https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/04/uk-ireland-leaders-fear-union-future-nigel-farage-led-government

It's unexpected, to say the least, to see The Guardian tacitly admit that the UK may disintegrate by 2030.

@mullvadnet Why is the CEO of Mullvad able to profit so much he can bankroll a far-right party pushing for mass deportations? Partly, it seems, because I PAY HIM. Well, I assume since he's on the far right and values profit over people, he'll at least understand the concept of 'voting with our dollars.'

I have no desire to fund a billionaire making the world a worse place. Seeya, Mullvad.

I'm well aware of what a fascist political party that runs on a platform of 'mass deportations' can do to a country. I'm living through it.

And since far-right politicans violate human rights, the right to privacy, and the law all the time in the pursuit of crushing dissent from anyone to their left, you are out of your mind if you think I'd trust any traffic I pass through Mullvad now.

If you live in the Western US, you may not realize how banana pants the weather is in the rest of the country right now. Check out Ryan Hall Y’all on YouTube and it’s everything from catastrophic flooding in IN to tornadoes in KY to 2 inch hailstones in MT to 1.6 million under severe thunderstorm warning in TN/NC … it’s just crazy

Meanwhile, in SoCal: 77 and blue skies.

If you are looking for a job that is fully remote and also not evil, DuckDuckGo is hiring for several positions: https://duckduckgo.com/hiring

This is a not fun read. It's a good one. But not fun.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/16/trillionaires-dire-democracy

No matter how you slice it, the rich are the enemy in their current state.
#tech #inequality #democracy

Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper, and every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at a scale the industry spent 4 years trying to make people forget about.

#AIEthics #WeDontNeedNoAIEthics #WeAintGotNoStinkeenAIEthics

https://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/817865966907228160/darren-oconnor-timnit-gebru-was-fired-from?source=share

Cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

Influential study touting Chat...

Here's a strange situation:

thousands of #Rust developers use #bacon, #broot, #dysk, or #lazy-regex every single day — tools I wrote, maintain, and improve for free.

Their companies, though? None of them want to hire their author.

If you use my tools at work and your company does #Rust, I'd really appreciate a hand landing a job or freelance mission. A boost goes a long way. 🙏🦀

https://dystroy.org

‘Visible from space’: why #Spain has the world’s biggest concentration of #greenhouses
Andalusia houses ‘Europe’s vegetable garden’ – a laboratory of development and innovation producing #vegetables for all of #Europe
More than 30,000 hectares (74,131 acres) of land are covered in plastic, a geometric labyrinth five times the size of Manhattan, where 3.5m tons of vegetables are produced every year – enough to feed half a billion people and generate of more than 3bn euros.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/29/europe-vegetable-garden-greenhouses-andalusia-spain

@Darkphoenix https://earthlymission.com/visualization-two-entangled-protons-quantum-yin-yang-experiment/ Here is a not Twitter. And it is in colour.

#FediHelp

Our friend @bbacc is looking for a Gall-Peters¹ map, better if SVG and with country borders.

Mediawiki Commons is not helpful, in this case.

Please, can someone here around help her?

🔁 Boosts appreciated, thanks!

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall%E2%80%93Peters_projection

@lcamtuf To a dumbass, any sufficiently advanced gobbledygook is indistinguishable from intelligence.

Do you know of any Worker owned Cooperative and Ecological Clothing manufacturers to turn to if you want to buy t-shirts that you can print campaign messages on for a community organization? #AskFedi

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116472275651648711

Loneliness is not a problem that can be solved with technology.

That said, when hammer salesmen keep making ever more grandiose claims about their all-purpose hammers, it’s hard not to see everything as a nail.

Scam attempt just now.

Supposedly somebody from google checking in about a change to my account recovery details. Contact via both phone and email, with both a robot and a brit sounding guy.

Knew a bunch of personal details (just stuff one could easily get via leaks etc).

Interesting bit is that it's not clear what they were after. Not a straight attempt at relaying SMS "2FA" or such. Played along until they wanted me to repeat a case number back to them, which seemed too risky.

Found it

Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John Deere. The settlement includes a 10-year “agreement by Deere to provide ‘the digital tools ​required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of tractors, combines, and other machinery”. https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement

Want to fight back? A large coalition of academics and NGOs has initiated a legal grievance mechanism at the UN Human Rights Council, calling out Elsevier / RELX for the risks it poses to human rights as a direct consequence of its support for fossil fuel corporations, but it's currently under legal threats from Elsevier. You can find more about them here, as well as alternatives to collaborating with this company:

https://www.climaterightscoalition.com/

https://stopelsevier.wordpress.com/