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"Why forcing people to go green can backfire"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://grist.org…

Why forcing people to go green can backfire
A new study reveals a conundrum for climate policy and those who make it: People hate it when you tell them what to do.

It is hard to convey the breadth and depth of determination among normally comfortable privileged white people around here.
People are outraged, spooked, heartbroken, scared, confused, in shock, utterly livid, all that — but there’s something else. I’ve •never• seen so many people organize like this. I’ve never seen the general population so willing to •act•, to show up, to make emergency plans, to just step into a crisis situation and shout down people with assault rifles. It’s wild.

You know how to get people to leave platforms run by evil people?
Yes, that's right, by offering better alternatives and being super friendly and welcoming and actively working on recruiting people and evangelizing for the better platforms and most importantly by not being chastizing and gatekeeping misers.

An apparent disinformation campaign falsely identified Steve Grove, CEO/publisher of The Minnesota Star Tribune, as the ICE agent who shot a Minneapolis woman (David Gilbert/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/people-are-using-ai-to-f…

People Are Using AI to Falsely Identify the Federal Agent Who Shot Renee Good
Online detectives are inaccurately claiming to have identified the federal agent who shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in Minnesota based on AI-manipulated images.

Troubling signs that the Linux demographic at the Register is now made up of people yelling at the clouds.
https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/115867723149851024

This is really interesting b/c of the framing we're always given for the Roman Empire vs the middle ages:
Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jdraper-the-collapse-of-the-roman-empire-or-why-were-medieval-people-mor…

J. Draper — The Collapse of the Roman Empire, or, Why were medieval people more primitive than the Romans?
The Romans had civilization- wine and aqueducts and roads. Why did we go backwards in the medieval period?

Increasingly the victims of the administration's campaign of terror are people just trying to survive when their daily life is upended by the presence of masked federal agents.
Those agents are ambushing immigrants after court appearances,
crashing into drivers while trying to escape protestors,
or abducting children if they seemingly impede the arrest of their own parents by dint of simply existing;
The people in the cities in which this is happening are just t…

When Everyday Life Becomes Domestic Terrorism | Defector
People are back out on the streets of Minneapolis again, they are barricading the roads and tending curbside memorials, and they are asking for someone to make sense of a reckless and unnecessary death at the hands of law enforcement. On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement…

Morocco Evacuates Over 154,000 People as Floods Continue
https://www.assahifa.com/english/morocco/morocco-evacuates-over-154000-people-as-floods-continue/

Morocco Evacuates Over 154,000 People as Floods Continue

US Border agents shoot, wound two people in Portland, city officials say
https://katu.com/news/local/ice-shoots-two-people-in-portlandoregon

Urban sprawl could deny 220 million people access to clean water by 2050 #environment

Urban sprawl could deny 220 million people access to clean water by 2050
A new study analyzing more than 100 cities across Asia, Africa, and Latin America has quantified the stark consequences of urban sprawl on water and sanitation access, finding that how cities grow might determine whether hundreds of millions of people have access to these basic necessities.

Bleh. Just saw a friend who found out they couldn’t be followed by one of their friends because (unbeknownst to both parties) the moderators of their friend’s instance had defederated from their own instance. All of this, for people who barely know what any of these terms mean. What they experience is, “Two people you’ve never met have a beef you’ve never heard about over an issue you don’t know about, so your friend can’t see you. And there’s no fix.” It’s just terrible all around.

