:linux: :linux: :linux: :linux: :linux: :linux: :linux:
I’ve got a feeling 2026 is finally gonna be the year of the Linux desktop, so here’s my list of recommendations, ranked from 1 being my favorite recommendation to 10 still worth checking out.
1. https://linuxmint.com
2.
Filing: OpenAI denies liability in a suit alleging ChatGPT gave info about suicide methods to a 16-year-old who died by suicide, arguing he misused the chatbot (Angela Yang/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ope
Response to President Trump’s Unauthorized Use of “Danger Zone”
Late Saturday, Oct. 18, Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video on his Truth Social account that portrayed him dumping brown sludge on a crowd of protesters while wearing a crown and flying overhead in a jet labeled “King Trump.”
The music accompanying the video clip was Kenny Loggins’ hit recording “Danger Zone,” from the 1986 motion picture Top Gun (it was also used in the 2022 sequel Top Gun: Maverick).
The Venn Diagram of Perceived Loneliness...
Just came across this again in my archives — it so brutally & succinctly expresses the feeling our cultures & social connections seem to have turned into... Even though we should know that it isn't like that at all, two decades of exploitative commercialized social media (not the only reason; pandemic, tech, politics being others...) have conditioned & segmented people to believe it, experience it to varying degrees, and then …
When Twitter burns, the community rises. 🐘 Mastodon forever!
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Twitter
Record rains turn Argentina's farm-filled Pampas plains to wetlands #Argentina …
A leaked memo by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi
directs the Justice Department and FBI to ❌compile a list of groups that may be labeled
“domestic terrorism” organizations
- based on political views related to immigration, gender and U.S. policy.
The memo was obtained by independent investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein,
who joins us to discuss how it expands on Donald Trump’s "NSPM-7 directive" following the assassination of Charlie Kirk,
--…
‘Green’ energy transition leaves a dirty trail in the Philippines’ nickel belt https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/green-energy-transition-leaves-a-dirty-trail-in-the-philippines-nickel-belt/
Questions remain about how leaders at the Los Angeles fire department responded to a fire that leveled entire communities,
and who within the agency knew about concerns the fire could still pose a threat.
A former LA city councilor says the aftermath and recovery effort should serve as a Pearl Harbor moment for the city,
which should never again be in a position with flames encroaching on all sides.
The LA Times has published a series of bombshell revelationsabout th…
One baby Jesus lies in a manger in the snow, wrapped in a silver emergency blanket with his wrists zip-tied.
Mary stands nearby outside the Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, wearing a plastic gas mask and flanked by Roman soldiers in tactical vests labeled “ICE.”
In another Chicago suburb, not far from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility that has drawn protests over detentions, a sign at the manger outside the Urban Village Church says
“Due to ICE activit…