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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dougiec3@libretooth.gr ("Wokebloke for Democracy") wrote:

#Fascism #USA #ICE #Immigrants

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

Good. Hopefully it sticks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/haitians-temporary-protected-status-trump.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.JVA.lZoZ.DbxPdDU24e78&smid=url-share

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Cyanocitta@sfba.social wrote:

Sunday morning in the yard, the Whiteleaf Manzanita (I believe Arctostaphylos viscida viscida) is blooming and the resident Anna's Hummingbird is taking advantage.

#Bloomscrolling #Birds #Birding #Flowers

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

"As of July 2024, at least 108 Palestinian journalists have been killed according to the committee to protect journalists."

I can already tell this is going to be one of those books I read intently once then never again.

Boosted by jwz:
realGulDukat ("Gul Dukat") wrote:

After review, I have decided to close the Dukat Sisko restaurant in New Orleans for renovation. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
-President Gul Dukat
#StarTrek #Sisko197

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

Zitron (who I love btw) seems to believe that Ellison's chances for a bailout is based on his relationship with the current administration. Maybe to an extent. But, billionaire bailouts are baked into the American economic system.

The process for printing new money and cutting that check is damn near autonomous.

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

The Hater’s Guide to Oracle:

"We are setting up for a very funny and chaotic situation where Oracle simply runs out of money, and in the process blows up Larry Ellison’s fortune."

Oh, my sweet summer child. American billionaires don’t lose their fortunes. Our wealthy citizens enjoy a socialist system where their losses are subsidized by the rest of us. https://www.wheresyoured.at/haters-guide-oracle/

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

Rudy saying things I like again.

If this isn't your platform or ecosystem or whatever's mission, I don't want it.

Kill the ad-tech industry. That and healthy community is why I'm here. Everything else literally does not matter to me.

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

*I mean me. I gots some reading to do. I'm not demanding you read it 🫡😬

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

Got some reading to do.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/haters-guide-oracle/

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Red tractor. Red tractor was a popular meme in Russia in late 2000s. I still feel a compulsion to shoot one whenever I see it.

#photography #darktable

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
HisVirusness wrote:

@fromjason I'm also unsure if I've used it correctly. However, that hasn't stopped me a single time; the semicolon is a great device that I have a habit of using very liberally.

Boosted by jwz:
SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe ("Sally Strange") wrote:

Blows my mind that there are still people who think it should be illegal for anyone, anywhere, to move to a new place and get a job there.

#BordersAreBullshit #Borders #BordersAreMurders #BordersAreViolence #MovementIsAHumanRight

Boosted by jwz:
newsthump@mastodon.online ("NewsThump") wrote:

'Melania' defies critics by winning FIFA Oscar for Best Movie

Boosted by jwz:
scottsantens@hachyderm.io ("Scott Santens") wrote:

If you think of universal basic income as just "more money," you aren't understanding it and what makes it so different and effective. The fact it comes at a regular frequency is a key factor. When you know that whatever happens next month, you can still buy food, that's a huge deal.

It's STABILITY

jwz wrote:

There have been exactly two innovations in web browsers in the last 16 years:

1. "Show Reader Automatically" in 2010;
2. "Hide Distracting Items" in 2024.

Everything else has either been a waste of goddamned time, or actively malicious. Mostly the latter.

https://jwz.org/b/yk21

Attachments:

• video: 13cd5a9b4d654f41.mp4

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Just spent some time with a small town journalist helping them understand why online voting is inherently dangerous. I feel equal parts hope and despair over this. Hope, because the right questions are being asked (and at the local level, too!) Despair because the same questions keep coming up, again and again.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
bloftinsk8 ("LordBobTX") wrote:

@fromjason with regard to a lot of this stuff, like sinking different devices through the cloud. My niece calls this “the poison of convenience “

Boosted by jwz:
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

The most unrealistic thing about #StarfleetAcademy is that San Francisco and Sausalito will have changed their anti-tall building policies by the 32th century.

The NIMBYs are going to be anti-density and anti-skyscrapers in perpetuity

#StarTrek

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, Linux plus systemd, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Linux/systemd.

Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning systemd system made useful by the systemd corelibs, systemd daemons, and vital systemd components comprising a full OS as defined by Poettering.

Boosted by jwz:
fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io ("amos") wrote:

...horrifying message without context, thank you

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

Feature chum is a shady business goal presented to consumers as a useful feature to a company’s product line or feature set. Feature chum always benefits the company’s objective of obtaining more power and growth, but not necessarily valuable for the end user.

https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/22/feature-chum-you.html

#FeatureChum

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

Substack and The Internet of Things: https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/02/02/substack-and-the-internet-of.html

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

Feels like a good day to repost this

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jscalzi/post/DRCqbvQAK6t

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
starwall@wizzzard.online ("ᔅᑕᕐᐗᓪ") wrote:

if you needed a reason to be against Starlink: 2° C of ADDITIONAL, COMPOUNDED GLOBAL WARMING SHOULD BE IT

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
anmeisel ("Ana Meisel") wrote:

trying to get as much info as possible for this mildly niche and recent topic obsession of mine - pls give me any book recommendations for tech history during and post- eastern bloc.. ideally about diy tech, #piracy, folk culture, #self-hosting collectives and laws & regulations around technology use in countries that were aligned with the soviet union ??

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

Just because you ARE a joke doesn't mean you can TELL a joke

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-reportedly-bombed-speech-closed-201603089.html

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

Some interesting (to me) stats from #FOSDEM

Talks about NFTs: 0.

Presentations about the Metaverse: None.

Cryptobros inviting me to a party in order to schill their coin: Zip.

Really enthusiastic LLM users describing how AI has improved their OSS codebase: Zilch.

People complaining about pronouns and codes of conduct: Nada.

"Ironic" hats saying "Make xyz Great Again": Conspicuous by their absence.

What did *you* think was missing from FOSDEM?

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

I see the Kid Rock Full Employment Act is still in effect

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

"It's not that the industry is changing that bothers me. I've been a change agent in most organizations I've been in; I switched from nano as a code editor to full on IDEs with all their auto-refactor glory; I don't mind change. I do mind unethical behavior."

https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-ai