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

I’m still not confident that I’m going to be able to make this creative writing brainstorming app—there’s a strong “the last 10% will take 90% of the time” vibe, and I’m nowhere near the last 10%—but I suspect “no AI” will be a selling point, not a negative.

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

Silksong is here! first boss: done ✅

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺") wrote:

I wrote a little blog post about how you can use an emoji as your website's favicon.

https://chriswere.wales/posts/how-to-use-an-emoji-as-your-websites-favicon/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
fabienmarry ("Fabien") wrote:

Always amazes me (=depresses me) how many parent drive under 1mi to bring their kids to school in Land Rover “defender”.
Dude, the most threatening thing you could encounter is the lollipop lady. Leave your tank at home.
https://mastodon.online/@BrentToderian/115142759475316861

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

What genius thought Chorus was a good idea? Don't copy the conservative habit of using dark money sources to pay for propaganda.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/04/chorus-a-very-very-bad-idea/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMFhVYdwWH4

Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
piccalilli@front-end.social ("Piccalilli") wrote:

Functional custom elements the easy way

Function-based JavaScript is really common in frameworks like React and Vue, but what about Web Components? Ginger is here to show you how to build a reusable function to do just that.

https://piccalil.li/blog/functional-custom-elements-the-easy-way/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:

Don't feel obliged to start your criticism of generative AI with some unsupported claim that it is useful, good, revolutionary, or will have other applications

You can just say it's bad and you don't have to pull your punches

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
PhoenixSerenity@beige.party ("Ms. Que Banh") wrote:

Good morning, fedizens / fedifriends / masto-mateys 🌅

A reminder on the real #luxuries in life 🙌💞

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

Not only wrong, but backwards.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/04/theyre-feminizing-dinosaurs-now/

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

TACO: https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/115146459859417144

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

#Math #44

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

Isn't it nice having TWO left wing parties able to call out what Labour has become under Keir Starmer.

For the past year it's been relentless gaslighting, being told by Labour that Fascism is ok and we're all wrong for being upset at a genocide, but now there is a pushback!

https://www.itv.com/news/2025-09-04/jeremy-corbyn-starmer-has-opened-the-door-for-farage

#UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Corbyn #Starmer #Farage #Fascism

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

Many thanks for the great people who contributed in the previous days ❤️ Your help means the world for us

We still need your help, my friends. Please help us before it's too late 😢

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

Please share the post with your friends ❤️

#gaza #palestine

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

Good morning my friends :underheart:

I'm still alive.

I'm preparing myself for the first Tawjihi exam that will be hold on Saturday.

I'm trying to focus. I'm trying to be strong.

Please keep me in your prayers :underheart:

#palestine #gaza

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

The situation is deteriorating very quickly!

We started hearing the tanks movements at the night. They are getting closer every day.

Every single atom of my soul is scared. Scared as never before. This time is totally different.

I don't know what to say! Does anyone feel of us? Can you imagine what we go through?

#palestine #gaza

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

700 days of suffering! We survived many times. I don't know how this time passed. I experienced a famine. I lived around 400 days in the tents. I saw the death in front of me many times.

What is scary is that the worst will come soon. I don't know if we'll survive again!

I really don't know.

#gaza #palestine

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

Atlassian 😂 thank the lord I don't use those browsers, Atlassian software is soul destroying

https://www.theverge.com/web/770947/browser-company-arc-dia-acquired-atlassian

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
hell@defcon.social ("hell \ Rebekah Hellberg") wrote:

Apparently cows kill more people than sharks every year.. tbf how they kill ANY sharks at all is beyond me

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

Top blogging tip: don't stop using multisyllabic words just because they confuse and scare the genius iconoclast polymaths over on HN.

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

I have a very tiny connection to the Epstein files via John Brockman.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/04/epstein-was-a-window-into-the-privileged-elite/

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

Someone buy Mr Jamie Raskin of Maryland 6 pints of Guinness and a lamb vindaloo from me, for tearing a strip off Fuhrage as he talks bollocks and preens for Techbros in the USA.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/03/nigel-farage-called-a-putin-loving-free-speech-imposter-during-bumpy-us-congressional-hearing

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

"…problem in our legal order: An emergency is in the eye of the beholder. Do these problems of debatable urgency demand an immediate response? The trade imbalance is generations old. Immigrants — even foreign gangs — are not an invading army. Protesters aren’t rebels. Crime has plunged nationwide, including in all of the cities Trump says need urgent protection…

Invoking emergencies lets the president have his way, now."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/briefing/trump-state-of-emergency.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

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

"questioned why some federal employees represented by certain labor unions, such as the Teamsters, get to hold onto their bargaining rights while others who work in the same jobs but belong to a different union lose theirs.

“This latest executive order is another clear example of retaliation against federal employee union members who have bravely stood up against his anti-worker, anti-American plan to dismantle the federal government” Everett Kelley, AFGE president

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/us/politics/trumps-unions-federal-workers.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

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

I have four (4) international stamps on my desk so I'm using them to offer YOU a chance for some original art. I'm quite talented at drawing animals as you can see from this drawing of a bear I did.

Donate $25 and I will draw any animal you want on a nice card and send it to you. I'll even include some surprise stickers and write you a nice note, maybe other stuff.

👉 https://stjude.omg.lol/

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

St Jude update 🚨

We've hurtled past $6k already, so we're about $600 away from $40k lifetime raised which is incredible.

The next sticker is from @adam and it's the Neato logo on StickerApp's pixie dust finish which is bloody lovely 👌

$20 gets you the stickers https://stjude.omg.lol/

And one more thing...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Chigaze@mstdn.ca ("Paul Turnbull 🇨🇦") wrote:

It's been incredibly inspiring to see the tributes from indigenous actors to Graham Greene. To hear about how much he mentored and inspired them has been humbling.

#Canada #Indigenous #GrahamGreene

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

Organizations may eventually increase capacity after an adjustment period, but cognitive work doesn’t lend itself to perfect substitutability of production inputs.

“The idea that new technology can be introduced as a simple substitution of machines for people-preserving the system though improving the results-is a persistent oversimplification fallacy: the substitution myth. In actuality, adding or expanding the machine’s role changes the cooperative architecture and changes the human’s role “

https://www.humanfactors.lth.se/fileadmin/lusa/Sidney%5FDekker/articles/2002%5Fand%5Fbefore/WoodsDekker2001.pdf

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
KrissyKat@hoosier.social wrote:

Malort is ready for the invasion.

https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/s/m3Y0WZYaZo

#chicago #uspol

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

“The most critical insight is that expecting immediate productivity gains without investing in learning infrastructure creates a paradox that undermines the very benefits organizations seek.”
https://rdel.substack.com/p/rdel-108-what-distinguishes-developers?publication%5Fid=1786386&utm%5Fcampaign=email-post-title&r=23ox6&utm%5Fmedium=email

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Doug_Bostrom@scicomm.xyz ("Doug Bostrom") wrote:

This oughta really wind up the wingnuts.

"Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring1,2. Here, we report a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species. In this life cycle, females must clone males of another species because they require their sperm to produce the worker caste. As a result, males from the same mother exhibit distinct genomes and morphologies, as they belong to species that diverged over 5 million years ago. The evolutionary history of this system appears as sexual parasitism3 that evolved into a natural case of cross-species cloning4,5, resulting in the maintenance of a male-only lineage cloned through distinct species’ ova. We term females exhibiting this reproductive mode as xenoparous, meaning they give birth to other species as part of their life cycle."

#formicidae
#ants

@futurebird

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09425-w