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from my link log —
Doing gigabit ethernet over my British phone extension wires.
https://thehftguy.com/2026/01/22/doing-gigabit-ethernet-over-my-british-phone-wires/
saved 2026-01-24

Facing disruption from GenAI, the $250B Indian IT industry has adapted by focusing on preparatory work AI requires, such as data cleanup and system integration (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
https://indiadispatch.com/p/indian-it-firms-are-doing-fine

"What people are doing here is beautiful": The immense power of the Minneapolis anti-ICE protests - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/what-people-are-doing-here-is-beautiful-the-immense-power-of-the-minneapolis-anti-ice-protests/

It's gonna be interesting to see how Ed Zitron's popularity will develop after that Wired article.
Most people will probably be pissed off about him doing PR for AI companies but I think the more relevant part is that his analysis is kinda ... shallow? Like he fully lives in "the computer is the machine that generates social progress" camp. Which ... doesn't hold too much water.
Which doesn't mean that he's not doing some good work digging through t…

I’ve had this contingent of the language police show up in my replies a few times now over the word “cosplay,” and look…
OK, I get it, I get the instinct to say “Don’t drag me into this!” and I applaud the effort to push fascists out of communities, yes to all that…
…and also we need to recognize that what ICE is doing absolutely •is• cosplay. The word means “costume play.” It refers to assembling and wearing costumes that are not necessarily functional, but show affinity for a particular subculture by reproducing characters from that subculture’s popular narratives.
ICE are cosplaying Call of Duty. That is an accurate description of what’s happening. (Listen to “Gear.”)
I make software and I make music. I don’t think either one of those things •should• be about violence. I don’t •want• them to be about violence. But both are used in the service of violence, like it or not. I shout the violence out whenever it shows up. But would be ridiculous for me to point at what Palantir does and say “That’s not software!” Unfortunately, it •is• software. To deny that would be beyond self-defeating; it would be irresponsible.
ICE •is• doing cosplay, and we hate it. It’s an insult to the cosplay subculture. It is an insult to the whole of humanity. Fascism creeps into all of our spheres, into every beloved craft and community, and the response is never to pretend it’s not there. The response is to drive it out.
@…
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@wildrikku/115956545807535535

We are doing another Xogot jam, join us for chapter three:
https://blog.xogot.com/xogot-jam-3-is-coming-jam-2-winners/

Storybook Patriots aren't always the prettiest, but they keep doing what it takes to win https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6998272/2026/01/26/patriots-broncos-super-bowl-surprise/

So good to see a YouTuber saying this openly and doing something with their platform https://www.patreon.com/posts/149172725

considering doing a @… and writing a blog post enumerating every single papercut i hit in a 2-hour kicad session

@… oh, I see: you want to charge me for something I’m already doing??
…seems fair

It's crazy how two people doing something in a garage can get folks to turn it into something of a religion, where individuals are willing to pay millions for paper. https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/115616484841704061

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

Current summary of all of the GPU acceleration work I've been doing in ngscopeclient since v0.1.1.
Other than the CDR PLL and eye pattern which were high-priority targets that were worth the effort, and the Ethernet which I got nerdsniped on, these are all trivial inner loops of just a few lines that I threw at the GPU without any significant tuning, so there's probably more performance upside.
But I'm not complaining with what I've pulled off so far. (As you ca…

My neighbor wiped out on his bike breaking a leg and has been off work for a month but he’s been doing illustrations to make some money so I got one of my cat in a box.
#art #cats #Illustration

Channeling Revenant Feelings (Eagle Creek, Oregon, 2017)
(Hoping my friends in the US are doing everything in their power to help protect these sacred wilderness places from the onslaught of out of control greed...)
#FootpathFriday #ForestFriday

Every non-hype defense of #LLMs starts with "you must already understand your work really well." But the people vibe coding prototypes *don't*.
As a result they scale up thoughtlessness. "Bulking out" a slapdash idea with hallucinated details only displaces the real thinking that could have led to actual innovation. The very teams the tool was supposed to help instead…

Morning
I've barely started doing anything productive so far today... but I am on my second large-cup-of-coffee, so... progress?
#morning

