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In which the ignorant weasel in charge decides to eliminate actual heroes to prevent comparison, then does it the stupidest way possible as publicly as possible...


Pete Hegseth cuts the pension and strips Senator Mark Kelly of his military rank, because he — a democrat— had the audacity to disagree with the Trump regime.

Freedom of speech, ladies and gentlemen.

Freedom of speech.


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Now that's style. techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/hack…

“We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication,” Nadella wrote in a rambling post flagged by Windows Central, arguing, "Humanity needs to learn to accept AI as the new equilibrium of human nature."

If "the new equilibrium of human nature" is code for worthless, mind-numbing garbage that is clogging up any and all human interaction, then I guess we agree!

futurism.com/artificial-intell…

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Friends, free yourselves from the bonds of Goopple! The time of the degoogling (and deappling - unappling? disappling?) is nigh!

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Axial tilt is the reason for the season!


Happy Winter Solstice, which will occur at 15:03 UTC (10:03 a.m. EDT) today.

Today, earth's axis, which is currently tilted 23.44° from the plane of its orbit around the Sun (the ecliptic), will point away from the Sun.

It is the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere; which means that days will keep getting longer starting tomorrow 🥳

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“She literally went to the police station because an unidentified white man was in her car and she didn’t know what he was doing there”

“may be the first criminal in history to call 911 during the commission of his alleged crime.”

mprnews.org/story/2025/12/17/c…

They went into schools looking for "illegal immigrants", armed and ready for violence. In a school. While the kids were there. So they could be hurt or killed should violence have occurred.

One of these days they're going to get people killed doing this shit!


ICE descends on my hometown of Columbus, Ohio, hitting K-12 schools and immigrant neighborhoods. Update: ICE reportedly arrested two Dublin Scioto high schools students today.

austinkocher.substack.com/p/ic…


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Here is 2025 in a nutshell

Shit people, idioms only work if we all agree on the definitions!

After nearly 200 years of "Out-Of-Pocket" meaning "Paid for it yourself", some ignorant bonehead mashed "Out of office" together with it, and now all of corporate America says "Out-of-pocket" when they mean "unavailable".

Culturally it important? No, of course not. Am I irrationally furious every time I spend time during a meeting looking like an idiot because I have to translate before I can reply to your ignorant ass? Yes.

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Am I the only one who gets a little subversive thrill every time I type in my unnecessarily required birthdate as January first, 1970, knowing that somebody, somewhere, someday, maybe an AI, is going to expend a lot of effort trying to determine if a) that's my actual birthday, b) there's a bug in their signup processing, or c) I somehow hacked the web form to let me submit it without the date filled in?

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Why do hundreds and hundreds of websites all incorrectly, and wierdly using identical phrases, insist that the the term 'blog' is short for 'web log' (True), "which was originally a record of server requests" (False)?

mybookjoy.com/2020/06/23/word-…

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Raw numbers are perhaps not enough to get across just how bad the centralisation of the Fediverse by mastodon.social is. I've done a chart to show this visually, hopefully this will make the situation clearer?

Given the circumstances, getting people to join *any* other server except mastodon.social would greatly help decentralise the Fediverse. It's no longer big vs medium vs small, it's more like supergiant deathstar mastodon.social vs everyone else 😞

#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastodonSocial

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I feel like this is really easily solvable by just having the apps randomly cycle which server is selected by "default" when people are signing up. Obviously still give the option for people to manually select their preferred network, but by having the default random.

Just limit the random server selection to something like 10-20 reputable instances that have a track record of quality administration. That would avoid sending people to an instance that is unsupported and at a higher risk of shutting down.

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J.R.R. Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney and Refused to Let Disney Studios Adapt His Work

openculture.com/2025/11/j-r-r-…

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why do you all want a button to exclude AI? In that way you accept this kind of intusion in a passive way. It's like a trojan horse/virus - take it or die.

That is NOT acceptable.

The correct way should allways be the other way around: If someone wants to use AI, he/she/they could actively turn it on. That will be a way to speak with customers on eye level. I know, it is hard to understand, but that is how it is.

Please think extra long and extra deep about these Standards and come to your own conclusion 😉

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Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #Mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I intend to stay on and continue to advise the new leadership and contribute, because Mastodon—and the fediverse—is one of the very few beacons of hope for a better web.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/…

Just a quick reminder that we've had so much of our freedom taken, and gotten literally *nothing* in return. No peace of mind, no extra safety, no societal value of any kind.

So now, the US is the dictatorship that its stupid, power-mad, corrupt, game-playing political parties have made it, and no one will even admit what they've lost.

theintercept.com/2015/11/17/u-…