"Stop complaining about minimum wage. Just stop working at minimum wage jobs like McDonalds" Beyond the obvious cruelty in this kind of remark, I wanted to analyze this sentiment and propose a better response than the common "you believe McDonalds exists, but you don't think the people who work […]

U.S. Federal District Court judges like Boasberg know that they are hamstrung by the Roberts Court, so they are conducting proceedings and writing opinions for posterity. This is brave, hard work. If/when a reconstruction of U.S. constitutional democracy is attempted having contemporaneous […]

New Blog Post: "Post-Semester Linkdump" https://riverseeber.net/blog/post/post-semester-linkdump/ This one's just a little post to get me back into the flow of writing after being away for a while. Mostly just a bunch of fun links I've been holding onto for a while that I wanted to share. Hope […]

Actually I'm pretty sure he's called Pavlov's Monster

Posting this from my iPhone 8 Plus and you can suck my dick with your cold dead hands, CNBC.

In my experience, I find that "AI" is a term that makes people turn their brain off to critical thinking about what a technology actually does or how it works. "ML" and "LLM" are more descriptive to the specific technology used, and tend to avoid the bias of hype […]

If you use 7zip, or its forks and derivatives, then ensure you have updated to v25.0 or later. Check now! 🙂👍 https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/11/19/7-zip-vulnerability-is-being-actively-exploited-nhs-england-warns-cve-2025-11001/ #7zip #CVE2005-11011 #rce

The lion does not concern herself with the fact that the sun is gone when work gets out. The lion is perfectly content spending all of her free time illuminated by the glow of artificial lighting.

The Epstein Network — https://epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com/ (nerds are amazing)

Something interesting I learned today: While trying to test if internet issues were local or remote, I ran `ping defcon.social` to see if I could pass any bits between me and the server. Turns out they've got the ping service disabled. I'd never heard about this before. Did some research […]

Okay, but hear me out, what if we produce an entire generation of students who are *all* the ones who did nothing in the group project?

Great news today for the US!! SCOTUS refuses to hear the case that was trying to overturn same-sex marriage. Thus the Obergefell decision is left unchanged. This means that gay marriage remains safe! :BiPride: :flag_pride: https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-11-10-2025 #uspol […]

Just watched @deviantollam amazing video "Lawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun." and honestly it kind of reshaped my head around preparedness and what type of risks are possible (or even likely) to happen, and how I (and everyone!) need to be making steps in advance to prepare for that kind of thing […]

I AM ON THE CHAOS SIDE in case unclear

Has anyone else noticed that some federated Threads users profile pictures aren't showing up as anything but the default Mastodon profile picture? I'm seeing some folks profile pictures work fine (Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, etc), but @hankgreen and @dcofficial are two accounts I've found who don't […]

Morning Twters, and happy #defaidodonday #dydddefaidodon! It's a great excuse to share this absolute gem again!

[US politics being shitty to trans ppl] One day this country is going to wake the fuck up and stop cannibalizing itself with hatred. I'm getting tired of this shit. https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/115505179108483437

Though it probably wouldn't be good for our already fragile democracy, I think the funniest outcome of the 2028 presidential race would be if Trump runs for term #3, and so the left realizes that constitutional requirements don't matter anyways, and decide to put up Zohran Mamdani, and he […]

Good opinions are popular. Bad opinions are unpopular. The people, contrary to popular belief, are not in strong support of the current MAGA party takeover of all parts of government. People tend to find that kind of stuff to be radical, actually. That's why CA passed Prop 50, and that's why […]

The most important lesson for Democrats from Mamdani's victory is this: abandon the decades-old practice of triangulating to win the center. Instead, grow the base with a positive, joyful vision for what government can do when it gives up on being shackled to a Republican base.

I find that a lot of the hype around the AI bubble tends to just be tech bosses trying to resell the concept of the internet to us. "We've developed a super-intelligent chat-bot. Type literally any query into it, and it will give you a qualified and informed answer." That's literally what […]

I’m not a fan of doing this but it is for a good cause. Hi, as you might know blahaj.social :blahaj: is a small vulunteer ran incomeless part of the fediverse :blobhaj_hearthug: We built it several years ago with recycled servers and network equipment. Our […] [Original post on blahaj.social]

When A #Hacker Decorates Their Lawn On #Halloween Night: @dc_hhv @defcon#Hacker#halloweenmakemagazine

@hankgreen "This Shutdown is Different" "I think that there is some reason why we can't do anything anymore [in Congress]" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwLaKBHIT7w Hank speculates in the conclusion of the video that the perhaps the GOP is allowing the shutdown to go on because a government […]

Everything the “don’t tread on me” folks claimed to care about is being done by the people they now blindly support

@Viss @catsalad yes but for your consideration:

Liking this new outfit I bought. I'll probably be buying a few more autumn/winter outfits soon, I like these. #autumn #selfie

If you are a California voter, please vote Yes on Proposition 50, a hopefully temporary measure to counter the Trump-Republican rigging of U.S. House districts for perpetual GOP control. They declared war on democracy. Support Prop 50 to fight back […]

So in the short amount of time that I've been actively using this account, I've actually been really enjoying #mastodon. While the #fediverse is a lot smaller, and has less centralized, algorithmic features to interconnect people based on their activity, the small town feel of this place is […]

This is a natural reaction of your brain to repeatedly seeing horrific things. It will pay less and less attention to those images and have less of a visceral reaction. You can accept horrors. This is what the fascists want. They want you to accept things continually getting worse and more violent.

Decided to go to the thrift store after work today. Got some cute cardigan sweaters and cool pants for the cold season starting up. Making my mood better for the next few days, reminding myself that I'm the one who's sat at the driver's seat of my own life. Free will and agency are great.

Such deranged, casually fascist shit.

I have mostly kept my two twitter accounts alive out of some kind of morbid curiosity; watching something that belonged to all of us dismantled and destroyed by ONE idiotic male. But these new changes break the model completely. ➡️ Fediverse, brace for another migration.

Wow isn't it great how we've organized our society around total dependence on computers and the internet in order to perform crucial everyday tasks, and then furthermore decided to implement massive Single Point Failures into the system so that anytime Amazon is too busy jacking themselves off […]

Hey look, I exist! I've managed to bridge this Mastodon account over to Bluesky, so my posts are viewable at your convenience on either platform. I've added a new page to my website reflecting the different socials you can follow me through to get updates when I make a new blog post […]