Mastodawn

The United States is a dystopian nightmare and you can’t convince me otherwise.
https://www.propublica.org/article/florida-court-hearing-c-section

She Was in Labor at a Florida Hospital. Then She Was in Zoom Court for Refusing a C-Section.

A virtual court hearing from a pregnant mother’s hospital bed shows what forced medical treatment can look like.

ProPublica

Gary 6d ago

Trav / Theresa Mar 16

Gary Mar 17

Nuño de la Serna Mar 16

Highly surprised about the FreeCAD 1.1 Release Candidate. The overall crash stability but in general the stunning UI improvements, better realtime preview and gizmos. 👏@freecad 👏

Gary Mar 15

Robin Ward Mar 15

Got a cyberpunk lumibricks kit for my birthday

Gary Mar 15

Corey Snipes 🌱Mar 15

RE: https://chaos.social/@ubahnverleih/116036385017753115

Interesting and beautiful photo thread on Dafen, China (near Hong Kong).

Gary Mar 13

sam henri gold Mar 12

The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/

“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold

Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

Gary Mar 12

Elizabeth Ayer Mar 11

Oh good heavens, they really are trying to bring back the company store.

Tools as part of compensation are a long-standing labor issue.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-compute-compensation-software-engineers-greg-brockman-2026-3

Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation

AI inference emerges as a critical factor in tech compensation, impacting engineer productivity and Silicon Valley hiring dynamics.

Business Insider

Gary Mar 8

Nick Peers Mar 7

So Amazon are now using Persona for ID checks too on buyers - my 18-year-old daughter has just lost a gift voucher because having let her add it to her account, they promptly cancelled an order she placed using the gift balance and are demanding she upload digital ID. Attempts to fix this over the phone have failed and long story short, the money she was given appears to be lost unless she's prepared to hand Persona her details.

A reminder why this is a bad idea: https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over.

I wanted a blue badge on LinkedIn. To get it, I gave a US company my passport, my face, and my biometric data. Then I read the fine print.

THE LOCAL STACK

Gary Mar 8

esc key Mar 5

Gamerz.net hosted a service to play abstract board games via email. It ran for over 30 years, and was recently shuttered by its operator. In a correspondence confirming the service’s closure, its operator said, “I hope I helped you reduce your productivity just a little bit.”

I suspect they meant it flippantly, but the more I think about it, the more I find that to be an extremely lovely sentiment. I hope I help you reduce your productivity just a little bit.

Gary Mar 6

Ben Werdmuller Mar 5

"A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI." #Technology https://werd.io/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protester/

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester

Ben Werdmuller