference.

We are looking for talks, workshops, interventions about the web you want. What should the web be like? Also, if for some reason you are disappointed with the web, let us know what was the web you wanted.

☞ https://the-web-you-want.org/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jmaris@eupolicy.social ("Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO") wrote:

I'm sorry, Charles de Gaulle, you were right all along.

#USpol

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

This would not be the first time we’d be occupied by the US (only neutral country to get invaded in WW2) and I’m guessing that Trump’s military and FDR’s are two different beasts.

But I do remember from my grandmother’s stories that it made the housing issue worse

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

It’s a stressful morning here in the subarctic, though I expect the mood of our nearest arctic neighbours to be even worse

Starting to wonder what happens to mortgages in the event of a US occupation.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
s3_gunzel@aus.social ("Ben Cousins :verified_mustard:") wrote:

Hey there,

My #introduction post.

I'm another Twitter refugee. If you knew me over on Twitter, you'd prob also know that I love my trains.

I also love my tech - specifically working with businesses' unusual issues, and my server work. I post a lot of both things. If that interests you, give me a follow.

To start off with, here's a train.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
JoeGrowling@todon.eu ("Plague Island Resistance") wrote:

#LabourFriendsOfEpstein

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
infobeautiful@vis.social ("Information Is Beautiful") wrote:

Deep truth

(creator: unknown)

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
hamishtpb@mewblog.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Hamish The PolarBear") wrote:

Just did a "type in" program on the ZX Spectrum and I am amazed at how fast the muscle memory of typing BASIC on a Speccy keyboard came back after 40 years!

#ZXSpectrum #VintageComputing

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
vkc@linuxmom.net ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

My comments are littered with folks asking "why is it a problem if your blocklist is public on Bluesky?"

I'm glad you asked.

"Who you block" is a reasonable indicator of your personal alignments. If you block TERFs, you're likely trans-friendly, if not trans yourself. If you block white supremacists, you're likely in support of multiculturalism.

If you block government entities, well, you know how this goes.

Do I trust Bluesky to handle that information with care? Hell no.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab :antifa:") wrote:

me boosting my own toot

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
revk@toot.me.uk ("RevK :verified_r:") wrote:

By popular demand, poster no 3

To be honest, I expected it to be just his usual walking the dog, and angrily taking the poster - but planning a midnight ninja excursion was not what I expected at all.

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

noted: thoughts on Slopware
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-01-19T08:04Z/

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

blogged: Winter 2026: Self-Hosted… Success!
https://dbushell.com/2026/01/19/self-hosted-update-winter-2026/

— follow up from last weeks near disaster 😮‍💨