Do you remember NFTs? I remember NFTs. They exploded onto the scene in 2020 and were *everywhere* in the public discourse. At their peak in 2021, there were something like $25 billion in NFT sales globally. There were NFT Super Bowl ads. Jimmy Fallon had Paris Hilton on his show to awkwardly shill for NFTs.
And then, by 2022, 2023 at the latest, the bubble had burst and NFT market had lost up to 99% of its value.
Blessedly, I never have to think about those fucking Bored Apes ever again.
I remember thinking, when NFTs first appeared, that they were so obviously a scam, but also a vague sense of surprise that such an obvious scam was proliferating while we were still living through the previous blockchain-related scam, cryptocurrency. And since the NFT bubble burst, we moved on absurdly quickly to the next tech scam-bubble, AI.
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I just can't imagine simping for a government controlled fiat currency that they intentionally devalue year after year and being powerless to do anything about it
for being a self described anarchist, you seem to really love government money
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Alphaville - "Big in Japan" & "Forever Young" Live (Silvester Schlagerboom, 31.12.2024)
Der Live-Clip von Alphaville aus der Show "Silvester-Schlagerbooom" mit "Big in Japan" & "Forever Young" am 31.12.2024Follow Alphaville on:Instagram: alphavi...YouTube
Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
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“The end goal was never to conduct a thorough, unbiased investigation,” said one DOJ lawyer. “The end goal was to file a damn complaint — or have something to threaten the university.”
propublica.org/article/ucla-an…
#News #UCLA #College #DOJ #Trump #USPolitics #Law #Palestine #Protest
The Shakedown: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
An investigation by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.shoshana.gordon@propublica.org (ProPublica)
I'm really glad I switched to #Linux.
Being able to understand what the issue is then having the ability to solve it by yourself is a great feeling.
And I'm by no means a tech person!
My computer is finally "mine".
I'm the one in control, not a f***ing corporation making billions by sucking out my private info.
Honestly, it feels like I'm back in the 2000's when computers were fun to use.
#tech
„Manche Leute sollten einfach mal die Fresse halten“, sagt das Känguru.
Irritiert schaue ich auf mein Smartphone.
Das Känguru fährt fort: „Was Frau Schröder gesagt hat, ist doch einfach ableistische Kackscheiße!“
Jetzt interveniere ich: "Entschuldige, aber das hier ist nicht der Account von @marcuwekling ! Das ist doch gar nicht dein Platz."
„Frau Schröder sollte auch keinen Platz mehr in den Medien bekommen, ist aber trotzdem da.“
„Touché“, erwidere ich und scrolle auf Mastodon weiter.
Agnieszka Brylak acaba de estrenar su primer libro sobre la risa entre los antiguos nahuas por la editorial Brill.
Pueden descargar el libro en formato PDF en la página de la editorial.
👇🏻
brill.com/display/title/73264?…
¡Felicidades, Agnieszka!
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I wrote a thing about "AI" (again). Sorry.
Something from nothing
I am not a talented person, I’ve never been called “gifted” or anything like that. Anything I can do, anything I achieved took a lot of work and stubbornness to achieve. Don’t get me wrong.tante (Smashing Frames)
An der Affaire um die verzockte Zahnarzt-Altersvorsorge kann man gut sehen, was eine Aktienrente für die Versicherten früher oder später bedeuten würde.
tagesspiegel.de/berlin/ambulan…
„Ambulante Versorgung stünde ernsthaft infrage“: Zahnärzte schicken wegen drohender Rentenpleite Bettelbrief an Gesundheitsministerin
Zahnärzte aus Berlin, Brandenburg und Bremen bangen um ihre Renten: Ihrem Versorgungswerk droht ein Milliardenverlust. Nun fordern sie Hilfe vom Bund und kritisieren Berlins Wirtschaftsverwaltung.Alexander Fröhlich (Der Tagesspiegel)
Should other countries treat Americans the same way America is now treating tourists by taking DNA, fingerprints, mug shots and by going through the past 5 years of their social media?
#poll #america #tourism #travel #news
- Yes (55%, 50 votes)
- Not sure (2%, 2 votes)
- No (37%, 34 votes)
- They can’t do that. I’m an American (4%, 4 votes)
Climate models & weather models all deal with chance and probability. Most of us (including me) do not understand probability all that well. Can we use checking the #weather, personally, to better understand #ClimateChange?
[Enter "yes" or "no"]
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Hyperspeed level 10(450000000.0 credits and 90 status).
navi speed upgrade(50000000.0 credits and 100 status).
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Two-Drone Package(1500000000.0 credits and 100 status).
Hyperspeed level 11(500000000.0 credits and 100 status).
Stocks level 5(125000000.0 credits and 100 status).
