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

Man, if Bruce Springsteen wrote a song which pointed out what an absolute piece of shit I was, I would probably hide in a hole for 10,000 years, anyway, fuck you Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem and of course the Great Orange Disaster

https://youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

It's actually really easy...

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Live your life so people like Bruce Springsteen don't write protests songs about you.

jwz wrote:

Patreon is lying again, and blaming Apple, again.

Once again, Patreon is going to strong-arm all of us into "charge at the moment of sign-up" instead of "charge on the first of the month." They have wanted this for years, and once again they are saying that Apple has given them cover to demand it.

Here's what I wrote when they tried to pull this shit a year and a half ago and then chickened out:
https://jwz.org/b/yk2f

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

TECH WORKERS: There’s a petition calling on our leaders to get ICE out of our cities, and to cancel all contracts with the agency. Sign and share the petition at https://iceout.tech/, and then look for ways to get organized at work.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
stacey_campbell@aus.social ("Stacey Campbell") wrote:

A couple of years ago I wrote a little program to detect close calls between aircraft that are line-of-sight to my ADS-B antenna.

1/3

https://github.com/staceycampbell/tooclose

Boosted by jwz:
martincrownover@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Marty") wrote:

Some more animated Trapper Keeper art for your eyeballs. 👀

#blender #blender3d #b3d #compositing #retro #render #cycles #art #digitalart #animation #loop

Attachments:

• gifv: A 3D render of a series of large red cones floating over a dreamlike, shiny, tiled landscape. The cones have chrome swirls going around the back, and have slices cut out of them, and a bright green cone of energy can be seen inside. The tip of the cones are touching a water-like surface above, creating ripples that emanate outward. The water/sky is a deep blue and the ground tiles are purple, fading to blue in the distance, before fading to a bright yellow horizon. Shiny purple bubbles are rising from the tiles in the distance.

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

Celebs say TikTok censored them after calling out ICE:

"In her Instagram Stories, Eilish posted a screenshot of Finneas’ anti-ICE TikTok video that showed him only having 114 likes, writing that “TikTok is silencing people btw.”"

Even if I have to hold my nose, I believe celebrities calling out corporate social media is largely a good thing.

(h/t @\fantano on YT) https://www.advocate.com/activism/tiktok-censoring-megan-stalter-and-finneas

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
isagalaev@social.seattle.wa.us ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:

Hey WA-nians! Whole Washington, the org working on universal healthcare in our state, is asking everyone to vote Pro on two supplemental bills they're advancing this session:

- SJR 8206 - Protecting Affordable Healthcare for Washington Residents: https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.qUXRBnqZ7T8nxbpAcIVwofa7JsQkO0T4UWU9Jk5bJ66%5FAI-1Bl5reJH8jvPAMp93Jd9Mi7%5FYJLWjofp-6FLFpFLd5mupaOrJpHySh6pUPieJe2SobcMhDX6kakIyb-mFMqayojpmykp9%5F3h5XXEmrHkcr1ZYz2QXmgqoV9m7TvwaRmQbHB%5F2UTtLRke-N0XppGz4VlcgFC5SooyEq30jaHRjNiP76SpouC3RVDjnkfpBGLmp374Y1SpV3uOnv7FJUqT7bQoXm4%5FItSrNXJQ8VDVdG9k2Wv4wnuUo0xjkUtKKeoO1FXlZSfEA8rLe5%5Fm-fD5qYjONNQTmz-3XfbQOrFlOQV1LcRATK9fgSyYfUW-UaLLzT8OgNpBLvMAe8BI7aSBI8S50N-YmkJ0fXlSxeg/4nj/1SYaMy5SS8qyJD4jixo-4w/h4/h001.KMsKHdakErXMYx8a03MTpTVHR14dtL2XSMpWKEu0zDw

- SB 5947- Establishing the Washington Health Board: https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.qUXRBnqZ7T8nxbpAcIVwofa7JsQkO0T4UWU9Jk5bJ66%5FAI-1Bl5reJH8jvPAMp93Jd9Mi7%5FYJLWjofp-6FLFpFLd5mupaOrJpHySh6pUPicThW3GXXQ6v6fbc6wUePV3hwS7Nm1f0GpoKNFCtxU8fvs1I7gF5owIfoLC8jqaYrcJXsDMQ4-1u22ZFYEGUyg%5FHbGZZTGtaNW%5FnLCGhCgbGsBWs%5F9iGkit69aXgHfxEAaa0lpxQiPlWO3ZC%5FzLwkbnBMLeNm-107mMRGq1csPIqi4cefHWtcto-2a4rjXLiZqARQNA58ZyFy4-KzLbryPeqp1bVqhLXxuvqsnBIkv7H%5Fvg%5F1HAIr0aROcNIgBF-c-Fa9y0C3tRnlhZBvCPq%5FXrRwGHX2kIAhxsH3yNwcJRrw/4nj/1SYaMy5SS8qyJD4jixo-4w/h5/h001.MvhmzhMT2-XPBzfOEC73GPqi6-Rh22KnnpiNWOhOKso

It's an easy thing to do, but numbers matter. Please spend a minute!

#healthcare #wapol

Boosted by jwz:
RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"Hex ICE"
Sticker spotted in Seattle

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"Abolish ICE"
Sticker spotted in St Paul, Minnesota

Boosted by jwz:
dansup wrote:

I'm not sorry for advocating against VC-funded alternatives like Skylight and Upscrolled

We don't need more dangerous exits (see Elon Musk and Twitter), we need more open platforms, that can't be bought.

Period.

See https://joinloops.org/why-loops-matters

Boosted by jwz:
angry_drunk@union.place ("Darby Lines") wrote:

@davidgerard The “gatcha" model is definitely a part of it. Last few weeks I’ve been up close and personal with people deep into this shit in multiple ways (vibe-coders, chatbot fanciers, etc) and their brains are utterly pickled. I haven't seen so many disorders on display since the last serial killer convention.

Boosted by jwz:
mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matthew Haughey") wrote:

Sure, Tim Cook is throwing Apple under the bus and kissing Trump’s ring this week, but don’t forget that a few months ago Apple also removed the ICEblock app

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ilovewebsites@social.lol ("I ❤️ Websites Club") wrote:

Hacker Pager is a device used to communicate on an open source mesh network. Found this website while researching mesh tech. Regardless of how well it works, I'm just glad to know people are out there making hardware that doesn't require the cloud or the internet.

https://www.hackerpager.net/

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

It's probably too soon to say anything definitive about AI psychosis. It's above my pay grade to know if this is pop-sci or a real thing.

That said, the things CEO and other executives are saying out loud to an audience is, at least, concerning.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-404-media-podcast/id1703615331?i=1000747002677

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Jdm2@boriken.social ("jdm2 🇵🇷") wrote:

@fromjason I love her.

i borrow happiness from tomorrow stopped me in my tracks first time I heard it.

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

RE: https://social.lol/@ilovewebsites/115973790237668988

I kinda sorta abandoned the I ❤️ Websites initiative 😬. But today, I went back to its omg.lol page and noticed that I have 4 years of hosting pre-paid. I'm not sure if I did that or not??

Anyway, it's a sign for me to stick with it. Give me grace I'm trying :)

https://status.lol/ilovewebsites/697a4092290c4

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasonsantamaria@typo.social ("Jason Santa Maria") wrote:

👋 Say hello to @loudroom, my small design practice focused on craft, learning, and human relationships.

https://loudroom.com/

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

I'm excited to announce the new version of "Mousefood" 🧀

🐁 **Mousefood** — A Ratatui backend for embedded devices.

🦀 Build TUIs for microcontrollers, e-ink displays & more using Rust!

📟 Tested on ESP32, STM32, RP2040
💯 Now supports no_std!
⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/ratatui/mousefood

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #embedded #microcontrollers #graphics #opensource #devtools

Attachments:

• gifv: 4c37a71b0d3b1f7b.mp4

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

I’ve had a few negative replies to my last newsletter and they’ve all been… something. Some absolutely furious and clearly only having read half of the essay 🤷🏻‍♂️

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/115972205727144067

just wanted to put out there: the initial vector for this #techbros dystopian hellscape was Mickey Mouse.

extending copyright years to appease the #Disney #media oligarchy, led to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act; which legalized extrajudicial digital “shoot first, ask later” provisions like blackholing sites SUSPECTED of infringement or using DRM as wiretapping w/o subpoenas.

any Boycott, Divest & Sanction movement against US tech needs to start with Disney.

#BDSUSA #DMCA

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

🤔Is ICE bad because their agents are brutish and violent? Individual hate?

Or is ICE bad because their mission is ethnic cleansing? Systemic hate?

You can be more efficient with your systemic deportations, if you are *slightly* less brutish.

If we replace Bovino for Homan, is that an improvement?

ICE is crashing out these days because for all their increased budget, and fancy SS style trench coats, and raids on elementary schools, they still can't match the scaled efficiency of deportations that previous administrations could.

Do... do you know who accomplished those scaled deportations?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Nothing going well. #grickledoodle #dragon #fantasy #badday #knight #coffee #morning #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
requiem@masto.hackers.town ("requiem 🦫") wrote:

Follow-up to yesterday's "let's re-write the whole web so it's fast" post.

https://jasongullickson.com/online-social-networks-with-a-purpose.html

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
notypes@discuss.systems ("Rachit") wrote:

Hardware design should be SAFER!

Memory-safe software languages changed the world and allowed to us to build massively larger systems. At their heart, memory-safe languages eliminate a category of bugs that pointer-manipulating programs suffer from.

Hardware design needs its own safe programming models but instead of memory, the problem is time! Synchronous hardware design needs to deal with a clock signal which creates discrete time steps. Every hardware module needs to think about how time affects its own logic and everything it communicates with. Getting it wrong leads to all sorts of logical bugs: reading meaningless values and using resources that are unavailable.

Our work on Filament (https://filamentHDL.com) defined a criteria for safe hardware description languages (HDLs) and showed that you can enforce it using a type system and introduce no overheads. Safe HDLs have become an interesting area of research and this year's ASPLOS features two papers exploring different threads:

- Lilac (https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02570): Builds upon Filament applies its safety guarantees to parameterized designs. A cool outcome of this work was to show that, in addition to helping with verification, safe HDLs enable the design of fundamentally new abstractions!
- Anvil (https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19447): Explores how Filament's verification abstractions can be applied to a higher-level, message-passing HDL and enforce safety properties!

I'm really excited to see where this line of work goes and what we can build with it! If you're around at ASPLOS and interested in this kind of work, come say hi and go watch the talks!!

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

The modern software triangle.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
eric@social.ericwbailey.website ("Eric") wrote:

It is a lot more complicated to add keyboard shortcuts to your web app than you might initially think, featuring a big honkin' table. #a11ty https://ericwbailey.website/published/how-an-accessibility-designer-adds-keyboard-shortcuts-to-a-web-app/

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

How The Zizians Went Full On Death Cult is probably the most comprehensive deep dive into the cult-like groups bubbling under Sillicon Valley. The dangers of The Rationalist movement may not be the most pressing issue right this second. But it deserves more attention. Especially when you consider the AI psychosis problem. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/czm-rewind-how-the-zizians-went-315359337/

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

There's a sociological explanation for Minnesota.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/28/whats-happening-in-minnesota-is-science/