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As of 18:45 UTC (10:15 PM local), traffic to Iran has stopped as the country has completely severed itself from the global internet.
Per NYT:
Asked in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times if there were any limits on his global powers, Mr. Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
RE: https://mastodon.tedomum.net/@revpermanente29/115859130832647541
Je sais pas si tout le monde se rend bien compte du degré de dégueulasserie de cette mesure : le téléphone portable est le dernier outil de contact avec la famille, les amis, toute personne qui peut aider ou donner des conseils, le seul moyen d'appeler au secours...
Ce pour des gens qui ont vécu l'enfer durant leur parcours et sont dans une grande vulnérabilité...
마크 업데이트로 나온 아기동물들 독보적인 솜털이다
Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
Link: https://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2009339263251566902
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545077
I joined the Oxide and Friends annual predictions podcast episode this week - here are my 1, 3 and 6 year predictions for AI and LLMs (and Kākāpō parrots) https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/8/llm-predictions-for-2026/
this list also contains some of my first contributions, just a bunch of little docs cleanup things so far
so, what terminal should i be using for macos these days?
#jj-vcs 0.37.0 came out yesterday! im intrigued by the new divergent change syntax, seems very neat
github.com/jj-vcs/jj/re...
Release v0.37.0 · jj-vcs/jj
The monthly SWICG GeoSocial Task Force meeting is about to start if you have thoughts on location data use cases and the social web.
https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/ed630a3d-7581-4053-9978-75949ad42f2a/20260108T130000/
Notes from the 2026-01-08 #SWICG #GeoSocialTF meeting:
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@evanEvan Prodromou’s Personal Places API proposal
- Discussion of how an overlapping W3C Community Group and Working Group might function
- The FOSDEM Social Web track is going to be even more awesome this year
everyone is a PM now, whether you like it or not
IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware
Link: https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/ibm-ai-(-bob-)-downloads-and-executes-malware
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544454
The Full-Sized 32-Wheeled, Articulated Bus Built for a 1976 Movie
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/08/the-full-sized-32-wheeled-articulated-bus-built-for-a-1976-movie/
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#Ukraine #Gaza #Venezuela are the direct consequence of USA oligarchs ruling by fiat. hence the conference circuit anchored by #Davos
there are 800 USA b̶i̶l̶l̶i̶o̶n̶a̶i̶r̶e̶s̶ that roam around freely in their planes and yatchs.
yes, we need to shut shit down in USA, but we cannot fight fascism at home when the leaders of the #MAGA #ManifestDestiny #techbro #MIC #finbro #christofascism movements are given safe harbors elsewhere.
USA milliardaires need to be treated as the enemy, WORLDWIDE
@blogdivayour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
Start with these names; the people who bought an election for a Republican felon:
Oligarchs & their minions can be easily placed on a "No Fly" list.
1. Elon Musk $291,482,587
2. Timothy Mellon $197,047,200
3. Miriam Adelson $148,304,900
4. Richard Uihlein $143,498,936
5. Ken Griffin $108,402,284
6. Jeff Yass $101,128,680
7. Paul E Singer $66,800,800
8. Marc Andreessen $42,365,113
9. Stephen Schwarzman $40,202,039
10. Timothy Dunn $35,780,200
11. Rob Bigelow $34,991,500
Trump is melting TF down on Truth Social. C'mon, c'mon, get in the streets, I'll find your protest for you. If enough of us do it maybe we can make him stoke out!
Ten years ago, if someone had told me that tech policy bloggers would be calling for ICE to be abolished, I would have thought it very unlikely.
"Abolish ICE" is an increasingly mainstream and extremely correct position.
The latest chrome is apparently deploying WebGPU on Linux, which is cool, but only on Intel? INTEL??? How did they even get stuff to work on the shittiest hardware and driver combo before they made it work on the grown up platforms. :')
from within CSS-as-authoring culture, a shift like this (especially when perpetuated by some other alien culture) is seen as attempt to decimate your environment. the argument is no longer about one tool vs another tool, more like that your specialization has no reason to exist. similar to ai now
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
shared the below article:
IFTAS Blog @about.iftas.org@about.iftas.org
New insights into the people, pressures, and infrastructure shaping decentralised platforms Published by IFTAS, this report draws on detailed surveys and community feedback from volunteer moderators, administrators, and community managers across the decentralised social web. It offers our most comprehensive picture yet of the trust and safety landscape across projects like Mastodon, GoToSocial, WordPress, PeerTube, and more. What’s in the Report New pressures on moderators: The average […]
Read more →Trump is melting TF down on Truth Social. C'mon, c'mon, get in the streets, I'll find your protest for you. If enough of us do it maybe we can make him stoke out!
I'm pissed off
If any of these fuckers actually cared about "data" like they said they do, they'd sink trillions into social investments which *we know* will yield a fair and prosperous future instead of whatever the fuck this is
Seriously I am so angry with these craven oligarchs. I am thinking some incredibly uncharitable thoughts, I assure you
We don't have the money MY ASS
This rant is brought to you by my bus seatmate who got some spam about github copilot
It will never, ever stop annoying me that #SQL has "LEFT" and "RIGHT" joins.
