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The Fallen Apple — Matt Gemmell

mattgemmell.scot · Feb 01

I barely recognise the company I used to have such admiration for.

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Eric Teubert (@ericteubert) · Feb 02
🔁 @mattgemmell:

This piece has been coming for a while, in one form or another. Makes me deeply unhappy to write it. mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-ap

John Wilker 👨🏽‍💻 (@jwilker) · Feb 02
🔁 @mattgemmell:

This piece has been coming for a while, in one form or another. Makes me deeply unhappy to write it. mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-ap

skry (@skry) · Feb 01
🔁 @mattgemmell:

This piece has been coming for a while, in one form or another. Makes me deeply unhappy to write it. mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-ap

BenRiceM (@BenRiceM) · Feb 01
🔁 @mattgemmell:

This piece has been coming for a while, in one form or another. Makes me deeply unhappy to write it. mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-ap

Dan Dean (@dandean) · Feb 01
🔁 @mattgemmell:

This piece has been coming for a while, in one form or another. Makes me deeply unhappy to write it. mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-ap

A (@a) · Feb 01
🔁 @mattgemmell:

This piece has been coming for a while, in one form or another. Makes me deeply unhappy to write it. mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-ap

netop://ウィビ (@netopwibby) · Feb 01
🔁 @mattgemmell:

This piece has been coming for a while, in one form or another. Makes me deeply unhappy to write it. mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-ap

Simon B. Støvring (@simonbs) · Feb 01
🔁 @mattgemmell:

This piece has been coming for a while, in one form or another. Makes me deeply unhappy to write it. mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-ap

Bradley Frank (@bradfrank) · Feb 02
🔁 @mattgemmell:

This piece has been coming for a while, in one form or another. Makes me deeply unhappy to write it. mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-ap

Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) (@stepheneb) · Feb 02
🔁 @mattgemmell:

This piece has been coming for a while, in one form or another. Makes me deeply unhappy to write it. mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-ap

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Accountability for ICE and CBP

doomsdayscenario.co · Feb 02

However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.

Shared by @lisagetspolitik and 30 others.
hypebot (@hypebot) · Feb 02
🔁 @dangillmor:

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

doomsdayscenario.co/p/accounta

Read and share it.

Kristen (@kristen_d) · Feb 02
🔁 @dangillmor:

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

doomsdayscenario.co/p/accounta

Read and share it.

Katrina Katrinka :donor: (@katrinakatrinka) · Feb 02
🔁 @dangillmor:

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

doomsdayscenario.co/p/accounta

Read and share it.

Journalism & Comment Channel (@journalismandcomment) · Feb 02
🔁 @dangillmor:

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

doomsdayscenario.co/p/accounta

Read and share it.

Alex Akselrod (@aakselrod) · Feb 02
🔁 @dangillmor:

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

doomsdayscenario.co/p/accounta

Read and share it.

Carrie🇨🇦 (@carrieberry) · Feb 02
🔁 @dangillmor:

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

doomsdayscenario.co/p/accounta

Read and share it.

Faraiwe (@faraiwe) · Feb 02
🔁 @dangillmor:

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

doomsdayscenario.co/p/accounta

Read and share it.

samiamsam (@samiamsam) · Feb 02
🔁 @dangillmor:

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

doomsdayscenario.co/p/accounta

Read and share it.

amalia (@amalia22) · Feb 02
🔁 @dangillmor:

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

doomsdayscenario.co/p/accounta

Read and share it.

Trendy Toots (@trendytoots) · Feb 02
🔁 @dangillmor:

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

doomsdayscenario.co/p/accounta

Read and share it.

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Thoughts on the Social Web from FOSDEM 2026 - Luis Quintanilla

lqdev.me · Feb 01

I had the opportunity to attend FOSDEM 2026 virtually, and I spent almost all of my time in the Social Web track.

