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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
alecaddd ("Aleca") wrote:

It really sucks that culturally we're wired to only give feedback to developers or projects when things are broken.

A product with 15M users gets 100 complaints and only 1 nice "good job" message per month.

It's really demoralizing that we accepted the fact that "if you don't hear from them it means things are good".

People need positive reinforcement and to know that folks are happy about their work.

I understand it's fashionable to bitch about everything because hate brings views

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

All this said, while I find their (now armed) presence unsettling and dangerous, the Guard troops have been so far in my experience approachable and friendly. This is in sharp contrast to the DEA/ICE/etc federal law enforcement now patrolling around the District, who are generally masked, standoffish, and seem to be looking for trouble.

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

Interesting. On the way home, there were far fewer Guard troops around Union Station than usual, and none of the heavy vehicles (though there were several troops outside the Metro escalators), but I also noticed troops posted at several Metro stations that I'd not seen them at previously.

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

Kind of wild that this guy doesn’t understand why he’s been blocked. The person to whom he’s replying *does* have the full story; he just doesn’t know who she is, and this is how he talked to her.

It’s also interesting that he removed the required attribution within *minutes* of discovering that the person whose design he was using had died.

The whole situation is sad, but watching guys like this openly lie in an effort to gather sympathy online is just kind of pathetic.

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

Israel could kill Bambi on live TV and some of you fuckers would still be cheering from the sidelines. No, actually, scratch that, what am I thinking? Some of you racist pieces of shit would probably feel worse for a cartoon deer than a real-life Brown person.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
faab64@freefree.ps ("Farhad") wrote:

We have gone from “did Israel bomb a hospital” to “Israel says it double-tapped bombed a hospital to destroy a Hamas camera”

https://bsky.app/profile/apnews.com/post/3lxcw7itrto2w

This is fucking unbelievable.

#HamasCamera #WarCrime #DoubleTap #IDF #Propaganda #Media @apnews @afpfr
@israel @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jaykuo@universeodon.com ("Jay Kuo") wrote:

Ooooh, burn!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

Three days later, and the CDC still hasn't resolved whatever technical issue prevented last week's update of the National Wastewater Surveillance System data. I hope it's corrected before this Friday's update. (I really hope the "technical issue" isn't an excuse for this administration to stop reporting this vital data!)

https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-national-data.html

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

Make mine dark chocolate.

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

@cstanhope Hah, I guess two monkeys had the same thought. I prefer your execution though :)

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

Had to dig into some scroll and memory issues last week, and cannot stress enough how much of a godsend Edge's 3D devtools view continues to be:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/devtools/3d-view/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Aphelion@mastodon.sdf.org ("Michelle") wrote:

Smile like
The blade
Of a knife,
Let them know
You are not
Like the others,
You won’t have
Joy taken from
You.

#poetry

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

The calico foster kitten knows how to relax.

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

Update. Here's a great example of reusing older #data, this time for the original purpose. Scientists retrieved unpublished data from the 1977 "Wow!" signal captured by the #Arecibo radio telescope as part of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (#SETI), reanalyzed it with modern tools, and improved our understanding of where it came from and what might have caused it.

* primary source
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10657

* summary
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-wow-stronger-thought.html

#Reuse

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

I have come to the conclusion that while I love technology I despise corporate technology and those two things are not the same thing

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
soop@wetdry.world (":spinny_cat_trans: HyperSoop :spinny_fox_trans:") wrote:

"sideloading" is digital "jaywalking". you're still just crossing the street but the corpos have made up a word to make you look bad for it

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

It's 2025.
Cars drive themselves.
AI writes novels.

And I still need three fingers, a prayer, and a crystal ball to cycle through windows in one macOS app.

Get your shit together Apple.

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

I have dared to put the iOS 26 public beta on my phone. It is also on my iPad—but macOS 26 is not on either of my Macs.

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

I just love this

Boosted by jwz:
literalgrill@sakurajima.moe ("LiteralGrill") wrote:

Gifting you the perfect reaction image to anyone you know using AI for artistic endeavors:

jwz wrote:

The Pigs Who Stare At Crosswalks.

Florida Deploys Police To Stare At Crosswalks, Stop Them From Being Painted Rainbow Colors: Earlier this week, officers painted the rainbow stripes into stark black and white. Citizens repainted them. Road crews...
https://jwz.org/b/ykuE

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

Streaming on Twitch with Drew:
https://twitch.tv/ChrisWere
Divinity: Original Sin

Boosted by jwz:
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

If a reporter asks you "What will you do about the ghosts haunting the city and turning our kids into toads?" You MUST say "Ghosts aren't real. No one can turn someone into a toad." Not "Many people are concerned about ghosts... we have a brought in the national guard to protect from ghost-related concerns. Nonetheless most scientists say ghosts aren't real. Blah blah blah..."

The latter makes you sound like you are nervous and LYING about the ghost problem. It makes people scared of ghosts.

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

It's so funny to me that republican comedians' idea of being edgy is just sounding like Eminem twenty years ago

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

We’re less than a week away from September, which means it’s time for another @robb × @omgdotlol Relay for St. Jude fundraiser! :prami_happy:

This is our third year doing this, and we’re hoping to continue to make a dent in childhood cancer through St. Jude’s incredible research, as well as help families at a time when they need it most.

Robb and I have some fun things planned for this year—including more stickers! Stay tuned for details. 🔜

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊") wrote:

Apple vs. Facebook is Kayfabe https://infrequently.org/2025/08/apple-vs-fb-kayfabe/ "How do we know? In-app Browsers." Big Al (to use (@slightlyoff's wrestling name) blogging with righteous fury (and words that nobody else knows).

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

It’s always fascinating to me to see how men of privilege frequently fail to navigate the consequences of their actions.

If you’re blocked from the entire social.lol instance, it’s because you *really* messed up. We’re talking things like actively sympathizing with Nazi dogwhistles or putting the platform at risk by refusing to address copyright violations.

It’s not about power or control; it’s about safety and risk management.

https://infosec.exchange/@beardedtechguy/115095745305355134

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

There's a new publication for food co-ops, just launching now—learn more and sign up here: https://garlicandroses.coop/

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

@aral I made this a while back, but I delete my old posts now. But I keep backups!

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

Who knew? Humans don't need AI assistance to say idiotic things.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/26/maybe-i-should-lighten-up-on-the-ai-contempt/