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db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🥐") wrote:

useful: Accurate text lengths with `Intl.Segmenter` API
https://blog.sangeeth.dev/posts/accurate-text-lengths-with-intl-segmenter-api/

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

Analysis: What if the US stopped supporting Israel tomorrow?

Half of US voters believe Israel is committing genocide & six in 10 oppose further military aid.

Four experts offer their analyses:

Hamze Attar, defence analyst
Ori Goldberg, Israeli political scientist
HA Hellyer, Center for American Progress
Daniel Levy, former Israeli government adviser.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/2/what-if-the-us-stopped-supporting-israel-tomorrow

#GazaGenocide #USArmsIsrael #USPol #EuroPol #Racism #Press #BDS @palestine .

Boosted by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
nash@labyrinth.social ("Nash") wrote:

not my black quartz sphinx, not my vow

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🥐") wrote:

this specification is hell!

can't believe I actually had to read it and not yolo a regex

"weekend project" = done

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6376

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

Hello everyone! I am Joy, a Palestinian writer and poet, I have just migrated from Blue Sky platform, after they deleted my accounts after I received a lot of interest, followers and fans for my writings and poems that I published on my personal page. Blue Sky platform decided that they will fight all Palestinian writers, and the only accusation is their nationality and their voice that they chose to silence and bury alive, but I am here now to complete my journey 💗

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
alisonphipps@mastodon.scot ("Alison Phipps አሊሰን 🧡") wrote:

Yes, it’s Genocide

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

My wife is on a stained glass kick recently and this #Godzilla is amazing.

I love the fire everywhere, atomic breath, and the textured glass for its body.

#art #stainedglass #movies #artist #cinemastodon #Letterboxd #monsterdon #japan #cinema #horror

Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

The federal judge let Google off the hook in the antitrust case that the company supposedly lost. He said no to any serious remedy. And he indirectly killed Mozilla (Firefox and Thunderbird).

A good day for Google, and a terrible day for what's left of the open web.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/google-wont-have-to-sell-chrome-judge-rules/

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

What I remember about my EMS days mostly were a few near-PTSD-inducing jobs (none as intense as the one at the end of the article, though), but chiefly a level of camaraderie that I've rarely encountered sense (perhaps helped by the lens of nostalgia). I was an EMS medic in the early 80's, before it merged into FDNY, still during the long tail of the city's financial crisis. Everything was breaking all the time. The city was more violent. But it felt meaningful, and we had each other's backs.

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

“A temple was worth a dozen barracks; a militia man carrying a gun could control a small unarmed crowd only for as long as he was present; however, a single priest could put a policeman inside the head of every one of their flock, for ever.”

from “Matter” by Iain M. Banks

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

That said, at this particular moment, I am very definitely likely to react uncharitably to strangers advising me to be "nicer" or "more understanding".

Ditto "you have a lot of followers so you have to expect this/accept this". No, I really don't. No one does.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
noplasticshower@infosec.exchange wrote:

The law does, in fact, matter.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/09/trump-national-guard-law-california/684084/

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

Anyway, if you're a stranger and I respond uncharitably to a genuine reply from you, I apologize. I know I must do that from time to time, and it's not who I want to be.

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

I'm able to keep it under control with unapologetically hair-trigger blocking, but that's the only thing that keeps it bearable for me at this point.

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

I'm coming to the conclusion, perhaps late to the party, that the old Twitter troll farms have started to migrate here in earnest. Or this place has recently attracted a much higher than usual number of very angry, unhinged people. Or maybe both.

Boosted by jwz:
adam@elefanti.co ("Adam Isacson") wrote:

Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed.

"Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/politics/us-military-strike-caribbean

Boosted by jwz:
Viss wrote:

jwz wrote:

The Alleged Sandwich.

We go now to DC:
https://jwz.org/b/ykuu

jwz wrote:

In the last 4 hours, fail2ban has nuked nearly *two thousand* distinct IP addresses for probing .git/config

jwz wrote:

The murderbots need not love us, so long as they fear us.

At one point, three Waymos were all stalled, seemingly confused:
https://jwz.org/b/ykur

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

We hit $3000 raised so the second sticker reveal is here - its omg.lol's _other_ mascot - Penelope!

BUT WAIT - more stickers?! For your $20 you're going to be getting _four_ stickers, which will be revealed at $6k and $8k raised!

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

@georgetakei Wow, I've haven't seen such a severe case of unbalanced humours in years. He really needs to get to the leech farm soon.

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

It's been a pretty weird few days here for me.

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

I just spent a solid 20 minutes after class going through my mentions for the day and hitting block, and then one I missed popped up. Like Whack-a-Mole but without having to insert any quarters.

Boosted by jwz:
joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("Joe Groff") wrote:

what does it say that when i hear that "Fooble is forked from Barble" these days, my first question is "which one's the nazi one"

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

traitors as victims? riggggggght

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/us/politics/trump-jan-6-rioters-compensation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

Captured with a 45mm shifting and tilt/swing lens and a DSLR camera. A bit of swing kept the side of the trestle in sharp focus, and a bit of shift enabled the framing.

The long, tall, Alhambra Viaduct on the BNSF railroad is also known as the "John Muir Trestle". People far bolder than I had tagged it with graffiti.

This is mostly a study in lines and convergence.

Infrastructure is heroic.

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

Alhambra (Muir) Viaduct, Martinez, CA, 2010.

All the pixels, none of the hiking or physical activity required, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4685718995

#photography

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

but of course

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/well/pediatric-brain-cancer-trial-group.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

@aapis I get that you think I’m working on the wrong things. That’s very clear. But I find it unhelpful that neither you nor any of the other people so righteously angry about my personal ineffectiveness have suggested what I should be doing differently, or revealed how their own work does any better