New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Sidewalks too icy to walk in Cambridge today #cambridgema #mawx

The wind is blowing the cracked ice into a pile at Fresh Pond and it sounds like a xylophone. Turn up the audio to hear it!

Donald Trump had no approval from Congress for this unjustified, unauthorized attack on Venezuela. This is what dictators do. We cannot stand idly by while Donald Trump conducts rogue attacks that put American lives further at risk.

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

Had a nice time at the 250th anniversary of the first American flag raising in Somerville Mass today. Bitterly cold, but a nice turnout and a really nice ceremony. The blue sky provided an excellent backdrop to the new flag. George Washington and his horse were there as well! #somervillema

See you at the Somerville flag raising! No kings!

Used greaseweazle to recover DOS floppies from the 1980s inc. an essay I used to apply to college. Family is getting a kick out of it, though incredulous of the essay! I need to write up the process, it was hard to get working with non-standard 320KB DOS 1.1 floppies! #retrocomputing #greaseweazle

Infrastructure!

First day of sledding for us at Danehy Park in Cambridge. Not a lot of snow but it was FAST and everyone ended up in the reeds at the bottom. #cambridgema #sledding

#curl has a new sponsor. Thanks #github!

Had a nice family visit for the Tazo chocolate factory tour in Somerville. We all love infrastructure and chocolate! We all are a little too buzzed on theobromine now. #somervillema

I got bar mitts from Santa this year. Let’s go ride bikes! #BikeTooter

The snowflakes have started in Cambridge, MA. #cambridgema #mawx

Solstice at Mount Auburn Cemetery was beautiful as always. I always wish I could spend more time there. Last year was amazing due to the blizzard but this year we saw things we missed in the snow. #cambridgema #solstice

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

A Halloween skull cookie cutter can be turned into a frog at Christmas time! 🐸 ☠️ #cookies #frog #skull

Maria Shriver on the Kennedy Center Board of Directors’ vote to name the Kennedy Center — named in her uncle’s honor after he was assassinated — the Trump Kennedy Center. (Reminder: it would take an act of Congress to do this officially.)

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Just heard the first snow plow of the year. #cambridgema #mawx #snow

Had a nice night on the Somerville illuminations bicycle ride. #somervillema #biketooter

The danger of dropping off eWaste in Cambridge is that you often come home with better stuff than you came with..... #cambridgema

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

Anyone else going to tonight's "AI and Us Town Hall: Your Voice Belongs in the Future of AI" at the Cambridge Main Library? cambridgepl.libcal.com/event/15747563 #cambridgema #ai #events

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon [CONTAINING ONE TAPE] hurtling down the highway." UNIX v4 tape found in storage room at the University of Utah now being driven to California for recovery..... ksltv.com/science-tech... #unix #retrocomputing #linux

gonna put on a Mister T Expedience cd, eat 8 hot dogs and pretend I’m at the bottom of the hill Sunday bbq.

I’m not much of a singer, but I love going to sing-along Handel Messiahs every year nonetheless. This year we went to St. James Episcopal Church in Cambridge/Porter Square. #singing #cambridgema

When it’s soup weather, you should make soup! I love making this potato leek soup recipe from the enchanted broccoli forest. I’ll often throw in whatever extra random CSA box veggies that need to boiled and puréed! www.food.com/recipe/potat... #cooking #dinner

Whether or not we’re actually going to get snow here in Cambridge tomorrow, I guess it is time to get the snow shovels and the salt and sand out of the garage where they’re buried. #mawx #cambridgema

Pretty sure we saw a dead bear in the breakdown lane near exit 18 on the NY State Throughway (I-87) yesterday afternoon. Sad to see.

First snowflake of the season #mawx #nortonma

What is going on today, seriously

I'm planning to attend this Saturday's Boston Code Camp in Burlington, MA. Drop me a line if you'd like to meet up. www.bostoncodecamp.com/CC39/info

Frozen puddles and canal edges in Cambridge and Lowell today, the first I’ve seen of the season

It’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock ‘n’ roll

So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.

Time lapse of tonight’s aurora. Nice reds and greens and some pillars. From Concord, MA. #aurora #timelapse #concordma #mawx

One of the best auroras I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Taken from a farmers field outside of Concord Massachusetts tonight. #aurora #mawx

One last sail around Boston Harbor before the end of the year #sailing #boston

Curious about trends in Open Source, GitHub, & AI? I had a conversation with Andrea & Kedasha about this year’s Octoverse! We discussed how AI is shaping programming language preferences, security in open source, and what this means for developers the-github-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/typ...

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

At SFSCON, Jordan Maris will explain how the CRA will reduce the burden on developers while creating funding opportunities for community projects and a new business model for Open Source companies: https://www.sfscon.it/talks/the-cra-an-open-source-sustainability-law/

So much yellow on the corner of temple and Jacques Streets in Somerville.

Halloween is the perfect example of how the time spent in or around cars are the most dangerous periods of any day for most Americans. And it is rarely acknowledged on a wide scale.

Walking by….

The internet was on fire. 🔥 One small library affecting billions of systems. Log4Shell was the biggest security vulnerability of all time. Now, Log4J maintainer, Christian Grobmeier tells us what it felt like inside the flames 👉 github.blog/open-source/...

My monthly walk-through of the MIT swap fest is posted over on my mastodon account. Photos with alt text and some other comments about what’s there See mastodon.social/@jeffluszcz/...

This is what solidarity looks like. Together, we will win.

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970 The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23 They constantly let America down