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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Teaching James Whitman's book, Hitler's American Model, in my "War and Holocaust" class today. In 1934, at a meeting of Nazi lawyers who were convened to translate Hitler's racial ideology into law, the was a lengthy discussion of American law. The most virulent racists at this meeting were the […]

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

I saw a comment on a YouTube video that I want to opine on. The precise video doesn't matter, but it was a US American getting angry about someone's take which painted US Americans with a broad brush. My summary of it would be: "How dare you chastise an oppressed people (non-MAGA US Americans) […]

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

This badass woman should be all over the news but sadly her accomplishment is under-reported.

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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

“I recently read Eric Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar. It was oddly sad to read. The enthusiasm and optimistic view of open source and the future of software and craftsmanship. Looking at it in 2026… incredibly sad. “Forget the bazaar. Back to the cathedral.” —bitbasher on Hacker News […]

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Matthew Haughey @mathowie.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

This July 4th reminds me that I only learned a few years ago that the Statue of Liberty is an anti-slavery monument created by a French abolitionist back in 1865 to celebrate emancipation, so I tell my little cousins about the broken chains at her feet any chance I get […]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

Assoc editor of Frontiers in Systems #Neuro: > Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out […]

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

When Jason Kenney is the good(er) guy... it just all feels wrong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ0n-enVyss

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

RE: newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/11… This is a very interesting take, but unless I'm missing something it seems to have at least one major flaw. I don't think the "Working Class" and "Democrat" groups share the same definition for many of the words they asked about […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

The barrier to entry was raised, is the point, the internet became five shit websites posting screenshots of the other four because the technical barrier to entry was raised, from "Find a guy outside a computer market and pay him a fiver" to "Learn to code. Also learn to code two websites for […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

It's 1998, you make a website in the copy of frontpage express that came with your computer, it's just like Word and it's very easy, you figure out how to upload it to the couple megs of web space that your ISP gives you (the instructions are on their website), you visit your site in your […]

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don't want to code, the researchers who don't want to research, and the lawyers that don't want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful Al is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs' outputs tend to be people with low standards.

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

Though I doubt it will happen, I want #IfyNwadiwe to come down from the host chair and get into the ring for the final episode of the #UmActually Tournament of Champions Finale, with #BrianDavidGilbert taking over the hosting chair and #MikeTrapp coming back to be in the fact-checking booth. It […]

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

Hey developers, don't you love it when you're using a tool that's giving you an error, so you: - create a trivial use case - confirm that it still gives the same error - start writing a bug report - dig in the code to make your bug report better - notice something subtle about your original […]

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

I need a #nebulatv-exclusive episode of #LegalEagle where Devin reviews tonight's episode of #GameChanger. #DropoutTV

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

Watching the #artemis2 launch. I want #kerbalspaceprogram orbital trajectory views to see the perogee raise maneuver. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo

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Chris Hanson @eschaton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

There’s a meme going around that an Open Source project “can’t” prevent LLM use by contributors because there’s no technical means to enforce this. This is idiotic and shows just how disingenuous slopmongers will be when told they can’t just submit slop. Did you know there’s also no technical […]

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

@lillyfinch Don't report any newborns named Jesus (IPA: /xesus/) either.

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub […]

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Ron Dyck @dyckron.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both. -Louis D. Brandeis The choice is made. It's not democracy. www.goodreads.com/quotes/10480-we-m…

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We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

RE: sfba.social/@lauerhahn/115987323785… I've been playing Crusader Kings II recently. It has been a useful experience for me to engage with the patriarchy. I find myself having a weird experience of both caring how my sons (particularly) turn out, but also they have to be […]

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Louise Auerhahn :propride: @lauerhahn.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

This is critical to understand. It's how right-wingers can talk about "protecting children" in the same breath when they call for abusing and torturing children. They mean it in the sense of "protecting" one's property, not of supporting and nurturing a fellow human […]

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This is genuinely important. The White House seems MOST concerned with suppressing any evidence that Melania fucked Epstein before he passed her to Donald. They could have redacted ALL women as a way to suppress that.

