Mad B
@oaktag.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Software engineer in Seattle, interested in social justice, feminism, building dense housing, science, tabletop gaming, and more. Parent. No terfs, GOP, or […]
[bridged from https://infosec.exchange/@Oaktag on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
[bridged from https://infosec.exchange/@Oaktag on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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A Dutch TV station is running a show where they sent their legal team to bat to get visas for people from Iran, Tanzania, Bolivia etc so they could be reunited with friends and family in NL for Christmas. An utter condemnation of the cruelty of the immigration system, but “oh yeah we need an […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
December 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A Dutch TV station is running a show where they sent their legal team to bat to get visas for people from Iran, Tanzania, Bolivia etc so they could be reunited with friends and family in NL for Christmas. An utter condemnation of the cruelty of the immigration system, but “oh yeah we need an […]
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I've seen a few people post on Mastodon about how they would love a model railway, but can't, cos of space limitations. What if I was to tell you that you can enjoy model railways, even if you live in a tiny apartment.
This is a thread about standards and community.
1/n
This is a thread about standards and community.
1/n
December 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I've seen a few people post on Mastodon about how they would love a model railway, but can't, cos of space limitations. What if I was to tell you that you can enjoy model railways, even if you live in a tiny apartment.
This is a thread about standards and community.
1/n
This is a thread about standards and community.
1/n
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Linus Åkesson does it again!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kMGbGGllQoE
To think that this could've been the theme music of #thelegendofzelda
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kMGbGGllQoE
To think that this could've been the theme music of #thelegendofzelda
December 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Linus Åkesson does it again!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kMGbGGllQoE
To think that this could've been the theme music of #thelegendofzelda
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kMGbGGllQoE
To think that this could've been the theme music of #thelegendofzelda
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Fascinating article that starts with the fraught question "Is IQ dependent on heredity, or upbringing, or what?" and then goes down a *deep* scientific rabbit-hole leading to its headline: https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/twins-reared-apart-do-not-exist
tl;dr -- that title is nearly literal […]
tl;dr -- that title is nearly literal […]
Original post on social.coop
social.coop
December 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Fascinating article that starts with the fraught question "Is IQ dependent on heredity, or upbringing, or what?" and then goes down a *deep* scientific rabbit-hole leading to its headline: https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/twins-reared-apart-do-not-exist
tl;dr -- that title is nearly literal […]
tl;dr -- that title is nearly literal […]
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I've noticed this is a common point of confusion, so for the record, the EU's USB-C charging law does not in any way prohibit other charging methods. It only mandates that if there are any ports on the thing at all, at least one of them better be friggin' USB-C
December 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I've noticed this is a common point of confusion, so for the record, the EU's USB-C charging law does not in any way prohibit other charging methods. It only mandates that if there are any ports on the thing at all, at least one of them better be friggin' USB-C
I got it to see #wakeupdeadman in the theater, and I really enjoyed it! Very funny and, as others have said, nice that these movies are just "Benoit Blanc shows up" not about him. This one was heartfelt and... Nice to see a protagonist who's worth rooting for, y'know?
#rianjohnson #benoitblanc
#rianjohnson #benoitblanc
December 22, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I got it to see #wakeupdeadman in the theater, and I really enjoyed it! Very funny and, as others have said, nice that these movies are just "Benoit Blanc shows up" not about him. This one was heartfelt and... Nice to see a protagonist who's worth rooting for, y'know?
#rianjohnson #benoitblanc
#rianjohnson #benoitblanc
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RE: https://todon.nl/@jones/115713308028210186
This video is everything and some days I feel like this black kitteh who has jumped headfirst into a snowbank. 🤣😂
This video is everything and some days I feel like this black kitteh who has jumped headfirst into a snowbank. 🤣😂
todon.nl
December 17, 2025 at 5:32 AM
RE: https://todon.nl/@jones/115713308028210186
This video is everything and some days I feel like this black kitteh who has jumped headfirst into a snowbank. 🤣😂
This video is everything and some days I feel like this black kitteh who has jumped headfirst into a snowbank. 🤣😂
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1. This short thread is about what I see as a serious breach of journalistic ethics, in the making of Sofia Pineda Ochoa’s online documentary Greenwashed. She interviewed me for the film, but neither before, during or after was I given any idea I would be its target. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWU...
GREENWASHED | Full Documentary [Official]
YouTube video by Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa
www.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
1. This short thread is about what I see as a serious breach of journalistic ethics, in the making of Sofia Pineda Ochoa’s online documentary Greenwashed. She interviewed me for the film, but neither before, during or after was I given any idea I would be its target. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWU...
