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We Are All We Have

dansinker.com · Jan 21

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Sarah dreams of beans (@beandreams) · Jan 22

🔁 @beep:

”We are all we have and the more you do, today, to reach out in your neighbors, your town, your community, the better off everyone is.” — https://dansinker.com/posts/2026-01-21-all-we-have/

@dansinker’s latest is very much worth your time. (As it always is.)

#uspol #ICE

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Why there’s no European Google?

ploum.net · Jan 22

Why there’s no European Google? par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

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Jayne :wales_flag:🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 (@TCMuffin) · Jan 23

🔁 @simon_brooke:

"Some are proud because they made a lot of money while cutting down a forest. Others are proud because they are planting trees that will produce the oxygen breathed by their grandchildren. What if success was not privatizing resources but instead contributing to the commons, to make it each day better, richer, stronger?" — @ploum

Why there’s no European Google?
https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html

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Your Digital Footprint Reveals More Than You Think | KQED

kqed.org · Jan 22

How easy is it to find someone from a single video posted online? To find out, Morgan put her own privacy to the test. She asked TikTok creator JoseMonkey, who’s famous for geolocating people who send him videos asking to be found, to track her down. JoseMonkey started as a geolocation hobbyist...

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GhostOnTheHalfShell (@GhostOnTheHalfShell) · Jan 22

🔁 @evacide:

Trying to protect everything from everyone all the time will drive you crazy. Here is what you should do about your digital privacy and security instead. I talked to KQED's Close All Tabs about threat modeling: https://www.kqed.org/news/12070531/your-digital-footprint-reveals-more-than-you-think

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Email from Family in Minnesota

inessential.com · Jan 21

Our family in Minnesota knows that we all worry about them, and so yesterday they sent an email to everyone.

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Matt Pollari (@scifi451) · Jan 21

🔁 @brentsimmons:

On my blog — email from family in Minnesota:

https://inessential.com/2026/01/21/email-from-minnesota-family.html

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‘She looks like a baby’: Why do kids as young as 5 or 6 still get arrested at schools? – Center for Public Integrity

publicintegrity.org · Jan 22

This story was produced as part of a collaboration with the Center for Public Integrity and USA TODAY. ORLANDO — The preschoolers filed offstage in royal blue caps and gowns, hugging their parents and ready for treats to celebrate their 2018 graduation from Trinity Learning Academy. All but one...

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Björkus "No time_t to Die" Dorkus (@thephd) · Jan 22

🔁 @mekkaokereke:

There's a photo going around of ICE arresting a 5-year-old boy, and shipping him to a facility in another state.

This is horrific! It's absolutely inexcusable to arrest a 5-year-old child!

🤔I just have a few questions... what if the child is Black though? Is it still cruel?

Is it also cruel to send Black kids as young as 7 to juvenile detention facilities in other states, so that their moms can't even visit?

https://publicintegrity.org/education/criminalizing-kids/young-kids-arrested-at-schools/#

Let this build empathy inside you.

Recognize that this situation is horrific when ICE does it to immigrant children, and when cops do it to Black children.

Recognize that ICE agents doing these acts to make MAGA happy is bad. Cops doing this to make Dem voters happy, is also bad.

When I say that we don't need School Resource Officers in elementary schools arresting 5-year-old Black boys, understand what that means in practice.

This isn't sadder when it happens to kids that aren't Black.

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The silence

dotart.blog · Jan 22

Whenever there's fall out in a community or a community space is less diverse, we end up with a postmortem on our community areas. Somet...

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Jake in the desert (@jake4480) · Jan 23

🔁 @onepict:

A woman who I follow on the fediverse just had to delete a post due to sexual harassment.

Men if you want more diversity on the Fediverse you need to speak up and call in your peers. You need to educate them and if they persist ban them. Make it clear they aren't welcome.

Otherwise you're making it clear we aren't welcome.

It shouldn't just be us doing the work

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-silence

#sexism

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‘The most dangerous man in America’: how Paul Robeson went from Hollywood to blacklist

theguardian.com · Jan 21

The groundbreaking singer, actor and athlete became a victim of McCarthyism and saw his shining career destroyed and his legacy tarnished

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G. Gibson (@mistergibson) · Jan 22

🔁 @asep:

‘The most dangerous man in America’: how Paul Robeson went from Hollywood to blacklist

The groundbreaking singer, actor and athlete became a victim of McCarthyism and saw his shining career destroyed and his legacy tarnished

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/21/paul-robeson-hollywood-blacklist-mccarthyism

#PaulRobeson

Steve Bellovin (@SteveBellovin) · Jan 22

🔁 @aj:

The Guardian has the heartbreaking story of the near-total erasure of Black singer, actor and athlete Paul Robeson.

