What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

Ten years ago, if someone had told me that tech policy bloggers would be calling for ICE to be abolished, I would have thought it very unlikely. "Abolish ICE" is an increasingly mainstream and extremely correct position. www.techdirt.com/2026/01/08/a...

right but i want this for my phone while driving, while listening to music play the notification sound, but don't reduce the volume on the music, or better yet, just play the ringtone out of the phone speaker only this is like a basic feature

I recently encountered this gem, and it made me realize after 32 years of being alive, that actually putting carp in bathtub is not a thing people all over the world do. Naturally I wanted to share this unhinged custom(which I thought is just a thing everyone experienced) with people.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

If you have pics/art of your sona walking, rolling, biking, or using transit and would like it featured at a certain panel at MFF, reply with the pic/art below!

Join fellow furs for a private screening of Zootopia 2 at Atlas Cinemas Shaker Square! Sun 11.30 at 3:30P. Fursuits ARE allowed! Join the Telegram for details and payment t.me/furrestcity

What is HAPPENING lmao

Cleveland is facing an impending DISASTER: The RTA will soon begin cutting its transit system. We've seen the transit death spiral before. Please contact your elected officials to call for Cuyahoga County and the State of Ohio to FUND TRANSIT OPERATIONS www.riderta.com/sites/defaul...

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Thank you again to everyone who came to the furwalk last weekend! We hope to see you again soon for our Ruff&Roll Bike Ride this weekend 📸 @devkitsu.net

Growing up as a teen in the 2010s I heard a lot about how 'dystopian' the Internet controls were in China but between what's been happening with Tik-Tok and the age and ID verification laws the US and UK are in a race to outdo them. I subscribed to Mulvad VPN, but am worried about this global trend.

Went to Ingenuity Fest last night with the incredible @peake.bsky.social It's always a fun space to hangout and check out lots of cool art. He brought his suite so I took some photos

Man, the worst thing is I'm working on some very cool stuff with some very cool people and despite that I just feel like shit. Gonna have to unplug for a bit. Be kind to your neighbors and rude to bigots.

Thank you again to everyone who came to Furrest City 2025! We hope to see you again at our next meets or another con soon! 📸 @devkitsu.net

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Please spread this information people, don't let Pay Pal dox you.

The one thing likely to prop uneconomical AI up through bailouts is the fact that it’s an authoritarian ideological project. Scams, spam, and disinformation are the only use cases. Targets are groups that oppose the jackboot, like artists, intellectuals, and the tattered remnants of the press.

OP, using Shapeshifters' tumblr account, reflected back on this. shapeshiftersvt.tumblr.com/post/7514895...

Yeah, here. Two ministers arrested, one Unitarian, one Methodist. Not sure if it was in the exact location in the photo, but it was in Florida. www.tampabay.com/news/st-pete...

Wrote about Comer/Mace attempting to doxx and intimidate Wikipedia editors in an effort to force their own viewpoint onto Wikipedia.

Kobolds are simple creatures. Yet they are happy to see any new friends! Happy #FursuitFriday 📸: @devkitsu.net #Fursuit #kobold #furry #fursuiter

So with this I was worried about my patched apps (revanced)... But what about emulation?!

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Every time someone says, “We should be using GenAI for good! You know, like for cancer research!” I think of stuff like this. I cannot stress enough that it is biased, inaccurate, and full of disinformation. Those aspects don’t change when applied to healthcare scenarios.

Science without the humanities are why we have so many fuckers already who go, "I never read the book, but I think the Torment Nexus sounds cool and I bet I could figure out how to make it real." Fascists always find allies in their efforts to remove humanities because they thrive on inhumanity.

Ron Deibert is absolutely the voice that the infosec industry needs to be listening to right now. We are in a moment where fascism is consolidating power and most of the infosec industry is either playing along or is busy bragging about how much AI they've shoved into their products.

A new Superman statue was unveiled in Cleveland It honors the iconic hero and his creators Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster in their hometown 📷 GreaterCLE

About 80% of my grammar suggestions from Microsoft Word are “why not use a simpler word here for clarity?” No. Fuck you. I will use a complicated word for evocative precision whenever the muse’s clarion song demands ebullience, vivacity, torpor, or solemnity, you shit-ass suck machine.

Join us for a Ruff & Roll bike ride around downtown Cleveland this Saturday Aug 2nd!

People who are surprised that Anita Sarkeesian is against what Collective Shout is doing are just outing themselves for having hated her without ever bothering to understand what she was saying to begin with. There is no contradiction.

This is something I'm really proud of the Ohio scene for. There are multiple events each week, and they're pretty well advertised. But yeah there's always something getting put together. That takes work, effort, and planning. And the industrious furs of Ohio deliver.

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the furwalk yesterday! 📸@devkitsu.net

recalling when I worked at the flight school and a wayward turtle walked onto the runway and a pilot said so, then a guy in a golf cart went out there, moved the turtle, and radioed "the turtle has been revectored", a phrase that has been seared into my brain for life

Thank you to everyone who came to the Cleveland Fur Walk on Saturday! Hope to see you all next week for our Lakefront Rapid Ride! 📸 @devkitsu.net

Recently went to Cleveland Pride last weekend and had a blast! Happy Pride Month & #FursuitFriday! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 📸: @devkitsu.net 🐶: SharkDogKai (on twitter) 🐏: @jaymedeer.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the pride march in Cleveland! Hope to see y'all next week for another fur walk! 📸 @devkitsu.net

A furry convention? In Cleveland? It's likelier than you think! Furrest City: Mini-Con - Saturday 9/13 at the Sears Think[box] Please donate and register at our website! furrestcity.org

When online leftists become obsessed with hating on "lib wine moms" it became clear to me that 1: Online Leftism has a clear misogyny problem. 2. Many of them are stuck in a perpetual teenage attitude of focusing on what's cool and "not cringe" over what's effective or important.

I want more folks to have glass art, so let's do a raffle! 1) Retweet, follow, & reply w/ an emoji to enter for a custom stained glass commission (piece is free; winner pays postage) 2) Ends 5/31 3) Up to ~70 sq. in. (~8"x8") 4) I reserve the right to reject design requests (e.g., no racist shit)

Join Furrest City on Sat 5/10 at 3PM at the Michael Zone rec center for a two-hour all-abilities slow bike ride through Cleveland's West Side. Join the Telegram group t.me/furrestcity

Guess what's on the RTA's Instagram story 🤣

Opening an umbrella in a fursuit is too hard 😭 📸 @devkitsu.net

Furries? In Cleveland? It's likelier than you think 👀 📸 @devkitsu.net

Realized I never posted them so here are some photos from my Panasonic SD4090 of the vintage tech meet at FtM 2025. Thanks again for everyone who came and brought cool stuff!

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

This is a grave and sobering admission: they are not pursuing the “WELL ACTUALLY he broke the law during protests,” they are bragging that they are deporting people for protected speech.

Fops in the city! #FursuitFriday 📷: @devkitsu.net