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X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not "censorship" of viewpoints (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/24/xs-new<…

X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety te…

"AI Tools Are Changing Academic Publishing. How Can We Adopt Them Responsibly?" @ Katina Magazine
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2026/ai-tools-are-changing-publishing-adopt-them-respons…

X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not "censorship" of viewpoints (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/24/xs-new<…

X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety te…

Live Work More Human
The home of big ideas, bold conversations and brave questions on all things work, life and leadership...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/we-are-human-leaders/

Studies showing that "AI" isn't creating the productivity gains that "AI" boosters promised are important but I think that they sadly don't help us win as much as some believe. We're winning at the wrong game:
https://tante.cc/2026/01/25/winning-the-wrong-g…

Winning the wrong game
With studies upon studies showing that actual measurable productivity gains through “AI” (which these days basically means chatbots) are really hard to come by and that “workslop” (meaning the extra work created for the rest of the organization by one person using “AI” lowering their work quality) eats up a lot of what might have […]

Work on the approximately $26.45 million 
San Jose Creek Multipurpose Path Project in Goleta began last week.
The 3-mile path will serve as a direct link from Calle Real to Old Town businesses, and the Atascadero Creek Bikeway that also allows access to Goleta Beach Park, UC Santa Barbara and the city of Santa Barbara.
The path is set to be completed by spring 2027

Construction Beginning on San Jose Creek Multipurpose Path Project in Goleta
Lovers of the outdoors can get excited, construction for a new path for biking, running or walking is underway in Goleta. Work on the approximately $26.45

Work, Housing and Health: Northampton Behind the Numbers https://edintone.com/work-housing-health/ In 1924, the boot and shoe industry dominated Northampton’s workforce. @…

Work, Housing and Health: Northampton Behind the Numbers - Miscellanea Edintone
In 1924, the boot and shoe industry dominated Northampton’s workforce. The Boot and Shoe Operatives Trade Union had 13,104 members; officials estimated that only 5% of adult workers were outside the union.

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Charlotte Day Wilson:
🎵 Work
#NowPlaying #CharlotteDayWilson
https://latenighttales.bandcamp.com/track/charlotte-day-wilson-work
https://open.spotify.com/track/1knUACOt5yfNAYn7gnYQVt

1/2: Someone at YouTube asked me if the 3080 Ti would work with FSR 4 INT8 in Cyberpunk 2077, and the answer is yes, it'll work - I tested this with my old GTX 1650 4Gb GDDR6, and the image improves drastically compared to FSR 2 and 3 and XeSS. Note: The FPS are worse even on FSR 4 Ultra Performance compared to native (1080p), but it works and it looks good.

It's been a while since I last posted to my "Thinking out loud" series on #FineArtsPedagogy. Right now, I've been delving into the nature of creativity, which brings together both my work at The Norwegian Film School and the emerging work at MishMash - Centre for AI & Creativity.
I have been troubled by understandings of creativity that emphasize product and …

Saints work out ex-Ravens kicker Justin Tucker after 10-game suspension, reportedly sign Cade York instead

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/justin-tucker-saints-ravens-kicker-allega…

Steven Waldman of Rebuild Local News estimates US local newsrooms will get ~$74M from state governments, but CA, MA, NJ, and NY efforts have fallen short (Dan Kennedy/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/state-government-support-local…

Even amid setbacks, public funding for local news is expanding at the state level - Poynter
Steven Waldman of Rebuild Local News is optimistic but warns that action is needed now because ‘the house is on fire’

Sonnet 027 - XXVII
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless…

OH: “No way I’m paying $19 per month for a SaaS. Instead I’ll spend 3 months vibe coding my own thing that doesn’t work!”

A look at the humans employed to rescue robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app to pay $20 to $24 to manually close robotaxi doors and $60 to $80 to tow its cars (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/25/waymo-robots-human-work…

When robot taxis get stuck, a secret army of humans comes to the rescue
Waymo robotaxis get stranded when a passenger leaves the door open. Tow truck operators can get paid $22 to close a door and set them free again.

