Nodding so vigorously that it hurts at @Cory Doctorow 's latest, particularly the bit about how nobody hates capitalism more than a capitalist

Pluralistic: Stock buybacks are stock swindles (06 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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FLOSS.social

omg! ubuntu (@omgubuntu@floss.social)

GNOME 49 re-enables X11 session support in GDM, after attempts to unpick decades-old code proved 'quite difficult' — and broke much-needed functi...

If you are a member of Github's "maintainers" community (AFAIK this is invite-only but I suspect many folks here are likely to be included) please also register your displeasure here: https://github.com/community/maintainers/discussions/594 Boosts appreciated assuming you are a Software Person whose followers also have above-average likelihood of being there

Some days the #ADHD is a blinking light in the corner of my eye that's a little difficult to ignore. Some days it's a 100-meter tall wall of fire that surrounds me and fills my entire field of vision. Maybe one day before I die I will figure out how to dial it down on days like that

With all due respect to Audre Lorde, "the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house" strikes me as mistaken. The master's house is Castle Wolfenstein. If you are wandering around in there and a nazi drops some ammo, pick it up. (Please don't read an endorsement of any specific tactic into this generalization. Praxis is complex and it's good not to get too cocky. If the nazi is dropping the ammo on purpose it is still prudent to ask "why" before jumping out to grab it.)

Should I do some long-form writing about the relative merits of ActivityPub and ATproto (and the ideological positions of their adherent factions), as I have been able to understand them thus far? I have felt for a while like there is a lot of noise on this topic, and obviously after this weekend that feeling has intensified, but I'd really like a read on whether y'all would think that my contribution would cut through it or add to it.