I was thinking about the hippy, flower child, free love, anti establishment days this morning. How some of those people ended up right leaning as old people I can't understand.
In my opinion we all need to find our groovy again and shame on the people who would deny us peace just because they can.
I am working hard to get my body in a better place so I walked again this morning. I walked up the hill at the #HumboldtBotanicalGardens twice. Forty minutes of keeping my heart rate up. I am motivated. Lots of things rely on me staying healthy.
I took a couple of groovy photos.
Peace.
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Japan’s Factory Sentiment Improves, Firming Up BOJ Hike Case
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He was waiting for me to come to the dining room to eat MY supper. Have a good end of Sunday where it still is.
#dog #dogs #DogsOfMastodon #AdoptDontShop #rescuedog #photography #FujiFilm
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And have a lovely start of the week, we all need that on these sad times we live in.
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Between the Best and the Worst: Some Thoughts on Not Surrendering
Dear readers, I'm setting off in a couple of hours on an overnight trip with a friend to go visit our mutual friend, Jarvis Masters, who's one of the many prisoners moved off Death Row but not actually relieved of that murderous sentence.Rebecca Solnit (Meditations in an Emergency)
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A new release of #Hachinan is out!
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"Meanwhile, Zuhrah’s friends repeatedly called the prison requesting an ambulance, who they said “kept hanging up” on them. They tried ringing for ambulances directly, but were informed that this would have to be arranged through the prison.
“We were being told by ambulance operators that they have no power over whether an ambulance goes to a prison or not, because it is up to the prison whether they will accept an ambulance," Moulsdale said.
“If someone collapses in a prison, they don't get an ambulance sent to them. The prison gets to decide.”
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How a Palestine Action hunger striker was left on her cell floor
The friends of a Palestine Action-affiliated prisoner currently on hunger strike say she was left to lie on her cell floor with worsening chest pains while the prison refused repeated requests to call an ambulance.Katherine Hearst (Middle East Eye)
Once Upon a Now in America
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L’odio di Trump per l’Europa dimostra la nostra potenza. Senza di lui rinasceremo
https://www.lastampa.it/esteri/2025/12/15/news/l_odio_di_trump_per_l_europa-15434890/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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L’odio di Trump per l’Europa dimostra la nostra potenza. Senza di lui rinasceremo
Da adesso in poi l’Unione deve agire come se fosse solaBill Emmott (La Stampa)
L’esercito di Kiev scudo per l’Europa
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L’esercito di Kiev scudo per l’Europa
Sul campo i soldati ucraini hanno già dimostrato di saper usare meglio di chiunque le armi occidentali. In caso di conflitto allargato, è a loro che chiederemo…La Stampa
L’Ue è costosa, bloccata e illusa su Mosca. La corsa al riarmo non la difenderà
https://www.lastampa.it/esteri/2025/12/15/news/l_ue_e_costosa_bloccata_e_illusa_su_mosca_la_corsa_al_riarmo-15434952/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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L’Ue è costosa, bloccata e illusa su Mosca. La corsa al riarmo non la difenderà
Il meccanismo di Bruxelles la rende impotente di fronte ai sovranismi. Che rapporto vogliamo con la vicina Russia?Massimo Cacciari (La Stampa)
Utah farm family in the orchard at peach harvest. Near Springdale, Utah
#Springdale #theUnitedStates #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
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The same company with eyes on our NHS data....
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Israel used Palantir technology in its 2024 Lebanon pager attack, book claims https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-used-palantir-its-2024-lebanon-pager-attackMihai Martoiu Ticu (Mastodon)
Hey all, if you're interested in learning more about renewables, check out this free webinar about heat pumps, geothermal energy, biomass and more on Jan 29. I'm not affiliated at all, just wanted to get the word out because education is neat.
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Renewables 101: Heat Pumps, Geo-Exchange, Wastewater Energy, Biomass & More
Kickoff Session of the Material, Energy & Technology (MET) SeriesEventbrite
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Discorso veramente interessante
My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about:
1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead
2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns
3. How OSS can actually innovate in #uxyoutube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bO…
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Some amazing links found in this talk:
- inkandswitch.com/upwelling/ : Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers.
- dynamicland.org/ : Dynamicland is, among other things, a new kind of computer.
- huggingface.co/blog/starcoder : StarCoder is a Large Language Models for Code (Code LLMs) trained on permissively licensed data
- wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue-w… : These are brutal, dispassionate points that directly deal with the most common boosterisms. Generative AI isn't transforming anything ...
- jenson.org/boring/ : Ultimately, a mature technology doesn’t look like magic; it looks like infrastructure. It gets smaller, more reliable, and much more boring.
