@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialOne of the biggest current myths is that if democrats win coming midterms and presidential elections everything will be allright and we can return to business as usual with the USA. In my view that is not the case, the political system and society is too broken to be healed that quickly after Trump's destructive presidency. It will take many more more years maybe even a decade to heal and reform.
#Trump
@newsie@darktundra.xyzBabies Born from Dead Parents Will Increase with New Tech. Are We Ready? https://www.404media.co/babies-born-from-dead-parents-will-increase-with-new-tech-are-we-ready/
@hex@kolektiva.socialRE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116087233502113204
While I don't think this will change things, I do think it's nice to be reminded that we are not alone. Direct action is always better than asking nicely for the horrible thing to stop. We are powerful enough to stop it.
But there is also a theatrical element to politics that's easy to forget. The "show" of something like this can be inspiring, and can inspire others who have been afraid.
@kornel@mastodon.socialIn today's Coding Black Mirror episode: what if AI code generators get sped up to emit tens of thousands of tokens per second?
For now we're pretending LLMs are just sloppy devs and try to review the output, which is already exhausting.
When it gets to the point of being able to rewrite the whole project on every keystroke, source code won't be the source any more, but a discardable compiler output. Switching languages will be like applying Photoshop filters?
@jrm4@mastodon.socialPresent thought
Mastodon's the right model. But to be truly *useful* politcally - the Bluesky/Mastodonian idea of "we will make our safe space over here" might be pleasant for many and that's fine
But they're not healthy for useful political discourse, which is often ugly, but generates the necessary talk.
The discussions I'm seeing on Twitter/threads e.g. left v. liberal are finally getting "good." (among others)
@esoriano@social.linux.pizzaREFUSE / RESIST
<<Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison delivers a sales pitch for his company's new AI-monitored body cameras, which live stream footage back to headquarters and cannot be turned off.
"Citizens will be on their best behaviour, because we're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on."
"These are the kind of next generation systems we can build using AI.">>
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"Austria’s military has already dumped Microsoft and moved to open-source services hosted in Europe, and some German regional governments have done the same. Danish schools were told to abandon Google laptops by the Danish data protection authority in 2024. The new Dutch government says digital sovereignty will be a national priority"
#DigitalSovereignty
@simoncox@seocommunity.socialOh this is new from Fathom Analytics!
Bots Blocked report.
My filly link: https://usefathom.com/ref/ILRGSP
@NFL@darktundra.xyzCardinals GM Monti Ossenfort: 'We're not really naming anybody' as starting quarterback https://www.nfl.com/news/cardinals-gm-monti-ossenfort-we-re-not-really-naming-anybody-as-starting-quarterback
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIn a memo, Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch says Self magazine is shutting down and its health and wellness content will be integrated into brands like Allure (Emily Sundberg/@emily_sundberg)
https://x.com/emily_sundberg/status/2044767452404289548
@rberger@hachyderm.ioThe billionaire tax needs to be made THE litmus test for all Democratic candidates for office.
Corporate Democrats have been the root failure mode of the Democratic Party since at least Bill Clinton.
We must remove the corporate Democrats from power right after we remove Trump from power, or we will just get an even worse Trump in the near future.
If a candidate is not willing to support a billionaire wealth tax, then we know for sure they are a corporate Democrat and should not be elected.
#USPolitcs #noBillionaires #NoKings
@StephenRees@mas.toI just took Leadnow's survey to share my thoughts on CBC cuts.
Misinformation is rising & local news coverage is disappearing, the federal government is proposing to cut the CBC’s budget by $192m next year. Funding decisions for the CBC will be made in the coming months so there’s still a chance to fight back against these funding cuts. Leadnow’s power comes from our community. We want to hear from you to help decide what to do. Take the quick 4-question survey now.
@timfoster@mastodon.socialSt. Patrick drove snakes out of Ireland today. I mostly drove an axe into bits of tree. As a result, we will be both snake-free and warm next winter.
🐍☘ #stpatricksday
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
TARRANT: Well, who puts on the head?
AVON: It will be Vila, or it will be me.
VILA: It'll be you!
AVON: [Looks at Vila and smiles] Fine. Help Soolin to get Orac outside.
SOOLIN: Where do we take Orac?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/515
@kornel@mastodon.socialIn today's Coding Black Mirror episode: what if AI code generators get sped up to emit tens of thousands of tokens per second?
For now we're pretending LLMs are just sloppy devs and try to review the output, which is already exhausting.
When it gets to the point of being able to rewrite the whole project on every keystroke, source code won't be the source any more, but a discardable compiler output. Switching languages will be like applying Photoshop filters?
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaYou tell us that we have to use a piece of software weekly or it will be uninstalled and if we want to use it then install it...
Guess what? I automated a script to run every Monday to launch that piece of software just in case I don't use it that week.
Guess what again? I told every team member how to do it and provided the script.