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Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio?

snyder.substack.com · Feb 01

Nazi Lies in Vance's America

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Nicole Parsons (@Npars01) · Feb 01
🔁 @wdlindsy:

"In the schools and churches of Springfield, Ohio, people are making hasty preparations for a 'large deportation' promised by the president. To all appearances, and according to local sources, the city is two or three days away from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #Vance #Haitians #Ohio #Springfield #EthnicCleansing #Nazis #ICE #WhiteSupremacy
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snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-c

Kai Kupferschmidt (@kakape) · Feb 01

@katestarbird And this by Timothy Snyder:

“A spurious alternative reality, built from Nazi marches, internet memes, and Vance’s and Trump’s lies was consciously created and spread.”

snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-c

Annother (@Avonan) · Feb 02
🔁 @davidaugust:

Ethnic cleansing about to happen.

“Springfield [OH] and Clark County are coming back…It’s an upward movement. Part of that upward movement comes about because, frankly, of Haitians who are working and contributing to the economy and…and doing all the things that working people (do)…it is not in the best interest of Ohio, for these individuals who are workers and working to lose that status.” Ohio Governor DeWine as quoted by Timothy Snyder

snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-c

#USpol #EthnicCleansing #OH

Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦 (@dgoldsmith) · Feb 01
🔁 @kakape:

@katestarbird And this by Timothy Snyder:

“A spurious alternative reality, built from Nazi marches, internet memes, and Vance’s and Trump’s lies was consciously created and spread.”

snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-c

Joseph A di Paolantonio (@jadp) · Feb 01
🔁 @susankayequinn:

"In a rural society, the claim that people are beasts is a suggestion they can be slaughtered...In (urban/suburban, where) animals are companions, the idea that others mistreat animals can be the signal they are not like us, barbarians."

I had not put together these two types of dehumanization.

snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-c

Fan of Shared Truth & Empathy (@JohnSullivan) · Feb 01

"When Vance then posted about Haitians on 9 September 2024, two months after his first speech, a circle was closed. He had drawn attention to Springfield, including the attention of Nazis. This led to the portrayal Haitians as criminals and barbarians. Vance now repeated the specific claims, to which he himself had given the general impulse, as evidence that his initial slander had been true. “Reports now show,” he wrote, “that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who should not be in this country.”

There were no such reports; there was only the campaign of aggression that Vance himself had initiated. Cat-eating now became a favorite topic among national elected Republican officials. Often this took a joking tone, with cat memes. This levity is a tactic of the on-line far right: even as we demean other people and deny their humanity, it is all somehow just a joke."

snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-c

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The One Where I Announce I’m Stepping Back From Mac Power Users - 512 Pixels

512pixels.net · Feb 01

In late 2018, David Sparks and I announced that I was joining Mac Power Users as a host. Here’s what I wrote at the time: On this week’s episode, Katie announced that she is stepping away from the podcast almost ten years after the first episode. I will genuinely miss hearing her back and for...

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Warner Crocker (@WarnerCrocker) · Feb 01
🔁 @512pixels:

The One Where I Announce I’m Stepping Back From Mac Power Users

512pixels.net/2026/02/leaving-

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Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.

taranis.ie · Feb 01

There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.

Shared by @dstndstn and 11 others.
Dustin Lang (@dstndstn) · Feb 01
🔁 @AkaSci:

Another good article by a former NASA engineer/scientist on why "Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea."

"This is an absolutely terrible idea, and really makes zero sense whatsoever. There are multiple reasons for this, but they all amount to saying that the kind of electronics needed to make a datacenter work, particularly a datacenter deploying AI capacity in the form of GPUs and TPUs, is exactly the opposite of what works in space."

taranis.ie/datacenters-in-spac
5/n

Patrick Hadfield (@patrickhadfield) · Feb 01
🔁 @AkaSci:

Another good article by a former NASA engineer/scientist on why "Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea."

"This is an absolutely terrible idea, and really makes zero sense whatsoever. There are multiple reasons for this, but they all amount to saying that the kind of electronics needed to make a datacenter work, particularly a datacenter deploying AI capacity in the form of GPUs and TPUs, is exactly the opposite of what works in space."

taranis.ie/datacenters-in-spac
5/n

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Where It Ends

the-reframe.com · Feb 01

Answering the enabler's constant question, and contemplating the depraved depths of the billionaire mindset.

Shared by @Porkwich and 36 others.
Kim Possible :kimoji_fire: (@kimlockhartga) · Feb 01
🔁 @JuliusGoat:

Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.

