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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
agitprop_n_absurdity ("agitprop & absurdity") wrote:

"The United States of America is complicit in genocide."

US army veterans Anthony Aguilar and Josephine Guilbeau @cptjosephineguilbeau were forcibly removed and arrested for disrupting a Senate hearing after denouncing US complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Aguilar, a retired Green Beret and whistleblower who worked as a security guard at US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution sites in Gaza, has exposed Israeli abuses at the sites.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:

Unemployment rate for Black women is now the highest it’s ever been in the history of the United States. It’s bad for everyone right now… but as usual…. ESPECIALLY for Black women.

Let’s be clear. This is blatant retaliation against the #92Percent who did not, and will not ever vote for the nazi kakistocracy.

…anyone out there prepping the refugee room? Because yikes.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ildiavolorosso@sfba.social ("JWM (Joe No Se)") wrote:

ROTFL...

#StarTrek #AI

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mls14@vivaldi.net ("SouprMatt") wrote:

Trump is LITERALLY carrying out extrajudicial killings. And saying he will kill as many people as he wants, as often as he wants.

He is now liable for prosecution by the ICC. I’m not exaggerating.

Impeach him, send him to The Hague, and put him in a cell with Duterte.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/us/politics/trump-drug-smugglers-military.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.jk8.rdP9.xbUfLSam-bVr&smid=url-share

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
talkingpointsmemo.com@rss-parrot.net ("🦜 TPM – Talking Points Memo") wrote:

Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-is-accusing-foes-with-multiple-mortgages-of-fraud-records-show-3-of-his-cabinet-members-have-them

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"US factory activity shrank in August for a sixth straight month, driven by a pullback in production that shows manufacturing remains bogged down by higher import duties tied to President Donald Trump’s trade war."

~ Natasha Solo-Lyons

#Trump #tariffs #economy #manufacturing #inflation #stagflation #taxes #groceries
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-09-02/us-manufacturing-shrinks-for-sixth-straight-month-evening-briefing-americas

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
elizabethjacobs.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD") wrote:

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jobRxiv@mas.to wrote:

Computational Scientist ACER
University Of Illinois at Chicago

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-illinois-at-chicago-27778-computational-scientist-acer/

#aimachinelearning #gpuapplication #Python #systemprogramming #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-illinois-at-chicago-27778-computational-scientist-acer/?fsp%5Fsid=2076

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TidalFlats@mastodon.coffee ("C.W. Williams 🇺🇦 🌊🇨🇦🦑") wrote:

@paul_ipv6 @dougfir @MsMerope @ai6yr #ChunderRoad
I think that breeding gigantic radioactive squid is the real missed opportunity here.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:

I am trying to say something new at an upcoming AI symposium but I think all the critiques are already there in the 1960s and weirdly we have forgotten them and think "we" (ie even the anti-AI crowd) are coming up with fresh, new, important insights!

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

The workers at Kickstarter United, one of the tech industry’s first unions, are in a tough contract fight, and they’re holding a virtual rally TOMORROW. Here’s the RSVP link: https://bit.ly/ksru-rally

Show up if you can! If they win a strong contract with AI protections and a 32-hour work week, that only helps the rest of us 💖

#1u #TechLabor #TechUnions

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
otterlove@mastodon.art ("Andy P") wrote:

Tarot deck but every image includes Columbo investigating the scene or interviewing the subject

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

I don't think the reason they want to limit gun ownership by trans people is public safety. There might be a better demographic to restrict.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/04/quick-time-to-mobilize-the-2nd-amendment-worshipping-gun-fondlers/

Number of mass shootings in the United States between 1982 and August 2025, by shooter's race or ethnicity

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jwz wrote:

Bobby Brainworms.

Who wore this rotting skin-suit best, Edgar, Dr. Channard or Dr. Pretorius?
https://jwz.org/b/ykuz

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

Apple's Assault on Standards: Alex Russell dives deep into Apple's decade of harm and sabotage of the web and web standards.

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-crimes-against-the-internet-community/

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
AndreaPitzer@journa.host ("Andrea Pitzer") wrote:

I wrote about journalists who look away. From Maxim Gorky's shameful behavior in 1929 at Solovki and the death of George Polk in Greece in 1948, I move on to our current national crisis, which grows a little more urgent every day, despite those who continue to act as if nothing is happening. https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/see-no-evil

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Boosted by jwz:
luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:

Some parts of society have always tried to downplay diseases. History has almost always proven them wrong.

DON’T PANIC OVER POLIO AUGUST 1 1948 CHARLES NEVILLE DON’T PANIC OVER POLIO CHARLES NEVILLE THOUSANDS of parents this month will lose weight, sleep and peace of mind worrying about a disease which kills far fewer Canadian children each year than the common whooping cough. Poliomyelitis, the mysterious childhood crippler which more frequently maims than it kills, reaches its seasonal peak during the hot, humid days of midand late summer. It is then that a doctor, called to the bedside of a feverish sickly child who complains of stiff muscles, is most likely to shake his head and pronounce the words a parent dreads: infantile paralysis.

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

lord knows I need some

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

can I submit XSLT to interop?

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Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Last chance to win a pair of seated tickets to tomorrow's CYBERDELIA: HACKERS 30th ANNIVERSARY! Guess how many floppies are in the basket. Contest ends at midnight!
https://www.dnalounge.com/tickets/cyberdelia/garbagefile/?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

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Boosted by jwz:
docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

Stickers! #DC #SandwichGuy

A sticker showing a drawing of a man in a pink polo shirt. He is dramatically throwing a subway sandwich. Text on the stickers says “Hero”.

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jwz wrote:

Jellyfish Sap our Atomic Essence, again.

A swarm of jellyfish has caused major disruption at one of France's largest nuclear power plants, for the second time in a month. The jellyfish entered the filters of the pumping station and the Paluel nuclear...
https://jwz.org/b/ykuw

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

Overly pushy email senders get to meet my spam folder and I never see their emails again.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@delilahsdawson/post/DOLnh7FAKaW

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Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Going all-in on AI is going just great over at GitHub / Microsoft.

Top three community discussions for the year:
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions?discussions%5Fq=is%3Aopen+sort%3Atop+created%3A%3E%3D2024-09-04

Screenshot of three discussion topics: Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories. (1414 votes) Can't disable copilot code reviews. (661 votes) Why collaborate with xAI? (420 votes)

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Boosted by jwz:
computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

maybe the hairless ape that is hardwired to see faces in the clouds is not the best judge of whether or not the machine has a soul

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hubba_hubba_revue ("Hubba Hubba Revue") wrote:

TOMORROW, Friday, Sept. 5th!

T I X: https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/09-05.html

HACK THE PLANET! Hackers 30th Anniversary Party! Doors: 7:30, Movie screening: 8PM, Dance Party: 10PM With DJs: Adora Blue and PJ DJ!
Costume Contest: 11PM -- WIPEOUT XL Competitions! -- MC "Mr. The Plague, Sir" Fish & the Hubba Hubba Cyber-Gogos!

Get your TICKETS *now* from @dnalounge 💾🍸

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

That's the sort of edgy, contrarian commentary I know you've come to expect from me.

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Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
santiago@framapiaf.org ("Santiago") wrote:

Early detecting regressions in #Debian: #Debusine helped to identify that libcloud's tests https://bugs.debian.org/1113939 will fail with the most recent #paramiko upstream release, before uploading paramiko to the debian archive. Libcloud will also probably FTBFS.

These are the autopkgtest artifacts for libcloud: https://debusine.debian.net/debian/developers/artifact/2431086/

Regression testing will be even better when the whole feature gets finalised: https://salsa.debian.org/freexian-team/debusine/-/issues/791

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Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
arclight@oldbytes.space wrote:

@alda As a nuclear engineer, I have never been asked to show my portfolio of reactor designs I maintain in my free time, I have never been asked to derive the six-factor formula, the quantization of angular momentum, Brehmsstrahlung, or to whiteboard gas centrifuge isotopic separation, water hammer, hydrogen detonation, or cross-section resonance integrals.

There's something deeply wrong with an industry that presumes you're a fraud unless repeatedly and performatively demonstrated otherwise and treats the hiring process as a demented form of 80s-era fraternity hazing.

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

You know what's really great? Not getting polio.