I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that the "right wing" is just the sum collective of Dark Triad personality disorders in our society. Are you a borderline narcisist sociopath with high tendency to sadism? MAGA has a home for you.

2/2 Succumbing to temptation, I shamelessly steal from Hackwhackers: https://hackwhackers.blogspot.com/2025/10/todays-cartoons_02100003032.html

People with some cancers live longer after a #covid #vaccine #mrna #vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an #immune therapy for #skin and #lungcancer ― in an unexpected way. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03432-7 #healthcare #medicine #publichealth

What To Know About Data Centers - The Onion Q: What do data centers need to run? A: Water, electricity, air conditioning, and other resources typically wasted on schools and hospitals. https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-data-centers/

The manager at the Chicago Laugh Factory was arrested by ICE. They filed no charges. He's a US citizen, and his family didn't know where he was. All those craven comedians who are still not speaking up, better start railing. They are coming for all of us.

Misinformation was rife during the 2025 election. New research shows many people were unable to identify it https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10/misinformation-was-rife-during-the-2025-election-new-research-shows-many-people-were-unable-to-identify-it #auspol

"These anti-jailbreaking laws were designed as a tool of economic extraction, a way to protect American #tech companies' sky-high fees & rampant #privacy invasions... The #world signed up to these laws because the #US threatened them w/ #tariffs... 👉 When […] [Original post on newsie.social]

Post this freely or make one that's better.. #defundfascism

endianness is just a plot by big endian to sell more byte swap operations

If someone had said “if Trump gets elected, he’ll literally bulldoze the White House” just a year ago, everyone - right, left, and center - would have told them to shut up and stop exaggerating.

Truly, for those who are in the wrong and know it's provable, facing an army of people who simply reply "I have my own printing press" can be daunting.

Ah, the value of being part of a social network that is decentralized...from Techdirt's Karl Bode: "Last week, Indiana University administrators fired the school newspaper’s (Indiana Daily Student) advisor and ordered students to stop printing the paper." "The student journalists say that […]

David Pierce, a writer and podcaster for The Verge, talks about his work process and tools on the Cortex podcast with Myke Hurley. https://www.relay.fm/cortex/172 Pierce is one of my favorite tech journalists and podcasters, and it's not just because he does great work and because of his […]

Hi Fediverse, I figured I'd try #getfedihired since I like the tech ethos here so much more than LI. I'm a senior QA Engineer/SDET with 10+ years experience. I've built automation solutions in Cypress, Selenium, JMeter, Postman, Grafana K6 and more. I'm looking for a remote position or […]

This would be very bad.

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC […]

Everything is terrible, but my 13yo gets to learn basic welding in her public high school and I think that's really really cool.

Hilarious side effect of the OpenAI pivot to porn plus the Swedish ban on online pornography purchases: Paying for ChatGPT in Sweden may be a criminal act soon.

Real officers know the rules of engagement, and they don't bow to a madman. Navy Admiral Alvin Holsey resigned after refusing orders to authorize strikes on Venezuelan boats, citing his oath to protect innocent lives. Bravo. 👏👏

Release the fucking files. #indictalexacosta #childrapisttrump #ghislainemaxwell #jeffreyepstein #trumpepsteinfiles #epsteinfiles #MAGA #DonaldTrump #pambondi #USpol

Fun legal fact of the day: Florence, Oregon, where federal agents famously (and illegally) used a thermal imager to detect Danny Kyllo's indoor grow operation in 1992, is the the same oceanfront community that, in 1970, famously (and disastrously) tried to dispose of a beached whale carcass […]

I have a bunch of tattoos that I regret for various reasons, but cover ups are expensive. However, you'd better believe that if a tattoo I got in my wild youth turned out to be some Nazi symbol I'd get it covered up even if I had to begpost every day to pay for it. Not to mention that afaik […]

I interviewed Paulina Borsook, who warned of tech culture's toxic underbelly over 30 years ago. She wrote a prescient and scathing book, "Cyberselfish." It tanked her career, but a new generation is discovering her work as tech fascism tries to kill democracy 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-k...