"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"

the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

Spiritual Annie ☮️ (@SpiritualAnnie) · Feb 01
🔁 @JuliusGoat:

Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.

"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"

the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

Nicole Parsons (@Npars01) · Feb 01
🔁 @JuliusGoat:

Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.

"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"

the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

Merilee D. Karr, MD, MFA (@merileedkarr) · Feb 01
🔁 @JuliusGoat:

Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.

"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"

the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

Rimu (@rimu) · Feb 02

Contemplating the depraved depths of the billionaire mindset

Wealthy people don’t seem to think of money as money. It’s certainly not lack for material needs or luxury that drives them. At a certain point of wealth, what is being pursued seems not to be wealth, but the ability to make other people suffer. What’s being pursued is immunity from human decency; the ability and even the right to be depraved with impunity.

Stuart Celarier (@VisualStuart) · Feb 01
🔁 @JuliusGoat:

Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.

"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"

the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

Axomamma, Antifa's cousin* (@Axomamma) · Feb 01
🔁 @JuliusGoat:

Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.

"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"

the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

Zaphod Beeblebrox (@garthderby) · Feb 01
🔁 @JuliusGoat:

Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.

"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"

the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

Trending Bot (@trending) · Feb 01
🔁 @JuliusGoat:

Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.

"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"

the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

Odd reverberations (@radicalfaery) · Feb 01
🔁 @JuliusGoat:

Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.

"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"

the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

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Adam Becker

freelanceastrophysicist.com · Feb 01

Author and Astrophysicist

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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦 (@dgoldsmith) · Feb 01
🔁 @sundogplanets:

And the third book is More Everything Forever by @adambecker.bsky.social freelanceastrophysicist.com/

Goes more deeply into the techbro culture/religion that seems to think that AI will save us all and that we have a duty to destroy our planet and go to the stars. (Also the best way I've ever heard to explain how hard it is to live on Mars: even if you lived on Earth the day that the dinosaur-extinction asteroid hit, you'd be better off than trying to live on Mars.) #ProfSamLectureTour

The Flight Attendant (@CosmicTraveler) · Feb 01
🔁 @sundogplanets:

And the third book is More Everything Forever by @adambecker.bsky.social freelanceastrophysicist.com/

Goes more deeply into the techbro culture/religion that seems to think that AI will save us all and that we have a duty to destroy our planet and go to the stars. (Also the best way I've ever heard to explain how hard it is to live on Mars: even if you lived on Earth the day that the dinosaur-extinction asteroid hit, you'd be better off than trying to live on Mars.) #ProfSamLectureTour

Mario Munoz (@pythonbynight) · Feb 01
🔁 @sundogplanets:

And the third book is More Everything Forever by @adambecker.bsky.social freelanceastrophysicist.com/

Goes more deeply into the techbro culture/religion that seems to think that AI will save us all and that we have a duty to destroy our planet and go to the stars. (Also the best way I've ever heard to explain how hard it is to live on Mars: even if you lived on Earth the day that the dinosaur-extinction asteroid hit, you'd be better off than trying to live on Mars.) #ProfSamLectureTour

Axomamma, Antifa's cousin* (@Axomamma) · Feb 01
🔁 @sundogplanets:

And the third book is More Everything Forever by @adambecker.bsky.social freelanceastrophysicist.com/

Goes more deeply into the techbro culture/religion that seems to think that AI will save us all and that we have a duty to destroy our planet and go to the stars. (Also the best way I've ever heard to explain how hard it is to live on Mars: even if you lived on Earth the day that the dinosaur-extinction asteroid hit, you'd be better off than trying to live on Mars.) #ProfSamLectureTour

Mark Reeves 📚 🎸 (@heymarkreeves) · Feb 01
🔁 @sundogplanets:

And the third book is More Everything Forever by @adambecker.bsky.social freelanceastrophysicist.com/

Goes more deeply into the techbro culture/religion that seems to think that AI will save us all and that we have a duty to destroy our planet and go to the stars. (Also the best way I've ever heard to explain how hard it is to live on Mars: even if you lived on Earth the day that the dinosaur-extinction asteroid hit, you'd be better off than trying to live on Mars.) #ProfSamLectureTour

