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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
enkiv2@eldritch.cafe ("𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e") wrote:

Bad idea of the day: a system for anonymously trading customer loyalty cards with strangers, as a means of chaffing the predictive marketing systems and raising their noise floor

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space ("Thankful Machine") wrote:

RE: https://tante.cc/2026/09/11/power-grab/

Unite the nerds: white supremacy
Hold the line: white supremacy
Have some fun: making fun of people
Beauty is truth: hurr hurr Western Civilization I know Greek Philosophy sorta, white supremacy
Heritage is Duty: white supremacy
Command is service: hurr hurr Western Civilization I know Malraux, fascism
Welcome the agents: Imbecilic
Perfect the computer: Egomania again
Own the machine: lol
You’re somebody now: incel, fascism

My god. This is not from a man. This is from a child.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website ("a very weeny construct 💀") wrote:

what! new becky chambers drops in less than a week!?

dang i gotta find a way to get a nice feed of notifications about authors i like. surely if this was a surprise i've totally missed some

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
sara@hachyderm.io ("@sara") wrote:

As a user, I want your friends to dance, so that they're also friends of mine

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
tlake@hachyderm.io ("tlake (he/him)") wrote:

So excited to announce this!

Today, the workers behind Dungeons & Dragons (I'm one of those!), Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, and more are coming together to unionize as part of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA!

This morning, the Dungeons & Dragons team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work.

We’re proud to follow in the footsteps of MTG Arena’s own union and have worked with them in preparation for today. Now, we get to share it with you all!

Curious how you can help? We ask that you sign our petition for Wizards to voluntarily recognize our union. The support for MTG Arena’s union was key to their victory, and we hope that you show the same support for us.

You can learn more about our mission on our website. Sign our petition, share it with your communities, and keep an eye on this account for future updates.

Read more: https://unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-studiox-join-uwotc-cwa

Sign the petition: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcpetition/

#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #MTG #MagicTheGathering #WizardsOfTheCoast #CWA #CommunicationsWorkersOfAmerica #UnionStrong #DontSplitTheParty

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

^ prompted by Cybertruck, Ferrari Luce, and now, Jaguar Type 01.

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

Please stop saying "controversial" when you mean "ugly". Having an opinion doesn't make you unprofessional. But using non-committal language shows you're trying to avoid offending some corporation, which is nonsense.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
outie@slime.global ("canadian clown orgy") wrote:

https://archive.org/details/tippett-archive Internet Archive, being heroes as usual, have published 90 CDs and DVDs worth of stuff from legendary special effects guy Phil Tippett's studio liquidation

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

"If AI had existed in the early aughts, we could not have accelerated Zotero's conception, because we did not know exactly what we wanted, and so could not have written coherent prompts for an LLM. Instead, it took a great deal of time and collaboration to develop a clear vision for what Zotero should be. But that slow formation led to software that was durable rather than ephemeral, with a strong foundation that could be built upon." https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-slow-formation-of-durable-software/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

really could do with some more ad astra right now and a bit less per aspera

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/117401666800260862

oh hey I'm in this one

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange wrote:

When normal people show up to mastodon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TheViking@newsie.social ("Lillian") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
netblocks ("NetBlocks") wrote:

⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a significant disruption to the network of Russian internet and cloud giant Yandex. Reports indicate a major fire at one of the company's data centers in Sasovo, Ryazan Oblast, #Russia, after a Ukrainian drone attack campaign.

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

remember: "The [Apollo 11] onboard computers contained only 72 kilobytes of storage memory"

now imagine programming a real spacecraft in 72k

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mitch@hachyderm.io ("Mitch Wagner") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
michael_w_busch@mastodon.online ("Michael Busch") wrote:

Margaret Hamilton is rightly remembered for her work programming the flight computers for Apollo.

But she should also be remembered for her work on early weather prediction software, which informed the realization that weather is chaotic and the limits to predicting it.
https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

Video Clip: Candidate for US Senate TX James Talarico

“Why do we have a trillionaire when veterans are sleeping on the streets? The reason poverty exists is not because we can’t feed the poor, it’s because we can’t satisfy the rich.”

h/t The Tennessee Holler

Attachments:

• video: "Why do we have a trillionaire when veterans are sleeping on the streets? The reason poverty exists is not because we can’t feed the poor, it’s because we can’t satisfy the rich.”

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mathewi@journa.host ("Mathew Ingram") wrote:

Legendary programmer and "rope mother" for NASA — RIP
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/obituaries/margaret-hamilton-dead.html

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

RE: https://journa.host/@mathewi/117402460645423017

damn, a light has gone out of the world

"Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30 in Cambridge, Mass. She was 90.

Her death, in a hospital, was confirmed by her daughter, Lauren.

Ms. Hamilton was a young mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 1960s, putting her husband through law school by working in a computer lab. When she learned that M.I.T. was designing in-flight computers for the moon mission, she eagerly joined the team.

She was the first female programmer hired to work on the Apollo project, housed at M.I.T.’s Instrumentation Laboratory, in 1965. Her skills led to her promotion to director of software engineering on the project, which developed the two 70-pound onboard computers for the Apollo flights: one in the command module, which carried the astronauts from Earth, and the second in the lunar module, which set down on the moon’s surface."

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
North@chaos.social ("Nick Poole") wrote:

I'm an electrical engineer with a very broad skillset looking to replace the "stable" part of my income after my contract with a private research foundation ended this month.

I'm seeking remote medium-to-long term contracts or salaried positions.

To get an idea of what I can offer, please visit my website:
https://www.nickpoole.me/hire

#getfedihired

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
historianess@mastodon.sdf.org ("Doctor Historianess") wrote:

FUCK YOU ANTHROPIC

https://www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-americas-last-chestnut-groves-is-about-to-be-destroyed-for-a-data-center

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

(we write the xml by hand)

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

(it normally passes, but we made a typo earlier today so it briefly didn't)

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

did you know that the w3c's atom feed validator caches results and you can't ask it to retest a feed for like an hour? or rather, you can but it won't

anyway our feed passes now

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
gvy_dvpont ("Guy Dupont") wrote:

QR Code made entirely of mirrors

or as I like to call it

Scan it! At the Disco

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
joannaholman@aus.social ("Joanna Holman") wrote:

Something I wish they’d explained better at school is that skills are transferable and often you’re learning how to learn. I see so many adults complain about how useless learning recorder in school music class was. The teachers weren’t into bad covers of hot cross buns, they were trying to teach musicality, sheet music reading, rhythm and handling an instrument that could be applied to other things in future using the cheapest, easiest to play, hardest to break instrument possible. I feel like the inability to see how learning things might be beneficial in indirect ways haunts a lot of people into adulthood to their detriment

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

memory's too expensive to use for lighting anyway

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

actually no DIMMs glow particularly brightly unless you greatly exceed their power rating.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

SODIMMs don't glow very brightly unless you greatly exceed their power rating