@rasterweb@mastodon.socialReminder: You can let Mozilla know what you think about AI and other stupid shit.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-firefox-way-shaping-what-s-next-together/td-p/109922
(Edited to fix li…
@acka47@openbiblio.socialThanks to @… at #swib25, today I learned the source of the "#Standards are made by the people who show up" quote: Dave Cramer (2016),
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Strong mead was served and the drinking was heavy. Next to Ægir sat Bragi. They drank together and exchanged stories. Bragi [the skaldic god of poetry] told Ægir about the many things that had happened to the Æsir."
Prose Edda, Skšldskaparmšl
🏛 A stone from Gotland depicting a Norse drinking scene, Swedish…
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Timmy Thomas:
🎵 Why Can't We Live Together
#NowPlaying #TimmyThomas
https://idri.bandcamp.com/track/timmy-thomas-why-cant-we-live-together-idris-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5mBHcJ6yNXyYGLosWkuGqv
@cheryanne@aus.socialWeirder Together With Ben Lee And Ione Skye
A weekly podcast about being eccentric, married, artists...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/weirder-together/
@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizzaTogether For #Palestine
I think its hoping to be christmas number one in the music charts.
All profits will go to the Together for Palestine Fund
https://togetherforpalestine.bandcamp.
@newsie@darktundra.xyz
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon rolls out Alexa on the web to early access users, with chat functionality, smart home controls, file management, and cross-device conversations (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/with-new-ale
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioMy last request for this thread is to talk to people about it. Talk to your family: what can we endure? Talk to your coworkers: what would it take for us to walk out together? Talk to your friends: what’s •your• red line? What •could• each one of us stop when that red line is crossed?
10/
@cdarwin@c.imSeveral women who survived abuse by Jeffrey Epstein have come together for a public service announcement video
demanding that Congress release all files on the accused sex trafficker.
“It’s a call to action,” one of the women, Danielle Bensky, told NBC News on Sunday.
“While we are Epstein and [Ghislaine] Maxwell survivors, we are standing for so many victims of sexual assault and of domestic violence, as well.”
@jake4480@c.imA few years back, wifey and I did a project together, as we often do. We wanted to do a very specific mashup - death metal and Pokémon. It's admittedly a niche. But we wanted to choose Cubone because that's the name of our furry son (the one in my avi). And the Pokémon's back story, wearing his dead mom's skull, it's pretty metal. Original shirt inspiration on the right, for reference (I have a very worn copy of this one). I sketched it out, she painted (she's so tale…
@bourgwick@heads.social11/17/75 keystone berkeley: SUGAREE/CATFISH JOHN seems to be the classic combo opener for the early era of the garcia band, the 4th of 44. languid RUSSIAN LULLABY & POSITIVELY 4TH STREET on audience tape. as always, the soundboard version provides more nuance, especially on the half-slowed FRIEND OF THE DEVIL. 19-minute LET’S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER with quiet semi-bass solo, arpeggio piano flutters, & big build; not going into EDWARD for once.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAtlas Obscura plans to launch Obscura Society, a WebXR-based lounge offering users 3D avatars for voice chats, portals to other VR apps, and more, in early 2026 (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/847182/atlas-obscura-society-3d-virtual-…
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.socialtrynamic trio meetup
@steve@s.yelvington.comRE: https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/business-nbfr4cs7z/-/a-RH7fll4gT26CakFu_TNxVw:a:43591897-/0
It's as if scams have mass, causing them to clump together.
@denmanrooke@mastodon.ieWe're hosting a public Meeting on 27 Nov 19:30 at Harbour Hotel in Galway together with Sinn Féin, Social Democrats, Labour & Independents discussing what is next for the left following on from the presidential election.
All welcome to attend and contribute to the discussion.
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotWoo, proper cold weather means it's orange squashy coat time again! On the left the tasteful trench coat, suitable to my status as middle aged lady, on the right my gangsta alter ego 😄
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.clubEn kommentar til den seneste udvikling i vores forhold til USA. Artiklen er i Ÿvrigt flere år gammel, men jeg tænker stadig aktuel. #USPol https://worldmhc.org/
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioToday we're gonna find out together how well a 30-year old lithum-ion battery charges.
This is a Hitachi battery that doesn’t have any direct modern replacement; it’s almost identical to a Sony NP-FM50 but ever so slightly thinner so the Sony batteries just barely don’t fit into the Hitachi camera this is for.