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

@TechConnectify just posted his best video ever. It's long, but worth every minute. I started getting bored around minute 45, but after minute 60 I couldn't put it down. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

so it turns out that when VS Code asks you “do you trust the authors of this folder?” what they mean is that it’ll auto-execute .vscode/tasks.json if it exists, which can include shell commands. maybe that’s too many features. you can’t hold all these features. put a few features back

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

@xgranade (Post intention: commiseration, not mansplaining. I'm not 100% of my phrasing choices, and I'm too tired myself to review carefully) It's a really tough choice. I'm not worried about the content being sucked up by LLMs. The doors to that barn opened when the entire contents were […]

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JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

Let's say you can't figure out why 3,000 masked, armed goons are harassing people on the streets, banging on doors, "raiding" business, do the math. They don't have anywhere near the warrants for specific individuals they need to keep everybody busy. Yep, harassing citizens is just their way of […]

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Sean Coates @sean.scoat.es.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

When @pluralistic first proposed this kind of idea, I honestly didn't think it could work. We (Canadians) would have to an unfathomably large change to how we treat our US relationship. We can't just make a short term change to oppose new (stupid) economic policy; we have to commit to being on […]

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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission @collectifission.greennuclear.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026

Dutch railways: "oh no, it has snowed, we can't have a fully functioning schedule now" Canadian trains: TOOT TOOT

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@Headline_News_Bot/… Greenland should counter-offer. Given how much more it will cost to live in the US economic system, they should counter with $10MM/person. That would allow everyone there to buy their way into the upper-middle class in the US […]

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

The UN might be facing an existential test right now. The other week I was listening to Rachel Maddow's podcast episode about the failure of the League of Nations and how it led to WWII. (link below) In 1935, Mussolini's Italy decided it wanted a piece of the African colonizer game, and […]

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Dan Neuman 🇨🇦 @dan613.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

Yes, if the US can go into Venezuela to remove a dictator, then NATO can go into Ukraine to remove Russia. #Ukraine #Venezuela

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

@flyingsquirrel Honestly, @tailscale is one of the few places I would trust that pattern from (as bad as it is). There's also packages for most distros already.

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George Lakoff @georgelakoff.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2024

The 'Misunderestimating' Trap: Many progressives think that people who vote conservative are just stupid, especially those who vote against their economic self-interest. Some believe that if we tell them the real economic facts, they will change how they vote. In reality, those who vote […]

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

@c_9 @reece of course TriTag will know 🤦 I haven't been involved for about 15 years, but once upon a time I knew them. I was hoping there would be some deep links at the ready, but I'll try to dig in myself.

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

This is the number one indicator of a brewing problem in society, in my opinion. Not dealing with this fuels fascists, IMO. "Pay inequality in Canada reaches a record high" — CBC www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGe71XCCSDY There is no war but the class war. Hire more CRA auditors to focus on […]

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

@c_9 @reece Are there upcoming decision points that can be organized around?

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

@ryanrobinson.ca @ericmigi.com I'm using a TicWatch Pro 5, and I appreciate the hybrid display, but I don't like the UI, having used a Pebble for ~7 years.

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

@ericmigi.com Is it wrong that I've always kind of disliked the Round? I like the square watch aesthetic. Maybe it reminds me of the old calculator watches? Maybe it's just the utility?

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Jeff MOVED > jeffhorton@mstdn.social @jeffhorton.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026

As our American friends celebrate Public Domain Day, we in Canada have no such luck, and won't for most of our remaining boomer/genx lifetimes. "Back on January 1, 2022, the copyright-protected works of authors or creators (I will use the term “authors” to cover all creators) who died in 1971 […]

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Ron Dyck @dyckron.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026

A professor breaks down Russia's negotiating tactics with Ukraine : NPR www.npr.org/2025/12/30/nx-s1-566071…

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