@neil Are you Mummenschanzing it by having sticky notes with different faces drawn on them on your mask?

"The problem with LLMs is that you eventually run out of other people's work to steal"

Got an idea for an article, presentation for #fluconf2026 today's the last day for submission.

Mines in now.

https://gts.cryptography.dog/@fluconf/statuses/01KFTPJD8S4DFJB4KHZQCG8Y8G

"Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie."
-Brent Terhune https://bsky.app/profile/brentterhune.bsky.social/post/3mdo2zbsyj22x
#Epstein #Trump #MelaniaMovie #EpsteinFiles

A nationwide shutdown was organized to protest ICE activities on Friday, January 30. AZPM is following the story with live updates and video throughout the day.

For more:
https://news.azpm.org/p/azpmnews/2026/1/30/228232-live-updates-january-30-shutdown-in-tucson/

It's Friday. What horrors has the Dump admin inflicted on us this week? Tune in today at 3pm ET/ 12PT as Marcy Wheeler @emptywheel.bsky.social and I do our best to answer that & more. youtu.be/RUd8nrVZKIU, nicolesandler.com, emptywheel.net, nicolesandler.substack.com, podcast everywhere

How Hitler seized power:

— Demonize opponents.
— Create crises.
— Weaken the press.
— Declare a state of emergency.
— Undermine elections.
— Make the rule of law irrelevant.
— Rule by executive order.

If the U.S. falls, it will be because of those who sat on their hands.

:blobcatbusiness: What's the most common complaint I've heard about Linux?

Not the installation process.
Not finding a distro.
Not getting programs to work.
Not troubleshooting.
Not hardware compatibility.

The most common complaint about Linux I've seen is this:
For a normal computer user, asking for help is just about impossible.

They ask a simple question and:
People respond "Did you Google it?"
People respond "RTFM"
People get mad??? at them for making an easy mistake.

We can't expect people to know to, or even know how to deal with any of that stuff.

Search engines these days are awful, manuals are hard to read for most people (especially stuff like ArchWiki), and normal people make mistakes we think are easily avoidable.

The solution to making Linux more popular is not ruthless promotion. The solution is to actually help the people who are trying to use it. :ablobcatattention:

#Linux

2006: Less is more, don’t repeat yourself
2016: Beautiful code prevents technical debt

2026: trillions of lines of generated spaghetti code that generate other spaghetti code will save us

Europe: The Council of Europe has just voted to ban conversion 'therapy' practices 🇪🇺

Update: Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) here -

https://pace.coe.int/en/news/10185/pace-calls-for-ban-on-conversion-practices

#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Europe

So, WikiFlix is this wonderful place where public domain cinema classics are waiting for us.

📽️ From Nosferatu and Night of the Living Dead, to Metropolis and Un Chien Andalou, you can watch everything here: https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/

:digitalcourage: Seth Stern, the chief of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation.:

“These arrests under bogus legal theories for obviously constitutionally protected reporting are clear warning shots aimed at other journalists […] The unmistakable message is that journalists must tread cautiously because the government is looking for any way to target them. […]
The answer to this outrageous attack is not fear or self-censorship. It’s an even stronger commitment to journalism, the truth, and the First Amendment. If the Trump administration thinks it can bully journalists into submission, it is wrong.”

:digitalcourage: Katherine Jacobsen, the US, Canada and Caribbean Program Coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists :

Lemon’s arrest “should alarm all Americans.
As an international organization, we know that the treatment of journalists is an indicator of the condition of a country’s democracy. The United States is doing poorly,”

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Former AZ Senate President Steve Yarbrough already makes $125,000/year pushing vouchers. Now, his company ACTSO is trying to force federal vouchers in Arizona 🚩🚩🚩

💰 Why? Because private organizations like ACSTO are able to take a 10% cut of every voucher. A federal expansion means MILLIONS more in profits 😡

Contact your lawmakers NOW and urge them to say NO to this scam 👉 bit.ly/NoFedVouchers

💍 YOUR tax dollars are being funneled to ESA vouchers to buy millions of dollars worth of luxury items, while neighborhood public schools are being forced to close all over the state.

😥 Arizona public school closures are continuing at an alarming rate.. Meanwhile, the off-the-rails universal ESA voucher program has hit a cost of $1 BILLION a year.

🗣️ Tell Governor Hobbs and your AZ lawmakers to stop the voucher grift! Use our one-click email tool TODAY: bit.ly/StopVoucherGrift

100 Arizona high schoolers shut down the AZ senate with a protest per AZmirror

Sen. Wendy Rogers, R-Flagstaff said, 'Senate building had been locked down because of a “massive loud protest.”'

100 high schoolers were too noisy from them

Article also quotes Sen. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, one of the racists behind the show me your papers 1070 law from a decade ago. He keeps getting elected in the retirement city

https://azmirror.com/briefs/student-protesters-shut-down-arizona-senate-with-anti-ice-demonstration-at-capitol/

#USpol #ICEout #NazisRaus #AZpol @arizonamirror

@alter_kaker

I made the seniors in advanced CS use ONLY terminal for a whole week and got a "thank you" letter from one at college.

"everyone thinks I'm a hacker this is amazing"

Yes, it is that easy I suppose.

¹ Name of the speaker is redacted to protect the guilty.

No reason to specifically shame this particular person publicly because it is far from the first time I've seen this.

I started my time 30 years ago in #FOSS being in the audience: asking those questions & having old men on stage scoff at how stupid my question was.

Now that I'm 30 years older & one of those old men, I'm aghast that my colleagues from my generation — who *could* change the culture of aged arrogance — instead embrace it.

🇺🇳 :freesoftware: At the @OpenForumEurope EU Open Source Policy Summit, our UN Open Source United team co-chair announces the next UN Open Source Week, 22-26 June. Hope that many of you can join us in New York. Read more and express your interest here:

https://www.unopensource.org

#UNOSW #UnitedNations #UN #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #EU #Europe #NYC #NewYork #UNHQ

Must see from @euronews

Fact check: Is the EU launching a social media platform called #WSocial?

🔗 : https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/01/29/fact-check-is-the-eu-launching-a-social-media-platform-called-w

"A spokesperson for the European Commission told The Cube, Euronews' fact-checking team, that the EU is not launching or funding any social media platform, and that there is currently no EU-backed project called "W"

[...] W is a privately owned social media start-up incorporated in Sweden, backed by private investors mainly from the Nordic region."

Please share widely

New in PN: The protection racket regime

"While the administration blamed Pretti for his own murder, Bondi went full protection racket. All Minnesota has to do for payment is agree to her thuggish demands that have literally nothing to do with Trump's supposed justification for occupying the state." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/bondi-letter-minnesota