I’ll probably fry to modify a 3rd-party replacement for the Sony batteries by sanding it down, needs to be shaved off by like <1mm.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Marvin Gaye:
🎵 Time to Get It Together
#MarvinGaye
https://mrsonnyjames.bandcamp.com/track/time-to-get-it-together-marvin-gaye
https://open.spotify.com/track/1hv3Xd35sNvZq7NS6l6Hfa
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialI was just thinking about what you should do when you have a problem with an organisation you are part of, and so far (I've only just woken up) I think the steps are:
1. Wait - maybe it will pass
2. Act yourself to fix it - at the very least you will gain a better undertaking of the
3. Complain - perhaps the boss doesn't know theres a problem
4. Organise - what you can't fix alone you can fix together
5. Leave - if all else fails
And it feels lik…
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaCoursera's buying Udemy: awesome! I love monopolies, and we're one step closer to one now!
I'm just waiting for the AI shoe to drop next. It'll be awesome to pay $19.99/mo to learn randomly-inserted hallucinated non-facts from an LLM running a RAG pipeline over a syllabus thrown together by some associate professor who can barely afford rent from their day job.
@hex@kolektiva.socialOK, now for the hard question. What would it be like to answer these questions together as a group?
If you asked these questions to the folks who follow you, could you work together to come up with an answer? Would you be willing to get a few friends together (maybe over a drink) to talk through these and try to come up with *one* answer that everyone could agree on?
I wonder if anyone would be willing to try it as an experiment and come back with results. :)
@piger@mastodon.socialI don't know what I did wrong with the last computer I put together, but sometimes it takes almost a minute to do a cold boot and I have no idea why. Non deterministic bios?
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzWhy Tony Romo's job is in question for CBS announcer alongside Jim Nantz for AFC playoffs https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/why-tony-romo-job-question-cbs-announcer-jim-nantz-…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThe manager herself I found peevish and difficult to work with on that project. She complained a lot, and was dismissive of my ideas.
In hindsight, I now realize she was dealing with sustained psychological abuse on a daily basis, just trying to hold it together. Of course she was peevish. She didn’t want my input. She wanted to survive. And I was oblivious.
3/
@cdarwin@c.imRE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/115914632838313229
“Let’s all dream together to make more unthinkable outcomes reality,”
-- Jared Kushner,
who has long floated an idea of promoting waterfront real estate in Gaza,
wrote Friday on X.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"It is said that after death, the tutelary god (daimon) of each person, to whom he had been allotted in life, leads him to a place where the dead are gathered together [i.e. Hermes]; then they are judged and depart to the other world with the guide."
Plato, Phaedo 107c
🏛
@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.socialSix hours of weird #ChristmasMusic I put together for a friend of my kids
There’s some 🪗 in there over the decades, but mostly a wacky range of rock, pop, western swing, a couple of pretty tunes, RUN DMC make an appearance, along with the Berlin Philharmonic and Charlie Parker, both in modern remixes of holiday classics 🫣
If you’re tired of the same
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Where Science Meets Storytelling: Twelve Years of the Science Blogs Web Archive" an der Library of Congress:
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/12/where-science-meets-storytelling-twelve-years-of-the-scienc…
@StephenRees@mas.toRepair Café: Registration Open for Hastings Community Centre on February 14th
Made possible by the incredible generosity of our community and foundation supporters, we’re thrilled to invite you to the first Repair Café of the year! SPEC and our fantastic volunteers can’t wait to welcome you back and help repair an item you love.
When: Saturday, February 14th, 9:30am-1:30pm
Where: Hastings Community Centre, 3096 East Hastings St, Vancouver
Learn more about Repair Cafés …
@anildash@me.dmToday, Wikipedia turns 25 years old. It's never been more important — or under more attack from authoritarians. Here's what to know about how we got here, and what we can do to push for its future and support them as they start to demand fair support from the AI companies that are profiting off of the community. There's no better example than Wikipedia of the web we make together.
@relcfp@mastodon.socialTALKS > Online Buddhist Studies Events (Dec 16 - Jan 21)
https://ift.tt/dEiJWuI
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift.tt/BCTGpe…
@fgraver@hcommons.socialIn Kyiv, I saw how art can help hold a city together in the shadow of war https://theconversation.com/in-kyiv-i-saw-how-art-can-help-hold-a-city-together-in-the-shadow-of-war-269129
@seeingwithsound@mas.toWhy we sleep: insights from current research https://www.ru.nl/en/donders-institute/news/why-we-sleep-insights-from-current-research
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeIs Kiki (hello kitty) bouba?
https://hellokittyislandadventure.wiki.gg/wiki/Kiki
@parltrack@eupolicy.socialthis an interesting paper arguing that transparency is harmful: https://philarchive.org/rec/NGUTIS
and i concur, what i always say, we don't need transparency, we need accountability, without accountability transparency is useless. if if we have accountability, do we really need transparency?
