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‘You don’t have to do it alone’: how US cities are helping each other resist ICE

theguardian.com · Dec 16

From LA to Charlotte, organizers are learning from others’ strategies to protect residents amid federal crackdowns

Shared by @PattyHanson and 38 others.
Democracy Matters :verified: (@DemocracyMattersALot) · Dec 17
🔁 @indivisibleteam:

This is how we keep our communities safe: “Before long, Indivisible Chicago had sent whistle kits in the mail to the New Orleans chapter, along with an explanation of how best to use them, and Indivisible NOLA set up a “know your rights” training that the Chicago Indivisible chapter helped lead remotely via Zoom.” theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d

The Flight Attendant (@CosmicTraveler) · Dec 17
🔁 @MaryAustinBooks:

I've been talking about this on here: all the resisters in the streets are learning from others across the country. Every city #ICE tries to invade from here is just going to be even better prepared for them, because we are all communicating with each other.

Even as the regime flails, the resistance gets stronger and larger every day. We will crush fascism.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d

Mother Bones (@_L1vY_) · Dec 17
🔁 @MaryAustinBooks:

I've been talking about this on here: all the resisters in the streets are learning from others across the country. Every city #ICE tries to invade from here is just going to be even better prepared for them, because we are all communicating with each other.

Even as the regime flails, the resistance gets stronger and larger every day. We will crush fascism.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d

Journalism & Comment Channel (@journalismandcomment) · Dec 17
🔁 @dangillmor:

Collaboration and cooperation are essential in countering facists, and people in some American cities are doing both to resist Trump's kidnap-and-deport goons. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d

Ms. Missy (@MsMissy) · Dec 17
🔁 @indivisibleteam:

This is how we keep our communities safe: “Before long, Indivisible Chicago had sent whistle kits in the mail to the New Orleans chapter, along with an explanation of how best to use them, and Indivisible NOLA set up a “know your rights” training that the Chicago Indivisible chapter helped lead remotely via Zoom.” theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d

Peter Hanecak (@phanecak) · Dec 17
🔁 @dangillmor:

Collaboration and cooperation are essential in countering facists, and people in some American cities are doing both to resist Trump's kidnap-and-deport goons. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d

Ω 🌍 Gus Posey (@Gustodon) · Dec 17
🔁 @MaryAustinBooks:

I've been talking about this on here: all the resisters in the streets are learning from others across the country. Every city #ICE tries to invade from here is just going to be even better prepared for them, because we are all communicating with each other.

Even as the regime flails, the resistance gets stronger and larger every day. We will crush fascism.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d

LJ (@LJ) · Dec 17
🔁 @MaryAustinBooks:

I've been talking about this on here: all the resisters in the streets are learning from others across the country. Every city #ICE tries to invade from here is just going to be even better prepared for them, because we are all communicating with each other.

Even as the regime flails, the resistance gets stronger and larger every day. We will crush fascism.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d

skry (@skry) · Dec 17
🔁 @indivisibleteam:

This is how we keep our communities safe: “Before long, Indivisible Chicago had sent whistle kits in the mail to the New Orleans chapter, along with an explanation of how best to use them, and Indivisible NOLA set up a “know your rights” training that the Chicago Indivisible chapter helped lead remotely via Zoom.” theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d

libramoon (@libramoon) · Dec 17
🔁 @indivisibleteam:

This is how we keep our communities safe: “Before long, Indivisible Chicago had sent whistle kits in the mail to the New Orleans chapter, along with an explanation of how best to use them, and Indivisible NOLA set up a “know your rights” training that the Chicago Indivisible chapter helped lead remotely via Zoom.” theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d

Uh Oh! The Infantilization of Failure

joanwestenberg.com · Dec 16

When apps fail, when software breaks, you'll likely encounter a message constructed from a specific vocabulary: "Oops!" "Uh oh!" "Whoops!" Sometimes you'll get the full nursery treatment: an "Oopsie-daisy" with a sad cartoon robot making a pouty face. The language has become so ubiquitous that it...

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(@Perrin42) · Dec 17
🔁 @Daojoan:

Would you accept "Oopsie!" from your accountant? Your doctor?

Why do we accept it from companies holding our data and our money?

joanwestenberg.com/uh-oh-the-i

Trendy Toots (@trendytoots) · Dec 17
🔁 @Daojoan:

Would you accept "Oopsie!" from your accountant? Your doctor?

