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Boosted by jwz:
damianogerli ("Damiano Gerli") wrote:

Those '80s developers weren't messing around.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ricmac ("Richard MacManus") wrote:

I have mixed feelings about this article. The writer, a longtime New Yorker employee, eventually comes to the right conclusion: that human minds are original and “never say quite what you expect”, whereas AI is unoriginal & often cliched. But I found myself annoyed that this comes from a position of enormous media privilege. Kind of the worst of both worlds. Most bloggers these days have little hope of being part of the cultural conversation, thanks to algorithms and AI. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/ai-is-coming-for-culture?currentPage=all

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

Yall ever get high then edit a paragraph for twenty minutes? RIP Hemingway. He would've hated editing not-sober.

#writing #writer #blogger

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
ElSaltoDiario ("El Salto Diario") wrote:

🔴Miles de activistas han despedido en Barcelona a la flotilla que acaba de zarpar hacia Gaza. Está previsto que otros barcos se unan en el camino a las casi treinta embarcaciones que han salido hoy. Mientras, en Gaza Israel ha matado a más de 100 palestinos desde ayer sábado.

📸 Álvaro Minguito.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
stephie_hamburg@norden.social ("stephie :betterpride_flag:") wrote:

Gideon Levy: »Most of #Israel's Protest Movement Only Cares About the Lives of the #Gaza Hostages – Not of Palestinians.

Opposing total evil, one must stand for total humanity, which is almost non-existent in Israel. If it were fully moral, the protest movement would make its main concern the struggle against #genocide, along with the campaign for the release of the hostages«
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-08-31/ty-article-opinion/.premium/most-of-israels-protest-movement-only-cares-about-the-hostages-and-not-about-palestinians/00000198-fc66-d4e1-a3f8-fc66a1620000 (Paywall)

http://archive.today/DyRU0 🧵

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

My grandfather in WWII. I can't tell if there's any resemblance.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/31/my-grandfather-in-ww2/

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

Fuckwads Andreessen Horowitz are moving their newsletter to Substack. No suprise really, Andreessen invested millions in the platform. https://info.a16z.com/index.php/email/emailWebview?email=MzgyLUpaQi03OTgAAAGcoBLv9rSmKB29V5d-2HKorSuQ047IMXjhy39p8cyRxY8FoMXB8nOY3O1JBVjwWwymdjRjvotIrhinngXi1a%5FcnvUqSx40Lx28LA

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
filippo@abyssdomain.expert ("Filippo Valsorda") wrote:

Sometimes mods will do something I wouldn't have. I'll never know because I will never have the full context, but even then they're not wrong.

They are shaping the community. If I don't like it (e.g. choosing borderline assholes over the rest of us), it's just not my community.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
filippo@abyssdomain.expert ("Filippo Valsorda") wrote:

There's a bit of commotion on Lobsters because an unpleasant-but-technically-correct user finally got banned, and I realized that an unpopular opinion of mine is that moderators are always right.

I don't care about the letter of the CoC. I don't care about transparency, even. Moderation is the fundamentally human and nuanced big-picture job that shapes a community.

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

You don't have to repost stuff here from the former Twitter just to dunk on it. We all agree that place is an open sewer, why track shit from it over to here? And when you bring it here to dunk on it, what you're basically saying is "look how clever I am to mock this pile of shit I'm now smearing on these nice clean walls." You do you, of course, but consider not wading in the sewer and bringing back souvenirs.

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

I could write a book on how much time and money are wasted because spreadsheets with data in them do not have established keys.

No, no you don't understand. It should be high treason to send a spreadsheet without an established key column.

The corporate world is so inefficient. It drives me mad. I wish it didn't. Lol

#freelance #excel #database

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

::sitting on a chair backwards::

You know what would be really skibidi? Donating to St Jude. Yeet those donations at us. frfr.

https://stjude.omg.lol

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
kate@shrike.club ("Well, there is a Kate here.") wrote:

i know everything feels pointless but they all thought the world was ending in the 60s and im way happier walking down a street where they planted some trees back then than one where they didn't

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

👇🏾🫶🏾

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

Captured with a small mirrorless camera and 18mm lens, on a small tripod. I had no shifting lens, so this was shot head on with a wider lens and then cropped.

