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So how long until the Firefox logo becomes another AI company logo that looks like a butthole?
:firefox: https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo

#POTUS47 pledged in his 2024 campaign that there'd be no new wars. Anyone with any sense realized this was an empty promise.
Less than a year after taking office, it looks like he's at least posing to go to war with #Venezuela. I don't see anything remotely justifying a US war against…

Re: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@imp3tuz/115552260205239405
Itch.io bundles are always a great deal and (like this one) support important causes.
You'll find like 10 new videogames or zines or solo RPGs that you never would have encountered otherwise that are really cool.
Looks like this bundle is set to go live November 28 with applications still live through November 21.

🦇 Mercedes’ New Concept Car Looks Straight Out of ’90s Batman Cartoons
https://www.thedrive.com/news/mercedes-new-concept-car-looks-straight-out-of-90s-batman-cartoons

Mercedes’ New Concept Car Looks Straight Out of ’90s Batman Cartoons
Mercedes' new concept car can drive itself and even has solar paint—but the coolest thing about it is that it looks like an old-school Batmobile.

So... that's a new one: I got a mail that clearly looks like some kind of scam, and they ask me to contact them via @…
It looks like they link to the legit signal installation source, and want me to contact them via a signal number or username. Is that something Signal would want me to report, and if so, where?

Ghost in the friendly and interactive shell (fish):
I removed a `set -x VARNAME ...` line from my fish config.
Spawning a new shell still had that variable.
I ran `set -e VARNAME`. For the current shell, it's gone.
Spawning a new shell again, I got it back. What..?
Okay, so I closed _all the fish instances_.
And the damn env var came back *again*!?!
Looks like that's because it's my login shell.
A fresh login session no longer had it.

It looks like #Bitchat might be gathering some traction in Gaza?
As a reminder, bitchat is a mesh network using your phone's bluetooth. So even without internet, you could have private messages sent from phone to phones.
Gaza having such a high population density and because Israel is known to have penetrated WhatsApp, this might be a good off-the-grid solution

RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115867004628244213
If this is what justice in America looks like, then we’re living through 1933–1945 all over again—a new era of Nazism. Sorry, not sorry.

Wow, seems the people farmers of surveillance capitalism have fully embraced scammer techniques now.
Ran into this new flow on a number of sites just now (Indiewire, Variety, and RollingStone) delivered by the colossal douchebags at html-load.com who run report-error.com.
They make it look like a browser error has occurred and then tell you to disable your tracker/ad blocker.
To the asshole developers who built this for them instead of refusing: Fuck you for making everyone…

Looks like #DaftPunk put out a new music video for Contact #musicvideo #technomusic

Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
TARRANT: I'll risk that.
AVON: He could use the new gun. Dayna?
DAYNA: It's ready. [starts to go but Avon stops her]
AVON: Vila can get it.
DAYNA: It's in the test room, Vila.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/491 B7B5

"I think the new web aesthetic is about getting active again. Platforms encourage passivity. They want us to stay still and scrolling, looking at what the algo wants to show us. Like, swipe, repeat. But the new web aesthetic is non-linear. It encourages you to move from one site to another, to dive down rabbit holes, and crucially, to continue sharing what you find..
..sites that reflect a person’s process, not just their conclusions. It’s working with the garage door up."…

toward a new aesthetic
Lately I’ve been thinking about what being online looks like. The actual look of it. The aesthetic. As I continue to think and write and talk about escaping...

