Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
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New Steam Games with Native Linux Builds, including Tearscape - 2026-02-04 Edition: boilingsteam.com/new-steam-gam…
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War as a US Vocation: Practical Options and Outcomes of US-Iran Negotiations journal-neo.su/2026/02/08/war-…

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That “Ultimate Ice Scraper” 3D print model is the most retarded, plastic wasting, virtuesignaling, ecohipster, basementdwelling, low IQ, tool fetishizing, useless motherfucking garbage I've ever seen, you pathetic, snowflake, climate cult, 3D printer-jerking cunt bitch!
You think printing a flimsy, brittle, plastic ice scraper that will snap on the first thick ice sheet is “ultimate”?
Real men use metal scrapers, real tools, real work — not some fragile, PLA/ABS soy-boy toy

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I can pretty much guarantee that you will at some point find yourself doing something that at one point you swore you'd never do. You'll do it for the sake of getting high, either directly or indirectly. Trust me. It will happen. You might think you know yourself better than anyone, but you have yet to become acquainted with your addiction. It will introduce itself in ways that you never thought were possible.

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The Super Bowl has begun and I’m listening to the game on Serious XM. I have also, successfully received my first pizza delivery from Pizza Hut, and will soon be enjoying, a large, chicken Hawaiian pizza. The lady delivering to me, called, trying to find my apartment, and thought I was in a different apartment, but as I was standing in the doorway, she then saw me and brought it up to the porch. Go Patriots! #SuperBowl60

"march for billionaires" has got to be the most pathetic thing we've ever seen 🤣

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‘Overwhelming sense of doom’: NDIS support cuts leave families in fear – and there are more to come
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Pro-coalition government to take oath in Riyadh amid Aden security concerns en.ypagency.net/384368

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We live in a kayfabe world. What happens in the shared "social space" is pure theater, yes, the blood is real, the bumps and bruises, fines and even imprisonments, like gold bar Melendez and ethno-supremacist Jeffrey Epstein, and that's because pro-wrestling is a contact sport. It wouldn't work if the blood wasn't real, the sweat wasn't real, but the posturing, the dialogue, the narrative, that's the layering that directs the narrative. This Bad Bunny shit is just the latest in this kayfabe crap

Imagine having a lapse of judgement and asking ChatGPT to generate you a JSON file of a bunch of train stations and the lines they're on based on a specific table on a specific Wikipedia page.

Then imagine having to redo the entire thing because there are errors in every single item.

Should have just scraped the table with that python HTML parser I can never remember the name of.

Or just copy/paste the fucking thing into OpenOffice and figure it out from there

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A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck

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Berdol de MMS qui marchent jamais. À chaque fois que je change de téléphone, je passe un temps fou à arriver à configurer cette merde et là j'en ai vraiment besoin pour que mes clients puissent m'envoyer des photos 😡
J'ai beau avoir repris la conf de mon ancien téléphone, ça marche pas mieux, je peux envoyer mais pas recevoir.
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quelle app ? En passant à /e/OS j'ai essayé l'app par défaut, mais j'ai eu des problèmes, que j'ai attribués au fait que la plupart des correspondants utilisent en fait "Google Messages" sans le savoir (grosse pression à base de nag-screens sous android...).
Malheureusement le dev de l'app /e/OS semble arrêté depuis 2021 (gitlab.e.foundation/e/os/Messa…) , et je suppose que courir après la compatibilité parfaite avec Google est (intentionnellement) épuisant.

Est-ce qu'il existe mieux ?

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“To all the ICE agents out there, wherever you are,” Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong said. “Quit your sh*tty-ass job. Quit that sh*tty job you have.” Happy #SuperBowl Sunday.

Green Day Hits Trump ICE Agent...

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Bookface 2.0 Releases!

Bookface v2 Logo

New year, new Friendica, new Bookface!

DOWNLOAD FOR FRIENDICA 2026.01 & 2025.07-rc

DOWNLOAD FOR FRIENDICA 2024.12

If you're a server admin who is still running the previous Friendica stable 2024.12 and were pulling Bookface from either the "main" or "stable" branches of the repo please be aware those are now targeting the new stable version 2026.01, which will not work with the previous stable version. There is now a separate 2024.12 branch in the repository.