Harsh midday sun is normally not ideal for architectural photos, but the hard light nicely brought out the clapboard siding of this (since demolished) rather dilapidated old former antique shop.

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

Skin Deep Antiques, Alviso, CA, 2013.

All the pixels, none of which are made like they used to, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/10268102744

#photography

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
BlackAzizAnansi@mas.to ("Black Aziz Anansi :vm:") wrote:

Hey Mastodon,

Israel has issued evacuation orders to @Aseelsehwel and her family but they do not have enough money to leave. They currentlt need roughly $900 to leave, please share this post and donate if you can afford to do so.

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

@mutualaid #gaza

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

This is the full cost of displacement. That is why I have not left my neighborhood yet, even though danger surrounds me every day. The cost is unbearably high, and my family simply cannot afford it. I don’t even know if I will ever be able to gather enough money just to move.

Your support could help me reach a safe place in the south. Here is the donation link:
@palestine #gaza

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

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

The occupation has begun to completely erase our neighborhood. Shells are falling nonstop, and their tanks are approaching my home. We are in desperate need to move immediately to southern Gaza to save our lives. I know I’m asking for help repeatedly and feel like a burden, and I sincerely apologize, but we have no choice but to ask for assistance.
#gaza @palestine

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

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

The occupation army carries out another massacre by bombing tents of displaced civilians in Gaza City.
@palestine #StopGenocide #gaza #gazagenocide

Attachments:

• video: 0ef3b4650d4abaf7.mp4

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

My family, like many families in Gaza, has not moved south — not because we chose death, but because we simply could not afford to relocate. We did not choose to face death, yet it pursues us every day. If the occupation succeeds in taking our lives, perhaps then we will finally find the rest that life has denied us.
@palestine #gaza #StopGenocide

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

I ask myself this same question every day. And so far, it’s been pretty damn great.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

@pzmyers I do find it a bit depressing that Americans are powerless to stop fascism and have to rely on time to do the work for them.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
cybeardjm@masto.ai ("DJM (freelance for hire)") wrote:

What if, listen to me, what if, instead, we relocated Palestinians and Gazans... directly on the Blockchain?

"The Trump administration and international partners are discussing proposals to build a 'Riviera of the Middle East' on the rubble of Gaza. One would establish U.S. control and pay Palestinians to leave."

WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/31/trump-gaza-plan-riviera-relocation/
Archive: https://archive.ph/Kv4L8

FYI @aral

#Palestine #Gaza #Blockchain #USPol #Tokenization #NetworkState

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
elizabethjacobs.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD") wrote:

New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.

State steps in to ensure acces...

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

Let him be gone. Let the healing begin.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/31/a-historical-perspective-and-the-long-view/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0Trm8k1lgc

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Marco Rubio has denied Palestinian diplomats visas to attend the UN General Assembly meeting claiming "terrorism"—despite them having nothing to do with Hamas—but is granting access to Israeli officials despite undeniable evidence of war crimes, genocide, famine, bombing Christians in church, double tap bombing journalists and aid workers, killing 1500+ civilians seeking aid, and child sexual abuse and prisoner rape by IDF soldiers.

This is what fascism looks like.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
dan@discuss.systems ("Dan Ports") wrote:

This is what pull requests used to look like.

(The last sentence is particularly remarkable!)

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
rozeboosje@masto.ai ("Pino Carafa") wrote:

@aral exactly. The EU needs to mandate that

1. Every browser needs to, by default, be set to allow "strictly necessary cookies" only.
2. Every site that wants to serve EU users must honour this setting.
3. Impose massive fines on sites that don't do this or that choose to interpret "strictly necessary only" in "creative" ways.

So that anybody who does not want other cookies has to do exactly nothing to achieve that.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
leeloo@chaosfem.tw ("Leeloo") wrote:

@aral
Even simpler: Look at the DNT http header.

Only fall back to cookie notices when the browser doesn't send it.

It was interesting how quickly Mozilla deprecated the DNT header after an EU court ruled that yes, it is a valid answer.