@aardrian@toot.cafeI’ve been hesitant to share this since the post is strictly visuals sans alt text, but I think the examples it shows are worth it for those who are designing GUIs.
“It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons”
https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
Though if you’re a sighted visual designer, you’ve like…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHegseth Invokes Divine Purpose to Justify Military Might (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/politics/hegseth-christianity-military.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260320/p108#a260320p108
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itSometimes, people with a large audience let it go to their heads. When they are shitty, they feel the need to justify it with fancy rhetoric because they're above the rest of us.
We all take shortcuts, we all cheat on the diet, we all hit the snooze button for another 5 mins of sleep, we all do the thing we think we can get away with (and then feel guilty about it later) because no one was looking. We're human. Sometimes you've just gotta be honest and own up and say "…
@deabigt@universeodon.comWhat happened to the worst of the worst? Can’t wait to hear them justify this one.
55 year old US citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear in subzero temps after warrantless search https://ground.news/article/us-citizen-says-ice-removed-him-from-his-minnesota-home-in-his-underwear-after-warrantless-search_e642e0
@scott@carfree.cityI'm noticing people treating this as mere dysfunction, but it's not. City Hall is keeping most of the commissions intact because the whole purpose of “commission reform” was to justify an executive power grab, not because anyone seriously thought having too many commissions was a major issue.
And the executive power grab is still happening. 1/
@crell@phpc.socialCompilers are deterministic machines built by very smart humans. CNC manufacturing is deterministic machines built by very smart humans. In both cases, they produce higher quality output with more precision and repeatability than almost any skilled human.
LLMs are non-deterministic Autocomplete that produce lower quality output with worse precision than a human, and nobody actually knows how they work.
Comparing them to justify AI is simply not valid.
@cdarwin@c.imUS Border Agents Intentionally Stepped in Front of Moving Vehicles to Justify Shooting at Them
An internal review of the US Border Patrol raises serious questions about the agency’s use-of-force policy.
https://www.thenation.com/article/arc…
@mapto@qoto.orgThis is how superficial one needs to get to justify an argument of US global supremacy. Arthur Herman and WSJ deliberately choose to ignore Taiwan's unmatched leadership in superconductors and China's in energy. Instead, they turn to Soviet-style resources and headcount arguments. Apparently there is a force driving them to sacrifice whatever authority they might still have.
"China remains formidable. But from Europe and the Middle East to South America and Southeast Asia, …
@relcfp@mastodon.social
@ErikUden@mastodon.deblack lives matter crowd cares about renee good
“all lives matter” people justify her killing
Very interesting
@deabigt@universeodon.comWeird on so many levels.
Trump sends weird angry letter to Norway’s Prime Minister https://ground.news/article/trump-cites-nobel-snub-to-justify-greenland-demand-in-letter_fe8f31
@servelan@newsie.social"Some supporters of the US-Israeli war on Iran are using the treatment of women in the country as a justification for bombing it."
How is feminism being used to justify war in Iran? | US-Israel war on Iran | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/3/12/how-is-feminism-being-used-to-justify-war-in-iran?traffic_source=rss
@Xavier@infosec.exchangeFound this meme as I took a second gumm... I meant doing self care.
@kctipton@mas.toOpinion | The Rush to Justify Citizens’ Deaths Should Scare Americans https://www.mississippifreepress.org/opinion-the-rush-to-justify-renee-goods-killing-should-scare-every-american/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: China is drafting rules for Nvidia H200 purchases, limiting how many chips local companies can buy and requiring them to justify the need (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/artificial-inte…
@hex@kolektiva.socialBut it's worth recognizing the most brutal elements of church violence were directed at "others": Jews, pagans, Muslims, even other sects of Christianity. The Church's persecution of "heretics" neatly folded into the state, as the diest god of "Providence," represented by the "all seeing eye" atop a pyramid, ultimately justified a violent "civilization" of indigenous people.
The "Christianization" of the crusades became "civilization,' which, more recently, became "spreading democracy." Where once Atheists resisted the crushing oppression of the Church, they used the same arguments to justify the invasion of majority Muslim nations and the oppression of Muslims at home...
@publicvoit@graz.socialIt’s hard to justify #macOS #Tahoe icons
https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
Another good example how
@cdarwin@c.imAlabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants.
Federal courts in the state are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment of people of Japanese descent during World War II
to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves.
The Trump administration is attempting to criminalize presence in the United to justify removal.
@gwire@mastodon.socialMassive, massive, overlap between people who justify military action against another country based on terrible things it has done to its domestic population, and people who don't think asylum should be offered to any person subject to those things.
