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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

UK Royal Marines are "champing at the bit" to board Russian shadow fleet tankers, the Guardian reports.

Defense sources confirmed military seizure options discussed with NATO allies. 23 rogue ships tracked in British waters in January alone.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/08/uk-royal-marines-champing-at-the-bit-to-receive-the-order-to-seize-russian-shadow-fleet-tankers-the-guardian/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"The memo, titled 'Investigation into Potential Co-Conspirators of Jeffrey Epstein,' had been publicly accessible as part of the massive tranche of Epstein-related documents recently released. Then, after reporters from the Miami Herald, including the renowned Julie K. Brown, began asking the DOJ specific questions about it, the document was suddenly gone."

The file can be accessed at the link below.

#Epstein #Trump #Republicans #EconomicElites #pedophiles
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https://www.meidasplus.com/api/v1/file/c470b9b8-2943-4144-83e1-885151ff049d.pdf

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

“The concierge service at this luxury spa is a DISGRACE!”

- #picathecat

#catsofmastodon #cats

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"After Epstein’s conviction involving a minor, ... he remained socially embedded among wealthy and powerful figures, signaling that status, access, and utility were permitted to outweigh the known abuse of children. That normalization—treating a convicted child sex offender as a peer rather than a warning sign—is the moral failure at issue."

~ Brian Daitzman

#Epstein #EconomicElites #pedophiles
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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/its-not-a-crime-to-party-with-mr

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
alfiekohn@sciences.social ("Alfie Kohn") wrote:

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Even judging by AP scores (a metric I don't put much stock in), a 2021 study with students of color shows that student-centered, project-based teaching is more successful than traditional instruction in 2 different subjects: https://cesr.usc.edu/sites/default/files/Knowledge%20in%20Action%20Efficacy%20Study%5F18feb2021%5Ffinal.pdf

"The traditional 'transmission' model of instruction...may be suboptimal for supporting students’ ability to think and communicate in sophisticated ways, demonstrate creativity...and transfer their skills, knowledge, & attitudes to new contexts."

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

trying out Ghostty and liking it so far, seems pretty snappy yet stable

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

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

Today in History: Giuseppe Torelli dies in Bologna, Italy, 1709

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

Today in History: John Towner Williams born in New York City, 1932

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

Today in History: 1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq

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

Today in History: Jules Verne born in Nantes, France, 1828

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

Today in History: John von Neumann died, 1957

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

Today in History: Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography

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

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Capital owners in tech have very successfully sold rich laborers on the idea that they should act and vote more like bosses than like laborers, and seldom have I seen this idea play out in a more heartless manner than watching techbros talk about AI. Owning a home makes you well off, but it doesn't mean that the same people using AI to displace and devalue all other kinds of intellectual labor won't also come for you.

Tech workers, even the very well-off ones, need to understand class.

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

ZBM 2
puh leeze

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

Phenotypic plasticity is often ignored in cruder analyses of ancestry.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/08/phenotypic-plasticity-is-part-of-evolution-too/

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

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

It’s entirely possible that through oligopoly dominance, deregulation, and LLM capture of the dev ecosystem, genuinely working software will eventually be the exclusive domain of expensive specialised high-end industry-specific software and the occasional eccentric FOSS app maintained by a weirdo only known by a handle like ‘mojojojo55 ‘

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

anyone know if Apple stores (IRL) can replace a single key on the keyboard?

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

Whatever devs are seeing in their immediate environment that turns them into believers in LLM-coding is objectively not being carried forward into the products and services as experienced by actual end users.

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

The duality of every vibe-coded project you see and every LLM-generated pull request you review being dangerous insecure messes and then turning around and hearing every respected figure in the web dev community saying these tools are now better than human developers

If I hadn’t live through several brain-cooking bubbles (Iceland has had a few more than the rest) I’d be shocked at the dissonance

Boosted by jwz:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

@anthony
@davidgerard every encounter I have with a mozilla employee involves them pretending to speak for a community I’m a member of and playing fuckface word games when an actual member of the community tells them they’re misrepresenting us.

no, nobody doing AI critique is confused about what we’re criticizing. that doesn’t make sense. but mozilla would like to convince us we’re mad about a pre-LLM translation model or whatever’s convenient. we’ve dealt with that form of critihype before.

jwz wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U7VIOwinhU

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

the march for billionaires was serious and aella was there. reporters outnumbered marchers https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-march-for-billionaires-bust/

> Despite the San Francisco locale, a participant said the event had “grassroots” origins at a “little rationalist restaurant get together” in a “group house” on Shattuck Avenue, subverting any assumptions that Berkeley is all radical hippies.

of fucking course

Boosted by jwz:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

to start this where it must start: the (former chrome, current mozilla) developer relations person in question loves the “tell me where I said that” move. it’s something they’ve tried in every negative interaction they’ve had on fedi.

it works as follows: Jake picks out a minor part of your criticism and insists you tell him where he said those exact words. this isn’t how human conversation works, so you can’t. if he needs to willfully misunderstand your post to do it, he will.

Boosted by jwz:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

here’s some unfair warnings if you’re considering boosting or interacting with that one mozilla dev account or mozilla in general really

if you have interacted with them and gotten an icky feeling, you’re not alone

later posts in this thread will be CWed. there is danger in interacting with the account in question. many of these posts feature someone named Jake; as you will see later, Jake and the Mozilla account are the same person in every way that matters.

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

Finally, I've been waiting for this! 💯

🌀 **vortix** — A TUI for WireGuard and OpenVPN

⚡ Real-time telemetry (latency, jitter, packet loss)
🚨 IPv6 + DNS leak detection
🧱 Built-in kill switch

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/Harry-kp/vortix

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #vpn #wireguard #openvpn #terminal #opensource

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

dumb question: does this new meta text-scale tag "stack" with existing per-site user/browser settings?
https://www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2026-01-27-try-text-scaling-support-in-chrome-canary/

e.g. if the OS is +1 notch and the site was already +1 will it become +2?

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕"):
jonikorpi@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Joni Korpi") wrote:

Man the AI coding doomerism is in full swing on my timelines. Guys, have some pride in your work, confidence in your abilities.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I’m not sure if I’m getting burned out on tech podcasts in general, or just ones that spend an awful lot of runtime enthusing about AI, but I’m finding myself hitting the skip button way more than I used to lately.