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

ICYMI, I keep updated recommendations for low-spec testing devices here:

https://infrequently.org/links/#hardware

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

If you've been waiting until later in the season to get your annual COVID jab, maybe don't wait much longer, because availability might constrict as these recommendations get interpreted by states and by providers.

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

As far as I can tell the CDC vaccine advisory panel today voted:

- NOT to require Rx for the COVID-19 vaccine (very close vote)

- BUT to require "consultation with a health care provider" to obtain the vaccine. Unclear if the administering pharmacist counts here or not.

- Availability remains the same as earlier recommendation : 65+ OR 6-64 with underlying risk factors.

Nothing is final until the (acting) CDC director approves.

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

It is honestly baffling to me, after all these years, there's still a large faction on the left who REFUSE to hold democrats accountable for anything; who still see this as a good vs. evil narrative where the Dems are going to save us.

Trump didn't win. Democrats lost.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@qgustavor FWIW I’ve had this happen before, and it was because the API in question defined the return type as non-nullable. To support partial responses, return types must be nullable so that GQL can insert a null where the data would go, and then put a corresponding error for that null in the errors array.

A GQL implementation might rightly be unable to give you a schema-compliant partial response to your query in that case, so it has to fail the whole response.

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

The last few months really highlight how much corporations prefer fascism to socialism, and why the democrats refuse to adopt a populist message even if it means losing.

#uspol

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

Death panel.
CDC advisers vote that patients must consult with a health care provider to get Covid-19 vaccine https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/health/cdc-acip-hepatitis-mmrv-covid-vaccine

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
elizabethjacobs.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD") wrote:

The ACIP vote was tied 6-6 for requiring everyone to get a prescription for the COVID19 vaccine. The chair broke the tie by voting NO. Prescriptions will NOT be required.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@thecorodon @babe Reminds me of when I had a friend over and we spent an afternoon downloading every MIDI we could think of and rating them and singing along. You make fun with what you have. (MP3s existed, but took too long to download on dialup, as well as being difficult to find.)

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
thecorodon@wandering.shop ("The Corodon") wrote:

@babe

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

Steak n' Shake sounding like an incel fascist was not on my bingo card.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

PS:

this is the perfect poster for the #NoKings follow-up:

❝ BILLIONAIRES ARE THE ONLY DANGEROUS MINORITY ❞

back in the day, even with birthright succession, if the nobility decided you shouldn’t accede, then you didn’t become king (or queen).

that’s the system of government american b̶i̶l̶l̶i̶o̶n̶a̶i̶r̶e̶s̶¹ want: one in which b̶i̶l̶l̶i̶o̶n̶a̶i̶r̶e̶s̶ (not even millionaires) act as a nobility & decide who you accept as your ruler with pantomime elections.

(¹elsewhere they’re called milliardaires)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Here are some quotes from House Democrats with the courage and ethics to vote against honoring fascist Charlie Kirk. Illinois Rep. Quigley: https://chicago.suntimes.com/us-house/2025/09/19/us-house-resolution-honoring-charlie-kirk-illinois-democrats-split 11/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

“Trump’s social security chief says ‘everything’ is on the table and retirement is about to get a ‘different set of rules’”

Trump himself promised hands off Social Security, so he either 1) tells SS commisioner Frank Bisignano to STFU or 2) is asked from now until the day he dies why he lied to millions of Americans.

Your choice, Donald.

https://fortune.com/2025/09/19/trump-social-security-chief-warning-everything-is-on-the-table/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
NinjaCheetah@mastodon.online ("NinjaCheetah :Blobhaj:") wrote:

My random number generator app is now on the App Store!

Thanks to the generosity of nythepegasus, the lead developer of @sidestore, I had the chance to publish RNGTool on the iOS and macOS App Stores for free, which was very much appreciated.

You can now enjoy your numbers, dice, coins, cards, and marbles with ease on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac. Now Gatekeeper approved!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rngtool/id6748287907
#programming #swift #iosdev

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

No shit

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/media/trump-new-york-times-lawsuit-dismissed-merryday

Boosted by jwz:
dration wrote:

Me, a Russian, looking at Americans after Jimmy Kimmels suspension from ABC

#politics #russia #uspol

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

Why aren't we trying to cut off the US from anything in the rest of the world? Break their international supply chains, stop relying on American products, start building local alternatives.

Stop making the US the center of the world. And maybe we can also make sure it doesn't go back to being the center even after it stops being an authoritarian regime.

Boosted by jwz:
sportponies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Sport Ponies🐎🍁") wrote:

There are so many cancelations, that Hulu and Disney are deliberately preventing people from canceling their Hulu and Disney+ subscriptions by making it impossible to do it online. Cancel via the card you use to pay or cancel the auto-pay. Then report them to your members of #Congress. #Hulu #Disney

Boosted by jwz:
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Here are the cancellation instructions for each platform:

Disney+: https://help.disneyplus.com/article/disneyplus-cancel

ESPN+: https://support.espn.com/hc/en-us/articles/40377589107476-How-do-I-cancel-my-ESPN-subscription#:~:text=%2DLog%20in%20to%20your%20ESPN,end%20of%20your%20billing%20cycle

Hulu: https://help.hulu.com/article/hulu-cancel-hulu-subscription

There may be additional steps if your subscription comes through a bundle with your cable, phone, or other promotion.

jwz wrote:

This Place Is Not a Place of Honor.

The structure built over the remains of Chernobyl's destroyed unit 4 suffered such extensive damage in a drone strike in February that it may not be possible to restore it: The New Safe Confinement - the largest...
https://jwz.org/b/ykvh

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

This was a three second exposure (with about 10 stops of neutral density). The sun was behind the clouds and just above the center of the frame; the lens required careful flagging to avoid glare.

The rendering of water, especially in the sea, differs greatly with exposure. 30 seconds looks quite different from 3 seconds, which is just as different from 1/30 sec, which is different from 1/1000 sec. About 1/30 sec renders roughly the way our vision does; anything else requires a camera to see.

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

Edge of Pacific Ocean, 2014.

All the pixels, no wetsuit required, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/14820439752

#photography

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erkhyan@yiff.life ("Erkhyan") wrote:

An article went around a few days ago in which one of the songwriters from KPop Demon Hunters apparently claimed that ChatGPT helped write the song “Soda Pop”.

TL;DR:

The songwriter actually never claimed that.
The AI-translated interview did.

Yay, more AI-generated misinformation!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
fogus@functional.cafe wrote:

Lost Futures, Smalltalk edition.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
fogus@functional.cafe wrote:

Lost Futures, Lisp edition.

Boosted by jwz:
mhoye wrote:

I’m led to believe that it’s rare to see a court just straight up tell a public official to pack up their bullshit and get the fuck out.

http://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.447437/gov.uscourts.flmd.447437.5.0.pdf

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

If you're old enough you can actually feel and smell this picture.

Boosted by jwz:
MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!") wrote:

#ICE "recruitment poster" in #LosAngeles

jwz wrote:

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime.

Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 4, 1939: Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret...
https://jwz.org/b/ykvf