My best understanding here from occasionally reading freight guy Twitter is that freight traffic has dropped precipitously under Trump (tariffs), the white freight guys want remaining jobs for themselves, so: no more schools that license immigrants

I’m on hold to tech support for Summer. It doesn’t seem to be loading correctly. 7mm of rain. Trees down. I bet they tell me to turn it off and on again. Probably a DNS problem.

"narco terrorism" isn't a real thing. What does that even mean. It's just two bad scary words strung together without coherence. And yet, since some on the right have started using this phrase I'm hearing other people echo it uncritically.

🏦Bank of England business surveys estimates that Brexit has reduced UK GDP by 6%-8%. 📊For reference, a GDP that was 7 per cent higher would give £77 billion extra a year to the chancellor. More than half of the 2024-25 budget deficit of £137 billion. https://bit.ly/3MpIdmA

okay so like a month ago @trashpanda sent me one of those 'spycam finder' doodads that you see going for like 80-100 dollars online that supposedly 'find spy cameras and gps trackers'. I've always been curious if they actually work or whats inside. So I just […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

You would be a bit dark if you paid for fancy lunch at the Ashes today.

They are then aggressively questioned & searched, with no inkling that the roads they drove put them on law enforcement’s radar. Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries, the #borderpatrol has built a #surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior that can monitor ordinary […]

Social engineering -- the art of tricking people into doing stupid shit -- has always been the most reliable way to hack anything. Now with AI browsers and agentic this and that, we've actually built social engineering into the code. So it can be used to trick others but also trick itself […]

💥Code paid by the people should be available to the people! 💥 Why is software created using taxpayers’ money not released as #freesoftware under a #foss licence? If it is public money, it should be public code as well! 🖥️ https://publiccode.eu https://media.fsfe.org/w/7cH6EATpmPwaMsEZN8vfyj

Just how repressive is the educational background of Westminster MP compared with the general population? 🤔

Budget Samsung phones shipped with unremovable spyware, say researchers https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/budget-samsung-phones-shipped-with-unremovable-spyware-say-researchers Research report here […]

RE: https://floss.social/@omgubuntu/115583973694128369 Time to fire the Mozilla management or to hard-fork all #mozilla projects. #aislop

Speaking of "Broken by design", let's talk about BMW. Maybe 20 years ago, a mechanic friend of mine was outraged to learn that one of his customers' brand-new 3-series was upgradable. You buy a 318 and convert it to a 320, or something. Very cool. But the way it worked was the mechanics would […]

It sux to be American. The land of the free is regulated into hyper expensive mediocrity.

Remember that time Mozilla said it was going to stop working with the personal data removal service Onerep after I published a story showing Onerep's CEO was actually running several people search sites at the same time? […]

Ω🪬Ω #TheCryptocalypseChronicles: I Made Epstein's Texts Great Again (And You Should Read Them) I converted the text message logs in the recently released 20,000 pages of Epstein effluence to a more friendly format, deanonymized them, and read them. You […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

The Mooch predicted Trump telling the GOP to vote for releasing the files a few days ago. Easier to control the narrative post release. Sux to be Venezuela.

Tell me you've never watched Star Trek without telling me #sttos #startrek

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“I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of ‘Congresswoman’ Marjorie Taylor Greene,” Trump said in a post to social media, adding that Greene, who is running for reelection in 2026, has “gone Far Left.” The billionaires’ useful idiot has gone off his own useful idiot. Sad. Looking forward […]

This guy runs the Windows unit at Microsoft, and he's telling you that the company intends to infiltrate "AI" into every aspect of the operating system. If you use Windows, this is an injection of a living, self-replicating virus into your digital existence. Yes I use Linux.

ABC article on the Coalition’s demographic challenge: unless they can reverse recent electoral trends, there's a realistic possibility the Coalition could still be stuck in opposition by the time they (Sussan’s six under 6 grandchildren) do get a vote. That’s incredibly optimistic to think they […]

What would young Americans make of The Six Million Dollar Man today? Probably be confused by the high lstandard of healthcare enjoyed by someone from the military also that it cost about what an appendectomy does.