These keywords' names are horribly inaccessible for those with Left–right confusion, which is A REAL THING that affects MANY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.
Including, yes, myself.
Samsung Hit with Restraining Order Over Smart TV Surveillance Tech in Texas https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/01/08/1729204/samsung-hit-with-restraining-order-over-smart-tv-surveillance-tech-in-texas?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Found a really pretty pigeon in Boston north station! I have decided her name is Snowball.
We gave her some fried squid, and all her buddies came by to get in on the action.
The Vagina Museum is a proudly trans inclusive organisation 🏳️⚧️
We won't be silenced with our commitment to telling the entire story about anatomy, reproductive justice and bodily autonomy! Trans people have always existed and will always exist.
Me and my first phone.
Around 45 years ago.
This photo has been on my grandma's living room cabinet for as long as I can remember. She passed away less than three years ago, and to keep her memory alive, my wife suggested we keep it in our living room.
A blast from the past looking towards the future.
#ThrowBackThursday #Photography #Photo #Me #JustMe #BackInTime
I've been working on a little project while I've been away.
Maybe one of the smallest computers ever to run Windows 98SE natively, with Video, Sound, LAN and USB, no emulation, bare metal.
It's been a mission as it was never meant to run this OS and driver hunting was insane!
I've been watching too many Japanese and Korean cozy camping videos. They often make dinner from instant ramen with some stuff thrown in it and it looks so good. And it turns out it *is* so good!
Every time I amp up my cheap ramen with random ingredients, it works. Arugula + a can of sardines, a couple of eggs and mayo. Last time was a big fistful of shredded cabbage and some canned mackerel. Left my kitchen smelling like the apartment of a flatulent geriatric cat owner, but it was delicious.
Brought the work laptop home, so that if there's too much snow and/or ice on Monday I can work from home. I'm not in the area with the really serious warnings, and I'd actually rather go to the office, but it seemed like a sensible idea.
de news
Given the weather forecast, it's really good that that attack on the electricity supply in Berlin was last Saturday rather than yesterday.
A local daycare is under investigation after two general contractors found a child wandering in front of a home under renovation. Ken Der shares their account and takes a look at Little Crumbles Day Care, including previous investigations and citations. https://alamedapost.com/news/daycare-under-investigation-after-toddler-found-alone-street/
fwiw i think culturally there’s some truth to css work having being seen as more feminine by some, mirroring the larger “front end devs aren’t real devs” moods from some people. but it also exists in a long-gone world where “writing markup” or styles was a separate thing you might hire someone for
my "this isn't meant to be used for harassment" sign i put on my list of enemies is raising a lot of questions answered by the sign
GenAI
What a terrible situation
https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#issuecomment-3717222957
🌘 退出違背美國利益之國際組織、公約及條約
➤ 徹底實踐「美國優先」：川普發布行政指令，啟動全球性撤資與退羣行動
✤ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-international-organizations-conventions-and-treaties-that-are-contrary-to-the-interests-of-the-united-states/
川普總統於 2026 年 1 月 7 日簽署正式備忘錄，指令美國各行政部門即刻展開行動，退出多項被認定為「違背美國利益」的國際組織、公約與條約。這項指令是根據 2025 年發布的第 14199 號行政命令所進行的全面審查結果。清單涵蓋了 35 個非聯合國組織以及 31 個聯合國下屬機構，範圍橫跨氣候變遷、能源、人權、性別平等及司法等領域。備忘錄明確要求各部門在法律允許的範圍內，停止向這些機構提供資金並終止參與，展現出美國
#美國外交政策 川普政令 國際組織 美國優先
GenAI
What a terrible situation
https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#issuecomment-3717222957
Show HN: DeepDream for Video with Temporal Consistency
Link: https://github.com/jeremicna/deepdream-video-pytorch
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46540660
Not sure whether locals still refer to this location as 'Byer Bank', but that's what it was called back in the 19th century.
Across the road from the Copt Hill public house, visitors making their way to the nearby Bronze Age barrow historic landmark will probably recognise the location.
I had no idea it had a name, but an OS map dated 1896 has it marked as 'Byer Bank', although bank then, it wasn't used as a path/bridleway.
If you were standing here back then, you would be on the route of the Hetton Colliery Railway, a route that brought coal from the collieries at Elemore and Hetton, all the way up to Warden Law before gradually descending all the way down to the coals drops on the River Wear.
In fact, at one point, this looks to have been where two separate rail lines came together, the other one being the Rainton & Seaham Railway, coming in from the right.
#sunderland #sunset #winter #railwayhistory #houghtonlespring
Vernunft
also you could absolutely do the kind of thing people do with llms and say that emacs, by virtue of being written by stallman, is ethically compromised
YouTube will now let you filter Shorts out of search results
https://www.theverge.com/news/858867/youtube-shorts-search-results-filter?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into The Verge 
@the-verge-thevergeThe Verge
Nun, die Piraterei hat sich in letzter Zeit nicht sehr ausgezahlt…
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