@WeirdWriter wrote this blistering counterblast to #LLM infiltration into our communities and how it undermines our confidence in our ability to create and do what we love. As well as the joy and care in community rebellion when it can seem hopeless.
sightlessscribbles.com/the-col…
Writers also need support, they'd like to eat and pay rent sometime this month. Especially as the market appears to be hostile to true writing that doesn't enforce the status quo.
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It's that time of year again! 🎄 🎄 🎄
Wait, no not that, we mean: ⌚ ⌚ ⌚
Yes, it's time for a new Gadgetbridge release! 🎉
Version 0.88.0 supports even more gadgets than before, is more stable than ever, handles and displays your data better, and fixes several mild annoyances.
And it does all this while keeping your health data fully private, outside the reach of vendors and big tech. 💪
Get it now at Codeberg, F-Droid or IzzyOnDroid. 📦
Read more here: gadgetbridge.org/blog/release-…
Gadgetbridge 0.88.0: New devices and key fixes - Gadgetbridge
A free and open source Android application for bluetooth devices.gadgetbridge.org
Organizing meetings across timezones takes so much time. Here is a way I am hoping to make it a bit easier.
mgifford.github.io/timezone-he…
It's another open source web app hosted on GitHub.
Shoutout to the legendary Tuta community 🙌
Thank you all for taking the time to partake in our yearly survey!
Your feedback and opinions help us build stronger, more secure and user-focused Tuta Products. 💪❤️
💡📊 Check out the highlights of our User Survey 2025: tuta.com/blog/tuta-survey-2025
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Check out the feedback from this year’s user survey and learn what we’ll focus on in 2026.Tuta
Serious Inbox search is a killer feature missing in Tuta. The current requirement to fully offline the inbox to make it searchable is something I find very difficult.
Any research done on zero-knowledge search, or on maintaining an encrypted search index that's updated by the client with incoming mail?
Client API is another thing I'd love to see.
Yesterday was the third anniversary of Raspberry Pi announcing that they'd hired an ex-cop (specifically a Technical Surveillance Officer) as their "Maker-in-residence", and then pissing off a huge segment of their target market by acting completely oblivious as to why that might be a problem.
I missed my calendar reminder about it, so instead you can celebrate the third anniversary of Buzzfeed writing an article about it:
buzzfeednews.com/article/chris…
Raspberry Pi Hired An Ex-Cop And People Are Pissed
“I think what we’re looking at is a dogpile that’s being organized somewhere,” a Raspberry Pi cofounder told BuzzFeed News.Chris Stokel-Walker (BuzzFeed)
Ich bemerke in der Teamrunde, dass eine Paketstation für Rollstuhlfahrer*innen doof ist, weil man an obere Fächer nicht rankommt.
Einwand: "Es gibt auch Rollstühle mit Lift-Funktion"
Ich: "Joah, das ist keine Barrierefreiheit. Dann brauchen wir auch keine Treppen. Es gibt zusammenklappbare Leitern, die können alle mitschleppen."
Seufz. Das ist manchmal echt frustrierend.
Our national railway is a global embarrassment. Canada is a transportation backwater.
#Transportation #Railway #Rail #VIARail #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli
cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/via-…
#DerApotheker: Es ist übrigens verboten, hier Crêpes zu essen …
#Kind: 😳
#Mutter: Oh, Entschuldigung! Das wusste ich nicht!
#DerApotheker: … weil ich sonst neidisch werde! 🙃
#Mutter: 😂
#Kind: 🙄
#DerApotheker: 🤷♂️
RE: mastodon.social/@dangillmor/11…
people are not making the connection that this is Palantir bullshit. remember when Trump gave them free reign of ICE during their first coup? remember how Biden bent over and did nothing about it?
it’s one thing to announce this bullshit. it’s another to not to, immediately, make the connections.
which, reminds me: start mentioning Palantir, Thiel and his “liberal” poniboi every time y’all mention ICE.
Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor@mastodon.social)
Trump regime wants to force ALL visitors to the U.S. to install government-controlled spyware on their phones, and submit detailed personal data -- even DNA, apparently -- to the authorities.Dan Gillmor (Mastodon)
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This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:
* @marcprux caught on video
* Schedule your #39C3 #CCC visit
* Switching relays in #ArcaneChat #DeltaChat
* #Thunderbird drops #MaterialDesign3 🤯
+ 8 new apps
& 156 updates
- 1 app archived
Click play: f-droid.org/2025/12/11/twif.ht…
Keeping it open (video version) | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 11 Dec 2025, Week 50 F-Droid core We had great reach with our “F-Droid and Google’s Developer Registration Dec...f-droid.org
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in reply to feld • • •so as Apple chased everyone away from making keyboards for iOS, when Apple breaks their keyboard you don't have a lot of options.
And Swiftkey was acquired by Microsoft lol ...