#yosemite #nationalpark #hiking #waterfall

@mbpaz @skua @spaf I always thought Trump's putting Musk in charge of a pretend cabinet department was the equivalent of Caligula's appointing his horse to the Senate.

Except the horse harmed no one.

Liberalism taught me that we can only try to prevent things from getting worse. Leftism taught me that we can try to build a better world.

Very slowly and carefully refactoring dotfiles and Emacs config. I've learned a couple things in the last few decades. May as well apply them.

The Queen on her throne

#caturday

The fact that this exists blows my mind. The rise of NAND Flash during my adulthood is one of the most astounding technological developments that we take for granted.

@JensJot I did it. I say "metal," my daughter (the artist) says "cunty"

Inherited a four-year-old Macbook Air M2 into the Stack of Laptops™. Put Asahi Fedora remix on it last night, lickety split.

On paper, this is the most powerful hardware I have ever owned. I expect to use this device for the next ten years.

Sincere thanks to the whole team. @AsahiLinux @lina #HectorMartin #AlyssaRosenzweig

#asahi #linux #fedora

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116736495067438407

Someone, anyone. Please. PLEASE TELL ME HOW I CAN SURVIVE IN THIS WORLD BEREFT OF SATIRE

#tech #technology #BigTech #data #security #privacy #safety #InfoSec #IT #surveillance #computing #digital #online #internet #web #cloud #meme

Long ago I overheard somebody mention "John Barleycorn Must Die" but I misheard it as "Tom Bombadil Must Die" and I was like OH GOD YES FUCK YES TOM BOMBADIL MUST DIE

#lotr #tombombadil #traffic

Dateline: CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA

"World's Most Passive Aggressive Terrorists Threaten To Break Caregiver's Neck On Stairs Unless He Descends Same Stairs To Feed Them"

"Eye contact avoided"

#cats #catsofmastodon

Notifications were a mistake. I no longer wish to be notified. Of anything. Ever.

"Tell us about the olden days, Grandpa! Tell us about when the Cheerios aisle only had one kinda Cheerios"

#old

It's also important to recognize that tech oligarchs won't let this die. It's too important to them. This is part of the boss fight right here. They will take everything from us to coerce us into making LLMs profitable, to deskilling our labor and selling (skewed) human knowledge back to us at a premium. They will take away every benefit the state has, kill as many people as it takes to funnel every penny of government subsidy into this. They will burn every drop of subsidized oil. Those ICE camps are gonna be used for something. If it takes right wing death squads, they'll do it.

They will kill every last one of us to realize total domination. We have to be ready for that, and prepare accordingly. As many lives as have been taken by people with similar ideologies, those ideologies have always lost. If we know what's coming and prepare for it then they will lose faster, and at a lower cost.

Imran Khalid in CounterPunch: "[The Iran] campaign, lasting just over a month, absorbed multiple years of the entire production capacity of America's premier precision munitions lines. The ultimate guarantor of [post WWII] global stability was the myth that the American 'arsenal of democracy' possessed a bottomless, rapidly deployable inventory of high-tech, precision deterrents capable of suppressing multiple global crises simultaneously. The West built its strategic posture on this myth, and its collapse marks a civic and geopolitical inflection point."

(Which comes at the same moment the world realizes the NATO/Zionist order runs not on elections but on perverts blackmailing each other.)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/09/the-dwindling-arsenal-and-the-twilight-of-the-western-shield/

#uspol #iran #collapse #counterpunch

@django

#emacs

Hot take? Every editable text field should be an Emacs buffer. I don't want your semi-arsed Emacs keybindings, I want the full thing.

Kropotkin sums up @dlakelan's evocative examples to fit on a bumper sticker:

"The idea of the state means something quite different from the idea of government."

Ed Abbey: "Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners."

@dlakelan