"If any of the work, that any of us do, contributes to the stretching of culture, the stretching of boundaries of empathy that’s expected of an audience… that’s the holy grail."
—Riz Ahmed
#acting #coaching

from my link log —
What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work.
https://hackernoon.com/decentralizing-everything-never-seems-to-work-2bb0461bd168
saved 2019-08-31

What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work | HackerNoon
Lots of tech projects these days, especially crypto-networks, aspire to decentralization. Or their evangelists say they do, because they feel they need to. Decentralization is the new disruption—the thing everything worth its salt (and a huge ICO) is supposed to be doing. Meanwhile, Internet progenitors like Vint Cerf, Brewster Kahle, and Tim Berners-Lee are trying to re-decentralize the Web. They respond to the rise…

Feeling a bit underwater right now, but scheduling future obligations with confidence because I know that time itself will work completely differently three weeks from now

cs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 61 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted

Ravens Partner With Mayor’s Office to Provide Work for Baltimore’s 'Squeegee Boys' https://www.baltimoreravens.com/news/ravens-squeegee-boys-parking-lots-baltimo…

I started biking to work in August and it's now the end of November and I've done it 50 times in those 4 months.
That's 50 days I rode a bike instead of driving a car... about 650 miles by bike instead of car.
#bikeTooter #cycling

Off to GŸteborg University to discuss #Greenland ice sheet and #AMOC, including this brilliant piece of work by my @dmidk.bsky.social colleagues - currently in review but the preprint title says it all: Reversible AMOC but continuing Greenland ice sheet melt.
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7830432/v1

My general experience from looking at a lot of RTL between work and open hardware stuff is that ASIC people seem to be more heavy users of advanced systemverilog features (structs, interfaces, etc) than FPGA people.
I know a lot of FPGA tools historically didn't have great support for these things but unless you're still using ISE or Vivado 2017 there's no excuse.
Anyone else see this trend too?

After some tinkering I made my Heltec Wifi LoRa 32 V4 work, even without an extra/better antenna. Somehow it doesn't want to connect to the webclient with Bluetooth but the Android app works fine. It is also nice that this kit has a small screen of it's own.
Amazingly busy here around Bergschenhoek, Netherlands.
#meshcore

2025 has only intensified the struggles of past years. The challenge for us is not "how do we pull through?" but "how do we make a 'new normal' work for us?"
The answer, of course, is not to simply try harder. To prevent 2026 from going like 2025, we need to deliberately re-evaluate our own goals, and our relationships with our jobs.
Learn more in the final issue of the Product Picnic for the year — and if you like it, please subscribe!

Bouncing back from burnout
The causes of burnout are systemic. You can't get out of it just by trying harder.

World always wants me to work and whatnot, when all I really wanna be doing is this

Finally hit a dvd that doesn't work. Last 3 episodes of Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 just will not play.

We'll know that rock is dead when you have to get a degree to work in it.

Since campus is closed tomorrow, I don't have to work, right?
#snowpocalypse #AcademicChatter

Just played Overcooked 2 with family... we do not work well as a functional unit.

I'm running an improvised tutorial on #Zotero at my work tomorrow. Do you all have useful tips that I could share with my "students" - beyond the basics? Or specific use cases that you might use it for, beyond citing references in papers that you write?
For example I recently moved on to using its integrated PDF reader for peer-reviewing and it works well…

The "l", ";" and down arrow keys on my work _aptop are broken (though the _ast two work if I mash them enough), so I have to copy paste "l" from Character Map _ike a boomer typing with two fingers.
I keep forgetting this at home where I use an externa mechanica keyboard. Quicky reminded sitting in this Tire Shop getting winter shoes on.

I just sold a bunch of old glass doorknobs on craigslist. So if you're patient, CL still does work!