Depending on my workload and tasks I might not use it for over a week and I WILL NOT PUT UP with having to install it again and have a fo…
@pre@boing.worldI see no sign of any recognition from those who would want such a ban that they see any of the collateral damage a successful ban would have on the majority of kids who are not falling for this bullshit. That they are banning any good at all along with the bad.
Under 18s only
I see that the lobbying for these laws are funded by the absolute worst companies on the internet, those who will be entrenched by the legal compliance costs, that will cement themselves as the arbitrators of who is allowed to access the internet.
It’s a gift to Palantir and other surveillance companies. The very people running these algo-feeds are the ones who benefit from IDing every user and stalking them across the internet on their government-approved internet-licence IDs.
I don’t think even a successful ban on social media for kids would actually address the issue of kids being exposed to sexism and misogony or reduce the kids alienation and depression.
A ban can’t help, will make many things worse, won’t address the problem, and will make competing with the worst surveillance capitalists on the planet more difficult.
Going to war with every internet site and advice forum and making internet access harder won’t fix anything, and will have massive collateral damage against everyone seeking support from strangers or trying to learn things their parents won’t teach them.
But I see we are going to do it anyway.
The direction is clear.
Those companies do get what they lobby for, and they are lobbying hard for ID checks on every website, wrapping their desire to enclose the internet commons for themselves in a faux concern for children’s welfare.
And governments wish to monitor and control the internet, so they will pass these laws.
I wonder how many parents have a family group-chat that they’re going to accidentally ban their kids from using, not realizing that ‘social media’ might include Whatsapp? 😆
It won’t fix anything, it will make the situation for kids worse, impose costs and rents and hacks and exploits on all of us, and increase government and corporate power.
Many will lose access to their networks of support and help.
So it goes.
We will build a better more censorship resistant internet. It’s already here really: Briar. Matrix. Nostr. Bitchat. Veilid. Spritely. And the rest.
The laws may push us there faster.
The race will go on.
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialUnder R-party/maga theocratic principles it would be expected that those who benefit from this pay the costs. In other words, why should we taxpayers pay for this DHS expense when it benefits the airlines and the passengers?
(I'm saying this to demonstrate how much airlines love to offload expenses onto the taxpayers while keeping income to themselves. If these airline CEOs want this then what will they give up to us, the taxpayers. I could suggest lower salaries for CEOs, highe…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alOh, dear thing, did you see a post by a Palestinian facing genocide on your favourite fucking sci-fi hashtag by mistake? You, poor, delicate flower. Do you think you’ll survive? Should we call 911? @… ht…
@fathermcgruder@jorts.horseIn and of itself these bills are a good thing, but it seems bad that that we're essentially letting landlords off the hook and expecting tenants to make this investment in solar power. It should be treated like other appliances, such as ovens and refrigerators, that we expect landlords to provide. Furthermore, it's not apparent that this legislation forces landlords (or HOAs for that matter) to allow for these systems to be installed.
@cdarwin@c.imThe scale of Orbšn’s defeat has left Moscow with little choice but to acknowledge the loss of a key partner in Europe.
“Hungary made its choice. We respect that choice,” Russian Foreign Minister Peskov said on Monday.
“We were never friends with Orbšn,” said Peskov,
adding that Moscow remained open to dialogue and to building good, mutually beneficial relations with Budapest.
Moscow appears to be playing down the loss of a key ally in Europe,
striking a tone rem…
@Techpizzamondays@social.linux.pizzaAt @… on April 27th, we will be discussing “The Tyranny of Structurelessness” by Jo Freeman. We will have printed copies available this coming Monday. All of the relevant links are available at the Luma link: https://luma.com/…
@jtk@infosec.exchangeSummit (aka Deft, aka ServerCentral):
"In our Elk Grove Village location, our CAM costs increased by 11% [...] We will be passing this increase through [...]
We have also renewed our lease at Elk Grove Village resulting in increased costs of 30%. This renewal reflects the impact of high demand and increasing costs in the data center space. This renewal is effective on July 1st, 2026 and we will be passing this increase through"
@kubikpixel@chaos.social
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate the inevitable.
https://kerkour.com/rust-supply-chain-nightmare
saved 2026-04-10
@grumpybozo@toad.socialThe fact that “AI Companies” have slurped up all of the inventory of various tech commodities indicates that we are in for some fierce inflation, and it won’t be contained to tech products and services. I will extend to every vendor that uses tech products and service. Not many of those, eh…
@ErikUden@mastodon.deDonald Trump announces mass murder for tonight.
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to'We have been lurking in cloaked ships out by Jupiter for approximately seventy five earth years, watching.'
That long huh?
