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LorennaCleary.bsky.social: "In Bell, CA an entire community stood up against ICE, including the local police and the fire dept. The fire truck appears to not allow ICE vehicles to move forward nor remain and pushes forward to escort them out. A police car also helped with escorting. /" — Bluesky

Normally seeing random Monsterdon posts on a Sunday night without having any idea what's going on in the movie is entertaining. Less so when they're about launch of military attacks (in the movie) and being posted concurrently with the start of WW3...

TIL bash shell arithmetic does its operations as signed C integer arithmetic, so that overflow invokes undefined behavior. 🤡

I remember when his son, Richard W. Smith and his three frat buddies selected a random UVa student and beat the hell out of him on the street while they laughed, back in 1997. UVa didn't expel them, thanks to Fred Smith's intervention. Today, Richard W. Smith is a COO at FedEx.

Something to chew on, this Pride month: As a cis and/or hetero person, you don't have to understand how it feels to be gay, pan, or ace, to be trans, enby, genderfluid or any other identity or orientation. You don't need to intellectually "get" it. It doesn't have to make sense to you. There's […]

FYI, the entirety of discord (as opposed to any trackers or ads embedded in the platform) keeps getting added to one of the major ad blocking lists. It’s not clear if there’s a technical issue causing this (such as a parsing error in a script) or someone somewhere is very ideologically committed […]

The feature I really wish mapping apps had: Map the route both with and without tolls, then tell me the time and price difference. Or even set a threshold. Less than 15 min, take the free roads. More than that, okay we'll take the toll road.

FFS, if there's one dead simple class of ads any advertising service should ban, it's "buy this stock!" YouTube/Google has devolved to early 2000s spam email levels... 🤦 🤡

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Mahmoud Khalil has been released from federal immigration detention after 104 days in custody.

Yeah dog I know, LLM "agents" are inherently vulnerable. There is no way to patch this vuln https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/

Most folks don’t really pay attention to international news, but for those of us who have family at risk of being killed by the bombs we send, we’ve been watching Bibi cry wolf about Iran being “weeks” away from having a bomb for 29 years. I’m 32.

Americans bring guns to protests and then somebody gets shot dead, by the people who were supposedly there to protect them. Clown shoes everywhere. Only in fucking America..... #USPol #NoKings #GunControl

I have upvoted this and I think you should too, because I think it says something about the world that we want to live in. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086 But I also think that it is important to understand that users cannot meaningfully have "rights" in a world in which […]

It's really wild to me some of the stuff that normies don't understand at all, that we take for granted. Like the amount of branded software that's just outdated versions of free software with a vendor's name and extra bugs slapped on it and real authorship obscured. Encountered this in FDM […]

Actor/author made a documentary about the scam-and-crime crytpocurrency "industry" -- which has essentially purchased the federal government (for relative chump change) and will likely soon destroy the global economy. He can't find a distributor […]

Seen on Bluesky: Guy explains to CEO of Signal (messaging) that it's going to add "AI" to the service. She says no. He insists, not knowing or caring who he's talking down to.

Keep ‘em coming “A federal judge expanded a ruling Tuesday that blocked the #Trump administration from enacting policy changes to sex markers on passports for many #transgender and nonbinary Americans. “ […]

The idea that I would be deemed to agree to the vile Mastodon.Social ToS because I use another instance that federates with m.s and don't block m.s/have followers from m.s/whatever.. is just as preposterous ..as the idea that I agree to Google's ToS because I communicate by email with someone […]

after 25 years of a career of trying and mostly failing to make the world a better place with software it is truly soul-wrenchingly exhausting to watch a substantial plurality of the entire software industry decide that actually, it is more lucrative and easier to make the world worse instead

Before I take seriously any dreams you may have about terraforming Mars, buy a few acres of the worst farmland in your area, and build a no input farm on it that feeds your family year-round. If you can't even do that, no mention of living on Mars please.

I've shared this one before, but it's worth saying again... Price is Right was kind of formative for me as a kid... I was homeschooled, and it came on after my morning skating, so my treat was getting to watch it before getting to my homework for the day. It turns out there's a lot of shit you […]

it’s still International Day of Latex somewhere #latex

Destroy! https://aftermath-shop.fourthwall.com/products/destroy-ai-t-shirt-natural

Neofeud is a #cyberpunk adventure game where a cyborg social worker for sentient robots & his transhuman allies fight a cabal of trillionaires in floating palaces. Grab Neofeud 1 & help me finish the sequel! https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/ […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Wish that would make me so happy if it came true: For failing tests to print out the pathnames to the relevant source files that comprise the test (both the test itself and any test framework files it's using) relative to the project root, so that someone not familiar with the project can […]

Big pet peeve: rechargeable devices with battery chemistry & topology that should admit charging in minutes but that have ultra low power bricks and proprietary connectors or limiting circuits that make it take hours to charge. Vacuum cleaners are the worst offenders here.

When people talk about the "survival of the fittest" or "the crime of empathy," I want clips like this to be pressed into the sides of those people's self-serving dumbfuck heads until they cave in.