Trump celebrates putting 271,000 people out of work while federal spending goes up.
Remember Trump voters: This is your fault.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:muszorqdtqpoxyuqmqc4dz7d/post/3mavdxopwl22e

Trump Hobbled the I.R.S. This C.E.O. Now Has to Make It Work. (Andrew Duehren/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/politics/trump-irs-taxes-bisignano.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p21#a260126p21

Finally found some time to look into the QGISMCP plugin.
The original connects #QGIS :qgis: to #Claude through the Model Context Protocol #MCP. I rewired it to work with a local European alternative: the new m…

GitHub - anitagraser/qgis_mcp: Model Context Protocol (MCP) that allows LLMs to use QGIS Desktop
Model Context Protocol (MCP) that allows LLMs to use QGIS Desktop - anitagraser/qgis_mcp

Today's the 2nd day I'm wearing my black-yellow Engelbert-Strauss e.s.motion 2020 to work - in an office.
It's also the 2nd day of people making derogatory comments like "Are you going to a construction site?" and "You can't go to a customer like this, they'll think you've come to fix your bath." and "At least noone will run you over, reflecting like that."
You already banned me from wearing my kilt in summer! They are comfort…

You can say what you will, but the current system does not work for me, and I actively stand with working class solidarity and workplaces run by the people who do the work.

Why doesn’t logrotate work on Ubuntu?
#Sysadminnery
(half-serious... I support 1 Ubuntu 20 LTS machine with a high-abuse web server and periodically need to run logrotate -F /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 by hand because it really doesn't work… I’m likely to figurer it out... )

Happy Today to those who celebrate!
(note: this will work tomorrow as well)

Today I've figured out how to reply when another couch philosopher tells you that obviously "there are job offers, it's just people who are too lazy to work". You just ask them "then why aren't you changing jobs?"
Free market is clear on this: if the supply of job positions exceeds demand, wages rise. And if employers lack employees, then they're ready to pay more, so you benefit from changing jobs! Isn't capitalism just great?
#AntiCapitalism

I 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.

It's worth supporting this - Given the way these companies either actively support, or, at best, have acquiesced to the demands of the #bigots, they need to be shown that keeping customers is more than just a matter of shopping convenience - #Respect for all, and working to remove barriers affecting dis…

It's worth supporting this - Given the way these companies either actively support, or, at best, have acquiesced to the demands of the #bigots, they need to be shown that keeping customers is more than just a matter of shopping convenience - #Respect for all, and working to remove barriers affecting dis…

"... for his and his family’s safety, [Gustavo Petro] agreed to a diplomatic posting in Belgium in 1994. While there, he studied environmentalism and economics at the University of Louvain, and he became deeply interested in the work of Romanian economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, who warned that while the global economy relies on constant growth, the Earth cannot be exploited forever."

Gustavo Petro: Colombia’s former rebel fighter turned president
From urban rebel to senator facing death threats, what drives Petro, 65, the country’s first progressive president?

suggested SIM providers for low usage?? I'm currently on RWG but I've started having problems sending SMS - only about 1 in 3 sends work; other dirt cheap but working suggestions? At the moment I'm thinking 1p/mobile?

Years ago, I developed a #Kotlin #GUI to help me rename my files in batch. Last week, I was surprised to see that it didn’t work to rename a network volume, though it had in the past. In this post, I aim to describe the issue and its solution.