A YouGov survey estimates 9% of UK adults, or 4.7M people, watched sports via illegal streams in the six months to October, about 200K people more than in 2023 (Adam Leventhal/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6742752/2025/11/09/illegal-stream…

Illegal streaming: Research reveals rise in piracy and desire for scrapping of 3pm blackout
A new audio documentary from The Athletic reveals the data behind the growing use of illegal streams to watch Premier League football

University of Alberta exhibit highlights clothing altered by people with disabilities:
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-17-edmonton-am/clip/16186377-u-a-exhibit-highlights-clothing-altered-people-disabilities

Got to say a few words on "AI and Art" on the "Blaues Rauschen" Podcast. My main point: AI art will not only diminish what people using it can express but will also change people's acceptance of friction: If all you know if perfectly smooth slop, will you really accept anything but? Also: Decomputing.
https://

(Flashback, 2012) Real-life science closes in on Star Trek as scientists show they can to hack into blind people's visual cortex to let them 'see' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar

Real-life science closes in on Star Trek: TNG with new device to hack into blind people's visual cortex to let them 'see'
he Sensory Substitution Device, which uses an algorithm to translate visual data into sound, can actually activate the visual cortices of congenitally blind people, giving them the opportunity to see.

How deaf people live through blackouts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/how-deaf-people-live-through.html

I've noticed a few people I know now work in AI even though they seem like the sort of people who are generally against AI bullshit, so this is for them... and anyone else!
If your job involves AI-related stuff do you:

Again//Federal agents shoot 2 people in Portland, Oregon - KUOW Public Radio https://apple.news/AfPuwCQS_RTy62xpgzsx3qA

Federal agents shoot 2 people in East Portland — KUOW Public Radio
Two people were shot and wounded Thursday by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent in East Portland, according to the Portland Police Bureau and the FBI.

Young people were very important to the Nazis. To this end, Hitler set about influencing children both inside and outside school (CCEA) - BBC Bitesize #fascism

Young people were very important to the Nazis. To this end, Hitler set about influencing children both inside and outside school (CCEA). - BBC Bitesize
Young people were very important to the Nazis. To this end, Hitler set about influencing children both inside and outside school.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Talking Heads:
🎵 Slippery People
#TalkingHeads
https://opaledit.bandcamp.com/track/talking-heads-slippery-people-opal-gta-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6jmArQTNFxVghhetkYV36I

People urged to wear masks when they are ill as UK faces ‘tidal wave’ of flu | Flu | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/09/nhs-leader-calls-for-revival-of-mask-wearing-amid-tidal-wave-of-flu<…

It's really depressing to see so many people and/or job ads talking about how they're using React so heavily for things that don't need React.
Why are we so committed to making things more complicated, and harder to learn, and having fewer skilled people?
And if you're talking about migrating JS frameworks on the front-end, at least *think* about HTMX/etc. for server-controlled rendering. Don't replace one bloat with another.

Could not even go one day?!
US federal agents shot two people in Portland, police says https://ground.news/article/us-federal-agents-shot-two-people-in-portland-police-says_2687b4

Fortune's Real-Life Courtroom Quote #19:
Q: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?
A: All my autopsies have been performed on dead people.

For the #privacy aware people in or around #Prague . The first #Privacy Coffee/Beer/Juice meeting in scheduled.

PRivacy Coffee PRague #1 · Luma
A meeting for (digital) privacy aware people who would love to discover some common topics, exchange ideas and approaches and maybe have some drinks…

The Drupal AI Summit is most definitely full. People sat on the floor etc etc.
#Drupal #drupalaisummit

I Might Have A Story For You - With Matt Levinson
Getting below the surface with the people who make great things happen in our city, the people who create companies and radio stations, paintings and music, buildings, landscapes and so much more...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.

hiv_transmission: HIV transmission network (1988-2001)
A set of networks of HIV transmissions between people through sexual, needle-sharing, or social connections, based on combining 8 datasets collected from 1988 to 2001. Metadata includes test results of several diseases, as well as demographic variables such as age, ethnicity, and gender. Networks come in two flavors: egodyads and altdyads. Egodyads are the network among study-participants and their direct partners. Altdyads are the…

According to #ForestHills #Indivisible, ICE raided my local fruit stand yesterday. This is the first I'm hearing about it, I don't have any details other than what's in the email. #FuckICE

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.

