@UP8@mastodon.social2025-12-27 02:09:19
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-12-27 02:09:19
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2025-09-27 16:06:55
Cory @… Doctorow in a must-read on Apple, the EU, privacy and the absolute need to get rid of facist-adjacent (or fully fascist) tech infrastructure.
https://…
@samerfarha@mastodon.social2025-09-27 15:44:36
œx is one of my absolute favorite restaurants anywhere. If you’re lucky enough to be able to go, you should. I had dinner there on Thursday and it was an event.
We started the evening in Amma Don, their speakeasy, with some cocktails and amusé
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-12-26 10:41:26
I don't think I'm ever going to enjoy gifts.
I can get why people would give them to children. After all, children don't have their own budget. However, I'm talking about occasional gifts, not a new toy every second week, because "we must outcompete the other grandparents". But to adults?
Once I've heard that you should gift people with what they won't buy themselves. Well, that's won't work for me. I'm a minimalist. If I don't need something, I don't want to have it. Unnecessary junk is only emotional burden to me.
I can get why you'd enjoy something handmade. But something people bought? If I need something, I can buy it myself, when I need it. And I definitely don't need people to prove to me that they never cared to learn who I am, and just buy whatever they like or whatever is "fashionable"; which usually means exactly the opposite of what I'd prefer (i.e. something minimalistic). Or even worse, I don't need people manipulating me through gifts.
Sweets? Besides my diabetes, I don't really enjoy expensive shit that people generally buy because it's what's advertised. For the money they waste on it, I'd buy three times as much sweets I'd actually enjoy.
Gift cards? Oh yes, "you aren't supposed to give money, so let's just give the equivalent of money that's actually worth less than money". Actual money? And here we reach the true nonsense; we exchange the same amount of money, so it's just pointless gesture. Unless one of us gives less money…
What I'd really like, as a gift? Maybe that people would finally bother accepting me as who I am. The absolute minimum of caring that I hate consumerism, and not fueling it "for me".
#AntiCapitalism #minimalism #ActuallyAutistic
@annsev@troet.cafe2025-12-26 21:39:18
How can it be that a president of the United States, Darth Donald #Trump, decides for himself who should be killed? He murders people on boats and now in a faraway country.
He doesn't believe in courts, human rights, or international law. He thinks he's an absolute ruler and is only accountable to himself. What a jerk!
Why isn't the ICC officially launching an investigation? Trump…
@gwire@mastodon.social2025-10-25 20:37:28
Watching a video on YouTube, and if it's a parody it's very good - but if it's not a parody, it's absolute lazy slop. It's maddening that I can't tell.
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2025-10-24 19:38:01
It's been a day with a lot of input. The absolute opposite of this where I was completely alone.
#FootpathFriday #photography #nature
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-25 13:56:07
'Absolute violence and worse is the only thing that should happen': How social media drove the Citywest riots (Conor Lally/The Irish Times)
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/10/25/amplified-hateful-content-how-online-anger-was-stoked-into-rioting-at-citywest/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p18#a251025p18
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-12-21 15:42:02
from my link log —
Xerox 48-bit absolute internet and Ethernet host numbers. (1981)
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/parc/techReports/OPD-T8101_48-Bit_Absolute_Internet_and_Ethernet_Host_Numbers.pdf
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-10-24 20:02:01
I fucking despise Trump and Elon Musk, absolute parasites, moving on.
@samvarma@fosstodon.org2025-10-25 03:01:12
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-10-23 01:41:00
Some absolute dildo started a second Ruby Discord for people with "differing opinions"
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2025-11-21 21:40:54
Erste Instanz des Staatsangehörigkeitsgesetz. Absolute Tragödie.
@yaya@jorts.horse2025-10-24 06:37:09
today was an absolute fucking rollercoaster but it ended with me being happy again :)
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2025-11-24 07:23:00
Mobilität in Deutschland: Die Fußgänger holen auf https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/auto-verkehr/mobilitaet-in-deutschland-die-fussgaenger-holen-auf-accg-200252623.html
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-11-24 00:04:52
@bencurthoys@mastodon.social2025-11-24 11:54:47
Amazon Music has a playback API in closed beta, which means that I have hope that one day I will be able to use a replacement for their absolute piece of dogshit android app.
https://developer.amazon.com/docs/music/API_playback_overview.html
Quick quiz - …
@mlawton@mstdn.social2025-10-22 20:32:11
Absolute worm-burner from Szoboszlai, who was already my MOTM. Another assist for Wirtz.