- couldshouldmightdont.com/revie… : A book about futurism
How To Argue With An AI Booster
Editor's Note: For those of you reading via email, I recommend opening this in a browser so you can use the Table of Contents.Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about:
1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead
2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns
3. How OSS can actually innovate in #uxyoutube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bO…
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La cucina italiana non esiste, il patrimonio è la sacralità di offrire il cibo
https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2025/12/15/news/cucina_italiana_non_esiste_sacralita_cibo_unesco-15434882/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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La cucina italiana non esiste, il patrimonio è la sacralità di offrire il cibo
Nutrire chi si ama è un rito universale, ma si celebra lontano da chi professa il culto delle eccellenzeMaurizio Maggiani (La Stampa)
This is from Alt National Park Service
Palantir’s involvement in fusion-center ecosystems has long raised alarms for enabling mission creep, a steady expansion from investigating serious crime, to monitoring protests, and ultimately to tracking lawful speech and political organizing.
Many people are aware that fusion centers exist, but far fewer understand how aggressively they are being used today. There are more than 70 DHS-funded fusion centers operating across the United States, originally justified as post-9/11 coordination hubs meant to help federal, state, and local agencies share intelligence about genuine security threats. In practice, their scope has grown far beyond that mandate.
Fusion centers function by combining federal intelligence streams with local and state law-enforcement data. This includes information from DHS, the FBI, ICE, and CBP, alongside police reports, license-plate readers, CCTV feeds, and increasingly, online activity. Public social-media posts, event pages, livestreams, fundraising links, and activist messaging are routinely monitored and analyzed, often under the broad and loosely defined banner of “situational awareness.”
This is where Palantir’s role becomes significant. While Palantir is rarely branded publicly as “fusion-center software,” its platforms are widely used by the agencies that feed data into fusion centers. Palantir tools excel at linking disparate datasets, identifying relationships between people, locations, and events, and visualizing networks over time. That capability makes it especially useful for mapping protest movements, identifying organizers or influential voices, and tracking how activity spreads across cities or regions.
The result is a system where lawful political activity can be pulled into intelligence workflows designed for criminal or terrorism investigations. Even when each individual data source is technically legal (public posts, permits, open-source information) the combined analysis can paint detailed profiles of movements and individuals who have committed no crime. Once that information enters a fusion center, it can be shared widely across agencies, often with limited transparency or meaningful oversight.
This structure blurs the line between public safety and political surveillance. Fusion centers, powered by sophisticated analytics and private contractors like Palantir, make it easier to justify continuous monitoring on the grounds of prevention (anticipating unrest before it happens) rather than responding to actual wrongdoing. That shift fundamentally changes how dissent is treated: not as a protected civic activity, but as a potential risk to be managed.
In short, fusion centers are no longer just passive information-sharing hubs. With advanced analytic platforms feeding into them, they have become active nodes in a nationwide intelligence network one that is increasingly targets speech, association, and protest, all under the cover of “security and preparedness”.
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the current administration’s plan🤡
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‘A new form of genocide’: Gazans feel little relief from Israeli strangulation since the ceasefire
Most Palestinians in Gaza say they don’t feel the relief they expected after the ceasefire. Israel keeps blocking aid into the strip, delaying reconstruction efforts, and leaving hospitals short on supplies, while people go hungry every day.Tareq S. Hajjaj (Mondoweiss)
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Company in Huge Trouble for Creating "Tinder for Kids" App. Via @futurism #Tech ⚙️💾📱🔌💻
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Company in Huge Trouble for Creating “Tinder for Kids” App
The company Wizz is coming under serious scrutiny by regulators and watchdogs for enabling child sexual predators on a huge scale.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
"Hey, Kola, you know how you have the day off tomorrow and you're going to shave in the morning?
You could have had a gorgeous white skirt to feel all pretty and gender in your hotel room. It was only $40! Such soft material too it could have been yours...~"
If you can't do a proper funeral procession in life, you will have to repeat it in death until you get it right.
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Still haven't been able to find a replacement job and contract work won't make enough to pay the owed rent in time by the 29th.
I really really need help with this, the landlord isn't going to give me any more time after this... Need $1600/$1800 still.
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Emmanuel Music perform Bach and Esmail in Boston - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
Emmanuel Music directed by Ryan Turner perform: BACH: Lobet den Herrn (Praise the Lord) BWV 230/ Oboe Concerto in D BWV 1059R. Reena ESMAIL: A Winter Breviary. BACH: Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen (Let honor be sung to you, O God) BWV 248. Recorde...www.worldconcerthall.com
Van Zweden conducts Mahler's Seventh in Chicago - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
Jaap van Zweden conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra playing: MAHLER: Symphony No. 7. Recorded in March. The broadcast also includes Mahler's 'Rückert-Lieder' performed by Hanna Schwarz, mezzo-soprano, and the orchestra led by ...www.worldconcerthall.com
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Female Galápagos birds flaunt their sexual partners. The males don’t seem to mind.
