A year ago I made Wellness Ping because someone I care about went silent and it took too long for anyone to notice. v2.0 is now out. It now works entirely over Signal, usernames or phone numbers, both for your check-ins and for your emergency contacts. Email isn't safe for everyone to use, but […]

How can this be verified? For science, I mean.

endless growth is the ideology of a cancer cell

RE: https://mastodon.online/@sarahtaber/117023952417236122 Section 301 tariffs supposedly increase the price of goods from counties that use slave labor. The irony of them being used by a slave state against counties with significantly better labor laws should not go unnoticed.

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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Tale a glimpse into to life of Black people (French source; I’ll provide an English summary): At the 2026 World Powerlifting Championships in Lithuania, Belgian athlete Sonita Muluh lost her chance to win the world title after her final squat attempt (334 kg) was ruled invalid. During the lift […]

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news/117010156110002339 Before I got shot, I was trying to figure out how to organize against Trump. I found out about the Twin Cities GDC. They had made it relatively easy to organize a GDC chapter. We were working on getting chartered when I got shot. Twin […]

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@HennaVirkkunen/117008348161347403 "Gigafactory" is a term coined and popularized by known fascist and racist Elon Musk. "AI Factory" was coined by NVIDIA to make investments into their graphics cards look like a reasonable way to use one's resources […]

@Hex dystopia is a tool to warn people. But you warn because it hasn't happened yet. Now, as the scenarios envisioned have happened and we failed to avoid them, it's time to write utopias, to give people hope and a goal. It's super difficult to write a believable utopia when all the moods are […]

We've reached some kind of dystopia singularity, where you can't write dystopian fiction anymore because things are worse than the society you had imagined by the time you finish fleshing out the idea.

@Hex The only reason fuzzers aren't still churning out vulns, far faster and cheaper than chatbots, is that there's no hype in them. Nobody is paying people obscene amounts of money to set up fuzzers and run them, because getting vulns out of them doesn't make stonks go 📈

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@drwhax/116997238394916522 This can also be done with open weight models run locally.

Renee Nicole Good is dead forever. I watch you shrug and laugh with Stephen Miller, the man who, in the most charitable reading of all events, sees her death as an acceptable loss. Emmanuel Clifford Damas died "of a tooth infection" they say. Emmanuel is dead forever. You sip your drink; watch […]

A few months ago, a client asked me to shave about €200 a month off our agreement. "We’re trying to cut back on expenses", he said, "to boost our cash flow." I was hesitant, but hey, I agreed. Fast forward to this morning: one of his team members calls me asking for help because - and I quote - […]

Yo, I'm heading up a brand-new community project. 👥 We write code by hand. 🤚🏽⌨️ It's a growing opt-in directory of software developers who write code by hand. When you hear someone tell you “nobody does that” you can point to this and say “well these folks […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

If you run a mastodon instance, it's time to patch.

If you want to know what Rubio is trying to do, go listen to the Revolutions podcast on 1848. Metternich built a conspiracy of kings that persecuted Liberals in order to protect European empires against revolution. It failed, of course, but he was able to hold things down (right until it all […]

@Hex 💯

Move slow and fix things.

@Hex Excellent essay. When I hear people complain about paying for parking, they get agitated when I explain that they should pay for parking *everywhere*. That people who take the bus to Walmart or their bike to the grocery store are subsidizing their "free" parking. The same way they're […]

The murders will continue until Police and ICE are abolished. https://wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/madison-police-kill-man-in-broad-daylight-in-front-of-witnesses/

@megmac I have been thinking idly that the forced move to LLMs is a way to return personal computing back to a client/server model. Today, you ask the computer to do something and it grinds away and does it. Tomorrow, when you ask your thin client to do something, some computer in Indiana does […]

My central computing conspiracy theory is that "general computing for normal people" was largely a solved problem by the 90s, through things like Excel, visual basic (and HyperCard before it), Flash, and comprehensible html (along with web design tools that were deeply flawed but extremely […]

Holy shit, I'm in the anarchist library! This is cool! https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/hex-m-hell-transitliberationism

Transitliberationism

hex_m_hell Transitliberationism A Bicycle Anarchist Manifesto 07-20-2026

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Popular Front recently did a piece on the current conflicts in Ethiopia: https://popularfront.substack.com/p/everything-you-didnt-know-about-the It's a good primer for anyone who's unfamiliar, but is definitely lacking if you know any Ethiopian folks or pay attention to much news out of the […]

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116880003584050912 It passed. https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434 Codeberg bans vibe coded slop.

tante@tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 4w ago

If you are a member of Codeberg e.V. please take the time to participate in the poll that was just sent out about banning vibe-coded projects on Codeberg. Please agree to the proposal. Slop can live on GitHub.

This is a pretty good rundown on why the #GenerativeAI bubble isn't like the #DotComBubble but *far worse.* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3-vf78ZwTc

Liberal Zionists claim that Israel is or can be a democracy. But ethnostates can never be democracies. In order to exist in territories that are not ethnically homogeneous, ethnostates must rely on ethnic supremacy, ethnic cleansing and apartheid.

RE: https://chaos.social/@vogelchr/116953057618621110 OMFG WTF