#LFC
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-09 15:16:06
Stephen Miller suggested Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in the National Guard,
before suddenly stopping speaking in an awkward interview moment
While plenary authority suggests absolute power,
the U.S. system of separation of powers uses checks and balances to ensure that no branch, including the president, can exercise complete control.
Just before Miller turned silent,
he referred to “Title 10 of the U.S. code”,
which sets out the co…
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2025-12-21 22:41:34
RE: https://c.im/@heuveltop/115759819247267040
De mediastorm na de wedstrijd Ajax - Maccabi Tel Aviv | HUMAN
https://www.human.nl/medialogica/artikelen/een-gitzwarte-nacht
Op NPOstart:
https://npo.nl/start/afspelen/medialogica_7
Absolute aanrader om terug te kijken..
/2
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-17 10:15:14
I feel as though I should illustrate the difference that this one single constraint can make by two examples.
The rules of Simon Says are maximally authoritarian. You must perform any action ordered, with the only restriction that the authority must say "Simon says" first. Were you forced to stay in this system, it would be the most despotic autocracy possible. But it's not. It's a silly game because you can leave at any time.
Let's flip this and imagine a room. During a specific period of time you will have absolute control over everything in this room. In this room you have total freedom. This is not even the limited freedom, the coordinated freedom, the compromising freedom of civil society. You could, without consequence, perform any action you wish in this room. You could say anything, destroy or steal any object, order any individual to perform any action, kill any person in the room with you and take anything they own. This is the sovereign freedom, the absolute freedom, of dictators and kings. The only restriction is that you are not allowed to leave the room while you have this freedom. In fact, you really only have this level of freedom because the room is actually empty other than for you. I am, of course, talking about a form of torture still common in the US: solitary confinement.
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-21 15:35:27
"For starters, like shark attacks, the number of events attributed to left-wing terrorism this year is so low in absolute terms that it simply does not justify inducing panic with eye-popping headlines."
Correctly Assessing U.S. Left-Wing Terrorism and Political Violence
https://www.justsecurity.org/122278/correctly-assessing-left-wing-terrorism-and-political-violence-in-the-united-states/
@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-11-25 11:11:43
High-precision luminescence cryothermometry strategy by using hyperfine structure
Marina N. Popova, Mosab Diab, Boris Z. Malkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19088 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.19088 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.19088
arXiv:2511.19088v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A novel, to the best of our knowledge, ultralow-temperature luminescence thermometry strategy is proposed, based on a measurement of relative intensities of hyperfine components in the spectra of Ho$^{3 }$ ions doped into a crystal. A $^{7}$LiYF$_4$:Ho$^{3 }$ crystal is chosen as an example. First, we show that temperatures in the range 10-35 K can be measured using the Boltzmann behavior of the populations of crystal-field levels separated by an energy interval of 23 cm$^{-1}$. Then we select the 6089 cm$^{-1}$ line of the holmium $^5I_5 \rightarrow ^5I_7$ transition, which has a well-resolved hyperfine structure and falls within the transparency window of optical fibers (telecommunication S band), to demonstrate the possibility of measuring temperatures below 3 K. The temperature $T$ is determined by a least-squares fit to the measured intensities of all eight hyperfine components using the dependence $I(\nu) = I_1 \exp(-b\nu)$, where $I_1$ and $b = a\nu \frac{\nu}{kT}$ are fitting parameters and a accounts for intensity variations due to mixing of wave functions of different crystal-field levels by the hyperfine interaction. In this method, the absolute and relative thermal sensitivities grow at $T$ approaching zero as $\frac{1}{T^2}$.and $\frac{1}{T}$, respectively. We theoretically considered the intensity distributions within hyperfine manifolds and compared the results with experimental data. Application of the method to experimentally measured relative intensities of hyperfine components of the 6089 cm$^{-1}$ PL line yielded $T = 3.7 \pm 0.2$ K. For a temperature of 1 K, an order of magnitude better accuracy is expected.
