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空港でウトウトしながら過ごしてました
FINALLY I GOT TO SEE THE AURORA!!!
It wasn't *quite* as bright as the phone camera suggests - but it was all visible to the naked eye.
Hamburg, Germany.
More and more chatter showing up in my various spheres about the planned day of protest / shutdown / general strike this Friday in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
I remain skeptical of just how effective a general strike can be here in the US — folks just aren’t used to the idea, aren’t primed for it — but this one •might• actually jostle the needles on some of the local economic seismographs.
I hope so.
Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/threads-edges-out-x-in-daily-mobile-users-new-data-shows/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46683947
Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows | TechCrunch
Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts — even as X faces fresh controversies
techcrunch.com · TechCrunch
Link author: 
Sarah Perez 💙@Sarahp@mastodon.social
Alright, lets see how this goes.
Released the scope-builder, a tool to create ATProtocol scopes and explore how permissions are granted and used.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:akhgi4ekkeaupiqsis6g2gqg/post/3mcsmfu7sg22y
おはよ！！いくぞ新潟！！！ 
雪と日本海と酒と魚！！！ #fedibird
Bad news: Syria & Islamic State. "This is a threat against you wherever you are"
Honestly, I think the liberation of Islamic State/Daesh by Turkish-backed Syrian jihadists worry me more than the latest Twitter stunts about Greenland.
We *really* don't want to have the
Islamic state resurrected just because of Erdogan's geopolitic ambitions. Have we forgotten how the Kurdish and Syrian fighters liberated the world from this menace?
As 
@b9AcE wrote somewhere today: "This is a threat against you wherever you are."
https://todon.eu/@b9AcE/115922060006439019
The (naturally imperfect) project of Rojava is an example for a positive society in the region and the world. Now is the moment to show them our support.
Accounts to follow for news about Rojava and the conflict in Syria:
@a_in_nesAnarchists in NES (very good english coverage)
@KCK_Kurdistan_KCK-Info (ENG)
@ksildKasilda (ES)
@newsblogkurdistanKurdistan News Blog (DE)
@wdrWomenDefendRojava Germany (DE)
@rofaustinRodrigo Faustino (PT)
@Libre_Flot (FR)
feel free to recommend other accounts below! 
#Daesh #IslamicState #ISIL #HTS #Syria #Kurdistan #YPG #YPJ # SDF #Riseup4Rojava #Turkey #Turkyie #Erdogan #Jolani
image of ICE brutality
@samuel.fmSamuel curiously it found a draft of your post because apparently whitewind keeps drafts in pds too. ouch
John Stoehr interviews former MAGA Rich Logis, who has founded a group to try to help MAGA folks to come to their senses. Stoehr writes,
"Trump can send his paramilitary (ICE, CBP) to execute frightened widowed mothers but still expect at least 33 percent of the population to back him. (The most recent Gallup survey that I have seen shows his approval rating to be 36 percent.)"
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #violence
/11
https://www.editorialboard.com/can-liberals-help-maga-find-the-off-ramp/
"And yet something is happening. Trump’s blatant abuse of power really does seem to be radicalizing moderates and causing Trumpers to experience cognitive dissonance (a mental collision of diametric beliefs). I haven’t seen Republicans this anxious since a mob sacked and looted the Capitol."
Good luck with the project of trying to talk sense to the cultic true believers. And I say that sincerely, even as I'm dubious.
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #violence
/12
Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry
Link: https://www.science.org/content/article/nearly-third-social-media-research-has-undisclosed-ties-industry-preprint-claims
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682534
"Nasra Ahmed, a St. Paul woman and U.S. citizen who was born in Minnesota, was released to her family without charges on Friday night after being detained by federal immigration enforcement agents and spending more than two days in detention."
~ Frederick Melo
Melo reports that Ahmed suffered cuts and bruises to her face and legs when ICE snatched her.
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #violence
/13
"Ahmed was born in Hennepin County and raised in St. Paul, and suffers from seizures, according to her family. She had been on her way to pick up prescription medication when the detention occurred. A review of Minnesota court records shows no documented criminal history."
State Rep. Samakab Hussein says,
“I don’t know what to say other than to make her comfortable. She’s devastated. They treated her with no respect.”
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #violence
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RE: https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/115922995190919975
Mozilla is *soliciting* our input.
I suspect they do not *want* our "staaaahp with AI gavage" type input.
Will they actually listen? I have my doubts. Or will they spin the answers to the biased questions as if there's demand for features nobody wants?
Today's internet is worse not because it's different from the one you grew up with, but because those differences are focused on treating you as a site for extracting value.
So cool: 
@Radboud_uniRadboud University University has announced to switch to #Fairphone for (all?) their employees. 🎉 They explicitly cite #sustainability, cost efficiency and management support as reasons.