Why do we accept it from companies holding our data and our money?

joanwestenberg.com/uh-oh-the-i

Chad McCullough (@cmccullough) · Dec 16
🔁 @Daojoan:

Would you accept "Oopsie!" from your accountant? Your doctor?

Why do we accept it from companies holding our data and our money?

joanwestenberg.com/uh-oh-the-i

skategyrl (@skategyrl) · Dec 17
🔁 @Daojoan:

Would you accept "Oopsie!" from your accountant? Your doctor?

Why do we accept it from companies holding our data and our money?

joanwestenberg.com/uh-oh-the-i

Sylvain Soliman ☕️ (@soliman) · Dec 17
🔁 @Daojoan:

Would you accept "Oopsie!" from your accountant? Your doctor?

Why do we accept it from companies holding our data and our money?

joanwestenberg.com/uh-oh-the-i

cwicseolfor (@cwicseolfor) · Dec 17
🔁 @Daojoan:

Would you accept "Oopsie!" from your accountant? Your doctor?

Why do we accept it from companies holding our data and our money?

joanwestenberg.com/uh-oh-the-i

Stryder Notavi (@StryderNotavi) · Dec 17
🔁 @Daojoan:

Would you accept "Oopsie!" from your accountant? Your doctor?

Why do we accept it from companies holding our data and our money?

joanwestenberg.com/uh-oh-the-i

oldguycrusty (@oldguycrusty) · Dec 17
🔁 @Daojoan:

Would you accept "Oopsie!" from your accountant? Your doctor?

Why do we accept it from companies holding our data and our money?

joanwestenberg.com/uh-oh-the-i

Moe Lassus (@moelassus) · Dec 17
🔁 @Daojoan:

Would you accept "Oopsie!" from your accountant? Your doctor?

Why do we accept it from companies holding our data and our money?

joanwestenberg.com/uh-oh-the-i

YOULE :FlakeSpinCyan: (@MOULE) · Dec 17
🔁 @Daojoan:

Would you accept "Oopsie!" from your accountant? Your doctor?

Why do we accept it from companies holding our data and our money?

joanwestenberg.com/uh-oh-the-i

Worth reading

Netflix can’t be allowed to buy Warner Discovery

disconnect.blog · Dec 16

It would be the next step in the degradation of culture to serve commercial ends

Shared by @DarrenNevares and 7 others.
Darren Nevares :vm: (@DarrenNevares) · Dec 17
🔁 @parismarx:

Netflix made a bold promise that streaming would be cheaper and better than what existed before. It broke that promise to cash in on its audience.

If it captures Warner Discovery, it would not just remake a major studio, but continue degrading culture by further commercializing it.

disconnect.blog/netflix-cant-b

#tech #netflix #streaming #movies #film #wbd #warner #politics

Flipboard Tech Desk (@TechDesk) · Dec 17
🔁 @parismarx:

Netflix made a bold promise that streaming would be cheaper and better than what existed before. It broke that promise to cash in on its audience.

If it captures Warner Discovery, it would not just remake a major studio, but continue degrading culture by further commercializing it.

disconnect.blog/netflix-cant-b

#tech #netflix #streaming #movies #film #wbd #warner #politics

skry (@skry) · Dec 17
🔁 @parismarx:

Netflix made a bold promise that streaming would be cheaper and better than what existed before. It broke that promise to cash in on its audience.

If it captures Warner Discovery, it would not just remake a major studio, but continue degrading culture by further commercializing it.

disconnect.blog/netflix-cant-b

#tech #netflix #streaming #movies #film #wbd #warner #politics

Yvan ー イボん 🗺️ :ferris: :go: (@YvanDaSilva) · Dec 16
🔁 @parismarx:

Netflix made a bold promise that streaming would be cheaper and better than what existed before. It broke that promise to cash in on its audience.

If it captures Warner Discovery, it would not just remake a major studio, but continue degrading culture by further commercializing it.

disconnect.blog/netflix-cant-b

#tech #netflix #streaming #movies #film #wbd #warner #politics

Fynn Ellie Be (@mvsde) · Dec 16
🔁 @parismarx:

Netflix made a bold promise that streaming would be cheaper and better than what existed before. It broke that promise to cash in on its audience.

If it captures Warner Discovery, it would not just remake a major studio, but continue degrading culture by further commercializing it.

disconnect.blog/netflix-cant-b

#tech #netflix #streaming #movies #film #wbd #warner #politics

Cory Dransfeldt :demi: (@cory) · Dec 16
🔁 @parismarx:

Netflix made a bold promise that streaming would be cheaper and better than what existed before. It broke that promise to cash in on its audience.