@NFL@darktundra.xyzBills QB Josh Allen and actress Hailee Steinfeld expecting first child together https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47289078/buffalo-bills-josh-allen-hailee-steinfeld-pregnant
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Arp Frique & The Perpetual Singers:
🎵 Live Together Live
#ArpFrique #ThePerpetualSingers
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://arpfrique.bandcamp.com/track/live-together-live
https://open.spotify.com/track/3lMAjqR6oBAzlZOq6Skugl
@cdarwin@c.imWhile fascist ideas never found a foothold among the majority of Americans,
they exerted considerable influence during the period between the first and second world wars.
Extremist groups like
the Silver Shirts,
the Christian Front,
the Black Legion and
the Ku Klux Klan claimed hundreds of thousands of members.
Together they glorified a white Christian nation purified of Jews, Black Americans, immigrants and communists.
During the 1930s and …
@vrandecic@mas.toHappy birthday @…
25 years of Wikipedia -- a decades-long story of language communities growing together
https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifun
@raiders@darktundra.xyzWhy the Raiders’ Offense Still Can’t Get It Together https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-offense-cant-get-together
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTeamLease Digital: Global Capability Centers in India have grown tech headcount to ~2M from 1.2M in 2022, rising 18%-27% YoY, compared to 4%-6% at IT companies (Tanya Pandey/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t
@keen456@infosec.exchangeHey #digipres folks, over on the #ApplesauceFDC discord, someone's been working through how to archive punch cards (since they've got a large stack of them), and put together a documented #format
@UP8@mastodon.social🪇 Those who work together tend to move in sync, trampoline experiment shows
#behavior
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itPhanpy doesn't support quoots yet, so I'm using Mastodon's stock web interface and.. it's bad. Compare how busy it looks with unnecessary stuff (do I really need a "post" input form on screen at all times? Do I need a link to "favorites" visible at all times?), but also - the fonts are bad. Bad, bad, bad. Just so much harder to read. And the timeline toots just kind of run together, rather than being clearly delineated by whitespace in phanpy.
![Mastodon's official UI home screen. There are three columns taking up the whole screen. Left column has half taken up with an input form for posting a new toot. Then there's some wasted space, and at the bottom a bunch of text links: "social.ridetrans.it: [About] [Profiles directory] [privacy policy]", etc.
The middle column has all the toots from my timeline. There is only a single thin grey line separating the toots, and the text is small and somewhat difficult to read.
The right column…](https://mastodon-usw-cache.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/115/556/258/266/351/584/original/9b54ad3448805067.png)
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaManaged to put the new Pi music player together before leaving work today. Got it set up with remote control and a quick test of playback. Next stop: Speaker mounting and figuring out if I should bet on physical security through obscurity by making it not easily visible or using a moderately long RCA cable. What’s a reasonable cable length with decent quality cables?
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaWent ahead and resoldered the pins connecting the EPROM to the cart as it looked like I had rushed slightly when putting everything together. Got the SNES hooked up to the TV and after standard cartridge stuff the game fired right up! Looks like I can put the programmer away for the time being.
#snes #retrogaming
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaSyndicalism is the idea that workers should organize themselves into unions within their industries and use those unions to take control of workplaces, so workers—not bosses or shareholders—run things directly and democratically.
Think of it like everyone at your job working together to decide how things are made, what gets done, and how profits are shared, rather than having one boss making all the choices and getting the biggest share.
@jensilber@mastodon.socialAfter fully working from home for three months while the office was renovated, I had to RTO today. This is what was in the "welcome back" bag waiting at each of our desks. I dunno if everyone got identical items or if there was a larger selection of cheap trinkets with different nonsense motivational phrases on them.
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialUrban Adventure II 🏞️
城市探险 II 🏞️
📷Nikon FE
🎞️Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoToday at work, hamalert went off on my phone. @… was activating the state capital, two blocks away from me, on 20m. For once, not in my skip! I grabbed my QMX, ran up three flights of stairs out onto the patio, pulled all the parts together, and...
silence.
I looked off the balcony at the state capital groun…
@hex@kolektiva.social"This is a new reality that we are dreaming and weaving together."
