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The Dildo Distribution Delegation.
"I'm going to hand out big dicks to little-dick ICE agents." The Geneva Convention disintegrated. The Founding Fathers wept. Somewhere, a federal HR manager clutched their chest and whispered, "No. Not like this."...
https://jwz.org/b/yk2Y
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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:
Happy Large Boulder the Size of a Small Boulder Day to those who celebrate.
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tvaziri ("Todd Vaziri") wrote:
huh that’s weird
OpenAI’s president is a Trump mega-donor
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/867947/openai-president-greg-brockman-trump-super-pac
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louie@pdx.social ("Louie Mantia, Jr.") wrote:
To everyone who works at Apple: are you seeing this shit where Tim Cook continues to support the Trump administration? How do you reconcile that with your employment?
Apple values you as an employee or they wouldn’t pay you so much. Use that little bit of leverage to be upset about it. Tim Cook has an email address. You can email him directly. Worst case is that you lose your job. But if you actually lose your job over this, isn’t that indicative of it being not a great place to work right now?
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LGUG2Z@hachyderm.io ("Jeezy") wrote:
The usual suspects said that this would fail
Once again, they were wrong
https://lgug2z.com/articles/i-started-identifying-corporate-devices-in-my-software/
#software #licensing #mdm #windows #macos #opensource #postopensource
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workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:
#OtD 27 Jan 1945 the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland that was used by the Nazis to murder 1.3 million people, most of whom were Jewish https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12510/liberation-of-auschwitz
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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:
“zzt how dare you accuse Mozilla employees of suffering from very obvious LLM psychosis”
please “enjoy” the State of Mozilla, one of the least hinged things I’ve seen released with pride by an established corporation: https://stateof.mozilla.org/ (epilepsy warning)
note the 2001-style not-Flash intro. the fake captcha. the timecube-esque prattle about AI threatening humanity. “DO NOT ACCEPT DEFAULT SETTINGS”. the ASCII art cop finger in the footer of the main page. all of it. what in fuck is this.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Sock it to'em: https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/01/27/sock-it-toem.html
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
What are we always racing to? ...
(I have an answer for that, but I'm deliberately leaving it out.)
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
A dear friend wears mismatched socks, which, once upon a time, was *unthinkable* to me. Turns out, it's sorta liberating. You can wear a striped sock with a plain white sock. No one can take that away from you.
I'm fighting against the variety 3-packs: the forced obsolescence of red, white, and blue stripes.
Big Sock won't coerce me into buying more socks because I lost one sock (or they stole?)
I'm a rebel. I'm a sock radical. ✊🏼
(I'm procrastinating on my work)
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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@LonM/115966748145817371
UK PEOPLE: this is REALLY IMPORTANT. If the government bans under-16s from using VPNs, then logically they must intend to REQUIRE AGE VERIFICATION FOR ALL VPN USE. Which will affect adults too!
*Your* privacy and right to anonymous web browsing is at risk!
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
How do I know this? Because in each of those instances, trying to go fast failed over and over, and it all took much longer than desired and cost more than expected, and yet we continued until done. What if we had recognized that upfront?
In each of these instances, the people pushing speed at all costs were not the engineers or scientists. I'm not saying they're immune to such thinking, but the people doing the work in these cases recognized excessive speed as unnecessary and detrimental.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
It occurs to me that slop machines and their sloperators are another manifestation of something I've seen repeatedly in my life in business. The idea that speed is paramount, and if it can't be done fast, then it's not worth doing. And each time I've seen that, it's been in situations where slowing down would actually be better. It doesn't mean you don't work with urgency, but it does mean you work at an appropriate pace.
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djmcgoven@queer.cool ("JΛMIΞ :ms_wolf:") wrote:
They made games expensive. They got surprised people started buying cheaper games. Now their AAA titles don't meet their financial goals. So they horde all the GPUs for AI, and make it harder for gamers to stay in the market. Now CEOs are hinting that they want gaming in a subscription cloud service.
I hate society. Truly.
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aiyion@infosec.exchange wrote:
OHB is currently looking for Rust developers.
They build satellites and controlsoftware for it.I’ve visited them last autumn and both Detlev and Martin appeared very friendly.
Definitely worth to reach out, even if it’s LinkedIn:Not only if you know someone looking for rust in space: feel free to boost the post to your followers.
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shauna@social.coop ("Shauna GM") wrote:
"On Thursday, Jan 22 a group of about a dozen Vermont community elders entered the atrium of White Cap Office Park in Williston VT, home of ICE’s National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center.
For the next 3.5 hours, they sat together in silence, pausing every 90 seconds to read the name of someone killed in ICE custody, followed by a loud whistle blast.
Around 3:15 the Williston Police announced they had determined that the protestors were not breaking the law."