Despite achieving greatness across multiple fields, Robeson was blacklisted for being politically incorrect during the McCarthy witch-hunts, by failing to denounce the USSR sufficiently.

Y'know, because American conservatives love free speech...

"His talent was prodigious. Robeson integrated Broadway in 1943, the first Black man to play Othello in the United States. Previous productions of Shakespeare’s jealous Moor casted white actors in blackface, and Robeson’s Othello run of 296 performances remains a Broadway record for a Shakespeare production. A two-time All-American at Rutgers, he was one of the greatest college football players in history. He graduated from Columbia Law, and, before becoming world renowned as a concert singer, stage and Hollywood actor, Robeson even played defensive end for two years in the National Football League. The Robeson legacy spawned a staggering list of Black stage performers, from Lena Horne to Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Andre Braugher, Keith David and Denzel Washington. At his peak, Paul Robeson was the most famous Black American in the world.

"And yet for his refusal to denounce the Soviet Union as cold war tensions increased, Robeson was isolated by both the white mainstream and by the respectable pillars of the Black establishment – the NAACP, the Urban League and many leading Black political and cultural voices who feared being branded communist by the rising conservative tide.
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"This week marks 50 years since Robeson’s death and the silence remains. His erasure from the lineage over the decades shows that what Robeson’s political opponents did not take from him, the years have most certainly. Robeson’s decoupling from the story of African American culture has been so complete that in the half-century since his death, even generations of Black Americans have never heard of him."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/21/paul-robeson-hollywood-blacklist-mccarthyism

#Politics #uspol

Roy #EatTheRich Pardee 🇺🇸 (@rpardee) · Jan 22

🔁 @aj:

The Guardian has the heartbreaking story of the near-total erasure of Black singer, actor and athlete Paul Robeson.

Despite achieving greatness across multiple fields, Robeson was blacklisted for being politically incorrect during the McCarthy witch-hunts, by failing to denounce the USSR sufficiently.

Y'know, because American conservatives love free speech...

"His talent was prodigious. Robeson integrated Broadway in 1943, the first Black man to play Othello in the United States. Previous productions of Shakespeare’s jealous Moor casted white actors in blackface, and Robeson’s Othello run of 296 performances remains a Broadway record for a Shakespeare production. A two-time All-American at Rutgers, he was one of the greatest college football players in history. He graduated from Columbia Law, and, before becoming world renowned as a concert singer, stage and Hollywood actor, Robeson even played defensive end for two years in the National Football League. The Robeson legacy spawned a staggering list of Black stage performers, from Lena Horne to Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Andre Braugher, Keith David and Denzel Washington. At his peak, Paul Robeson was the most famous Black American in the world.

"And yet for his refusal to denounce the Soviet Union as cold war tensions increased, Robeson was isolated by both the white mainstream and by the respectable pillars of the Black establishment – the NAACP, the Urban League and many leading Black political and cultural voices who feared being branded communist by the rising conservative tide.
...
"This week marks 50 years since Robeson’s death and the silence remains. His erasure from the lineage over the decades shows that what Robeson’s political opponents did not take from him, the years have most certainly. Robeson’s decoupling from the story of African American culture has been so complete that in the half-century since his death, even generations of Black Americans have never heard of him."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/21/paul-robeson-hollywood-blacklist-mccarthyism

#Politics #uspol

David (@theplaguedoc) · Jan 22

🔁 @aj:

The Guardian has the heartbreaking story of the near-total erasure of Black singer, actor and athlete Paul Robeson.

Despite achieving greatness across multiple fields, Robeson was blacklisted for being politically incorrect during the McCarthy witch-hunts, by failing to denounce the USSR sufficiently.

Y'know, because American conservatives love free speech...

