Fullstack software developer in the Midwest with an interest in #Socialism, #FOSS, #Camping and #Backpacking, #WeightLifting, and #HistoryOfPhilosophy, especially #Plato and #Spinoza. #Memes and #ShitPosts welcome.
Imagine a hypothetical parallel. It’s Biden instead of Trump, Mayorkas instead of Noem, troops deployed to Dallas instead of LA, and Ted Cruz getting manhandled instead of Alex Padilla.
What do you suppose the reaction would be? https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/alex-padilla-kristi-noem-press-conference-rcna212692
Meta previously lost its shit at 404 Media when we reported that someone had paired facial recognition tech with the company's smart glasses. Now Meta is building the invasive technology itself.
🔗https://www.404media.co/well-well-well-meta-to-add-facial-recognition-to-glasses-after-all/
We tend to look back on millenial culture as cringe because it was earnest and exemplified the "new sincerity". There was a parallel earnestness in tech (remember "don't be evil"?) Now that we've backlashed into the "who cares" era, I deeply miss the cringey sincerity.
How to leave tech to become a farmer
https://dark.properties/nicole/
Did you know that notion that every single Scottish clan has it's own particular tartan design dating back to the 16th century was mostly a notion made up in the 1900s ... including these books that would tell you, if you had a Scottish last name, which one was yours? All made up!
Anyway fashion is something you invent. So I'm inventing Ant-Themed fashion.
eg. the well-loved "Ants and Aphids" cowboy boot motif and no one can stop me.
And why not a tartan for every ant species?
If you turn the two dolls you're allotted into voodoo dolls you can really put those five pencils to good use
when people argue with me about due process and how they'd be fine bc they're citizens, I just say "You can't prove you have the right papers if you go straight to prison and never get to show anyone your papers" and then most of them get it
@nilay_patel (endless screaming)
Wondering how many other github repos are infected with similar malware:
https://timsh.org/github-scam-investigation-thousands-of-mods-and-cracks-stealing-your-data/
Come out on Saturday, March 22nd, as we ride around Ravenswood to support the extension of the Clark St protected bike lane to Winnemac. See why connecting communities is so important. We need a bike grid now!
⏰ 10am Saturday, March 22nd
📍 St. Boniface Cemetery - Clark St. Entrance
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. Four out of five people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
https://thebetter.news/housing-first-finland-homelessness/
@tomjennings Queer is a big budget film of the Burroughs novel, starring Daniel Craig. Here's a trailer. It comes out any day now and looks very promising. I thought of you because I was looking at Sensitive Research and was reminded the very first HOMOCORE issue had Uncle Bill on the cover. I was kidding about bringing the zine back but if you see the film would like to hear what you think about it.
Wtf is happening to the Duolingo owl? It looks like they're clockwork-oranging it.
@ancient_catbus dude, I just watched a multi hour deep dive on the "MyHouse.WAD" Doom mod, and it's nuts --- have you seen it?
We're less than a week away! Let's see how good the community is at guessing what we're announcing (by G8M8N8 on r/framework)
DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/doge-god-mode-access/681719/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43112084
Trump kills NYC’s congestion charge, condemns city to traffic jams
NYC voters overwhelmingly wanted less traffic and air pollution, Trump says tough.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/02/trump-kills-nycs-congestion-charge-condemns-city-to-traffic-jams/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
This sounds like science fiction:
"Microsoft isn’t using electrons for the compute in this new chip; it’s using the Majorana particle that theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana described in 1937."
https://www.theverge.com/news/614205/microsoft-quantum-computing-majorana-1-processor
It's not just that Trump & Musk are craven and corrupt. It's that they're the dumbest fucks on the planet and they're going to get us killed.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fired-officials-bird-flu-rehire-rcna192716
Absolute gold:
"The magnitude of Meta’s unlawful torrenting scheme is astonishing," the authors' filing alleged, insisting that "vastly smaller acts of data piracy—just .008 percent of the amount of copyrighted works Meta pirated—have resulted in Judges referring the conduct to the US Attorneys’ office for criminal investigation."