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@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-12-26 00:32:58
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Absolute Objectivity:
🎵 Socialist Christmas
#AbsoluteObjectivity
#Christmas)
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-11-22 20:06:07
My absolute favorite flags!
:bisexual_pride: 🏳️⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️🌈
@losttourist@social.chatty.monster2025-10-17 19:31:30
Absolute banger of a tune to kick off 1986, though. #TOTP
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-12-19 19:22:36
Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
VARON: It's not absolute proof, but it gives us somewhere to start.
MAJA: But why would they have been to the clinic?
VARON: Mental implantation?
MAJA: What's that?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/293 B7B5
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-12-16 20:24:42
The thing this reply guy doesn’t get, the thing that’s so crucial to this moment, is that being correct about the law counts for absolute diddly shit in the moment. The law is slow. The law comes later…if ever. With these people on our streets right now, the only thing that matters in the moment is what people believe: what they believe the law is, what they believe is safe, what they believe they can get away with, what they believe they are capable of doing.
The law is slow. The law catches up later. Belief is •now•.
@brian_gettler@mas.to2025-11-19 01:08:46
#3GoodThings
Chili and cornbread.
Working out with Kid1 at the local public gym (it's small, but it's ours!).
Editing an absolute gem of an article - interesting, well written, and, for bonus points, it cites Althusser all at the same time.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-10-17 14:32:20
Lubach over stikstof, absolute aanrader.
#stikstof
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-11-17 00:57:03
utter respect to this absolute @…
legend. my sunday mornings will never be the same. https://ohai.social/@jbm/115562259628919397
@jaygooby@mastodon.social2025-10-20 12:21:38
#UkRain 11/10 BN1
Picked the absolute worst time to pop out for lunch ☔️
@Life_is@no-pony.farm2025-10-16 08:21:31
Spahn im Bundestag : "Hamas ist das pure Böse". Spahn hin oder her, egal, ob er versteht, was er gesagt hat: Das ist völlig richtig und es ist unbedingt angemessen das im Bundestag zu sagen.
Nach den Definitionen von Islam, Judentum, Christentum, UN, EU, Grundgesetz, Humanismus ist die Hamas das absolute Böse. Nach dem Wortlaut des Islam sind die Hamas-Mitglieder Teufel auf Erden.
@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc2025-10-17 19:31:22
@arXiv_mathGR_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-15 08:16:32
Maximal $2$-extensions of Pythagorean fields and Right Angled Artin Groups
Oussama Hamza, Christian Maire, J\'an Min\'a\v{c}, Nguyen Duy T\^an
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11970
@arXiv_astrophSR_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-13 09:20:50
The age and metallicity dependence of the near-infrared absolute magnitude and colour of red clump stars
Hiroki Onozato, Yoshifusa Ita, Yoshikazu Nakada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09168
@arXiv_mathOC_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-07 11:24:42
Range of optimal values in absolute value linear programming with interval data
Milan Hlad\'ik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04604 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…
@gwire@mastodon.social2025-11-24 12:39:31
As we grow, most of us learn to find an appropriate level of tact when personally appraising the creative output of others.
But, from this year of AI, we have been liberated.
"Well, this looks like absolute shit" we'll say, on the assumption that no feelings will be hurt.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-12 15:13:39
Turns out Kagi are assholes too. What a surprise. Is there A Very Small List of Companies That Aren’t Run By Absolute Scum somewhere? https://hachyderm.io/@castarco/114117205014128055
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-09-29 03:09:38
Graney: Maxx Crosby was at his absolute best in another Raiders loss https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/graney-maxx-crosby-was-at-his-absolute-best-in-another-raiders-loss-3467037/…
@Jaffa@social.linux.pizza2025-10-17 18:14:25
Baby Bumps was absolute shite.
Rocky version of 60s TV programme theme cover klaxon for Apollo 440, though.