Please note that the Userstyles version has not been updated with 2.0 changes and that project is now archived. Those stylesheets will receive no further development or maintenance updates. If you're still on an instance that doesn't have the Bookface scheme available the version for Friendica Release Candidate 2025-07-rc does work with stable 2026.01.

Okay, so what's IN it? The most noticeable change in v2.0 is that the User Menu and Notifications have been moved to the far right in the desktop layout:

Updated top toolbar

Also, the Search field expands on focus to make it easier to see what you are typing, and if navigation labels are enabled alignment issues with them have been fixed, as has the alignment of the buttons themselves.

Updated User Menu

When you open the User Menu now your user name appears with your avatar at all screen sizes. Some people have multiple accounts that use the same avatar and it could get confusing as to which account they were logged into when, at some screen widths, the username would disappear due to space constraints.

Updated Event Actions

There has long been an alignment issue with Event Action Buttons if the label text was too long because they were absolutely positioned. They have been changed to a flex layout now, which also increased the space for the buttons above them:

The release for 2026.01 has a dozen changes and fixes. The release for 2024.12 has nearly two dozen. See the Changelog at the end of the ReadMe file for details.

@Friendica Admins @Friendica Support

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Kroger is Fleeing Oregon, 25 Billion Dollar evacuation of the Kroger Chain to leave the leftist Political run State. Not just Kroger I hear many want to leave.


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Moltbook was peak AI theater, less of a glimpse at the future and more of a mirror simply reflecting society's current obsession with AI (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

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J'ai encoOOOOore trifouillé des smartphones et un PC aujourd'hui 😆

Un smartphone Redmi debloaté par ADB, installation de PersonalDNSFilter et Saracroche, un autre dont j'ai fini par réussir à virer le Play Store (je détaillerai demain, ça a été tout un truc !!!) et un PC passé sous Firefox avec UBlock Origin, et une démo rapide de Kubuntu via Distrosea
Prochaine étape, clé live Kubuntu, test puis installation de l'OS, de Waydroid et d'une appli.

#Linux #DeGafam

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For today’s #StandingStoneSunday here’s a photo from last October’s visit to the amazing Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis in #Scotland. This is a view of the chambered tomb which was added later after the main stones were erected. Amazingly the site was buried under two meters (six feet) of peat for several thousand years before the stones and site were rediscovered in 1857. It is a fantastic place to visit. #standingstones #stonecircles #neolithic #OhCon

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#Epstein à Caroline #Lang, 2015 :

"J'ai parlé à ton père d'une nouvelle idée. Je mettrai 20 millions de dollars, ton père achètera n'importe quelle œuvre d'art qu'il veut. Si et quand elle est vendue, les profits seront partagés 50/50. Entre moi et ta famille : toi, les enfants, parents, etc. Aucun risque de votre côté. Ce sera amusant."


Bref, Epstein propose à Caroline Lang un montage financier où il investit 20 M$ dans des achats d'art par Jack Lang, avec partage des profits 50/50 sans risque pour la famille. Cela vise manifestement un transfert de fonds déguisé via le marché de l'art opaque, potentiellement pour blanchiment ou avantages fiscaux. Naturellement, Lang nie toute irrégularité.
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Just "bricked" a VM while testing secure boot and I'm not sure how


I was testing out automatic disk decryption with the TPM and secure boot in a Qemu/KVM VM. I had Arch set up with a UKI, I followed this process to enable secure boot and enroll the keys which all worked fine. I then used systemd-cryptenroll to unlock the drive automatically which again worked great.

This is the part where I then messed up and I'm not quite sure how or why. I wanted to check that disabling secure boot prevented unlocking of the drive, so I enabled the boot menu in the VM settings, entered it and reset the secure boot settings. As expected I then needed to enter the password again. I then wanted to re-enable it so I re-ran sbctl enroll-keys -m to re-enroll the keys, and rebooted as my UKI was already signed. And that was that, VM completely dead. No matter whether I try to boot from the virtual disk, the virtual CD drive, or even the virtual network adapter all I get is a black screen with "Display output is not active". I can't even enter the firmware menu again because I no longer get that prompt.

It doesn't matter that this happened and I don't need to fix it because it was just a throwaway VM which I've now deleted, but I would like to know what caused it so I can avoid potentially bricking real hardware in the future

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