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

I've always been an anti-theist, but somehow modern Christianity keeps telling me I've never gone far enough.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/26/every-time-i-try-to-feel-sympathy-for-a-church-they-push-me-away/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
IsabelB@mastodon.ie wrote:

Another photo from me, but a moody one this time!

Taken at a local ruined church/graveyard one evening, with a stormy sky.
Originally taken in colour, but better in mono - especially with the subject!
f16, 1/2s to get the depth of field

#photo #photography #blackandwhite

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

RE: https://librarysocialism.social/@mattyroses/115962180875380449

We (leftists-types) all go through that phase
where be believe that religion is the root of all evil, and if everyone would just be atheists, all our problems will disappear.

The sooner you get out of that phase, the better. Yes, the system can use religion for nefarious ends. But it's not like a single driving force of oppression. And we certainly shouldn't shun theists who see the system for what it is.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
FediThing@chinwag.org ("FediThing :progress_pride:") wrote:

This is a really fun PeerTube video by @harrybo@gamerstavern.online about rally driving with a 3-wheeled car, highly recommend you watch:

➡️ https://video.gamerstavern.online/w/su1VTRDyum6gpqSffq2VmG

I accidentally inspired the video by commenting on one of his more conventional four-wheeled rally videos. He crashed and one of the wheels came off, so I joked he should try driving with three wheels, and he made the video above 😆

If you don't know Harrybo, he mainly does driving game videos but the emphasis is on humour and self-mockery rather than toxic car culture. They're great fun, you can subscribe to his PeerTube at:

➡️ @harrybo@video.gamerstavern.online

#Rally #PeerTube #WRC #RobinReliant #RallyDriving

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org wrote:

Join the Internet Archive & partners for PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY 🏛️

📚 This #webinar introduces the growing international movement to ensure libraries & other memory institutions have the same rights online they’ve long held in the physical world. 🌐

📆 Jan 27
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/protect-our-future-memory-join-the-call-for-library-digital-rights/

#libraries #digitalrights #righttoown

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Also:
• Visa and deportation controversies in the second Trump administration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa%5Fand%5Fdeportation%5Fcontroversies%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fsecond%5FTrump%5Fadministration
• List of deaths in ICE detention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%5Fof%5Fdeaths%5Fin%5FICE%5Fdetention
• List of shootings by U.S. immigration agents in the second Trump administration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%5Fof%5Fshootings%5Fby%5FU.S.%5Fimmigration%5Fagents%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fsecond%5FTrump%5Fadministration
• Targeting of political opponents and civil society under the second Trump administration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeting%5Fof%5Fpolitical%5Fopponents%5Fand%5Fcivil%5Fsociety%5Funder%5Fthe%5Fsecond%5FTrump%5Fadministration

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths,%5Fdetentions%5Fand%5Fdeportations%5Fof%5FAmerican%5Fcitizens%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fsecond%5FTrump%5Fadministration

#USpol #USpolitics

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
glynmoody ("Glyn Moody") wrote:

RE: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/115961237408378306

totally hypocritical if they don't... #csam #twitter #eu

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
x0_000@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

candy cane

#pixelart #sketch #oc

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
x0_000@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

plant

#pixelart #sketch

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
reverendstanley@kolektiva.social ("Reverend Stanley :weed:") wrote:

On a scale of 1 to 10?

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

"99th Day: A Warning About Technology"

https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/99th-day/

> How did we get here? We were supposed to be caretakers of our environment. We’ve become undertakers for the Sixth Mass Extinction.

I haven't read this myself, but this looks like interesting, if grim, reading

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

“Ukraine, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, America – Hi, I'm Heather Burns”

https://heatherburns.tech/2026/01/26/ukraine-sudan-syria-yemen-america/

> I spent some time last year immersed in studying the international protocols which have been devised to collect, categorise, and preserve digital evidence of war crimes, and crimes against humanity, for use in future tribunals.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
benjamim@social.lol ("Benjamim :prami_hearts:") wrote:

@LUH3417 recomendo muito o omg.lol tens aqui o meu convite: https://home.omg.lol/referred-by/benjamim

Qualquer dúvida podes falar com o @neatnik

E tens este texto que pode ajudar na tua decisão: https://brennan.day/omg-lol-is-the-internet-we-need-right-now/
via @brennan

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com ("Alison Wilder") wrote:

I would like to finally quit YouTube, which will be significant for me in that I'll be severing my last tie to corporate tech. Yay!

