@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-10-17 15:13:11
Seriously, though, USians, before you tell someone from the Middle East to “check your privilege”, why don’t you open up your US passport, have a good look at it, and then check your own goddamn privilege before putting your whole foot in your mouth publicly? Maybe also look up intersectionality while you’re at it and realise that it’s not a fucking pissing contest. I’ll take lessons in privilege from you when every last one of you conscientiously objects to bombing the shit out of our side …
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-12-18 19:31:28
These end of year "wrapped" things are all the rage, so we made you one!
#wrapped
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-17 13:06:59
Apple and F1 announce a five-year US media rights deal that will bring all races to Apple TV beginning in 2026; sources: Apple is paying about $140M per year (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/apple-f1-media-deal-streaming.html
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-18 17:09:44
I keep saying the same thing over and over with my kids: you don't make decisions with your voice, you make them with your body.
"I want to go to the park."
"Ok, put your shoes on."
"I want to go on my play date."
"Put on a jacket and get in the bike."
"I don't want to be late to school."
"I don't control time, if you don't want to be late you have to brush your teeth."
There's a fundamental truth underlying this concept though, one that I hadn't really thought about. On some level, I feel as though, any choice you can't make with your body isn't a real choice. If you're begging someone to do something for you, it's ultimately not something you control.
As I'm compelled, by threat of violence against my family, to pay for war against my comrades and to kill people I don't even know, I think about that. How far is our concept of freedom from the police state we are taught to imagine as the global beacon of liberty. My participation in the violence had always been compulsory.
Perhaps we could do better than just #NoKings.
#USPol
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place2025-12-17 07:20:40
@usul@piaille.fr2025-12-17 07:30:05
Your Donations at Work: Funding Josh Matthews' Contributions to Servo - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
https://servo.org/blog/2025/09/17/your-donations-at-work-funding…
@benb@osintua.eu2025-10-17 16:24:04
Ukrainian-American author Yurii Tarnawsky dies at 91: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/17/ukrainianamerican-author-yurii-tarnawsky-dies.html
@stefan@gardenstate.social2025-12-18 16:18:21
"You don't want to narrow your audience to people who want to feel bad, You want to expand your audience to people who love things and say actually your interest, your enthusiasm can be the push to make some of the stuff better" - Nilay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDrYywM1nU
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-12-17 13:40:54
I updated the initial Kitten course based on our first lesson with @… and your feedback here. So now we start with no tooling except for your default terminal app and Kitten and it serves as a gentle introduction to the command line and gets to you seeing your first web page in your web browser far more quickly.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-17 11:25:43
Freedom House's Freedom on the Net 2025 report: for the 15th straight year, global internet freedom is in decline; of the 72 countries surveyed, Kenya fell most (Tech Policy Press)
https://www.techpolicy.press/global-internet-freedom-declines-for-…