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The Guardian: Pilot narrowly avoids ‘midair collision’ with US air force plane near Venezuela
JetBlue pilot calls incident ‘outrageous’ and says US military refueling tanker didn’t have transponder turned on […]
The Guardian: Pilot narrowly avoids ‘midair collision’ with US air force plane near Venezuela
JetBlue pilot calls incident ‘outrageous’ and says US military refueling tanker didn’t have transponder turned on […]
Original post on ai6yr.org
m.ai6yr.org
December 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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The Guardian: Pilot narrowly avoids ‘midair collision’ with US air force plane near Venezuela
JetBlue pilot calls incident ‘outrageous’ and says US military refueling tanker didn’t have transponder turned on […]
The Guardian: Pilot narrowly avoids ‘midair collision’ with US air force plane near Venezuela
JetBlue pilot calls incident ‘outrageous’ and says US military refueling tanker didn’t have transponder turned on […]
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Utterly wild story about a nuclear generator lost atop a Himalayan mountain by the CIA 60 years ago. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/13/world/asia/cia-nuclear-device-himalayas-nanda-devi.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8k8.jOUn.daSfdUlyfo3e [Gift Link]
How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device in the Himalayas?
A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Utterly wild story about a nuclear generator lost atop a Himalayan mountain by the CIA 60 years ago. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/13/world/asia/cia-nuclear-device-himalayas-nanda-devi.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8k8.jOUn.daSfdUlyfo3e [Gift Link]
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I have discovered that teaching programming goes much better with my fifth grade students if I take the time to teach them about all the symbols I think of as "normal" that are totally new to them.
"These are square brackets, you'll find them over the 'enter' key we use them for lists. In […]
"These are square brackets, you'll find them over the 'enter' key we use them for lists. In […]
Original post on sauropods.win
sauropods.win
December 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I have discovered that teaching programming goes much better with my fifth grade students if I take the time to teach them about all the symbols I think of as "normal" that are totally new to them.
"These are square brackets, you'll find them over the 'enter' key we use them for lists. In […]
"These are square brackets, you'll find them over the 'enter' key we use them for lists. In […]
RE: https://mastodon.art/@mahtheyzhawey/115707392291234305
Did you miss sending money to Native Americans on October 12? Here's a chance!
Did you miss sending money to Native Americans on October 12? Here's a chance!
mastodon.art
December 14, 2025 at 3:56 AM
RE: https://mastodon.art/@mahtheyzhawey/115707392291234305
Did you miss sending money to Native Americans on October 12? Here's a chance!
Did you miss sending money to Native Americans on October 12? Here's a chance!
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Unsealed FTC documents show Pepsi colluded with Walmart to raise food prices, giving Walmart secret discounts while charging rivals more. The scheme fueled “greedflation,” hurt small grocers, and shows how market power drives higher prices economy-wide […]
Original post on mas.to
mas.to
December 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Unsealed FTC documents show Pepsi colluded with Walmart to raise food prices, giving Walmart secret discounts while charging rivals more. The scheme fueled “greedflation,” hurt small grocers, and shows how market power drives higher prices economy-wide […]
The comments section on this is a gold mine of tech assholes to block https://cloudisland.nz/@parisba/115710491106723110
Dr Paris (he/him) (@parisba@cloudisland.nz)
posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/
cloudisland.nz
December 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The comments section on this is a gold mine of tech assholes to block https://cloudisland.nz/@parisba/115710491106723110
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A diary lays bare frontier atrocities.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/04/the-killing-code-strange-symbols-in-a-wa-settlers-diaries-lay-bare-frontier-atrocities-ntwnfb
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/04/the-killing-code-strange-symbols-in-a-wa-settlers-diaries-lay-bare-frontier-atrocities-ntwnfb
The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities
Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the shame and silence
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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for the people going hrr hrr don't build on floodplain here is a higher-contrast topological map of western skagit county with the 100-year flood plain evacuation area overlaid in yellow
you might as well be saying "don't build in skagit county" and […]
[Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net]
you might as well be saying "don't build in skagit county" and […]
[Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net]
December 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
for the people going hrr hrr don't build on floodplain here is a higher-contrast topological map of western skagit county with the 100-year flood plain evacuation area overlaid in yellow
you might as well be saying "don't build in skagit county" and […]
[Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net]
you might as well be saying "don't build in skagit county" and […]
[Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net]