I'm mean, it needs work, but it's not THAT bad. #Wordle
Wordle 1 621 4/6
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Another one for linguistic fun:
At the big birthday party, we all got a name tag, displaying the first name, the place the person met the birthday person and the respective year. Plus color-coding for kind of relationship causing the first encounter (family, school, work, etc.). Some people have (and use) a nickname. Those had the nickname as name and the real (passport) name in brackets
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RE: https://techhub.social/@shantini/115957020152303871
Being a marketer shaped my progressive politics more than I expected precisely because of this.
Once you see how much effort is being spent on marketing certain worldviews to you and how much of that can be studied, analyzed, and replicated - you can’t unsee it.
And you see the power that’s available for all of us to tap into to push back. The same kinds of marketing and communication tactics used against us can be used to amplify science, art, pro-social values, and progressive policy.
The right has been waging a coordinated campaign of swaying public opinion since at least the birth of the Federalist Society and backlash to Roe.
Their legal influence required creating an information and media apparatus that influenced first elite professional networks, then the public at large.
(For a recent example, just look at how much LLMS and AI have been relying on constant marketing and media attention for anyone to believe that these tools are “inevitable” or even “useful”. Their marketing and PR departments work very hard and are very well funded. For a reason.)

Google and Apple doing some interesting work to improve the safety of C software, and the results speak for themselves: "The baseline segmentation fault rate across the production fleet dropped by approximately 30 percent"
https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3773097

@… so, I guess that this will no longer work (I ran it on Kubuntu 25.10):
sudo apt install plasma-session-x11
@… @…

From Translink
The Pattullo Bridge will be closed southbound into Surrey for three nights, because of ongoing construction work for the Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project. The directional closures will take place overnight on the following dates:
Thursday, November 27 (9 p.m. to 5 a.m.)
Friday, November 28 (9 p.m. to 5 a.m.)
Sunday, November 30 (9 p.m. to 5 a.m.)

The bridge will also remain closed southbound for pedestrians and cyclists

OK, the last two weeks at #work before the #holydays were harder than I thought.
I'm just a bit exhausted right now.
Looking forward to the beautiful #family evening.

Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
TARRANT: If he's still inside the ship then he's probably safe. Oh you're very clever Servalan; why can't you work it out? Sand slides. Sand higher than the windows.
SERVALAN: Are you serious?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/409/245 B7B3

#EroticMusings 26: How is masculinity visually expressed, highlighted, or accessorised in your work or setting?
My current roster of main characters are three cis lesbians (I plan to un-cis one of those in later books, though) and Erytan society has no other visible gender marker beyond "self-declaration".
Book three even makes the conscious decision of depiction tran…

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 …

Wasn't the 2nd Amendment – the right to bear arms – included in the U.S. Constitution to ensure that an armed citizenry could act as a safeguard against government tyranny?
The safeguard doesn't seem to work.
At all.

🔧 Antifragile Programming and Why AI Won’t Steal Your Job
#programming

Antifragile Programming and Why AI Won’t Steal Your Job
Whenever I say I dislike debugging and organize my programming habits around avoiding it, there is always pushback: “You must not use a good debugger.” To summarize my view: I want my software to be antifragile (credit to Nassim Taleb for the concept). The longer I work on a codebase, the easier it should become … Continue reading Antifragile Programming and Why AI Won’t Steal Your Job

Writing unit tests for my random number generation library continues to be difficult. My tests are failing because the bias in the distribution exceeds my expectations, but I'm wondering whether I should just repeat the test more times and permit it to exceed expectations some of the time (as long as it does it symmetrically/rarely/etc. My gut tells me that second-order expectations aren't any better than first-order expectations, but another part of me disagrees.
Thinking more as I write this (writing is thinking): second-order tests can at least give me better info to work with towards fixing things I think! So maybe I'll invest in them.
#coding

Was in Japan übrigens so nebenbei zum Thema gemacht wird:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSqy86IAJPZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Japan Daily on Instagram: "For the first time in Japan, foreign nationals have begun driving local bus routes under the Specified Skilled Worker program to address severe labor shortages. Tokyo Bus launched the initiative on December 23 in Tokyo and Okinawa, hiring five drivers from the Philippines after long-term training. The company says even higher wages have not attracted enough domestic drivers, making outside talent necessary. New drivers initially operate with support from Japanese staff and are expected to work independently after several months. Industry leaders hope the move will stabilize bus services and ensure passenger safety. Public understanding and continued training will be important as Japan adapts to workforce shortages in essential public services. @YAHOO"
85 likes, 11 comments - japandaily_jp on December 24, 2025: "For the first time in Japan, foreign nationals have begun driving local bus routes under the Specified Skilled Worker program to address severe labor shortages. Tokyo Bus launched the initiative on December 23 in Tokyo and Okinawa, hiring five drivers from the Philippines after long-term training. The company says even higher wages have not attracted enough domestic drivers, making outside talent necessary. New drivers initially ope…