Zohran Mamdani majored in Africana Studies at Bowdoin College in Maine, at the time Peter Coviello taught the subject there, though he can't remember if New York City's Mayor-elect was his student or not. For LitHub, he explains how he was approached by a New York Times reporter to speak about […]

Someone put this "blue plaque" on a London Tesla showroom to mark his becoming the world's first trillionaire. “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk. Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.” […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

This is where the US is right now. A Jewish friend with a (US citizen) Latino husband is making a drive across several US states. They're having to plan their route to avoid areas where ICE is active, in case they get stopped and assaulted (and probably end up with smashed windows on their […]

Meta, Meta, Meta. So Meta. This Reuters report is 🔥 "Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show" "Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates […]

From a friend here, if you're wondering why what the GOP is really saying: "no food stamps until you agree to no insurance" "Yesterday we got a letter in the mail saying that our insurance in 2026 is going from $226/month to $2984/month. Let that sink in. More than our rent." #politics

Blood test developed that can diagnose ME/CFS with 96% accuracy. Links to long Covid found. Epigenetic connection confirmed (it's how the test works). https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251102205021.htm HT @bamboy #mecfs #longcovid #chronicillness

The term "personal firewall" might for some conjure quaint memories of using stuff like Zone Alarm. But I suspect this term will be resurrected in the not-too-distant future to describe pricey wearable technology designed to project a stealth mode that can confuse ubiquitous AI-based security […]

Dear #lazygalaxy, we fucked up. Our planet formed a vast one-time reserve of hydrocarbon deposits due to a quirk of evolution - plants out evolved plant-eating microbes, for a time. We burned those hydrocarbons and now our climate is busted. Attached to this message is a technical readout of our […]

75 years ago today, European nations signed this Convention, so the Holocaust could not be repeated. Beware those who want this to end.

The mare gave this stall gate a little tug with her halter rope that got wrapped around the latch. 10mm mild steel. No leverage, just a clean pull.

He appears to be blaming the GOP loss on the federal government shutdown which he was blaming on the Democrats so it’s the Democrats’ fault the Democrats won these various elections except the one the brown communist Islamic radical won which is definitely the Democrats fault because he was […]

Hey remember how mad you got about Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel for a few days? Well here's your chance to show another corporate media overlord that you're pissed at them firing someone for political speech, and to let them know why you did it. It's time to cancel all your subscriptions to Code […]

Israel just arrested the person who leaked videos of (absolutely horific) prisoner abuse for smearing Israel's reputation and this is being treated as a way bigger deal (especially by Bibi &Co.) than the abuse itself…so dark.

Nevada becomes the first state in the U.S. to allow home insurers to exclude wildfire coverage. They're running under the guise of market innovation but it appears clear that this is the state rubber stamping the wishes of the insurance industry. At the same time, it appears they're operating […]

Someone in the Whitehouse worked out the USA can’t win a war against China so they’re picking Venezuela to lose against instead. Going to have to practice how to spell Venezuela.

This is a natural reaction of your brain to repeatedly seeing horrific things. It will pay less and less attention to those images and have less of a visceral reaction. You can accept horrors. This is what the fascists want. They want you to accept things continually getting worse and more violent.

Year 12 History exam bungle just reminds us that putting some random things in a curriculum and testing for knowledge of those things is a pretty dumb way of assessing anything. This seems less like preparing people for life and more like an animal exhibit at a show.

ABC: Sussan Ley has defended her criticism of the prime minister, claiming a Joy Division T-shirt he wore has antisemitic connotations. Her whole recovering punk rocker backstory has been self erased like accidentally formatting a memory stick. If Susssan had any brains she would sack whomever […]

TIL that the president of Signal believes that people who run Mastodon and/or Matrix servers do so "in most cases" on hyperscaler* infrastructure. This is my Mastodon server. And its UPS. And its networked KVM for when things get really hairy. It's also my […] [Original post on swecyb.com]

LOL if you're keeping your 2025 disasters update to date, you can click on "escaped diseased monkeys on the rampage" now WAPT: Truck carrying monkeys overturns near Heidelberg; residents warned to avoid loose animals (Oct 28, 2025 updated 2:59pm CDT) "JASPER COUNTY, Miss. — A truck carrying […]

Elon Musk is having a very bad week. The man who bought Twitter for $44 billion to secure unaccountable power over public discourse is discovering what unaccountable power actually looks like when wielded by someone who understands dominance even better than he does. Trump just stripped SpaceX […]