cetan
@cetan.toot.community.ap.brid.gy
northern Illinois, United States
1. "nothing is true"
2. "mistakes were made"
3. former distributed computing cow
4. #boardgames
5. #photography
6. #eaglescout
7. aka […]
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1. "nothing is true"
2. "mistakes were made"
3. former distributed computing cow
4. #boardgames
5. #photography
6. #eaglescout
7. aka […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://toot.community/@cetan, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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Timezones are so silly. New Zealand and Australia are in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.
January 1, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Timezones are so silly. New Zealand and Australia are in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.
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50 ICE agents swarming a public library to arrest one person.
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
December 30, 2025 at 4:19 AM
50 ICE agents swarming a public library to arrest one person.
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
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The GOP has really leaned in to singling out Somalis for very explicit racism. Ron Johnson and the rest of the party are just loathsome, un-American people.
Ron Johnson: "Understand, Somalis have just been in this country a few years. They're amateurs when it comes to fleecing the federal government."
December 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The GOP has really leaned in to singling out Somalis for very explicit racism. Ron Johnson and the rest of the party are just loathsome, un-American people.
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Here's the deal, says USDOJ to states: we're going to send you lists of voters we think are ineligible, and you're going to take them off the rolls. That "would hand the federal govt a major role in election admin, a responsibility that belongs to the states under the U.S. Constitution." [Stateline]
Trump’s DOJ offers states confidential deal to remove voters flagged by feds • Stateline
The U.S. Department of Justice has sent confidential draft agreements on voter data sharing to more than a dozen states, part of the Trump administration’s effort to obtain unredacted voter rolls, wit...
stateline.org
December 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Here's the deal, says USDOJ to states: we're going to send you lists of voters we think are ineligible, and you're going to take them off the rolls. That "would hand the federal govt a major role in election admin, a responsibility that belongs to the states under the U.S. Constitution." [Stateline]
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CBS has cancelled a story about the Christmas Nigeria bombings because Bari Weiss complained it implied that Nigerians are human beings without seeking an alternative perspective from Steven Miller.
December 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
CBS has cancelled a story about the Christmas Nigeria bombings because Bari Weiss complained it implied that Nigerians are human beings without seeking an alternative perspective from Steven Miller.
RE: https://toot.community/@cetan/115776122645956808
A Christmas miracle: I found the gifts before the kids woke up! 🎉
A Christmas miracle: I found the gifts before the kids woke up! 🎉
Welp, it looks like I did it again this year. I purchased three small Christmas gifts to be stocking stuffers and I have no idea where I hid them. #lost #brainnoworkgood #christmas #gifts
December 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
RE: https://toot.community/@cetan/115776122645956808
A Christmas miracle: I found the gifts before the kids woke up! 🎉
A Christmas miracle: I found the gifts before the kids woke up! 🎉
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This is a very good point, and something I need to keep at the front of my mind. Even if there was somehow a magic use case for LLMs and other AI bullshit machines, that would not justify:
• Making fascists rich.
• Displacing labor rights.
• Fucking over the environment.
• Enclosing culture […]
• Making fascists rich.
• Displacing labor rights.
• Fucking over the environment.
• Enclosing culture […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
December 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
This is a very good point, and something I need to keep at the front of my mind. Even if there was somehow a magic use case for LLMs and other AI bullshit machines, that would not justify:
• Making fascists rich.
• Displacing labor rights.
• Fucking over the environment.
• Enclosing culture […]
• Making fascists rich.
• Displacing labor rights.
• Fucking over the environment.
• Enclosing culture […]
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ABC15: FEMA denies federal help for Gila, Mohave counties related to September floods
The flooding caused major damage to buildings, homes and critical services across the tribal communities
Posted 1:30 PM, Dec 23, 2025
and last updated 2:07 PM, Dec 23, 2025 […]
The flooding caused major damage to buildings, homes and critical services across the tribal communities
Posted 1:30 PM, Dec 23, 2025
and last updated 2:07 PM, Dec 23, 2025 […]
Original post on ai6yr.org
m.ai6yr.org
December 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
ABC15: FEMA denies federal help for Gila, Mohave counties related to September floods
The flooding caused major damage to buildings, homes and critical services across the tribal communities
Posted 1:30 PM, Dec 23, 2025
and last updated 2:07 PM, Dec 23, 2025 […]
The flooding caused major damage to buildings, homes and critical services across the tribal communities
Posted 1:30 PM, Dec 23, 2025
and last updated 2:07 PM, Dec 23, 2025 […]
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Greetings human friends
December 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Greetings human friends
Welp, it looks like I did it again this year. I purchased three small Christmas gifts to be stocking stuffers and I have no idea where I hid them. #lost #brainnoworkgood #christmas #gifts
December 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Welp, it looks like I did it again this year. I purchased three small Christmas gifts to be stocking stuffers and I have no idea where I hid them. #lost #brainnoworkgood #christmas #gifts
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It's really the third one that keeps me up at night the absolute most. This level of inhuman cruelty is institutionalized in American culture so completely that *even in a report on human rights violations*, journalists still bake in the "and they didn't even deserve it" meme.
That is how this […]
That is how this […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
December 23, 2025 at 6:05 AM
It's really the third one that keeps me up at night the absolute most. This level of inhuman cruelty is institutionalized in American culture so completely that *even in a report on human rights violations*, journalists still bake in the "and they didn't even deserve it" meme.
