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Dad, husband, agilist, technophile, Skerries Goat, droch-foghlaimeoir na Gaeilge. Sortition, environment, sci-fi. Nazis can go fuck themselves. I swear a lot as a […]

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Yes, the #eu is finally, slowly, ditching US tech.

It took someone like Trump to unilaterally turn Europe from an ally into a sworn enemy to end our cycle of complacency, despite the writing that has been on the wall for a long time.

Now that the train is in motion and we’re seriously starting […]
Original post on manganiello.eu
manganiello.eu
February 1, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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Facts can’t penetrate the #maga iron dome.
January 31, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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Most striking in this video was the plea that people "get to know the project and the people" --

Open issues, known bugs, feature requests... it's like some people think that you could just run AI and close them all and the development would be done. But software development is a conversation […]
Original post on sauropods.win
sauropods.win
January 27, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Great career advice if you find yourself in a ‘glue’ role
https://www.noidea.dog/glue
Being Glue — No Idea Blog
Slides and notes for the Being Glue talk.
www.noidea.dog
January 27, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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Sworn statement of a witness to today's murder by ICEholes. Read it all; it's only a couple of double-spaced pages.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26505743-tinchersealedwitnessdec012426pdf/
January 25, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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i’ve been learning Django and I feel like the docs are really good? normally I avoid reading docs but they’re so helpful
January 23, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
January 23, 2026 at 2:23 PM
I want to know why #primetime #rte keep inviting guests back on who have track records of lying on previous appearances and sure enough lied again and again tonight.
January 20, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland.

There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.

And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
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January 20, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Kinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.
January 19, 2026 at 9:03 PM
So this is the play from #trump on #greenland . The US and its military already has very extensive agreements to operate in Greenland from a treaty with Denmark dating back to 1951 and don’t actually need extra access to it to implement Trump’s Golden Dome fantasies. This agreement stays in […]
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mastodon.ie
January 18, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Huge fines and bans are all very well but making the owners and executives /criminally liable/ for the illegal material that was produced and is being produced by X must be done. #rte #primetime
January 15, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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War crimes. 🧵

"The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in 1st attack on boat..killing 11 last Sept..The aircraft also carried its munitions inside the fuselage, rather than visibly under its wings"

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January 13, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Tyrant looks at a neighbouring country, decides it’s illegitimate, and sets out to take it.

This is a post about Greenland + Ukraine
January 11, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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This merciless, clear piece by @Tupp_ed is worth reading by anyone, not just folks in #ireland. X's european headquarters is in Dublin – I used to walk by it all the time – it's legally up to our government to deliver justice, but the Irish government in power right now are a weak clutch of […]
Original post on social.ben.ie
social.ben.ie
January 15, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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The evidence is increasingly pointing to the probability that an ICE agent killed a woman after misreading her as a threat because he was distracted by his simultaneous effort to record her so he could upload her image to a facial recognition database.
We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands.
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
January 9, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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January 7, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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Many of those who complain about mining for batteries / solar / wind power have curiously never raised a squeak about the far greater extraction required for fossil energy. Funny how they become concerned about the planet only when fossil fuel interests are threatened.
January 6, 2026 at 5:24 PM
I see Trump is doubling down on how percentages should be calculated. Will a single reporter at that news conference just please ask him what the absolute fuck he is talking about.
January 6, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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I hope at least everyone can clearly see why the struggle to end fossil fuels is the struggle for democracy and self determination is the struggle against inequality is the struggle against Imperialism is the struggle for a liveable planet is the struggle against fascism etc
January 3, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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Are you still looking for ideas how to celebrate the #diday?

💡 In case you are using #jira or another closed source project management software, kick off in your organization the transition to @openproject which is a 100% #opensource alternative.

We are here […]

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January 4, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
January 3, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Insane whistleblow on food delivery apps. Gamified serfdom
https://veganism.social/@faket/115825112372408975
Ⓥ Gregory Trolliet Ⓐ🔻 🇵🇸 (@[email protected])
@[email protected] @[email protected] Or just post the full text. I’m a developer for a major food delivery app. The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it. I’m posting this from a library Wi-Fi on a burner laptop because I am technically under a massive NDA. I don’t care anymore. I put in my two weeks yesterday and honestly, I hope they sue me. I’ve been sitting on this for about eight months, just watching the code getting pushed to production, and I can’t sleep at night knowing I helped build this machine. You guys always suspect the algorithms are rigged against you, but the reality is actually so much more depressing than the conspiracy theories. I’m a backend engineer. I sit in the weekly sprint planning meetings where Product Managers (PMs) discuss how to squeeze another 0.4% margin out of "human assets" (that’s literally what they call drivers in the database schemas). They talk about these people like they are resource nodes in a video game, not fathers and mothers trying to pay rent. First off, the "Priority Delivery" is a total scam. It was pitched to us as a "psychological value add." Like I said in the title, when you pay that extra $2.99, it changes a boolean flag in the order JSON, but the dispatch logic literally ignores it. It does nothing to speed you up. We actually ran an A/B test last year where we didn't speed up the priority orders, we just purposefully delayed non-priority orders by 5 to 10 minutes to make the Priority ones "feel" faster by comparison. Management loved the results. We generated millions in pure profit just by making the standard service worse, not by making the premium service better. But the thing that actually makes me sick—and the main reason I’m quitting—is the "Desperation Score." We have a hidden metric for drivers that tracks how desperate they are for cash based on their acceptance behavior. If a driver usually logs on at 10 PM and accepts every garbage $3 order instantly without hesitation, the algo tags them as "High Desperation." Once they are tagged, the system then deliberately stops showing them high-paying orders. The logic is: "Why pay this guy $15 for a run when we know he’s desperate enough to do it for $6?" We save the good tips for the "casual" drivers to hook them in and gamify their experience, while the full-timers get grinded into dust. Then there is the "Benefit Fee." You’ve probably seen that $1.50 "Regulatory Response Fee" or "Driver Benefits Fee" that appeared on your bill after the recent labor laws passed. The wording is designed to make you feel like you're helping the worker. In reality, that money goes straight to a corporate slush fund used to lobby against driver unions. We have a specific internal cost center for "Policy Defense," and that fee feeds directly into it. You are literally paying for the high-end lawyers that are fighting to keep your delivery guy homeless. And regarding tips, we're essentially doing Tip Theft 2.0. We don't "steal" them legally anymore because we got sued for that. Instead, we use predictive modeling to dynamically lower the base pay. If the algo predicts you are a "high tipper" and you’ll likely drop $10, it offers the driver a measly $2 base pay. If you tip $0, it offers them $8 base pay just to get the food moved. The result is that your generosity isn't rewarding the driver; it’s subsidizing us. You’re paying their wage so we don't have to. I'm drunk and I'm angry. Ask me anything before this gets taken down.
veganism.social
January 3, 2026 at 11:54 AM