Roland Tanglao prefers mastodon @roland@devdilettante.com :-)

Great art on Bluesky (@art.feediverse.org) Marguerite Gachet at the Piano, 1890 #vangogh #vincentvangogh

Marguerite Gachet at the Piano, 1890 #vangogh #vincentvangogh.

One wonders whether the Republicans on the court will invent some sort of superficially plausible argument, or if it will just be like “OK, not for you”

In our era, community was the buzzword. They never really understood it, but they thought maybe it would make them money. And it did, for some of them. But all that’s over now. Now they want to pave over it all and replace it with slop they control. Their need for humans is over.

This is why I love the web, but they never loved the web. They just thought it was new territory to mine and exploit. That’s why they’re trying to replace all this diversity with AI slop they can control.

They never loved the web. I don’t think they ever even liked it.

Ontario’s cash bail playbook punishes the poor, and does not make us safer The American experience is a warning. Cash bail deepened poverty, entrenched racial injustice, and weakened community safety. Ontario does not need to repeat those mistakes. But unless we resist this ...

These alarming developments are described below by a leading Canadian civil rights lawyer who I know from my time working on the cash bail system in St. Louis after the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

THREAD. There are alarming developments in Canada recently. Some politicians are apparently doing their best impression of Trump's Executive Orders on cash bail--they want to determine who is in a cage and who is free with their family based on who pays up-front cash.

Not a single one of the big pro-Trump "Canadian MAGA" accounts is actually Canadian.

Hochul on Chris Hayes, about Stefanik: “She’s full of shit.”

GitHub - scotthansonde/rsscloud-ping Contribute to scotthansonde/rsscloud-ping development by creating an account on GitHub.

Scott Hanson put together an rssCloud plugin for WordPress sites.

People in Monrovia, CA are buying and returning inexpensive ice scrapers at Home Depot as an ICE protest. Very civil. www.aol.com

I'm looking for WordPress sites that are set up to cross-post to ActivityPub.

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Mamdani tames Trump After months of racist smears and outright lies about communism and terrorism, President Donald Trump heaped praise on New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani during their Oval Office meeting on ...

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Mamdani tames Trump www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

I love it. I’m part of a stickers club, and his is in my pile, so I always get to explain how I got it!

Effective Altruism is also make-believe bullshit, so of course Nate Bronze finds it interesting.

Real "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." energy.

Apparently only “low IQ” people adhere to constitutional law.

His brain takes him places that he cannot explain 🤣

Man with a lot of dumb opinions on everything annoyed when other people also have views.

These Dan Dan Noodles Are the Weeknight Meal of Your Dreams. www.nytimes.com

close up photo of a back blue jeans pocket wit a brown knit shirt loosely tucked in and a white condom package with the Firefox logo poking out. Below that is the text "Always use protection." and "GetFirefox.com" with tiny text "Firefox is the free web browser that offers greater privacy and prevents pop-ups, spyware, and viruses.

Another Chris Messina creation, one we didn't use :D

First of 2 facing pages in the New York Times print newspaper, featuring the Firefox logo and wordmark created from the names of nearly 10,000 donors filling the page top to bottom in tiny but legible text. Splitting the page at about 1/3rd up from the bottom is a white space with bold text, "Are you fed up with your web browser? You're not alone. We want you to know that there *is* an alternative..."

Page 2 of the NYT ad, designed by Chris Messina and the Spread Firefox gang, features a large Firefox logo filling the top half, and below that "Introducing Mozilla Firefox 1.0" and several quotes from happy users: "I installed Firefox on my laptop today. It's so fast - I never knew there could be that much of a difference." - Stephen Cropp, New Zealand "I was tired of my browser crashing everyday, so I tried Firefox. Now I can't live without it. Pop-up blocking, secure browsing and no spyware. Best of all ... not a crash since I switched." - Justin Henderson, USA "I thought changing and learning a new web browser would be difficult, but with Firefox I had no problems at all. Browsing is now smooth." - Jouni Hätinen, Finland Below the user testimonials reads: "Firefox is the free, open source web browser from the Mozilla Foundation that lets you surf faster and more efficiently and helps avoid annoying pop-ups and spyware. Join us and make the switch today - Firefox imports your Favorites, settings and other information, so there's nothing to lose. Find out what more than 10 million users from around the world already know: there is an alternative!" The ad concludes with "Download today from GetFirefox.com" and in super-small text under that: "This message has been brought to you by the thousands who contributed funds to the Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting choice and innovation on the Internet. Special thanks to the employees of Haberman & Associates, MozSource, Oracle, Red Herring, Red Hat, Sourceforge.net, Speakeasy and Sun Microsystems for helping to make this possible.

Happy 21st birthday, Firefox.

This is our community-funded 2 page New York Times launch announcement. The names of nearly 10,000 small donor fans are designed into the first page.

B.C. tradition, I think. My hometown of Courtenay does it, too. Toronto very much does not do it. Victoria Day is a whole ’nother story, though.

Per Danny Kemp via press pool

Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL

“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”

The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS IN CASE OF ICE: CONOCE TUS DERECHOS EN CASO DE ENCUENTRO CON ICE:

DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR. ICE cannot enter your home without a warrant signed by a judge. Tell the agents to show you the warrant by sliding it under the door. NO ABRAS TU PUERTA. ICE no puede entrar a tu casa sin una orden firmada por un juez. Diles a los agentes que te muestren la orden deslizándola debajo de la puerta.

ASK THEM TO LEAVE. If ICE doesn't have a warrant, tell them you do not consent for them to enter your home and ask them to leave. At work, ICE cannot enter employee-only areas without permission. 2 PÍDALES QUE SE VAYAN. Si ICE no tiene una orden judicial, diles que no das tu consentimiento para que entren a tu casa y pídeles que se vayan. En el trabajo, ICE no puede ingresar a áreas exclusivas para empleados sin permiso.

REMAIN SILENT. You have the right to remain silent. If the agents ask you questions, tell them, "I wish to remain silent." PERMANECE EN SILENCIO. Tienes derecho a permanecer en silencio. Si los agentes te hacen preguntas, diles: "Deseo permanecer en silencio".

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.

EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.

Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

The “De” In “Decentralization” Stands For “Democracy” There’s a certain dark irony in watching tech billionaires who built their empires on the “democratizing power of technology” now actively working to dismantle democratic institut…

I wrote a thing about how decentralization and democracy don't just go hand in hand. They're necessary components of the same system. For there to be true democracy there must be true decentralization.

www.techdirt.com/2025/04/17/t...

Thinking about the 'AI coding is like everyone has a team of junior engineers' thing. It's wrong, I think, unless your junior engineers are terrible and you are a terrible senior engineer. Yes, it means thinking more about design and less about typing, but

i of course want Radio Userland back please somehow :-) and i'd pay monthly!!! but i am get off my lawn grumpy old man :-) who wants the good ole days of Radio back :-)

they report conventional wisdom. when i started blogging in 1994 they were reporting that there was no new software for the mac, yet there was lots of new software, and they knew it, but they don't report facts, the report conventional wisdom. they didn't see anything wrong with it.