One of those weeks where i am pulling my hair out. Doing a migration, 2 sites into one, 3 languages in each and I'm sorting out the redirects. Not all the content appears to have been migrated to the development site and quite a lot has been migrated into the wrong language silo! Oh and I just discovered someone is still making content changes so the redirects I have already worked out might now be wrong in some cases. Launches tomorrow…

Spike Lee doing a reboot of an old Kurosawa movie sounds interesting

Wait...
DC deployment of National Guard was ruled unlawful:
https://apnews.com/article/national-guard-dc-deployment-c1c2b13a7102632632267bf1262506ff
So what were they doing there before they were shot:

It’s sometimes said that presidents pivot toward foreign policy in their second terms.
Unburdened by the prospect of having to face voters again, and sometimes opposed by a hostile Congress, presidents often go overseas in search of a legacy. 
If the past week or so is anything to go by, Donald Trump is doing the same.
My colleagues Shelby Holliday and Lara Seligman reported exclusively Tuesday that a large number of U.S. troops and special-operations aircraft have deployed…

Wow, it's the last #LetterboxdFriday of the year. Been doing some weird horror shorts. This year I surpassed 2,000 total films seen in my life, according to Letterboxd stats, and yeah, I probably have a problem. But at least I'm in my house watching weird movies and not out prowling the dark streets.
#Letterboxd

And people keep being suprised by the regular genocides that *keep fucking happening*. And yes, call what ICE is doing what it is. It is a gencoide. Even if it's not killing millions of people (yet), the "genocide" doesn't mean "killing logs of people" it means "trying to wipe out a specific ethnic, racial, or religious group." What the fuck is ICE trying to do? They're carrying out ethnic cleansing. It's genocide.
Genocide in Gaza, genocide in Syria, genocide in Turkey, China, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Serbia... why the fuck does it keep happening? I'll tell you why. It's states.
People like to think of countries and ethnic reagions as the same thing, but they aren't. They never have been. There's never been clear divisions between ethnic groups. But the existence of the state depends on a shared identity. When the truth is more complicated, the state must find a way to fix that. The solution is genocide. You can't separate the two. There can be no state without genocide. The mechanism to carry ou the kind of mass murder and the incentive to do so are really not easy to put together without the state. The state makes genocide viable, and the state demands genocide to protect it's own existence.
Every election is a dice roll. Every state is on a clock, waiting for the luck to run out. And the worst people possible are just waiting for their chance to win and carry out those genocides in order to lock in their power.
Never again means nothing unless you are attacking the root of genocide: the state.

@… I was just in the process of doing so ;-) I’ll let you know when it’s online.

@… I was just in the process of doing so ;-) I’ll let you know when it’s online.

Working WFD CW today. Didn't yesterday due to doing storm preparations. Not a serious contester here, just pulled up not1mm, and am using it to send code so that I don't slow down more serious folks with my bad keying, just using the key when I need to send something that I didn't have a macro for, or to send slowly. Just now, I was delighted that I copied a 2x3 call on first hearing at 35WPM and then was deflated to hear "TEST" afterwards. I didn't know what contests are currently active, b…

When asking an LLM about an open source codebase it may be doing that based on previous stuff it learnt, not so much the code you just gave it; I'd asked Qwen3 to summarize some of #LibreOffice's code and it was surprisingly good - but then I noticed it could it on a fresh start without having given it the source. On one side, this means it's misleading about how well they can …

@… Thank you for doing the right thing, sorry that it sucks :(

—Professor of strategic management: “Help!! My daughter doesn’t manage to get ChatGPT to write her dissertation!”
—The LinkedIn crowd of “thought leaders”: “This sounds like a prompt challenge!” “Try this tool!” “Try that tool!” “This prompt works for me!”
How about actually doing research!?

Google and Apple doing some interesting work to improve the safety of C software, and the results speak for themselves: "The baseline segmentation fault rate across the production fleet dropped by approximately 30 percent"
https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3773097

Like all the rest of the nerds, I did a bit of tech support on family computers.
They're all popping up windows from scam virus scanners lying that subscriptions need to be renewed or machines are unprotected. People don't know how to remove these things. Luckily they also don't really know how to pay the subscription.
Their phones are updating on them. Changing where buttons used to be. Removing options. Forcing people to register to use they things they have been doing for years.
They don't know how to register.
Things pop up asking for passwords and they have no idea who is asking or which password to use.
I tell them that I don't really understand why they keep using Windows now it is so shitty and awful. They say they don't know how to use anything else. The fact they don't really know how to use windows either doesn't seem to register.
The tech corporations have given up completely on being user friendly. They are all deliberately user hostile and exploitative now.
Corporate tech is terrible. The industry is failing it's users, abusing them. People don't even know there is any other way. They are just giving up on achieving their tasks until someone can fix the pop-ups and subscription boxes and passwords and 2fa for them.
Tech sucks now. Sucks hard.
#tech #christmasTechSupport

I'm listening to the most recent episode of #YouAreNotSoSmart, David McRaney's podcast @…. It's about the Trolley problem and morality.
They keep talking about a variation of the trolley problem where, instead of pulling the lever t…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rvps2001/115781273189000142
Weird. What are they doing, scoping the place out?

I just saw an unironic post from an anti-Trump Jewish Zionist (self-described) quoting from Leviticus saying we should not stand idly by while the blood of our neighbor is spilled.
I'm interested in how they square that with the torrent of Palestinian blood being spilled by the state they explicitly claim to support.
Not doing a quote-post or anything b/c I don't want a pile-on, but uh...weird.

Can you believe what the US government is doing in Minneapolis? I thought the worst they would do is commit genocide in parts of the world we don’t care about. But this… it’s a step too far, no? I mean, even white people are suffering now. It’s just not right.

@… thanks, rudeness is a colossal turn-off.
I say that philosophically, because I normally do something more than turn off – if someone's rude to me, in public, I'll often bite back (and sometimes wait months, or years, before doing so). The Internet's a big place, and people can be given enough rope.

Because of real life I'm not using the internet that much. I'm doing almost everything through RSS. Like reading Comics, Memes, News, Blogs, Git, YouTube, even bit of Fediverse.
May you live long RSS
#RSS #freshrss

@…

I guess it depends on the language. I use polars heavily with Python. It works really really well. It's not just faster than pandas, it's more ergonomic, more regular, more composable and less quirky.

Python is very flexible and accommodating. And you are strongly discouraged from doing fine grained computation in Python a…

Chili is smelling really good today. With the snow I figured I may be out doing shoveling and chili always seems to taste better.
Condo did a fair job shoveling our walk ways and parking spots, but I go out afterwards with the scoop to clear it as close to the pavement as possible. Then just the smallest bit of salt and lots of sand for traction. I did the same for our neighbour. Makes a huge difference when you have mobility issues and can walk without slipping on packed snow and …

You can really see the results from all the training I've been doing

Digital Realty, QTS, and NTT Data warn the data center industry is doing a poor job of combating local opposition; 24 US projects were blocked in January alone (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f45d45fc-c0ea-463c-8edf-38fb99ed5c05

Dieser Artikel über nukleare #Kleinreaktoren offenbart erstaunliche Parallelen zum aktuellen #KIHype:
"This vision never materialized. No turnkey reactors were carted cross-country or floated up rivers. Then, as earlier, they were deemed too expensive.
[...] Once again, we see h…

Day 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen

I don't know why the member states of the #EU are humiliating themselves so much in front of Darth #Trump. It's clear that Trump betrays friends and enemies alike as soon as he sees an advantage in doing so. So the US nuclear umbrella that everyone is begging for is just an illusion anyway.
The

I think I’m envious of the two of them. Not envious of their ☄️fame but I wish I was doing more creating for me. I’ve been so exhausted for so many years.

Any social internet worth thinking about needs to be built on the idea of care.
- care for the wellbeing of the people on the network (moderation)
- care for those doing extra work (like moderation)
- care for each other (add alt-texts to images, thinking about inclusivity etc)
- care to make running infrastructure sustainable (in all respects)
The social Internet needs to be a web of human care.

@… : Just a quick shoutout and thank you!
Your tutorial on setting up VoidLinux, on ZFS, with encrypted swap worked great. Followed all steps, and everything (including hibernate and restore) works exactly as expected.
Learned some things along the way (encryption, zfsbootmgr) and, most of all, had a lot of fun doing it ;-)
Tomorrow I'll be…

I bought me 6 month of @… family plan with @… . Will report how it goes.
(
Why?
Because I'm doing enough software maintenance already to not want to get a Virtual Private Server and plug N…

@… would love to see a contrast between this and the corporate messaging Vivaldi is doing

I’m not doing any other ‘wrapped’ things, so sure, show me a @….

The whole thing is optimized for scams, deception and other criminal behavior:
- user interface that deceptively pretends it's a human you're talking to
- claims from companies highly exaggerate capabilities
companies and "experts" constantly hype "AGI" which they (funnily enough) do to both make investors greedier and spread fear and as a distraction because these algorithms can't actually do what they keep promising
- large-scale accounting and financial fraud (e.g. what Nvidia is doing with circular selling)
- biggest case of copyright infringement in history
Note: I think the underlying technology is really cool, and definitely has use cases and can be used for actually good things. But: some technology just has more downsides than upsides, and some should only be used by experts in controlled environments. Leaded gasoline, asbestos and chlorofluorocarbon are also all really cool technology.
In this case perhaps the techology itself doesn't do anything inherently bad, however the people making it are lying about what it can do, the people selling it are motivated purely by greed and the people using it (often forced to do so) are being deceived.

Dallas Cowboys Meet With Intriguing Defensive Prospects at Shrine Game https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/dallas-cowboys-meet-intriguing-defensive-nfl-draft-prospects-shrine-game

Trying to bring up IPC between the CPU1 and CPU2 subsystems on STM32MP2.
Doing shared memory compute between a 32 and 64 bit processor that need to share pointers (the physical address spaces overlap and are zero extended on the 64 bit side) makes things... interesting.

An excellent summary here via @… about how the structures of our civil society have failed to stop ICE from becoming Trump’s Brownshirts.
The one thing the piece omits: someone •is• stopping ICE. It’s the citizens filling the streets, honking and shouting and filming and generally harassing ICE, doing the work our government has failed to do. If it were not for that response being so widespread, sustained, and forceful, we’d be in far worse place right now. https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/115616389777857234

Senior CDC official: Loss of measles elimination status in U.S. would be 'cost of doing business' (Helen Branswell/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/20/cdc-measles-briefing-lost-elimination-status-cost-of-doing-business/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p52#a260121p52

thawing out at a packed union pool for modern nature's cracking tour closer, moonlit UK motorik & calm-on-the-outside unison vocals, all doing double duty backing brigid dawson as the mothers network. #nyc #brooklyn

"Writing your idea down is not starting the damn game. Writing a design document is not starting the damn game. Assembling a team is not starting the damn game. Even doing graphics or music is not starting the damn game. It’s easy to confuse “preparing to start the damn game” with “starting the damn game”. Just remember: a damn game can be played, and if you have not created something that can be played, it’s not a damn game!"

Imagine there were no smartphones with cameras and social media, then ICE/DHS would completely get away with all their lies and misinformation. The federal government statements in the US feel like the Soviet-Union for those people old enough to remember that. Local media and civilian observers are doing a great job.
#minneapolis

Also want to say how wonderful #StarTrek #StarFleetAcademy is to again be transported to a society that is doing its best to make things better. To be based on science, facts, community, communication, trust and empathy.
And its set in San Francisco, just wish I could teleport up there right now…

So I’m reading an article in New Scientist about problems nailing down the #HubbleConstant and I thought, if the universe is expanding, as in adding new space where there already is some, why isn’t everything expanding with it? All I can think of is, it’s gravity doing it, keeping localized bits of matter together, from subatomic particles to galaxies in size, essentially fighting an epic, m…

I've signed up for this. Work worth doing: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/23/got-ideas-for-growing-the-open-social-web-bring-them/

Slight tanget but...
There is exactly one way to prevent authoritarianism. That is to make these systems optional. It must be possible to leave a system if it becomes oppressive, and by doing so deprive the system of it's power.
This is what anarchists assert.
Now, have you thought to wonder why the state claiming that someone is an anarchist is generally considered sufficient to excuse any violence against that individual? If someone wants to lock you into the system, they are going to target people who assert that systems should be possible to leave.
Remember that when the only evidience against someone is "they had anarchist literature."

It's the day before Thanksgiving and I am working, apparently. I don't expect a lot of people to be doing the same.

Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch dissented, disgusting as they are.
Roberts, Barrett, and Kavanaugh somehow doing the right thing.
Wonder how long we can keep this up without Trump rage-ordering a nuclear strike on some poor, non-white country.
#trump #SCOTUS

It's so weird how all of a sudden all Youtubers are censoring themselves. Sex is called "X". True Crime podcasts are using the term "serial offender" instead of serial killer. Sometimes a word is mangled and that's where I don't know whether that's Youtube doing it to the audio track automatically or whether the Youtubers are doing it on purpose.
#youtube…

@… Yes, I'm doing that too. Eventually she'll do it too. But I wasn't expecting her to growl and bark at the bells!

"There was no choice, there is no choice: either submit to capital or watch your ideas wither and die. There are no other practical ways to raise significant capital. Real Angels don’t exist"
On the Feudal-like structures in Silicon Valley. Written in 2018, but not much has changed.
https://<…

Jets' Aaron Glenn preaches patience to fans: 'We know exactly what we're doing' https://www.nfl.com/news/jets-aaron-glenn-preaches-patience-to-fans-we-know-exactly-what-we-re-doing

—Professor of strategic management: “Help!! My daughter doesn’t manage to get ChatGPT to write her dissertation!”
—The LinkedIn crowd of “thought leaders”: “This sounds like a prompt challenge!” “Try this tool!” “Try that tool!” “This prompt works for me!”
How about actually doing research!?

—Professor of strategic management: “Help!! My daughter doesn’t manage to get ChatGPT to write her dissertation!”
—The LinkedIn crowd of “thought leaders”: “This sounds like a prompt challenge!” “Try this tool!” “Try that tool!” “This prompt works for me!”
How about actually doing research!?

I don’t know why Alisson didn’t come and claim that ball in, but more so what the heck Van Dijk is doing? Gomez is late because he too is expecting better.
So inept, defensively. Not tactics, but individual failures.
#LFC

The Beeb is getting a live-ish report out of Minnesota, with the presenter being confused about the difference between “State Troopers” (a.k.a. state police or ‘highway patrol’) and National Guard (who are NOT yet deployed.)
Apparently the state police are doing interventional peacekeeping by getting between the feds and the civilians.

Mitt barn är med i tidningen :-) https://forward.com/yiddish/791953/it-takes-a-village-to-raise-a-child-in-yiddish-how-parents-are-doing-it/

How do you parse the phrase "What are we even doing here?"

@… How are you doing?

Security annoyance of the day: Mandatory 2fa that then gives you an option to trust a device for the next 7 days.
Frequent enough to be annoying, but lacks the e.g. anti-phish protections of doing it every time. Worst of both worlds.

📍 Kita no Donburi
Restaurant · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
★★★★☆
Back in Vancouver and doing a last office day. Taking it slow.
Haven’t had sushi in like a month. My favourite take out place is closed so getting a big sushi combo.
#BeaconBits <…

Just got these messages from @seengoals@mastodon.social, one of the members of Gaza Verified, basically accusing me of running a fundraiser for Gaza and keeping the proceeds (I have no fundraiser on any fundraising site anywhere) and extorting me to share his fundraiser or he’ll apparently go public with it.
So here’s what’s going to happening instead: Nabil has been removed Gaza Verified (

My semi-regular rant...
I have auto-play video turned off. Stop with the F*****G games with HTML5 and scripts to get around that. I have nuked sites that don't respect my wishes there. If I am interested in watching I will click play.
Stop doing those popups saying I have an ad blocker and you won't show your site unless I turn it off.
1. How do you know I am running a blocker unless you are running intrusive scripts?
2. F OFF I will ignore you and go e…