'Yes. We felt that you would... should be able to figure your problems out and come together as a species. Then we would make oursleves known and give you #fusion, #hoverboards
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzHi all, just a tardy reminder that a few (a bunch?) of us will be meeting at https://meeting.iridescent.nz at 20:00 NZST tonight (Tue 14 Apr) to discuss libre/open source state of play. This is coming on heels of the weekend's Ōtautahi InstallFest which went quite well, I think! We'll have a debrief on t…
@mapcar@mastodon.sdf.orgIt can be hard to keep track, but here is a timeline that clearly illustrates Trumps insanity. https://aus.social/@aby/116361364463053134
@paulwermer@sfba.socialSay, #GavinNewsom , isn't California supposed to be a leader in climate action? And yet we cannot do this in California yet?
Virginia to become second state that allows balcony… | Canary Media
https://www…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialSay, #GavinNewsom , isn't California supposed to be a leader in climate action? And yet we cannot do this in California yet?
Virginia to become second state that allows balcony… | Canary Media
https://www…
@rberger@hachyderm.ioHopefully some how, someway, we'll have a future and it will be like Star Trek.
Speaking of which I am really excited to find out that Thomas Jane, who played Joe Miller in The Expanse, my other favorite Science Fiction TV, will be playing Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the final episode of Series 5 of Star Trek: Next Generation!
Unfortunately even though its in production now, it won't be shown for at least 1 years from now (Season 4 is supposed to come out some time this year).
#StarTrekSNW #TheExpanse
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3230854/characters/nm0005048/?ref_=tt_cst_c_10
https://screenrant.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-ending-alex-kurtzman-thomas-jane-bones-perfect/
https://screenrant.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-bones-thomas-jane-spinoff-good-news/
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialRE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116394740069187254
This gives me hope that in just 12 years we will be able to do something about the genocide and the Trump administration.
@cjust@infosec.exchangeSo there has been a school shooting in British Columbia - and I guess since I spent so much time living and working in the states, I forgot that these are horrifying and traumatizing events - which may just be down to the coverage in the media in the US versus Canada.
That's not to say that the coverage here has been good - quite the opposite in fact - but I will get to that at the moment.
I will qualify this in that I will freely admit that I have no expertise in either mass …
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeThinking about future release plans for ngscopeclient.
There have been massive performance improvements and some significant bug fixes since v0.1.1 and the ThunderScope dev edition units are going to manufacture so we'll be getting a lot of additional users in ~2 months.
But there's also a lot of ongoing backend refactoring and changes to filter graph blocks that won't be strictly backwards compatible (old filter graphs will need updating) and while I freely break sof…
@rafa_font@mastodon.online"In this video, Pierogi from Scammer Payback (https://www.scammerpayback.org) breaks down real posts from Reddit’s r/Scams to expose the tactics behind modern fraud. Drawing on his background in cybersecurity, he explains how today’s scams are evolving — and why so many people are falling for them
Sc…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioEven if ICE CBP presence in the Twin Cities goes back to pre-Dec levels (which to be clear it •has not• yet done), we will be living with this for a long time. The world will be moving on, the national press will forget about us no doubt, but we’ll be living with this.
Nobody here thinks we’re done. But a lot of us are cautiously hopeful that we are now entering a time where this is some room for repairing and rebuilding.
Cautiously hopeful. But vigilant.
/end
@lschiff@mastodon.sdf.orgTrump keeps attacking knowledge & scholars, so institutions should stop being quiet & speak out! Join Alice Meadows, Louis Coiffait-Gunn, Terri Teleen, and myself at a May 5th, free #UKSG webinar: "Why we all need to #DefendResearch"
@davej@dice.campOpinion: This Might Be the Most Economically Destabilizing War in Decades
Now that the United States and Iran have declared a two-week cease-fire, the question is whether the war’s economic disruption will be short-lived or lasting. The lessons from history are sobering: In an interdependent global economy, the shock of the outbreak of war can produce long-term instabilities overnight, many of which become apparent only over time.
@jacobgudiol@mastodonsweden.seSemaglutid (Ozempic/wegovy) subventioneras för personer i ökar risk för hjärtattack och stroke. Sen tidigare har de godkänt samma sak för personer som får behandling på speciella fetmakliniker.
Det var ungefär det här som TLV satte stopp för här i Sverige nyligen.
Over 1 million to be offered weight loss drug on NHS to prevent heart attack or stroke
@sean@scoat.es@… One of the big lies is about how everyone needs to rush to get [somewhere] before [China or whatever villain they've made up] does because no one will ever be able to catch up!
(and this argument is made on behalf of or by Google and Facebook, notorious not-first-to-market “success" stories)
We'd be in a better place with all of th…
@matthiasott@mastodon.socialAdobe Re-Animate 😁
@servelan@newsie.social“removing the Pride flag from Stonewall is not a minor change. It is erasure. It is an act of exclusion. It sends a message that LGBTQ visibility is negotiable, even at the very site where our community fought back. Stonewall is sacred ground. The Pride flag is not partisan. It is history. It is belonging. And we will not be intimidated into silence.”