#TOTP
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.social2025-10-15 14:54:25
@kctipton@mas.to2025-10-11 01:33:26
ICE Is Sending People to a Prison in Africa’s Only Absolute Monarchy – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/ice-third-country-deportation-monarchy-eswatini-legal-black-hole-trump/
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-17 10:14:48
I feel as though I should illustrate the difference that this one single constraint can make by two examples.
The rules of Simon Says are maximally authoritarian. You must perform any action ordered, with the only restriction that the authority must say "Simon says" first. Were you forced to stay in this system, it would be the most despotic autocracy possible. But it's not. It's a silly game because you can leave at any time.
Let's flip this and imagine a room. During a specific period of time you will have absolute control over everything in this room. In this room you have total freedom. This is not even the limited freedom, the coordinated freedom, the compromising freedom of civil society. You could, without consequence, perform any action you wish in this room. You could say anything, destroy or steal any object, order any individual to perform any action, kill any person in the room with you and take anything they own. This is the sovereign freedom, the absolute freedom, of dictators and kings. The only restriction is that you are not allowed to leave the room while you have this freedom. In fact, you really only have this level of freedom because the room is actually empty other than for you. I am, of course, talking about a form of torture still common in the US: solitary confinement.
@cyclocracy@norden.social2025-11-17 08:51:39
Der absolute Tickethammer, D-Ticket verteuern und gleich darauf billigere Flugtickets fordern. #CDU
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-11-10 14:21:25
The absolute UX *drama* of the new tinted (vs. clear) Liquid Glass preference in the macOS 26.1 System Settings. Why separate from the Reduce Transparency accessibility toggle? Why so prominent in the Appearance section? Why do users need to know about Liquid Glass at all? Mistakes were made here 😅
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-11-14 00:16:18
WOW. Glen Powell is an absolute real one. He did NOT skimp on his bites, especially on Da Bomb. #Respect
▶️ Glen Powell Needs a Wingman While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-fY6…
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2025-10-02 16:35:00
I wonder where we went wrong? Was it that horrible so-called "Advanced UI" that soured people forever on the Fediverse?
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-10-21 23:35:45
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Absolute Losers:
🎵 At the Same Time
#AbsoluteLosers
https://absolutelosers.bandcamp.com/track/at-the-same-time
https://open.spotify.com/track/6simTsYsg2SyXcpv4kaIEb
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-18 18:56:24
The president thinks his rule is absolute.
But in America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty.
Grow our movement and join us.
The rally at Alameda Park will be followed by a march to De La Guerra Plaza
#SantaBarbara #nokings
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2025-10-14 04:06:27
#Batteriespeicher stabilisieren das #Stromsystem, indem sie Energie bei Überangebot aufnehmen und bei Knappheit abgeben.
So reduzieren sie Preisschwankungen am Markt, senken die #Strompreise
Stabil statt volatil: Batteriespeicher und ihre Wirkung auf die Strompreise
Die Energiewende hat ein neues Nadelöhr: Nicht mehr die absolute Menge an Erzeugung entscheidet über Versorgungssicherheit, sondern ihre Flexibilität. Denn ob Strom verfügbar ist, hängt zunehmend davon ab, wann und wo er ins Netz eingespeist oder entnommen wird – nicht allein davon, wie viel insgesamt erzeugt wird. In einem Energiesystem, das von Solar- und Windspitzen 
@45names@mastodon.social
2025-12-15 05:20:19
@shacker@zirk.us2025-12-13 20:45:25
Very bummed to hear the news that friend John Collier is dealing with prostate cancer, and about to undergo radiation treatments. Great guy and sitting on an absolute wealth of musical knowledge. Radiation is a rough road for anyone, but John could really use some funding to get through copays and car repair, to support him through the treatment process. Hang in there John, you got this.