Jayne :wales_flag:🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 (@TCMuffin) · Feb 01
🔁 @sundogplanets:

And the third book is More Everything Forever by @adambecker.bsky.social freelanceastrophysicist.com/

Goes more deeply into the techbro culture/religion that seems to think that AI will save us all and that we have a duty to destroy our planet and go to the stars. (Also the best way I've ever heard to explain how hard it is to live on Mars: even if you lived on Earth the day that the dinosaur-extinction asteroid hit, you'd be better off than trying to live on Mars.) #ProfSamLectureTour

Being Left Behind Enjoyer (@thomasfuchs) · Feb 01
🔁 @sundogplanets:

And the third book is More Everything Forever by @adambecker.bsky.social freelanceastrophysicist.com/

Goes more deeply into the techbro culture/religion that seems to think that AI will save us all and that we have a duty to destroy our planet and go to the stars. (Also the best way I've ever heard to explain how hard it is to live on Mars: even if you lived on Earth the day that the dinosaur-extinction asteroid hit, you'd be better off than trying to live on Mars.) #ProfSamLectureTour

Prof. Sam Lawler (@sundogplanets) · Feb 01

And the third book is More Everything Forever by @adambecker.bsky.social freelanceastrophysicist.com/

Goes more deeply into the techbro culture/religion that seems to think that AI will save us all and that we have a duty to destroy our planet and go to the stars. (Also the best way I've ever heard to explain how hard it is to live on Mars: even if you lived on Earth the day that the dinosaur-extinction asteroid hit, you'd be better off than trying to live on Mars.) #ProfSamLectureTour

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Reflections on my first day (ever) at FOSDEM

neilzone.co.uk · Feb 01

Yesterday was my first day ever at FOSDEM, a large conference about Free and open source software, held in Brussels.

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Ian Turton (@ianturton) · Feb 01
🔁 @neil:

New blogpost:

"Reflections on my first day (ever) at FOSDEM"

I suspect that the fact that I'm hanging around my hotel room, writing this and doing other admin-y bits, rather says it all...

neilzone.co.uk/2026/02/reflect

#FOSDEM #blog #people

Cassidy James @ FOSDEM (@cassidy) · Feb 01
🔁 @neil:

New blogpost:

"Reflections on my first day (ever) at FOSDEM"

I suspect that the fact that I'm hanging around my hotel room, writing this and doing other admin-y bits, rather says it all...

neilzone.co.uk/2026/02/reflect

#FOSDEM #blog #people

Justine Smithies (@justine) · Feb 01
🔁 @neil:

New blogpost:

"Reflections on my first day (ever) at FOSDEM"

I suspect that the fact that I'm hanging around my hotel room, writing this and doing other admin-y bits, rather says it all...

neilzone.co.uk/2026/02/reflect

#FOSDEM #blog #people

Journalism & Comment Channel (@journalismandcomment) · Feb 01
🔁 @neil:

New blogpost:

"Reflections on my first day (ever) at FOSDEM"

I suspect that the fact that I'm hanging around my hotel room, writing this and doing other admin-y bits, rather says it all...

neilzone.co.uk/2026/02/reflect

#FOSDEM #blog #people

Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (@onepict) · Feb 01
🔁 @neil:

New blogpost:

"Reflections on my first day (ever) at FOSDEM"

I suspect that the fact that I'm hanging around my hotel room, writing this and doing other admin-y bits, rather says it all...

neilzone.co.uk/2026/02/reflect

#FOSDEM #blog #people

fluconf (@fluconf) · Feb 01
🔁 @neil:

New blogpost:

"Reflections on my first day (ever) at FOSDEM"

I suspect that the fact that I'm hanging around my hotel room, writing this and doing other admin-y bits, rather says it all...

neilzone.co.uk/2026/02/reflect

#FOSDEM #blog #people

Doggie BSc :neofox_snug: :therian: (@lunareclipse) · Feb 01
🔁 @neil:

New blogpost:

"Reflections on my first day (ever) at FOSDEM"

I suspect that the fact that I'm hanging around my hotel room, writing this and doing other admin-y bits, rather says it all...

neilzone.co.uk/2026/02/reflect

#FOSDEM #blog #people

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