Iran is reportedly using military grade GPS jammers to disable ~80% of Starlink installations in the country
@lauren Maybe they need a redundant system, with _both_ GPS and GLONASS.
Well, the USA has decades (and decades) of experience with getting news and information to people in denied areas. And since this much dissent doesn't happen overnight, I'm sure CIA has assets in-country with access to specialized equipment.
I want to make sure this is repeated.
UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews‘
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/upenn-trump-jews-list
@littlemiao Queen Charlotte would bid you good day but she is napping on the job.
NZ Foreign Minister Rebukes RBNZ Governor Over Powell Statement
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-14/nz-foreign-minister-rebukes-rbnz-governor-over-powell-statement?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Bloomberg @bloomberg-bloomberg
An open letter to ICE death squads:
Here is why we will win. Not because our cause is just and yours is not - though it most certainly is. Not because we have greater numbers than you - though that is certainly the case. Not because you imagine us to be weak willed and helpless - though that is certainly a fiction that we have allowed your kind to believe. But because you are so unimaginably, cartoonishly fucking stupid.
Every single day we dream up new ways to fight you, to find you, to identify you, to infiltrate your ranks and expose you from within, to deny you any safe harbor or even a single night's rest. We are, right this moment, inventing new ways to resist you, to bring you and your rancid Nazi-lite ideology down low, to exterminate it from our society for the good of all humankind. And you, a middle-school dropout with brains further addled from years of protecting pedophiles and eating horse paste, can only ever be reactive to that. The very very worst you will ever do is kill a few of us. And in so doing, you sow the seeds of your own destruction.
Sleep if you can tonight. We are coming. We are already here. We have friends everywhere.
the gloves come off at @adafruit. Love it.
@pluralistic The EU Commission has launched a Call for Evidence regarding how to break the dependency of US tech and to promote #OpenSource. It seems they got part of your memo! #foss https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=intcom%3AAres%282026%2969111
Venezuela Frees US Citizen, Trump Threat to Sanctuary Cities, More
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2026-01-14/venezuela-frees-us-citizen-trump-threat-to-sanctuary-cities?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Podcasts @podcasts-bloomberg
Pixelfed will reach 1M users this year 🤯
I am trying to give people useful advice on how to keep their devices safe, but I don't know how to threat model for armed, masked thugs who may kidnap you off the street, then steal, and possibly sell your phone.
https://www.propublica.org/article/videos-ice-dhs-immigration-agents-using-chokeholds-citizens
Saw a clip of a couple of Fox News hosts spewing fascist bullshit and can we just get the memo out there that Patrick Bateman was a serial killer in that movie (probably, there are some fan theories it's all in his head, idfk) and his look, in that movie, was specifically chosen to alienate and disturb the audience, who are not serial killers you see, and therefore "Patrick Bateman but completely unfuckable" is not actually a "look."
Friendly reminder #ActivityPub protocol development will go back behind permissioned closed doors (unless you pay w3c or are deemed an invited expert) doors at w3c in the near future. RIP 2018-2025 open ActivityPub governance in SWICG.
Dark Fleet Seeking Russian Protection as US Seizes Oil Tankers
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-14/dark-fleet-seeking-russian-protection-as-us-seizes-oil-tankers?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Emerging Markets @emerging-markets-bloomberg
In case it somehow wasn't already obvious how completely repellent the administration's legal harassment of Becca Good (Renee Good's widow) is, *six* senior career prosecutors in the local US Attorney's office resigned today because they wanted no part of it.
SIX.
@mattblaze
The best thing they could have done was refuse to be complicit, but not resign and stay in post.
By resigning, that just speeds up the process of the installation of a complicit replacement. Stay in post and tell em to get fucked.
Justin, Obie, Kent, we're quits.
#PennedPossibilities 900. Share a piece of lore from your WIP.
The Permanence is a closed star empire. To the outside universe, it is accessible through 20-odd trade ports. Outsiders who pay attention speculate that there might be as many as a hundred worlds within the Permanence, and it's up to 3000 standard years old.
In truth: the Permanence is over 20,000 years old and there are 8000 star systems inside it with multiple settled worlds/moons/stations in each of them. It's huge and insular.
@cstross Hard to imagine what a “closed star empire” would be.
Hello, I’m Colleen from Glasgow UK
I’ve found Mastodon in my decision to stop using FB/Insta/Threads etc, and so far am loving it - not least due to the lack of adverts :)
I’m an accountant by trade; pianist, dog and cat lover, and avid reader in my spare time.
#s that I’m following so far:
#music
#dogs #dogsofmastodon
#catsOfMastodon #cats
#art #hitchhikersguide
#joy
Today I'm launching season 5 of Cybercultural: the history of web design from 1993 till 2012. It will be a celebration of the peak years of personal websites and blogs! My intro post explains the structure and a few of the main themes I'll be exploring during this season (e.g. personal web design vs platform peer pressure). I invite you to subscribe now for weekly updates via email or RSS. https://cybercultural.com/p/history-of-web-design/ #WebDesignHistory
My flight leaves in 1.5 hrs and I'm sitting next to the gate. Will I make it?
@Gina You probably will. Just keep checking if the flight is still on time and the gate hasn’t changed. Safe travels!
