Mastodawn

doctorambient 3h ago

Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉4h ago

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116483896730844416

This is where our banana republic is at

doctorambient 3h ago

TheJen will not comply 6h ago

It all just gets dumber and dumberer.

The dumbest.

I am in awe of how fucking dumb it all is.

https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/116483399789212299

doctorambient 1d ago

JA Westenberg 1d ago

Every era invents a new reason why the old rules don’t apply. Then the old rules apply anyway.

Tulips. Railroads. Radio. Dot-com. Housing. JPEGs. AI.

Different costumes // same brain.

The most expensive sentence in history is: “This time is different.”

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-loop-everything-has-happened-before-and-everything-will-happen-again/

The Loop: everything has happened before, and everything will happen again

We keep replaying the same human mistakes -bubbles, strongmen, scapegoats, and panics -because the operating system in our skulls hasn’t updated in ten thousand years.

Westenberg.

doctorambient 1d ago

mhoye 3d ago

I think we should recognize shaming individuals for imperfection or impurity in our collective pursuit of positive change as a deliberate act of sabotage.

doctorambient 1d ago

AaronDavid 1d ago

doctorambient 1d ago

Deborah Pickett 1d ago

Y’know, Signal, one of the ways you could prevent people’s contact lists being caught up in a social engineering scam would be to not keep bugging us to import them from our phones into the Signal app every -week- month.

Edit: fingers crossed that this hostile pattern has just been removed, HT @marilyn https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/4590

Please remove permission reminders · Issue #4590 · signalapp/Signal-iOS

I would like to use Signal without allowing permissions to my contacts. This is possible, except that every so often I get "reminded" about this (permission pop-up to allow access to contacts). Thi...

GitHub

doctorambient 1d ago

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1d ago

EFF tells Ninth Circuit that exposing app stores to potential liability will incentivize greater censorship of user speech. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-9th-circuit-again-app-stores-shouldnt-be-liable-processing-payments-user

EFF to 9th Circuit (Again): App Stores Shouldn’t Be Liable for Processing Payments for User Content

EFF filed an amicus brief for the second time in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, arguing that allowing cases against the Apple, Google, and Facebook app stores to proceed could lead to greater censorship of users’ online speech.Our brief argues that the app stores should not lose...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

doctorambient 1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116479156671281237

Somehow all the jokes about ASU pale in comparison to actual ASU.

#asu #clips #ClipsAreTheContent

doctorambient 1d ago

AnnieBuddy 1d ago

It’s okay for Trump to call for the deaths of antifa and democrats, not to mention innocent civilians of other countries, but no one should ever talk about his demise? Give me a break. I have some party planning to do.

doctorambient 1d ago

When did Microsoft Outlook take away the ability to set a default meeting length? Or is that another case where my organization has decided that their STUPID workflow and choices should overwrite mine?

#MSoffice #outlook #microsoft

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