Why do people say "this is not politics, this is human dignity" and similar things? THAT IS POLITICS. That's what politics is about. Wth do people think politics is?

Dear everybody: Everything is so much easier to understand, once you realize that the Gold-foil-King is a Mafioso, who only know mafioso methods, and only use mafioso methods. The letter to the .no PM is classical mafia: "Nice country you have there, pity if something happened to it. Better […]

Net zero is cheaper than burning fossil fuel. Even if you just look only at the energy system and nothing else. #Germany, please take note! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PDNE7J1TrJM #climatechange

here's an overly specific use of industrial equipment for things you'd never expect it used for https://m.youtube.com/shorts/k_Bhy36IiOc

History is making fun of us

In honor of Meta's latest announcement, a thread on 175 years of 3D failure. Let's first go all the way back to 1851 with the Brewster Stereoscope. No less a person than Queen Victoria was impressed, kicking off a fad that quickly sold over 250,000 units. Turns […] [Original post on sfba.social]

As the guy who's been shouting into the wind against immigration restriction for 10 years, my new fantasy is to be an anti version of Steve Miller. I convince a president to send gov't employees into neighborhoods to set up welcome centers with language/employment services.

I'm looking for the dissertation of Madsen from 2006. But the only copy available online is for University of Michigan users only. Are there any University of Michigan people on mastodon who could help me out? https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/125825 #academia #science #michigan

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I think the appearance of free software really broke the oligarch's brains. People are just giving away stuff that should be Shareholder Value? And we *can't* buy it off them and own it? People are just running a compiler whenever they like to make whatever they want without paying anyone? The […]

"Sorry, 007, but you've been made redundant. These are your replacements: 6502, 8051, and 68000"

"So, kids, do scientists make it all up? No ... well, in Kansas they say yes and everyone goes home early." --Anthropologist lecturing my youngest on dinosaurs, Star Echo Station in Culver City, 2013.

tuxedo cat staring at raccamera…

A fun bit of trivia: to the best of my lay understanding, both Anthropic AI and Bluesky are PBLLCs incorporated in Delaware and under Delaware's legal definitions of the term "public benefit."

What EU doing?

We used to talk about how the backbone of the internet was furries. Now, we will say that Leibniz's dream of a Calculus Ratiocinator, a language of perfect thought, was achieved by the merger of furries and machine learning. Congrats @acerfur.bsky.social

“The man who will not defend the honour of his cat cannot be trusted to defend anything.” ― Robert Lynd, The Pleasures of Ignorance #caturday

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/future... #smbc

Jesus. dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

It takes a Canadian pundit to nail it down this well: Occam’s kazoo: When it comes to Trump’s behavior, the most plausible explanation is the stupidest.” https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-trumps-behaviour-most-plausible-explanation-stupidest/?intcmp=gift_share

So, apparently, the reason why parts of Berlin were without power for 4 days was, that they needed an Austrian company to come over to fix it. And for several reasons, they weren't called until Monday and thus arrived only Monday evening. I wonder why the utility company doesn't have their own […]

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Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/apple-3 #smbc

I need university administrators (and probably some other people too, but definitely university administrators) to understand something: you cannot motivate your faculty to do more research or better teaching. They are already maximally motivated people. They did not get the job by being […]

i think we need a kind of "DFM" in open source: design-for-maintainability basically, what happens when you get bored/tired/sick/done with the project and some other poor bastard has to take it over? that

I spend a ridiculous amount of my time on #curl security these days. Because I think that's my responsibility. something something open source sustainability

The year's 6th day just started and we just clocked in our 8th hackerone report on #curl for the year. This doesn't work.

Year progress: ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 1.0% #tempusfugit

If it's a skill issue, what's the skill? https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115832534415373032

@attualita #venezuela #usa #maduro

The fuck? “The United States carried out a large-scale strike on Venezuela, capturing its president, Nicolás Maduro, and flying him out of the country, President Trump said.”

The best of 2025 : Accountabiility.

Wenn die USA tatsächlich #venezuela angegriffen haben sollten, schlage ich als sinnvolle Sanktion die Einfriedung der Vermögen US-amerikanischer Oligarchen wie Thiel, Musk, Zuckerberg oder Ellison vor. Deren Firmen sollten in Europa außerdem stillgelegt oder unter EU-Kontrolle gebracht werden […]

Quick plane doodle inspired by recent world events. #cartoon #politics #news

One adjacent example of intentional miscommunication: the word "open" as applied to AI. An LLM cannot be "open source" unless you have access to the training data and methodologies. "Open weights" is a craven attempt to misdirect the word "open" — we might as well say that bunch of machine code […]

Can anybody recommend "soekris-like" hardware for firewalling ? Must run #freebsd and bonus if the CPU is not Intel or AMD

Realization of the day: C++ is the COBOL of the 2000s. Complex, impenetrable language. Arcane incantations that feel more like magic than programming. The slightest mistake and everything goes boom, combusts or otherwise disintegrates, sometimes decades later. And all the big magic schools... I […]

A 58-Addition, Rank-23 Scheme for General 3x3 Matrix Multiplication https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21980 I love this sort of explicit work. The algorithm fits in a screenshot:

Tempus fugit: Year progress: ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 0.2%

imagine being in charge of a product where you go out of your way to say "features: ✔✔✔ far calls!!"

Happy New Year, everyone! This is a @theguardian.com books cartoon from a few years ago.

I follow the @EUCommission purely as a societal temperature check. With every post, you can grab popcorn and watch the comment section combust. They’ll say something like “Happy New Year” and the replies jump to: "You, genocide supporters, colonialist architects of neocapitalist misery, have […]

Gerade gejubelt: #prebunking funktioniert!!! 🤩 Hatte die Tage zur #trump - Kampagne gegen @hateaid gewarnt, dass wir mit #digitalgewalt gegen die kommende #landtagswahlbw rechnen müssen. Möchte am 19.1.26 mit Carlo #Masala in #Stuttgart darüber reden. 🇪🇺🇺🇸🤔 Nun jammern nichteurop. X - er, die […]

People: Billionaires are the cancer of society and must be stopped. Also people: Let’s keep buying crap we don’t need from megacorps like Amazon, live inside Google because it’s convenient, and hand over our data to questionable platforms because “I can’t get my friends off WhatsApp.” Stop […]

Perfect description of the current corruption of Supreme Court. It is no longer a court, just an edict-issuing body. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-latest-defenses-of-scotuss-corruption-only-make-the-case-against-it

The US is on a human rights watch list, and there are literally countries warning about visiting the United States of America. All it took was one year of Putin’s puppet being in power again.