@yaya@jorts.horse2025-10-21 16:44:31
@… is on Mastodon!!! so I am obligated to tell all of you that she represented me in my shitty eviction case and not only did we get the eviction record sealed but I'm getting $7500 from my landlord's estate. Sheryl is an absolute rockstar and everyone should give her some money :blobhaj_heart:
@jswright61@ruby.social2025-11-16 15:45:09
I boosted this earlier: I’m back with a strong follow recommendation. I’m always delighted when I see a post from @… in my timeline. The images are wonderful. I’m sure he takes many photos because the ones he posts are gorgeous, and the only way to have such a high percentage, 98% , of absolute winners is to take a lot and post only the very best - so he's…
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2025-11-15 11:41:16
@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-15 08:10:01
Is the transition to unsteadiness in the wake of slender bodies an artefact of boundary conditions ?
David Fabre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11880 https://a…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-13 06:57:46
Day 19 (a bit late): Alice Oseman
As I said I've got 14 authors to fit into two days. Probably just going to extend to 30? But Oseman gets this spot as an absolute legend of queer fiction in both novel & graphic novel form, and an excellent example of the many truths queer writers have to share with non-queer people that can make everyone's lives better. Her writing is very kind, despite in many instances dealing with some dark stuff.
I started out on Heartstopper, which is just so lovely and fun to read, and then made my way through several of her novels. The one I'll highlight here which I think it's her greatest triumph is "Loveless", which is semi-autobiographical and was at least my first (but no longer only) experience with the "platonic romance" sub-genre. It not only helped me work through some crufty internal doubts about aro/ace identities that I'd never really examined, but in the process helped improve my understanding of friendship, period. Heck, it's probably a nice novel for anyone questioning any sort of identity or dealing with loneliness, and it's just super-enjoyable as a story regardless of the philosophical value.
To cheat a bit more here on my author count, I recently read "Dear Wendy" by Ann Zhao, which shouts out "Loveless" and offers a more expository exploration of aro/ace identities, but "Loveless" is a book with more heart and better writing overall, including the neat plotting and great pacing. I think there are also parallels with Becky Albertalli's work, though I think I like Oseman slightly more. Certainly both excel at writing queer romance (and romance-adjacent) stuff with happy endings (#OwnVoices wins again with all three authors).
In any case, Oseman is excellent and if you're not up for reading a novel, Heartstopper is a graphic novel series that's easy to jump into and very kind to its adorable main characters.
I think I've now decided to continue to 30, which is a relief, so I'm tagging this (and the next post that rounds out 20) two ways.
#20AuthorsNoMen
#30AuthorsNoMen
@csessh@social.linux.pizza2025-11-18 12:54:28
As soon as it rains, Hanoi traffic turns to absolute chaos 🫥💀☠️
@arXiv_hepex_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-07 08:10:40
Determination of the absolute energy scale of the DAMPE calorimeter with the geomagnetic rigidity cutoff method
JingJing Zang, Chuan Yue, Qiang Yuan, Wei Jiang, Xiang Li, Yunlong Zhang, Cong Zhao, Fabio Gargano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03854
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-11-17 00:57:03
utter respect to this absolute @…
legend. my sunday mornings will never be the same. https://ohai.social/@jbm/115562259628919397
@arXiv_astrophHE_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-13 09:34:50
SN 2021lwz: Another Exotic Luminous and Fast Evolving Optical Type Ic Broad-Lined Supernova ?
F. Poidevin, S. L. West, C. M. B. Omand, R. K\"onyves-T\'oth, S. Schulze, L. Yan, T. Kangas, I. P\'erez-Fournon, S. Geier, J. Sollerman, P. J. Pessi, C. M. Guti\'errez, T. -W. Chen, K-Ryan Hinds, R. Marques-Chaves, R. Shirley, C. Jimenez Angel, R. Lunnan, D. A. Perley, N. Sarin, Y. Yao, R. Dekany, J. Purdum, A. Wold, R. R. Laher, M. J. Graham, M. M. Kasliwal, T. Jegou Du Laz
@volephd@fediscience.org2025-11-13 15:15:11
@pgcd@mastodon.online2025-11-11 07:41:17
After a few days trying to print my stupid round labels, I have to show:
- an incredible waste of time and paper
- a burned fuser in a laser printer
- the absolute certainty that printers and their software are the utter negation of everything computers were supposed to be
The Antichrist, the Omega, the final destination of mankind will be born when some LLM Agent will mate with a printer.