"His talent was prodigious. Robeson integrated Broadway in 1943, the first Black man to play Othello in the United States. Previous productions of Shakespeare’s jealous Moor casted white actors in blackface, and Robeson’s Othello run of 296 performances remains a Broadway record for a Shakespeare production. A two-time All-American at Rutgers, he was one of the greatest college football players in history. He graduated from Columbia Law, and, before becoming world renowned as a concert singer, stage and Hollywood actor, Robeson even played defensive end for two years in the National Football League. The Robeson legacy spawned a staggering list of Black stage performers, from Lena Horne to Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Andre Braugher, Keith David and Denzel Washington. At his peak, Paul Robeson was the most famous Black American in the world.

"And yet for his refusal to denounce the Soviet Union as cold war tensions increased, Robeson was isolated by both the white mainstream and by the respectable pillars of the Black establishment – the NAACP, the Urban League and many leading Black political and cultural voices who feared being branded communist by the rising conservative tide.
...
"This week marks 50 years since Robeson’s death and the silence remains. His erasure from the lineage over the decades shows that what Robeson’s political opponents did not take from him, the years have most certainly. Robeson’s decoupling from the story of African American culture has been so complete that in the half-century since his death, even generations of Black Americans have never heard of him."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/21/paul-robeson-hollywood-blacklist-mccarthyism

#Politics #uspol

Eye (@grb090423) · Jan 22

🔁 @aj:

The Guardian has the heartbreaking story of the near-total erasure of Black singer, actor and athlete Paul Robeson.

Despite achieving greatness across multiple fields, Robeson was blacklisted for being politically incorrect during the McCarthy witch-hunts, by failing to denounce the USSR sufficiently.

Y'know, because American conservatives love free speech...

"His talent was prodigious. Robeson integrated Broadway in 1943, the first Black man to play Othello in the United States. Previous productions of Shakespeare’s jealous Moor casted white actors in blackface, and Robeson’s Othello run of 296 performances remains a Broadway record for a Shakespeare production. A two-time All-American at Rutgers, he was one of the greatest college football players in history. He graduated from Columbia Law, and, before becoming world renowned as a concert singer, stage and Hollywood actor, Robeson even played defensive end for two years in the National Football League. The Robeson legacy spawned a staggering list of Black stage performers, from Lena Horne to Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Andre Braugher, Keith David and Denzel Washington. At his peak, Paul Robeson was the most famous Black American in the world.

"And yet for his refusal to denounce the Soviet Union as cold war tensions increased, Robeson was isolated by both the white mainstream and by the respectable pillars of the Black establishment – the NAACP, the Urban League and many leading Black political and cultural voices who feared being branded communist by the rising conservative tide.
...
"This week marks 50 years since Robeson’s death and the silence remains. His erasure from the lineage over the decades shows that what Robeson’s political opponents did not take from him, the years have most certainly. Robeson’s decoupling from the story of African American culture has been so complete that in the half-century since his death, even generations of Black Americans have never heard of him."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/21/paul-robeson-hollywood-blacklist-mccarthyism

#Politics #uspol

Pauline von Hellermann (@pvonhellermannn) · Jan 22

🔁 @aj:

The Guardian has the heartbreaking story of the near-total erasure of Black singer, actor and athlete Paul Robeson.

Despite achieving greatness across multiple fields, Robeson was blacklisted for being politically incorrect during the McCarthy witch-hunts, by failing to denounce the USSR sufficiently.

Y'know, because American conservatives love free speech...

"His talent was prodigious. Robeson integrated Broadway in 1943, the first Black man to play Othello in the United States. Previous productions of Shakespeare’s jealous Moor casted white actors in blackface, and Robeson’s Othello run of 296 performances remains a Broadway record for a Shakespeare production. A two-time All-American at Rutgers, he was one of the greatest college football players in history. He graduated from Columbia Law, and, before becoming world renowned as a concert singer, stage and Hollywood actor, Robeson even played defensive end for two years in the National Football League. The Robeson legacy spawned a staggering list of Black stage performers, from Lena Horne to Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Andre Braugher, Keith David and Denzel Washington. At his peak, Paul Robeson was the most famous Black American in the world.

"And yet for his refusal to denounce the Soviet Union as cold war tensions increased, Robeson was isolated by both the white mainstream and by the respectable pillars of the Black establishment – the NAACP, the Urban League and many leading Black political and cultural voices who feared being branded communist by the rising conservative tide.
...
"This week marks 50 years since Robeson’s death and the silence remains. His erasure from the lineage over the decades shows that what Robeson’s political opponents did not take from him, the years have most certainly. Robeson’s decoupling from the story of African American culture has been so complete that in the half-century since his death, even generations of Black Americans have never heard of him."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/21/paul-robeson-hollywood-blacklist-mccarthyism

#Politics #uspol

Guillotine Jones, Flâneur (@Guillotine_Jones) · Jan 22

🔁 @aj:

The Guardian has the heartbreaking story of the near-total erasure of Black singer, actor and athlete Paul Robeson.

