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

Chris Rufo accuses Scandinavian-Americans of being left-wing radicals. I think he intended it as an insult, but I'm taking it as a compliment.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/31/i-read-a-chris-rufo-post/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq0w60F9sEA

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

Watching Tron: Ares. Straight off the bat, I don't know a single developer who'd trade a nice cherry switch for this glass keyboard.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It is @Ameboid’s birthday! 🎂

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aronow@hachyderm.io ("Madame Aronow") wrote:

Are any of my fedi friends a #lawyer or have one they recommend to help me build an updated professional consulting agreement? It doesn't need to be anything crazy, just enough to protect me from bad actors/non-payment.

(My business is registered in CA, USA if that makes a difference)

TIA! :neofox_heart:
Jenna

#askfedi #advice #legal

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AtelierKitsch wrote:

I made a sweater using Elizabeth Zimmerman's percentage system. It is more of a guide than a pattern, freeing you to make all sorts of adaptations.

I made this sweater oversized and with a raglan neck, for lounging and doing outside chores. I can't wait to make another one that is fitted and meant to be worn out and about!

Have you ever used Elizabeth's percentage system?

#knitting #fiberarts #knittingpattern

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mattro@aus.social ("MΛTT") wrote:

Uncut Gems, but with Nicolas Cage playing Howard.

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InnateOptimist@kolektiva.social ("Elizabeth 💚 anarchist bimbo") wrote:

@fromjason This is upsetting but I would also try it. D:

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

A new episode from my podcast about Game of Thrones over at https://projectchronicle.org

Join me, Jenny, and Max as we chat about the latest episode (S01E02) of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 'Hard Salt Beef'.

Attachments:

• audio: A podcast where me, Max, and jenny chat about the latest episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

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

Still not listed in the Epstein Files, you?

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

I see that misguided narrative in the gutless business leaders who talk about “de-escalation” and “finding real solutions” — as if the problem is just that a few ICE murdered two people, not that all the ICE agents are an authoritarian secret police in the making.

I see that misguided narrative in the elected officials who decry ICE, but then talk about “better training” and “more oversight” — as if the secret police will become humane if they just get a few new rules to ignore and have to sit through a Powerpoint about them.

8/

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

I see some posts arguing that everything in Minneapolis is just more of the same that people of color have been living with forever, and white people are just waking up to it. I have never once heard that sentiment, however, from a BIPOC person who’s been living •in Minneapolis• for the last two months.

There is a crucial point there: this •is• precedented. It’s all precedented. But it’s not just more of the same.

10/

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etchedpixels ("The Penguin of Evil") wrote:

If anyone is involved in the UK #Green Party they might want to look at motion A6 for the spring conference
which includes

"The Green Party supports users’ rights to control the digital devices they own,
including the right to install, modify or replace operating systems and
software, access full file systems, and remove pre-installed applications,
particularly on computers and smartphones."

and some amendment discussions around @pluralistic proposals on killing DRM and #enshittification

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

Only the latest stage of capitalism can we get such innovations as the Gummy Fried Chicken Candy Combo Meal

Edit: I would try it

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Every word of this is worth your time:

https://newrepublic.com/article/205913/media-malpractice-trumpism-project-202

jwz wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115989801184595302

The replies on this thread are wild.

"This is a conspiracy by Big Signup to make mastodon.social even bigger"

"I cannot tell the difference between using Google Docs for a survey and being owned by the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund"

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

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/115990845338364922

"AI is a technocratic political project for the purpose of industrializing knowledge work."

Barrrrrrssssss

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jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

"AI" is not actually a technology, in the way people would commonly understand that term.

If you're feeling extremely generous, you could say that AI is a marketing term for a loose and shifting bundle of technologies that have specific useful applications.

I am not feeling so generous.

AI is a technocratic political project for the purpose of industrializing knowledge work. The details of how it works are a distant secondary concern to the effect it has, which is to enclose and capture all knowledge work and make it dependent on capital.

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

RE: https://social.lol/@ilovewebsites/115991555911029574

My "Infinity Journal" was working well then I just forgot about it lol and reverted to my old process/system. But I'm picking it up again because I enjoyed using it and it was helpful. It was like a journal, to-do, and meeting notes all in one.

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attoparsec@clacks.link ("Matthew Dockrey") wrote:

Okay, I'm calling it. Musk is an agent of the Great Filter, sent here to trigger a Kessler Syndrome and trap us on this planet.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-eyes-1-million-satellites-for-orbital-data-center-push

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320x200@post.lurk.org ("ultrageranium") wrote:

what is your problem?

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

ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants:

"The change expands the ability of lower-level ICE agents to carry out sweeps rounding up people they encounter and suspect are undocumented immigrants, rather than targeted enforcement operations in which they set out, warrant in hand, to arrest a specific person."

🎉 It’s time to play: https://archive.ph/eU1K9

jwz wrote:

What is this /meta.json file that Facebook's network keeps repeatedly trying to load from my server about?

No speculation, please. Yes I know it is an ambiguous file name. Do not just google it for me.

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

I think about Awilda a lot. She and her siblings grew up in arguably the toughest area in the US at the time—The Bronx.

There was a heroin epidemic followed by the borough literally burning.

She found a way out, though. They all did eventually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s%5FSouth%5FBronx%5Fbuilding%5Ffires

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

My aunt Awilda was the first in our family to travel the world not in a military uniform. She was smart and so funny. 🇵🇷

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th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

Choose your fighter

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Remember that time I ended up in court with Elon Musk after he bet me the cave diver was a pedo?

Anyway, here’s Elon begging Jeffrey Epstein for crazy parties on his private island, several years after Epstein was convicted of sex trafficking girls.

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smeg@assortedflotsam.com wrote:

Reminders of a past time when a secret police force was permitted to snatch people off the street, and send them to a camp hidden from the public in another country.

#ice #holocaust #cpb #trump #maga #historyrepeats #historyrepeating #racism #secretpolice #nazis

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sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

"Launching a constellation of a million satellites that operate as orbital data centers is a first step toward becoming a Kardashev II-level situation"

THIS IS IN AN FCC FILING NOT A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK I'M DEAD

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tvaziri ("Todd Vaziri") wrote:

bad news for Tim Cook - he made it into Kat Abughazaleh's self-made attack ad

NOT GOOD TIM

https://youtu.be/4yXsd87Zgb4?si=c%5F6Rp7R1rmi9pg%5FV

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mattgemmell@mastodon.scot ("Matt Gemmell") wrote:

Put another way, if you had $50,000 in annual disposable income (after tax), Apple’s $1m would be like you donating 4 dollars and 11 cents… and issuing a press release about it.