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

It got in to the WiFi oh my god

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

I don't know who needs to hear this, but when it comes to web performance, if you're measuring in seconds, you're admitting defeat.

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

Oh no what's happening

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

Wait you guys science has gone too far

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

Say what you will about America, but we have perfected the science of Zero Sugar soft drinks.

Boosted by jwz:
gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

Every day, Republican Congresspeople wake up and are advised by staff which of his posts they haven’t seen.

Boosted by jwz:
gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

“Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns Thing People Don’t Want boom could falter if people continue not to want it”

Who wants to be the one to explain markets to the head of a multi-trillion dollar company? Is he just used to people not wanting Windows and it selling anyway?

Boosted by jwz:
fraying@xoxo.zone ("Derek Powazek 🐐") wrote:

We may have to stop selling our CBD products in November because Republicans and the booze lobby snuck a hemp ban into the law last year.

So let's have some fun until then.
https://milkbarn.farm/pages/loophole

Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

What @n1xnx says is what a lot of us have been lamenting since the ICE invasion started. Shouldn’t local police protect citizens from ICE?? Why this hasn’t happened is a really good question. Factors to consider:

- “Obstructing a federal agent” is illegal, and local police / politicians feel constrained by that (even if the agents themselves don’t seem constrained by the actual law at all, only by what they think they can get away with)

- Police can in theory cite federal agents for e.g. traffic violations or illegal plate swapping after the fact, as long as they’re not “obstructing” the agents — but how do you cite a masked person with fake plates who refuses to give ID?

- Some police are visibly supportive of ICE, chumming it up with them and giving literal fist bumps; a nontrivial subset are outright closet Nazis. A lot of people don’t really see any need to go past “ACAB” as a full explanation for all of this — and certainly The ACAB Hypothesis is…um, not really being proved false right now in Minneapolis.

- I think some police quietly resent ICE for stepping on their turf, but that does not seem to have boiled up into actual confrontation in MSP. One police leader here painted it in early Dec as “some people want to instigate a confrontation between Minneapolis Police, and that’s not going to happen.” Police culture says that police should be a neutral party in a dispute between ICE and residents, and actually protecting residents would be taking sides. (Duh, yes, taking sides that way is your literal job, you dumbasses…but I digress.)

- Some police (especially leadership) really want to get on the community’s good side after the murder of George Floyd, and see this as an opportunity, but unfortunately this has materialized entirely as non-interventionist support: “We responded to a 911 call and help a distressed resident after her husband was abducted!” “We transported children left parentless on the streets by ICE safely back to their home!” “Our officers volunteered at the food shelf!” OK, nice, good for you buddy.

So yeah, I’m wondering this too, and am bitter about it. https://tilde.zone/@n1xnx/115928447564126393

jwz wrote:

PRANIC LIFT 777.

Weyland-Yutani: "Building Better Cyberdecks"
https://jwz.org/b/yk2L

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

Apple and Google's quisling era unearths the lies they've told to justify monopoly power over software for the most consequential computing platforms of our lives. If the app stores can't move against Musk/Grok, they should not be trusted with any of the powers they demand:

https://infrequently.org/2026/01/naked-power/

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

Iceland's foreign policy at the moment:

"If we stay very very still, maybe nobody will notice us."

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

Another short voice note from myself. Check out my series at https://chriswere.wales/voicenotes

Attachments:

• audio: A short note from the road, where I share a little about how I make these clips.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
maique@social.lol ("maique :prami_pride:") wrote:

Back to basics.

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

A few months ago in Chicago (where Jason lives), ICE literally used Black Hawk helicopters to drop agents onto apartment buildings, where they smashed into people’s homes and abducted 37 people. U.S. citizens were zip-tied and detained. Naked children were pulled from their beds. And only two of those 37 people were actual targets of the ICE operation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FMidway%5FBlitz

How anyone can consider this and say “nah, that’s not as bad as people are saying” is beyond anything I can understand.

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

And, yeah, I *am* building my own analytics thing. Because Tinylytics is built by a guy who uses Grok enthusiastically, and people deserve an alternative that doesn’t contain any CSAM-adjacent code.

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

Someone tapped me on the shoulder this morning and said “Jason Kratz is talking about you again.” I’m always curious about criticism, so I took a look at what he had to say. Then I saw what he said about ICE, which reminded me that some criticism is truly worthless.

If you can’t see ICE for what it is at this point, you’re just too far gone.