Despite achieving greatness across multiple fields, Robeson was blacklisted for being politically incorrect during the McCarthy witch-hunts, by failing to denounce the USSR sufficiently.

Y'know, because American conservatives love free speech...

"His talent was prodigious. Robeson integrated Broadway in 1943, the first Black man to play Othello in the United States. Previous productions of Shakespeare’s jealous Moor casted white actors in blackface, and Robeson’s Othello run of 296 performances remains a Broadway record for a Shakespeare production. A two-time All-American at Rutgers, he was one of the greatest college football players in history. He graduated from Columbia Law, and, before becoming world renowned as a concert singer, stage and Hollywood actor, Robeson even played defensive end for two years in the National Football League. The Robeson legacy spawned a staggering list of Black stage performers, from Lena Horne to Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Andre Braugher, Keith David and Denzel Washington. At his peak, Paul Robeson was the most famous Black American in the world.

"And yet for his refusal to denounce the Soviet Union as cold war tensions increased, Robeson was isolated by both the white mainstream and by the respectable pillars of the Black establishment – the NAACP, the Urban League and many leading Black political and cultural voices who feared being branded communist by the rising conservative tide.
...
"This week marks 50 years since Robeson’s death and the silence remains. His erasure from the lineage over the decades shows that what Robeson’s political opponents did not take from him, the years have most certainly. Robeson’s decoupling from the story of African American culture has been so complete that in the half-century since his death, even generations of Black Americans have never heard of him."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/21/paul-robeson-hollywood-blacklist-mccarthyism

#Politics #uspol

AJ Sadauskas (@aj) · Jan 22

The Guardian has the heartbreaking story of the near-total erasure of Black singer, actor and athlete Paul Robeson.

Despite achieving greatness across multiple fields, Robeson was blacklisted for being politically incorrect during the McCarthy witch-hunts, by failing to denounce the USSR sufficiently.

Y'know, because American conservatives love free speech...

"His talent was prodigious. Robeson integrated Broadway in 1943, the first Black man to play Othello in the United States. Previous productions of Shakespeare’s jealous Moor casted white actors in blackface, and Robeson’s Othello run of 296 performances remains a Broadway record for a Shakespeare production. A two-time All-American at Rutgers, he was one of the greatest college football players in history. He graduated from Columbia Law, and, before becoming world renowned as a concert singer, stage and Hollywood actor, Robeson even played defensive end for two years in the National Football League. The Robeson legacy spawned a staggering list of Black stage performers, from Lena Horne to Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Andre Braugher, Keith David and Denzel Washington. At his peak, Paul Robeson was the most famous Black American in the world.

"And yet for his refusal to denounce the Soviet Union as cold war tensions increased, Robeson was isolated by both the white mainstream and by the respectable pillars of the Black establishment – the NAACP, the Urban League and many leading Black political and cultural voices who feared being branded communist by the rising conservative tide.
...
"This week marks 50 years since Robeson’s death and the silence remains. His erasure from the lineage over the decades shows that what Robeson’s political opponents did not take from him, the years have most certainly. Robeson’s decoupling from the story of African American culture has been so complete that in the half-century since his death, even generations of Black Americans have never heard of him."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/21/paul-robeson-hollywood-blacklist-mccarthyism

#Politics #uspol

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Codeless: From idea to software - Anil Dash

anildash.com · Jan 22

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Seth of the Fediverse (@phillycodehound) · Jan 22

🔁 @anildash:

Amidst all the buzz around things like Gas Town and Ralph, etc. there are some bits of actual substance that promise to actually empower coders — and potentially shift the power dynamic away from Big AI, while making it easier to create software just by describing ideas in plain text. I've been thinking of the idea as "codeless" software creation, for lack of a better term (the jargon doesn't matter, I just needed a name to talk about it) and would love your thoughts! https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/22/codeless/

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What happens when the taps run dry? England is about to find out | Aditya Chakrabortty

theguardian.com · Jan 22

It’s not just Tunbridge Wells – a country famous around the world for its rain is in danger of self-imposed drought, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty