Mastodawn

The #IDF is frigging #bonkers. https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-ron-arad-nabi-chit-9054b777cb2d853e9a58cd65a71adb12

Israeli special force mission in Lebanon fails to find navigator missing for 40 years

Israel carried out a commando raid in eastern Lebanon to search for clues about a navigator who went missing 40 years ago. The operation left dozens of people dead and dozens more wounded. It found no remains or new information related to the 40-year-old case of Ron Arad. The Israeli military said Saturday that the force came back without evidence linked to Arad. The Lebanese army said the team landed by helicopter near the Syria border and moved toward Nabi Chit. Lebanon's state news agency said the force clashed with Hezbollah, local fighters and Lebanese soldiers.

AP News

morgan Mar 8

Rik Viergever Mar 7

Read below 👇 why you should start using LibreSpeed from now on for internet speed tests

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#FOSS #opensource

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morgan Jan 21

Unicorn Riot Jan 21

NEW: Right-Wing Influencers Desperate to Find an Insurrection in Minneapolis

From Nick Sortor & Cam Higby to Nick Shirley & Jake Lang, right-wing content creators have descended on the Twin Cities to agitate community and farm for content during the federal government's immigration occupation. These media-making provocateurs appear at rallies and protests to agitate participants and provoke a response in attempts to fill their narrative, get clicks, and get donations.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/right-wing-influencers-desperate-to-find-an-insurrection-in-minneapolis/

Right-Wing Influencers Desperate to Find an Insurrection in Minneapolis - UNICORN RIOT

Right-wing content creators have descended on the Twin Cities to agitate community members and farm for content during the federal government's immigration occupation.

UNICORN RIOT

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morgan Jan 21

Update: apparently people who go to school in the U.S. are exempted. That's nice for them, and means we can still retain some people, but my comment above still stands.

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morgan Jan 4

There's a cool philosophical discussion there, but it also made me think about a semantic shift I've noticed:

There's a trend among at least my colleagues (and myself) to use the word "physical" to refer to doing something on a computer more directly than usual. E.g. "I had to physically delete the cache directory to clear it."

morgan Jan 4

Was playing twenty questions with my kid. Here's a snippet:

* Is it a physical thing? Yes.
* Is it an object? No.

I did not successfully guess the thing. It was a particular YouTube video. We then debated whether the pattern of signals that is the video is a "physical thing".

morgan Jan 4

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myrmepropagandist Jan 4

@jamey

In fact I take the radical position that the more people repair and replace part of the ship... the MORE it's "The Ship of Theseus" because of that investment of time and of defining what it is.

If it were buried in the sand and perfectly preserved but forgotten? Then it might just be "a ship" with no name.

morgan Jan 3

Trey Hunner 🐍Jan 3

This was my first read of 2026 and I highly recommend it.

This book challenges liberals, conservatives, and various other groups to introspect the true reasons behind their thinking on immigration.

Also it's a comic book, which makes it more fun to read.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/39e5b357-cf86-407c-b049-844f6b9a02f8

#books #bookstodon

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morgan Dec 19

Completely senseless to upend their lives for no good reason. It's rediculous such a change of policy is even legal.

morgan Dec 19

Found out today the science nonprofit I work for would have to pay $100000 _per person_, _per year_ to hire anyone with a work visa. Which we obviously cannot afford. It also means a third of my team (software engineering) will be gone in two years when their visas expire. These are all people who went to grad school here and have built lives here, and I've worked with them for several years.