It's freezing outside but Frieren is back with all the fun German character names Ja Ja Jaaaaa!
a more appropriate way to phrase this, Mr. Vibe Coder Paul Ford, might be "I'm very grateful to the people who contributed to this C++ project [link to project]. Their code helped me to understand how the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer voice format works in context." (from https://aboard.com/triple-a-vibe-coding/)
![That’s the good news. The bad news is that this is still programming, even if it’s a lot faster. There were countless points over the past few weeks when I had to draw on 30 years of experience and a solid understanding of how data flows through audio systems in order to make progress. [highlight begins]At one point, I read C++ code to understand how the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer packed its voice information into 156 byte arrays, an absolutely terrible thing to learn.[highlight ends]](https://friend.camp/system/media_attachments/files/115/923/585/696/709/783/original/b2e85d1debfc2cc9.png)
I've incorporated the Span type into my macro-based local record store. For fun, I made some benchmarks, but I have not done *any* optimizations.
Speedup with Span: ~ 1.2x.
(Unfairly) compared to Core Data: ~2x.
"Second man dies at Texas ICE detention facility in two weeks"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/19/second-death-ice-facility-texas
すげー寒い！！
Chimkins
One peach tree has grown over the terrace, making it the most accessible.
#Polarlights / #Polarlichter / #AuroraBorealis right now near #Kiel
Cry and sob hysterically at every occasion, especially when confronted by government clerks.
It’s a snow day in #NovaScotia #Canada today! ❄️
A nor’easter dumped a foot of snow overnight.
All schools are closed for the day.
Here in the forest it’s beautiful, but many of the trees are bent over, with the weight.
It can't last and yet it keeps lasting
great new spotify feature: when someone sends you a link to a song, it includes a tracking parameter that associates the two of you. when you open the link, instead of going to the song, it goes to your "spotify messages inbox" where you can see your past "conversation" with the person (i.e. every time they've sent you a link with that tracking ID), but does not actually play the song. to play the song, you need to open it from the messaging inbox. when you try to do that, you are invited to join spotify messages. you can dismiss the dialogue, but then the song won't play. you have to join spotify messages to open the song.
went to check on https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com because of the Eric Adams thing, assuming it had quieted down somewhat just because crypto is like 3-4 scam-cycles behind the hot new scams and most of the crypto crime is just being done by the president now in pretty big clumps, but oh my god the "space" has been busy as ever. I am scrolling back through recent history and 
@molly0xfffMolly White has been CRUSHING this reporting.
what an unimaginably stupid time we all live in
"Second man dies at Texas ICE detention facility in two weeks"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/19/second-death-ice-facility-texas
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
same, I really feel the approximate peak of modern technology in it's utility, ease of use, valued cost & lack of privacy invasions, was reached around 2000-2005 ACE. By then we had solid speech/talk to text software & hardware. Mobile phones, including smartphones were durable & had cameras or not depending on your preference. Similarly phones had GPS, & satellite or not. Screen readers were likewise fully developed.
Not everyone needs everything a piece of advanced technology & that's why I would love to see a renewed separation of different devices. Cheap mapping/direction GPS systems, separate from phones, separate from PDAs, separate from cameras.
Speed of doing every tech related task hasn't really changed for most people & if anything it's probably slower due to infrastructure decay.
*As I'm unfortunately continuing to consider which smartphone I should get over the next year & same for my spouse, it really hits me hard how it'd be better for us both if we could just get PDAs, his with a touchscreen & me with a physical keyboard that were 5g enabled. We don't make phone calls, nor answer them on the go & thusly don't need a mobile phone at all.
#Tech #NoGenAI #SurveillanceState #Innovation #Regression #DisabilityAccessibility
おっはよ～だった
おやすみ～
@Em0nM4stodonEm I'm worried about old tech *also* becoming infested with AI too unfortunately. It seems like a lot of software or products that I had trusted to be a little better have given in.
* BeagleBoard
* OnlyOffice
* DuckDuckGo
* Startpage
* Gitlab
* Mozilla
* Phillips (mostly their razors, which have AI marketing now despite that not making any sense)
* Even fucking Encyclopedia Britannica has a chatbot on their website...WHY
So cool: @Radboud_uniRadboud University University has announced to switch to #Fairphone for (all?) their employees. 🎉 They explicitly cite #sustainability, cost efficiency and management support as reasons.
@Em0nM4stodonEm same
bloatware, spyware, etc
I don't want to be that old person who thinks everything is getting worse,
and perhaps people growing up with this stuff crammed into everything will have a better view of it,
but it all seems so damaging to society with no upsides.
unless you are a billionaire who can consolidate wealth and power
日が沈むころ、養殖筏を眺めて #misskey写真部
McIver has spent $1M so far defending herself. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
おはよ
shoutout to @b9AcE for doing such thorough reporting on resistance movements around the world, and for doing it on the fediverse for us all
hypothesis: i'm going to go ahead and say that if someone has a dedicated website for their quantum physics/gravity/quantum gravity theory and it doesn't have a tilde and an .edu in the URL, they're probably a crank
Not that I'm complaining, but if 2026 would stop being so demanding, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks 😂.
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