From Canada, I hope folks are taking some time this Martin Luther King Jr. Day to reflect on the hope he had for America.

Here’s his lecture from the 1967 Massey Lecture in Canada - Conscience for Change - 1967 Massey

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL30…

The Massey Lecture is a real institution here. So many great intellectuals have presented challenging views about challenges to modern civilization.

MLK: Conscience for Change - 1967 Massey Lectures

Conscience for Change features five lectures that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and December 1967 for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ...

^YouTube

Try to post a lot of non-political stuff..
#GoodNight #CYAL8R

Just going to post #DistractingStuff tomorrow.
We can all scroll that hashtag instead of the news

As some people expressed interest, I used this wretched day for a blog about curl's tracing.
#curl

github.com/icing/blog/blob/mai…

blog/curl-tracing.md at main · icing/blog

Contribute to icing/blog development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

Was just pre-prepping to do a videoconf interview...

Good reasons to check your webcam view before a call number 1278: just in case it looks like you're wearing a tiny watering-can as a hat.

So I had a break from Fanfiction for all of 3 weeks. I got sucked into ...
The Accidental Animagus
White_Squirrel
Harry escapes the Dursleys with a unique bout of accidental magic and eventually winds up at the Grangers' house. Now, he has what he always wanted: a loving family—and he'll need their help to take on the magical world and vanquish the dark lord who has pursued him from birth.

archiveofourown.org/works/1407…
cc @FreakyFwoof

"Kleine" Nebenwirkung?

Wenn der Staat die Patientenakte lesen will
heise.de/hintergrund/Wenn-der-…

#EPA

Wenn der Staat die Patientenakte lesen will

Die E-Patientenakte ist im Gegensatz zur Gesundheitskarte nicht bei den Beschlagnahmeverboten im Gesetz aufgeführt. Kann der Staat auf die ePA zugreifen?

^{heise online}

Merry Christmas, goats!

Every year, an acquaintance texts us sometime in January and asks if we want their Christmas tree for the goats. The goats love the little change in diet so much that they even came out (briefly) in the -40 windchill to sample, before going back to snuggle in the straw in the barn.

At this year's #FOSDEM my team at #wolfSSL got no booth space so my large volume #curl sticker distribution (LVCSD) has to be done using other means.

The LVCSD will most likely happen in the cafeteria area, but feel free to ping me if you can't get your fix as planned.

I will bring thousands of curl stickers and hundreds of coasters. There will be a few mugs and maybe some tshirts.

Buying myself friends, like a boss.

takú chuť mám na tatarák ale že už dva týždne 🤤

edit: a najradšej by som sledoval Trumpovu inauguráciu ibaže... zase práce?
edit: jo dnes je pondelok, tak teda úspešný týždeň

On this day four years ago, I handed over svn.haxx.se to the #Subversion project and my two decades of hosting a mailing list archive for the project was over:

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/01/20…

bye bye svn.haxx.se

It isn't actually going away. It's just been thrown over the fence to the Apache project and Subversion itself to host and maintain going forward. Mail archive When the Subversion project started in the early year 2000, I was there.

^{daniel.haxx.se}

My thesis on P4P is finally online!

doi.org/10.17613/naj7d-6g984

P4P: Steps Toward more Adaptive Internets: charting Open-Source, P2P and Local-First Networks

This is probably already known by most fans of Star Trek and Doctor Who but I just learned that David McIntee passed away last month. I remember him at one of the Gallifrey conventions and he was quite enjoyable. I so far haven't read any of his books but I definitely plan to do so.

David A. McIntee has passed away.
trekbbs.com/threads/david-a-mc…

#DoctorWho

Anti-poverty group says billionaires' wealth soared in 2024 as the elites prepare for another Davos
https://apnews.com/article/davos-2025-trump-wef-elon-musk-billionaires-ee121c56f6828021cb864de927383c7b?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into International News @international-news-AssociatedPress

Billionaires' wealth soared in 2024, anti-poverty group says as the elites prepare for another Davos

Billionaire's wealth has grown faster last year, and now the world can expect at least five trillionaires within a decade, even as the number of people in poverty has barely budged since 1990.

^{JAMEY KEATEN (AP News)}

Tomorrow will be a dark day for many.

For disabled, marginalized, LGBTQ+ folks & women. For anyone who still cares about others

The disability community saw this coming. It’s important we listen & understand that labelling people as expendable for 5 years leads nowhere good

Since November we’ve watched hate win over and over again.

We’ve witnessed the emboldening of those who think they’re superior to others.

We’ve seen an increase in misogyny, bigotry, ableism, racism & discrimination.

Disabled people begged the Left to pay attention. We begged you to keep masking, to push for clean air, to demand accountability from government.

We implored you to realize that our lives are not less important than your ability to go out for brunch.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of people on both sides of the aisle decided that mitigating COVID was “too hard.”

They accepted repeat infections as inevitable so they wouldn’t have to adapt their lives in any way.

They threw away people like me.

We let hate win. And now we’re going to see the consequences of that decision.

Disabled people weren’t surprised in November, we’ve been living in what feels like an alternate reality for years.

But I suspect others are about to feel our pain.

If you’re feeling scared or angry right now, know that you’re not alone. There’s a community standing with you.

I don’t know exactly what comes next, but I do know we have to keep up the fight.

disabledginger.com/p/how-did-w…

#disability #COVIDisAirborne #covidisnotover #uspol #ableism #eugenics #trump #pandemic #longcovid

How Did We Get Here and What Comes Next?

Disabled people have been warning others for nearly 5 years that eugenicist Covid policies would lead to a rise of fascist, racist, bigoted, misogynistic hatred. It's here now. So what’s next?

^{Broadwaybabyto (The Disabled Ginger)}

Need to give an update to this before I forget again - all of thisisarecording.com 's sounds are safe!
A WARC of the former website's content can be found here:
archive.org/download/archivete…

If you aren't interested in playing with WARC extractors, I've prepared a link that contains just the content from the website, and crucially, the ~1200 phone recordings:
mega.nz/file/TOQRmTCR#i8kdyiQO…