'Political stunt': Trump admin rages at NYC for directly defying his Pride flag order - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-admin-pride-flag/
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social @hex@kolektiva.socialWillem challenged us to ask ourselves what we would do if we were living under Nazi occupation. Before all of this, I doubt anyone thought they would be complicit. I doubt anyone said to themselves, "nothing. I would cower in fear and do nothing."
But for 4 years or so we all answered that question again and again with our lives. Now here we are, answering it again... Every day. But it's no longer "what would you do during the rise of Hitler?" It's now, "what would you do after the invasion of Poland," and "what would you do after you knew about the concentration camps?"
For some people, the answer is still, "nothing."
But a lot of people have been brave in the face of it all. A lot of people have died, and a lot more will die. He will die, perhaps after a ruling by some court or other but, honestly, probably not. That's just how these things work out. Lots of people die, some for no reason, some because they stood up against injustice. A whole lot of people do nothing, until it's safe to claim victory... Until it's no longer safe to be on the other side.
That's just how these things go. Fascism is self-defeating, but it causes incredible harm on it's path of self-destruction. The more people who stand up, who risk themselves, the faster it collapses and the fewer it can hurt. That's also just how these things go. It's incredibly dangerous for everyone until enough people take some extra risk and make it safe for everyone again.
But that question still stands... Which one of those groups are you in? Are you proud of what you are doing, or will you look back with shame? Some of y'all have a lot to be proud of, but, if you're not, it's never too late to earn your way into that proud group.
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialI always ask people who want to build some nonsense:
- how will you know that it worked?
- what can you do if it didn't?
The answer is usually: we won't, and nothing. It never occurs to them that the idea might not be an inevitable success, despite ALL prior experience to the contrary.
@cdarwin@c.imNearly 13 months into Trump’s second term, the most terrifying attribute of his regime is its utter contempt for the United States,
and how blithely willing they are to destroy our nation and its people (let alone other nations).
With most of the Trump Show
— which began in 2015
— now in the rearview mirror,
and his mind and body rapidly decaying before our eyes,
one might think Trump would be thinking about the “legacy” he will be leaving behind in a few …
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org
@floheinstein@chaos.socialI just came across "On encule le monde" by Les Guignols.
"We are the world" will never be the same anymore.
@fgraver@hcommons.socialAI is McDonald’s. That Will Be Good, Bad, and Catalytic for Civil Rights Advocacy. | TechPolicy.Press https://techpolicy.press/ai-is-mcdonalds-that-will-be-good-bad-and-catalytic-for-civil-rights-advocacy
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca#poolpond progress today as we approach spring. Need to clear out the backyard enough so I can get a local guy with a mini bulldozer to soread out and flatten out the dirt mountain.
I came to a realization over the winter that leaving the lining as is in the pool with just a bottom of gravel and nothing on the sides is definitely not an option.
Turns out if the hole is emptied in the rainy season, then water will drain into the gap between the lining and earth... bulging the lining out into the cavity. Nope. Not good. keeping water in it keeps things in place, but realstically winter and spring will be when I want to do cleaning and stuff.
So that means I must do my best rock wall building up the sides this spring once the surrounding ground dries. This was my original plan, but I had hoped to do it without grouting or cement. That was a mistake on my part that I learned in earnest in August.
So now, all the various rock sizes piled around the yard is not going anywhere.... BUT at least with the leftovers from the fence i have material to build some forms to help with the wall building....
So that's why my attention for preparing for spring will turn to reactivating the surrounding yard.
So I need to find a place closer to the house to move what rock is left. Ugh. heavy work. And I realized today that someone has taken our garden cart 😢 boo.
oh well, onward we go! There is light at the end of the project!
#diy #backyardPond #Gardening #portalberni #landscaping
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsWouldn't it be great if Starlink satellites would start falling on cars repeatedly violating parking laws? I mean, it's a gain-gain-gain situation: carbrains get punished, we get rid of shit from the orbit, and perhaps someone will finally get to Elon's ass.
#CarBrain
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
@awinkler@openbiblio.socialKatherine Rundell betont im Kontext der 'reading crisis' die Bedeutung von Schulbibliotheken und Schulbibliothekar:innen: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2026/feb/23/will-we-ever-read-books-again-podcast
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org"What on earth should we otherwise use the money for?" meet the Danish multimillionaire who will be happy to pay an additional "fortune tax" after the election this month...
https://www.information.dk/indland/2026/03/milliardaer-forstaar-rigestes-modstand-formueskat-pokker-bruge-penge?kupon=eyJpYXQiOjE3NzI5NjE2MDMsInN1YiI6IjM4NTExMTo4Mzc2NzkifQ.D5cGqY4u-AM4GjyQhPavqw
@scott@carfree.cityNot April Fool: okay, I think that clinches my vote for Chakrabarti over Chan unless there are major surprises. You can't be mealy-mouthed on enabling a genocidal regime. (Of course, Wiener is much worse on this issue, and I will vote for Chan in the general if it's those two who advance.)
https://
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThis lunatic… this idiot son of modern-day barbarians is proclaiming that his morally-vacuous plastic-trinket empire is going to commit genocide and what’s the rest of the world doing? Anything? Where are the condemnations? Where are the sanctions? Where’s the mass mobilisation against this Fourth Reich?
