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Boosted by jwz:
buffyleigh@mas.to ("buffy leigh (she/they)") wrote:

Radicalized by Andor to delete Disney.

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

Since many people are canceling their streaming services, I can recommend a new documentary series from NOVA PBS about the origin story of Homo sapiens. It includes several recent discoveries on the different human species, as well as the impact that climate change had on our evolution.

The first episode was aired yesterday and you can watch it for free thanks to public television 💚 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjH71hmrGGQ

#Anthropology #ClimateChange #Culture #Documentary #Evolution #Science

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Boosted by jwz:
memory@blank.org ("Doctor Memory") wrote:

@Sonikku @jwz @pixel

We all stepped away from the light when we removed throbber animations from web browsers. RETVRN.

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
osnews@mstdn.social ("OSNews") wrote:

Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation

Last night, my wife looks up from her computer, troubled. She tells me she can't log into her computer running Windows 11, as every time she enters the PIN code to her account, the login screen throws up a cryptic error: "Your credentials could not be verified". She's using the correct PIN code, so that surely isn't it. We opt

https://www.osnews.com/story/143376/dark-patterns-killed-my-wifes-windows-11-installation/

#Windows

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Schouten_B ("Bas Schouten") wrote:

@slightlyoff I used the BBC as an example in a talk about performance inequality a couple of years back, I did the math back then, and iirc, if a median income person in Chad on a median cost data plan read 5 articles a day, reading the BBC would cost them 3% of their income.

It's embarrassing.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

Bye bye, Disney+

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

Top 10 Ways the Rise of Authoritarian Fascism Effects Your Productivity at Work

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
joshuajfriedman.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Joshua J. Friedman") wrote:

ICYMI, this morning's opinion by Judge Kelly (a Trump appointee!) protecting Guatemalan children from deportation after the admin's justification "crumbled like a house of cards" is worth reading. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

MEMORANDUM OPINION Just before midnight on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, several Executive Branch agencies began to implement a plan to expel from the United States certain unaccompanied alien children in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services and send them back to their home country of Guatemala. Those agencies told the children’s caretakers, who were hearing about the plan for the first time, to have them ready for pickup in as little as two hours. The children were roused from their beds in the middle of the night and driven to an airport, where some were loaded onto planes. Lawyers got wind of this hasty operation while it was unfolding and filed this lawsuit seeking emergency relief that Sunday at 1:00 a.m. The judge on emergency duty entered a temporary restraining order barring the agencies and their officials from removing or otherwise transporting the children from the United States. At a hearing later that day, counsel for Defendants explained why it was “fairly outrageous” for Plaintiffs to have sued: all Defendants wanted to do was reunify children with parents who had requested their return. But that explanation crumbled like a house of cards about a week later. There is no evidence before the Court that the parents of these children sought their return. To the contrary, the Guatemalan Attorney General reports that officials could not even track down parents for most of the children whom Defendants found eligible for their “reunificatio

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

anybody interested in a Comet invite?https://perplexity.ai/browser/claim/TA5RDHSF20

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

"This is the most exciting time in American maybe ever"

#Google #Meta #Microsoft

https://youtube.com/shorts/NLM0Zr1AgkI?si=%5Fn5dvkf1Ep9nR%5Fi3

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

I've been on a politics tear here the last couple of days so here are some nice flowers as a palate cleanser

They're yellow and read and I should have looked up what kind of flowers they were before posting but I didn't and that's on me

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

Yes it absolutely was and also Brendan Carr, the head of the FCC, is a fascist weaseldick

https://www.theverge.com/policy/781148/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-monologue-brendan-carr-censorship-first-amendment

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
IgorGrouper@mastodon.art ("Igor Grouper -Commissions Open") wrote:

Gone fishing sketch.

#art #MastoArt #sketch

A sketch of a woman with a basket full of fish riding on the back of a pelican hippogriff on the bank of a body of water.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

Samsung has rolled out a software update to its smart fridges that will display ads, despite saying they had "no plans" to do so. We're headed for a future where you will have to pay extra for appliances without ads.

https://www.theverge.com/news/780757/samsung-brings-ads-to-us-fridges

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

BREAKING: Senate confirms 48 of Trump’s nominees at once after changing the chamber’s rules

This is exactly why I was screaming at Biden and Senate Dems to abolish the Jim Crow filibuster and pass the legislation that the American people wanted and deserved. But feckless leadership was so beholden to "norms" they refused.