No doubt because they won't rename the continent Trumpistan... 😏
Heute die Vereinigten Staaten. Morgen die Welt!
Europe a ‘decaying’ group of nations led by ‘weak’ people, Trump says
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/202<…

Europe a ‘decaying’ group of nations led by ‘weak’ people, Trump says – latest updates
US president blames leaders for being ‘politically correct’ and says migration is ‘unchecked, unvetted’ in interview with Politico

@… you seem to misunderstand the nature of the Fediverse, where people write something and other people might, or might not, read that thing.
Serendipity.
I can''t recall how your toot became visible. That's how it is.

Funny how decent people don’t want to be involved with génocidaires.
#Eurovision #eurovision2026 #eurovisionSongContest

Kimi Onoda, Japan's new Minister of State for Economic Security, is a 43 year old half-Irish ex-game industry PR femcel with an extensive history of defending her exclusive attraction to anime boys on twitter

Solidarity with Jonathan Hale of People's Vision Zero in Los Angeles, who was arrested and cited by LAPD today for painting a crosswalk.
Original post on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR_IQu_ETwN/
Folks can support Jonny and People's Vision Zero here:

from my link log —
Bounded flexible arrays in C.
https://people.kernel.org/kees/bounded-flexible-arrays-in-c
saved 2023-01-24 https://

Bounded Flexible Arrays in C
How to modernize C arrays for greater memory safety: a case-study in refactoring the Linux kernel and a look to the future Kees Cook C i...

When AirBnB started out I thought "What a great idea! A platform to enable people with a spare room to connect with budget travellers who want simple, inexpensive short-term accommodation." Using it back then, it felt kind of like in-person social media, as you could meet really interesting people that you'd never find otherwise.
But then came the keyboxes, the party flats, the whole-house lets, people running multiple places, hidden cameras and all the rest.
Today t…

"Should lynx and wolves be reintroduced to Britain and Ireland? Young people have mixed feelings"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Animals

Should lynx and wolves be reintroduced to Britain and Ireland? Young people have mixed feelings
Human nature will shape the feasibility and viability of proposals to reintroduce apex predators such as lynx or wolves.

Another Grok Lobotomy incoming

"This is the heart of the tragedy. They are all one people, literally one family; cousins. The hatred, the contempt, and now the genocide, arise out of the claim by some to be uniquely their mutual god's chosen people, to be sole inheritors of their common patrimony.
This is the ultimate evidence of blasphemy.
By their fruits shall ye know them."
#Palestine

I genuinely wonder what the Venn diagram intersection is of:
"people who believe in astrology"
"people who regularly play the lottery"
"people who voted for Trump
#trump #astrology

Immigrants Approved for Citizenship 'Plucked Out' of Line Moments Before Pledging Allegiance: Report (Bailey Richards/People)
https://people.com/immigrants-approved-for-citizenship-pulled-out-by-officials-at-oath-ceremony-11863779
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p35#a251208p35

What is it with … How do people not get acting? I guess not enough people take acting classes. Determine what you want in the scene & emotion your character is having. Recall how you felt when you had a similar experience, and get coaching if you haven’t had that experience.
1/2

Ed Zitron offers 15K words on whether Nvidia is like Enron (or several other famous fraudsters) or not. It's amusing and erudite and most people just won't have time to plow through it. Which is a pity, because 80% of the way through there’s a section called:
“Is NVIDIA Shipping Millions Of GPUs And Putting Them In Warehouses? Where Are The 6 Million Shipped Blackwell GPUs?”
His findings are absolutely shocking. Tl;dr: That headline just above.

NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?
If you enjoy this free newsletter, why not subscribe to Where's Your Ed At Premium? It's $7 a month or $70 a year, and helps support me putting out these giant free newsletters! At the end of November, NVIDIA put out an internal memo (that was leaked to Barron's reporter

"Every year, thousands of people across Europe fall ill after eating contaminated food, with eggs, meat and ready-to-eat (RTE) food products among the most frequent sources of infection. "
Serious Listeria infections rising in Europe, EU report warns https://www.efsa.…