If it captures Warner Discovery, it would not just remake a major studio, but continue degrading culture by further commercializing it.

disconnect.blog/netflix-cant-b

#tech #netflix #streaming #movies #film #wbd #warner #politics

Ghost's ActivityPub Integration Feels Half-Baked

deadsuperhero.com · Dec 16

Their work is far from over, but lack of development and progress is leaving me wanting.

Shared by @AnthonyBaker and 8 others.
Richard MacManus (@ricmac) · Dec 17
🔁 @deadsuperhero:

I just wrote about Ghost, and how I think its #Fediverse integration is still lacking. I love the platform, but I want to see their embrace of the Social Web really succeed.

https://deadsuperhero.com/ghosts-activitypub-integration-feels-half-baked/

Ecologia Digital (@josemurilo) · Dec 17
🔁 @deadsuperhero:

I just wrote about Ghost, and how I think its #Fediverse integration is still lacking. I love the platform, but I want to see their embrace of the Social Web really succeed.

https://deadsuperhero.com/ghosts-activitypub-integration-feels-half-baked/

Regendans (@regendans) · Dec 16
🔁 @deadsuperhero:

I just wrote about Ghost, and how I think its #Fediverse integration is still lacking. I love the platform, but I want to see their embrace of the Social Web really succeed.

https://deadsuperhero.com/ghosts-activitypub-integration-feels-half-baked/

Sean Tilley (@deadsuperhero) · Dec 16

I just wrote about Ghost, and how I think its #Fediverse integration is still lacking. I love the platform, but I want to see their embrace of the Social Web really succeed.

https://deadsuperhero.com/ghosts-activitypub-integration-feels-half-baked/

Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (@onepict) · Dec 17
🔁 @deadsuperhero:

I just wrote about Ghost, and how I think its #Fediverse integration is still lacking. I love the platform, but I want to see their embrace of the Social Web really succeed.

https://deadsuperhero.com/ghosts-activitypub-integration-feels-half-baked/

Michael Foster (@michael) · Dec 17
🔁 @deadsuperhero:

I just wrote about Ghost, and how I think its #Fediverse integration is still lacking. I love the platform, but I want to see their embrace of the Social Web really succeed.

https://deadsuperhero.com/ghosts-activitypub-integration-feels-half-baked/

Anthony Baker (@AnthonyBaker) · Dec 17
🔁 @deadsuperhero:

I just wrote about Ghost, and how I think its #Fediverse integration is still lacking. I love the platform, but I want to see their embrace of the Social Web really succeed.

https://deadsuperhero.com/ghosts-activitypub-integration-feels-half-baked/

+>e (@eons) · Dec 17
🔁 @deadsuperhero:

I just wrote about Ghost, and how I think its #Fediverse integration is still lacking. I love the platform, but I want to see their embrace of the Social Web really succeed.

https://deadsuperhero.com/ghosts-activitypub-integration-feels-half-baked/

EU drops 2035 zero-emission target, extending life of combustion engines in Europe

autonews.com · Dec 16

The EU's new proposal reduces tailpipe CO2 emissions by 90 percent versus 2021. The remaining 10 percent of emissions will have to be offset by sustainable biofuels or e-fuels and low-carbon green steel made in Europe.

Shared by @lenzgr and 6 others.
Journalism & Comment Channel (@journalismandcomment) · Dec 16
🔁 @w7voa:

EU eases a 2035 zero-emission target to allow some internal-combustion cars to be sold after that date. autonews.com/manufacturing/aut

Lenz Grimmer (@lenzgr) · Dec 17
🔁 @w7voa:

EU eases a 2035 zero-emission target to allow some internal-combustion cars to be sold after that date. autonews.com/manufacturing/aut

Kriszta Satori (@fulelo) · Dec 17
🔁 @w7voa:

EU eases a 2035 zero-emission target to allow some internal-combustion cars to be sold after that date. autonews.com/manufacturing/aut

AA (@AAKL) · Dec 16
🔁 @w7voa:

EU eases a 2035 zero-emission target to allow some internal-combustion cars to be sold after that date. autonews.com/manufacturing/aut

Worth reading

The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2025

lithub.com · Dec 17

Pans, glorious pans. No end-of-year roundup would be complete without them. Among the books being driven into the woods by pitchfork-wielding villagers this year: Louis C.K.’s masturbatory debut no…

Shared by @petes_bread_eqn_xls and 5 others.
Stefan (@stefan) · Dec 17
🔁 @kottke:

The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2025. “Historians will study how bad this book is. English teachers will hold this book aloft at their students to remind them that literally anyone can write a book.” lithub.com/the-most-scathing-b

petes_bread_eqn_xls (@petes_bread_eqn_xls) · Dec 17
🔁 @kottke:

The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2025. “Historians will study how bad this book is. English teachers will hold this book aloft at their students to remind them that literally anyone can write a book.” lithub.com/the-most-scathing-b

My 2025 Indie Web Report and Thoughts on the Open Web

cybercultural.com · Dec 17

How my independent website, Cybercultural, has fared during 2025 — a year when AI summaries whittled away search referral traffic and social media continued its war against hyperlinks.