I have a YT channel, but that's not what keeps me on YT. It's about the awesome, bite-sized, high-quality video essays that I enjoy so much. I just can't read books ALL the time, damnit! It serves the same need for me as magazines, but...VIDEO!

I want to explore PeerTube more for sure. Anyone else have suggestions? How about Nebula?

#degoogle #resist

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ttscoff@hachyderm.io ("Brett Terpstra 🏴🐈‍⬛") wrote:

Once again agreeing with David Price:

https://www.macworld.com/article/3036313/ads-are-destroying-the-user-experience-and-apple-wont-stop.html

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

While I haven't played much games in recent years, this is now one of those rare phases where I let myself get captured by a good game.

This time it's Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe #OpenTTD that got me interested.

I have played the similar game Simutrans quite intensely a decade ago but back then it suffered from occasional crashes.

#Linux
#Gaming

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
APBBlue@thepit.social ("New Year, New Blue") wrote:

When it's done, this embroidered dish towel is going to say: "AI SHOULD DO DISHES." #embroidery #tech #AI

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
JohnSullivan@mastodonapp.uk ("Fan of Shared Truth & Empathy") wrote:

“So, if invoking the Insurrection Act is akin to waving a magic wand that makes Trump omnipotent and lets him install a dictatorship in an instant, why hasn’t he done it yet? The people who control the government are certainly not the most patient or a particularly prudent bunch. As a matter of practical reality, the idea that the minute Trump invokes the Insurrection Act all resistance is futile, Trump has won, Game Over is nonsense. That’s just regime propaganda. Perhaps the Trumpists, underneath all the bluster, know this too? Could it be that some in the administration are concerned that once they actually invoke the Insurrection Act, they can no longer use it as a constant threat? And if that doesn’t get their enemies to surrender, what do they have left?”

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

The public backlash is so vast no one is buys "it's paid agitators" anymore.

Noem and Bovino are desperate that the people who have supported and trusted them and Trump do not look more closely at what ICE is really doing.

At the same time they continue to kill, to scare us into stopping.

I'm hopeful that this will fail.

This is a big crack. This "they are well meaning people who have been fooled" line. 3/3

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

got a start on digging us out

Mastodon wrote:

Busy week! We're preparing to meet the community at #FOSDEM at the weekend. Some members of the team will be at various events around Brussels from Thursday. As well as @haubles talk on the #socialweb track on Saturday, @mellifluousbox will be on a panel on the Policy track on Sunday. Plus, you'll be able to buy stickers and pins on our stand to #SupportMastodon

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
PythonLinks ("Video Processing Wiki") wrote:

ASIC and FPGA Hybrid Meetups

A new #Meetup group is being formed. Meetups will be held monthly in #Katowice, and occasionally in other European cities if a speaker and venue can be found. The plan is to make this into a hybrid meetup, so people from all over the world can participate, while the speaker benefits from live audience feedback.

https://wiki.pythonlinks.info/asic-and-fpga-meetups

#Krakow #Warsaw #Wroclaw #Gdansk #ASIC #FPGA

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

Anyone else exhausted by the obvious, stupid lies repeated endlessly?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/26/its-all-lies/

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

You'll start to see small delays. Then big delays, projects postponed or cancelled, and high levels of employee burnout and stress, all causing increases in a variety of issues such as mistakes, product defects, missed deadlines, and a decline in sales. Long term, aggregate productivity suffers 12/

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

So you might boost productivity as measured individually on both sides of the queue, but the safe capacity of the queue might drop from 70% to 35%. At the same time you've reduced your headcount, which increases the amount of work that's going to be waiting in queues throughout the org 11/

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

But, as I mentioned above, queues are highly sensitive to variability. If your queues can run safely at 70% capacity without causing delays, adding a highly variable "productivity" intervention will dramatically lower how much capacity you can safely use before delays kick in 10/

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

Non-deterministic automation with high variability can't be left unattended, so they don't increase capacity directly: you still need the worker. Unless the output doesn't matter, but in that case it's wasted effort in its entirety and you'd get more gains from finding ways to avoid it completely 9/

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

This is the "AI" gamble. These CEOs are betting our economies on the idea that "AI" somehow increases an organisation's capacity for work despite a reduced headcount, but this is unlikely because "AI" automation is not deterministic and has high inherent variability along multiple axes 8/

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

Each department, group, and employee has work queues waiting on work and the curious thing about queues is that they are strongly affected by variability. The higher the variability the less you can use of the capacity connected to the queue before delays skyrocket and work collapses 6/