Serious Listeria infections rising in Europe, EU report warns
Every year, thousands of people across Europe fall ill after eating contaminated food, with eggs, meat and ready-to-eat (RTE) food products among the most frequent sources of infection. The report shows that while food safety standards in Europe remain high, foodborne diseases continue to affect people across all age groups – especially those most vulnerable to severe illness – even though many of these diseases are preventable.Listeria: a rare but serious infectionIn 2024, Listeria caused …

one of the biggest misconceptions about microchips people have is that the process is anything close to "fully automatic"
it really isn't. i mean, some operations are, but look at this video! there's a human like every other step of the process. and it's not like this is some expensive unique device. they're making mass-market LEDs by the reel

The CTO of Amazon's Zoox says the company plans to start charging for rides in Las Vegas in early 2026 and is focused on transporting people, not deliveries (Amanda Gerut/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/08/amazon-robotaxi-service-zoox-plan…

Amazon robotaxi service Zoox to start charging for rides in 2026, with ‘laser focus’ on transporting people, not deliveries, says cofounder
Jesse Levinson, Zoox cofounder and CTO, said the robotaxi service needs several more years before it’s “financially interesting.”

On Dec. 6, people across the United States marched.
They protested.
They carried banners:
No war on Venezuela.
No blood for oil.
US hands off Venezuela.
They chanted and waved Venezuelan flags.
Trump says he’s coming to remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
-- He’s promised it’s only a matter of time.
The United States has amassed the largest military buildup in the Caribbean since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. 
But accordi…

Thousands march across US against Trump’s drive for war in Venezuela
Over the weekend, thousands of people protested in more than 65 cities across the United States against US intervention in Venezuela. This is episode 80 of Stories of Resistance.

This via @… deserves underlining:
The behavior you are seeing from ICE and from the Trump regime is the behavior of people who are scared.
Their bluster is fear. Their threats are fear. Their aggression is fear. Their defensiveness is fear. Their scrambling to keep their faces hidden and their actions secret is fear. Their desperate stream of liearrhea is fear. Their panic is fear.
They are acting tough, but they are not acting like people who are winning.
Keep them afraid.
https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/115866119994364893

A YouGov survey estimates 9% of UK adults, or 4.7M people, watched sports via illegal streams in the six months to October, about 200K people more than in 2023 (Adam Leventhal/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6742752/2025/11/09/illegal-stream…

Illegal streaming: Research reveals rise in piracy and desire for scrapping of 3pm blackout
A new audio documentary from The Athletic reveals the data behind the growing use of illegal streams to watch Premier League football

'In an email to Trump biographer Michael Wolff, the late sex offender wrote that the president "did not recognize old friends""
Jeffrey Epstein Claimed Donald Trump's Friends 'Were Concerned About Dementia'
https://people.com/jeffrey-epstein-claimed-donald-trump-s-friends-were-concerned-about-dementia-11902293

The fascist who killed Heather Heyer at Unite the Right helped turn the tides against the last Trump administration. He said there were "very fine people on both sides." The resistance grew, antifa doxxing fascists started getting those fash fired.
But some of those fash didn't stop. They kept organizing their terror cells. The fash who killed Heyer was with a group called Vanguard America. Patriot Front is a Nazi group that split off from Vanguard America. They started terrorizing people by loading up in box trucks and piling out for spontaneous marches.
That box truck tactic probably sounds familiar. Patriot Front basically disappeared at the same time that ICE started recruiting hard.
Let me make it more clear. The very same Nazis from UTR who killed Heather Heyer, who Trump called "very fine people," are now employees of DHS. They've been carrying out the ethnic cleansing they always dreamed of, and they're being paid by the government, *with your tax dollars*, to do it. And now, just like in Charlottesville, they've murdered an unarmed protestor.
This feels similar because it is. These are the same people killing daughters and mothers. Killing unarmed protestors, out of rage not fear, then lying and claiming self defense. This is the same tactic it's always been. This is the same thing they've always done.
It seems like we may have reached the Heather Heyer point of this administration early with Renee Good. Now would be a good time for everyone to get into the streets and stay there until this is over. Everyone turned the tides before, and now he's so much weaker.
This can all be over if we fight like hell to end it.
#USPol

Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people is made possible by the world’s top two arms dealers to Israel:
1. USA
2. Germany
Hey, @…, can you make one of your posts about how we’re so different to the US and European values, etc.? They’re usually so inspiring.

Turns out blocking people just because of sus vibes is great actually

As Trumpism and technology erode our shared understanding of the world,
ordinary people in Minneapolis put their lives on their line to record the truth.
https://www.theverge.com/policy/859055/minneapolis-renee-good-ice-shooting

Reality still matters
Technology and Trumpism have been eroding our shared reality. The killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis shows ordinary people still believe truth is worthwhile.

ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/ice-arrested-nearly-75000-people-no-criminal-records-data-shows-rcna247377

ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows
More than a third of the roughly 220,000 people arrested by ICE officers in the first nine months of the Trump administration had no criminal histories.

I’m sure having to post a lot of links to this one:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115860687777099579
People are getting really confused about this. When I say “pretext,” I don’t mean for individual ICE officers. I mean that the Trump regime still (!!) does not have enough popular support and political cover to cross certain lines. They’re finding themselves genuinely stymied by federal courts and state govs, Congress is getting less (not more!) quiescent, they’re finding themselves unable to control the press, and popular support is collapsing.
Saying “the situation is already extremely dire” is true and important. Saying “they’ve already achieved total authoritarian control” is wrong, dangerous, and an invitation to give up when we most need people active.

DHS Officer Seen on Video Kicking Memorial Candle for Renee Nicole Good, Woman Killed by ICE: 'Don't Give a F--' (Liam Quinn/People)
https://people.com/dhs-officer-seen-kicking-over-candle-at-memorial-for-renee-nicole-good-11881658
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p102#a260108p102

Source: WaPo planned a marketing campaign with a new slogan, We The People, but dropped it after MS Now launched a $20M brand campaign with the same slogan (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/08/2026/washington-post-suffer…

Exclusive: Washington Post suffers marketing mishap with new slogan
The paper had prepared a new brand campaign, with a new tagline meant to convey its connection to America: “We The People.”

bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted

Remember "43 People"? It was a spin-off of 43 Things from Robot Co-op and it was pretty cool for web nerds of the 2000s.

Just ran across https://openwebsearch.eu/news/ for the first time. A small number of years ago I would have called the idea ridiculous. Now I think that, if you got the right people together, it could have a good outcome.

Morocco evacuates 140,000 people as torrential rains and dam releases trigger floods https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/02/morocco-evacuates-140000-people-as-torrential-rains-and-dam-releases-trigger-flo…

Morocco evacuates 140,000 people as torrential rains and dam releases trigger floods
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — More than 140,000 people were evacuated from their homes in northwestern Morocco as heavy rainfall and water releases from overfilled dams led to flooding, the Interior Ministry said. Stormy weather also disrupted maritime traffic between Morocco and Spain. Torrential rains and water releases from overfilled dams raised water levels in recent days in rivers […]

The European Union, overcoming deep dissension among its members,
gave the green light to a sweeping trade pact with four South American countries on Friday
that would create one of the largest free-trade zones in the world,
connecting markets with more than 700 million people.
The agreement offers a stark contrast to the amped-up aggression on display this week from the Trump administration.
As Europe worked to extend an era of economic collaboration,
th…

E.U. and South America to Form Free-Trade Zone With 700 Million People
The agreement represents a push for deeper global cooperation, in contrast to the United States’ turning to coercion in its dealings with other countries.

Reddit starts a limited test of verified profiles, an opt-in feature that places a gray checkmark beside the usernames of notable people or businesses (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/reddit-is-testing-verification-badges/

Reddit is testing verification badges | TechCrunch
Verified users will actually be notable figures, not just people who paid for the checkmark.