We knew the GOP would do this. And now they've done it. And Schumer is still pointing at an irrelevant rule book of norms. smh

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Boosted by jwz:
spiegelmama@infosec.exchange wrote:

@babe On a similar note:

A two-panel photo gif of a cop kneeling to talk to a small owl that's walking down a road. In the top panel, the cop says, "Where you going little guy?" in all caps. The bottom panel is a closeup of the owl's face, which has a Y-shaped marking of white feathers above their tiny black beak that simulates pissed-off eyebrows. The owl responds, again in all caps, "None of your goddamn business! Am I being detained?!" A good lesson on how to respond to purportedly friendly chat from a cop.

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spiegelmama@infosec.exchange wrote:

@babe

Three-panel comic modified from WikiHow article on dog training. In the large panel on the left column, a woman in a green t-shirt, brown trousers, and pink flats kneels before a husky type dog in sit position. She raises her finger and says, "Speak!" This panel appears to be original. The half-size ones in the right column look to be WikiHow art with new text. The top panel is a closeup of the dog barking, with the text "Not without my lawyer present" superimposed. In the last panel, the dog looks a little surprised but happy to have the woman hand them a tiny bone-shaped treat, with her words "Good Boi" superimposed. An important reminder never to talk to the cops unprotected.

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Boosted by jwz:
mike@chinwag.org ("Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]") wrote:

My Antifa team leader is pissed.

Having the organisation reclassified has placed us under a totally new compliance framework and making the process changes is going to throw out all our KPIs for Q4. Nobody's getting a bonus in this performance review cycle. What total bullshit.

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Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :donor:") wrote:

Boost if you want less generative AI in your tech in 2025.

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

I would normally ask constructive questions like "I wonder what the goal here was?", but when an image map of the entire page would be faster and smaller...well...

The BBC is loading 3.2MB of JS (compressed, almost 12MB unzipped) to display several kilobytes of text.

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

Sinclair can go fuck itself

https://sbgi.net/sinclair-says-kimmel-suspension-is-not-enough-calls-on-fcc-and-abc-to-take-additional-action/

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

It's not a big thing, but relatively frequent travel back and forth from the UK has reminded me just how utterly the BBC broke their site with JavaScript for most of the world.

This is BONKERS:

https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=250918%5FZiDcPY%5F9RJ-r:1-c:0

Attachments:

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jwz wrote:

Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today.

This version introduced a number of new features:

• Plugins! This was the first time a web page could make sound, via RealAudio.
• Incremental display of progressive JPEGs on slow dialup connections.
• Animated GIFs that were actually useful.
• HTML frames.
• JavaScript! That wasn't my fault, but you still have my apologies.
• And of course my baby, the first release of Netscape Mail and News:

https://jwz.org/b/ykvY

Screenshot

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rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Rust 1.90.0 has been released! ✨🦀

This release makes LLD the default linker on x86-64 linux-gnu and adds `cargo publish --workspace` to publish an entire workspace all at once!

Check out the blog post and release notes for more: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/18/Rust-1.90.0/

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
MalcolmNance@defenseofliberty.social ("Malcolm Nance") wrote:

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: You cannot designate an idea as a terrorist group.

There is no organization called #ANTIFA. There is no leadership or funding path. There is no membership. Also there is no law in #American to charge terrorism. Ask Luigi.

What he is doing is setting the stage to designate ANY American as a terrorist. That’s #Fascism.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

the big logo on the 11ty home page is now a font awesome icon 🥰

https://www.11ty.dev/

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

I'm old enough to remember when Chrome *didn't* shove Plus into every nook and cranny:

https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-ai-chrome-browser/

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 HR-Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50), Cambo 1250 Camera.

This humble, somewhat dilapidated shelter, a few miles south of SFO airport, once housed a medium wave aviation beacon (NDB). It currently hosts a variety of aviation surveillance sensors. Its location is also waypoint on the way to SFO runway 28R.

This kind of infrastructure, integral to so much in the modern world, is often nearly invisible, yet also heroic.

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

FAA "BRIJJ" Station, Foster City, CA, 2024.

All the pixels, no flight plan required, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54128020212

#photography

A small shack, surrounded by a chain-link fence and razor wire, with various antennas and masts, on a small pier at the edge of a rocky shoreline.

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

My god, it really is going to be Jimmy Kimmel, not any of the "respectable" news outlets, that shows us how corrupted this Supreme Court has become:

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cpvlje8v17wt