Trillion Byter

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Profile pic borrowed from @Beschizza (birdsite) Just your normal guy who works, plays, and lives. He/Him. Carpe diem and all that. And maybe, love one another. PLUR.
Also @TrillionB (birdsite)

Interested in #tech #politics #USPol #art #SciFi #union #LaborRights & PoCs, migrants, indigenous, sex workers, and other marginalized groups. Occasionally boosts #NSFW stuff. #OxfordComma ;)

I hate that I understand this meme.

https://lemmy.zip/post/55691689

Reminder to everyone visiting family this holiday...

LG calls it "TrueMotion"

Sony refers to it as "MotionFlow"

Samsung uses the term "Auto Motion Plus"

You're welcome. 📺

the way we overcome the cultural force of generative AI and smoothed over corporate aesthetics is proudly playing rough, unpolished music. Improvising, collaborating, sharing WIPs and jams, playing 3 chords and telling the truth. Being real, being live, being spontaneous, being imperfect. Embracing music as art, as emotion, as an expression of joy. Who gives a shit if the mix is off or you flubbed a few notes. It's real.
My Xmas present is that Jiji, our new kitten, after a week of being very shy and scared, is finally letting me stroke him. 😻
#CatsOfMastodon #FediCats

“The Flex Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee.”

🎄 2/

I love English. It's a trash fire disguised as a language and I'm here for all of it. However, I really need to be better about people not speaking it "correctly." It's a goddamn trash fire. Of course people don't speak it correctly. I'm pretty sure there's no correct way to speak it. And that's leaving out all the racism and classism which goes into "grammatical perfection."

English isn't Latin. It's a glorious clusterfuck of stolen parts bolted onto a bastard chassis and powered entirely by the burning of dictionaries. There is no way that it should be the lingua franca of international affairs, and yet it is. Speak it any way you want. English doesn't give a fuck. English will take your error and turn it into a part of itself. English drinks prescriptivist tears like fine wine. Contribute to the delinquency of English any way you can.

“The Administration will absolutely appeal this decision and I am far off from having my clearance restored, but the rule of law is a little bit stronger today,” says attorney Mark Zaid.

This German meme was just brought to my attention and I feel obligated to reshare it here

Frohe Weihnachten

A federal judge has ruled members of Congress are not required to give advance notice when visiting ICE facilities.

A dozen House lawmakers filed suit earlier this year in response to an ICE memo
requiring members of Congress to provide at least a week’s notice if they plan to visit a site where detainees are held.

The suit argues the new policy goes against a U.S. statute that guarantees lawmakers the right to make unannounced visits to facilities for oversight.

“The administration very clearly violated the law,
which was agreed to by the president,
agreed to by both Houses of Congress,
establishing the legal right for members of Congress to access these facilities,”
said Peter Kenny, vice president of litigation and investigations with American Oversight.

The watchdog organization is one of the groups representing the lawmakers.

https://www.kjzz.org/fronteras-desk/2025-12-22/members-of-congress-can-make-unannounced-visits-to-ice-facilities-for-oversight-judge-rules

Members of Congress can make unannounced visits to ICE facilities for oversight, judge rules

A dozen House lawmakers filed suit earlier this year in response to an ICE memo requiring members of Congress to provide at least a week’s notice if they plan to visit a site where detainees are held.

KJZZ

I keep seeing anti-vaxxers, freebirth advocates, etc., be like, “Well, what did babies do before modern medicine, then?!”

This. They did a lot of this.