If you believe that “well just some poor people will die” you 1) deserve things that would get my account suspended if I said them out loud and 2) this will make your healthcare more expensive too

No decent person looks at the world and says “you know what I want, a billion dollars!” So why do you still expect such people to behave decently? Or to learn from their “mistakes.” (They’re not mistakes.) It fucking blows my mind how some of you are still giving these parasites every benefit of the doubt.

MTG: What Republicans say behind Trump's back "would shock people" - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/08/mtg-what-republicans-say-behind-trumps-back-would-shock-people/

Sources: this fall, Alexandr Wang told people that he disagreed with top Meta execs like Chris Cox and Andrew Bosworth, including on using Instagram data for AI (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/technol

Meta’s New A.I. Superstars Are Chafing Against the Rest of the Company
An us-versus-them mentality has emerged between Meta’s top artificial intelligence team and longtime lieutenants to Mark Zuckerberg.

Mutual aid is everyday resistance | Cognoscenti #mutualaid

Mutual aid is everyday resistance
When formal systems become unreliable or morally compromised, people do not wait for consensus about how to change them, writes James Lomastro. They adapt by building informal networks of mutual aid that deliver essential items and services to people in need.

revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
http…

This fall, Americans got to see what it’s like to go without a safety net for the hungry.
With the U.S. government shut down for multiple weeks
and Donald Trump refusing to fund SNAP, the federal food stamp program,
a panic set inamong the more than 40 million people who rely on it.
Families skipped meals,
and babies went unfed.
Food banks ran out of food, and some people turned to dumpster diving.
It was just a glimpse of what’s to come.
Start…

Wave of Tax Cuts Has Left Many States Vulnerable to Trump SNAP and Medicaid Crisis
President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will shift billions in costs for SNAP and Medicaid to states. But with 26 having cut or eliminated state income taxes just since 2021, they may not have the money to continue the programs.

Just blocked someone who complained that I block people to easily
My guy, you don’t have a right to my time

Hahaha, the US can fuck right off. You couldn’t pay me enough to visit that shithole country.
#USA

US could ask tourists for five-year social media history before entry
The plan would affect people from countries, including the UK, which can fill out a form in lieu of a visa.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says he aims to give "normal people" exposure to private AI companies via Robinhood Ventures' fund with 5 "best in class" companies (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/72783021-f778-4d6d-80b3-f91d8c7ae364

Those people you see in videos blowing whistles, honking, video recording everything ICE does? They’re not just full-time activists who are used to this kind of thing, who tail ICE all day. They’re random retirees from down the street who heard the whistles and came outside even though the sidewalk’s a bit dicey. They’re mid-career professionals who were on their way home from a long day at work and heard the honking. They’re parents who are afraid their kid is going to be late for their violin lesson but they just have to be out there because this is too important.

I strongly think that government should be where they can reach people; especially for emergencies but also for boring normal civics and politics.
This includes websites, TV, radio, print media, social media and whatever the future brings.
(Do not confuse abuse of this, as currently practiced by some western governments, with it being inherently bad.)
https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/115689504321086580

How about let’s not?
#apple #liquidAss

Amazon Kindle Scribe Colorsoft review: the $630 pen-enabled e-reader is a tough sell for most people, even with its big 11" display and productivity features (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

I •think• the most important people for MN residents to call right now are MN Gov Walz and MN AG Ellison. Those numbers again:
Gov: ‭(651) 201-3400€
AG: ‭(651) 296-3353€
My points when I call:
- We don’t trust Trump’s FBI
- We want an independent MN-based investigation of the killing of Good
- Thank you for steps you’re already taking in this direction
- Do more, try harder
- Do so in outright defiance of the FBI if necessary
(To be clear, this is all just from Paul; if I get better guidance from more informed folks, I will share/update.)

PS. With all the Discord stuff, in case you wonder why you never see me promoting Matrix, it’s not because it’s a usability nightmare (which it is) but because it’s made by the kind of people who’d be happy to call ICE a customer.
The “F” in FOSS doesn’t stand for fascism.
@…

Can right-wingers please find something new to hate instead of the private lives of other people?
How about potholes? Hate on potholes.