This is either the last or second to last section of Kairos I'm writing. This is the most specific so far. After that it's editing and making it feel more like a single consistent text than a bunch of essays. I hope it's worth the read.
Feedback is always welcome, especially editing (typos, grammar, etc), and questions.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/a-solarpunk-fractal-creating-a-viable-system-91h5
@selea@social.linux.pizzaAlways nice to play World of Warcraft together with @… @… & @…
@cdarwin@c.imRosie McGee,
handcuffed to Bob Weir, front,
with other members of the 710 Ashbury collective being led out of the house after being arrested by police following a drug raid on the famous Grateful Dead house in Haight Ashbury on OCTOBER 2, 1967.
"By the time a paddy wagon arrived to take us down to the Hall of Justice, a crowd had gathered across the street.
Bob Weir and I were handcuffed together and as we came down the stairs, the crowd cheered.
A broad…
@boris@cosocial.caI’m excited to see the return of Steam Machine.
With my experiments of using the Linux Desktop mode with the Steamdeck … this absolutely puts a full Linux server in a lot of homes.
A good spot for a PDS, Tailscale, and a bunch of other things.
https://bsky.app/profile/jaypeters.net
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
VILA: [Pulls Orac's key] They don't write poetry like that anymore. What this electronic pain is trying to say is-
TARRANT: -is that unless we get a break, there's going to be a fatal foul-up.
VILA: Right.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/52
@aardrian@toot.cafeI am unsurprised at the breakdown so far:
https://social.vivaldi.net/@HalleAndert/115548550635430577
Granted, the plethora of Chromia are splitting the vote, but even added together it’s not close.
Also, this is not scientific and may not reference reality. …
@cheryanne@aus.socialMycelial
A podcast embodying mycelium, threading together wisdom, movements, practices, technology and ideas, old and new, to help in weaving an emergent world centring Earth and Humanity...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/mycelial/<…
@pre@boing.worldFinal day of having the carpenter here. A lot of sawing. Built the dresser desk drawers, cut all the perspex into shape for the windowed doors that fit together now but still need gluing.
The dresser drawers are just about big enough to put the hairdryer in, so that's nice.
Still quite a bit for the other workers to do. Detailing for panels on the doors, gluing and hanging the window doors, handles and painting and touch ups. They reckon another 5 days work still, only two of which can be next week because I have stuff to do.
Must be weird being a builder and finishing your part of the job then never seeing it completed. He's done all this great work on it but will only see the completed work if he has to come back for something else. And he doesn't want to come back coz he's fed up of driving across London 😆
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCBS News' credibility, built over decades, is being used now to launder political narratives that wouldn't survive scrutiny if they came from right-wing media (Parker Molloy/The Present Age)
https://www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-trump-administration-is
@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.socialDavid Eugene Edwards' legendary band 16 Horsepower reunite for a 2026 European tour and one US festival
For the first time in over 20 years, the original 3 members David Eugene Edwards, Jean-Yves Tola, and Pascal Humbert will be playing together (with Chuck French, the guitarist from David EE’s band Wovenhand)
https://wovenhandband.com/n…
@domm@social.linux.pizza#potd Team Scheisse @ Flex, together with older son in a very sweaty moshpit - fun! "Es geht doch nur noch bergab, seit Pluto kein Planet mehr ist.." https://domm.plix.at/potd/2025-11-11.html
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaWhat great news! Now that is something I've been on the lookout for 🥳
At the time @… wrote a nice blog post about how, together with @… , the port was submitted. Read it here:
@geant@mstdn.socialWhat if submarine fibre-optic cables could do more than carry data? SUBMERSE project is proving they can.
This EU-funded project brings together 25 consortium partners, from research groups to National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) and industry, including GÉANT and our member NRENs.
Together, we're exploring how existing telecom infrastructure can be transformed into scientific sensors.
🔗 Read more in the latest
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeLook.. If I get eaten by ghosts, you can't get fed, so we're in this together.
![Four panel comic by Murrz titled "How to use the bathroom when you're scared"
First panel: [1. Pick up pet.] Picks up black kitty.
Second panel: [2. Use pet as ghost shield.] Holds cat out in front while going upstairs.
Third panel: [3. Trap 'em.] Girl says, "Look, I know you were sleeping, but I need your assistance. Just wait a sec." while sitting on the toilet in a locked bathroom. Cat relies, "wtf man" while sitting next to the door.
Last panel: [4. Return.] Girl nervously goes back down st…](https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/533/523/693/671/711/original/029811e0f434dfdc.jpg)
@Adam@social.lein.usAll old Kinect games need to be ported to the Nex Playground console! https://www.nexplayground.com/
@mela@zusammenkunft.netThe »Halloween Episode«:
The away team is stuck in a haunted castle on a sparsely populated planet. They found the source of their problems in the North wing, where they have been told they MUST NOT GO:
V'Lorr, the Vulcan OPS: »We can enter the North Wing from three directions.«
Kenna, the Betazoid CSO: »V'Lorr, what did you learn from all that forbidden horror media we consumed together during our formative years? Never. split. the. party.«
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialwarm up together
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
U.N.I. Together:
🎵 Unit
#UNITogether
@bourgwick@heads.socialyo la tengo at bowery ballroom, hanukkah night 2.
opening act: built to spill
comedian: alex edelman
mix CDR by gail o'hara
post show DJ: joe belock (the people's champ)
benefitting neighbors together
#nyc
@cheryanne@aus.socialThe Contest Cricket Show
Brings mates, fans, and armchair experts together to chat everything cricket...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-contest-cricket-show/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and more are set to unveil the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source AI agent standards as soon as this week (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialMetropolitana VI - Asymmetry ✅
城 VI - 非对称 ✅
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza🤦 Ain’t no way they actually posted this mess. 🤦
#USPol
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders Need This Long-Awaited Offensive Breakout in Week 11 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-need-this-long-awaited-offensive-breakout
@jake4480@c.imI was thinking this morning, there should be more things like Goodwill, more thrift stores like that everywhere, for even LESS things going to landfills. Just people getting together, even as a trade or barter system, things like flea markets or garage sales-- people do some of this already.
Reusing things is so important, and repair, when possible-- I've been seeing some cool self-repair fix-it meetups on here, too.
As I was talking to my wife about it, and I remembered thi…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSomewhere between pacifism that is just passivism and starting a pyrrhic hot war that only entrenches authoritarianism, there’s some kind of jiu jitsu here that is active and forceful resistance, but uses the regime’s own force against them.
I do not pretend to know what exactly that is. I do believe that a diversity of tactics is important — and that we’re all going to have to accept the work of holding ourselves together as a resistance even as people choose very different tactics we’re not comfortable with ourselves.
@boris@cosocial.ca @NFL@darktundra.xyz'One Love': Cowboys honor Marshawn Kneeland with vigil, tributes and memorial fund as team mourns together
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys…
@hex@kolektiva.socialThis is especially ambitious in the amount of area I'm trying to cover and number of ideas I'm trying to pull together. Editing feedback (typos and grammar) always welcome, as are any questions about the subject, and any other feedback.
@cdarwin@c.imWikipedia's been around since 2001.
Back then, it was just a dream. -- A wildly ambitious, probably impossible dream. -- But it came together piece by piece.
And for all that time, Wikipedia's stayed free. We do not run ads—we rely on the support of everyday readers.
Only 2% ever donate.
But that small group makes a big difference.
When you support Wikipedia, you're standing up for something simple but profound:
that knowledge should belong to…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialTALKS > Online Buddhist Studies Events (Dec 16 - Jan 21)
https://ift.tt/Vde2PbA
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift.tt/D5RGrP…
@Adam@social.lein.usAll old Kinect games need to be ported to the Nex Playground console! https://www.nexplayground.com/
@bourgwick@heads.socialfeeling right levitated by chuck smith's fugs film! at doc #nyc, with glorious archival footage & fresh interviews, including ed sanders, the elusive & charming ken weaver, crumb & kominsky together & more. streaming thru 11/30 then up in the air. https://w…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzAn NFL player breaks down his goal sheet for the 2025 season, plus this week's best Peak nuggets https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6974400/2026/01/15/alec-ingold-nfl-dolphins-goals-2025/
@hex@kolektiva.socialPart of why #Trump has always been so hard to pin down politically is that he was always representing highly conflicting interests. Now, as that eats him alive, the GOP is fracturing in to two main groups: the Pinochet/Franco wing and the Hitler wing.
