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

Who needs an AI to look up a simple recipe?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/22/a-totally-predictable-ai-delusion/

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

My incomplete application's placeholder icon is in squircle jail

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

#Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of #FairHousing Laws

Interviews & internal documents show that signature #CivilRights protections in housing are being dismissed as ideologically driven & *#DEI* in disguise.

#law #heterosexism #racism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/realestate/trump-fair-housing-laws.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

I did an event yesterday afternoon and at my event people were laughing and enjoying themselves and definitely not declaring our neighbors to be the enemy or any such thing

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

Like good Christians, the Republicans want to erect idols to their horrible, evil saint.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/22/false-idol/

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

🦅 blogged: How Much Does Freedom Cost?

https://dbushell.com/2025/09/22/cost-of-freedom/

spoiler: 16.7 megabytes, that could have been under 1 MB

Attachments:

• gifv: an American Bald Eagle side-eyeing you over the text 'Submit Your Application'

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

White men in relationships doing dishes is antifa

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

developer: "Can you send me the final heading text?"

copywriter: "Submit Your App 🦅 tion"

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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**