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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
thatfrisiangirlish@blahaj.zone ("That Frisian Girl-ish") wrote:

Good morning!

I'd like to leverage the ✨power of social networking✨ for my best friend and her son.

You see, until recently, the young man was thought to be not that, and I'm glad he found the insight in himself, and has the mom he has, because she's an awesome mom who wants to support him the best she can.

But, as we probably all know, being trans comes with an official shitload of things to work out, often through a byzantine labyrinth. I myself try my best to help, but being neither a mother nor a trans man, there are strict limits to the first hand knowledge and experience I have to offer. So that's what I'm asking for:

I'm looking for resources for a young, freshly starting on his path trans man, and his mother in the Netherlands. Anything how to navigate... well, anything, and probably most of all, connections to be made. Ways to meet people in person (for both) would be absolutely amazing.

If you don't know yourself, but suspect someone you know might know something, please boost.

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

Hi there, this is your daily reminder that if you should ever feel "imposter syndrome" in your life, all you need to do is look at the current crop of willful incompetents in power in the United State to realize that maybe, just maybe, you're being too hard on yourself and you can, in fact, do the thing

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ThompsonArt@mastodon.art ("Aled Thompson") wrote:

The bearded vulture

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Somebody is trying to uh... relaunch... "Compute!'s Gazette":

https://www.computesgazette.com/

https://www.computesgazette.com/computes-gazette-the-legend-is-reborn/

Faskinating...

Edit: Ah poop. Generative "AI" apologist:

https://www.computesgazette.com/generative-ai-and-game-development-a-necessary-evil/

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I’m no political consultant, but I have some doubts about Gavin Newsom’s new “piss off all my natural constituents” strategy.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"If all these big companies are shouting from the rooftops that AI is up to production code the money relies on, then zero open source contributions of substance is a glaring absence."

(Original title: If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?)

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/if-ai-is-so-good-at-coding-where-are-the-open-source-contributions/

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

Humans can make a mess of things without even trying hard. I guess I should be impressed.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/14/making-the-whole-world-ring-like-a-bell/

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

The Endangered Species Act isn't supposed to protect the *environment*, just *species*. So let's gut the law right now. (that's sarcasm, in case it isn't obvious.)

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/14/lets-chop-the-endangered-species-act-to-bits-shall-we/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
djc@hachyderm.io ("Dirkjan Ochtman") wrote:

Rust slower than C? This cannot stand…

Let yourself be nerdsniped for cash!

https://infosec.exchange/@joshaas/114505176758997415

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The web feels so broken. Subscription and login gates at every corner. Using Google on a phone now means being periodically quizzed on which of the buttons to press to *not* be redirected to the app store. Opening an Instagram link casually throws up a browser alert dialog because it tries to automatically open an unsupported URL scheme, presumably their own app, and apparently everyone is fine with it. I'm proud that Mastodon never locks public content behind login walls.

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

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." — Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965.

#dune #ai #scifi

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:

🖊️ I just posted a new article to krrd.ing!

on dehumanization https://krrd.ing/posts/on-dehumanization/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
MEActNOW wrote:

🤯👇🏼
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded 70GBs of articles from JSTOR. He faced $1 million fine and 35 years in jail. He took his life in 2013.

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models without any punishment.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
mdhughes@appdot.net ("Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄") wrote:

> Do I still love Apple? Should I ever have? <

No, dude. Just fuckin' no, what are you even talkin' about? It's a *company*. They make products, you might even like those products (I often do!), and respect the people who work there (I occasionally do.), but the company is a thing that will roll over 100 babies to make a buck.

Loving a company is such a bizarre perversion I can't really comprehend it. That *THIS* is what it takes to wake some of these fanboys up‽ WTF.
#apple

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

Just learned that Sia wrote and performed "Feeling Good on a Wednesday" for South Park's Lorde (ya ya ya) episode.