#biketooter #ontario #complain

Folks, Joy carries out the verification calls for Gaza Verified everyday as a volunteer.
Please help support her work and help her take care of her family in Gaza by donating to her fundraiser.
https://www.chuffed.org/project/evacuate-joy

Joy's Voice: Empowering a Gaza Author
To My Dearest Donors,

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- On Disappointment
Rachel Cooke looks at the disappointments of the creative life. Creative disappointment, which often follows years of solitary work, is, she feels, one of the worst kinds.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ryzt

This morning I received the top text from a Muslim friend of our Christian church.
This is how it’s supposed to work.
#muslim #christian #Christmas

This blog post links to all my #FreeSoftwareAdvent posts which are revolving around tools used in our VFX pipeline.
https://www.comp-fu.com/2025/12/free-software-advent-2025…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Odonis Odonis:
🎵 Work It Out
#OdonisOdonis
https://odonisodonis.bandcamp.com/track/work-it-out
https://open.spotify.com/track/0BSLWkIT2Gp7oHB7s9KLFJ

I used to work for #LockheedMartin. I've said that proudly in conversation for years.
Now they have funded the Epstein Ballroom, as an explicit bribe to our corrupt President.
I am deeply ashamed. And yes, I know about past scandals. This is now, and worse.

Any social internet worth thinking about needs to be built on the idea of care.
- care for the wellbeing of the people on the network (moderation)
- care for those doing extra work (like moderation)
- care for each other (add alt-texts to images, thinking about inclusivity etc)
- care to make running infrastructure sustainable (in all respects)
The social Internet needs to be a web of human care.

"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Trump has all his work done for him by placid European centrists who went along with the policy of trashing international law."
https://bsky.app/profile/democracynow.org/post/3md7h7tlw7v2f

Democracy Now! (@democracynow.org)
"Trump has all his work done for him by placid European centrists who went along with the policy of trashing international law." https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/22/yanis_varoufakis

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://

My big gripe with "AI" is that a big reason why it's sold as the second coming of Jesus is that most tech people fundamentally do not understand how it actually works.
Their reasoning goes something like, "It works sort of ok for code generation, and programming is the hardest possible thing in the world to do, every other human endeavor is trivial compared to writing code, therefore it must excel at anything else!".
So it ends up being pushed due to a mixture of ignorance and hubris; and especially being stuffed into things it should never be used for (usually when users don't have a say which software they need to use for work).
The finbros are happily along for the ride because they just need something that can be hyped to pump and dump.

Fins GM: Work to do before we ID 'our guy' at QB https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47694969/dolphins-gm-sullivan-work-do-id-our-guy-qb

An excellent summary here via @… about how the structures of our civil society have failed to stop ICE from becoming Trump’s Brownshirts.
The one thing the piece omits: someone •is• stopping ICE. It’s the citizens filling the streets, honking and shouting and filming and generally harassing ICE, doing the work our government has failed to do. If it were not for that response being so widespread, sustained, and forceful, we’d be in far worse place right now. https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/115616389777857234

I really need to develop a more proper complete understanding of OFDM at some point... Anyone have good readable explanations to suggest?
I get that the high level is to work around the challenges of broadband flatness and channel dispersion by using many narrowband streams rather than one broadband one, and there's some magic done with the sub carriers so they don't interfere, and FFT is involved at some point.
But last time I tried to actually make sense of it, it didn&…

Edit: that was fast!! I got it now THANK YOU :)
Does anyone have pdf of this article?

