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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

A federal judge ruled that Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in Washington was likely unlawful in the latest setback to the president’s military mobilizations in Democrat-led cities. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/21/world/politics/trump-washington-troop-illegal-judge/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
realTuckFrumper ("#TuckFrump") wrote:

‘He Is Out of Control’: MAGA Demands Answers After Trump Ambassador Mike Huckabee Covertly Meets With Spy Who Sold American Secrets Mediaite https://twp.ai/E6DkhL

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
msbellows@c.im ("M.S. Bellows, Jr.") wrote:

The "Border" Patrol is monitoring all American drivers (not just immigrants), everywhere in the country (not just at the borders), and detaining anyone whose driving patterns they think are "suspicious."

As I've said before, they are becoming a national police force – and because border agents operate under looser due process rules than other law enforcement, they're not giving anyone their normal rights, citizen and non-citizen alike.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cd

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange ("AN/CRM-114") wrote:

@catsalad
Old and busted: John Carpenter’s Vampires of Mars
New hotness: Warren Zevon’s Werewolves of Jupiter

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
freequaybuoy ("James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺") wrote:

@catsalad Because Jupiter is a gas giant, its indigenous wolf population maintain buoyancy and control their altitude by means of a gaseous sack evolved from their bellies, which can be inflated through excessive inhalation and deflated by doggy farts, simultaneously providing rapid propulsion, though they can also spin their tails like a propellor for more leisurely circumambulation, making for a truly outrageous werewolf problem indeed.

Source: NASA

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

very cool!

"The source code was contributed anonymously and represents a snapshot of the Infocom development system at time of shutdown - there is no remaining way to compare it against any official version as of this writing, and so it should be considered canonical, but not necessarily the exact source code arrangement for production."

https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115585413690855037

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

#CarrieFisher #QI

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

my current script for counting storyteller service requests after a system restart:

cat /var/log/storyteller/storytellerLog.txt | grep Req | wc -l | cowthink

Boosted by jwz:
RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

Radical stickers seen around Melbourne.
We've got a bunch of copies of these and numerous other designs. If you're interested in buying a mix pack of radical slaps, check out:
https://radicalstickers.bigcartel.com

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Hey members of the military, if the president tells you to murder senators and representatives, that would be an illegal order, just, you know, in case this is something that comes up at any point in the future

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

I'm really, really waiting for when Starbucks Inc., will cave in and negotiate with the unions. Because going to Starbucks is a family tradition, and we haven't been there since the strike started. I want my croissant :-)

#starbucks #unions

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I'm so old I remember when Black Friday was actually one day

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊") wrote:

Interop, drop by drop https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/the-eu-made-apple-adopt-new-wi-fi-standards-and-now-android-can-support-airdrop/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Still thinking about those two Hank Green AI-doomsday videos. Why the fuck hasn't anyone called him out on it? Am I gonna have to do it?

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

One of our quaint local customs is a parade in the dark in freezing cold weather just before Thanksgiving.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/20/i-was-only-there-for-santa/

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

I'm off to sleep but some of the responses to this make me think the whole "reading comprehension has collapsed because anglophone countries have been teaching reading the wrong way since the 90s" discourse may have been onto something.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
oracle@phantomthieves.net ("digital stars 💾⭐") wrote:

you’re trying to run VRChat on Linux. I’m running Linux in VRChat. we are not the same.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
EshuMarneedi ("Eshu Marneedi") wrote:

I wrote this one fast because I have things to do that do not involve analyzing two companies fighting with each other.

This Android AirDrop thing isn’t going to last, but I thought about how it will end. Will it turn into a PR battle? Legal? Or will Google and Apple’s interdependence force them to fess up?

https://eshumarneedi.com/2025/11/20/google-somehow-reverseengineers-airdrop-and.html

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

fooking idjits… idjits in charge, and idjit contractors.

apparently, that video is of Mexican troops who are *removing* the signs the idjit “contractors” emplaced:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-petes-war-goons-accidentally-invade-mexico/

Whiskey Pet’s goon squad can’t even read a damned map

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Watching British guys eat soul food really scratches a part of my brain. These guys make good content.

https://youtu.be/ppRzJYgG3xc

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Jupiter has 97 moons and an outrageous werewolf problem

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
westbrook wrote:

Did you know that @chromium recently did some work to ensure that `document.importNode` and `Node.cloneNode` delivered a similar performance profile? They did!

That means that #frameworks built to be compatible with the web can leverage `document.importNode()` for templated content with custom elements which will get optimistically updated. Win, win.

Seems like something that @mdn would benefit in sharing with the world, right?

https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/41441

#webDev #performance #webComponents

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
gamingonlinux ("Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮") wrote:

Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/zork-i-zork-ii-and-zork-iii-are-now-officially-open-source/

#Zork #Microsoft #Retro #OpenSource #RetroGaming

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Tempted to give the gemini protocol another shot.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

@rl_dane @darkuncle @cthos @gamingonlinux As a Gemini protocol fan, this is hilariously cursed. I love it.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz ("DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)") wrote:

Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
"Today, we’re preserving a cornerstone of gaming history that is near and dear to our hearts. Together, Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License. Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of students, teachers, and developers so they can study it, learn from it, and, perhaps most importantly, play it.
"...The games remain commercially available via The Zork Anthology on Good Old Games."
https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source
https://github.com/historicalsource/zork1
And an Ars Technica article about that:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11/microsoft-makes-zork-i-ii-and-iii-open-source-under-mit-license/

I originally beat Zork in the original PDP-10 version, arpanet-ing in to MIT to play it.

The original Zork written in the MDL dialect of Lisp was already available:

"This version of ZORK has been (slightly) changed from the original in order to run on the Confusion MDL Interpreter.
https://github.com/whitten/MDL-Zork

There's also this:
'This directory contains files related to Confusion, an MDL interpreter which, to quote its author, "Works just well enough to play the original Zork all the way through."'
http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/programming/mdl/interpreters/confusion/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

I have quite a few projects I'm super excited to publish in the coming weeks. But honestly, the main thing that's consuming my brain cycles story-wise is a year-end piece about just how badly this administration has fscked our cybers in so many ways.

This won't be a polemical soliloquy. I intend to document all of the specific actions this administration has taken that appear to weaken, redirect, or fully castrate our cyber capabilities. Your assistance would be appreciated (and possibly noted).

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
danmcquillan@kolektiva.social wrote:

TFW your publisher sends you an email encouraging you to opt-in to licensing your work to AI developers, and when the book in question is titled 'Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence'🤦‍♂️

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

This is doom-marketing ('we're so powerful that...') and regulatory capture ('let me say how to regulate me') and media are journalists are swallowing it without journalism. AGI is BS.
Anthropic C.E.O.: Don’t Let A.I. Companies off the Hook https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/opinion/anthropic-ceo-regulate-transparency.html?smid=tw-share

Boosted by jwz:
gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz ("Greg Egan") wrote:

Who could have guessed that the end product of a fearless, intellectually rigorous research program whose sole aim was to produce an LLM with the most reliable, objective and trustworthy responses possible would sound so much like a sycophantic courtier flattering a demented, narcissistic monarch?