Shared by @michael and 5 others.
Zach Leatherman :11ty: (@zachleat) · Dec 17
🔁 @ricmac:

How my independent website, Cybercultural, has fared during 2025 — a year when AI summaries whittled away search referral traffic and social media continued its war against hyperlinks. Also, I reflect on the state of the open web from a publishing pov, and the role of the fediverse within it. cybercultural.com/p/indie-web- #IndieWeb

Michael Foster (@michael) · Dec 17
🔁 @ricmac:

How my independent website, Cybercultural, has fared during 2025 — a year when AI summaries whittled away search referral traffic and social media continued its war against hyperlinks. Also, I reflect on the state of the open web from a publishing pov, and the role of the fediverse within it. cybercultural.com/p/indie-web- #IndieWeb

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: (@reiver) · Dec 17
🔁 @ricmac:

How my independent website, Cybercultural, has fared during 2025 — a year when AI summaries whittled away search referral traffic and social media continued its war against hyperlinks. Also, I reflect on the state of the open web from a publishing pov, and the role of the fediverse within it. cybercultural.com/p/indie-web- #IndieWeb

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 (@chris) · Dec 17
🔁 @ricmac:

How my independent website, Cybercultural, has fared during 2025 — a year when AI summaries whittled away search referral traffic and social media continued its war against hyperlinks. Also, I reflect on the state of the open web from a publishing pov, and the role of the fediverse within it. cybercultural.com/p/indie-web- #IndieWeb

Toyota Research Institute - Senior Robotics Research Engineer

jobs.lever.co · Dec 16

At Toyota Research Institute (TRI), we’re on a mission to improve the quality of human life. We’re developing new tools and capabilities to amplify the human experience. To lead this ground-breaking shift in mobility, we’ve built a world-class team in Automated Driving, Energy & Materials, ...

Shared by @RealGene and 10 others.
RealGene ☣️ (@RealGene) · Dec 17
🔁 @nonnihil:

My place of work, Toyota Research Institute, wants another engineer to help keep our robotics researchers sane and productive and safe; we have a very collaborative workplace and although we do a *ton* of machine learning work there is very little LLM-AI glurge and plenty of LLM-skeptical devs.
The job -- and the robots -- are located in Cambridge, MA, and it is hybrid remote/local in a fairly flexible way.
We have very modest formal qualification requirements, but expect to have to answer demanding software quality and robotics questions.
Details and idealistic vision and clickybox here: jobs.lever.co/tri/dad8e0e8-171

joy larkin 🌺✨ (@joy) · Dec 17
🔁 @nonnihil:

My place of work, Toyota Research Institute, wants another engineer to help keep our robotics researchers sane and productive and safe; we have a very collaborative workplace and although we do a *ton* of machine learning work there is very little LLM-AI glurge and plenty of LLM-skeptical devs.
The job -- and the robots -- are located in Cambridge, MA, and it is hybrid remote/local in a fairly flexible way.
We have very modest formal qualification requirements, but expect to have to answer demanding software quality and robotics questions.
Details and idealistic vision and clickybox here: jobs.lever.co/tri/dad8e0e8-171

Bill, organizer of stuff (@wcbdata) · Dec 17
🔁 @nonnihil:

My place of work, Toyota Research Institute, wants another engineer to help keep our robotics researchers sane and productive and safe; we have a very collaborative workplace and although we do a *ton* of machine learning work there is very little LLM-AI glurge and plenty of LLM-skeptical devs.
The job -- and the robots -- are located in Cambridge, MA, and it is hybrid remote/local in a fairly flexible way.
We have very modest formal qualification requirements, but expect to have to answer demanding software quality and robotics questions.
Details and idealistic vision and clickybox here: jobs.lever.co/tri/dad8e0e8-171

Christopher Evans (@becomingwisest) · Dec 17
🔁 @nonnihil:

My place of work, Toyota Research Institute, wants another engineer to help keep our robotics researchers sane and productive and safe; we have a very collaborative workplace and although we do a *ton* of machine learning work there is very little LLM-AI glurge and plenty of LLM-skeptical devs.
The job -- and the robots -- are located in Cambridge, MA, and it is hybrid remote/local in a fairly flexible way.
We have very modest formal qualification requirements, but expect to have to answer demanding software quality and robotics questions.
Details and idealistic vision and clickybox here: jobs.lever.co/tri/dad8e0e8-171

VM (Vicky) Brasseur (@vmbrasseur) · Dec 17
🔁 @nonnihil:

My place of work, Toyota Research Institute, wants another engineer to help keep our robotics researchers sane and productive and safe; we have a very collaborative workplace and although we do a *ton* of machine learning work there is very little LLM-AI glurge and plenty of LLM-skeptical devs.
The job -- and the robots -- are located in Cambridge, MA, and it is hybrid remote/local in a fairly flexible way.
We have very modest formal qualification requirements, but expect to have to answer demanding software quality and robotics questions.
Details and idealistic vision and clickybox here: jobs.lever.co/tri/dad8e0e8-171

brendan (#39C3に行こう) (@bnys) · Dec 16
🔁 @nonnihil:

My place of work, Toyota Research Institute, wants another engineer to help keep our robotics researchers sane and productive and safe; we have a very collaborative workplace and although we do a *ton* of machine learning work there is very little LLM-AI glurge and plenty of LLM-skeptical devs.
The job -- and the robots -- are located in Cambridge, MA, and it is hybrid remote/local in a fairly flexible way.
We have very modest formal qualification requirements, but expect to have to answer demanding software quality and robotics questions.
Details and idealistic vision and clickybox here: jobs.lever.co/tri/dad8e0e8-171

Geoff Berner (@Geoffberner) · Dec 17
🔁 @nonnihil:

My place of work, Toyota Research Institute, wants another engineer to help keep our robotics researchers sane and productive and safe; we have a very collaborative workplace and although we do a *ton* of machine learning work there is very little LLM-AI glurge and plenty of LLM-skeptical devs.
The job -- and the robots -- are located in Cambridge, MA, and it is hybrid remote/local in a fairly flexible way.
We have very modest formal qualification requirements, but expect to have to answer demanding software quality and robotics questions.
Details and idealistic vision and clickybox here: jobs.lever.co/tri/dad8e0e8-171

Joe Brockmeier (@jzb) · Dec 17
🔁 @nonnihil:

My place of work, Toyota Research Institute, wants another engineer to help keep our robotics researchers sane and productive and safe; we have a very collaborative workplace and although we do a *ton* of machine learning work there is very little LLM-AI glurge and plenty of LLM-skeptical devs.
The job -- and the robots -- are located in Cambridge, MA, and it is hybrid remote/local in a fairly flexible way.
We have very modest formal qualification requirements, but expect to have to answer demanding software quality and robotics questions.
Details and idealistic vision and clickybox here: jobs.lever.co/tri/dad8e0e8-171

Andromeda Yelton (@thatandromeda) · Dec 17
🔁 @nonnihil:

My place of work, Toyota Research Institute, wants another engineer to help keep our robotics researchers sane and productive and safe; we have a very collaborative workplace and although we do a *ton* of machine learning work there is very little LLM-AI glurge and plenty of LLM-skeptical devs.
The job -- and the robots -- are located in Cambridge, MA, and it is hybrid remote/local in a fairly flexible way.
We have very modest formal qualification requirements, but expect to have to answer demanding software quality and robotics questions.
Details and idealistic vision and clickybox here: jobs.lever.co/tri/dad8e0e8-171

knizer (@knizer) · Dec 16
🔁 @nonnihil:

My place of work, Toyota Research Institute, wants another engineer to help keep our robotics researchers sane and productive and safe; we have a very collaborative workplace and although we do a *ton* of machine learning work there is very little LLM-AI glurge and plenty of LLM-skeptical devs.
The job -- and the robots -- are located in Cambridge, MA, and it is hybrid remote/local in a fairly flexible way.
We have very modest formal qualification requirements, but expect to have to answer demanding software quality and robotics questions.
Details and idealistic vision and clickybox here: jobs.lever.co/tri/dad8e0e8-171

This is not the future

blog.mathieui.net · Dec 16

I thought about this when reading a mastodon post which commented on a news where a project adopted a "use Generative AI but disclose it" policy, because it is "the future" and "people are going to use it anyway".

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