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

Pink: The official color of debugging #CSS

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considermycat@eldritch.cafe ("Jae") wrote:

How do you think the New York Times reported Kristallnacht? Go on, have a guess. If your answer was “a shitty, mealy-mouthed sidebar item which centred the Nazi regime’s framing of the event”, then congratulations! You speak fluent NYT!

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Debugging: the art of slowly realizing you're the problem.

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

Jonathan Capehart explains why he has now left Jeff Bezos' Washington Post, siphoning yet more brilliance and truth from that cesspool of a journalistic enterprise:

"We’re supposed to ignore [what's happening to the country under Trump]? Leave it to others to wrestle with on their news pages and websites? No, no, no, no, no, said in 'Get Out.'”

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #JonathanCapehart

https://substack.com/home/post/p-169777799

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DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social ("Democracy Matters :verified:") wrote:

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

— Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

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Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

Matt Zeller, an #Army veteran whose #Afghan interpreter saved his life in a 2008 firefight, co-founded the nonprofit No One Left Behind to help resettle #Afghans. He said he fears the #immigration crackdown will unwind that effort.
“The #Trump administration knows what’s going to happen to these folks. They’re not stupid. They understand that the #Taliban is going to kill them when they get back to #Afghanistan,” Zeller said. “They just don’t care.”

#law #USmilitary #betrayal

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
scottsantens.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Scott Santens") wrote:

In Canada's Dauphin pilot where poverty was practically eliminated for an entire town for 4 years, overall crime dropped by 15% and violent crime dropped by 37% (most of it domestic violence). In the Namibia UBI pilot where an entire village of 1,000 people got it, overall crime dropped by 43%.

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thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dccartoonist.bsky.social )

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

@David @cheeaun

Fundamentally, you appear to be asking, "Why don't you like the things I like, the way I like them?"

The answer, of course, is because I like different things from you.

Moreover, I go to enormous, daily, extremely time-consuming lengths to give you a *ton* of ways to get the things I write without following me here.

Surely that's the right compromise: "Use social media the way you like, and if you choose, help others use it the way they like?"

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NaraMoore@sakurajima.moe ("NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi") wrote:

New scam is surfacing on Bluesky, which means it will arrive here soon.

It works by telling you they have information about someone impersonating you, but for thin bogus reasons, you need to contact them on Discord. This is a scam.

#FediTips #FediAdim #mastoadmin #Scam

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
teslatakedown.com@bsky.brid.gy ("#TeslaTakedown") wrote:

"In short, Musk and Tesla are talking a big game to investors and its wide-eyed fans about how amazing its Robotaxis will be — but its private groveling with regulators suggests that it's fibbing to at least one of those groups." #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall futurism.com/emails-tesla...

These Behind-the-Scenes Emails...

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GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

Wake up and smell the #TrumpTax

‪Reuters‬:

China welcomes 183 Brazil coffee sellers in wake of US tariffs reut.rs/4mp1Ise

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dan613@ottawa.place ("Dan Neuman 🇨🇦") wrote:

George is working on his cutemaxxing

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nova@social.lol ("cmdr ░ nova ⸸ :~$") wrote:

Go on my website, click anywhere that's not a link (to be sure the website is "selected"), and then type "amiga"

https://mkultra.monster

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cemk ("Cem K.") wrote:

@adam What a two-faced hypocrite of a person...

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jay_peper@chaos.social ("Sarah Peper 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

"You're not building protected bike lanes for the people who are biking today, You're building it for the people who aren't biking today because it's not safe" @notjustbikes

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LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

Your art history post for today: by Demetre Chiparus (Romanian, 1886-1947), three views of “Thaïs,” ca. 1925, parcel-silvered, parcel-gilt and cold-painted bronze and ivory, on onyx base, height 22in (56cm), length 24in (61cm), photo: Christie’s London, 26 Oct 2016. #arthistory #artdeco #artnouveau #sculpture

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tedyapo@fosstodon.org ("teddy") wrote:

the main drawback of FPGAs is having to go outside to program them

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

Although it seems to be missing a couple of tracks, if you're curious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNe%5FmtjIwec&list=PL6C783356E3A0AAAD

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

Just remembered that "Six-String Samurai" ranks pretty high in the soundtrack-to-movie ratio.

(Idea of soundtrack-to-movie ratio brought to me by the following toot:

https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/114962510636179280)

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remixtures@tldr.nettime.org ("Miguel Afonso Caetano") wrote:

"When I was leaving the community, I thought that my answer in the future to that question would be yes — but it’s not. I thought that I would think it’s a tragedy that I no longer have the same sense of purpose in life, the sense of meaning, the hope for the longer term future of humanity. Also the promise of immortality, the possibility I could live forever. But I really don’t.

