@0xabad1dea It's interesting how everything is much more spread out in the USA, or alternatively how much more compact Europe is. (Never been to anywhere in Asia, so I can't compare with there.)

An insightful read -

Q: Why are political leaders pushing anti-science rhetoric and easily disprovable lies?

A: This isn’t about ignorance of science. It’s about power.

If you can convince a large segment of the population that experts cannot be trusted, institutions are corrupt, objective truth doesn’t exist, and loyalty matters more than evidence, then power no longer depends on performance or results. It depends on identity and obedience.

https://anchorlightpublications.substack.com/p/my-final-political-post-the-republican
#UsPol
1/n

The benefits package is terrible…
#USPol #TrumpRegime #Europe #EU

Merry Christmas!!

"When someone works for less pay than she can live on—when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently—then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made you a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life.

The “working poor,” as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high. To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone else."

Barbara Ehrenreich
h/t @alfiekohn

I just found out that miri now supports ffi at all, and it's like x-mas came early!

https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2025/12/22/miri.html#invoking-native-code-from-miri

#RustLang #Rust

Lmao. This is funny.

"Average Linux Enjoyer is a bearded man in a Star Trek T-shirt" Propaganda designed to lull you into a false sense of security. You know how to spot those.

Turns out Linux Enjoyers can be smart, funny women with great tits who are already living in your home. Stay alert folks. Sometime the USB stick is already inside the house.

I implore you to always stand up for privacy and the right to anonymity; for civil rights, justice, and equity; for the right to disconnect, to opt out, and to retain control of your life, your data, and your freedom.

You may not understand why these things are worth defending. Perhaps you believe you live in a just and lawful society. You may even think there are people who don’t deserve such rights.

Please — defend them anyway.

https://medium.com/@purecaffeine/why-digital-rights-are-worth-defending-864ac955bb53

(original post now published on Medium)

#Privacy #CivilRights #SurveillanceState #Authoritarianism #HumanRights #Justice #Incarceration #SocialExclusion #HumanDignity

trying to decide if this would be a good or bad idea

A quote found by @pluralistic over at https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/18/self-licking-ice-cream-cone/ --

"If you work a job where you do something useful, you are on the losing side of this economy. All the real money is in this socially useless, no-value-creating, hypertrophied, metastasized finance sector. Every gain in finance is matched by a loss. It all amounts to – literally – nothing."

@iro_miya This sucks... I'm sorry *curls up against your side, rests head on lap in position to be pet, and purrs*

@adronia Yeah I know about the technical limitations. I just needed to make a post to appease her. (Be quiet, she doesn't need to hear this!!)

@fabi1cazenave Ticks me off pretty hard that the USA is the only place where such a lawsuit could realistically happen with some significant weight. I didn't want to mention that in my post, but yeah, I regrettably agree.

@adronia My fox friend is feeling very miffed about the exclusionary nature of this poll 😔😔😔

@fabi1cazenave Arguably, if Google was clearly alone at the helm, they'd get antitrust lawsuits and thus we wouldn't be in this whole mess. Would we?

@fabi1cazenave
All 3 browsers controlling the web standards are funded by Google. So Google has in fact already full control over web standards. As shown by recent xslt removal. Web standards shouldn't be made by browser vendors. Users and developers should have a place at the table. Dismissing users voice was a terrible mistake.