Documents and former US government officials detail ICE's digital surveillance capabilities, amid a drive to deport 1M people in President Trump's first year (Peter Andringa/Financial Times)
https://ig.ft.com/us-ice-surveillance/

“The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Chef’s kiss.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/alphabet-selling-very-rare-100-year-bunds-to-help-fund-ai-investment/?comments=1&post=44240974

People with the highest daily intake of caffeinated coffee had an 18% lower risk of developing dementia compared to those with the lowest such intake, according to a study based on responses to questionnaires by 132,000 U.S. adults spanning four decades.

Choosing some complex framework or environment to develop in that was meant for teams with hundreds of people or is otherwise just some way to gatekeep the plebs is just that: A CHOICE.
You can just not choose it! It's amazing what you can do as a human being.

Jonathan E. Ross, 43, who murdered Renee Nicole Good, is an Enforcement and Removal Operations agent with ICE.
He has been granted “absolute immunity” by the fascist USian regime.
There’s a reason we have a system of courts and laws for dispensing justice. It’s to stop people from dispensing it using the barrel of a gun.
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Who is Jonathan Ross? The ICE agent who killed Renee Good
The man who shot Renee Nicole Good is a 43-year-old firearms instructor who appears to have defended white supremacists online.

South Korean media: police raided Coupang's HQ, searching for evidence related to a historic data breach that compromised 30M people's personal information (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

If you’re wondering how you can help…
If you’re in MSP: talk to your neighbors, find the people who are doing organizing work, and get involved. Find something and show up for it. Info & resources here: https://monarcamn.org
If you’re elsewhere in the US: talk to your neighbors •now• about what’s happening, and get your support networks set up •before• this comes to where you live — unless of course it already has, in which case see above.
If you’re not in the US, spread the word about what’s happening here. Make the shame of ICE known internationally.

When I build my time machine, the first thing I will do is travel back to the 90s in Japan and kill all the people who made those horribly broken support websites that couldn't be properly archived and all the drivers are now lost

Disproportionate homelessness among people with disabilities is not an accident.
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:x7xmggpwlgtotuxi5as5igwy/post/3megtipzkd22i

Source: a few weeks before Grok started "digitally undressing" people, Elon Musk expressed frustration over guardrails on Grok's image and video generator (Hadas Gold/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/tech/elon-musk-xai-digital-undressing

Elon Musk’s xAI under fire for failing to rein in ‘digital undressing’
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, has been flooded with sexual images of mainly women, many of them real people, by being prompted by users to “digitally undress” them and sometimes placing them in suggestive poses.

"But I need an LLM for code generation, programming environments are so complex and have so many layers these days!"
I wish people would think for like more than a minute about what solution they choose when they correctly identify the problem.

I consider the Jan 23 general strike in Minnesota to be fairly successful. It didn’t happen overnight, and it didn’t just happen because people posted about it a lot. There was a •lot• of consensus-building via social networks new and old. Unions got on board, lead the charge. Local businesses goaded each other into participating until •not• participating became a sort of black eye.
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https://bsky.app/profile/blue-fire1.bsky.social/post/3mc3rvbmssc2w

Coupang CEO Park Dae-jun resigns after the company incurred South Korea's largest-ever data breach, in which the personal data of 30M people was compromised (Mark Anderson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I really don’t understand why Americans are so afraid of universal healthcare.
It would severely reduce costs of healthcare for everyone—including for rich people (the total per capital health expenses in the US are about twice as much as in Europe).

My ADHD finds that phase of a hobby when you learn your way around extremely pleasing.
Soaking about the knowledge like a sponge reading books & articles & forum posts & old newspapers & research papers, watching videos, digesting the wisdom of people from many decades.
(Why would you deny yourself this by asking a chatbot?!)

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115521925373470883
I can't stress this enough, please call. Ideally multiple times a day. If they go through with this, IT WILL LITERALLY KILL PEOPLE because they can't afford health insurance anymore.