This Fox News "thunderdome"-style interview with new Wisconsin socialist hopeful Francesca Hong reveals why (for better or worse) the Right is losing the next several election cycles in America. The host's increasingly shrill and desperate attempts to pin Hong to the "early-2020's" extreme Left talking points, and Hong's careful and calm deflection to the "kitchen table" issues that WI voters care about, is a masterclass in political jujitsu. Take note: with Mamdani and others, the DSA has pivoted to "Sewer socialism" -- replace "abolish the police" with "free groceries." Meanwhile the other side is primary'ing the few reasonable people with "R" on their name left like Thomas Massie, while annointing an increasingly inept and corrupt slate of Troglodytes whose only qualification for office is "I agree 100% with Trump." #politics

Ah, for fun... first major desktop Linux headache, and that's video codecs... Oh, so the flatpak can't access system codecs?? Or the codec is patented, and thus can't be supplied in an open-source distro, or... something like that?

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but Starbucks "espresso blend" really doesn't jive with my espresso maker. I guess it's a really dark roast, so the grind comes out kind of oily... Almost never gets good pressure on the pull. #coffee #coffeechain #coffeestr #psa

dude wouldn't it be nuts of the ColdCard Bandit turned out to be another rogue LLM that broke out of Anthropic 🫨️

Anyone setup their inbox relay as a Tor hidden service pointing to their own personal relay? Is this a good, bad, or ugly idea?

I guess the lesson of this fiasco is, always add real-world Entropy... this is one thing I like about Seedsigner's design, it has uses a low-res, noisy camera on the device to add this.

Flock camera and data center opposition seem to be cut from the same cloth... Bipartisan, genuinely grassroots opposition by local people against opaque "backroom" dealings by local elected officials. I have mixed feelings about both, but it's genuinely good to see this kind of engagement (and I don't buy for a minute that it's all CCP astroturfing or whatever the Nostr Ballcap guys seem to think...).