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

I wanna "renovate" Donald Trump's face.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/03/renovations/

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ediz@social.lol ("Ediz :prami_pride:") wrote:

After a year, I finally went back to color my Prami tattoo!!! 🩷
It’s pink now hehehe @adam !
(Sorry for the low quality - my retro camera strikes again 😅📸)

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

“ICE and the Dual-State Regime - Truthdig”

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/ice-and-the-dual-state-regime/

> The Nazi political theory behind ICE lawlessness.

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

“the other Turing test – Hi, I'm Heather Burns”

https://heatherburns.tech/2026/02/02/the-other-turing-test/

> I am seeing the ground being laid for atrocities I don’t yet know how to describe. It always starts with one group of “others” who are transgressing some warped concept of virtue and morality. It never ends with them.

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

California Technocrats are working to turn compute into their currency.

Once the Internet is dependent on gargantuan levels of computational power to operate, compute will be the cornerstone of the California Empire. It'll be their dollar, their oil, their OASIS credits.

> I think compute is going to be the currency of the future. — Sam Altman

When you pay for ChatGPT to buy on your behalf the wrong number of plane tickets, you're just buying compute.

https://youtu.be/7ARt5crSNsQ?t=0m17s

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

This is the pinnacle of American conservative music? No thank you.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/03/why-is-conservative-music-so-awful/

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Bibliothecaris@social.edu.nl ("UniversityofGroningenLibrary") wrote:

We are ready to roll! Today, we're at the very first #DigitalAutonomy Fair at the @universityofgroningen!

Come by our booth, learn all about #PeerTube, #Mastodon, and about the @SURF instance https://social.edu.nl.
Create an account, get a sticker and please form a queue to cuddle our #plushtodon.

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

The Californian Ideology won. What we're experiencing now is technocrats trying to ratify their governance system.

The EU wants to build its own datacenters? Well, then California will just build bigger ones. They'll make it so the entire Internet is so resource intensive, that no one but California can build infrastructure for it. They're swapping a mini-truck engine for a Ford F-250. Then, they'll pass laws prohibiting the purchase of mini-trucks.

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neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

social.lol has been updated to Mastodon v4.5.6. :mastodon:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.6

And Tangerine UI 2.5.3. 🍊

https://github.com/nileane/TangerineUI-for-Mastodon/releases/tag/v2.5.3

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

Update: Oops

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/02/03/today-in-okay-what-the-actual-fk/

(Spoiler: something I wrote 14 years ago was referenced in an article that was forwarded in an email that's in the data dump. Entirely random single reference. Still absolutely fuckin' weird to be there.)

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jscalzi/post/DUMRRuzgN0h

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

Big tech is California's biggest employer. Which makes its citizens cogs in the Digital Empire—a sovereign entity with all the happenings of a young powerhouse.

Fiber Optic Slavery from the global south. Surveillance, censorship, and racism.

There is no corner of the world who doesn't answer to the Californian Oligarchs and its kingdom of compute.

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

People look down on the Deep South as this racist backwards part of the country. And of course, there's some truth to that. But, it is no worse than any part of the country. We just have bad public relations.

Look at California. It convinced the world that its great exports are almonds and hot yoga. That it's a bastion of progressive ideas. When the truth is, California is home to surveillance capitalism and war-tech. Californian Technocrats are the world's greatest war mongers and thieves.

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

Can We Have New Bad Things?:

"Second, as Tooze asks, “Why can’t we have new bad things?” Why is it so difficult for progressives to consider that we might be in a genuinely new moment?"

We’re all guilty of this, of finding historical context. It helps. But perhaps it’s an overused trope. I think it’s comes from, of all places, Rachel Maddow lol. She’s the queen of historical context. https://damagemag.com/2026/02/03/can-we-have-new-bad-things/

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tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"The Zersetzung is working. He is taking himself apart, piece by piece, and replacing the parts with synthetic fillers because the world has told him his own parts are defective."

