Erik Moeller

Detailed investigation from Sky on how X boosts extreme right-wing content into user's feeds. Unsurprising, of course. The bigger questions is why so many journalists, politicians and institutions (including SkyNews) feel the need to continue to legitimize X through their presence -- a platform […]

Screenshot from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zohran_Mamdani&oldid=1320519259 (current as of November 4, 2025) Mamdani's campaign platform has been considered by outlets to be similar to the policies pursued by former New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia and former U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt.[91][92] The German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle classifies Mamdani's policies as being on the center-left of the global political spectrum.[93] This is unusual in the United States, as the 1950s Second Red Scare and the 1990s Democratic Pivot towards centrist neoliberalism occurred, which shifted the overton window of American politics significantly to the right compared to almost any other liberal democracies, and led national politics to being generally restricted between centrists and the hard right.[93] While misinformation has spread during the 2025 New York mayoral race calling his policies radical or communist, there is a consensus among political scientists that his policies are similar to those pursued by mainstream center-left parties in other developed democracies.[93] Mamdani identifies as being within the democratic socialist tradition.[51][94] He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.[60][71] Mamdani has also been called a progressive.[68]

Gee, I wonder why billionaires want to control the encyclopedia.

(Kudos to the contributors of this very astute section of Zohran Mamdani's Wikipedia bio.)

Dangerzone Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to a safe PDF.

The first release candidate for Dangerzone 0.10.0 is out, and we’re looking for feedback from users, especially on macOS and Windows. Thanks!

https://dangerzone.rocks/news/2025-11-03-0.10.0-call-for-testing/

This way, the user can use PgUp/PgDn, cursor keys, and the mouse wheel (which many terminals auto-translate to cursor up/down) fairly intuitively depending on what _they_ are doing.

If they're busy in the input area, cursor keys work there; if they're seeing text scroll by, cursor keys work […]

Managing focus and scrolling in a terminal UI (TUI) is tricky, but I think I landed on a reasonable approach for Chabeau (https://github.com/permacommons/chabeau).

It's very subtle, but you can see it in this video:

- "›" indicates focus, "·" indicates out of […]

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Sometimes it's the little things .. made myself a little helper script using `yad` that I can use to quickly bounce the dev env for @lib_reviews :)

One minor annoyance this helps address is the "oh, dev env isn't running" problem when hitting the browser; now I […]

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"McLovin"'s ID from the film "Superbad" (the character attempts to use it to buy alcohol)

Got my first scam call with a spoofed "Kaiser Permanente" caller ID today. Apparently quite common.

Nice reminder not to put too much automatic faith in any form of "identification".

Whenever you're feeling lost, like you don't have a clue

Remember, somewhere out there, is a guy

Typing into a small box

@grok Is this true?

He'll always be more lost than you

Canada has made its national school food programme a permanent part of the federal budget, committing to C$1 billion over five years and ongoing annual funding thereafter. The initiative will provide healthy meals to up to 400,000 additional children while supporting local producers, and marks a […]

University of Virginia Makes Deal With White House to Halt Investigations The Justice Department had been scrutinizing one of the nation’s premier public universities over accusations of civil rights violations.

you've heard of the banality of evil

meet its twin brother, the cowardice of institutions

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/politics/university-of-virginia-trump-agreement.html

Three weird things about social websites:

1) If you run a a social website, you don't actually have to allow nazis and demagogues to sign up.

2) If the nazis and demagogues sign up anyway, you can kick them out. It sounds weird, I know, but it's totally a thing you can do!

3) If you've signed […]

(And no, that's not a root session 😅. Terminator just remembers SSH sessions in the title bar.)

Chabeau is fast, and works well with high speed inference providers like Cerebras. Here it is running against a Cerebras endpoint for the Qwen 480B model, showing off the speedy markdown renderer (provided by the `pulldown-cmark` crate, with some customization […]

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Chabeau showing the preset menu with the built-in "short", "roleplay" and "casual" preset options visible. Presets change the system prompt, which alters a model's responses.

Chabeau showing the inspect dialog for the Charles Darwin sample character card. Chabeau has support for the chara2 standard character card format if you enjoy roleplaying with historical personalities like Darwin or Hypatia of Alexandria.

Chabeau showing an API error message in the main chat dialog window, with the Dracula theme active.

Chabeau 0.5.1 is out (chatbot TUI compatible with many APIs). A few goodies in this release:

- Built-in presets. You can still configure your own, but Chabeau now ships with three sample presets: short (quick responses followed by a numbered menu), casual, and […]

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[uspol, shutdown]

The shutdown is one plausible pathway to full autocracy, and the Trump gang is already laying the groundwork for it with illegal appropriation of funds.

As more essential government functions are threatened, the executive can just keep asserting more and more authority to […]

Consumer Affairs reviews of Kaiser Permanente, averaging 1.5 stars

Consumer Affairs reviews of Aetna, averaging 1.2 stars

Consumer Affairs reviews of United Health, averaging 1.2 stars

Consumer Affairs reviews of Humana, averaging 1.2 stars

"All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out." - Ludwig von Mises

Took me long enough, but I am _finally_ learning to love `systemd`

A sample Chabeau interaction on the subject of web components, in which the user receives short responses followed by a numbered menu for each response, like this: 1 - Deeper look at Shadow DOM and Custom Elements 2 - Compare Web Components to frameworks like React or Vue 3 - Examples of building a simple Web Component

Chabeau 0.5.0 (my open source terminal chatbot TUI) is the first version that supports character cards, personas, and presets.

Here's a simple preset in action that 1) keeps responses concise, 2) facilitates menu-style exploration.

`cargo install chabeau` (full […]

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You wouldn't know it from how it was covered in major news outlets, but: "No Kings Day on June 14 was one of the largest single days of protest in United States history."

Let's make October 18 the largest […]

@everton137 @wikimediafoundation

For the record, I think it absolutely makes sense for Wikimedia and other nonprofits to be present on Bluesky at this time, despite its structural failings. And I'm glad Wikimedia stopped posting on X a while ago.

But it would also be great to see Wikimedia […]

People tend to think of ALT text as a "good thing to do for people with disabilities". That is true, but also reductive. It is useful for everyone, as is generally the case with accessibility.

I sometimes see posts with screenshots of text in a language I don't speak. If they had ALT text, I […]

White House memo that says MEMORANDUM October 10, 2025 TO: KAROLINE LEAVITT, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY PHYSICIAN TO THE PRESIDENT CAPTAIN, U.S. NAVY SUBJECT: President Donald J. Trump Completes Comprehensive Follow-Up Evaluation at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE President Donald J. Trump successfully completed a scheduled follow-up evaluation today at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The visit was part of his ongoing health maintenance plan and included advanced imaging, laboratory testing, and preventive health assessments conducted by a multidisciplinary team of specialists. These evaluations were performed in coordination with leading academic and medical consultants to ensure optimal cardiovascular health and continued wellness. Comprehensive laboratory studies performed in conjunction with the visit were exceptional, including stable metabolic, hematologic, and cardiac parameters. In preparation for upcoming international travel, President Trump also received preventive health screenings and immunizations, including annual influenza and updated COVID-19 booster vaccinations. President Trump continues to demonstrate excellent overall health. His cardiac age-a validated measure of cardiovascular vitality via ECG-was found to be approximately 14 years younger than his chronological age. He continues to maintain a demanding daily schedule without restriction. SUMMARY: President Donald J. Trump remains in exceptional health, exhibiting strong cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, and physical performance.

Trump got his COVID19 vaccine today.

He will always have access to everything he needs to maintain his health while denying others the same.

These fake videos aren't even attempting to depict anything other than peaceful protest (depicted in one of the AI videos as a ridiculous chant). The emotional payoff is the violent state response.

This isn't an attempt at generating fake news, it's AI-generated cruelty porn. The desire for […]

Bubbles!!

and bubbles pop

@eloquence

A bubble chart from the article illustrating the complex network of often circular investments between Microsoft, OpenAI, Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Oracle, xAI and various smaller startups.

At this rate it's honestly surprising that none of the major #AI players have issued an "AICoin" yet (aside from Altman's aspirational spycoin). Maybe that's the final step after institutional investment dries up.

(Graphic from Bloomberg: https://archive.is/Pagn7)

A small crowd standing peacefully outside a building at night, lightly edited with MS Paint style drawings of a tank, a helicopter, bullets, and fires.

Credit to /u/Im_so_little/ for this light edit showing the war zone outside the Portland ICE facility.

If you're still on speaking terms with friends or relatives who have gone MAGA, this may be a good article to send them on the 0.1% chance it opens an eye by a degree or two.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/portland-not-war-ravaged-trump-1235438405/

Pritzker pointing out that ICE lies first and immediately, knowing journalists will catch up later if at all.

Coming from a sitting US governor, that’s an amazing breakthrough […]

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Vox headline "Democrats are doing more to resist Trump than their voters think", with a photo showing Chuck Schumer raising his index finger (as he is wont to do), standing at a podium, surrounded by other Democratic Senators

Vox dot com, explained in one image