Just realized that I never posted my thread about why Buttigieg cannot win the 2028 election here. Oops.

Way back when, mayor Pete's reform-minded chief of police, Daryl Boykins, recorded some of his officers making vile racist statements. So Buttigieg fired... the police chief.🤡

Boykins was the 1st Black police chief in city history, and was building trust with Black folk.

But it gets worse...

@mwichary @patrickbrosset @brucelawson Recently I have the same feeling with CSS as I had with JavaScript 25 years ago: it's really cool but is being taught badly and has some glaring holes in it. Back then, I started quirksmode.org

Don't know what will happen this time, but I'm going to explore this theme further.

Good for them. For my UK followers, CBS has become a right wing propaganda machine in the US. Glad Last freed themselves from the Titanic.

Not that I particularly miss scrobbling.
https://www.engadget.com/2182644/lastfm-independent-company-cbs-paramount-skydance/

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116651922303105384

#USpol thread on something that was loudly covered up/talked over last time Pete Buttigieg was politically relevant (spoiler alert: it's his anti-Blackness)

@jeleb concernant le libre il y a le réseau Libre Entreprise (qui héberge l’instance masto où Entr’ouvert a son compte) : https://libre-entreprise.org/ , il y a peut-être des boîtes intéressantes :)

(Dans le réseau il n’y a pas que des SCOP, il y a des SCIC, des SAS-PO et des SARL…)

@EUCommission
When are you going to take on Meta, Microsoft, and X?

"If data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026"

New IEA report confirms what we've been yelling about: this isn't a normal digital industry. It is a fossil-fuelled, high-polluting heavy industry producing socially corrosive products at massive climate cost.

https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/4fda38df-523c-46f5-ae75-49481abdc8fc/WorldEnergyInvestment2026.pdf

@madeindex but they actively choose not to even attempt to do so (and indeed are actively creating more layers of AI slop as they use AI to summarize content that is largely generated by/with AI (seen one estimate that something like close to 60% of new content on the web in English is generated by AI or with AI support these days

I weeded. Knackered.

@farah
Is there an opening for a god or goddess of shitposting? Where do I submit my resumè?

Listen to the wind, the rain, the sound of a crackling fire. IRL if you can and with an app if you can't.

What would I really recommend?

We all create a big, massive allowlist with like 500+ instances on it, and we start federating there.

And we don't let any open registration instances join.  The only reason olifant.social doesn't work this way is that we do not (yet) have such an allowlist.

Stay tuned on that front, I've been trying to solve the problem of leaky audiences and block evasion for a long time now.

@david_chisnall
Well, there was that flying saucer attack. But you probably already considered that.

Laura Jane Grace, "Those Anarcho Punks Are Mysterious" (2021)
https://youtu.be/N0lv5X7Uk2o

Molly Tuttle, "Olympia, WA" (2020)
https://youtu.be/V8jbQ3IlQyQ

Future Folk: "Space Worms" (2013)
https://youtu.be/06mMD797xqY

Myriam Gendron, "Poor Girl Blues" (2021)
https://myriamgendron.bandcamp.com/track/poor-girl-blues

Jack Rose, "Flirtin' with the Undertaker" (2005)
https://youtu.be/ijl1S90-xz0

#ThursdayFiveList #AcousticGuitarsWave

In times of LLMs de-humanizing all kinds of interactions, I really enjoy collaboration like this one:

https://github.com/dry-rb/dry-cli/pull/157

Instead of "generate -> sign-off -> merge" here the code was rewritten completely twice (including previous PR). There was a substantial discussion on overall approach, not on details. And even though it took a while, at least I'm semi-certain we did a right thing here.

Their letter is quite explicit about Apple, Google and Chrome:

- Both Apple iOS and Google Android were "designed" to "assign a unique tracking number to each smartphone for use by the advertising industry and data brokers".

- Google Chrome, as a web browser that is "designed to facilitate data collection", must be removed from all US military devices.

Petite aprème chez Marie-Louise.
À chaque fois que j'y retourne elle me sort de nouveaux trucs.

"U.S. forces deployed to war zones have ​been targeted using commercially available location data"

Just like I, @johnnyryan and others warned.

US Senator Wyden says it's time to "start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat". Agreed.
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/pentagon-says-us-military-personnel-are-reportedly-being-targeted-using-location-2026-05-28/

Why Gentoo? https://lobste.rs/s/nx1xwo #linux
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/05/28/why-gentoo/

@dcr completely! it’s delusion all the way down

The whole thing is a ride 🤦 Serious ‘I never thought the leopards would eat my process’ energy