I'm laying in bed randomly thinking— that song is too good for a joke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWUSTwbavpE&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

"I haven’t been in my lab or worked with my microscope since February, when I was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as I was returning to Boston from a vacation in France. At Logan International Airport, I did not complete a customs declaration for frog embryos (for use in our lab’s research) in my luggage. I’m told this would normally result in a warning or a fine. Instead, my visa was revoked and I was sent to a detention center in Louisiana, where I have spent the past three months with roughly 100 other women. We share one room with dormitory-style beds."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/opinion/ice-detention-russian-scientist.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.HE8.XkID.iSc5Vm8s9DXy&smid=url-share

#USPol

jwz wrote:

Oh yeah, while I was waiting at the Apple Store, I had to be in the same room where one of the Apple Schmucks was demoing "Apple Intelligence" to the captive audience of people just wanting to get their screens fixed. His big pitch was, "Hey Siri, write a resignation letter as a poem in the style of Robert Frost." It was excruciating.

jwz wrote:

Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless.

SACRAMENTO, CA: Promising his podcast listeners an engaging and enlightening conversation, California Gov. Gavin Newsom reportedly sat down Tuesday with a serial killer who...
https://jwz.org/b/yknl

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
camille@praxis.nyc ("Camille lives at Praxis Now") wrote:

My dear friend Alondra Nelson just resigned from the National Science Foundation and Library of Congress boards!

"Why I’m Resigning from Positions at the National Science Foundation and Library of Congress"

https://time.com/7285045/resigning-national-science-foundation-library-congress/

> To watch these changes unfold without naming them for what they are is to participate in a collective amnesia about how knowledge infrastructures shape power relations.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
craigcook@techhub.social ("Craig") wrote:

I suppose today is as good a day as any to announce this: after 13 years, I am no longer at Mozilla and I'm looking for my next thing.

25 years experience in web design and front-end dev (non-React). Mostly dev for the last decade (in a Python/Django environment), but my design roots mean I work well with designers. I'm especially interested in scaling design systems but I've done a LOT of "turn the mockup into a web page" work and I'm pretty good at it.

Ideally looking for fully remote but I'm open to a hybrid situation in the SF Bay Area, if the circumstances fit. Also looking for full time, but open to freelance/contract gigs as well.

I don't know what else to put here. Am I doing this right? Oh yeah, hashtags.

#FediHire #OpenToWork #HireMe

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

The cost to buy a Supreme Court Justice is an RV, but if you want to buy a president, you've got to pony up with a luxury 747.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
USAToday@flipboard.com ("USA TODAY") wrote:

Rite Aid set to close over 100 stores in 10 states. See the full list of locations
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/retail/2025/05/13/rite-aid-bankruptcy-list-of-closing-stores/83606252007/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Money @money-USAToday

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

setting up for weekly local voice net on 50.250MHz USB 📡 #HamRadio

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
zeblarson@hcommons.social ("Zeb Larson") wrote:

We're at the point where we're building concentration camps. The trajectory from here is not a good one. I wrote about it for Dame Magazine. #USpol

https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/05/08/its-not-hyperbole-to-call-cecot-a-concentration-camp/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Computeforloot@twit.social ("Computeforloot :clubtwit:") wrote:

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

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

RFE/RL today received its overdue congressionally appropriated funds for the month of April. https://about.rferl.org/article/in-legal-win-rfe-rl-receives-april-funding-lawsuit-continues-for-remainder-of-fy-2025-funds/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
hotkey@toot.lgbt ("Legally Zoé") wrote:

This is the future of programming.

jwz wrote:

What is the deal with those e-bikes with the giant-ass motorcycle tires? Why is that a thing? How does it make sense to carry all that extra mass?

(And if these delivery shitheads could stop going 20MPH on the sidewalk that would be greaaaaaat.)
https://jwz.org/b/yknj

Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

On last night's Oxide and Friends, @bcantrill and I discussed the end of USENIX ATC, reminiscing about our experiences there and its impact to the industry. @aka_pugs joined to dial the reminiscence back another couple of decades! https://youtu.be/kd6dIonsxUw