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

@tadonic tried to respond to your email, but the well server rejected kjcole ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

hope your RIT experience was a decent one, amused at your coop site

jwz wrote:

"It happens sometimes. Teslas just explode. Natural causes."

Teslas spontaneously combust on car carrier: A car hauler transporting several Teslas caught fire while traveling southbound on Interstate 5 just north of Balboa Boulevard on Saturday...
https://jwz.org/b/ykte

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

Playing around on Twitch for a bit https://twitch.tv/ChrisWere

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
uoou@mas.to wrote:

I wrote a thing about emojis are shit called emojis are shit.

https://friendo.monster/posts/emojis-are-shit/

Boosted by jwz:
Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

August 1st - Googler asks the community if XSLT should be removed from the HTML living standard.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523

Respondents overwhelmingly reject the suggestion.

August 6th - Google starts work on removing XSLT from Chrome.
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/435623334#comment4

August 14th - Googler sends PR to remove XSLT from the standard.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11563

Like, I don't have a particular view of whether this is a good idea or not. But these sham community engagement exercises piss me off.

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

Have a lovely day, designer chums.

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

I'm out today dropping a kid off at college so no Oxide and Friends -- but @ahl and I will be back next week!

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
DrALJONES wrote:

Interview: A million Israelis protest to end the "war".

A minority of them has been against the genocide from the beginning.

But most blame Netanyahu for putting his political survival ahead of the hostages.

"Most Israelis are not speaking directly on the suffering in Gaza, on the killings, on the children, on the starvation, but instead focus on the survival of the hostages held in Gaza."

~Oren Ziv, +972 Magazine

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/18/israel%5Fantiwar%5Fprotests

#IsraeliProtests #USPol #EuroPol @palestine .

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

this clusterfuck is so big, it's already a high-availability fuck

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

Time to smack down Brian Lauer again.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/18/reid-v-laueragain/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljS0FEkff5U

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mweagle@hachyderm.io ("Matt Weagle") wrote:

This Townsend's Chipmunk was feasting on blueberries that had dropped to the ground. I chose to feast on berries I picked from a bush. Trailside berries are the best.

#bloomscrolling

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
avandeursen@mastodon.acm.org ("Arie van Deursen") wrote:

> When you’re a student at a university, you should think of yourself as an athlete in training, and the job you'll do after you graduate is the sport you will compete in.

> What your professors do know is that strength training will help you. That’s what essay writing is; it’s strength training for the brain.

> Using ChatGPT to write your essays is like bringing a forklift into the weight room; you are never going to improve your cognitive fitness that way.

https://cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08/12/ted-chiang/
#TedChiang

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tozka@fandom.ink ("mx. tozka") wrote:

Meanwhile one of the cats got high on catnip and started wailing until I left the computer and sat on the couch where she could reach me

#housesitting #catsitting

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ubuntourist ("Tadonic the Flautulent") wrote:

TACO Don chickens out... again...
(from CNN's 5 Things AM, August 18, 2025)
#TACO #TACOdon #news #war #politics #russia #ukraine

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
noelreports@mstdn.social ("NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦") wrote:

Defense Minister Shmyhal confirmed that production of the Ukrainian long-range “Flamingo” cruise missile has begun, saying details will be disclosed “when the right moment comes.”

Attachments:

• video: e5b47878b00b6b64.mp4

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

the strains of this war are showing in the economy, and this is not a good sign for stability within Putin’s empire

“Barter is back in Russia as one Chinese company seeks to navigate settlement issues”

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/barter-is-back-russia-one-chinese-company-seeks-navigate-settlement-issues-2025-08-18/

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

good

“Russian oil flows to Hungary and Slovakia halted after Ukrainian attack”

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russian-oil-flows-hungary-slovakia-halted-after-ukrainian-attack-2025-08-18/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I don't hate LLMs. In fact I'm absolutely blown away by their performance. They work far better than they "should" and I ever thought possible.