That is how this […]
That is how this […]
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I finally watched the 60 Minutes video about CECOT, and I have three immediate thoughts:
• This is absolutely horrific, and it is being done to actual humans.
• The video goes out of its way over and over again to mitigate any critique of the Trump administration or its horrific policies. Why […]
• This is absolutely horrific, and it is being done to actual humans.
• The video goes out of its way over and over again to mitigate any critique of the Trump administration or its horrific policies. Why […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
December 23, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I finally watched the 60 Minutes video about CECOT, and I have three immediate thoughts:
• This is absolutely horrific, and it is being done to actual humans.
• The video goes out of its way over and over again to mitigate any critique of the Trump administration or its horrific policies. Why […]
• This is absolutely horrific, and it is being done to actual humans.
• The video goes out of its way over and over again to mitigate any critique of the Trump administration or its horrific policies. Why […]
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After being outed and tremendous backlash, Instacart has suspended AI price gouging temporarily until the outrage dies down and we quietly reinstate it when no one is paying attention. https://mastodon.social/@verge/115764206077696940
The Verge (@[email protected])
Instacart scraps AI pricing tests that made some products more expensive https://www.theverge.com/news/849061/instacart-ends-ai-pricing-tests-eversight
mastodon.social
December 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
After being outed and tremendous backlash, Instacart has suspended AI price gouging temporarily until the outrage dies down and we quietly reinstate it when no one is paying attention. https://mastodon.social/@verge/115764206077696940
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Just saw the take that waymo shouldn't be expected to have tested for an edge case like unpowered stop lights.
That edge case that human drivers are required to know from page 34 of the california drivers handbook.
That edge case that human drivers are required to know from page 34 of the california drivers handbook.
December 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Just saw the take that waymo shouldn't be expected to have tested for an edge case like unpowered stop lights.
That edge case that human drivers are required to know from page 34 of the california drivers handbook.
That edge case that human drivers are required to know from page 34 of the california drivers handbook.
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Look if we just go around beating the absolute shit out of social media assholes there’s bound to be some sort of long-term theoretical negative externality or something
Anyway be careful out there Nate Silver
Anyway be careful out there Nate Silver
to add to the Jake Paul schadenfreude, Andrew Tate also lost a fight to some reality TV influencer. most analysis of the fight I've read described his opponent as deeply untalented but Andrew lost anyway. Tate's endurance was awful and he was gassed after the first round.
December 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Look if we just go around beating the absolute shit out of social media assholes there’s bound to be some sort of long-term theoretical negative externality or something
Anyway be careful out there Nate Silver
Anyway be careful out there Nate Silver
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(AP) — At least 16 files disappeared from the DoJ’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing President Trump — less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the public […]
Original post on journa.host
journa.host
December 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
(AP) — At least 16 files disappeared from the DoJ’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing President Trump — less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the public […]
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Today we got around to playing The Treasure Ship of Zheng He, which is so so so fun--thematically fascinating, beautifully designed and made, with surprisingly elegant and exciting gameplay, after a significant setup. Despite using very different strategies […]
[Original post on c18.masto.host]
[Original post on c18.masto.host]
December 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Today we got around to playing The Treasure Ship of Zheng He, which is so so so fun--thematically fascinating, beautifully designed and made, with surprisingly elegant and exciting gameplay, after a significant setup. Despite using very different strategies […]
[Original post on c18.masto.host]
[Original post on c18.masto.host]
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“The missing photo adds to the mounting inconsistencies in the DOJ’s release of all the materials it had gathered over the past two decades through investigations into Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women and underage girls.” […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
“The missing photo adds to the mounting inconsistencies in the DOJ’s release of all the materials it had gathered over the past two decades through investigations into Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women and underage girls.” […]
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115737483111161917
I'll elaborate. I believe we're in an AI bubble. AI companies are pushing the overton window on AI discourse. They want the most extreme anti-AI sentiment to be "Sure, it's an overhyped technology right now but there will be reasonable […]
I'll elaborate. I believe we're in an AI bubble. AI companies are pushing the overton window on AI discourse. They want the most extreme anti-AI sentiment to be "Sure, it's an overhyped technology right now but there will be reasonable […]
December 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115737483111161917
I'll elaborate. I believe we're in an AI bubble. AI companies are pushing the overton window on AI discourse. They want the most extreme anti-AI sentiment to be "Sure, it's an overhyped technology right now but there will be reasonable […]
I'll elaborate. I believe we're in an AI bubble. AI companies are pushing the overton window on AI discourse. They want the most extreme anti-AI sentiment to be "Sure, it's an overhyped technology right now but there will be reasonable […]
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December 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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I took my friend with only a high school degree to a fancy party and saw his face freeze up at the terminology being used by the elite. “Hebephile?” “Ephebophile?” I quickly asked him if he wanted to go somewhere else and he anxiously nodded yes and so we went to a Trump rally.
By David Brooks
By David Brooks
December 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I took my friend with only a high school degree to a fancy party and saw his face freeze up at the terminology being used by the elite. “Hebephile?” “Ephebophile?” I quickly asked him if he wanted to go somewhere else and he anxiously nodded yes and so we went to a Trump rally.
By David Brooks
By David Brooks