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialOkay I know everyone hates this article but there's a nugget of truth in it. One of the possible futures we can gun for is this.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/
Make things. Make _personal scale_ things. The tools help bridge the truly high barriers we've managed to put in in the tech industry.
This will have a lot of problems! We don't have collective knowledge for this yet / again. The people with Sysadmin Mindset have been burned out or subsumed into the Cloud Computing machine.
But there's a chance here to take the web better places. We should take it.
(If you're worried about everything turning into paying to rent access to a digital landlord, I have bad news about where we've been since 2012.)
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.orgTIL that in :nixos: #nix, "${./mydir}" will survive a garbage collection, but a plain ./mydir will not!
Took me way too long to figure this out. Didn't help that `just` gives a stupid error message about a missing shell when it can't change into its -d working directory. 🤦
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialJoseph P. Sweatpants 😉 writes:
Ok Machineheads! I hope it's ok to call ourselves that!?! Maybe "loose screws" is better??? Haha. Hey all you Loose Screws, the first This Machine was a huge success!! The New Deal Cafe wants us back!! Basically, we're going to roll every two months. The next This Machine open mic for works of political protest will be Sunday, April 12, sign-ups 1230p, music 1-4p. Watch the news, work on your songs, poems, jokes, etc.
@trochee@dair-community.socialGrowing up in the 80s, my mom was a board member of a 2nd-wave feminist bookshop in Atlanta, so I thought all bookstores were queer-friendly, feminist spaces
As the funny fad of the Internet started to take off, I naturally assumed — for literally months, in the early 90s — that "Amazon" was an online lesbian separatist bookstore in the vein of the Whole Earth Catalog.
In retrospect, my imagined reality was SO MUCH BETTER than what we wound up with
@joxean@mastodon.socialThe Guardian: A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this, by Simon Tisdal.
If you want an extract from that article:
"Despite all the hate-mongering, mutual ignorance and disinformation, the vast majority of Americans and Iranians are on the same side. Their common foe is tyranny. Their leaders are the problem. There is no need for this fight."
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzMore #MareOrientale in this new #ArtemisII #Moon image - https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55190158269/in/album-72177720307234654 - than in the first one with a long focal length presented. The lunar flyby webcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-j1uxBmis0 will begin at 17:00 UTC today and the lunar observations run from 18:45 UTC to 1:20 UTC on 7 April - as explained in the press conference tonight we will mostly get images from the exterior cameras with astronaut commentary of what they see; real photographs like this one will be downloaded later during the day and the following ones.
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.social
@bici@mastodon.socialI don't think allies under or overestimated Trump. They are regular people who don't know what to do with a 6 foot 4 child who is unpredictable, willful and uncontrollable. Will he throw a tantrum in public today? Will he torture the dog? Will he pretend to be friends with the new kid and then call him names and throw mud? Will he be all sweet and behave and eat all his dinner and then poop in the corner? Time out we yell and he laughs in our face. How to deal with that?
@gwire@mastodon.socialNews articles complaining about the state of the navy, during a time of conflict, are like news articles that wait until heavy snow to complain about the lack of investment in snow plows.
The UK's previous government took a bet that they wouldn't actually need a full navy before the 2030s - hence the "frigate gap".
@raiders@darktundra.xyzThe Dog House Arrives in the Desert: Nakobe Dean, Quay Walker bring winning ways and strong bond to the Silver and Black https://www.raiders.com/news/nakobe-dean-quay-walker-nfl-free-agency-georgia
@ellie@ellieayla.netDid you clone a large amount of git repos? Is ~/workspace/ a giant mess? Need to declutter?
If a remote exists and all branches have been pushed (or merged), and you trust the git host to stay up, maybe we don't need to keep the local copy.
Or if there's local branch refs for commits that have never been pushed, maybe they should be.
#git #github #tools #devtools
@pre@boing.worldThere is support for these laws because people think the only consequence of a ban on a thing is that the thing stops existing.
For instance: Heroin is dangerous and addictive? Ban it then.
And suddenly you have organized crime and a grey market and criminal gangs shooting each other in the streets while addicts can’t seek help and have to resort to crime to fund their addiction. Their lives more chaotic and criminal than ever. Our streets are littered in needles.
Well done everyone.
Now we think algorithmic social media may be mind bending?
