“Killing him didn’t fix anything” Well yeah bc we stopped at one

Rob Reiner made some great movies but he was also unafraid to speak the truth, and was one of the public voices who knew you don’t squander your platform, and only got louder about opposing evil fucks as he got older. Legend.

"There are more Americans living in poverty than the entire population of Canada" Fascinating website on income inequality: eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-weal...

“I just don’t know what they accomplished today other than the chaos," Osman said." The chaos and fear and anger are the goal. Hatred and division with one hand while they loot and steal with the other.

Fact-check: true

The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns. The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.

Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws www.nprillinois.org/government-p...

Sunday reading: I wrote about how the regime’s latest racist hate campaign is tied to the Right’s broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist vision. A deep dive into the Right’s visions of blood-and-soil nationalism:

https://mastodon.social/@mstarace/115714780588501639

Kind of a real-life SCP-1471 https://boingboing.net/2025/12/13/the-ai-generated-creature-that-wont-go-away.html

America 250 is going to be unbearable, unless it is celebrated in the only sincere and meaningful way: by a revolution overthrowing tyranny

Microsoft can fuck off, Canada should be doing what the EU is doing. Kick Microsoft and all US big tech out of the government, switch to open source and domestic alternatives. None of it can be trusted.

It's easy to conjure the following path: Real person submits real question to LLM ➙ LLM hallucinates a reference ➙ Real person searches for the reference ➙ LLM captures the request, measuring it as demand³ ➙ LLM synthesizes a book-length text¹ ➙ Synthesized text makes its way into circulation²

Annoyed right now how Montrealers will just walk right into you like you're not there

I am brimming with holiday spirit

"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.

https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/115709601356032443

Can...can we come stay in the snow, too? https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/115708988765319176

The really lolsob part is that some children in this region have been exposed twice, which means they’ve been in quarantine for a total of 42 days, and despite aggressive vaccination campaigns, their parents (in the great majority of cases) will not let them get vaccinated.

I had a dream that some right-wing person actually did this

Yeah, this happened.

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

WHOA 20 New Lines from The Epic of Gilgamesh Discovered in Iraq, Adding New Details to the Story https://www.openculture.com/2015/10/20-new-lines-from-the-epic-of-gilgamesh-discovered-in-iraq-adding-new-dimensions-to-the-story.html

Some Hard ##Truth for us Yanquis: https://toot.community/@ProfundumPhoto/115698413089877394

So it turns out an ice agent is much more likely to have an arrest record than an immigrant.

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

Denmark has labeled the United States as a potential security concern for the first time in an annual report released by one of its intelligence agencies, offering more evidence of the increasingly fraught transatlantic alliance between Europe and the US.

Trump’s Golden Age.

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

The shit Fuentes and Tate consider "gay" is not gay as we understand it. Its gay because its emasculating to them Loving your wife and treating her like she's an autonomous individual? Emasculating. Being a nice person and giving others respect? Emasculating I can go on but that's the core of it

From the Doing-What-Must-Be-Done dept.: boingboing.net/2025/12/09/t...

Re-post for the daytime-actives

At last, the Winter Collection is HERE: www.imagenetz.de/FwT78

It's easy now, c'mon social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/11...

Welp, I got up an hour late, so nope

Okay, 2:20am and I finally got the Winter Collection sequenced, but now I have to get cover art. Here's the thing: if it isn't posted by 11am, it won't drop until sunday night

Also, my DJ night this month is this saturday at the Great Georgiana in Brooklyn.

Gonna take advantage of peak North American social media time here to let you all know the Winter Collection is almost done: I'm cramming some extra tracks in bc why not. I gotta sequence it and find some cover art, so tomorrow night. Late tonight if we're all really lucky.

#Retrocomputing #Wizardry mstdn.social/@osnews/1156...

Did Reuters find a random guy in Mogadishu who agrees with Trump that Somalis are "trash" so they could both sides this too? You better believe they did.

Will continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told “isn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it.

Watched this last night. It's a brilliant evisceration of the state of (most) corporate executives and publishers in the games industry. The "I want a $10m game for $5m" is something I have heard before with lesser sums. Someone once asked me to make a €250k game for €2k.

Question for the UK #furries in the audience: What is the name of the animated show that takes place on a tropical island, has a theme song by Paul McCartney, and one of the characters is a Jazz-singing squirrel?

Some Good News: fediscience.org/@petergleick...