Sean Casten, Rep IL-06
The mass protests in MN yesterday,
the collapsing poll numbers,
the decency of the protesters
-- It all scares them.
They are shooting their way out
and don't care who they hit.
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:2

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

"Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job."
—Joan Rivers
#acting #coaching

(This is not some kind of false modesty. Most of what you’re hearing from me here is just me passing along information from community channels. My personal contribution has mostly been helping communication, helping people with tech issues, doing some volunteering, keeping watch, protesting, doing neighborhood support work — that kind of stuff. I don’t want to downplay the importance of any of that. It matters a •lot• that there are so many people doing all of those things! It matters that I’m one of them! Just…you know, I’m one among many, a small player who somehow ended up holding one of the mics on Mastodon, and that’s it. The courage you see is the courage of many.)

World always wants me to work and whatnot, when all I really wanna be doing is this

It's Christmas.
Hope everyone is doing what they want with who they want.
I'm with the family, have new led lights off various kinds. Nice day.
Gonna cook dinner in a little while. Folks can't really manage it any more.

giving side-eye to certain tech executives for giving ketamine a bad name
look. it's not the ketamine. it's their values and beliefs doing that

Fox News Poll: Voters say White House is doing more harm than good on economy (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-voters-say-white-house-doing-more-harm-than-good-economy
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p148#a251119p148

No one wants to build bad products. But in an industry where programmers implement features to order, it can be hard to shake that feeling.
This is how orgs see the ROI of UX: as a soothing function to tell everyone they're doing a good job. And as a scapegoat, when we finally learn otherwise.
UX cheerleading is doing the industry no favors.
#UX

I am wondering how easy it is for a bigtech company to collect all fediverse data for AI training? Are there signs that they are doing that? In my personal opinion it is fine dat AI models train on public posts but i was just wondering if it happens...
#AI #trainingdata

If your immediate response is to suggest data pipes are fatter, video is to blame, images must be the highest resolution possible, font files are doing this, etc., then you might not understand who you’re actually serving and why this is a concern.
https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/1156014307…

Darth #Trump and Darth #Vance are doing everything they can to damage the USA's reputation and lose the respect of more and more countries and people.
The USA is ruled by hooligans, thugs, criminals, opportunists and their followers.

Yes, you will have to continue doing mundane things even through bad times.
This is called “life”. It’s actually a good thing.
Even through a nuclear holocaust you’d still have to wipe your ass. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Kav: Let's talk about the real world downstream consequences.
Wouldn't all the Trump appointees be immediately removed for cause by the next Dem president if we set this precedent you want?
What are we doing man?
Sauer: I can't predict what could happen
Kav: Come on, man, we all know
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@… @… writing code began as women’s work so hopefully I can keep doing that too 😅 *runs away*

In the time I've been offline, I've been doing a lot and feeling a lot more mentally healthy. I've been exploring nomadnet a bit, looking at reticulum. I'm definitely going to go back to my break and being online much less regularly.
I actually totally forgot about the anniversary of the shooting, which is the first time that's happened since... uh... the shooting, I think.
I've definitely realized that, on some level, I've definitely used Mastodon (and formerly Twitter) as a coping mechanism, often in order to deal with the stressful things that I've found out about on Mastodon or Twitter.
But, again, none of those things really change our core job: build community. And that's part of what I've been neglecting, and what I can focus on more when I'm not spending as much time talking to people all over the world indirectly. Like, I can just chat directly with folks and talk about this shit.
Yeah, I do think there's value in this community. I don't think it's really screaming into the void (at least, not most of the time). But I know that I need the balance to be way farther on the side of direct engagement with comrades doing and building.
So that's what I'm gonna go back to. I feel as though it's a good sign that with all the writing about getting shot that I've been doing, and all the thinking about that, that the actual anniversary of the shooting I'm actually just thinking about bread.
And that seems like a good note to leave on. I'm gonna go back to some hacker shit.

They're doing to America what they did to Christianity (Bill McKibben/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/23/america-christian-evangelical-discrimination-immigration
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p35#a251123p35

Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent:
the Maga evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int