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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
bixfrankonis@social.lol ("Bix F.") wrote:

Hoo boy.

https://bix.blog/posts/2026-01-27-on-nibbling-nuggets-of-nuance/

#Blogging #BixDotBlog

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
sleepless@social.lol ("Courtney") wrote:

About a month ago I started a side project: a cross-platform, opinionated replacement for iTunes that matches how I actually manage local music.

It strips out the cruft, streamlines metadata handling, and works seamlessly across Linux and Windows (macOS should work too—untested for now).

It’s still under active development, but the core vision is there. Very few settings, very strong opinions. Open source soon—probably not for everyone, but exactly what I wanted.

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

@swf are these the tenants in which you are building your version of the new social web?

Are you not terrified of your complicity due to your partnership with Meta?

Isn't now the time to give back the money to Mark Zuckerberg, kick out the Meta employees from the W3C standards group, and renounce Meta?

You are an unelected, ungoverned org that intends to build the world's next gen communication tools. And this is who you work with?

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-is-blocking-links-to-ice-list-on-facebook-instagram-and-threads/

Boosted by jwz:
cR0w@infosec.exchange wrote:

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

An old bridge constructed in the 1950s. The road hasn't been in use for decades, so the bridge is disappearing under vegetation.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #grass #bridge #river #graffiti

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
SheHacksPurple@infosec.exchange ("Tanya Janca | SheHacksPurple :verified: :verified:") wrote:

Every signature matters. 🙏
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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
SheHacksPurple@infosec.exchange ("Tanya Janca | SheHacksPurple :verified: :verified:") wrote:

I’ve been working toward this for years, and it finally happened.

Canada now has a parliamentary petition to require secure coding in federal software. If you care about cybersecurity, public safety, and better government tech, please sign:
👉 https://twp.ai/4ivPjh
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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

A single Whopper costs $7.37.

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

Good.

https://apnews.com/article/philip-glass-kennedy-center-cancellations-d29fda6fa3ea80dcdc7ded1033d6c04e

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Anyway, this all culminated in this train of thought which my groupchat found entertaining.

I feel like this catch phrase is going to pop into my mind every time this happens from now on.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

If the feature is something that people actually want, and is well-designed (e.g. easily discoverable in the existing user interface) then people will use it. Stop putting stuff between me and the thing I'm trying to get done!

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I've been thinking recently about "be careful what you measure". Any metric you measure becomes a metric to be gamed for some outcome.

I think it's showing up in enshitification. You know how you open an app that you use every day and it's got to interrupt you and tell you how great its new features are?

That's because some team built that feature. And their metrics are being judged. So OF COURSE they're going to push for that intro to drive engagement, if it makes the team/project look good.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
bazurk@social.lol ("ᗪave") wrote:

#ice

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

✨ Updated my /now page https://rknight.me/now/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
rek@merveilles.town ("R E K") wrote:

Third goblin, Snorri!

https://kokorobot.ca/site/goblins.html

#goblinweek

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
sinky@social.lol ("Simon 🌻") wrote:

💯

Attachments:

• video: e60d8e5a378840f8.mp4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

Ea Nasir would run a stalebot.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

This is what my corrected vision looks like. They’re both bad but the double images are easier to ignore when it’s dark-on-light. #LightMode #Accessibility #Disability

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

"I haven't fucked it up enough yet and I want to fuck it up more"

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hollywoodreporter/post/DUB7ZSJkvH8

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

This whole outfit including the belt cost me $17.50. Look at me. Bragging about how cheap I got something. I really did turn into my dad.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
alice@lgbtqia.space ("🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)") wrote:

God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

Trump's acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/cisa-madhu-gottumukkala-chatgpt-00749361

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange ("Steve Bellovin") wrote:

@mattblaze And the NY Times reports that the wounded person was in custody at the time: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/border-shooting-arizona.html

Boosted by jwz:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

firefox users: please make the LLM features in firefox a non-default plugin, opt-in, or better yet don’t do them at all

mozilla: DO NOT ACCEPT DEFAULT SETTINGS. slop is destroying the web! *posts a bunch of slop videos and text in an annual corporate update*

mozilla staff: we asked our community and they hallucinated that they don’t like AI even though we prompted them to not hallucinate.

mozilla’s remaining fan: why are you so angry at my best friend mozilla. stop being unreasonable.

Boosted by jwz:
jordan@sometimes.social wrote:

@semievolved @zzt directive 4 is classified, just like Robocop

Boosted by jwz:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

@semievolved oh that’s fucking incredible

this site is fractally terrible, the longer you look at it the worse it gets

Boosted by jwz:
semievolved@wandering.shop ("Donovan") wrote:

@zzt "While we are still guided by full manifesto, five principles are especially relevant in the age of AI:"

*lists three*

Tell me your copy was written by AI without telling me.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AlarminglyBad@mstdn.social ("Alarmingly Bad") wrote:

And they lived happily ever after

#comic #fairytale #webcomic

Attachments:

• video: Alarmingly Bad comic video about Jack and his beanstalk

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

Dangerously unchecked surveillance and rights violations have been a throughline of the Department of Homeland Security since the agency’s creation in the wake of the September 11th attacks. In particular, ICE and CBP have been responsible for countless civil liberties and digital rights violations. 🧵 (1/3) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/eff-statement-lawless-actions-ice-and-cbp

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CatsOfYore ("Cats of Yore") wrote:

Correct seating priorities. Real photo postcard from my collection, no date/info.