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-10-12 01:15:01
Had a major customer infra migration today, went perfectly fine until it didn't, right when boss/network guy was boarding a plane.
He spent most of his DC-Miami trip texting w/me getting me to look at everything except his firewalls. He even made me go digging into a Win22 IIS and on-host firewall config, which is an absolute fucking nightmare.
Guess where the problem was...
#Sysadminnery
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2025-11-05 07:42:14
Did I mention IC reversing is absolute crack for AuDHD brains?
I should probably put down the EEPROM, at least for a while, and move on to other stuff. But I'm having too much fun.
This is the dangerous part, and the part I have the most trouble with... the problem is so big you'll *never* be done (especially doing it manually without any automation, figuring out what each cell is by hand, etc).
There's always more to discover. Nerd sniping to the 20th power.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-10-08 19:36:41
My wife runs linux, but she keeps a windows 10 VM around for exactly one thing: MS Office 2016. She needs it to ensure that grants from her lab sent to governments are formatted exactly right, something that libreoffice unfortunately still doesn't get right.
But man, even windows 10 has so much absolute garbage running in the background. It's probably time for a windows reinstall, or to see if wine will run it successfully (or something like linoffice:
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-10-06 15:00:03
'Don't even consider' Microsoft?
To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity. A millennial does battle with Redmond's enterprise tools and comes away reeling.
[…] Probably the single most common argument against switching to Linux is the absolute non-negotiable requirement of many organizations to have Microsoft Exchange. […]
🤦
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-10-15 01:22:58
There was a time in the not-so-distant past when we could have avoided incredible harm to incredible numbers of people here in the US simply by giving the absolute stink eye to people spouting deranged fascist crap, by saying “ugh, wtf, get out of here” instead of finding ways to describe fascism politely enough to give it equal time in the news.
I don’t know what’s coming. I hope for the best; I fear the worst. But shunning and shaming sound so, so, so much better than even the best-case scenarios that follow from here.
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social2025-11-07 00:13:18
i'm excited bc i found this absolute classic LP at the record store across the street ...and i bargained a little to get the price down by a third
no skips so far!
#nowplaying #vinyl #vinylrecords
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-10-13 08:05:50
One thing we keep getting wrong: Privacy is a *human* right. Not a corporate right. Not a government right.
Corporations and governments, tools that – in theory at least – exist to serve the people, must be transparent and accountable.
Instead, today, we have the opposite: We give corporations and governments privacy and expect absolute transparency from everyday people. That’s broth for fascism.
@jake4480@c.im2025-11-05 14:46:27
#NowPlaying the absolute banger from 2000, dead prez' genius LP 'Let's Get Free'. Damn, I listened to a lot of this one back then. Like visiting an old friend
https://youtu…
@thijs_lucas@norden.social2025-12-06 08:57:31
RE: https://digitalcourage.social/@Volksverpetzer/115667649865091293
Die absolute Mehrheit im Bundesrat steht ab 35 - fehlen noch 21 aus weiteren Bundesländern, die je nach Größe 3-6 Stimmen im @…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-16 17:53:29
Also: "Vanity Fair quotes Wiles as referring to Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought as a “a right-wing absolute zealot.”"
Wiles Torches Top White House Officials In Interview, Says Glorious Leader "Has An Alcoholic's Personality" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/wiles-torches-top-white-house-officials-in-interview-says-glorious-leader-has-an-alcoholics-personality/
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-20 09:38:34
#DearLazyWeb: Hey #Nederlanders ik heb en expat vrag over mijn #VvE. Our management company is absolute garbage. Our VVE management company recently scheduled repainting, during winter, with the most incompetent company possible, who did a horrible job, some of which didn't need to be done. Our windows had just been repainted since they were painted before we moved in, so 1/3 of the work they did was unnecessary, and now they look much worse than they did before. I could go on, but generally lots and lots of complaints along with absolutely terrible service.
