I've been a fan of Cory Doctorow's writing for a long time, and this interview episode of Adam Conover's podcast is a great synthesis of a lot of his observations on the tech industry across the board, both what's broken and how we fix it. And a slew of other great insights along the way. Highly recommended listen, and go subscribe to his newsletter while you're at it!

https://headgum.com/factually-with-adam-conover/the-enshttification-of-everything-with-cory-doctorow

NEW: “Face consequences if you don’t comply.”

The Trump admin just told states to undo full food stamp payments — cutting food aid for 42 million Americans before the holidays.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/09/snap-benefits-states-usda-trump/ #press

This is really fun - @beetle_b ran a variant of my pelican riding a bicycle SVG test using POV-Ray instead and got terrible ray-traced pelicans out of a bunch of different models: https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/Oct/pelican-on-a-bike-raytracer-edition/ and https://mastodon.xyz/@beetle_b/115436481779600909

Another memo concludes that the company will not take any pro-active measures to fight fraud, and will only fight fraud in response to regulatory action."

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-11-08-faecebook-too-big-to-care-8b1923c0834f (4/4)

via @pluralistic

I’m starting a new service that connects people that purchased a large appliance with children that have no box fort.

@paninid @pluralistic
So Meta is a criminal enterprise and is playing regulatory arbitrage?

Victoria Dean has joined the department as a member of the teaching faculty.

Dean said she's excited to be at a liberal arts university like at Princeton and get to work with students who "want look at machine learning through different lenses.”

https://bit.ly/4ox269M

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

Bonfire Social 1.0 is live! A federated, community‑first social network built on the modular Bonfire toolkit, and it’s only the beginning.

It's time to go beyond microblogging and build apps for community organising, open science, mutual aid, and collective decision‑making. Let's take back the internet with open protocols, consent‑based governance, and portability by design.

Back the “last migration” from closed platforms to open networks: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=FVxjqI1kLUOhHXxqyrS6-g

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Nota bene: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_Holiday_Association brought out the noose, but not against the immigrant but to apply it to the powerful.

@RachelThornSub

People mostly get excited describing and making renderings of these strange liminal spaces. The idea is that you could at any moment glitch out of reality and end up in someplace like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjB9I8j01Ko

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115520859612223489

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#immigrants #Trump

It's so pretty!! (I keep affirming to myself over and over.... it was -19C this morning when I went out to do chores)

Video title: Is free Affinity going to kill Inkscape?

Not bloody likely. I'll grant I haven't used the vector graphics part of Affinity v3 yet but, last I had checked, their software was more than a decade behind Inkscape's present day functionality.

Inkscape is far and away the best open source creativity based app I use. Also, it works on Linux, Windows, and Mac which puts it one major OS ahead of Affinity.

@dgar

@eythian @cy @cazabon @trouble I call 'em as I see 'em. That's pretty much a take it or leave it proposition. If I'm not honest about how I feel on these issues, there's no point in posting at all.

Drop a good one in the comments.
Edit: A reminder of the importance of AltText: It’s important!

#Mosstodon

📢 Hello fellow researchers! We are now accepting submissions for PETS 2026, Issue 3. Submit your work by November 30, 2025 (AOE) using the link below:
https://submit.petsymposium.org/2026.3/
#PETS2026 #CallForPapers