Lex is on Sabbatical

Gtfoh

Need some data hoarders to save the CIA's World Factbook—a definitive source on many topics—since they're now killing it www.cia.gov/stories/stor...

I'm going to keep saying this for open source communities.

Just because you're smart, does not mean you have received a free pass to talk crazy to somebody you think is less smart than you. People on GitHub are not your serfs. Get over yourself.

Let's just say I'm glad he's not on this plane of existence anymore.

I'm not going to repeat the words, but his comments on children's education alone is just a projection of how he learns about the world himself. Through exploitation.

The Epstein Files Reveal What Powerful People See In Video Games: Profit, Coercion, And Control Epstein's apparent associations with the likes of Bobby Kotick, Steve Bannon, and Peter Thiel paint an ugly picture

TW: Really gross banter

This lightly touches on something I've seen time and again. A lot of the rich are very simple minded since they are in an echo chamber of greed.

aftermath.site/jeffrey-epst...

Seeing people push agentic browsers after years of trying to coral browser extensions is dizzying

rustacean-station.org/episode/rust...

I really have no care to read any analysis on why Nicki Minaj is doing what she is doing. It's pretty clear she wants and needs something more than her music career. Next

Of all things this post made me think "Oh yeah, I guess there would be lots of knitting and crochet projects when you're protesting outside in the cold".
But bloody hell, what a hill to die on.

As someone who has worked on providing free software for 8 years now, streaming apps like Disney+ and Paramount really put out a barely featured set of apps to stream their owned content and it's irritating considering everyone pays subscriptions.

ILoveFS at IAE poster

Knitting Our Internet poster

Events I organised for I Love Free Software Day 2026!

🧶 Knitting Our Internet at Snackbar Frieda, Rotterdam, on Feb 13 at 18. All information here.

🛹 A reading of Ada & Zangemann + a conversation together with Bonfire ❤️‍🔥 at the @internetarchive.eu, Amsterdam on Feb 14 at 14. All information here.

Introducing Encrypt It Already End-to-end encryption protects what we say and what we store in a way that gives users—not companies or governments—control over data. These sorts of privacy-protective features should be the status q...

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Jay Z really said "Oww, hoes turn they heads like owwwwls
I'm the man of the
...hour".

I can't man. We really thought these were bars for real. Lmao

Getting a lot of x509 errors on the keybase app :(

This has also been pilots in other states as well since I last checked
racepowerpolicy.org/baby-bonds/b...

Darrick Hamilton, Director of the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy, The New School Darrick Hamilton is an economic scholar and director of the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy. Growing up in Brooklyn, he witnessed firsthand how economic circumstances shaped communities...

So I see someone in the current administration has taken the idea of "baby bonds" from economists like Sandy Darity and Darrick Hamilton. This has already happened in states like Connecticut www.pbs.org/newshour/bri...

Pressure mounts on Kristi Noem as Republicans join calls for her to go Key senators urge resignation as Democrats threaten to impeach DHS secretary if Trump does not fire her

Evil is never that organized lol

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Rep. Omar was about to throw hands on his ass and I appreciate that.

I must be getting older because I'm listening to old bars with bombastic side eye.

Ye really said "When I breathe on the track, I asthma attack it."

🥴😮‍💨

Giuliani could never. Even with 9/11 clout.

Lmao did they forget that the 2A crowd was voting for them?

Looks like an AI bailout will happen and I'm going to mark this post for later so I can remind myself to go for a walk instead.

"we are all training under a hundred times the Earth's gravity"

Link to the crochet version 👇🏼 for those who don’t knit.

www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

I do hope that people get why encryption and keeping e2ee messaging apps are more important than ever though. You have to keep these things solid when democracy is at its strongest. Or else the ability to communicate safely will be sparse when weak.

All I can do is keep thinking of the work by Critical Resistance

I'm glad "abolish" doesn't seem as absurd to say. And I'm sad it took all of this to see that.

All that to say I haven't been feeling great about much since 2014 on a global scale. But it's the smaller scale push back and wins that have been keeping me going for any paths with hoping for better.

This is not to downplay any of the abnormal nonsense occurring but I need folks to understand the world ended" for many people across the globe already. So if you thought democracy was just fine when you saw genocide live, in several areas of the world. Then keep that up for the sake of what's left