Jon Robbins

Linux/free software/tech/coffee enthusiast. Technical people leader at work, but I still occasionally code for fun.

[Jon Robbins @jrobbnc]

This is exactly why we need open source networks that are federated and not billionaire -owned / for-profit.
(Such as @joinmastodon )

[Proton @ProtonPrivacy]

Information free-for-all
2025's information flow is ruled by platforms like TikTok and X. Engagement outweighs truth, as user data fuels profits and sensational content reigns supreme.

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[Paul Brown @0xQuasark]

In 1966, they gave a group of engineers LSD to try solve 𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 problems.

Stanford & Hewlett-Packard each brought their hardest, most challenging problems.

Then they gave 27 engineers, scientists and architects 100ug of LSD each.

The results:

a new conceptual model of the photon,
a redesigned freeway entrance,
a mathematical theorem,
a new space probe,
a shopping plaza.

Reviewed & accepted by their employers.
Published in a peer-reviewed journal.

Then the government banned LSD research entirely.

The study worked.
That was apparently the problem.

[Bark @barkmeta]

Let me explain what just happened 👇

5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.

5 minutes…

These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.

There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.

Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.

American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.

This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.

This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.

You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.

Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.

The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Unless the GOP impeaches Trump asap for:
1. The greatest corruption ever in the Western world.
2. His disastrous war on Iran.
3. Suspect rape & pedophilia,
I would be surprised if the GOP can survive as a political party.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

"The top 1 percent of American households, which have a minimum net worth of $11.1 million, now collectively own about $25.6 trillion worth of stocks and mutual funds, the same amount as the remaining 99% of the country," per the Federal Reserve

[Count Dankula @CountDankulaTV]

The Afroman Trial.

-Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons.
-Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up.
-No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman.
-Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras.
-Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives.
-During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat.
-The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation.
-Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit.
-Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them.
-One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife.
-As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE.
-The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman.

This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.

[Jon Robbins @jrobbnc]

WWMMRSD?

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights.

What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

“Macho Man” answers whether he’s ever cried—and delivers the perfect response.

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

This Afroman trial is bar none the best content on the Internet right now

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

NASA mapped the entire ocean floor using gravity from space.

[Censored Humans @CensoredHumans]

“There is no superior race.”

“There is no chosen people of God.”

“It is neither the United States nor Israel.”

“The chosen people of God is all of humanity.”

President of Colombia - Gustavo Petro

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

Depiction of the Milky Way in the Tomb of Ramesses VI.

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

pretty accurate i say

[Jon Robbins @jrobbnc]

💯

[IndiaToday @IndiaToday]

Privacy is about being able to navigate my relationships in ways that allow me to live a full and authentic human life: @mer__edith

#IndiaTodayConclave26 | @TEE_S_G @Akshita_N @jessica_goel @nagarjund

[Matthew Green @matthew_d_green]

I’m going to keep harping on this. Meta’s push to remove encryption and lobby for age verification laws feel like two sides of a very ominous coin.

[Jon Robbins @jrobbnc]

https://t.co/vam5uDpgMz

[Bob Golen @BobGolen]

Remember back before AI when we thought the source of stupidity was the lack of access to information? Well, it wasn't that.

[Proton VPN @ProtonVPN]

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[Proton Drive @ProtonDrive]

just the one

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

Obviously only Signal