Our upstairs neighbor (also an owner) also hates them and wants to switch, but a rental company owns the top half of the building and seems to be trying to force us in to staying. Basically, this management company is super cheap and the rental company are absolutely trash absentee leaches. (They *may* also have not been paying their part of the VvE fees for a while, but I'm not totally sure I understood everything.)
Unfortunately, I am way out of my depth and can't seem to get much help from google. Can anyone give me some advice about what to read or who to talk to, or are we actually stuck?
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-29 22:10:47
Good night with one of my all-time fave tracks by Boris Bunnik aka Conforce... Closer is an absolute masterpiece, perfect for late rainy nights, with a calm but haunting atmosphere and warm ambience...
Conforce - Closer (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oi4aUdQ94k
@chrysn@chaos.social2025-11-08 09:35:52
Is there a #UNIX style tool with which I can do any or all of (some are equivalent when combined with other tools):
* Turn absolute symlinks into relative ones or vice versa
* Increase or decrease the number of `../` segments in symlinks during/after copying/moving them
* Get me all a tree's symlinks in a text file so I can edit/sed them and turn them back into symlinks
* Full…
@yaya@jorts.horse2025-11-18 21:52:27
ABSOLUTE FUCKING SCENES IN SCOTLAND TODAY LADS
#FEDIFC
@ellie@ellieayla.net2025-12-05 01:44:53
Via Rail is better than driving an automobile. Quieter, faster, more legroom, don't need to store it somewhere. But that's like the absolute bare minimum for a rail service. It needs to come as frequently as an automobile too. And have bicycle racks.
#viarail
@arXiv_physicschemph_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-29 09:11:38
Automated Workflow for Absolute Binding Free Energy Calculations with Implicit Solvent and Double Decoupling
Steven Ayoub, Michael Barton, David A. Case, Tyler Luchko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21808
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-02 12:15:42
Trump wields pardons as purest form of power (Zachary Basu/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/02/trump-pardons-hernandez-absolute-power
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p13#a251202p13
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-10-16 15:04:08
Our realities are constantly diverging, and never completely shared. And we •want• that! It’s important for people to bring different experiences, different ways of seeing and thinking.
One person understands climate science. Another person understands the subculture of Southern Iowa. A third person knows what it’s like to live as a Black person in this society — and so on, to infinity. All these perspectives matter, and nobody gets to hold all infinity of them at once.
Nobody gets to be in full possession of absolute truth.
2/
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-11-15 07:04:41
#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
SERVALAN: Very well, Councillor Bercol. You may tell the President that I am appointing a Space Commander to take absolute control of this matter. He will be exclusively concerned to seek, locate, and destroy Blake.
BERCOL: Oh, excellent, excellent.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-12-09 09:29:53
ABSOLUTE GLORY.
▶️ Buzzer-beater drama: UCLA claims 2025 water polo title
#UCLA
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-12-06 12:08:54
I am not as pessimistic as the writer of this article, still an absolute must-read,
"AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself"
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-12-10 13:29:12
Do you recall the good old days, back when the worst embarrassment you could witness was someone booting up a laptop in a train, and being greeted by the Windows startup chime?
Nowadays we have to suffer a whole spectrum, from the embarrassment of people taking photos with their "shutter" sound enabled and hitting random advertisements on full volume, to the absolute rudeness of watching random stuff or playing music on their speaker.
Not to mention all the annoying, loud ringtones and notification sounds, repeated far too often. Or people who don't want to pick up their phone, but they won't bother silencing it either.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-12 21:50:13
Much as white southerners acted like the election of a black man as mayor would be the death of the city as they had long known it,
white New Yorkers are now acting like the election of Mamdani will be the death of NYC.
Some of it is religious bigotry,
some of it is class panic,
but all of it is as unfounded as the reaction to the first black mayors a half century ago.
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-10-16 04:48:42
Bears QB Caleb Williams shining in crunch time https://www.chicagobears.com/news/bears-qb-caleb-williams-shining-in-crunch-time-defense-takeaways-offensive-line-running-game
@jake4480@c.im2025-12-03 15:00:56
For this week's #MusicWomenWednesday, something fairly brutal and excellent- Glasgow's UNMAKING and their debut EP 'Absolute Immiseration'. This is like, blackened sludge -- some VERY intense shit. Heavy as hell. Vocalist Kay Logan's voice is roaring and screeching.. I keep coming back to this one.