A new report from the grassroots organization #RootsAction aims to do what a promised “autopsy” from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not:
publicly reckon with the failures of the Democrats’ 2024 presidential campaign.
While the Democratic Party’s official postmortem assessment was pulled from public release earlier this month, RootsAction’s
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“The Blue Road to Trump Hell”: Norm Solomon on “How Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Autocracy”
A new report from the grassroots organization RootsAction aims to do what a promised “autopsy” from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not: publicly reckon with the failures of the Democrats’ 2024 presidential campaign. While the Democratic Party’s official postmortem assessment was pulled from public release earlier this month, RootsAction’s “Democratic Autopsy” looks at how factors like “service to corporate power, hostility to the progressive wing of the party, …

What happened to Blue Zoo? It looks like they hit all the New Romantic / New Wave g-spots, but then disappeared without trace. #TOTP

The #Yukon has elected a new legislature today. It looks like there will be 10 women, 10 men, and 1 non-binary person taking seats.
#Elections

I had over three hundred accounts following me that I didn't follow back, mostly because I lost track of all the new followers.
So I did the unthinkable thing:
I asked Perplexity to write me a python script to follow everyone back. I will just unfollow some of them later, if I don't like them enough. But for now, everyone gets the benefit of the doubt.😉
The script needed some adjustments, but it worked.
Here's the script if you need it:

followback
A short python script that looks for all your mastodon followers that you don't follow back, and follows them.

It Sure Looks Like Kash Patel Used the FBI's Jet to Go on a Date (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/202430/kash-patel-fbi-private-jet-wrestling-date
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p150#a251029p150

I smelled the sweet scent of woodchips around these newly planted shrubs and trees along car-free Overlook Dr in GGP. Looks like a toyon among others

While the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999, it may actually be larger and scarier with an unstable US economy and greater exposure for Big Tech (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)
https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/11/21/boom-bubble-bust…

We remember the internet bubble. This mania looks and feels the same.
The AI revolution is three years old Nov. 30. In just 36 months AI has gone from great-new-toy, to global phenomenon, to where we are today - debating whether we are in one of the biggest technology bubbles or booms in modern times. To us there is no debate. There is too much spending, too much leverage, too many crazy deals, and too much competition from China for us not to see big bumps ahead.

To Many Ukrainians, U.S. Peace Plan Looks Like ‘Capitulation’ - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/EEwaf

Looks like all the bugs I reported against #Gerrit back in 2014 have finally been closed as Won't Fix (Obsolete). Classic.
I had forgotten, but back then I was quite upset by the "new change screen" in version 2.8. (#Wikimedia is now running on 3.10.6.)

I spend a lot of my teaching life helping students learn to use Git, and I cannot emphasize enough how hostile the user experience of a merge conflict is for a new user. It looks like everything is broken. The terminology is crap. The verbiage is bamboozling. The default actions are all booby traps. The most important information is buried. The UI is terrible (both CLI and most GUIs). It’s incredibly easy to accidentally commit the conflict markers. It’s a nightmare.
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Decided to wear my Skmei watch today as my main Casio I have the band off at the moment. Story of that is I got a new band that is a two part nato strap only for it to not fit on my Casio. Its a bummer but I am thinking to get a one part nato instead that would fit.
If anyone has any recommendations on nato straps that are good that would be helpful.
#WristCheck

I used to live in a house by the freeway. When I went anywhere, I had
to be going 65 MPH by the end of my driveway.
I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights. Now it looks
like I'm the only one moving.
I was pulled over for speeding today. The officer said, "Don't you know
the speed limit is 55 miles an hour?" And I said, "Yes, but I wasn't going
to be out that long."
I put a new engine in my car, but didn…

Finished 'Brick' and 'Dangerous Animals' (both intense) and now starting up 'Cat People' (1982). I won't finish it today, it'll have to be tomorrow. Surprised I haven't seen it. Malcolm McDowell 😹 Looks like a strange one
https://boxd.it/21SQ

Cat People (1982)
After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is drawn to the cat – and zoo curator Oliver to her. Soon, Paul will have to reveal the family secret: that when sexually aroused, they revert into predatory jungle cats.

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
P.A.: The President will be answering questions about new population control *?measures
RAVELLA: All our food and drink is treated with suppressants. Going without for a day and a half, they should be wearing off.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/9 B7…