Ron Gilbert (100% AI free)When Twitter collapsed, it was great to see the flood of friends, game devs and other come to Mastodon. Over the next 9 months a lot of them vanished to Threads, BlueSky or just left. I want to thank all people who are still on Mastodon and make it a wonderful place. You know who you are.
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Robert Reich
đżđ¶đđ¶ "not yet begun to fight"There are 0 trans people in the Epstein files. Take all the time with that you need.
The New RepublicMinnesota Republican Representative Tom Emmer was asked directly if he agreed with President Trumpâs assessment that the thousands of Somali residents he represents are âgarbage.â
He couldnât give a straight answer. https://trib.al/EFYcS0c
He couldnât give a straight answer. https://trib.al/EFYcS0c
The Conversation U.S.Karoline Leavittâs White House briefings arenât just spin â they reflect what George Orwell warned about: lies divorced from reality, and the use of âdoublethinkâ to have a word (like âtransparencyâ) mean just the opposite. A historian who studies Orwell explains:
Thread âŹïž https://theconversation.com/karoline-leavitts-white-house-briefing-doublethink-is-straight-out-of-orwells-1984-270675
Karoline Leavittâs White House briefing doublethink is straight out of Orwellâs â1984â
A historian analyzes how White House press secretary Karoline Leavittâs claims about her boss and his administration are âdoublespeakâ straight out of the pages of George Orwellâs â1984.â
A.R. MoxonSorry guys. If you had actually been âour ownâ instead of getting friendly with our enemies trying to kill our neighbors and our families, maybe you wouldnât be getting attacked now, food for thought.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...
âTheyâre attacking their ownâ:...
âTheyâre attacking their ownâ:...
Don MoynihanThere is a lot of America in this story:
A public service (firefighting) is contracted to reduce costs, which effectively means the work is done by immigrants for low pay and little protection. The work is dangerous but comes with few of the protections we afford to public workers.
Nonya Bidniss 
đșđžTrump economy: last year's Christmas week special on rib roast at Kroger was $5.97/lb. They do this every year and the past few years the price was about the same. I got huge rib roasts for about $50. This year? It's $9/lb and the roasts are selling for around 90 bucks. So I didn't buy one this year. So much for my year's worth of ribeye steaks. THANKS TRUMP
Richard Mischook@jwcph @pluralistic Iâm reading The New China Playbook by Harvard-educated economist Keyu Jin. Itâs an interesting book but one of the authorâs more baffling arguments (IMHO) is that the Chinese stock marketâs lack of western-style growth is a deficiency in their capital markets, and that China would benefit from the likes of Blackrock or Goldman Sachs operating in the country. When I look at the achievements of China over the last 40 years Iâm astounded that anybody would make such a claim.
Ramsey Nasserand beyond just the triumph of capital over any alternative, it really breaks my heart that computers are just objectively worse today than they were in the time of Chuck Moore. I try and not be an old man yelling at the cloud about this but we've given up on stability, soundness, maintainability. these are non-goals of modern computing, sacrificed at the altar of shareholder value.
it is wild that an official update of the operating system could break otherwise working code in a way that is impossible to determine even what is happening, let alone what to do to fix it. but this is what we've come to expect. computers break all the time, software breaks all the time, stuff crashes, you restart, whatever. and this isn't even factoring in the incoming wave of vibe-coded systems which make no attempt at correctness.
this isn't what computing was, there were attempts -- serious attempts! -- at developing theory and practice to build systems that were stable and correct in the face of usage and updates. we put half a century into that. and now we live in a kind of collective surrender. it's really depressing. as someone who has dedicated a life to computing, it's really fucking depressing.