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

"Hate Cops"
Seen in Sydney

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amplifyukraine.eu@bsky.brid.gy ("AmplifyUkraine 🔱🇺🇦") wrote:

IOC bars Ukrainian athlete’s helmet honoring athletes killed during war #Ukraine

IOC bars Ukrainian athlete’s h...

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ianbetteridge@vivaldi.net ("Ian Betteridge") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/116044734580904397

Remember how American media spent decades telling us how they deserved special privileges because a free press was a bulwark against the decline of democracy?

Yeah, about that…

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕"):
NicMakesStuff@indieweb.social wrote:

📝 Wishcessibility

What do recycling and accessibility have in common?

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/wishcessibility/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
juliusgoat.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("A.R. Moxon") wrote:

After Nixon was forced to resign, Republicans took the lesson not to stop being corrupt, but to demolish shared reality. After Romney lost with scant minority support, Republicans took the lesson not to stop being racist, but to demolish democracy. Once Trump is gone, what lesson will they take?

Boosted by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
donni ("donni saphire") wrote:

76 trombones is way too many trombones for me. I’ll never need more than 5

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Not loving that local authorities are discovering hidden biolabs across the western United States and the CDC is like “we’ll call you back on that later, right now we’re way too busy trying to stop the woke mind virus”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/las-vegas-bio-lab-reedley-california-pathogens/

#USPol

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

This part is especially important (emphasis added):

“If we have to destroy the stock market to save democracy, we need to accept that and, more importantly, •••the richest and the most powerful people in the world and in this country need to understand that that is a real possibility.••• There is no economic stability without democratic stability. If you take away our democratic stability, we will take away the economic stability.”

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

This is exactly the groundwork we need to be laying right now, and I’m delighted to hear it coming from a US Senator (!):

If Trump tries to prevent a fair election from happening, then we need “a true national strike in the sense that, if they do this, if they try to overthrow our democracy, if you are allied with democracy, do not go to work . If you’re a pilot, do not show up. If you drive a train, do not show up. If you’re a teacher, do not show up. We grind the country to a halt.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/06/donald-trump-voting-midterms-democrat-national-strike

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
e18e@webtoo.ls wrote:

🚀 Big news: We’re now sponsored by the Google Chrome team through the Chrome Performance Fund!

Together, we’re advancing web performance and modern tooling—integrating Baseline + Web Features into our next module-replacements release to deliver smarter, environment-aware suggestions. Huge thanks for the support 🙏

read more here:
https://e18e.dev/blog/the-year-ahead-2026.html#sponsored-by-google-chrome

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Melt the ICE MN – Bring the Heat, Melt the ICE:

ICE out of Minnesota now
Release all detainees
Statewide eviction moratorium by March 1
Drop all charges against ICE resisters
Amnesty for all immigrants
Abolish ICE, DHS, and the police https://melttheicemn.com/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
franklinlopez@kolektiva.social ("Franklin López") wrote:

Minnesota’s turning up—melt ICE, fund the crews, and show the hell up. Pick a lane: streets, pickets, mutual aid, or boycott the cowards. 👉 Https://melttheicemn.com
#MeltTheICE #AbolishICE #Solidarity

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Okay so this is how I fixed it: I used Elmer's Glue to glue down the straps. Then, I "welded" the straps together by melting a plastic bristle of a broom. lol. Idk if that will last but it's better than before.

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QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Dystopia notwithstanding, Ring's commercial about using their surveillance to find lost pets makes no sense.

They say 10M pets are lost per year & their service finds "more than 1 dog per day." So let's even say generously 500 dogs per year.

Out of 10M lost pets, they want Americans to commit privacy suicide for a .005% success rate???

"We fail 99.995% of the time! Let us violate your privacy!" is a helluva way to burn $10M in ads and destroy your brand.

I'm uninstalling my RING today.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

what if all the emails find each other

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:

@ohmu @benlockwood Readers go there. I write on my own website instead. This is 1 reason why though http://juliaserano.blogspot.com/2025/06/regarding-substack-and-writer-centric.html

Boosted by jwz:
Viss wrote:

did my civic duty today:
went to a local donut shop
noticed they had a new ring camera up.
i ask the nice hispanic girl behind the counter "hey you know ice can see through that ring camera, right?"
she goes UHHHH NO WTF I HAVE ONE AT HOME
"tear it out of the wall. yank the power. ring gives ice free access to those"

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
n3wjack wrote:

Seeing the Discord fuss, I'm so glad the #BonkWave community took a slightly oldskool approach and set up a forum using https://www.simplemachines.org

I wouldn't mind seeing others do the same.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:") wrote:

"Surrender to AI writing your books."

Nah.

If you want artisan stories and sysadmin education produced by organic brain instead of a hyperactive autocomplete program, I wrote some books you might like.

https://mwl.io/firstread

I even have free stories at bookstores or my store - https://mwl.io/free

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

LLMs have no model of correctness, only typicality. So:

“How much does it matter if it’s wrong?”

It’s astonishing how frequently both providers and users of LLM-based services fail to ask this basic question — which I think has a fairly obvious answer in this case, one that the research bears out.

(Repliers, NB: Research that confirms the seemingly obvious is useful and important, and “I already knew that” is not information that anyone is interested in except you.)

1/ https://www.404media.co/chatbots-health-medical-advice-study/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:

the use of performance enhancing drugs by olympic athletes is getting out of hand

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

Each time a new privacy-invasive
feature like facial scanning is implemented, if people in majority comply and accept to use it, it will soon become normality, and other options will be marginalized or even removed entirely.

If each time a new privacy-invasive
feature is implemented people opted to refuse it, it would soon be discontinued.

Each individual opposition to privacy-invasive features matters.

It is an act of self-protection but,
perhaps even more importantly,
it is also an act of protest.

A protest against the normalization of mass surveillance and the loss of privacy rights.

The fact that there are other cameras around doesn't mean that more cameras or additional scanning is not making things even worse.

If we do not refuse,
if we do not fight for our privacy rights,
we will lose them all.

#Privacy #MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #FacialRecognition #HumanRights #DigitalRights

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

yc now wants your claude code transcripts, which is the first time a startup accelerator has explicitly asked you to show your homework to prove you didn’t do your homework

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

What do I say now? Use Signal? Yeah, cool — I think the folks who most need to hear that just aren't listening. Use Matrix? Sure, if you can go without moderation tooling, and are OK using the jankiest of janky chat clients. Use forums? Great, let's do that — now go get all your gaming groups and "docs in Discord" projects and everyone else on phpBB or Lemmy. Use Slack? *laughs nervously in Salesforce*

We collectively let things get very bad indeed. Now a huge piece of online life is cooked.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
intransitivelie@beige.party ("Nerviest Initial") wrote:

I don't think the worst criminal in the world deserves to be extrajudicially murdered, for the record. We shouldn't allow the system to do bad things to anyone, including people we don't like. Yes, that means I don't believe in summary executions for Nazis or billionaires. I'm sorry. Systems of violence turn on you. That's literally what's happening right now, in fact.

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Related: Many of you were horrified to see that a kindergarten teacher would call ICE on her own 6 year old Hispanic student.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116010708111794832

For some reason this is more shocking for US folk than the fact that there are cops stationed *in elementary schools*, to quickly arrest Black children at teachers' requests.

30,000 kids under 7 have been arrested. Of course they are disproportionately Black. Because racism.

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

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

Today in History: George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc.

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

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

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116042449566021620

one of those things that should be true, even if it isn't