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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Say you want to connect all 200+ countries on Earth with high-speed fiber lines; you can run a cable from each country to every other country (about 21,000 cables, many of them expensively draped across the ocean floor), or you can pick one country (preferably one with both Atlantic and Pacific coasts) and run all your cables there, and then interconnect them.

5/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jyn@tech.lgbt ("kulupu jyn") wrote:

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Everyone's demanding transparency in the Epstein files.

Meanwhile Google's spam filter in Mountain View: "I've seen things 🥺".

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

UK tabloid newspapers quote fake experts created with AI

the AI is for spam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcNTUYn7fLQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260210-uk-tabloid-newspapers-quote-fake-experts-created-with-ai - podcast

time: 4 min 28 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/10/uk-tabloid-newspapers-quote-fake-experts-created-with-ai/ - blog post

Boosted by jwz:
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

A white MAGA man shot & killed his daughter because she criticized Trump. Why is no one asking the questions they'd ask if he was Black, brown, immigrant, or Muslim?🧐

For example:
•Where was he radicalized?
•Why is their culture so violent?
•Is this what they call "honor killing?"
•Why won't they assimilate to our values?
•What radicalism are they teaching in their churches?
•Was he here legally from Europe or was he an illegal?
•Did you know they cite their Bible to command women to be silent?

Boosted by jwz:
anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:

In his 1998 interview with Guitar World, Prince spoke directly about one of the reasons why he was seeking ownership of his work: to have artistic control so there couldn't be unauthorized digital manipulation of his work after his death. https://sites.google.com/site/prninterviews/home/guitar-world-october-1998

Boosted by jwz:
mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

Just so EVERYONE understands this:

Moderna has a flu shot. It works. It works well. It is safe. It is safe in people with compromised immune systems (like cancer patients!).

Trump’s nutjob at FDA, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appears to have ordered FDA to refuse to even accept the application to review the shot for approval.

RFK wants to kill your grandma. Fuck RFK.

Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

If you have a Ring (Amazon) camera, you are -- or will become -- a tool of the surveillance state. Is that really what you want to be?

https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter&attribution%5Fid=698b47cbe724d10001786209&attribution%5Ftype=post

Boosted by jwz:
JauntyArt@crispsandwi.ch ("Jaunty Art") wrote:

Create Your Own Luck*
Caveat Frog

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

Tutto ok #Vodafone?

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
solonovamax@tech.lgbt wrote:

WINDOWS NOTEPAD APP REMOTE CODE EXECUTION VULNERABILITY

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

Chrome be like:

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
johannab@cosocial.ca ("Johanna, CanCon variety") wrote:

Courtesy a climate-related account on LI, take a look at this. Just so's ya know, the current extent of our climate crisis and the worse that is to come was entirely a choice that was made. For us, not by us, but it was a choice.

Here's the link to the OG document if you want to check Dunsky's work.

https://www.worthingtoncaron.com/documents/1982-APRIL-1-1982%5F“CO2-‘GREENHOUSE’-EFFECT.pdf

Boosted by jwz:
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

FDA refuses to review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine
The move comes amid RFK Jr.'s relentless efforts to enact his anti-vaccine agenda.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/fda-refuses-to-review-modernas-mrna-flu-vaccine/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

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

Too many lines have been crossed for anything to normalize when Trump is gone.

Democrats are about to fund ICE again, on the heels of several high profile murders. How do we ever come back from that as a country? The mask is fully off.

Technocrats are spending a trillion dollars on Surveillance Capitalism 2.0. Not only doesn't it need Trump to operate, it'll be better off when he's gone.

Trump leaving is just the end of the beginning. We may even one day find him quaint.

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

a day over nine years since this happened, and things have gotten so much worse

i don’t know if i’ll ever be able to forgive the people who chose to put us where we are, or chose to do nothing to try to stop it

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

I think it would be very hard to convince anyone reading Hitchhiker's Guide for the first time that Zaphod Beeblebrox wasn't written specifically as a commentary on Trump and the type of power he wields.

We've known about power and spectacle for at least as many years as that book has existed, yet we've managed to distill all of our problems down into a Trumpian sludge, and some of us refuse to drink anything else.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
bixfrankonis@social.lol ("Bix F.") wrote:

You can’t just say, “Empathy is good, m’kay?”

https://bix.blog/posts/2026-02-10-selective-vagueness/

#Blogging #BixDotBlog

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

The regime has proposed two rules that are intended to make it extremely difficult (if not impossible) for trans youth to receive the healthcare they need.

You can help fight back by submitting a public comment, which will be very important for future lawsuits: https://act.hrc.org/page/183931/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=or%5Fgnr%5Fhrc%5Findivisible

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

If neoliberalism dies tonight, what'll be there in the morning to take its place? Will it be Brooklyn Dad (Defiant!) who helps redistribute all the baguettes once our mad king's metaphorical head is on a hypothetical platter? Will Mueller She Wrote write our new federalist papers on Patreon after the old man chokes on an Adderall pill? Do you see Nancy Pelosi guiding us to the promised land in full Kente Cloth when the Democrats squeak by a win?

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

sane Grand Jury

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/us/politics/trump-democrats-illegal-orders-pirro.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.LVA.TMAF.fW8%5FXG8ea4oi&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

It's not all the banana trees.

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

The downside of living in Minnesota.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/10/i-hate-ice-and-ice/

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

It's giving Justine Sacco. Man, remember that??

Whew, this was the first "canceling" I witnessed in real time. I think you could say it was the first big online cancellation.

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

Content Blocks on #iAWriter are so useful.

I break my essay into three parts, then reference each in a main draft so I'm not scrolling through thousands of words editing.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
IndivisibleSF@sfba.social ("Indivisible SF") wrote:

Please join us for the Indivisible General Meeting this Sunday Feb 15 2-4PM 683 Florida St. SF
The meeting is open to anyone interested in resisting Trump's radical agenda of hate, division, and greed.
683 Florida St. is the Cultura y Arte Nativa de las Americas (CANA) performance space. It's at between 18th & 19th St. in the Mission. Busses run along nearby Bryant, Folsom, and 16th streets.
We recommend that you read the Indivisible Guide before attending. https://buff.ly/rikGNZP

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