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Mojo ♻️
mojo@aus.social
Calling Wilcox’s cartoon “unacceptable” misunderstands both satire and journalism. Political cartoons are meant to be provocative, compressed and confronting. They exaggerate power relationships to expose hypocrisy and danger, not to offer polite balance.
This cartoon does exactly that. It highlights unchecked US imperial behaviour and the hollow language of “freedom and security” used by institutions like NATO while aggression proceeds regardless. Discomfort is not a flaw, it is the point.
If a cartoon criticising military power is deemed unacceptable simply because it offends those aligned with that power, then the problem is not the cartoon. It is a shrinking tolerance for dissent and satire in public debate.
Wilcox is doing a great job.
#politicalcartoons #satire #pressfreedom #imperialism #media #theage
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Erik McClure
cloudhop@equestria.socialShow content
Bose recently did an unambiguously good thing, by open-sourcing audio hardware they were originally going to brick: https://www.theverge.com/news/858501/bose-soundtouch-smart-speakers-open-source
However, I've seen some people say "don't praise Bose for this, they didn't do this until there was backlash".
SHUT UP. Shut the FUCK UP. I'm DONE living in a society where you get dragged through hell if you make a mistake, EVEN AFTER YOU CORRECT THE MISTAKE. I'm so fucking tired of hearing stupid excuses for this kind of puritanism like "they should've known better" NOBODY KNOWS BETTER UNTIL *AFTER THEY MAKE THE MISTAKE*. THAT'S HOW LEARNING *WORKS*.
And before you say "Companies aren't your friend" PUNISHING THEM FOR FIXING THEIR MISTAKES WON'T MAKE THEM DO THE RIGHT THING EITHER. If other people, or companies, see someone get punished for both messing up AND attempting to fix the mistake, they just won't bother at all!
People HAVE to be allowed to make mistakes. They HAVE to be given a chance to improve.
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tante
tante@tldr.nettime.orgRE: https://phpc.social/@syntaxseed/115863080846737985
Exactly. I don't care too much about the "unicorns", I want small to medium companies that do one thing really well, everyone is fairly compensated and can go home early on Friday.
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
ifixcoinops@retro.socialFrom the mid-90's to the mid-2000's videogames would scream their own name at you in the attract mode.
RESIDENT, EVIL 😡
THE HOUSE. 😮 OF THE DEAD 💀
Sega, Rally Championship! 👋☺👋
FATAL FRAME 2, CRRRIMSONBUTTERFLY 😨
Residentevil... 😡 FOURRRR!
I need a supercut video of lots of those title screens with the games screaming their names.
Fedi, please boost, does this already exist? Are you in fact the one who made it?
I'm asking not out of a desire for amusement but to help my daughter with her enunciation. Some of these voices had to carry across an arcade with all the games set to the same volume and so had to be Very Very Clear, but also with a Certain Flair
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Michael Salbeck
isAutonomous@karlsruhe-social.deGuten Morgen ☕
Das freie GraphenOS macht Schlagzeilen:
Die spanische Polizei nennt es "Geister-Betriebssystem". Und:
" 'Jedes Mal, wenn wir ein Pixel sehen, denken wir, es könnte ein Drogendealer sein' "
"Abhörmaßnahmen wirkungslos"
"Staatliche Malware funktioniert nicht wie geplant"
"Da die katalanische Polizei aber laut eigenen Angaben ohnehin jeden Pixel-User für einen Dealer hält, ist es wahrscheinlich günstiger, selbst gleich GrapheneOS zu installieren."
;-)
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Natasha 🇪🇺
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbtNames for avid readers 📚 by language -
English: Bookworm
Danish: Reading horse (Lesehest)
French: Ink drinker (Buveur d'encre)
German: Read-rat (Leseratte)
Indonesian: Book flea (Kutu buku)
Romanian: Library mouse (Șoarece de bibliotecă)
Norwegian: Reading horse (Lesehest)
Serbian/Polish: Book moth (Knjiški moljac / Mól książkowy)
Finnish: Reading maggot (Lukutoukka)
Swedish: Read-louse (Läslus)
Vietnamese: Bookwormweevil (Mọt sách)
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Søren Have
sorenhave.dk@bsky.brid.gy“I don’t know how to stop the bully [US gov’t] from beating people [oil states like Venezuela] up for their lunch money [oil energy] —but what if lunch [energy] was free, and no one was carrying lunch money?”
Great allegory by @billmckibben.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...
Just possibly it's the oil?
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Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)
kernellogger@hachyderm.ioWanna know what the #Linux core developers discussed recently on this years #kernel #maintainers summit?
Then check out the great @lwn coverage from the event now freely available:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1049982/
It includes:
* Toward a policy for machine-learning tools in kernel development – https://lwn.net/Articles/1049830/
* Best practices for linux-next – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050027/
* The state of the kernel #Rust experiment (aka the session where it was decided that the experimental stamp is coming off) – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050174/
* Better development tools for the kernel – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050177/
* Development-process discussions – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050179/
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Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)
kernellogger@hachyderm.ioWanna know what's in store for #Linux 6.19, which is expected on February 1, 2026?