I feel like having left the transhumanist and longtermist communities, I have been able to develop and foster a new appreciation and connectedness with life on this planet. I mean, Mars is a toxic wasteland. It is a horrific place. There is no planet B. You go to Mars, you step outside and open your mouth, your saliva will boil off your tongue. Earth is incredible.

What transhumanists are really all about is how shitty being human is. You know, ‘It sucks to have this meat sack. We’re so dumb. We can only move so fast. We can only process information so quickly. We only live so long. It’s just an awful situation. We need to transcend that through technology and then we’ll get to something that’s really worthwhile.’ I just reject that. I like the way things are. I want to preserve this. I care about this."

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2025/07/the-curious-sci-fi-beliefs-of-the-ai-tech-elite

#SiliconValley #AI #LongTermism #Transhumanism

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augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

New data on disabilities in the workforce has been released by the Federal Reserve, and we're at a record level of disabilities that are still rising. Disabilities in the US started rapidly rising right about the time we got tired of masks and decided repeated reinfections with #COVID19 was no big deal. Despite thousands of studies that find COVID can affect chronic health, we continue to pretend that this abrupt and continuing 40% increase in disabilities is a mystery.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

XML watching everyone hate on it for 15 years, then suddenly becoming the main character in every AI prompt:

'well well well how the turntables'

*aggressively angle brackets at you*

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DGI@graeber.social ("David Graeber Institute") wrote:

Instead of the daily stock market - we could have an indicator for the number of homeless people?

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NouranKhaledGh ("Nouran 🍉") wrote:

In this video, you can see just a part of the massive damage in my neighbourhood.

In Gaza, you can only see death, damage and displacement.

Please help my family buy food

https://chuffed.org/project/121561-urgent-help-for-ahmads-family

Please donate and share ♥️🇵🇸

#gaza #palestine

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• video: 946484aac0692961.mp4

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
fabio@manganiello.social ("Fabio Manganiello") wrote:

Remember the faces of the people in this video, because these are easily among the worst human beings alive today.

Waiting outside #Gaza's borders while a Holocaust is consuming.

Reacting joyfully to each bomb and to each explosion.

Waiting for everyone to be dead so they can also steal the last piece of land that Palestinians have, and that international laws forbade them from re-occupying.

When the Zionist propaganda tells you about "defeating Hamas and their religious terrorism", remind them who's the real religious terrorist out there.

Who has folks like Ben-Gvir serving in the current cabinet, an individual blacklisted by most of the civilized world, someone who invited people to throw darts at pictures of children murdered in the West Bank evictions, who rules over a party founded by Kahane, a man arrested at least 60 times in his lifetime, listed as a terrorist by the US, the USSR and Israel itself, and author of the bestseller "They must go", which has often been compared to Mein Kampf.

And who's the one who justifies murder in the name of the most repugnant and murderous god:

"When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you. And when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy". (Deuteronomy 7:1,2)

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• video: 416694e1536ab513.mp4

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bruces ("Bruce Sterling @bruces") wrote:

*Has anyone ever actually played this, and is it a fun game

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eschaton ("Chris Hanson") wrote:

As Luthen said in _Andor_: "I’m condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else’s future. I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see. And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude. So what do I sacrifice? Everything!”

This is what it looks like to fight an existential threat.

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zanchey@aus.social ("David Adam") wrote:

It's very simple really. There are Drives and Sites. You can find your Sites in Teams where they are called Channels. Or Files in Channels. Sites are also in SharePoint. Drives are also in SharePoint but you can't access them that way except by accident. Libraries are Groups that are also Files (but Teams calls these Knowledge Bases). You can save things in Notebooks which are saved in a Drive but can also contain Drives or Sites (but not Teams, which are what Teams calls Teams and where Channels are stored, which SharePoint and OneDrive call Sites). Copilot is both a way to access Sites and Drives, and a way to produce lies. Nobody knows what 365 means. If all of this is overwhelming, consider speaking to your administrator about whether Microsoft Death is right for you.

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Grave of the Fireflies - Hotaru no Haka is a movie that, I'm fairly sure, if you have even an ounce of empathy, by the end of it, will have you super sad.

It's on Netflix now https://www.netflix.com/title/557010.

I watched it a LONG time ago when I was a kid, and only now realised it is set in #Kobe, where my wife is from, with many setings in the movie actually _in_ her neighbourhood.

Also, the dialect used is exactly what my in-laws have, making the experience even more profound.