Micro.blog can keep this guy. You won’t catch any ICE apologists here, that’s for sure. I hope Manton is happy with the community that he’s building.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
sobfly ("Kristof") wrote:

Hello Fediveres,

I am a 44-year-old software developer who is fed up with meaningless, purely profit-focused work, vibe AI slop, and a Big Brother antisocial networks, that snoops on data at every turn.

I'm looking for a new challenge, true to the motto: #MeaningfulPurposeFirst. Do you have any ideas? Can you help me #boost the word in this great Fediverse?
#FediHire

You are awesome! Thank you so much for all the boosts and the support. Some more details:

https://mastodon.social/@sobfly/115927569352403790

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

'AI' is a dick move, redux: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

Today in Labor History January 20, 1872: Filipino soldiers staged a bloody revolt against Spanish rule known as the Cavite Mutiny. Around 200 locally recruited colonial troops and laborers rose up hoping that it would escalate into a national uprising. However, colonial government forces quickly put down the mutiny. They executed many of the participants and cracked down on the independence movement. Nevertheless, it marked the beginning of a movement that would eventually lead to the Philippine Revolution of 1896

#workingclass #LaborHistory #mutiny #rebellion #uprising #Revolution #philippines #colonialism #indigenous

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

Russia isn't scared of NATO. It's scared of an alliance that would actually fight.]

European intelligence warns Moscow could strike NATO within 2-5 years — despite 1.2 million casualties in Ukraine. The logic? Russia doesn't need to win. It needs NATO to hesitate.

Former Norwegian Defense Attaché Hans Petter Midttun argues Ukraine should anchor a new European coalition. Four years fighting a nuclear power is credibility no other nation can match. https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/20/the-alliance-russia-fears-isnt-nato-its-a-coalition-that-will-actually-fight/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

Today in Labory History January 20, 1930: Korean anarchist military leader Kim Chwa-chin was assassinated. When he was 18, he publicly burned the Korean slave registry, releasing 50 families of slaves and providing each family with enough land to live on. This was the first emancipation of slaves in modern Korea. He also organized branches of the Korea Association and the Association for the Performing Arts in Hongseong as ways to help organize for Korean national liberation. He was imprisoned in 1911 for subversive activities. He later fled to Manchuria to escape Japanese occupation, but then fought against the Japanese when they invaded Manchuria. After his assassination, the Korean anarchist movement was heavily repressed by the Japanese army, in the south, and by pro-Kuomintang forces, in the north. By 1931, most of its leaders were dead.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #korea #anarchism #slavery #abolition #japan #occupation #manchuria #liberation #KimChwachin

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

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
― John F. Kennedy

#quotes

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dilmandila@mograph.social ("Dilman Dila") wrote:

If you develop for #linux please make offline installation possible, for people in countries with restricted internet. Came back home last night and today I want to install Luminance HDR but their only option for linux is via the terminal, and yet, while I can access full internet on my phone using a VPN, I can't access any on my laptop/workstations, so I can't install this program, unless I use Wine. I'm in #Uganda They cut off internet during elections and it has now been partially restored.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
NinaBernstein1@journa.host ("Nina Bernstein") wrote:

“None of this means that America is destined to become a fully fascist country. For now, we are trapped in the space between the liberal democracy most Americans grew up in and the dark, belligerent authoritarian state that our government seeks to impose.” Organize. You still have a right to protest. Use it or lose it. #GIFT #RESIST https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/opinion/resistance-libs-trump-fascism.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.EFA.TxRD.YadghWqbChgu&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

2pm today walkout planned to demonstrate support for democracy in the USA

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

Stephen Miller is wrong about Star Trek, as he is about everything, but I wouldn't mind seeing the franchise end.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/20/death-to-star-trek/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngb-yW3hHpI

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Mr_Xarii@pixelfed.social ("xvr") wrote:

When you are small
but also big

#wintergoldhänchen #goldcrest
#birdphotography #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdsofpixelfed

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
beecycling@wandering.shop ("BeeCycling") wrote:

Remember, any politician who talks about running the economy like a business, or a household budget is treating you like an idiot. National economies, businesses and household budgets all work entirely differently. There are different things they can do and can't do. If your household is over-spending you can't lay off one of your kids. If your business needs more cash you can't levy taxes like a government. And if the government starts trying to downsize headcount, you're in deep trouble.

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

We just added a new example to the Ratatui repository! 🐁

📈 volatility-surface — 3D perspective projection in the terminal.

🦀 Powered by Rust & @ratatui_rs

➡️ Try it out: https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui/tree/main/examples/apps/volatility-surface

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #graphics #3d #terminal #dataviz

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• gifv: 069ac1f2f12b841c.mp4