next i hope Satya directly addresses this microsoft usage of "gotta". extremely disturbing copywriting to me
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Hegseth’s Appalling Vengeance Campaign
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/01/hegseth-mark-kelly-demotion-vengeance/685512/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Okay, collective brain, help me out here.
There almost certainly already is a term for the retort in the form of:
"I don't think that's offensive, because it doesn't bother me, personally"
If not, perhaps we might coin such a term?
[Much of the effort thus far has been expended on trying to attribute the above retort to a mindset, rather than in characterizing the speech act on its own terms.]
Pas de neige à Dinan #MacronDémission
@shaft oh ben si il a grave neigé en début d'aprem ! Ca a pas tenu 😢
BREAKING: President Trump announced a revised childhood vaccination schedule.
Under the new guidance, Trump said U.S. children will no longer be expected to receive what he described as “72 shots,” with the recommended schedule reduced to 11 vaccines.
i was raised in a community that taught us the morbidly wealthy were corporeal demons, non-human, literal evil in meat-space and to accumulate wealth or to act to help others accumulate wealth was the devil's work.
that the morbidly wealthy believe there are no humans, fits. weirdly, fits.
@melioristicmarie @LJ @pluralistic Ooh, new phrase "morbidly wealthy", thanks!
Microsoft renamed the whole Office suite to Copilot. 🤣
Please bear in mind that calling "AI" output "slop" makes Satya Nadella sad. Under no circumstances should you call their office suite "Microslop Slopilot". That would just be mean and you're better than that.
*) Copilot might not be your favorite app.
It's just so odd, the MS Office brand actually has genuine fans with nostalgia for 30ish years of software and Microsoft are just throwing away this good will for the sake of briefly propping up their share price.
Branding Predictions:
Windows -> Copilot OS
Xbox -> Copilot Arcade
MS Flight Simulator -> Copilot Copilot
Is there a good tool for building out a resume that works with ATS and doesn't look like absolute shit? #OpenForWork
@phillycodehound@indieweb.social I played briefly with this and it seemed okay on the surface, though I'm not looking for work so didn't go deep: https://github.com/rendercv/rendercv
Extra-fluffy White-crowned Sparrow.
#nature #photo #GriffithPark #sparrow #WhiteCrownedSparrow #photography #birds #birders #BirdWatching #BirdWatchers #California #LosAngeles #BirdPhoto #GriffithPark #DailyBird #BirdsOfPixelfed #BirdsOfMastodon #LosAngelesRiver #Cute #LARiver #NaturePhotos #LAWildlife
For those that would like some more info, I've gone ahead and written up a blog post with a few bits that might be useful for the #MedMastodon community to know including a bit about who has taken over the site and what the future holds (TLDR it's not a lot that is interesting, just keeping the site stable and working nicely!) you can find the blog here - https://blog.atlas-media.co.uk/2026/01/05/med-mastodon-the-future/
This is why nothing is done. People redirect rage and action towards innocent targets because they’re too afraid or unimaginative to use it against the actual enemy.
There’s a reason DHS and its counterparts keep getting humiliated in court when they pretend to be victims. They’re losing in front of juries and judges are calling them not credible.
It’s important not to normalize this absurd language from DHS — their “sounds like” doesn’t mask their intent.
https://san.com/cc/filming-ice-agents-is-a-first-amendment-right-so-why-might-it-land-you-in-jail/
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Safety-absolutism is quietly killing change and challenge
Good to look at this without attacking individuals, we need to mediate the safety-absolutism that is quietly killing change and challenge. When fear becomes #blocking, safety becomes dangerous. This is hard to say plainly, but it needs to be said. Fear is now one of the primary blocking forces in our movements. And the way we currently talk about “safety” is actively preventing change and challenge.
This isn’t about mocking trauma, denying harm, or dismissing the very real violence […]
De plus en plus de parquets spécialisés et de moins en moins de justice pour tous. Ça devrait nous inquiéter.
RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows/115843441845279022
I've been using LibreOffice since it split from OpenOffice. It's rock solid and available for both Windows and Linux (and other OS's, though those are the two I've used.)
I admit, I've never had occasion to use the database tool, but I used the writer and sheets apps constantly. And the presentation app, has done everything I've needed to on the rare occasions I've gone to it.
You *could* pay me to go back to Microsoft office, but it would cost a lot.
@fatsam LibreOffice Base is... kind of sad. It's so close to being usable...
...but I totally agree about the rest of the apps (I've used Write and Calc regularly, and done things with Draw a few times.)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@djrrb/115820877367792020
really lovely presentation for a font designers website
La prossima udienza per Maduro il 17 marzo - America Latina - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/mondo/americalatina/2026/01/05/la-prossima-udienza-per-maduro-il-17-marzo_3b3522ea-c65e-40e1-afca-c774da527434.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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I know many devs find pointers and nulls evil and prefer using values only, especially in the Go world. But to an untrained eye, "7pm Dec 31st, 1969" probably seems arbitrary and confusing. A null value would have been useful here.
this is not Go's zero value for Time. it's zero UNIX timestamp in the UTC-5 timezone. i don't think it's intentional. probably that's how they store it in the database.