Shall we ban it? For kids? Even if we can’t define it?
If you break kids access to the internet you sacrifice all the good that the majority of kids are getting from it for an ineffective solution which won’t fix anything and will mean massive increases in government surveillance and censorship. To data-hordes being hacked and people suffering ID theft.
And it won’t help.
Misogyny and sexism and depression are older than the internet.
Plus of course kids remain better at accessing computers than their parents. You’re going to end up breaking the internet for adults who can’t figure out how to verify while the kids start to use VPNs and stolen IDs to browse 4chan.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzHow will we remember the 2025 Patriots? As their most fun team in a generation https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7029590/2026/02/10/patriots-2025-super-bowl-60-fun/
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioTech jobs are highly cyclical and lots of the gen AI stuff is ridiculously overhyped, and I’m hopeful that the wheel will keep turning and the professional prospects of software developers will improve again…assuming human civilization survives, that is.
But what I said above applies regardless. We should all be doing this meaning-making work all the time, even in the best job markets. In fact, that work is a part of •making• human civilization survive.
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialGasoline hit over $6.50/gallon in my part of California yesterday evening.
I anticipate it going higher today.
(We have an EV and plug-in hybrid, so it is not hitting us hard. But others will be clobbered.)
@aral@mastodon.ar.al🥳 New Kitten release
The release I pushed a few minutes ago brings preliminary Web Numbers support to Kitten.
What are Web Numbers? Well, they’re just a friendlier name for IP Addresses, now that we can deploy secure sites at them. They’re also a cornerstone of how I’m implementing the Small Web.
https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-nu…
@servelan@newsie.socialCan we clone this guy? "“While I found this protest appalling, I will not waver in my belief that it should be allowed to happen,” Mamdani continued. “Ours is a free society where the right to peaceful protest is sacred. It does not belong only to those we agree with—it belongs to everyone.”"
Mamdani stands by ‘sacred’ First Amendment amid bigotry and violence
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/3/9/2372396/-Mamdani-stands-by-sacred-First-Amendment-amid-bigotry-and-violence
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social“4% of GitHub public commits are being authored by Claude Code right now. At the current trajectory, we believe that Claude Code will be 20% of all daily commits by the end of 2026. While you blinked, AI consumed all of software development.”
Must-read article, even if you can disagree with the analysis
@hex@kolektiva.socialFPS is the biggest available channel that I'm aware of to funnel Academi into ICE/CBP enforcement operations. The point of using FPS to support ICE agents is that FPS is stocked full of troops from EriK Prince's private army (now called "Academi" but formerly called "Blackwater"). This means that carrying out ethnic cleansing can dump money directly into the pockets of America's version of the Wagner Group (side from, of course GEO Group).
The Erik Prince angle also means that there can be an alternative chain of command that exists outside of official channels. ICE is already bad enough, but similar people have worked as mercenaries for a long time. Having an established chain of command over armed occupiers, one based entirely on economic incentives, one that can't be legally monitored or audited, one that's completely outside of the government, should be especially worrying.
I don't believe we've ever seen a clear explanation of who was kidnaping people off the streets, but I know that Academi had a contract (I believe with FPS) in Portland at the time. We also don't know who is on the ground in US cities right now, because they're wearing masks.
The bit reason J6 didn't go as planned is that Erik Prince wasn't behind it. Now there are troops with experience occupying American cities who can be called directly via Erik when Trump wants to make sure he doesn't lose again. And Erik won't back out at the last minute this time, because he's already seen that there will be no consequences for participating in a coup... if the time comes.
#USPol
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
ULTRA 1: Fine specimen. Categorize as humanoid vertebrate. Subcategory, telepath.
ULTRA 3: Very shortly we can remove her from the sleep cell.
ULTRA 2: And the others?
ULTRA 1: They will be dealt with in due course.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/309
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeAnyone have thoughts on dropping Ubuntu 22.04 support in the ngscopeclient CI build moving forward since 26.04 is coming out very soon?
We won't be actively going out of our way to break 22.04 (i.e. adding a dependency not available there) but it will no longer be routinely tested.
The main reason is some Vulkan packaging issues that require special handling for 22.10 and older, the CI scripts will be a lot simpler if I can just forget that (the documentation mentions the nec…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgWe could have had these cool EV innovations developed in Europe before if German carmakers hadn't been so bloody stubborn about petrol and diesel engines.
I will never not be cross about their delaying the green transition.
https://mastodon.social/@clim8_solutions/116191427518755095
@cdarwin@c.im“During Friday’s Artemis II re-entry,
we will be deploying seismic and acoustic instrumentation at sea across the Southern California Bight
to record the sonic boom produced by the capsule’s re-entry,”
the USGS wrote in an email shared by a user on Reddit.
“Modelling indicates that the acoustic signal may be audible on land in some areas of Santa Barbara County and Baja California, including the Channel Islands.”
On its Facebook, the USGS states the sonic booms…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSomething I do not think the fashy Trump-licking crowd understands is how •deeply• we here in Minneapolis and environs felt everything that’s happened.
The ICE invasion might have been a lot of things for the folks behind it: a strategic offensive, a gambit, a bender, a job, a joy ride. But I suspect that across all those cases, it was something they feel like they can walk away from whenever they decide to be done with it.
Not so for us neighbors. They have no idea how angry we are. They have no idea how long we’re going to stay angry. If you were a part of the ICE invasion, be warned: people will be out hunting for your head as long as you walk free on this earth.
@fgraver@hcommons.socialThis resonates: «Generative models are fundamentally cliche machines. If you ask AI to write a film script, it will produce an average film script masterfully. If you ask it to write an essay, it will produce an average essay masterfully.
Once upon a time, mastery of the banal was adequate for writers. It was enough to prove that you were capable of writing. But that skill has no purpose any more – it can be automated. Skill will be found in the purpose of the work. What can you alone …
@pre@boing.worldYou think it’s a coincidence these laws are being proposed all over the world all at once?
Nope.
Giant companies run by surveillance capitalists are spending billions of dollars on lobbying governments all over the world.
See https://tboteproject.com/
The reasons for this lobbying are nefarious.
The bans will entrench existing companies ensuring no small company is able to compete. These massive entrenched companies will be able to afford the identity checking and compliance costs, tiny start ups not so much.
You can see why Facebook lobby so hard in favour of these laws. If their app WhatsApp is defined as the only group messenger allowed for kids by law, that is very nice for them.
Perhaps compliance is actually cheap and easy and small companies can afford it?
Certainly not if they are trying to compete in terms of privacy. They have to turn over their user ID data to a monopolist vetting company by law.
At best: we give the government the power to impose massive costs on any company they decided to add to a list of companies that count as social media. Impose costs and force them to hand over their user data to Palantir and the like.
Even if you trust the current lot of idiots in power to not abuse this whole-internet global tracking data, that is quite a totalitarian system to hand over to the really bad guys when they get elected next time.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz11 experts predict the 2026 NFL season: Early Super Bowl picks, MVP favorites and more https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47878802/2026-nfl-predictions-mvp-super-bowl-offseason-moves-breakout-candidates
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgHeading home from Easter holiday in sunny Italy and using @… to track the cyclone that just passed overhead in Denmark, looks like it will be cloudy and cool but the worst will have passed by the time we get home...
#EUMETSAT
@cdarwin@c.imTrump wants to remake the way we fight wildfires.
The stakes couldn’t be higher.
The Trump administration on Friday outlined the most detailed plans yet for its new Wildland Fire Service,
which would overhaul how the nation fights wildfires in the run up to what experts say could be one of the worst U.S. fire seasons in recent memory.
As intense drought conditions turn the American West into a tinderbox,
firefighters and fire policy experts argue a unified supe…
@hex@kolektiva.socialI explained something for a friend in a simple way, and I think it's worth paraphrasing again here.
You cannot create a system that constrains itself. Any constraint on a system must be external to the system, or that constraint can be ignored or removed. That's just how systems work. Every constitution for every country claims to do this impossible thing, a thing proven is impossible almost 100 years ago now. Gödel's loophole has been known to exist since 1947.
Every constitution in the world, every "separation of powers" and set of "checks and balances," attempts to do something which is categorically impossible. Every government is always, at best, a few steps away from authoritarianism. From this, we would then expect that governments trand towards authoritarianism. Which, of course, is what we see historically.
Constraints on power are a formality, because no real controls can possibly exist. So then democratic processes become sort of collective classifiers that try to select only people who won't plunge the country into a dictatorship. Again, because this claim of restrictions on powers is a lie (willful or ignorant, a lie reguardless) that classifier has to be correct 100% of the time (even assuming a best case scenario). That's statistically unlikely.
So as long as you have a system of concentrated power, you will have the worst people attracted to it, and you will inevitably have that power fall into the hands of one of the worst possible person.
Fortunately, there is an alternative. The alternative is to not centralize power. In the security world we try to design systems that assume compromise and minimize impact, rather than just assuming that we will be right 100% of the time. If you build systems that maximially distribute power, then you minimize the impact of one horrible person.
Now, I didn't mention this because we're both already under enough stress, but...
Almost 90% of the nuclear weapons deployed around the world are in the hands of ghoulish dictators. Only two of the countries with nuclear weapons not straight up authoritarian, but they're not far off. We're one crashout away from steralizing the surface of the Earth with nuclear hellfire. Maybe countries shouldn't exist, and *definitely* multiple thousands of nuclear weapons shouldn't exist and shouldn't all be wired together to launch as soon as one of these assholes goes a bit too far sideways.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioICE: Finally, here comes warmer weather, soon it will be above freezing and all this crud will melt and we can drive at freeway speeds on every tiny side street like we keep trying to
MSP: *snrk*
ICE: what
MSP: nothing
ICE: WHAT
MSP: nothing
MSP: …
MSP: …*(potholes)*…
ICE: What? Why are you whispering? What did you just say???