Here's a new piece on #nokings and what I think was accomplished on 18 October. For me, it's about it's about: 1) repudiating the moral ugliness of the regime (i.e., moral de-contamination) 2) revitalizing the rights and duties that democracy aims to instill; and 3) locking arms with one […]

These emails to Leon Black epitomize how Epstein became wealthy. Blackmail. No financial advisor gets paid hundreds of millions of dollars for managing a portfolio or investment advice. He had video on all of them—including Trump, and especially Trump.

I think we’re going to need to pick up the frequency and magnitude of these protests.

Chinese battery giant CATL has announced a new Sodium Ion battery pack for EV that is game-changing. It features: ⦁ 10,000 charge cycle lifetime to 85% capacity ⦁ 90% power capability at -40℃ ⦁ 175 Wh/kg energy density, behind Li-Ion at 300 Wh/kg ⦁ no thermal runaway danger ⦁ cost $19/kWh […]

taken at the FDR Memorial in DC, a few days ago. #nokings

Yes. Leave that hell hole and come to #mastodon ! You can even have your own server #UK #ukpol https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/28/ed-miliband-says-it-is-possible-that-uk-government-should-leave-x

I became a US citizen yesterday! 4 years in the making, a dream for much longer than that. I was fortunate to have one of the fastest routes to citizenship and to have mostly experienced a very smooth process with lovely immigration agents who processed my […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

“If you think Trumpism will simply end in three years, you are naive. Left unopposed, global populism of the sort Trumpism represents could dominate for a generation. This could be the rest of our lives, and our children’s, too. “So why are we doing so little? Are we just going to stand in […]

they're now admitting we will need digital ID to access pretty much everything https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/liz-kendall-admits-that-digital-id

Facebook is deleting anti-fascist content THREE times now my posts CRITIQUING fascism have been removed, FB now threatening to delete my group Meanwhile FB is full of fascists

There’s been an oppressive amount of spam originating from what appears to be compromised mastodon accounts posting links that appear to be porn, but lead to various badness depending on the location, IP address, browser, and operating system of the visitor. Don’t click on tinyurl or other link […]

For the first time in *years*, I've felt like blogging. I've been having so much *fun* writing #perl, that I wanted to share some of it. https://blog.zerodogg.org/2025/10/13/the-joy-of-rediscovering-perl/

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

"It doesn’t work for the societies that have, inadvisedly, come to depend on what’s effectively a bunch of flared jeans designers cosplaying as engineers as the fundamental drivers of their economies." https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-fashion-that-is-tech/

Heidegger, Pound, Webern, Jung all supported the Nazis. fascism is a moral error, not an intellectual one. being educated isn't a prophylactic.

“If I can’t violate people’s civil liberties what’s the point of even being a cop?l

"When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt." - Ari Cohn, 1st Amendment lawyer

Pope Leo’s secret letter to U.S. bishops just leaked. TrumpWorld is not going to like what it says. This week in Rome, Pope Leo XIV quietly handed a letter to a group of visiting U.S. bishops. Inside were messages from migrants families separated by deportations, children afraid to sleep and […]

Peter Thiel says Antichrist ‘Wants a Nobel Peace Prize.‘ Leaked Highlights from Tech Billionaire's Secret Antichrist Lectures... www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...

Listen to scientists and not sociopaths in public office. Get your annual COVID vaccine. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-study-finds-annual-covid-vaccines-protect-people-against-severe-disease/

Someone should write a book about how to manage like the anti-Elon, explaining why all of his management ideas are very, very stupid.

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation. It methodically goes through each problem in the review. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism

I used “harrumph” in a work chat this morning. I’m at an age now where I can “harrumph,” and I plan to take full advantage of this privilege.