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Happy #Tibetan New Year - Losar Tashi Delek!
Despite it often falling on the same day as #Chinese, #Korean, and other lunar new years, it's actually a different calendar and not always aligned.

I'm in something like 13 different #Slack communities, mostly for various #journalist groups.
Lots of discussion in many about ICE.
Discussions about leaving slack due its ties to #Salesforce, …

Forgot that #DuckDuckGo is blocked in #Indonesia.

RE: https://social.coop/@coopcloud/115913810297386881
Today in New York, learn more about Co-op Cloud https://coopcloud.tec…

"Comment j'ai perdu ma discipline en décembre et janvier" #Yak

Just saw an article refer to a village as being located in "#Indonesia’s Eastern Borneo province."
Strangely, later the article mentions "South Sulawesi" and not Southern Celebes...

If local police enforced traffic law against #ICE their whole operation would pretty much stop, seriously, for moving violations alone. Most egregiously, they routinely blow through red lights and stopsigns. This is common knowledge among people observing ICE.
Now ICE reportedly caused a serious crash in St Paul that, because the ICE agent also went to the hospital, may be the first absolutely k…

I adored Halo: Infinite's campaign. It was fun & beautiful & I didn't care about Multiplayer, Forge or Microtransactions... but I REALLY wanted Coop & DLC for the campaign.
Now that Slipspace has been dropped for Unreal, I have hope the funding can be redirected to content & function for Halo.Next.
▶️ Halo Infinite: The Post-Mortem - HiddenXperia

Read an analysis that claimed that Chinese solar is "unfairly criticized" that then went on to make no mention of any of the many #humanrights concerns linked to solar production, such as #Uyghur forced labor in #Xinjiang

#CommonplaceNotes: mental models, autonomy, a poem.
https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2026/01/commonplace-book-mental-models-autonomy.html HT

Commonplace book: mental models, autonomy, a poem
Doug Belshaw has a thoughtful post about the financial/work advice often being given to young folks today: The financial guidance given to ...

I had the honour of being asked to illustrate the marketing piece for this amazing Steam event coming up for Paddy's day presented by IMIRT - The Irish Game Makers Association.
Games from Ireland!
https://www.imirt.ie/news/2026/3/6/st-patr

St Patrick's Day Steam Sale Brings Irish Games to a Global Audience — Imirt
Imirt - The Irish Game Makers Association is proud to present the Games from Ireland Steam Event , a week-long digital showcase celebrating games made in Ireland or shaped by Irish creative talent and culture. The event will run on Steam during St Patrick’s Day 2026, 13th March - 19th March , spot

RE: https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116021533313408273
Cool. Tweaked with a little userstyle https://…

100% #ChangeYourLifeRideABicycle :-) Gratuitous plug --> #ChangeYourLifeCrossCountrySki :-)
https://

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116205343316077705
So freaking predictable...

« Ma cartographie de l'écosystème LLM de mars 2026 »
#LLM

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217477822586442
The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.
It's like Uber. Just that …

RE: https://denton.social/@coop/116212080364837497
Important. (Heads up that the link in 1st post is to an article on a pro-fascist group’s website, by way of calling them out)

My favorite #udon place in #Saitama has, apparently, closed and become just another #ramen place.
I feel like this is an metaphor for something...

RE: https://social.coop/@ncoca/116011075477945816
Ob jetzt so ein Pimmel oder rechte Machtphantsien, eine solch kleinteilige staatliche Überwachung und Einschüchterung von allen, die Staat und Regierung kritisieren, statt Unrecht zu akzeptieren, dürfte fester Be…

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116205343316077705
who could seen this coming

Anybody have connections to Hennepin County Attorney's office? They need to be interrupting or exposing what could be a jail-to-ICE pipeline.

Another milestone - just had my first article published in a #SouthAsian language.
Not #Hindu, not #Telugu, but #Benglali

« J'ai découvert l'offre "Go" de OpenCode et je compte la tester dans un projet en parallèle de Claude Pro »
#LLM

Now I've cleared my notes file, it's time for the Well State of the World 2026. These discussions are always intriguing... https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/561/State-of-the-World-2026-with-Bru-page01.html

@… suddenly sent me to signalcaptchas.org for verification – i think i passed; that the CAPTCHAs worked at all despite my having JShelter is impressive, but… not really thrilled of the possibility of being locked out of Signal after a decade in the middle of an ICE invasion.

What's actually supporting #Palestine more - holding a sign at a rally, or actually quitting using platforms that enable their oppression?
It's not safe to be an activist, journalist, or, often, a minority and use #bigtech platforms

Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers
Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.

@… I just created two very small Pull Requests for #foot, which I think can be reviewed very quickly :
- https://

Spawning new terminal with --config from parent instance
Reference: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/1622 Signed-off-by: Stéphane Klein

RE: #Linux #FOSS

This is a new one. Got a #press release, tried to download the attached #report, and got this message.
"Unsupported #PDF viewer" I assume means every PDF viewer available on

Lovely 10 Year commemorative enamel pin from this year's IMIRT AGM.
I got to design this logo years ago, so I was thrilled when IMIRT reached out to me to update the logo. My favourite bit was switching out the D20 for a D10 for this commemoration (2015-2025).

Wow, #BlueBottle #Coffee is now #Chinese-owned. I used to live near its tiny initial coffee stall in SF (and even then thought it was overrated).
The coffee chain that stole its idea from a

China’s Luckin Coffee acquires Blue Bottle
China’s largest coffee chain continues its aggressive westward expansion.

@… do you have that "pro-littering" zine you shared at some point handy? Community cleanup coming up and i need extra grounding to try to radicalize (if possible?) the event during the planning or just share the zines at it 😂

« Serveur MCP web fetch local sous Claude Desktop pour contourner les blocages IP de certains sites »
#MCP

#socialcoop So our Meet.Coop instance has been down for 3 weeks, and from what I see on https://forum.meet.coop/t/meet-coop-update-october-2025/1739/47, it's not clear w…

Meet.coop update October 2025
Me and Nick worked on the servers again today. Everything me and Nick have access to is now backed up now using encrypted backups (Restic and Borgbase). For anyone wondering this is the current plan with recordings: Can I recover my recordings despite service being down? - #3 by kawaiipunk Unfortunately we still don’t have all the access we need to complete our work. We are still missing: ssh/root access to ca.meet.coop Keycloak sso.meet.coop master realm access Hetzner account access - f…

#CommonplaceNotes https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2025/12/commonplace-book-supply-chains-hope-cool.html supply chains, hope, cool. thanks

Commonplace book: supply chains, hope, cool
Yes this: https://social.coop/@luis_in_brief/115696408257250551 Helen Toner on generative AI and where it might go , which is a rare article...

#LinkedIn - the last bigtech platform I still have an account on - it getting worse and worse with ads and promoted posts. Every month I need to update my #ublock custom filters.

Re-boost
https://social.coop/@DrewKadel/110154048390452046

When the oligarch-owned, reactionary-run "Minnesota Star Tribune" is the voice of reason in a news roundup, you know things are bad.
Amazing how these media can instantly make alleged fraud in social services a bigger story than a kidnapping ring funded with $165 billion of taxpayer money.

I'm absolutely floored by how cool this video turned out!
I had the honour of working with Wild Blue Studios on a couple of the illustrations in this cinematic trailer.
And that song is a proper banger.
Very excited for this project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxZXjHZ45t0

« J'ai installé avec succès Claude Desktop sous Fedora »
#TIL #Fedora

RE: https://social.coop/@dajb/115971635811034029
This is super neat!

RE: #China experts have said nothing about Lai's unjust sentencing -…

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116121023549874291
Hahahahaha!
This is particularly funny cause it happened to a Director of AI Safety. 😂

Minor petty thing, but it is disgusting how news reports will talk about "ICE agents" interactions with people who resist, observe, or interfere. When the objective experience of these people is that they are dealing with *armed, masked men in unmarked cars*. And these supposedly official representatives of the US government are never named, yet the civilians assaulted and detained are.

I've always felt this was, at least, partly true. Can be extrapolated to also be a reason why #China dominated cleantech too - something that most #climate & #environment groups don't want to acknowle…

Some lessons from trying to thwart #ICE in #Minneapolis for people in other cities:
1. Go out and meet your neighbors now. The threat of ICE coming is a great excuse and truly the growing solidarity is the best thing to come of all this.

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@godotengine/115962672519819324
Ah! Godot just keeps getting better. Some nice QOL improvements here.

After more than a year on @… I haven't received any reminder to renew my financial contribution. Is this normal? Is renewal simply left to members' own initiative?
My question on #Loomio :

Question about the contribution renewal process
Hello,

On October 8, 2024, I made a contribution of £36.00 GBP to join the social.coop cooperative.

Time has passed and today (2026-02-28), I just thought about renewing my financial contribution, in the amount of £12.00 GBP.

I am surprised not to have received any message requesting a renewal of my financial contribution. I don't think I received an email, I saw nothing on the https://social.coop interface, and nothing on https://opencollective.com either.

I found…

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116110194513314869
seeing a future of personal computing with people running open source operating systems on their outdated cyberdecks with scrounged-up hardware from the detritus that datacenters leave behind when the next generation of GPUs and storage becomes available (but only to large corporations)
very cyberpunk

Usually on point, but @… makes a very easily falsifiable claim in this essay, https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/fisher-price-st…

Wonder why this #Indonesia #fire, which I only just read about, didn't get nearly as much attention as the one that happened in #Switzerland a week later.

Manado retirement home fire kills 16, victims' identification ongoing
A fire at a retirement home in Manado City, North Sulawesi, on Sunday (December 28) killed 16 occupants, and local police said the identification process was ...

« Au revoir maman 🤗 »
https://notes.sklein.xyz/2026-02-08_1403/zen/

I share a birthday with the Legend of Zelda and also the Communist Manifesto.
I guess my destiny was written in the stars.

How often you hear right-wingers in the #west conflate or equate #Islam with #Communism is quite jarring when you're a journalist who first started covering politics in

« Renouvellement de ma contribution financière Š la coopérative Mastodon social.coop »
#coop

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope your day is full of rest.

Essential reading for those inside and outside of #Minnesota looking to stop #ICE terrorizing immigrants and anybody else they choose.

Operation Metro Surge hasn’t ended. It’s expanded to the suburbs.
Minnesota residents and lawmakers say the promised drawdown has not materialized, and they are seeing ICE use more covert tactics to continue operations across Twin Cities suburbs.

Another reason to not use #Google - they'll readily share your data with the government and give you minimal opportunities to respond. It's not worth it.
https://newrepublic.co…

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

I ordered a vegetable curry - which the day before, I had confirmed had no meat.
But today's staff decided to do me a favor and add chicken to it. Yay. Thanks...
#Indonesia #Vegetarian #Travel

ICE assaulted a Native man—violently pulled him from his car—and detained him. He was then released because he is emphatically not an immigrant. Today they charged him—on a secret warrant and secret indictment, zero public evidence—with assaulting an ICE agent.
https://

Red Lake Nation descendant charged with assaulting ICE agent during detainment
The 20-year-old was dragged out of his aunt’s vehicle and detained by immigration agents in early January

Today in #Minneapolis there are massive FBI operations with the armored tank vans standing by and MPD actively collaborating. FBI agents are unmasked and pleasantly informing observers that it is not about immigration.
Very much feels like a propaganda operation (and morale boost for federal agents). Re-establishing the power to have a show of force and people's willing compliance to…

"Kak", "Bu", "Mbk", so far not a single #grab or #gojek driver has properly identified my name as male in #Indonesia 😅

« J'ai découvert le modèle Open Weights GLM-5 »
#LLM #OpenWeights

We in the US are so far failing in our historic role, following the Italian resistance, to keep our fascist regime busy dealing with us in the US and less able to attack and strangle other countries. (And less able to harm its targets of genocide here.)

Reached out to a thinktank that does good #China research while in #SEAsia for a meeting, and was surprised when they never responded.
Saw yesterday them post about a meeting with the #Chinese embassy, and now w…

« Anthropic sous-vend-il ses abonnements ou surtaxe-t-il son API ? »
#llm

Someone I asked to do a call via #Jitsi liked it so much, they started using it instead of #zoom.
It is possible to reach some people!

RE: https://turtleisland.social/@francesdanger/116131348697536932
2026, folks, and we are still taking baby steps— on the other hand, it is 2026 and progress instead of reactionary retrenchment is still possible. Now let's get going on

It seems that the #Telugu & #SouthIndian film wave hasn't reached #Indonesia?
When people refuse to accept me as an American, the Indian films/stars/songs they reference and I assume I know are a…

I should learn some #Malay songs.
Just so that the next time someone in #Indonesia sings a #Hindi song because they think I'll like that, I can sing my favorite "

J'ai découvert #upterm qui permet de partager facilement une session terminal Š distance
https://notes.sklein.xyz/2025-12-29_2207/

https://defend612.com has been blocked at the domain name level for me and at least two other people over T-Mobile networks (which includes GoogleFi, MetroPCS, and… wait for it… Trump Mobile). For at least all day today.
Seems unlikely to be a technical problem but instead to be Actual Censorship (unless its not …

« Est-ce qu'un abonnement Claude est réellement plus économique qu'un accès direct via l'API ? »
#TIL

Saw an outlet refer to a region as the "Malay Archipelago"
Outside of Academia, does anyone actually use that term for the region anymore?
#Indonesia #Malaysia #Philippines

RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@MarkHoltom/116119118572185085
We need collective not individual action to overcome systemic injustice and all that, but having an income of $10M a year and using it to help others can help a ton of people and it shames the bil…

So now that Meet.Coop isn't working (they shut down the @… instance and don't seem to be able to bring it back) wondering if anyone knows of another #privacy or #cooperative

J'ai découvert #AIChat, alternative Š llm cli
#TIL <…

RE: https://mastodon.online/@xankarn/116120793504340920
We need to stop this, and then we need to dismantle a whole bunch of prisons, too.

It was only a matter of time: transnational repression to support #China overseas business interests, this time in #Australia.

Saw on #LinkedIn a European tech expert claiming that the #US is "by far the worst in the world in terms of privacy violations"
I honestly feel like #Asia doesn't exist to a lot of Europeans. Do they …

« J'ai découvert Promptfoo qui permet de faire du LLM Eval »
https://notes.sklein.xyz/2026-02-27_1050/zen/

Last night a Brandi Carlile concert came to a triumphant finish at Target Center in Minneapolis, having run over the scheduled time by 45 minutes— with, by all reports, every second beloved by the attendees *and* staff. The delighted fans, still singing along to Carlile's chosen exit music, found the doors where they had entered, on the upper level of the stadium, to be locked.
Minneapolis closes its skyways late at night, because it is run by cruel people who hate that somebody w…

So is #Zoom requiring you to use their app to join calls now? For the first time today, didn't get the option to join via a browser when trying to join a call. If so, how lame.

All these people who claim they can't afford to pay for a privacy-minded alternative to #Google or #Microsoft all don't have #Amazon or

I freelanced for @… for 10 years, writing 37 articles/features
They were an amazing team, interested in global #justice, #labor, &

As Equal Times closes, the work continues
This is it. Our final article. Equal Times, the global labour news platform, will cease to publish as of December 2025. The website – which was, for more than a decade, an invaluable resource on the realities of work, society, fundamental rights, and more: the victories secured, the innovations introduced, but also the many indignities, injustices and stubborn anachronisms endured – will remain online, but no new content will be added. We launched back in autumn 2012 with a simple mission …

J'ai découvert la méthode NVIM_APPNAME qui permet de lancer des instances cloisonnées de #Neovim
https://notes.sklein.xyz/2025-12-23_2127/

Meet.Coop seems to be down for me, for more than a day.
anyone at @… have any idea what's going on?

#KualaLumpur could actually learn a lot from #Jakarta's much improved transit system. While it still has a long way to go, it's far more usable and better connected, and the walkability around the #MRT stat…

Leçon du jour que je dois retenir : « Toujours utiliser unlink pour supprimer un lien symbolique, ne jamais utiliser rm »
#TIL

One of my early memories is hearing the #Islamic call for prayer in #Hyderabad #India and how beautiful it was, a morning symphony of beautiful singing and chanting, likely much the same as it has been for centurie…

One of the biggest reasons now that I think I may stay as a freelancer and not job hunt is that I don't want to be forced to use some "productivity" suite like #google #docs or #microsoft

« J'ai découvert le concept de "catch up culture" »
#TIL

Everytime someone asks me to "please leave a #Google review" at this guesthouse/restaurant/etc, when I say "Sorry, I don't have a Google account" they seem so flabbergasted that they don't know how to respond.

Am I supposed to feel sympathy when someone keeps all their data on a single platform's "free" services & then loses access arbitrarily and has no access to "their" data?
I can certainly join them in anger again the #platform but, there really needs to be more awareness of the risks of becoming so dependent on companies and the need to keep control of your

Curious why they included #China on this list of regulators to target #keepandroidopen
Do they not know that #Google #Play

This trip, got to try #Manado food a few times and, it's officially up there with #Sunda & #Padang as my favorite regional #Indonesia

My feed, both here and at #Bluesky, is much more about the #Thailand election than the #Japan #election today, despite l…

Some Australians sometimes do this strange thing where they say a call is at XX o'clock "Australia" time.
But Australia has multiple time zones...

Found this cool-sounding initiative to make a major #Indian city more #representative, #safer, #livable, etc, throug…