@virus.sucks does the analyzer app use Web Serial or WebUSB? firefox nightly just added support for Web Serial 👀🤞🏻

it's Via btw. who own Citymapper and a bunch of other public transportation mapping products

ughhhh was looking at a job i really liked and the founders are israeli. elite idf program and everything. booooo

OH at union square: [incredulously] "there's a PARK in your neighborhood?"

any suggested articles/materials criticizing the concept of "progress" (particularly re: technology)?

sorry, i was wrong. another browser also has 1,023 tabs open. so the total was 4,046

computer slow? couldn't possibly be the 3,023 tabs i have open

Fundamental foundational reminder: It's human biases and human values all the way down.

The particular technology in question can matter in how exactly said values express, but the core remains:

Human biases, human values, human choices, and unquestioned human assumptions, leading to human death.

Moving into my long term housing next week. The property management company just asked for an a deposit because I am “a potential liability.” They want $500. I can’t move in unless I pay it. This is some bullshit. But it’s the only housing that works for me at this time.

not trying to minimize AI's contribution here at all but we should all also be critical of the energy usage of streaming video, especially short form. curious to see how bytedance/tiktok compares, and if google and meta break theirs down such that youtube and reels can be separated from other uses

Stop a Monster Data Center at the STAMP Mega Industrial Site - NY Renews

New York pals, here's a chance to comment opposing a data center

The US Attorney's offices are filing doomed misdemeanor cases because it allows them to keep migrants detained for months, which fills up beds, which makes money for GEO Group and CoreCivic, which gets returned in the form of kickbacks to politicians and lobbyists. Simple as.

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech Meta funneled $2B through nonprofit shells to push age verification laws targeting Apple and Google while exempting its own platforms from surveillance requirements.

OS level age verification is a Meta lobbying project

Pass it on

Municipal Socialism’s “YIMBY” Problem – Spectre Journal Ben Rosenfield and Holden Taylor challenge technocratic Abundance-style solutions to the New York "housing crisis" and argue for a militant movement with tenants as the protagonists.

long but worth it spectrejournal.com/municipal-so...

do you have any links? working on something adjacent to this

Some tips on giving digital privacy/security advice: if you tell people they absolutely need to do a long list of difficult and expensive things before they travel, people will nod and smile and then not do it at all. This is why my advice focuses on harm reduction and understanding trade-offs.

Heal Minds Gaza: empowering Palestinian children who were in detention Palestinian children in Israeli occupation prisons face severe psychological violence that deeply impacts their sense of safety, identity, and community after their detention. The Heal Minds Gaza init...

We have NINE days left, final countdown! 457/1557 to finish this campaign for kids who got out of occupation torture camps!!!

chuffed.org/project/hmg

idk i scrolled linkedin the other day and it made me want to throw up

thinking of writing a degrowth-adjacent blog post/rant/polemic begging tech workers to care about the imperialist resource extraction and labor abuses that power our jobs and related technological advancements. but idk who will see it

This is a fucking nightmare.

it's so nice out and i'm so sick wtf

As US Bombs Iran, ICE Is Deporting Iranian Americans Into Danger Trump isn’t “freeing” Iranians — he’s deporting and bombing them.

The pattern is unmistakable: The more U.S. bombs have fallen on Iran, the more ICE has arrested and abused Iranians en masse in the United States. As of September 2025, 320 documented final orders of removal had been issued to Iranians.

i gotta get back into carrots and hummus

tbh i feel like the future is that every library/block/family/friend group/whatever has a couple sysadmin types who manage the shared NAS/plex server/other infrastructure

Donate to Support My Journey to Safety and Wellness, organized by Lenée A. Voss Hi, I'm Lenée. I am an organizer and cultural worker. I need your help to get … Lenée A. Voss needs your support for Support My Journey to Safety and Wellness

alllll righty. I updated my GFM: www.gofundme.com/f/support-my...

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

it's a very scary time to be trans in this country, but you also should be aware of what is actually a problem, what is actually something you have to worry about, and what is yet another nothingburger. you can't fight the actual fight if you're too busy swinging at ghosts.

you don't do anything for yourself as a trans person by being aware of every single bill ever considered in a state legislature and every single petition filed with the government. all that will do is drive you mad. i'm not saying to bury your head in the sand, very much not,

this is great and reminds me of growing up with a shitty Acer laptop. kids should be allowed to explore the bounds of what your computer can and can’t do. if you aren’t hitting a wall trying to do something you think you might want to do, if computing is Easy Forever, what’s the point?