@firefox.com What has happened to Firefox on iPadOS? It is unusable since the UI update for iOS26. All links are opening in new tabs, and most frustratingly, switching back to a previous tab causes it to scroll to the top, which can be a complete disruption. This is really bad - please address this!

“Trump’s got Charles I’s authoritarianism, Edward II’s habit of putting incompetent charlatans in high office, Henry VI’s failing brain, and Henry VIII’s mindlessly aggressive foreign policy.”
prospect.org/politics/202...

what stage of empire is it when a state guts public transit service so a gambling app has to subsidize it in order to ensure a full house at the gladiator games

Cuando sabes CSS, todo lo ves diferente

Never change, England

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

Sign of the day…

I’m at the Quadrangle, a senior living community in Haverford, Pa., where already 50 folks are out here on Darby Road with a message for Donald Trump: No Kings!

I swear, the longer you look at this, the worse it gets…

Car doors turn into a butterfly.

#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #graffiti

At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump put a 10% tariff on Narnia.

These cooperatives are doing amazing things on broadband. I talk with a different one pretty much every week using ARPA/infrastructure bill money to bring dirt cheap fiber to long neglected towns

if ezra klein was actually interested in this subject he could, you know, talk to one

However, the cone must remain vigilant, as predators may also be drawn to the watering hole.

New research shows Israel's slaughter in Gaza has killed more journalists than the US Civil War, World Wars 1 and 2, the Korean War, the Vietnam war, the Yugoslav Wars, the Afghanistan War and the Ukraine War COMBINED.

More: watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

Today in "I hate this AI hellscape"

CEO on LinkedIn gleefully sharing how you can create fonts from AI and no longer have to pay for licensing...by inputing examples of the font you want to copy.

Tell me again how this isn't stealing?

If you’re wondering what a spreadsheet looked like in 1800 BCE, here is one that tallies foodstuffs for cattle received by four cowherds.

Three are named in the right hand column as Ubar-Shamash, Sin-iddinam, Sin-re’um, and the last one making the record simply writes “mine”

Making economic growth the overriding purpose, to which all else must be sacrificed, not only trashes ecological and social values. It's also spectacularly bad politics. Governments can't control growth, but when it dips, this government, by its own criteria, fails. A rod for its own back.

Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.