Then check out these great @lwn articles that are not freely available:
* The beginning of the 6.19 merge window – https://lwn.net/Articles/1048869/
* The rest of the 6.19 merge window – https://lwn.net/Articles/1049424/
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Feedtunes
feedtunes@corteximplant.comShow content
With today being Christmas, here is your annual reminder to be nice to newbies in your spaces.
There is going to be a very sudden influx of people who are just getting into the spaces you occupy because they got a gift that acts as their gateway into that activity. Maybe you're into photography and someone just bought them their first ever camera body, or you're into music and someone bought them their first guitar, or you're an audiophile and someone bought them their first really nice headphones, or you're big into TTRPGs and someone just bought them their first ever core rulebook.
Whatever the specific activity and gift, these people are going to have no idea what they're doing, they're going to ask a lot of obvious questions, they're going to make a lot of rookie mistakes, and there's going to be a lot of them.
I cannot stress this enough: BE NICE TO THEM.
Few things will ruin someone's enjoyment of something faster than trying to join its community and getting such a rude first impression that their conclusion is "People who like this are kind of assholes. I don't think I want to do this if it's going to involve getting yelled at." Craigslist and eBay and FB Marketplace will be filled with mint condition gifts being resold to attest to this in the coming months.
You were there at the very first step once. Be the person for them that you wish you had back then. (Or if you were lucky enough, the person you did have who fostered your love of it!) Make this something they'll love just as much as you do, not something they'll want to sell and get away from as soon as possible.
Be the reason this Christmas starts a lifelong passion for them, not the reason they decide to abandon something that they would've loved because people made them feel bad for needing a helping hand.
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Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
tokeShow content
Well, the holidays have afforded me with several days in a cabin in Norway with no particular plans, which nicely lent itself to giving this another go.
Although I obviously haven't mastered the language yet, I do feel like it has clicked in a way that it hasn't before. I figured I'd share a couple of impressions from the experience here.
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decryption
decryption@aus.socialoh wow, anna's archive "backed up" Spotify! they downloded 256 million songs - roughly 300TB - so you could technically, make your own spotify at home! would easily fit in a 2RU server, hmmmmm
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Tim Waterman
timwaterman@mas.toIt's not just economic power, it's digital coercion. We have to get our institutions weaned off of US-based software and platforms, including Microsoft, Meta, Google, Xitter, and more. Open source is the answer! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/12/danish-intelligence-accuse-the-us-of-using-economic-power-to-assert-will-over-allies
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datum (n=1)
datum@zeroes.caSome reporting on excellent news about:
the physics professor who became Uruguay's energy secretary, and within five years had the country on 98% renewable energy.
and economically it was a smash hit
the cost of electricity production decreased by roughly half compared to fossil-fuel alternatives, and the country attracted $6 billion in renewable energy investments
Going forward,
He hopes to help 50 countries move to renewables over the next ten years. He said, "We want to prove that an energy transition can be possible in different geographies and can work in different national energy and political contexts."
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FediThing 
FediThing@chinwag.org
This is a really excellent non-fiction piece by @WeirdWriter about a writing group with a tech bro:
https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence
It is a distilled essence of the social and cultural damage AI/LLM is causing, how AI promoters are cynically destroying people's confidence in their own humanity, while simultaneously trying to ridicule and other people who point out that AI is bullshit. (And this isn't even mentioning the environmental consequences.)
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May Likes Toronto
mayintoronto@beige.partyI need you to stop scrolling and read the most human piece of writing I've read in a very, very long time.
https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/
Thanks, @WeirdWriter.
Edit: If you feel like you got a lot out of this piece, I'm sure Rob would definitely appreciate some subscribers to his newsletter and tips/a paid subscription if you can afford it! It's not easy making a living as a writer.
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Computer Facts
computer@facts.computergiving impressionable still-developing young men "ai girlfriends" who cannot ever say no and that they can customize with sliders and parameters down to minuscule detail will probably break them in unfixable ways and permanently foreclose on their healthy participation in human relationships but beep boop what does computer know
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Søren Have
sorenhave@mastodon.nuToday’s mustread is from Alexander Stubb, Prime Minister of Finland.
“The global West cannot simply attract the global South by extolling the virtues of freedom and democracy; it also needs to fund development projects, make investments in economic growth, and, most important, give the South a seat at the table and share power.”
#dkpol https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/wests-last-chance
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Thomas Hansen 📝 🇩🇰
tbhdk@social.data.coopStøt og del gerne dette borgerforslag: #opensource
"Anerkendelse af frivilligt arbejde med open source som samfundsgavnlig indsats med juridiske og skattemæssige fordele"
📝 https://www.borgerforslag.dk/se-og-stoet-forslag/?Id=FT-22237
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