Due to circumstances beyond my control, I’ve been made redundant at my job. If you want to hire an excellent Apple platforms developer (iOS, etc.) with 17 years of experience, time at Apple, and lots of SwiftUI experience, or a great Ruby on Rails developer, reach out.

Full-time or freelance. Ready to go immediately. Please spread the word. #Swift #RubyOnRails #GetFediHired

Make your call today. On April 25th, in Frankenmuth, MI, Democrat Senator Slotkin said she's supporting GOP and agribusiness trying to cut farm worker wages. If you stand with farmworkers, act now. Make your call to Senator Slotkin today at 1-202-759-4087.
Protect farm worker wages!
#wefeedyou

This fediverse is a work of fiction.

Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the imagination or used in a fictitious manner.

Any user's resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

https://youtu.be/vn92FwiwTEA?feature=shared

France quietly deployed 100,000+ Linux machines in their police force - GendBuntu is a silent EU tech success story

https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1lfxdsd/france_quietly_deployed_100000_linux_machines_in/

Well done. Let us get free from Microsoft spyware OS. They are not trustworthy vendors, and all taxpayers' money should go to fund open-source apps/software and not to Bill Gates' fortune.

#linux #OpenSource

HUGE nonviolent protests
upcoming on the #4thofJuly

at a city, town or roadway near you

#RESIST #protest #NoKings #politics #tyranny #FascistAmeriKKKa #Nazis #IWillNotBeSilenced #July4 #Kleptocracy #kakistocracy

There’s still a super helpful culture among EV drivers at charging stations, helping each other navigate broken chargers, waiting patiently for your turn (there’s only rarely a wait).

I’m super glad for this oasis of kindness in what feels like a brutal world. #SueWalkstheEarth

Indie writer rant, but applies to all creators:

Never chase algorithms.

Any time you spend learning how a particular web site's algorithms works has zero long-term payback.

Recommendation engines will change without warning.

Social media feeds will change without warning.

Writing to tropes? Lovely. Writing to Amazon's idea of tropes and categories? The moment the algorithm changes, you're out of luck.

Chase skill, not the algorithm. #writing

Steam just added screen reader support in the latest Big Picture Mode beta. On the Deck. On SteamOS. On Linux.
Not hacked in. Not community-patched. Built-in. From Valve.
There's an accessibility tab. There's a screen reader. There's high-contrast mode, UI scaling, color filters, reduced motion, and more.
I can’t believe I’m saying this but: I need a Steam Deck now.
Accessibility isn’t just coming to gaming — it’s here, and it’s official.
Let’s make some noise so they keep going.
🔗 https://www.theverge.com/games/689922/steam-is-adding-screen-reader-support-and-other-accessibility-tools
#Accessibility #Gaming #SteamDeck #ScreenReader #Linux #valve

My last day of work at the World Trade Center was Sept 10, 2001. I worked late, so I was going to go in late the next day. I never made it in (the planes hit in the morning). I was at 5 WTC, a 9 story building between the towers, all my coworkers evacuated

What I remember most were the missing person posters, especially plastered all over Grand Central Terminal

Now we experience it again with #ICE under #Trump

Powered by the same stupid hate and fear that powered 9/11

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/los-angeles-missing-posters-ice

@huxley @pluralistic If it had been locked behind a discord, I wouldn't have found it.

I would have used something else. That's how open source projects get forked.

@huxley @pluralistic I'm going to relate an incident from earlier this week - maybe people will 'get it'?

I'm working on converting a little tool to rust and gtk4 for a friend.

I ran into some errors related to some obscure gtk4 syntax.

Docs - no help. YT - no help. Copilot/Gemini - no help.

What finally helped was stumbling over an ancient forum post from the start of the GTK4 rollout with links to a very specific section in the doc.

Without that forum, I'd have never gotten it done.

Enshittification comes for open source:
Slack is kicking two large open source groups, Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Kubernetes, off of their donated enterprise tier, giving them one week notice to migrate multiple years of data to a new platform before it's all deleted: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/06/16/cncf-slack-workspace-changes-coming-on-friday-june-20/

Instead of learning from this experience and not trusting the good will of profit-motivated closed source companies, it looks like both projects will be moving to ... Discord. Because "people know it." Will we never learn?

(Dropped Cory because he's probably getting tons of spam from this. Sorry!)

#enshittification

Hey all, PM Press is having a sale on their ebooks. $1.99 with the code READ.

They're a leftist org that publishes a lot of Communist/Anarchist/very Leftist, LGBT+, etc. nonfiction and fiction.

Good shit. I backed the book Queerpunk about 20th century LGBT+ punk bands.

Check it out: https://pmpress.org/

#PMpress #Books #Communist #Anarchist #TourmaReads #Sale

I am tired.

I am going to rest for a bit, and then I am going to write with the defiance of a person who will not go gently into any kind of night, morning, midday, twilight, or golden hour.

I am going to defiantly write something to make anyone who reads it feel like they've had a vacation from the culture of unrelenting, shallow, petty, half-assed, cruel, misspelled, Grammarly-and-LLMs-are-my-editor, Jesus-is-my-blinker, coke-high-to-k-hole idiocy that too many cardboard-cutouts-self-identifying-as-people call their personality.

If I can't have a happy ending outside the page, by dog I will compose scandalously and deliciously hopeful prose.

America is not at a tipping point.
It has tipped.

America is not about to slide into fascism.
It has slid.

America is not coming to an inflection point.
It has already, gleefully, turned the corner.

America is not flirting with political violence.
The violence has begun.

America is not gearing up for civil war.
We had an insurrection.
We have armed, masked people kidnapping civilians off the street.
A congresswoman was murdered in her own home.
We have a President sending the Marines into every single American city.
His son calls us mongoloids.
He calls us terrorists.
The war has started.

India's National Fisheries Board is housed in this building in Hyderabad. (Photo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Fisheries_Development_Board) This is the future I was promised

Someone shared this gem recently but I can't find it nor recall who anymore(feel free to mention so i can edit)

Very strong!

"Martin" is a Central Coast strawberry harvester. "I've been working as a strawberry picker for 10 years. Right now we're harvesting piece rate which means I need to work very fast to harvest as many boxes as I can. A few extra boxes means extra money to feed my family." #WeFeedYou

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

This is your brain 🧠
This is your brain on LLMs 🍳

#ai #llm #chatgpt