"The Colonization of Confidence" by Robert Kingett is one of the best pieces of writing about "AI" I have ever seen. Read it over lunch and it literally made me cry in the restaurant.

https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
RollingStone@flipboard.com ("Rolling Stone") wrote:

When a Journalist Is Arrested, Democracy Is the One in Handcuffs
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/don-lemon-arrest-kerry-kennedy-1235509695/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics News @politics-news-RollingStone

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

obfuscation through flooding:

a strategy to turn transparency into opacity by presenting an unmanageable flood of data.

https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116006951621937698

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john@social.gozzys.com ("John "Gozzy" Godsland") wrote:

Strict variable typing is a pain when you first adopt it after being used to dynamic types. But stick with it and you will see the benefits. #PHP

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
M0KHR@mastodon.radio wrote:

People: antenna building needs precision, accurate workmanship

Me: where is my glue gun... Nevermind, hold this, little Koala bear.

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

I was accidentally mentioned in passing in the Epstein files.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/03/im-in-the-epstein-files/

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

That's a funny way of saying you bricked my backup, Apple 🙄

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
daedalus@eigenmagic.net ("JP") wrote:

*rubs temples* the GenAI bros are speedrunning infosec the way the cryptocurrency bros were speedrunning financial regulation: by jumping off a cliff into a tree, hitting every single branch on the way down. https://1password.com/blog/from-magic-to-malware-how-openclaws-agent-skills-become-an-attack-surface

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orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Finally, I can see what's draining my battery easily 🔥

🔋 **jolt** — A battery & energy monitor TUI

💯 See battery health, system power draw & energy-hungry processes
⚙️ Runs on MacOS & Linux
📊 Supports history graphs, themes, bg daemon.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/jordond/jolt

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #terminal #battery #power #monitor

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virtualbri@mastodon.online ("Brian Tatosky") wrote:

Felt right for this merger.

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

No, Trump does not have the legal authority or the practical ability to “nationalize” US elections, for all the same reasons he also didn’t when he issued an executive order a few months ago abolishing mail in voting. Elections are governed by states, and, to a limited extent, Congress. Not the executive branch.

There are plenty of very real, immediate threats to democracy to get worked up about right now. This isn’t one of them.

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mikemccaffrey@wandering.shop ("Mike McCaffrey") wrote:

I just gulped down #TheRegicideReport in 24 hours! It was very epic and satisfyingly ties a lot of plotlines and characters from the previous #LaundryFiles books together.

However, it has left me a bit melancholy. I guess I was hoping that @cstross would have some fresh ideas on how to definitively deal with monsters who have taken over your government and are indiscriminately killing people to further their own selfish goals. You know, topical advice.

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

Seems like a dam is (finally) breaking; here's just a small set of the "wow, Apple...really?" posts from the past week:

https://www.loopwerk.io/articles/2026/tim-cook-sold-apples-soul/
https://om.co/2026/01/27/a-ceo-captured/
https://spyglass.org/tim-cook-captured/
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-crisis-no-5

Liz Lopatto, Anil Dash, and Charlie Warzel were far ahead on all of this.

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nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

Incredible interview with Minneapolis city councilman Soren Stevenson who lost an eye to a "rubber" bullet shot at him by MPD during the Goerge Floyd protests.

"Truly, I see this as a moment when we are deciding right here in Minneapolis—in this country—are we going to have a democracy going forward, or are we not? The stakes are no greater and no smaller than that."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-renee-good-alex-pretti-soren-stevenson-council-interview/

#minnesota #SorenStevenson #GeorgeFloyd #minneapolis

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Every other day, I read a new essay by someone disillusioned with Apple.

The themes are consistent. The sycophantic support of the Trump administration. UI design now violates principles they invented. Anti-competitive and predatory actions in the pursuit of revenue.

The rebels have become the empire.

https://www.loopwerk.io/articles/2026/tim-cook-sold-apples-soul/

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slyborg@vmst.io wrote:

@talvayas @jwz

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talvayas ("Talia Vayas") wrote: