It's 2026 and you wonder what your friends are up to. You tell the app on your phone to go and get everyone's most recent news. Jim's phone takes a sec to load because his wifi is crap in the garden, and Alex's phone takes a sec to load because their wifi is crap in the workshop, but nobody […]

- so you have apples? - yes… - but you don’t have bees? - sir, for the last time-

If you read or share only one article today, make it this: HOW TRUMP HAS POCKETED $1,408,500,000 (Historically, one thing that has helped bring down authoritarians is public awareness of their use of the power of the office for self-enrichment.) Gift link:

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away Saturday, surrounded by her loving family. She was 95. Born into poverty on a Virginia farm during the Jim Crow era, West grew up in a segregated South where […]

Omg. Iran killed 16,500 protesters and injured 330,000 in two days.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/114024334222739130 Think of the folks at Palantir who built this. https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/

My god, this is Getty #photojournalist John Abernathy. He wrote on instagram “I was tackled by #ICE agents & surrounded by about 50 #border #police. Just for taking photos. I tossed my camera to another Photographer to make sure it wouldn't be confiscated […] [Original post on masto.ai]

I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇

Major protests in Iran! - Massive crowd comes out in Tehran - Nationwide internet blackout reported - Iran suspends flights at Tabriz International Airport, Mehr News reports - More than 340 protests have taken place across all of Iran’s 31 provinces - Iranian […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Gov #timwalz of #Minnesota is speaking alongside other state ofcls about the #shooting. “We have been warning for weeks that the #trump administration’s dangerous, sensationalized operations are a threat to our #publicsafety,” he said, adding that today it cost a person her life. Walz said “I […]

If you have a moment, file a complaint against X with the Apple App Store.

Please — and I can't believe I have to say this — please do not lick your employees.

Alles zit op slot, zo ook dit schaakbord. Wit geeft mat in 2. Er is maar 1 juiste beginzet. Wie durft?

From the superseding indictment against Nicolás Maduro, in SDNY. The case is before Alvin Hellerstein. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump annonce en personne la "capture" du président du Venezuela Nicolas Maduro "avec son épouse". Le couple a été "exfiltré du pays". La communauté internationale semble sidérée. "C'était une opération brillante", précise Trump auprès du NYT. Lui qui avait promis aux Américains la fin des […]

Don't sport with "Basic-Fit"! Here in the NL the fuckers made a max political donation of 100K so they can force schools and universiteits to not offer cheap sporting because it would "unfair competition" So the asshole of Basic Fit will earn millions upon the backs of sutdents #basicfit

Bonne année! :)

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Lately I have noticed that when you purchase a ticket you don’t get a static PDF/PNG anymore. Increasingly often, you get a .pkpass file, which is supposed to be opened in wallet apps (like Google Wallet or any 3rd-party). Since I don’t like to share information about the events I attend with […]

"UK police arrest Greta Thunberg under Terrorism Act": https://www.dw.com/en/uk-police-arrest-greta-thunberg-under-terrorism-act/a-75286097 Everyone from Britain's Prime Minister to the police officer who made this arrest disgraced himself and made the UK an object of ridicule. Greta's "crime" […]

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I've heard anecdotal reports of computer repair places "accidentally" breaking the ram and refunding the customer the catalogue price from six months ago, presumably to feed it into machines of more important corporate customers... so we're already at the scavenging-to-survive stage of AI […]

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

Buried Garden - The fastest growing food on earth: Why is the world’s most efficient protein labeled a weed? I'm not a fan of the conspirational "they" tone, but if the facts about duckweed nutritional value are true here, this is indeed a massively under-taped resource, and a solution to many […]

En cette fin d'année, n'hésitez pas à prendre le temps de réévaluer vos idoles/mentors. Ce n'est pas parce que ces personnes vous ont inspirés/aidés à un moment de votre vie que vous leurs êtes redevables ad vitam. Si vous n’êtes plus en adéquation avec leurs discours actuels, vous pouvez […]

Kwanzaa Facts 1. Kwanzaa is a made up holiday. 2. So is every other holiday. 3. Anyone can celebrate Kwanzaa. 4. It was created by Black, (mostly American and Christian*) people in the 1970s to celebrate Black history and the influence of African culture in the African diaspora and to assert […]

Now that you see them, will you care? 💔 Credits: dorset__vegan (IG)| pia.bengaltigress (IG)| torontochickensave (IG)| torontocowsave (IG)| nottinghamshireanimalsave (IG) #pigs #chicken #cows #vegan #compassion

This is why we need mandatory, government funded, independent IT accident investigation boards! This kind of investigation needs to happen *every* *time* IT endangers life, limb or liberty, so that we all can learn from the mistakes and avoid them happening again […]

The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway!

@[email protected] un-paywalled this. Everyone should go read it. **Yes, you too.** And you. And you. https://www.patreon.com/posts/this-is-why-you-146225130

To all the other "computer people" going to see family during the holidays: When they complain about their iPhone being messed up, the option you're looking for this year is "reduce transparency" under accessibility settings. You're welcome in advance.

@tshirtman Thank you Gabriel for following our page this is where we share about what we do in our communities and we shall be happy to share with you knowledge and different ideas about sustain abilities

I just realized if you set your iPhone to be used by an underage user you can override app advertising that you can’t override as an adult iPhone user. That seems useful, has anyone done this? Any issues to consider? #iphone #privacy

I believe that Computer Science has a place in "The Liberal Arts Education"-- that is I think an understanding of how computers are made, programming and algorithms should be a part of what a "well educated" person knows regardless of their particular area of focus. This is not the case at […]

[Fascism] To everyone watching the rise of fascism from non-fascist countries: don't for a second think your country is immune to this. This is a global rise in fascism and it must be fought everywhere. It's much easier to stop fascism early. Keep your head on a swivel and treat all fascists […]

Can you help me brainstorm some thorny "AI Ethics Puzzles" These are little scenarios meant to act as a starting point in discussions about the ethics of AI. I will post some examples in response to this post, but I'd love to find some even more thorny ones. Ideally a puzzle shouldn't have a […]

I'm not sure why the US needs five years of social media use to decide if they let you in or not. What I post in one day should be enough.

#python friends, you got any favorite libraries to help introspect large import trees? (use cases: providing feedback during the early import-the-world phase of loading a monorepo; determining how to extract internal dependencies or resolve cycles; etc) My fallback is to just whip something up […]

ok, i guess that waf boundt to happen, goig to a company christmas was not wrse in hindsight, #whalalla here i come at least, i think it's the original, could be a dance mix, checking the anyway, so i might as well accept defeat. #whamageddon #whamageddon2025

Huh. Just chatted in person with someone who's been on #mastodon for a while, now, who honestly thought that all the Mastodon domains were run by Mastodon. And having a different domain was, like, just a vanity thing to look cool. It only came up because they were complaining about an issue they […]

If you were born after 1994 in South Africa, it’s easy to forget that being gay used to be a crime. 🏳️‍🌈🚫 While the racism of #apartheid is well-documented, the regime's extreme homophobia is often overlooked. Under the National Party, it wasn't just […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]

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Ok, #adventofcode wins today, sent too much time implementing a solution i think is needed for this to be tractable, then fighting the borrow checker, then only much later starting to debug. Can't get the proper result on the mini input, so that will be for another day.

Aurora Alert! Auroras may be visible tonight from mid latitudes. Peaking around 10pm for pacific time, 1am eastern, 6am UTC. https://www.gi.alaska.edu/monitors/aurora-forecast #aurora