"A Beloved Nurse Was Arrested, Shackled and Hidden in ICE’s System
A nursing professor in California is among thousands of immigrants excluded from a public detainee database under a new policy to expedite their deportation."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/10/us/ice-detainees-hidden-location-deportation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PVE.oS1m.A12Pgz5RlxRo&smid=nytcore-ios-share

OP-ED – Canada must invest in AI now, before we miss our chance to lose all our money in the bubble crash, by Mark Carney

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/11/op-ed-canada-must-invest-in-ai-now-before-we-miss-our-chance-to-lose-all-our-money-in-the-bubble-crash-by-mark-carney/

Spanking is the birthplace of authoritarianism, its atomic unit, the clearest possible message to the most vulnerable and plastic brains: might makes right. Those with more power are allowed to abuse those with less power at their discretion.

There is a German one on feddit.org every year. It’s a small community though. !wichtel_unter@feddit.org

You have to let go of the past. You can enjoy your memories, but you can never re-live them.

Sounds like a great summary of the reddit experience.

I signed up for the Reddit secret Santa once like a decade ago. Spent a bunch of time researching what to get, and made a really thoughtful gift bag of candy and toys from Western Canada based on what my recipient told me he liked.

The person who got me as their recipient sent me a $5 Amazon comic book for a video game I’ve never played. It looked and felt like the grocery store fliers you get in the mail.

Oh and whoever I sent my gift to claimed he never received it.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye.

~ The Little Prince.

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While you’re there, look at this.. It’s the same idea as Atlas, but with a per-user map: https://qwerty.social/@6af0adf8945d63cfa435f2fd?tab=6af0f09e8dbc6ee2aa3fb002

On standards, I think the most important issue will be to lock down how we represent addresses. A good start would be a mandatory lat/long, with optional fields for location name/address/city/region/country.

Next might be making location optional on user profiles, too.

From there, everyone could query “what’s nearby” on their own.

@panos @sl007

New proposal for simplifying the GDPR:

Every ‘consent’ dialog in your product that has options of ‘consent’ and ‘maybe later’ with no ‘never’ option has an automatic fine of 1% of global turnover.

Advantages:

• Easy to understand.
• Clear enforcement policy (no ‘up to’ level for fines, clear unambiguous violation case)
• Clear benefit to users.

Disadvantages:

• A sudden trillion-Euro influx to the EU budget will cause more work for people on budget committees.

I mean, what do you expect from an explicitly (m)arxist-(l)eninist instance. Their entire religion is "west bad, russia and china literally the best" and censoring any wrongthink. And yet there you are implying Russia is behind a bad thing. Of course they'd take action against you.

Imo fediverse projects really need to federate instance rules. Just include them in the instance actor (if they aren't already) like you'd do with a community, then use them if available.

@dec_hl if I'm going to buy stuff I don't need, it's probably going to make sounds lol. For me, this would be a really practical thing, and it also happens to be pretty gorgeous

Be the change you want to see. Reddit Secret Santa was always a pretty big logistical undertaking, it would take effort to make a Fediverse one.

Also Fediverse users might be less keen on the idea generally, as it involves personal information and addresses. A very cynical take is that harvesting this data was the real purpose of the Reddit SS, which can’t really be ruled out.

There’s always boardgamegeek.com’s Secret Santa, too. Though, this year’s already closed to new registrants. 😅

Have you considered https://givin.gifts? They see themselves as the unofficial successor of redditgifts (they even let you import redditgifts gallery posts back when they were still online). They opened their Happy Holidays 2026 signups a couple of days ago and any premium user could also create a custom fediverse Secret Santa exchange.

I took part in every givin.gifts Happy Holidays exchange since redditgifts shut down and I’m happy with it. If there are any problems with your gifter, their team is really invested in smoothing things out and getting you a rematch if needed.

Jim Jordan elected Minority Leader. In the middle of the Epstein pedophile crime coverup, Republicans in Congress: "We got any pedophile enablers that can lead us?"

Republicans: "Sure, Jim Gym Jordan will be a great Minority leader...... #USPol #Ohio

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/jim-jordan-and-the-ohio-state-student-athlete-sex-abuse-cover-up

@daringfireball Tesla's Model Y accounts for approximately 65–69% of Tesla's vehicle sales, and it has been shipping for 6 years and 8 months.

Tesla's Model 3 accounts for 28–32% of Tesla's vehicle sales, and it has been shipping for 9 years and 3 months.

Tesla does not have a great record for shipping new vehicles that matter.

Tesla's sales in China are down 66% from a year ago.

Meanwhile, Tesla has a P/E ratio of 417, more than 10x Apple's P/E.