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exocomics@mastodon.world ("Li Chen") wrote:

password 🤖

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lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E09
🎥 Episode: Protocol
🎬 Directed by: Akihiko Nishiyama
📅 Release Date: August 31, 1998
⏯ Frame: 1002

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
everything@kinkycats.org ("Everything™") wrote:

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
realtegan@wandering.shop ("Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈") wrote:

Hey, this is a good question, actually.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
ewen@social.lol ("Ewbie Doo") wrote:

This is a story of how ZDNet got blocked from my new list.

Absolute bullshit. The term "click bait" doesn't cover it. It's total bullshit. ZDNet knows it's bullshit but decided making people anxious about their passkeys was no big deal and ran with it anyway.

This is not acceptable. It takes significant cognitive load to filter information, even on a good day. Throwing these "you must act" headlines into the mix is grossly abusive. ZDNet is dead to me now.

#ZDnet #Passkeys

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Fire story showcasing the state of Tesla's "self-driving" and proving that believing in "geniuses" gets you nowhere. https://electrek.co/2025/09/21/tesla-influencers-tried-elon-musk-coast-to-coast-self-driving-crashed-before-60-miles/

(Disclaimer: I do happen to have FSD on my Tesla, and I'm not surprised in the slightest.)

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

#photography

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

The TextField and TextEditor SwiftUI components ( and , basically) were, by default, styled weirdly differently from each other before macOS Tahoe, but good news! Tahoe now styles them weirdly differently from each other in an entirely new fashion.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
stavvers@masto.ai ("Another Angry Woman") wrote:

how homophobia affects insecure men

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

Also, absolute LOLLLLLLL at the bootlicker drooling over this kind of abject failure:

https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=250921%5FZiDcCX%5F72E-r:1-c:0

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

Technology is political. Film at 11.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lopqc5qlyamugbxdujsojdhb/post/3lzee26lse22g

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

This is from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Just thought I'd post it here for no particular or current reason.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matthew Haughey") wrote:

Every normal person I know is canceling Disney+ this week and I’m doing my best to lead them all towards a promised land while singing “Pleeeexxxxxxxxx is this waaaaaay”

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Lightfighter@infosec.exchange wrote:

This one hits home hard.

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claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

Can't believe the FBI busted this guy taking a $50k bribe! They clearly could have got him for a jug of hooch

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5fq3w4od76bp3nqowdgiboki/post/3liqbey7wgc2l

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
bestforbritain.org@bsky.brid.gy ("Best for Britain") wrote:

We caught up with the new Green Party leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social to hear his thoughts on the new AI deal: "It's deeply worrying for creative workers." "I'm not anti-AI. There are places where it can be used."

Attachments:

• video: bbd5b072f9a1cd64.mp4

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

You don't see what you don't look for.

Trump ends annual report on U.S. hunger amid rising food insecurity.
Stops collecting data on climate change as it worsens.
Stops reporting economic data as the economy weakens.

Information is the enemy of lies. Facts are toxic to MAGA world.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/21/trump-usda-hunger-report-food-insecurity/

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

Before and after the 2024 election, Elon Musk made it clear he disliked environmental regulations and considered them a barrier to innovation.

His companies, from Boring Co. to xAI, have been accused of finding ways to sidestep regulations. Here's what to know:
https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-environmental-regulations?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#ElonMusk #Environment #Regulation #Business #SpaceX #Tesla #Musk

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
NewsDesk@flipboard.social ("Flipboard News Desk") wrote:

California becomes first U.S. state to ban most law enforcement from wearing masks during operations. Read more from @AssociatedPress:

https://flip.it/m4y87K

#News #Politics #USA #California #GavinNewsom #ICE

jwz wrote:

"Hey kids!"

Drew Sheneman:
https://jwz.org/b/ykvq

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

Design Doc - Part 1

when a client CRUD request
emerges from the firmament
so doth an authkey
and when the two meet
they fall in love
and they deposit the egg of
an AccountManagerOperation
in *pending*

and it is peaceful upon the waters

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

Design Doc - Part 2

when a client authkey
emerges from the firmament
the egg doth leave **pending**
if (operation == CREATED or UPDATED)
a record operation *happens* in **db**
else if (operation == DEACTIVATE)
a record is *removed* from **db**
and **no matter what**
*the egg deposits itself in* **completed**

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

The future has turned out to not be very Disney.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/21/a-very-chesley-bonestell-future/

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

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bsky.app.profile.kenwhite.bsky.social@rss-parrot.net ("🦜 @kenwhite.bsky.social on Bluesky") wrote:

bsky.app/profile/kenwhite.bsky.social/post/3lzcjk2vhwk27

Even if you take the most lenient possible interpretation -- that SCOTUS has made it increasingly hard to prosecute bribery and corruption -- you still have to ask what kind of crooked-ass administration hires a guy who just took $50k cash. [contains…

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wi8x@mastodon.radio ("Chris - WI8X") wrote:

From N4RTD VIA WI8X@O717AM EDT on 9/21/25:
Good Morning Folks! The Sunspot Number has risen to 157. The Solar Flux Index has risen to 166. Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be minor. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level are likely. Chance of flares today: 40% for M-Class, 5% for X-Class.

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

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/disneys-kimmel-suspension-shows-trumps-increasing-grip-over-media-2025-09-20/

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

‘Meta Platforms disbanded its third-party fact-checking program in the United States, changes that affected Facebook, Instagram and Threads.

The company elected Dana White, a Trump ally and the chief executive of Ultimate Fighting Championship, to its board, and elevated prominent Republican policy executive Joel Kaplan as global affairs head.’ [2/3]

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

‘Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, which had banned Trump for “incitement of violence” after the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, pand promised to restore "free speech" to the platform. Renamed X, Musk eliminated its Trust and Safety team in favor of a system that allows its users to fact-check posts, and restored accounts of conservatives who previously had violated Twitter's policies.’ [1/3]

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

‘"We've reached a point where it's just too many mistakes and too much censorship. It's time to get back to our roots around free expression," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in January.’ [3/3]

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

For the web as an ecosystem, and the SDOs that depend on its viability, to thrive we have to reject all of the posturing and cookie-licking.

If a problem needs solving, we should start in the CGs and the BOFs, rather than waiting on people whose job is to transcribe the recent past to invent the future. Standards and working groups are critical to defending the good things we create, but they do not invent them, and never could.