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Daring Fireball: The Names They Call Themselves
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The Names They Call Themselves
*Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make *the names Trump’s regime calls themselves* universally acknowledged slurs.

Looking at this property description in Glasgow on #Rightmove. The clouds from one photo to the next seemed strangely similar so I took a screenshot of them from each different room and outside POV...
they're all the same clouds
They have CGI-ed the clouds?? Why?? Is this even legal?
I'm definitely not going to trust this agency in future.. "Keys estate ag…

Happy 32nd birthday to the Philippine Internet! 🎂
https://technology.inquirer.net/145804/how-the-philippines-was-connected-to-the-internet-32-years-ago

How the Philippines was connected to the Internet 32 years ago
Celebrating 32 years of Philippine Internet, and why we must celebrate with Magoo's Pizza Today is the 32nd year since Benjie Tan plugged a cable to connect the Internet to the Philippines. I

Starting in less than ONE HOUR, our final webinar of this series:
"Report-Back from COP30, Reflections on Change-Making and Next Steps."
Register now to hear about COP30, the Peoples' Summit and the Indigenous Village.
We will also reflect on corporate capture of climate action.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Report Back from COP30, Reflections on Change-Making and Next Steps. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
In November 2025, Seed the Commons participated in the People’s Summit Towards COP30. We presented a talk as part of the Just Transition axis, and the last day of the summit we marched with tens of thousands of other activists from around the world to demand real solutions to our climate crisis. Alongside organizations such as SEUI 1021 and the SF Labor Council, Seed the Commons co-organized a solidarity climate march on the same day in San Francisco. We merged it with a People Over Billionai…

Yowzer, there is so much infosec news that you can't afford to skip today's Metacurity which highlights all the critical developments, including
--The FBI seized the notorious RAMP cybercrime forum,
--Google took down dozens of domains related to mysterious threat actor Ipidea,
--China executed 11 people linked to Myanmar scam centers,
--Moltbot AI assistant can leak sensitive information,
--ShinyHunters hit Bumble, Panera, Match and CrunchBase,
--P…

The FBI seized the notorious RAMP cybercrime forum
Google took down dozens of domains related to mysterious threat actor Ipidea, China executed 11 people linked to Myanmar scam centers, Moltbot AI assistant can leak sensitive information, ShinyHunters hit Bumble, Panera, Match and CrunchBase, Poland's grid attack disabled comms at 30 sites, more

In 2011 I made this song for the RPM Challenge and used a drum loop from @… because he published a blog post.
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2011/03/0

Song: Surfie Don’t Char
Here’s the seventh song from the album “Frenetic Stereoear” titled “Surfie Don’t Char.” The spray you hear in the song isn’t the ocean, it’s a can of spray paint, and of course “Surfie Don’t Char” is a riff on “Charlie Don’t Surf” which involves The Clash, a movie, and some other things, none of which [...]

This foreign policy series by @… is quite revealing. Chakrabarti has by far the best answer to the IMF/World Bank question: "the role of the IMF and World Bank has been to try to implement austerity measures on countries by creating pressure from outside creditors...It’s been a way to impose neoliberal policy on countries, and also a way to force countries to lose t…

How S.F. congressional hopefuls view Israel, China and foreign policy (part 2)
In the second part of the foreign policy Q&A, the three candidates discuss China and Taiwan, foreign aid, trade, and tariffs.

Okay I know everyone hates this article but there's a nugget of truth in it. One of the possible futures we can gun for is this.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/
Make things. Make _personal scale_ things. The tools help bridge the truly high barriers we've managed to put in in the tech industry.
This will have a lot of problems! We don't have collective knowledge for this yet / again. The people with Sysadmin Mindset have been burned out or subsumed into the Cloud Computing machine.
But there's a chance here to take the web better places. We should take it.
(If you're worried about everything turning into paying to rent access to a digital landlord, I have bad news about where we've been since 2012.)

From Microsoft to Microslop to Linux: Why I Made the Switch
What's better than a devil you don't know?
The devil you do.
🐧 #linux

Bogdan's Blog – From Microsoft to Microslop to Linux: Why I Made the Switch
Broken updates, Copilot shoved everywhere, and my system bricking itself. Here's why I finally escaped to Linux.

Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app
to send notifications to potentially millions of phones Saturday morning
urging the country’s military personnel to defect from the regime and join a fight to liberate the country,
according to people familiar with the matter.
The app, BadeSaba Calendar, is intended to help Muslims keep track of prayer times