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

She should not have been in this position, and it's not a good thing that we're in this moment, but the fact she went after this motherfucker is pretty great.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@wedgelive/post/DUCYGkSCt41

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

Have yall heard of Nemahsis?

She’s a Palestinian artist and her music is wonderful. She was dropped from her label after October 7th, but decided to complete her album anyway. I’m so happy she did because it’s a masterpiece. Truly.

https://youtu.be/VsqYlmf3SAg

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

Bill Withers: https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/01/28/bill-withers.html

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

The tech bros confused this moment with "another change in administration, go along to get along" and didn't grasp that it was a qualitatively different moment altogether. Now aside from what Joe mentions here, other nations are actively looking to replace US tech and social media sites with their own, and they are absolutely right to do so. US tech didn't just lay down with fucking fascists, it jumped into the bed with abandon.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@joe%5Fhill/post/DUD0brYAGcj

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

Vibe coding is flooding the world with bespoke programs riddled with security flaws, memory leaks, and sleeper bugs that no one will catch until the damage is already done.

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

you know, it *does*

;^}

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

there may have been a Catnip Involved Incident

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

Whatever Tim Cook's legacy would've been, it's now a spineless technocrat who bent the knee to history's biggest blowhard for a couple of percentage points in stock.

https://theintercept.com/2026/01/27/apple-tim-cook-trump-alex-pretti/

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

(This is regarding about private individuals. If you're a US politician and you're not on the fucking record about what's going on in this country right now, go fuck yourself, you coward.)

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

We can't know why some are publicly silent about events today. It's not always that they are simply willing to be complicit. It's possible for some that they've decided it's not safe for them to be public. It's possible they decided that quiet private action is preferable. It's possible they're still on a hard road to their own personal Damascus. It's all right to show some grace and believe not everyone silent is a willing bystander.

But if you ARE speaking out publicly, and loudly: Thank you.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jollysea@chaos.social ("joël") wrote:

@fromjason I have your blog in my RSS reader, but I should read your posts on the original site, very good design!

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
flun1tr4z3p4m@mas.to ("Marco") wrote:

@fromjason @pluralistic god damn you, Photog Phil!

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

This puts all of Candace Owens' conspiracy theories in context.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/28/when-conspiracy-theorists-try-too-hard-to-find-a-conspiracy/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
APBBlue@thepit.social ("New Year, New Blue") wrote:

FINISHED IT. #AI #Tech #technology #embroidery #Handmade #FuckAI

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

Ilhan Omar is a brave politician.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/28/a-resilient-minnesotan/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEeVfA3Kzt4

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
jscholes@dragonscave.space ("James Scholes") wrote:

Read a book review on my timeline that didn't mention the title or author.

Went to reply in confusion because the book sounded interesting, and realised the details were in the content warning and I have those completely disabled in my client.

Please don't use content warnings like email subject lines.

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

Sometimes, you have to wait patiently for horrible people to kick the bucket.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/28/waiting-for-another-creepy-old-man-to-die/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
amoroso@oldbytes.space ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

Perseus was a distributed, message-passing operating system developed at the Computer Science department of Stanford University. It was designed to be portable "by virtue of its kernel-based structure and its Implementation in Pascal", as this Technical Report noted in 1983.

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/stanford/Stanford%5FCS%5FTR%5FCollection%5F2025-12-12/PDF/1983/CS-TR-83-945.pdf

#pascal #os #retrocomputing

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
valhalla@social.gl-como.it ("Elena ``of Valhalla''") wrote:

The internet¹ is telling me that there is a hat pattern inspired by hats used to protest the nazi in Norway, with proceeds from the sale going to orgs that help people affected by ICE:

ravelry.com/patterns/library/m…
payhip.com/b/TqQL1

(I follow pallia's blog, I don't know anything about the author(s) of the pattern)

#knitting

¹ pallia.net/blog/ice-hat

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕"):
axeleroy@toot.community ("Axel Leroy") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@db/115864670424577597

Ever since I saw that blog post, I was like "Hey, can I create an adblock filter to disable scroll fading?".

Since I had filters for common smooth-scrolling, I split them into their own list and added a few rules that disables the most common scroll fade libraries:

https://github.com/axeleroy/filters/blob/main/scrolling.txt

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

Is there no way to disable dragging a tab to a new window completely in Firefox or Firefox-based browsers (like Zen)? It keeps happening on regular clicks. Click on a tab and pop! it's in a new window.

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

At this rate, another ten newsletter "broadcasts" and I will have lost an entire year's worth of subscriber growth

Not because my attrition rate is unusually high, it's pretty normal, but because growth since September has flatlined

That's my own fault because my ongoing ambivalence about the software industry has fast been turning into an outright dislike, which isn't conducive to building up a dev audience.

OTOH, writing the newsletter has been more enjoyable. Just pays a lot less

jwz wrote:

Stop wearing a watch. Time is a cop.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Follow me for more convenient life hacks!

Boosted by jwz:
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

#Meme #Humour

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

reading: "Introducing ReliCSS: A Tool for Front-End Archaeology"
https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/introducing-relicss-a-tool-for-front-end-archaeology

good stuff from @sturobson

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

#3dprinting pro tip:

You don't need to keep buying silica gel for your filament dryers!

Just drop a full packet once and you’ll be finding little orange beads in your workshop for the rest of your life. So easy!

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

is anyone else harassed daily by Apple abusing unblockable notifications? every day at 7pm 😩

it's not about security, they are actively withholding the iOS 18.7.3+ updates

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

So a little while back, @laura wrote an excellent introductory book on accessibility and inclusive design called Accessibility for Everyone for A Book Apart.

Then, A Book Apart folded and the authors managed to get their rights back.

And yesterday, after Laura put a huge amount of work adapting the book into a beautiful website she built using Kitten*, we republished the book under Small Technology Foundation Press.

You can read it for free at:
https://accessibilityforeveryone.site/

If you want to support our work that makes such things possible, please consider becoming a patron of Small Technology Foundation. We’re tiny, independent, and not for profit. We reject all types of equity investment (VC, etc.) and won’t be sponsored by or otherwise allow our legitimacy to be used to whitewash Big Tech.

https://small-tech.org/fund-us

* https://kitten.small-web.org

#accessibilityForEveryone #LauraKalbag #accessibility #a11y #inclusivity #usability #ethics #web #design #SmallTech

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"What Lin and Cursor achieved was to show that an AI agent can generate millions of lines of code that’s lifted from other projects, and that don’t compile, let alone work."

(Original title: Cursor lies about vibe-coding a web browser with AI)

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/27/cursor-lies-about-vibe-coding-a-web-browser-with-ai/