RE: mastodon.social/@karlgroves/11…

PS: Also, make phone calls with help from the "5 calls" app. 5calls.org/

Hootsuite CEO says ICE contract will stand as long as agency honours terms and conditions

archive.is/fJ5cg

As I said, nazis collaborator are just nazis.
(10+ years ago we already established this company was shite)

I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college. It wasn't "woke professors" that change him to a liberal, it was being in an actual city instead of the small town he grew up in.

Meeting more diverse people made him realize he was fed lies about others while growing up.

So yeah, if you ever wondered why the right wants to shut down education and universities, that's one reason.

I don’t know why anyone is surprised to find that all of the ICE agents are incompetent bullies on unwarranted power trips.

Where else were all of those security guards supposed to go when the malls shut down?

😡

Siemens has signed a partnership with NEWAG in Poland
railwaygazette.com/business/si…

And we still have not got to the bottom of NEWAG's GPS location sabotage jonworth.eu/newags-digital-sab…

Siemens and Newag to co-operate in Polish high speed train market

POLAND: Siemens Mobility and Newag have signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen their co-operation in the Polish rail market and expand their previous joint work on metro trains into the high speed rail segment.

^{Railway Gazette International}

LLM boys pivoting to ads. EVERYTHING IS ADVERTISING!

youtube.com/watch?v=tOtcHKKPoY…

#weeklybeats #orangedrink

One Song A Week - WeeklyBeats 2026: Everything Is Advertising (screamo, hardcore, punk, grunge) 🏳️‍🌈

I played all the instruments, composed, mixed, mastered the song, and filmed and edited the video in 4 days.happy new year 🥳

^YouTube

We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International:

"Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)."

"If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They’re also proposing the collection of DNA."

PI linked to and summarized a Federal Register entry describing the proposed requirements:

-All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’

-ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) applications will include ‘high value data fields’, ‘when feasible’
‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’
-‘email addresses used in the last ten years’
-‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’
-biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
-business telephone numbers used in the last five years
-business email addresses used in the last ten years.

privacyinternational.org/news-…

The Federal Register entry says comments are encouraged and
must be submitted (no later than February 9, 2026) to be assured of consideration.

Federal Register entry: govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-202…

The Trump Administration wants your DNA and social media

^{Privacy International}

Heading to @chaoss ConEU before FOSDEM? Be sure to catch our Lunch and Learn this Thursday Jan 29 at 13:00 with @linuxflower and Wayne Mery talking about what we're doing with Thunderbird community metrics and how can we do it better! 📈

#Thunderbird #FOSDEM #Community

chaoss.community/chaosscon-202…

The Rise of the Slopreneur.

As soon as I typed that sentence, I just knew that someone else had already typed it. So I checked, the old way. Sure enough, James Rendel had already opened a LinkedIn post with exactly that line. It is on his Substack.
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