@joe@toot.worksI watched a video this morning while I ate my breakfast where they were talking about emulation on the AYN Odin 3. It looked impressive. I'm not sure that it was impressive enough to justify spending $500 but it looked impressive.
#Android #Emulation
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzLooking at a recent Hobson's Pledge post on FB commenting derisively on Tania Waikato's potential political future, it occurs to me that Hobson's Pledge is a great example of one thing: Bigotry is just applied ignorance unjustified entitlement.
Those folks need a major attitude adjustment & a broader perspective on the world. They haven't got nearly enough intellectual surplus to squander what they burn through trying to justify their racist hatred.
@nohillside@smnn.chThe icons in the menu entries on #macOS Tahoe are confusing and distracting. This article explains it in detail. https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgAlright so I don't know why I feel I have to justify it, but Avatar was absolutely staggering. Saw it in 3D on the biggest screen in my area, and it's fair to say I think I'll remember this experience forever.
You can quibble with the story or the cultural treatment, but it's a quantum leap in the cinematic experience. Easily among if not the best action adventure film ever made *in this form*.
Absolutely unique filmmaking. (1/4)
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioBefore somebody comes and replies about how the population •should• be violent: please note that the way the public is responding is a carefully calibrated strategy.
Judge after judge is striking down National Guard deployments. The Trump regime is •desperate• at this point for some kind of violent escalation to justify domestic military deployment. We’re not giving it to them. We’re just doing what we do: taking care of each other, showing by example how to be human in the face of inhumanity.
@cdarwin@c.imFederal prosecutors have repeatedly filed charges (and appealed adverse rulings),
arguing that
⚠️knowingly crossing the border is sufficient to prove criminal intent.
More than 20 legal scholars and former prosecutors told reporters they could not identify a conventional
law-enforcement or military goal that would justify their persistence.
@mia@hcommons.socialI'm with the auditors on this one! Companies deploying AI need more expert human auditing, not less, at least until fundamental flaws in 'AI' are addressed and it's reliably accurate
'KPMG gets money off its own audit by arguing AI makes accounting cheaper'
@jkohlmann@mastodon.socialThe inch that generative AI boosters give is the country mile that employers take to justify mass layoffs in the name of AI
@ErikUden@mastodon.deRE: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/116182695277730020
Imperialism wasn't done due to the racist beliefs that those we were colonizing are barbaric, the lie that they were barbarians was invented as a tool to justify the capitalist necessity of colonization.
@paulwermer@sfba.social @PaulWermer@sfba.social
@wraithe@mastodon.socialHey, remember when the regime was justifying everything they were doing because the “Dow was over 50,000”‽
Man, one month ago was a simpler time, huhn?
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWere Israel to shoot a Western journalist, the journalist would be like “I guess I was Hamas, oh, well, I guess I’ll die.”
I use “journalist”, here, very loosely. @… https://
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toRE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116002596573081932
> To justify the sweeping move, officials cited a classified report by the Defense Department that they said found the projects to be a national security threat.
Blimey. A National Se…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple's macOS Tahoe adds icons to every menu item, resulting in menus that are hard to use and go against the long-standing Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines (Niki Tonsky/tonsky.me)
https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
@servelan@newsie.socialCourt orders ICE to justify arrest of Nashville journalist • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2026/03/08/repub/ice-nashville-journalist/
@kctipton@mas.toTrump advisers scramble to justify possible US military intervention in Iran | The Guardian #iran
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialPutin playing Trump,
"Kremlin foreign policy Yuri Ushakov said that on the call with Putin today, Trump had been “shocked” by the Russian claim that the Ukrainians had targeted Putin’s Novgorod residence, in northwestern Russia."
https://diplom…
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialThe Heritage Foundation is willing to justify anything & anyone Trump's administration supports - including murderers & child predators...
...to advance their immoral agenda for a Christian military & dictatorship... in case you didn't get the memo.
Original post: https://
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 139 - CXXXIX
O! call not me to justify the wrong
That thy unkindness lays upon my heart;
Wound me not with thine eye, but with thy tongue:
Use power with power, and slay me not by art,
Tell me thou lov'st elsewhere; but in my sight,
Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside:
What need'st thou wound with cunning, when thy might
Is more than my o'erpressed defence can bide?
Let me excuse thee: ah! my love well knows
@parltrack@eupolicy.socialjust fixed the OEIL scraper (again!), someone who needs to justify their EU bureaucrat salary and pension had spent the (half) effort and renamed some (not all) css classes starting with "erpl_" to "es_", which of course we use in our xpath expressions and which thusly broke.
anyway big thanks and hugs to the kind person who reported the failing scraper to us. ❤️
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump is planning to use his attack on Iran to justify a power grab over voting in the 2026 midterms.