'Many of these female boobies are really freewheeling it when it comes to sexual behavior.’Andrew Paul (Popular Science)
¿Sabían que el personaje de M. Bison en Street Fighter encapsula los arquetipos clásicos del dictador latinoamericano y, a la vez, fue inspirado por una figura mítica japonesa?
M. Bison, conocido como "Vega, el dictador" en la versión japonesa del juego, es el líder de la organización criminal Shadaloo y un villano que busca el dominio global. Su apariencia —uniforme militar, gorra roja y una presencia imponente— evoca deliberadamente la iconografía de dictadores militares históricos de diversas partes del mundo, incluyendo sobre todo los de América Latina, que a menudo se caracterizaban por su culto a la personalidad, uniformes distintivos y un control absoluto del poder.
Sin embargo, la inspiración directa principal, según Fuentes oficiales, fue Yasunori Kato, el villano principal de la novela japonesa Teito Monogatari. Tanto Bison como Kato comparten similitudes en su vestimenta, su visión del mundo y el uso de poderes esotéricos, conocidos como Psycho Power en el caso de Bison, que se alimenta del miedo y el odio.
La ambigüedad de su nacionalidad (especulada como tailandesa en el juego, pero sin confirmación oficial) y su estética general permiten que el personaje funcione como un símbolo universal del poder corrupto y la tiranía, resonando con la historia política real de muchas naciones.
Un personaje de pie en primer plano, mirando al frente. El personaje lleva un sombrero, un abrigo largo oscuro, un top rojo y pantalones rojos. Lleva también guantes y botas oscuras. El personaje tiene una expresión seria.
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“Over the last year, President Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country,” Senator Chris Murphy said.
Dem Senator Slams Trump for Making U.S. More Prone to Gun Violence
After a deadly attack at Brown University, Senator Chris Murphy called out the president for weakening programs and laws that would prevent gun violence and mass shootings.The New Republic
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It could be that there aren't more storms, earthquakes, tornadoes, etc., it's just that technology has changed and now we have a greater ability to detect them.
It could be that there aren't more jerks in the world...
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You might be thinking that this is some unusual incident, that the press is cherry-picking and dramatizing the most sensational events.
I live in Minneapolis. The location in this article is pretty close to me. And I am telling you:
The press is •under•-covering what’s happening here. ICE is doing absolutely batshit stuff all the time, every single day, all over the city.
It is exhausting.
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Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in #Somali neighbourhoods of #Minneapolis amid #Trump crackdown“Armed #ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant & demanded papers.
Federal agents also entered East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN.
They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers.
Everyone present was a US citizen.”
mprnews.org/story/2025/12/10/f…
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's crackdown on the community.The Associated Press (MPR News)
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Illegal. Completely illegal. But everyone agrees: nobody’s allowed to stop ICE from breaking state and local laws, only issue citations afterwards.
To mismarked vehicles. With masked drivers who refuse to identify themselves. How do you cite •that•?!
ICE eats at restaurants I know and love, nice comfy meal before going back out there and destroying more lives.
It’s weird how much this enrages me. I hope the restaurant staff knows who they’re serving. I hope ICE knows they know. I hope ICE officers eat with nagging doubts about food safety.
I heard a rumor — this one not well-substantiated — that they ate at a restaurant and then come back and raided it the next day.
ICE assaulting a pregnant woman.
Covering their license plates with fake spray-on snow to hide the numbers.
Getting pelted with snowballs by the crowd and responding with pepper spray — which only increased the snowballs.
Just this afternoon’s local news.
Video of the snowballs (CW: person being assaulted, dragged)
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While at the ICE bldg in Portland we noticed that the same cars were going to and from the bldg with different plates. I think they have been trading out random plates at another location and driving in and out to avoid detection in their vehicles with their plates in public. In June they had just started taping their plates up or taking them off entirely but people started reporting them as driving with no plates
You’re valid in feeling enraged. Everyone should be enraged. I wish more people were because anger is a DOING emotion.
A request for everyone: please don’t be this person. We’re going through a miserable time here in MSP, and reply guy snot does not make it better.
A •lot• of replies I got are about what is illegal, or should be illegal, or must be illegal, and…yeah, we know, believe me, we know. If what you’re offering is commiseration — as with most replies — I welcome that wholeheartedly! This sucks, and it’s nice to hear people say, “Yeah, that sucks.”
But please don’t come into my mentions to argue. Wrong time, wrong target.
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io I could lay all this out for you, and after a few thousand words you MIGHT start to understand it, but I'm frankly just put off by your smug attitude. Go be smugly wrong on someone else's time.WesDym (Mastodon)
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Final 10 minutes!
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Why Community Matters: Groups as the Next Step for the Fediverse
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