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my fellow seasonal depression enjoyers might be interested to know that in the northern hemisphere we have now experienced the earliest sunset of the year. due to Reasons, we begin to get evening daylight back before the shortest day of the year, which isn’t until the 21st. but from now on […]
Original post on weatherishappening.network
weatherishappening.network
December 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
my fellow seasonal depression enjoyers might be interested to know that in the northern hemisphere we have now experienced the earliest sunset of the year. due to Reasons, we begin to get evening daylight back before the shortest day of the year, which isn’t until the 21st. but from now on […]
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@rubenbolling/115691564369915601
By shifting to 98% renewable energy "The total cost of electricity production [in Uruguay] decreased by roughly half ... About 50,000 new jobs were created in construction, engineering, and operations, roughly 3% of the labor force … […]
By shifting to 98% renewable energy "The total cost of electricity production [in Uruguay] decreased by roughly half ... About 50,000 new jobs were created in construction, engineering, and operations, roughly 3% of the labor force … […]
Original post on mastodon.scot
mastodon.scot
December 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@rubenbolling/115691564369915601
By shifting to 98% renewable energy "The total cost of electricity production [in Uruguay] decreased by roughly half ... About 50,000 new jobs were created in construction, engineering, and operations, roughly 3% of the labor force … […]
By shifting to 98% renewable energy "The total cost of electricity production [in Uruguay] decreased by roughly half ... About 50,000 new jobs were created in construction, engineering, and operations, roughly 3% of the labor force … […]
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HEADS UP that the FCC comment period for Reflect Orbital first hideously bright, ecology-disrupting satellite will open probably in mid- to late-January. I'm gonna need EVERYBODY to write in for that one.
December 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
HEADS UP that the FCC comment period for Reflect Orbital first hideously bright, ecology-disrupting satellite will open probably in mid- to late-January. I'm gonna need EVERYBODY to write in for that one.
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My wife has a theory that sometimes I am completely unaware of how I present in the American work environment, so when people are expecting a submissive and agreeable Asian woman, they get.. me, instead. Basically, I conduct myself like a white woman.
I was joking about this with a direct […]
I was joking about this with a direct […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
My wife has a theory that sometimes I am completely unaware of how I present in the American work environment, so when people are expecting a submissive and agreeable Asian woman, they get.. me, instead. Basically, I conduct myself like a white woman.
I was joking about this with a direct […]
I was joking about this with a direct […]
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Netflix Is Trying to Buy Warner Bros Discovery. That Would Be a Disaster for America.
"Already, filmmakers are coming out anonymously saying that the streaming giant, if the deal goes through, would “Hold a Noose Around the Theatrical Marketplace.”
From #mattstoller […]
"Already, filmmakers are coming out anonymously saying that the streaming giant, if the deal goes through, would “Hold a Noose Around the Theatrical Marketplace.”
From #mattstoller […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Netflix Is Trying to Buy Warner Bros Discovery. That Would Be a Disaster for America.
"Already, filmmakers are coming out anonymously saying that the streaming giant, if the deal goes through, would “Hold a Noose Around the Theatrical Marketplace.”
From #mattstoller […]
"Already, filmmakers are coming out anonymously saying that the streaming giant, if the deal goes through, would “Hold a Noose Around the Theatrical Marketplace.”
From #mattstoller […]
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This is a shot in the dark, but why not...
Way back in the mid 90s I briefly got really into MOD file music. There was a track I had that used a bunch of samples from The Crow.
Does anybody out there remember this and know what the song's name was?
#boost4reach
Way back in the mid 90s I briefly got really into MOD file music. There was a track I had that used a bunch of samples from The Crow.
Does anybody out there remember this and know what the song's name was?
#boost4reach
December 6, 2025 at 5:10 AM
This is a shot in the dark, but why not...
Way back in the mid 90s I briefly got really into MOD file music. There was a track I had that used a bunch of samples from The Crow.
Does anybody out there remember this and know what the song's name was?
#boost4reach
Way back in the mid 90s I briefly got really into MOD file music. There was a track I had that used a bunch of samples from The Crow.
Does anybody out there remember this and know what the song's name was?
#boost4reach
RE: https://social.seattle.wa.us/@ohmu/115670698221511202
Is there any better way to test it than by testing it?
Is there any better way to test it than by testing it?
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Oaktag/115670666046253272
I don't know. Are you *sure* are this quote-chaining thing is a good idea?
I don't know. Are you *sure* are this quote-chaining thing is a good idea?
RE: https://chaos.social/@slothrop/115665760748320616
Oh for real? Yeah let's get a big ol quote chain tree going
Oh for real? Yeah let's get a big ol quote chain tree going
December 6, 2025 at 5:03 AM
RE: https://social.seattle.wa.us/@ohmu/115670698221511202
Is there any better way to test it than by testing it?
Is there any better way to test it than by testing it?