• #Elsevier website is n…

I really do struggle with motivation for putting things on my site. I've done SO MUCH work recently that's not on there, but I have some kind of block that stops me.
I'm unsure how to break through that block.
#Wellbeing #Work

I don't think I'm ever going to enjoy gifts.
I can get why people would give them to children. After all, children don't have their own budget. However, I'm talking about occasional gifts, not a new toy every second week, because "we must outcompete the other grandparents". But to adults?
Once I've heard that you should gift people with what they won't buy themselves. Well, that's won't work for me. I'm a minimalist. If I don't need something, I don't want to have it. Unnecessary junk is only emotional burden to me.
I can get why you'd enjoy something handmade. But something people bought? If I need something, I can buy it myself, when I need it. And I definitely don't need people to prove to me that they never cared to learn who I am, and just buy whatever they like or whatever is "fashionable"; which usually means exactly the opposite of what I'd prefer (i.e. something minimalistic). Or even worse, I don't need people manipulating me through gifts.
Sweets? Besides my diabetes, I don't really enjoy expensive shit that people generally buy because it's what's advertised. For the money they waste on it, I'd buy three times as much sweets I'd actually enjoy.
Gift cards? Oh yes, "you aren't supposed to give money, so let's just give the equivalent of money that's actually worth less than money". Actual money? And here we reach the true nonsense; we exchange the same amount of money, so it's just pointless gesture. Unless one of us gives less money…
What I'd really like, as a gift? Maybe that people would finally bother accepting me as who I am. The absolute minimum of caring that I hate consumerism, and not fueling it "for me".
#AntiCapitalism #minimalism #ActuallyAutistic

Model ML, which aims to use AI agents to automate grunt work done by investment bankers like making pitch decks, raised $75M, after raising $12M earlier in 2025 (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/115957432877042610
ATProto is decentralized in theory but with basically no working documentation that technical property is meaningless.
(Blacksky has put a lot of work in to fill the holes which is why we are s…

Omg, patently wrong. To begin with, I am the one using the GTX 1650, and my video shows that it's working great even with DLSS, as opposed to the viewer with the AMD problem. And that parrotting nincompoop of an AI wants me to - what? - save time, give technical advice, make some small talk? What a big, smoking hot, pointless pile of b this technology turns out to be.
And I guess Google lets the same fucking stupid LM to determine how to recommend my video to other viewers? Great!<…

𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨𝐰: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝐺𝑖𝑟𝑙 𝑁𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝐷𝑜𝑜𝑟 which is one of those irony-heavy magical girl shows that can survive in the shadow of 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑦 𝐶𝑢𝑟𝑒
#anime #magicalgirls #television

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
VILA: There's no need for violence, is there?
BLAKE: So what happens now? [Pulsing sounds]
AVON: They turn off the air and we suffocate?
TRAVIS: [Room outside.] You're going to help me, Vila. How do these things work?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/552

https://c.org/kQMQkzQBGt
change.org
A petition to stop Iranians that are part of the current junta from coming to Canada disguised as refugees
Their promotion is designed to work with Facebook and Twitter rather than a well designed system like Mastodon

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Canada! Ban Entry of All Islamic Republic Affiliates Into Canada

I told my daughter it hurts the least when I lie flat on my back. She suggested a “lie down desk” so I can get some work done so now I’m trying to imagine how that would work so I can use a computer while lying on my back. (Ideas welcome!)

They Seek to Curb Online Hate.
The Trump Regime Accuses Them of Censorship.
Five Europeans who work to tackle disinformation and abuse on the internet
were barred from entering the United States
after Secretary of State Marco Rubio labeled them
“radical activists”
who undercut free speech.

They Seek to Curb Online Hate. The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship.
The Trump administration said five regulators and researchers who work to tackle disinformation and abuse on the internet had been barred from entering the United States.

