You will be visited by three spirits

I am brimming with holiday spirit

#uspol #ice #iran #refuge #refugee

"#siliconvalley isn’t building apps anymore. It’s building empires." "Under the banner of "patriotic tech", this new bloc is building the infrastructure of control—clouds, #AI, #finance, #drones, #satellites—an integrated system we call the #authoritarianstack. It is faster, ideological, and […]

## Improving PixelMelt's Kindle Web Deobfuscator https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/improving-pixelmelts-kindle-web-deobfuscator/ A few days ago, someone called PixelMelt published a way for Amazon's customers to download their purchased books without DRM. Well… […] [Original post on shkspr.mobi]

(18 Oct) How I Reversed Amazon’s Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this ❲and have some interesting ways to stop you❳ https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/ Archive: ia […] [Original post on faithcollapsing.com]

I made this for my sister c. 1990. And yes, this is the extent of my artistic abilities. I'm not entirely sure what possessed me to portray Trump as a globe-consuming kaiju, but since it appears that Santa has not actually saved the world from him, it's up to us to go out tomorrow. #nokings

Hacker gets annoyed at Amazon’s Kindle apps, reverse-engineers the Kindle web reader’s protocol (which basically sends each page as a set of glyphs in a deliberately broken variant of SVG). Such obscurity, much security. https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/

The Tech - MIT’s president has formally rejected the Trump administration's proposed compact. https://thetech.com/2025/10/10/mit-rejects-compact

Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

Breaking: President Trump plans to recognize the anniversary of 9/11 by launching a surprise attack on an American city.

So help me, I laughed #shitpost #meme #distractedboyfriend

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door. Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Harvard Crimson - A federal judge rules that the Trump administration violated the Constitution when it froze more than $2.7 billion in research funding to Harvard, striking down the freeze in its entirety. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/9/4/harvard-funding-order/

Margaret Atwood claps back to having The Handmaid’s Tale banned from Alberta schools by the UCP. It’s so good. #ableg #abpoli #abed

So just for my amusement I asked chatgpt "why does the porridge bird lay its eggs in the air" and got this response, which is not, quite, right. #chatgpt

“There is no excuse for the world to stand by and watch two million human beings suffer on the brink of full-blown famine.“

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MELTDOWN

Fuck you all, I'm going to the moooon. #apollo11 https://electricliterature.com/nixon-in-space-rob-mccleary/

“This is how media freedom dies. Not with dramatic raids on newsrooms or journalists thrown in jail (though who knows what the rest of Trump’s second term will bring). It dies with mergers and acquisitions, with regulatory pressure and financial settlements, with billionaires who see news […]

Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.

Bulwark unpacking the credulity of reporting about the Epstein memo. I keep pointing out there are two credible sections (40% each) sandwiching bullshit that should be obvious bullshit to journalists. www.thebulwark.com/p/case-close...

"Whatever" is a brilliant essay on "AI" by @eevee: "But I think the core of what pisses me off is that selling this magic machine requires selling the idea that doing things is worthless. Because if doing something has some value, then it must be somehow better than pushing a button and […]

Wow. The big billionaire tax fraud bill just passed What a terrible day the US again, except if you're a billionaire If we get hungry enough we can always eat them I guess #USpol

Call Blackburn & Hagerty and make them know you know

😡 #uspol

#gretathunberg #israel #GazaFlotilla #gaza #palestine #FreedomFlotilla #madleen

I’m unreasonably fucking pissed. An r/me_irlgbt moderator banned me, and is now accusing me of being an A.I. … … … because I use fucking emdashes and ellipses. #typography #ai #nightmaretimeline

Now I'm imagining installing a retractable white sheet that coudl be rolled out over the my existing roof in the summer, then rolled up in the winter.

Harvard Crimson- A federal judge ordered the release of Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard Medical School researcher who has been fighting deportation proceedings for nearly three months, from ICE custody. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/29/judge-petrova-ice-release/

Baby bunny alert!!! #wildlife #bunny

In her last week as Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden worried about America losing access to its history. In an interview with GBH News, Hayden spoke about the country and the library's future. Hayden was fired by Trump last night. https://bit.ly/4k9ak5d #libraries #librarians

When did we have working spellcheck? As an editor and proofreader, I can't remember a time when I haven't had to fix spellchecker errors.

Timothy Snyder (who has been consistently amazing throughout this crisis!) has written a very important article preparing people’s minds for what I fear is near-inevitable: a US equivalent to the Reichstag fire.

Just once I'd like to open a box of chocolate covered matzah and find the pieces intact and the chocolate actually stuck to the matzah. #passover #Mazeldon

Harvard squarely standing up to the Trump. Its lawyers to the regime: “The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

No evidence linking #tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, #state Dept. office found An internal memo, prepared days before #rumeysaozturk was detained by #ice agents, raises doubts about the #trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas. #trumplies #immigration #law […]

Trump's official denouncement of former CISA director Chris Krebs (in the form of a "Presidential Memorandum") is chilling in substance and utterly Stalinesque in tone. By threatening anyone who hires him, it aims to render Krebs effectively unemployable. I said it then, and I will repeat it […]

If you know students who need this help, contact Hacking Law (Repost this on your own account. It’s not public coz I’m also an immigrant and who knows with this lot) https://hackinglawpractice.com/

The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.

I always love seeing this comic by Ellis Rosen in my feed.