The Pinochet/Franco wing (let's call them PF) are lead by Vance. PF are also a coalition with some competing interests, but basically it's evangelical leaders, Opus Dei (fascist catholics), tech fascists (Yarvinites), pharma, and the other normal big republican donors. They support Israel, some because apartheid is extremely profitable and some because they support the genocide of Palestinian in order to bring the end of the world. They are split between extremely antisemitic evangelicals and Zionists, wanting similar things for completely different reasons. PF wants strong immigration enforcement because it lets them exploit immigrants, they don't want actual ethnic cleansing (just the constant threat). They want H1B visas because they want to a precarious tech work force. They want to end tariffs because they support free trade and don't actually care about things being made here.
The Hitler wing are lead by Nick Fuentes. I think they're a more unified group, but they're going to try to pull together a coalition that I don't think can really work. They're against Israel because they believe in some bat shit antisemitic conspiracy theory (which they are trying to inject along side legitimate criticism of Israel). They are focused on release of the #EpsteinFiles because they believe that it shows that Epstein worked for Mossad. They don't think that the ICE raids are going far enough, they oppose H1Bs because they are racists. They want a full ethnic cleansing of the US where everyone who isn't "white" is either enslaved for menial labor, deported, or dead. But they're also critical of big business (partially because of conspiracy theories but also) because they think their best option is to push for a white socialism (red/brown alliance).
Both of them want to sink Trump because they see him as standing in the way of their objectives. Both see #Epstein as an opportunity. Both of them have absolutely terrifying visions of authoritarian dictatorships, but they're different dictatorships.with opposing interests. Even within these there may be opportunities to fracture these more.
While these fractures decrease the likelihood of either group getting enough people together, their vision is more clear and thus more likely to succeed if they can make that happen. Now is absolutely *not* the time to just enjoy the collapse, we need to keep up or accelerate anti-fascist efforts to avoid repeating some of the mistakes of history.
Edit:
I should not that this isn't *totally* original analysis. I'll link a video later when I have time to find it.
Here it is:
#USPol
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAxios' Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen reflect upon their 20 years as media entrepreneurs together and how the media landscape changed since Politico's 2007 launch (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/13/politico-founders-axios-media-vandehei-allen
@relcfp@mastodon.socialTALKS > Online Buddhist Studies Events (Dec 16 - Jan 21) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20135341/talks-online-buddhist-studies-events-dec-16-jan-21
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders mailbag: What will it take for offensive line to come together? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-mailbag-what-will-it-take-for-offensive-line-to-come-together-3533314/
@cdarwin@c.imCAPITOL HILL CELEBRATES
JENNER & BLOCK:
Congressional Republicans and Democrats
came together last night
for a bipartisan event celebrating the release of
“When Congress Comes Calling,”
a newly updated handbook on congressional investigations
published by Jenner & Block and the Project on Government Oversight.
Jenner & Block is a prominent law firm which remains locked in a bitter legal fight with the Trump administration.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Intel is in advanced talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova for about $1.6B including debt; the deal could come together as soon as next month (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-12/intel-nears…
@cdarwin@c.imProfessor David Bowman said that,
because many of the fires in Australia this month appear to have burnt rapidly through grassland,
it made for difficult firefighting conditions.
“You can’t fight these things in the same way you fight a forest fire
because they’re travelling so quickly with high winds.
Everything you’re trying to do was being controlled by the wind,” he said.
Professor Bowman said, if heatwave conditions continued in Victoria,
the e…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe BBC apologizes to President Trump for a Panorama episode that spliced parts of his January 6 speech together but rejects his demands for compensation (Noor Nanji/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c874nw4g2zzo
@NFL@darktundra.xyzKraft, Belichick to both appear on HOF ballot https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47183383/kraft-belichick-appear-2026-hof-ballot-together
@hex@kolektiva.socialImagine a world that we all control together, not controlled by oligarch or dictators, even indirectly. Imagine something truly collaborative. That world would be very different from our own. In some ways many of us could have a lot more opportunity. But in others, we would be restricted.
In such a world, we couldn't really have elite luxuries. Having such luxuries is only valuable so long as others do not.
> Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car, like a villa by the sea, is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one.
- The Social Ideology of the Motorcar
Imagine a world in which we think about luxury in a radically different way, not as something that only has value via exclusivity but something that enriches the lives of the owners more as more people have them.
What would living in such a world be like? Can you describe a day in your life?
#SolarPunkPrompts #Writing #Prompts
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCompanies are updating insider trading policies to cover prediction markets; Kalshi and others are pushing for federal oversight, including of insider trading (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/polymark…
@cdarwin@c.imWhen neither major party delivers for the working class, people turn to alternatives
-- and more power to them
https://bsky.app/profile/anthonyderibas.bsky.social/post/3m3uljdsll22w