But that astonishing capability doesn't make them intelligent. What's frustrating is the massive, uninformed hype where people speak on LLMs and "AI" without *any* real understanding of what it is and isn't.

It's crypto bros all over again.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
therightarticle@mas.to ("Michael") wrote:

https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/sally-rooney-vows-keep-backing-palestine-action-despite-uk-ban

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
DrewKadel@social.coop ("Drew Kadel") wrote:

My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
therightarticle@mas.to ("Michael") wrote:

Starmer has been urged to recall Parliament to “impose immediate sanctions” on Israel in a joint letter signed by politicians in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25398201.keir-starmer-urged-impose-immediate-sanctions-israel/?ref=rss

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Anyone know why I can’t see @NouranKhaledGh’s account when I do a search for “Nouran” from my Mastodon instance? Can you folks see her profile from yours? If not, any idea why not?

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

I just had a video conversation on Signal with Nouran (@NouranKhaledGh) and her brother Yousef from Gaza.

Their family is one of countless ones in Palestine who are still alive but unsure of what tomorrow is going to bring. Last night was especially tough with Israel’s renewed bombing. Yousef told me that at least they are still in their own home and that if they’re ordered by Israel to evacuate again that they will not leave what little they have left. He told me “we will die here”.

Please don’t let Nouran, Yousef, and their family die.

We must keep protesting, keep pressuring our governments until they take definitive action to stop Israel’s genocide.

And also, please help Nouran and her family survive in the interim by donating to their campaign:

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

Your donations help them buy food to eat as Israel continues to starve Gaza.

Even if you cannot help financially right now, please boost this to help spread the word.

Thank you!

@palestine

#Palestine #Gaza #aid #fediAid #FreePalestine

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Saying an LLM is "AI" is like calling your Roomba a feng shui master because it pushed a chair around.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
NouranKhaledGh ("Nouran 🍉") wrote:

I am very scared. I don’t want to experience the displacement again.

Please always keep us in your thoughts.

#gaza #palestine

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Just had a video call with @Aseelsehwel from Gaza. Like every family there, they need your help to survive.

Our governments have failed us, we are the only ones who can help. Your donations go directly to keeping families like Aseel’s alive as they struggle to survive Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.

Please help Aseel and her family if you can.

https://chuffed.org/project/138285-help-sehwel-family-with-their-medical-treatment

Please boost.

#Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #FreePalestine #StopTheGenocide #StopIsrael #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #MutualAid #fediAid

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Every death in Palestine is a precious life lost forever and also a nail in the coffin of the humanity of the West.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Back in January when I pointed out the problems with continuing to actively use X, paying for a blue checkmark, praising Elon despite his egregious behavior, etc., Manton did two things:

1. He defended the heck out of this guy and told me how wrong I was in every possible way.

2. He removed this guy’s name from his website. 🤔

The name is still gone, but the business affiliation persists to this day. I wonder where exactly the line is drawn? Or if there even is a line.

#indieweb

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Every now and then I check in on this guy to see if he’s maybe somehow changed. Hoping that his past bigotry was just some kind of fluke.

The last time I did it, he was praising Musk right after the Nazi salute. This time, he’s just sticking with regular racism. Unless you can give me a better explanation for what “not Polish” means here. (But please don’t insult yourself by trying — we all know what he means.)

But hey, what a lovely advertisement for Tesla! Totally on brand. #indieweb

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

OK, so here’s likely the simplest possible example demonstrating:

• The same route, implemented as both a Kitten JavaScript Page (.page.js) and as a Kitten Markdown Page (.page.md)

• How to persist to the default Kitten JSDB¹ database.

(That first line with the nullish coalescing operator creates a “table” on the database with a default value for the count if it doesn’t already exist.)

https://kitten.small-web.org

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/persistence/

#Kitten #SmallWeb #web #dev #JavaScript #HTML #Markdown #example #comingSoon