The fact that the attack violates the Constitution won’t stop him from trying.
It is our job to expose this plot and ensure that it does not succeed. https://www.
@joe@toot.worksI really don't understand how anybody can justify continuing to use twitter.
"The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography."
#Twitter
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThis — exactly this! — and also note first and note repeatedly that the racist right-wing video about Somali daycare is a bunch of bullshit. They don’t appear to have even found any fraud at all. (They visited day cares before they open and cried “scandal!!” because there’s no kids there, stuff like that.)
It’s •exactly• what Needham says (via @…), and it doesn’t even matter what really happened. Create chaos, invent fraud, lie to justify more chaos, repeat. https://journa.host/@atrupar/115826096367870411
@servelan@newsie.socialGotta up the body count with some civilians to justify continued hostilities...and an emergency declaration?
US Embassies Tell Americans in Middle East They Can't Help Evacuate Them - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-embassies-say-they-cannot-evacuate-americans-middle-east-iran2026-3
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialThe Heritage Foundation is willing to justify anything & anyone Trump's administration supports - including murderers & child predators - to advance their agenda for a Christian military & dictatorship... in case you didn't get the memo.
Original post: https://bsky.app/pro…
@kctipton@mas.toMilitary Leaders See Iran War as Part of “God’s Divine Plan” #fascism
@cdarwin@c.imStephen Miller and Donald Trump Want War
-- They are ignoring a judge's ruling,
ignoring the sovereign right of governors to keep their states safe
and ignoring the on-the-ground facts to justify their dangerous invasions
Source: Steven Beschloss
https://bsky.app/profile/an…
@joe@toot.worksI give monthly to PBS, NPR, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Urban Milwaukee because I appreciate what they do, but there are soooo many others that put out the occasional article I want to read but can't justify paying a monthly or annual fee for. I wish there were an equivalent to the Libby magazine rack for stuff like the Wall Street Journal or The Verge.
@servelan@newsie.socialReligion Clause: 9th Circuit: Anti-Transgender Comments Justify Mayor's Veto of Membership on Police Advisory Board
http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2026/02/9th-circuit-anti-transgender-comments.html
@gwire@mastodon.socialThe US authorities saying that someone was a registered gun owner, when seeding a narrative to justify a killing, surely must be triggering the cognitive dissonance of the ruggedly independent bootlickers by now?
@cdarwin@c.imWhile pursuing regime change in Iran, Trump is desperately attempting to stop regime change through the midterm elections.
He needs a swift victory in Iran to avoid a quagmire, but he needs a long war to attempt the assertion of unconstitutional emergency authority over the electoral process.
Plunging into war followed Trump’s signature style:
he negotiated in bad faith,
turned to bombing when the sides were making “significant progress”, according to Oman’s foreign …
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s likely casus belli for an attack on Iran
– which would be the largest US intervention since the Iraq war
– is fraught with contradictions,
and his top advisers have been left to cover for him as the White House makes the case for intervention.
In his State of the Union address this week, Trump alleged that Iran posed a direct threat to the US
and that the country was “working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America”.
But…
@buercher@tooting.chWhat is extraordinary is that Trump himself, prior to the attacks, made next to no attempt to articulate or justify to the American people, to Congress or to his allies his actions or his objectives.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/28/yet-another-mid-talks-attack-jeopardises-chances-of-iran-taking-trump-seriously?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@cdarwin@c.imSenator Bernie Sanders has denounced the US attack on Iran,
comparing the justifications offered by Donald Trump to the lies used to justify previous US wars on Iraq and Vietnam that ended in disaster.
In a statement on social media, in which he called on his colleagues in the US Senate to deny the authorization for war Trump has not sought, Sanders wrote:
“President Trump, along with his right-wing extremist Israeli ally Benjamin Netanyahu, has begun an illegal, premeditate…
@cdarwin@c.imThe FIFA tournament may create some new American fans, but at what cost?
Exorbitant ticket prices have cut out the game’s grassroots.
Onerous demands on cities have siphoned public money.
Fifa has boosted an openly corrupt administration at every turn.
Now wanton federal violence has made it difficult to justify having the World Cup here at all.
Safety, justice, freedom, the continued functioning of society
– these are all under threat.
Even to ma…
@cdarwin@c.imthe ten pillars of fascism
1.The mythic past: Fascists draw on a mythical past to justify a glorious future.
2.Propaganda: Propaganda in fascist politics often operates through inflammatory speech, stirring hostility and manipulating emotions, and displacing reasoned public debate with fear and division.
3.Anti-intellectual: Fascist politics attacks education, expertise, and language, weakening the tools necessary for informed public debate and leaving power and group ident…
