also the sysadmin, webmaster, janitor, arborist, 3d printer technician, chef, accountant, property manager, secretary, HR, etc

lost 30 minutes to watching a movie with someone insisting that the audio mixing was an intentional directorial choice until I double checked the receiver and saw that it was playing 5.1 to 2.1 incorrectly so lines were randomly muted based on speaker direction

Przeworski says it cleanly, clearly, and convincingly. What then must we do? www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...

I'm one of Dylan's coworkers. We joined the same team on the same day and were orientation buddies, but it wasn't until much later that we realized our respective ties to the hacker community I would greatly appreciate your support for his family through this unimaginable tragedy

"Get ready for the biggest Labubu rave yet", implying there have been several already "NYC's biggest Labubu rave", implying there are small scale or perhaps even illegal warehouse Labubu raves

guys I don’t want to be alarming but maybe journalists shouldn’t use a website that is owned and operated by the guy who funded the fascist government’s campaign and who seems intent on fueling similar right wing movements across the globe

impoundment is a dead letter. it has been a dead letter since january. it is not real. congress does not have power of the purse, only a ceremonial role in blessing executive priorities sometimes

"Get ready for the biggest Labubu rave yet", implying there have been several already "NYC's biggest Labubu rave", implying there are small scale or perhaps even illegal warehouse Labubu raves

I'm one of Dylan's coworkers. We joined the same team on the same day and were orientation buddies, but it wasn't until much later that we realized our respective ties to the hacker community I would greatly appreciate your support for his family through this unimaginable tragedy

Big win. Now you can leave Bluesky AND return to their servers if you wanted to. Folks who migrated to blacksky.app, myatproto.social, and cryptoanarchy.network were taking a leap of faith move over to servers hosted by Blacksky Algorithms. Hopefully this de-risks things for folks.

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

one of the things I'm having to work on for my housing project is an explainer/agreement like this, which people will be required to sign, because so many people are so used to blaming problems on landlords that they are unprepared to do any kind of democratic management

marion zimmer bradley... oof. But on the bus?? Yikes

It’s really crazy how bad 9/11 completely fucked America

very excited to share this update about bringing AT to the IETF! last week we uploaded two drafts to the IETF datatracker and today we heard that we’re approved to host a Birds of a Feather at IETF 124 (the formal meeting towards establishing a working group)

LADIES, THEYDIES, BITCHES AND BABES PIRATE POINT ISSUE #2 IS LIVE! A TRUE PUNK BATTLETECH FANZINE FOR THE QUEERS WITH NO FEARS piratepoint.itch.io/pirate-point... #battletech

Absolute crab-in-bucket bullshit from Ruby Central: joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-t...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

This is a cult. Not the type of personalist high control cult that is popular in the public imagination, but more akin to a mystery cult (these are all around us today). A cult of pivoting your business from AI-sandals to drug testing.

Does anyone remember what the titans of industry did in Germany and Italy a little over a century ago

Moldovan special services and police have detained 74 individuals suspected of preparing riots and attempting to destabilize the country. politia.md/ro/politia-a...

I keep thinking of all the soft boiled liberal defenses of this genocide from 2 years ago, how many smart people i saw on here defend it, the lies, the rationalizations, all of it. It was obvious within days and I wish this humility would actually leave a mark upon those who dutifully defended it.

it seems like a bad idea to publicly confirm that just 100k sims is sufficient to take down the NYC cell network! that's less than a million dollars of gear to cause a lot more than that just in lost productivity, even if you don't have any bigger threat to build on

Talking points leaked to me show US diplomats instructed to call accusations of Israeli genocide in Gaza "politically motivated and categorically false" as well as a "propaganda campaign"

Recommend this recent report on the export of a specific suite of technologies by a Chinese company to replicate Great Firewall capabilities in other countries: interseclab.org/research/the...

Some initial thoughts on the requirements for AT's private data model

up at 1 am because tummy hort

It's really funny that this is the most solarpunk technological discovery to date and solarpunk art totally failed to anticipate it. Do a quick image search - it's all glassy buildings covered in panels, and overgrown technology-free fields

new rule: you have to read this once for every time you complain about not having private posts

In dissent as to the stay, Justice Kagan — joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson — lays out the lawlessness of the majority plainly. "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars." Order/dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

LOL

Telemelt 2 is a networked multi-system browser emulator designed to recreate the experience of playing console games with a single controller in a room full of friends. We worked hard to make the shared experience we wanted to use.

I often think how among all the other things it is against, fascism (and its attendant authoritarianisms and make-believes) is fundamentally a war against complexity—against the inherent complexity and multiplicity of the universe and social reality—and against any efforts to understand them as such

some thoughts on explaining atproto by comparing it to news wire services like AP or Reuters (h/t @seabass.bsky.social)

I just think we should be building vast subterranean libraries. and I don't think that's weird

very sad yet also very predictable. I'm glad I got to visit one last time a few weeks ago.

think this is the first time a major stellaris release dropped without me having played the previous one

bullying people who wear this is not going far enough. Nazi armband shit

New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

this movie has got a couple of beautiful shots and lovely moments, and a lot of stupid and ugly bullshit!!!

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

the first minutes of 28 Years Later could be the opening of a straight-to-Amazon-Prime filler movie. ugly and hamfisted. atrocious

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

god I fucking hate restringing my floyd rose

Today, Canada recognises the State of Palestine.   My statement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

it's not clear how this leads to a course of action, but everything the silicon valley techfash do and say makes much more sense when you realise everyone in SV over $10m is macro-microdosing every fucking chemical you can think of every one of them is off their fucking trees

The next two minutes of video show me offering to walk off with him since he's not being detained. He declines, because he "doesn't want to be rude". Less than two minutes later, they place him in cuffs with no explanation and stuff him into a car with NY plates.

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

There is a lot of demand for digital privacy and security advice out there right now and lots of people are giving advice and writing guides. I beg them to do a few things: 1. Be explicit about the threat model your advice is meant for.