@markwyner
Thank you for having the will, courage and tenacity to read through what I am guessing is a word salad of weak excuses and absurd attempts at rationalizations, because I am sure if I read through it, I would likely be left feeling so angry I would probably want to throw something.

This is not a complex topic. It is quite simple to understand.

There are no legitimate excuses for cozing up with fascists.

simple, eh.

Mozilla are pathetic, Firefox is back to posting on X/Twitter.

Pre internet I once drove half an hour home to get a dictionary to prove to my work colleague that the word gullible was in the dictionary. I was literally 2 mins away, on the way back, when it dawned on me.

@halcy im riveted, i need to know all about this

Confusion swirls on source of diarrhea outbreak, but it’s still Taylor Farms

Taylor Farms stirred confusion on FDA test and provided a vague recall list.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/07/confusion-swirls-on-source-of-diarrhea-outbreak-but-its-still-taylor-farms/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@cwebber I, personally, am in favor.

"Centenas de pessoas atingidas pelo rompimento da barragem da Vale, em Brumadinho, na Região Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte (RMBH), participaram, nesta terça-feira (21), de uma manifestação no centro de Belo Horizonte em defesa da manutenção do Novo Auxílio Emergencial.

Para o MAB, o parecer apresentado pela Procuradoria-Geral da República (PGR) ao STF representa uma ameaça ao benefício pago às famílias atingidas. O movimento sustenta que o Novo Auxílio Emergencial é um direito garantido pela Lei nº 14.755/2023 e que sua interrupção antes da reparação integral dos danos pode aprofundar a vulnerabilidade social de milhares de pessoas."

https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2026/07/21/atingidos-protestam-em-bh-contra-ameaca-ao-novo-auxilio-emergencial-de-brumadinho-mg/
#MAB #NovoAuxílioEmergencial #Brumadinho #ValeAssassina

rare lore: back in 2018 I came across a 500-page technical deep dive guidebook on SimCity 2000. In a process that took several years because they had so much backlog of manuals, magazines, etc, I sent it to Gaming Alexandria and they made a proper professional scan of it and uploaded it to archive.org. You can read it right now!

When I say technical... I mean there's a section on how to hex edit your save files.

https://archive.org/details/sim-city-2000-power-politics-and-planning-revised-edition-strategy-guide/

#gaming #retrogaming #simcity

An uninformed plan:

- Take Tor's base Browser, the one they use as a branding-neutral base (very clever name) for the privacy-focused soft forks Tor Browser and Mullvad Browser (i know, i know - but they already paid for the work, so some good might as well come out of it)

- Rebase your soft forks on Base Browser, and benefit from that work

- Form a working group to co-manage base browser

- Hard-fork from firefox as you reject future rebases in favour of privacy and humanity.

did anyone else randomly discover the section of the Berlin Wall overlooking #emfcamp

had a fantastic time at #emfcamp, seeing so many lovely people, raving at nullsector and being slow-cooked in the heat 😁 I of course brought the infrared camera, all the vibrant colours of emf are gone through it's lens. Even the gold member lounge turned silver 😁 #emf2026 #infrared

Immigrants completing PhDs in the US and then staying on to become residents is one of the things that has given the US a lead in technology.

Spending US money to train PhDs and then telling them to "get the hell out of the country, you're not welcome here" is the US shooting itself in the foot.

It took me 6 years to complete my PhD in the US. Would the border guards have let me back in to complete it after the new 4 year deadline? Who knows.

For more than a dozen years after I left the US, I always told European academics that they should definitely plan to work or study in the US at some point. Now I tell them they should live and work in another country than the one they were first educated in, but I wouldn't go to the US if I was them.

#F1Visa #USPol #ExpatLife #PhD

@bendansby Are you manually exporting a bitmap from Icon Composer? If so, don't do that. Just add the .icon file to your Xcode project and Xcode will make all the necessary icons from it (at the correct sizes).

Mozilla and, by extension, Firefox have laid out the direction they want to go - and have consistently moved in that direction. There is no redemption arc there, they are not going to turn the ship around - and every week and month that goes by, Firefox gains more slop and drifts further from the visions that founded it.

Projects like Tor Browser and Waterfox are painstakingly disabling / patching out the worst - but every release becomes more expensive, and things do slip through.

@mkljczk some of these soft forks (like base browser/tor) are maintaining and rebasing thousands of lines of patchsets on top of upstream every release

AAM Statement on the Independence of the Smithsonian and America’s Museums.
The American Alliance of Museums condemns the Administration’s continued attacks on the Smithsonian Institution and the museum professionals responsible for preserving, researching, and interpreting our nation’s history, art, science, and culture.
https://www.aam-us.org/2026/07/20/aam-statement-on-the-independence-of-the-smithsonian-and-americas-museums/ #globalmuseum #museums

If the independent, non-slop web has any future at all, then now must be the time for every firefox fork to commit to working together to maintain a hardfork isolated from Mozilla.

It's a project that is too large to be handled by any small project alone (and maybe even all of them combined), but one that is too important to left under the guidance of an organization like Mozilla.

Without such bold co-operation I fear we have already lost.

German police violently attacked and arrested Palestine solidarity demonstrators during a protest against Germany's arms exports to Israel and its complicity in the Gaza genocide.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide

"Before the genocide, people received 80 liters of water in their homes, with dignity. Today, 20 liters is the best we can offer, and even that reaches people through an exhausting and undignified process.”
#Genocide #IsraelRogueState #Gaza #Palestine #WesternComplicity #HumanRights
#IsraelApartheid
Gaza Is in a Water Crisis as Israel’s Blockade Makes Reconstruction Impossible | Truthout
https://truthout.org/articles/gaza-is-in-a-water-crisis-as-israels-blockade-makes-reconstruction-impossible/