#middayMusic #middayMix

https://soundcloud.com/john00fleming/john-00-fleming-joof-radio-70

#trance #music #electronicMusic #djmix

RE: https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/115922995190919975

Mozilla wants your input. Here's mine:

Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

1: Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
2: Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
3: There is no 3.

Mozilla should have NOTHING to do with AI. Nobody wants it. Stop forcing AI into every corner of every project because your VC-brained management have completely lost the plot.

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

@jwz My reply

An annoying but minor #1Password functional issue: when the 1Password extension is locked and you click the 1Password icon to in a login field to autofill it, 1Password should automatically pop up an unlock prompt rather than just displaying a little notice that you need to unlock the extension, unnecessarily forcing the user to do the extra work of moving the mouse over to the extension icon and clicking on it. Bitwarden gets this right.

I keep seeing Americans who want to do something about the state of our #politics, but feel like no action they can take will do enough to fix things, so it’s not worth trying.

It’s easy to feel nihilistic. So I’d like to propose an alternative - a 10% improvement approach to political change, of sorts.

It comes from my #PTSD treatment: the idea that no one approach, skill, or intervention can make the #trauma just go away instantaneously. So instead, us humans are left with 10% solutions - things that help a little bit, for some amount of time.

The key to healing is to develop an ongoing set of multiple different solutions that you rotate through based on what feels feasible on any given day / moment. Each one helps a bit. 10%, 5%, 1%. But eventually, you get to making big changes that felt impossible at the start.

The same works for political change and activism. Sure, going to any one protest, or calling your representative, or boycotting a brand, or changing one person’s mind, or donating to one fundraiser won’t fix the entire broken political regime. But it will help A LITTLE.

And if a lot of us continue to find ways to do things that help a little, it will end up doing a lot more.

A movement starts with a thousand little steps that don’t look like much on their own.

Take that little step. Then another.

#USPol #activism #socialChange

#middayMusic #middayMix

https://soundcloud.com/john00fleming/john-00-fleming-joof-radio-69

#trance #music #electronicMusic #djmix #nice

Lotta GenAI pictures and videos on the old timeline this morning, gang. Be careful out there.

we all need a little less raging against the dying of the light and a little more coordinated tactical assault on the darkness factory

RE: https://dice.camp/@johnzajac/115845954658479816

I spent a lot of time in the 90s working on Y2K. It wasn't a huge panic. It was just a slice out of everything else we spent auditing code. It wasn't "spend 80 hours a week fixing this." It was just boring. Incredibly boring. And we made it be ok by being bored and fixing stuff.

And the one thing I never thought would happen was that people would say it was never a problem. Oh good grief, it was a problem. All over. We just fixed it. Like we thought grownups should do when there's a problem.

Whenever you see what #ICE is doing in front of cameras, you must imagine what they're doing where nobody can see them--like in the concentration camps the USA is building. It's easy to read those words and much harder to fathom what they mean; that this is happening in our day and age, in what until recently was believed to be a first world country. "Abolish ICE" doesn't go nearly far enough in my view.

@zakalwe @Sustainable2050 @cstross I mean… Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir, explicitly stated that the company was founded for the explicit purpose of creating kill lists of “commies.” So yeah, it is pure evil.

I like this:

The GPS never says "Are you sure you're going the right way?"
It just says, "Recalculating route."

Remember that when your kid tells you they're trans.

The regulars are coming! #Ice facility in Burlington, #massachusetts recieves new equipment, worrying lawmakers of potential upcoming surge. Stay safe. #Uspol #politics

BOOSTS APPRECIATED

Hey, Massachusetts peeps, did you know there's a company in Stoneham called Veterans Business Supply, Inc that is supplying I.C.E. with leg shackles and handcuffs? #Stoneham #Massachusetts #ICE

@jefposk.bsky.social Same same. But I stayed long enough to report the account for inciting violence.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Grutjes/115907687819628134

If ATProto is as decentralized as Bluesky the company likes to claim, there should be absolutely no need for said company to sponsor ICE by providing them with social media infrastructure. If ICE wants to host a presence on the ATProto part of the social web, then they can stand up their own infrastructure to do so — they definitely have the budget, after all.

I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, sponsored content, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.

This project includes configuration files (group policies), a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Everything is open-source on GitHub.

https://justthebrowser.com

Happy to see Bandcamp taking a position against AI generated music. But this is the same Bandcamp that fired a bunch of its workforce when they tried to unionise.

#genai #music #bandcamp

“Santa Cruz got it right,” EFF’s Sarah Hamid told KQED News. “Santa Cruz joins nearly two dozen jurisdictions in 2025 that canceled or rejected Flock contracts by exercising procurement power—local democracy’s most underutilized tool.” https://www.kqed.org/news/12069705/santa-cruz-the-first-in-california-to-terminate-its-contract-with-flock-safety

computers can either be magic or a mall and everyone hot and interesting voted for magic but the people with all the guns and money voted mall, so