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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

"Google handed over a trove of personal data about a student and journalist to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in response to a subpoena that had not been approved by a judge.

The search giant provided ICE with the usernames, physical addresses, and an itemized list of services associated with the Google account of Amandla Thomas-Johnson, a British student and journalist who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024.

Google also turned over Thomas-Johnson’s IP addresses, phone numbers, subscriber numbers and identities, and credit card and bank account numbers linked to his account."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/google-sent-personal-and-financial-information-of-student-journalist-to-ice/

#USPol

jwz wrote:

Ok FINE, since you have all failed me, I wrote my own JSON bomb generator. https://jwz.org/b/yk2x

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

cat? what cat?

jwz wrote:

Periodic reminder that "good billionaire" Marc Benioff is still a massive piece of shit.

In his keynote, Benioff thanked international Salesforce employees for traveling to the United States for the meeting, and asked them to stand. Benioff then said...
https://jwz.org/b/yk3N

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

My niece and I made an album cover for our new band Nova Band. We make pop music and we love cotton candy.

Boosted by jwz:
fraying@xoxo.zone ("Derek Powazek 🐐") wrote:

One of the perks of running my own business is having no one to tell me not to send a marketing email with the subject line "First of all, fuck ICE."

Here's the latest Milk Barn Farm email to our customers. I'm proud of it.

And, yeah, 20% off with the code: ICEOUT
https://milkbarn.farm/discount/ICEOUT

Boosted by jwz:
ifixcoinops@retro.social ("Dan Fixes Coin-Ops") wrote:

If y'all move off the current Massive American Corporation chat thing to A Different Massive American Corporation chat thing I swear to fucking god

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

@fromjason @mekkaokereke
The Project 529 bike theft prevention project in Vancouver cut bike theft by almost half and returns stolen bikes by the thousands (rather than auctioning them off like most police departments)

Bike theft is a huge economic issue, but police departments hate to put any effort into it, even though a tiny investment is proven to pay off

Not to absolve Vancouver’s Police Department, with one of the highest budgets in North America garnered on anti-homeless campaigns

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

My TV froze on this part of whatever Gordon Ramsay show me and my sis are watching. Lmao

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davetron5000@ruby.social ("Dave Copeland :ruby:") wrote:

Not enough to make bad software everyone hates. Not enough to buy Heroku, let it wither, and then let it die. This shitbird has to make jokes about the gestapo coming for his employees.

https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-ceo-ice-jokes-employee-event-2026-2

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange ("Dave Wilburn :donor:") wrote:

Via mandatoryrollercoaster.com

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
vitaut ("vitaut 🤍❤️🤍 🇺🇦") wrote:

Did you know that AI hardware performance is measured in teraslops?

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

I think it's like 9-10% of the tech sector is Latin, compared to 20% of the population. Executive roles drop down to basically zero percent.

I know a bunch of LatinX in tech, and most of them are freelancers.

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

The joke here is that Salesforce doesn't hire Latinos, so it's safe to make a joke about being kidnapped. Because ICE doesn't kidnap white people. Get it? Hahaha /s

https://www.404media.co/marc-benioff-jokes-ice-is-watching-salesforce-employees-who-traveled-to-the-u-s/

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

Is one required to become a pedophile when one becomes a billionaire because I gotta tell you right about now the correlation seems pretty high

Boosted by jwz:
mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matthew Haughey") wrote:

TL:DR; The Salesforce CEO at a company's annual all hands gathering asked international employees to please rise in the audience, then made a "joke" that ICE agents were in the back of the room ready to nab them.

Guillotines for billionaires is the moderate choice at this point

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
Tutanota wrote:

Let's remind everyone what a safe internet actually means. 🌐🌍

Share this & Spread the word!

#SaferInternetDay26 #SID

Boosted by jwz:
JenYetAgain@beige.party ("Jennifer 🍄") wrote:

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.

this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

Boosted by jwz:
publicdomainrev ("The Public Domain Review") wrote:

Illustrations from William F. Warren's The Universe as Pictured in Milton’s Paradise Lost (1915). More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-universe-as-pictured-in-miltons-paradise-lost

Boosted by jwz:
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

#poll for all you beautiful hard working professional computer touchers out there:

"my day job has me making the world a ____ place"

(be honest, don't just repeat what your CEO says)

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

Holy mother of Jesus, you can hover your mouse over a #CSS property like `left` or `top` in Firefox's Web Inspector and just... drag it back and forth to actually position your boxes!

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

The people of Minneapolis (and elsewhere) have repeatedly proven that we outnumber fascists by a huge margin. Dems need to stop demoralizing their base by doing nothing and start demonstrating that they understand the urgency of this crisis.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

The Nuremberg Caucus could announce a Crimestoppers program with $1m bounties for any ICE officer who a) is themselves innocent of human rights violations, and; b) provides evidence leading to the conviction of another ICE officer for committing human rights violations. That would certainly improve morale for (some) ICE officers.

Critics of this plan will say that this will force Trump officials to try to steal the next election in order to avoid consequences for their actions.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

While they're at it, the Nuremberg Caucus could publish a plan to hire thousands of *IRS* agents (paid for by taxing billionaires and zeroing out ICE's budget) who will focus exclusively on the ultra-wealthy and especially any supernormal wealth gains coinciding with the second Trump presidency.

Money talks. ICE agents are signing up with the promise of $50k hiring bonuses and $60k in student debt cancellation. That's peanuts.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

I think Dems should start a Nuremberg Caucus, named for the Nazi war-crimes trials that followed from the defeat of German fascists and the death of their leader:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg%5Ftrials

What would this caucus do? Well, it could have a public website where it assembled and organized the evidence for the trials that the Democrats could promise to bring after the Trump regime falls.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Though it should be noted that ICE hates this idea, and that ICE agents wear masks because they fear consequences for their sadistic criminality:

https://archive.is/0LNh8

This despite the fact that the (criminally culpable) Vice President has assured them that they have absolute impunity, no matter who they kill:

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/08/politics/ice-immunity-jd-vance-minneapolis

The fact that ICE agents worry about consequences despite Vance's assurances suggests ways that Dems could "meet the moment."

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

But what would "rising to the moment" look like? What can the opposition do without majorities in either house? Well, they could start by refusing to continue to fund ICE, a masked thug snatch/murder squad that roams our streets, killing with impunity:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-passes-sprawling-spending-package-democrats-split-ice-funding-rcna255273

That's table stakes. What would a *real* political response to fascism look like? Again, it wouldn't stop with banning masks for ICE goons, or requiring them to wear QR codes:

https://gizmodo.com/dem-congressman-wants-to-make-ice-agents-wear-qr-codes-2000710345

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

Wait, you can just nest blocks now‽ 🤯

You kids have it so easy these days :-)

#css

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

Some 20 years ago I wrote a series of blog post about laying out Web pages with #CSS. It was full of hacks, playing on side effects of properties and browser bugs. I haven't seriously worked with CSS for over 10 years, and now suddenly I need to make a simple page again.

So imagine my wonder at discovering `width: fit-content`! I mean, it's so… obvious. And we just didn't have it back then.

(Also, my warmest gratitude to everyone who made MDN possible. You're heroes.)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

How does cooperative behavior "get off the ground" and how can we study it with ecological validity and rich data across cultures? An ambitious study from lead author Dorsa Amir (https://www.dorsaamir.com/) and collaborators on this

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adw9995