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The mobile app stores demand we believe that they *must* be trusted exclusively to protect us, to the exclusion of a powerful open web:
The only thing they're protecting is profits:
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monsieuricon@social.kernel.org ("K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁") wrote:
We had a fruitful discussion about mail hosting options on the users list, so I documented it here:
https://korg.docs.kernel.org/email-hosting.html
Might be useful to others.
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laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com ("Laura Kalbag") wrote:
My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website.
https://accessibilityforeveryone.site
The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I find thinking of Trump and his ilk as "neo-royalists" helpful in coming to some understanding of the psycho-social dynamics at work now.
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gwenbeads@mathstodon.xyz ("Gwen Fisher") wrote:
Twelve years. I started this project twelve years ago, and today I hold the result in my hand. It’s a book that combines bead weaving with math called, “Beading with Algorithms: Cellular Automata in Peyote Stitch.” With help from mathematician and artist Roger Antonsen, graphic designer Zelda Lin, a handful of talented proof readers, and the good people from World Scientific Publishing Company, my dream of combining my loves of math, art, and teaching into a book is finally a reality.
This book is the first of its kind, a recipe book of algorithms that can be used and combined to generate colorful patterns in peyote stitch beadwork in any size and shape you desire. These algorithms could also be applied to other pixelated art forms like tile laying, embroidery, crochet, and quilts. We included projects like bracelets, pill pouches, pendants, beaded beads, and key chains. We also included a bunch of different grids that you can photocopy and color with markers.
Of course I’m biased, but I think it’s a really beautiful book. We included multiple colorful images on almost every page, 172 pages in all. It was a huge layout challenge, but Zelda nailed it. My original goal was to write 128 pages on how to use algorithms to make beaded jewelry, but the more we explored the space, the more we found. Not just millions of algorithms, the space of possibilities is infinite. So of course, we couldn’t include them all. But we used math and Roger’s custom software that he wrote for this project to help us find dozens of the easiest algorithms and more than a hundred more in increasing levels of complexity. We included all of our favorites. 1/2
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villapirorum@indieweb.social ("Antoine") wrote:
Have a look at how my home-made rss-reader sees your website by appending your url to villepreux.net/lab/metadata/?url=xxxxxxxxx
Example with the excellent David Bushell @db website: https://villepreux.net/lab/metadata/?url=dbushell.com
The rss-reader in question: https://villepreux.net/web-feed
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mhoye wrote:
Information for future conference organizers considering a US location.
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
If there's been a recurring theme to my career, it's been right-wing dickwombles declaring my career to be in a shambles because I "virtue signal" or am a "social justice warrior" or, currently, am "woke." When it became clear my career wasn't in a shambles, the line became I'm being propped up by my publisher, who would buy boatloads of my books to game the bestseller lists. They've mostly at this point given up trying to pretend I don't sell books, they just hate them, so, progress, I guess.
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samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:
Where in the world is she going to put 18 commentators (who are not actual reporters)?
“CBS's Bari Weiss adds 18 commentators, to lean on streaming-oriented strategy in newsroom revamp”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"Nostalgia is not a policy."
it may work for elections, but it is deadly for peace, prosperity, and progress.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“I argue the Middle Powers must act together, because if we are not at the table then we are on the menu.”
- PM Carney of Canada
https://www.rev.com/transcripts/carney-at-davos [video & audio]
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2026/01/20/principled-and-pragmatic-canadas-path-prime-minister-carney-addresses [official text]
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320x200@post.lurk.org ("ultrageranium") wrote:
Nothing in Commons: the end of digital collective ownership?
I'm sharing a new text where I try to summarize some older thoughts that have been slowly fermenting in the past years regarding the dead-end in which the digital commons have landed. I discuss the discomfort of their growing ambivalence, and the incredible difficulty, but urgency to move forward beyond this concept and rethink collective objectives in relation to digital tools and practices.
It is the follow-up of a copyleft/copyright/copywhat licensing workshop I gave at https://spookstad.boo. Amsterdam Alternative asked me to contribute an essay on the digital commons based on some of the topics discussed in the workshop for their web docu on collective ownership.
The text is also available in Dutch, thanks to a translation by Menno Grootveld from Starfish Books.
Illustration: @l03s
https://www.collectiefeigendom.nl/en/ownership/digital-collective-ownership
#commons #digitalcommons #freesoftware #opensource #creativecommons #licenses #freeculture #collective
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thibaultamartin@mamot.fr ("Thib") wrote:
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/115962508398912420
If you consider going to the US, whatever the reason, don’t, for your own safety.
If you consider organizing an event to the US for an international community, you’re putting people’s lives at risk.
If you want an English-speaking environment for an international event, pick Canada or the UK. Heck, even in Scandinavian countries everyone speaks English.
Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:
“SoCiAL MeDiA iS ToXiC!!!”
No, you’re just allergic to accountability. Try focusing on the message instead of deflecting with the medium.