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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
joshuajfriedman.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Joshua J. Friedman") wrote:

To clarify, Judge Xinis ordered ICE not only to transfer Abrego to Maryland but to RELEASE him under ICE's supervision

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
br00t4c wrote:

J6 Pardon Recipient 'QAnon Shaman' Turns on 'Fraud' Trump: 'F*ck This Stupid Piece of Sh*t'

#TrumpPardon #January6th #QAnonShaman #JakeAngeli #Mediaite

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/j6-pardon-recipient-qanon-shaman-turns-on-fraud-trump-fck-this-stupid-piece-of-sht/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
detachedspork@mastodon.ie ("detached spork") wrote:

If you are in a company where machines are redistributed without being first entirely wiped, I'm here to tell you that you have no idea the number of people using their colleagues' SSH authentication because nobody thought to wipe it.

JUST WIPE THE MACHINES JEEZ

Also stop reassigning old email addresses to new people. New dave doesn't need be to dave@ just because old dave is gone.

This ends today's tech support bitch session

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
newsthump@mastodon.online ("NewsThump") wrote:

NEWS! Please stop calling them the ‘Farage Riots’, demands man behind the Farage Riots https://newsthump.com/2025/07/24/please-stop-calling-them-the-farage-riots-demands-man-behind-the-farage-riots/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Trump isn't governing, he's trying to set a new Personal Best in the "Ruin a Nation Any%" category.

So far, his run is looking flawless!

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
freedomofpress@freedom.press ("Freedom of the Press") wrote:

🚨 PSA: If you are an ICE or DHS employee and have firsthand knowledge of unreported immigration enforcement activities that you think the public should know, find a news outlet that uses @securedrop and send it as an anonymous, encrypted tip.

Audio, video, documents all accepted.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
johnallsopp@indieweb.social ("John Allsopp") wrote:

In 2012 I spoke at @ffconf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTqIGKmCqd0

@slightlyoff was in the audience and we spent a long walk after talking about this stuff before React was even created.

Some of us could see this coming *miles* away.

Alex did more than anyone to try and give us an alternative path, with the Extensible Web Manifesto,

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/author/extensible-web-manifesto-team/

and Progressive Web Apps
https://conffab.com/presentation/what-comes-next-for-the-web-platform/?gl=nYv144b3XWse

I try not to think about it but it is %^&*ing infuriating the path we went down.

And for what?

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Sneek peek of the DEFCON Voting Village speaker schedule (subject to change). Join us in LVCC West 222-223 August 8-10.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vT7HGHMq3cf-SvACWphEdU98JpaKVlp0yFG9WJTBwybFdgLfIUrGFiEJWC-8RkXqDekY82BivIW25FD/pub

Boosted by jwz:
ana@starlite.rodeo ("ana veronica") wrote:

whenever someone wants to tell me that agi is just around the corner now i can just say "ah yes, but i'm about to learn to wield magic, which will make all of that irrelevant" checkmate loser

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

timeline cleanser

Attachments:

• video: 1f631f3b6ad14562.mp4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jesse@chaos.social ("Jesse") wrote:

Next time you're having a yak-shaving moment, and you want to find that (great) gif from Malcolm in the Middle, just for once, I'd recommend a children's book instead.

Pettson lives with his cat Findus and wants to bake him a bithday cake. But he's missing flour, so he needs to get some from the store, but his bicycle tire is flat, to fix it he needs the tools from the shed, but the shed is locked, and the key has fallen into the well, and...

Great drawings, very cute:
https://archive.org/details/birthdaycake0000nord/page/n27/mode/2up

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

Yeah no shit pal

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/doj-trump-named-epstein-files-b2794777.html

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

Saint James Infirmary by Snooks Eaglin

https://pandora.app.link/kiBACKtvfVb

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:") wrote:

@chillybot Yes. It's a red team slaughter. Well we are learning something that was a part of life for me in the IC: the whole government runs on trust and expectations of good behavior. We see some other countries expelling, charging and punishing rich and powerful politicians, but in our case we find ourselves in a position I don't think the founders ever thought possible, that all three branches of government--carefully created to be checks and balances on each other--are completely under the control of the worst possible people, who have no care for the constitution and in fact intently want to overthrow the system of government put in place 249 years ago. We have no institutional response to that, there is nothing built in. Our constitution allows for its own demise. The only thing that will change this is a citizen uprising. I personally think we are beyond that because Trump has created / is creating a private army answering only to him. I think a protracted general strike across all sectors is the only lever.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
maggiecatmom@c.im ("Maggie 🐹") wrote:

Those emerald eyes hold a full universe of curiosity! 🐾😁
#catsofmastodon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
amoroso@fosstodon.org ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

SQLite is a remarkable piece of software and I've always been curious about the system and the project. Here are several little known facts about SQLite.

https://avi.im/blag/2024/sqlite-facts

#SQLite #database

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
sop@unstable.systems ("sofia") wrote:

A shitpost that's been brewing in my head for a while now

Attachments:

• gifv: A user types a text message in a non descript textbox. The message eventually says, "Having a computer constantly trying to guesstimate what I’m going to type is fucking annoying." At every step of the way, an imaginary LLM tries to produce a nonsensical, improbable, artificially cheerful and brand-aware autocompletion. The completions come and go faster than you can really pay attention to, and the sockpuppet of a user I'm depicting in this piece of media just has to kinda try and ignore the onslaught of distraction as they eventually manage to finish the sentence. For bonus points, the LLM tries to censor the word "fucking" and replace it with more adwords(TM)-acceptable terms.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

Just this ONCE I wish that when scientists find, say, a deep ocean fungus (!) that can eat plastic, that they pause to determine whether it’s metabolism has a concept of “full”.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ Just announced: Wed Sep 17, 8pm: DESIRE
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/09-17.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #desire #johnnyjewel #synthpop #italodisco #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

Attachments:

• gifv: 086cc2d3f886c441.mp4

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

With Pocket going away and Instapaper announcing Kobo integration, it may be time to dust off my old account there after all. (I've been testing Unread Premium as a read-it-later app, and it’s…fine, but that's definitely not its forte.)

jwz wrote:

We can't have nice fountains.

San Francisco's Vaillancourt Fountain may soon meet its end, despite public outcry: Despite considerable public support for its preservation, San Francisco's 1971 Vaillancourt Fountain is not being included in plans for a...
https://jwz.org/b/ykrs

jwz wrote:

GWAR Concert Goes Viral After CEO of Tech Start Up Caught Having Affair on Analingus Cam.

BOSTON -- Viral footage from GWAR's popular Analingus Cam supposedly shows a tech CEO engaged in a lewd sexual act with his mistress, multiple people in...
https://jwz.org/b/ykrq

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tantramar ("Chris Mackay 🇨🇦") wrote:

“Work from home”, they said. “So few distractions”, they said. 🤦‍♂️🤪 #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy #JustJonesy #WFH #ChatLunatique

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

Good morning from the goat-and-llama parade

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

My #running this year looks much better than the last one: almost twice as many miles at the half-year point (121.72 vs 231.65). I'm finally learning not to push my aging joints and muscles too much and run at a sustainable schedule. All those horizontal parts of the 2024 graph were injuries.

(Have to admit it took me way too long to plot this graph using some Python and Libreoffice. And I've only been a software engineer for 25 years or so…)

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

KLAXXON! #SOURCE issue 2 is now available for download! In case you don't know what I am on about SOURCE is my attempt at an #opensource "pay what you feel" magazine. In this issue we look at #Godot, #Inkscape, #OpenStreetMap #Logseq #Termux and #Syncthing

There's a little more info and a direct to pdf link on my blog as well as links to Issue 1 which was a deep dive on Computational Fluid Dynamics with #FreeCAD.

https://concretedog.blogspot.com/2025/07/source-issue-2-out-now.html

Please Boost!

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

Wow, "AI" is doing the thing is absolutely known for doing, which is pulling nonsense straight out of its cybernetic ass, who could have possibly predicted this utterly predictable turn on events

https://gizmodo.com/fdas-new-drug-approval-ai-is-generating-fake-studies-report-2000633153

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Love watching brogrammers suddenly become "AI-first engineers" because they figured out how to copy-paste from ChatGPT.

"Bro I'm basically the Steve Jobs of prompt engineering"

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

Wow, it's almost as though a monopolist can't abuse their position to hold competitors back, gaslight regulators, frivolously sue for delay, and degrade the entire web ecosystem these days!

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/uk-regulator-flags-apples-ios-browser-engine-ban-in-draft-sms-designation/

/via @owa