MSP: Nothing!
ICE: <glares>
MSP: “Assholes.” We called you assholes
ICE: …OK then
MSP: hehe *snrk*
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI kinda like living among lions (mountain lions). I wish we heard (or saw) them more often. We have plenty of deer for them to eat.
(We have had mountain lions come right up to our front door, and we have heard them - they sound like a cross between a human baby crying and a domestic cat.)
There also used to be bears - both black and brown (grizzle) around here. The black bears have returned to the mountains south of us, so maybe they will return here.
It is reported tha…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialReading about Windows 12 and only getting more convinced that we should move away from this OS.
https://tech4gamers.com/windows-12-reportedly-relasing-2026-modular-ai-focused-os/
@cdarwin@c.imWe are thirty days into a war and it is already affecting air, water, soil, and sea.
The effect of this will stay longer than any political settlement ever achieved.
That is the story about the environment.
It ought to be in every story we are reading about this conflict
-- and not somewhere in the fourteenth paragraph.
@hex@kolektiva.socialThis is as good a time as any for a thought experiment.
You're in Nazi Germany. You know about the camps, you know what they do, you see the ash fall, you smell it. People who resist alone are killed, some are sent to the camps too. You're afraid to even talk to people about it for fear that they'll turn you in.
You think back to when the camps were being built. You had all the warning signs, but you didn't know how to interpret them. You could believe it would happen. You thought you'd have a chance to vote him out. You thought there might be another way. You thought maybe things would turn out differently if you just sat tight, kept your head down, kept yourself safe.
You see a family being dragged from their home. You know they will be killed. You want to fight, not just for them but for yourself. You opposed Hitler, and at any point you know you could be on the list... Even if you do nothing.
You wish you could rise up, shoot the SS, open the gates, fight it all. You know you aren't alone, but you don't know how to connect with the people who want the same thing.
Using the knowledge we have now, what should you have done in the preceding months and years to connect, to build a community that would open up all paths of resistance?
There were people who resisted. We know it wasn't enough.
Gun laws in Nazi Germany were very similar to US laws in that Nazis were largely free to own guns and everyone else was not. Unlike the US, where "others" have historically controlled using the fear that they might be randomly executed, Germany did codify it. Red flag laws were one more step in the US towards that codification, and there will be more.
When Nazis were taking away those guns, the social networks didn't exist to make resistance possible for most folks. But some Jews were able to resist.
It wasn't the guns that made the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising possible, though they definitely helped. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising was made possible by labor organizing in the precessing years.
If there were more uprisings like that, the Holocaust could have been stopped if not prevented. Social networks make resistance possible. Guns are only useful tools to resist authoritarianism *after* you build a community able to support that resistance, and they are only one of many tools made useful by that community.
Getting guns is easy, and not always necessary. Building community is hard. Guns won't keep you safe. Community will.
Single acts of resistance may slow the machine down, but to actually bring down a monster you need to be able to attack more than once. You need a society of resistance. If you are afraid now, build that. Talk to people while it's still safe to do so. Ask them where their red line is. Talk to neighbors. Figure out your network.
Take the steps you need now to keep your neighbors safe, to keep yourself safe.
#USPol
@NFL@darktundra.xyzWhich of the NFL draft's quarterbacks will be elite? Average? Busts? We projected the top five prospects https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/48446727/2026-nfl-draft-quarterback-projections-stats-rankings-com…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialThe Feds keep saying "We did not" or "We will not" buy this or that empty warehouse for use as an ICE prison.
What they are hiding is that in order for a warehouse to be an ICE/CBP prison that the warehouse need not be "owned" by the Feds.
Rather the warehouse could be bought by a maga-friend, like Elon or Ellison etc and then leased to the government.
The Feds would not bey lying when they say they are not buying the warehouse. But they will …
@hex@kolektiva.socialIt's not simply that the Anarchist Library has some shitty stuff in it, though that's important too. It's that failing to take intersectional feminist critiques seriously will make us miss critical opportunities to critique and ultimately undermine this system.
We should not be missing this, because failing to miss this critique at this time *is missing our opportunity in this moment.*
@cdarwin@c.imThe Gulf countries are in a no-win situation,
stuck between a belligerent Israel that has no qualms about using violence to achieve its strategic aims
and a desperate Iran lashing out against U.S. allies in the region as it tries to survive.
"No matter which side prevails, Gulf states have realized how vulnerable they are despite U.S. security guarantees.
“In either scenario, I don’t think that the Gulf states will be happy with the outcome,”
says Kareem …