Pretty good analysis from @… but subtleties make it difficult to translate Danish model elsewhere. It's a PR system, so always coalitions many different flavours to vote for; Danish Peoples Party are left on welfare but not on immigration

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/22/danish-model-centre-left-parties-labour-doesnt-work

Occasionally, I log into LinkedIn purely to check messages. Sometimes, I find a promoted message or an ad, maybe a connection request. Usually, nothing. Content often feel fake, and it's often difficult to find content that I'm interested in there. Is it even a site for businesses to connect, and people find work any more?
Back when it wasn't owned by Meta, I used to enjoy Instagram. Now it feels like a shop. I still miss scrolling through the feed, discovering content from the people that I followed. Sadly, a lot of creators that I liked are still on there, and nowhere else.
Mastodon is pretty much my only online home now, and I'm very thankful for it!

An interview with Citizen Lab founder Ronald Deibert about the US adopting authoritarian digital practices, the research group's accomplishments, and more (Finian Hazen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/2

Meet the man hunting the spies in your smartphone
Ronald Deibert and his research group, the Citizen Lab, have rigorously worked to unveil alarming digital threats for the past two decades. Now, he warns, this kind of work is under threat.

It's so simple -- ZZZ
https://flipboard.com/@menshealth/fitness-jothu8c2z/-/a-KRphhj0uR2uaYX9aABbrSA:a:3199554-/0

How You Can Avoid Overtraining
Yes, you can work out too hard, too often. Here's what you need to know to keep your training on point. This is Your Quick Training Tip, a chance to learn how to work smarter in just a few moments so you can get right to your workout. Certain things fall squarely in the “can never have enough of” …

Saints to work out veteran kicker Justin Tucker on Monday https://www.nfl.com/news/saints-veteran-kicker-justin-tucker

Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
TARRANT: Extent of damage, Orac? [pause, no response] Orac?
[Crew room. Tarrant enters and looks at Orac beneath the beam.]
[Shot of Zukan's ship in space, approaching another space ship.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/412/270 B7B4

As tech CEOs stay silent after two fatal shootings, 450 workers at Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and others urge CEOs to cancel any ICE contracts and speak out (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/26/tech-workers-ceos-ice

Tech workers urge CEOs to condemn ICE
In the wake of the fatal shootings in Minneapolis, tech companies and their CEOs have largely chosen to stay silent.

After the Devastation of Trump’s First Year,
Popular Rebellions Offer Hope
Elections,
labor,
mutual aid, and
local organizing wins in 2025
point to strategies that can work in the coming year.
In 2026, we the people can build power
and we can win significant victories if we:
🔸Show up for the most vulnerable in the face of federal government attacks and neglect;
🔸Push back on racism and misogyny, and support inclusivity;
🔸Call …

After the Devastation of Trump’s First Year, These Popular Rebellions Offer Hope
Elections, labor, mutual aid, and local organizing wins in 2025 point to strategies that can work in the coming year.

Saints work out former Ravens kicker Justin Tucker after serving 10-game suspension, per reports

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/justin-tucker-saints-ravens-kicker-allegations/

On his 84th birthday this past Saturday,
#Bob #Dylan played a show in keeping with his still-serious touring schedule,
but also his apparently irrepressible instinct to work:
on music,
on writing,
on painting,
on sculpture

How Bob Dylan Kept Reinventing His Songwriting Process, Breathing New Life Into His Music
On his 84th birthday this past Saturday, Bob Dylan played a show. That was in keeping with not only his still-serious touring schedule, but also his apparently irrepressible instinct to work: on music, on writing, on painting, on sculpture.

New Giants HC John Harbaugh 'excited' to work with Jaxson Dart: 'I wanted this job' https://www.nfl.com/news/new-giants-hc-john-harbaugh-excited-to-work-with-jaxson-dart-i-wanted-this-job