@yaya@jorts.horse2025-10-15 07:27:25
today's football fact is that absolute rocket kicks from distance are called thundercunts
you can also use it as a verb, as in, he fuckin thundercunted it
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TO_JsJ3-Wao
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-08 19:40:53
ICE Is Sending People to a Prison in Africa's Only Absolute Monarchy (Noah Lanard/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/ice-third-country-deportation-monarchy-eswatini-legal-black-hole-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p102#a251008p102
@gwire@mastodon.social2025-10-13 11:47:51
Absolute clown show.
> In the encounter, which Murton filmed, an officer told her: “Mentioning freedom of Gaza, Israel, genocide, all of that all come under proscribed groups, which are terror groups that have been dictated by the government.”
https://www.the…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-11-09 05:01:50
The Supreme Court's been nothing but partisan - giving complete free reign to Trump.
Now, on tariffs & SNAP food funding, we're about to see if the court is absolute evil.
▶️ New Rule: Democracy's Last Line of Defense | Real Time with Bill Maher
https://youtube.com/watch?v=f6MX…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-11 05:28:04
NO KINGS Santa Barbara
Rally · Volunteer organized
Saturday, October 18
12 – 3pm PDT
Alameda Park
1400 Santa Barbara St
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/839871/
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-11-07 01:41:13
Never thought I'd ever say the words, "BURN IT DOWN, BERNIE! ABSOLUTE SCORCHED EARTH!" but here we are.
▶️ ‘Democrats Are Last Line Of Defense’: Bernie Sanders Roaring Speech In US Senate on Shutdown
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zxbAPHeiivI&si=CxtDxB_2…
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-07 20:39:38
Now, for any person with a shred of moral dignity, there's some time during US history where you would have to admit that an insurrection or rebellion was necessary. Only complete scum bag fascists would try to argue that a slave revolt wasn't an absolute good, and that it was a bad thing when those revolts were crushed. Anyone with a shred of moral decency has to admit that there is at least one point in US history where the nation was doing something so incredibly evil, that it would have been good if people would have rose up and stopped it.
Today we're talking about the displacement and genocide of people in Gaza. We can look at any number of genocide on US soil carried out by the US government. Who, with any moral clarity, wouldn't point to those and want to believe that they would have resisted, violently if necessary, against those slaughters. Who, that today condemns slavery, could look at John Brown and not wish to have the moral integrity to fight and die along side of him?
Every liberal who actually believes in justice, who isn't just virtue signaling out of guilt, should be able to point to a time in history where they would absolutely agree with the most militant resistance. For those folks, I always wonder, when did that evil end? Where is your line? Have you thought about that?
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-09 14:54:09
The Trump administration has vowed to crack down on what it calls hate speech. It has labeled antifa, a loosely organized anti-fascist group, a terrorist organization.
And it has sought to punish figures such as TV host Jimmy Kimmel for statements perceived critical of conservative activists.
What the First Amendment makes clear is that it does not just protect the rights of speakers who say things with which Americans agree.
Or, as the Supreme Court said in a separate deci…
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-06 07:03:30
European "socialism" is a compromise wherein the population gets services and, in exchange, the rich are allowed to continue to exist. This compromise developed to save capitalism from the threat of the working class just rising up and just doing it all themselves. Revolutions, it turns out, can be dangerous and may be subverted. It's generally safer, so Europe's working class decided, to accept some exploitation in exchange for not taking that chance.
The the strategy of "point guns at everyone until they comply" was a sustainable strategy, all of Europe would still be absolute monarchies, feudalism would still be the dominant economic system globally, and England would still control most of the land on Earth. Recognizing that this *isn't* the state of the world should give some clues as to how well Yarvin's ideas continue will play out in the real world.
#USPol
@yaya@jorts.horse2025-12-03 15:39:33
Content warning: periods
the absolute hubris of thinking nah it was just the tiniest bit of spotting in the morning, ill be fine and then ofc waking up in a blood puddle