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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

@glyph NYT tomorrow: The Rapture didn't happen. Here's why that's bad news for Democrats.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

I'm somewhat unexpectedly in SF Gate today.

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/san-francisco-coyote-diet-death-research-21055463.php

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

The frontend treadmill [1] is covered in lava:

https://github.com/sanity-io/styled-components-last-resort/blob/main/README.md

(do not adopt this junk; move away from styled-components if you made that mistake)

[1]: https://polotek.net/posts/the-frontend-treadmill/

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davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

Fuck these guys.

“The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking back federal aid: the projects aren’t designed for cars.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-22/trump-cancels-trail-bike-lane-grants-deemed-hostile-to-cars?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1ODU3NzIyMywiZXhwIjoxNzU5MTgyMDIzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMlpXMlpHT1QwSkswMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI5NTY4NzY4MEU4NTc0MTQ1QUVFREFDMTdCOEQ3MEZGOSJ9.0zX%5F4sO2rgTvRyU8iPtsjTHv6YEKUJ8guhzWFTkBq3w

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americanfietser.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("American Fietser") wrote:

The rapture, but for cars in cities.

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dan@discuss.systems ("Dan Ports") wrote:

I'd just like to remind everyone that each week approximately 23% of Americans take acetaminophen, so if it really caused autism, we'd have a way more functional train system in this country.

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dantheclamman@scicomm.xyz ("Dr. Dan Killam") wrote:

I refer to clams as a cross between a cow and a vacuum cleaner. And like a cow, some species of clams fart out a fair bit of methane, due to methanogenic microbes in their guts! Their farts may account for ~10% of methane released in some environments. So to answer a question I'm sure many of you have, yes, clams fart. #clamFacts

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

Oh, wow…this is the most brutal expose of right-leaning academics like Dawkins & Krauss & Coyne -- 4 hours of cruel (but deserved) vivisection of their views. I enjoyed it, but felt like a real barbarian for cheering Shaun on.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/23/sympathetic-painsrising-rising/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU5Xkk6TuE

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

You don't have to ask me twice not to watch your station, my dudes

https://share.google/0cmsATxvDzA3m4XmP

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

Trying Mastodon from the commandline with Toot. So far it's not bad.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

My never-fails trick for finding bugs in almost any software:

Use the app the way its design affordances indicate, just with real-world values. Print resolutions. Non-trivial amounts of text. Data sets with high hundreds of entries, minimum

Almost always results in Bad Things Happening

Kind of hammers home the fact that none of this shit is getting even minimal testing before even major releases.

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

My memory isn't the best, so when I kept hearing that Apple was happy to engage in re-designing challenging APIs in areas it had previously poured cold water on, I had more than a moment of self-doubt. Had I missed something fundamental?

A look at the evidence:

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/cupertinos-comforting-myths/

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
assignedmale.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Sophie Labelle ") wrote:

Charlie Kirk never cared about debates.

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

I mean we're not gonna pay attention to him about it over here either

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-23/uk-tells-patients-don-t-pay-attention-to-trump-on-tylenol

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

I suspect the answer to one or more of these is “learn how to do it with Swift in AppKit,” but that is a whole new can of worms for me (I have zero AppKit experience).

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

There are still so many mysteries about SwiftUI for me, though. How do I make a document-based app save window size-position for each document? How can I make it so it can open more than one window for the same document? How do I bring up the system font picker? And so on.

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

There are a lot of criticisms to make of Apple’s software UX directions lately, but it’s remarkable how great the ARM-based Macs are. Despite my desire to upgrade to the M5, my M1 hardware is still a joy.

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

Bhattacharya, Makary, RFK jr, and Oz lined up with Trump to declare that they had found the cause of autism. They are all incompetent liars and frauds.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/23/its-tylenol/

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

As a reminder, you can get an awesome sticker pack with a donation of $20 or more at https://stjude.omg.lol. And for $25, you can score an original @robb animal illustration (trust me, you want one). And 100% of those donations go to St. Jude’s mission of children’s cancer research and patient family support.

I can’t draw like Robb, but I’m working on coming up with some way of sweetening the pot somehow. Open to suggestions! 😅

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

We’re down to the final week of the @robb × @omgdotlol St. Jude fundraiser. Thanks to your amazing support, we’ve raised a collective $12,078.53 for children’s cancer research and family support so far!

But! There’s still time to help us reach a huge milestone: if we can raise $4,772.27 before September 30, then we’ll have met our overall goal of $50K raised in three years. That would be *incredible*! 😮🤩

https://stjude.omg.lol

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

If only there was some mechanism that prevented me from posting until I'm properly caffeinated in the morning.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Having a moment where I wish Bluesky supported editing.

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

I had no idea about what appsheet.com is, noticed now is a service by #Google, but for what I see from my #GMail spam folder, it become the preferred way to develop phishing attacks

Well done.

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

last resort trying to summon a client email response #silksong

Attachments:

• gifv: Sherma playing tunes in a fruitless attempt to do something (from Hollow Knight: Silksong)

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity”

https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity

> For an organization of 10,000 workers, given the estimated prevalence of workslop (41%), this yields over $9 million per year in lost productivity.

Add the impact of variability on work queues (delays, delays, delays) and this loss is a massive underestimation

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"Low effort, unhelpful AI generated work is having a significant impact on collaboration at work. Approximately half of the people we surveyed viewed colleagues who sent workslop as less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output. Forty-two percent saw them as less trustworthy, "

(Original title: AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity)

https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity

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

the big ASDA has spoken, Merry Christmas everybody

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
kohei@floss.social ("Kohei Yoshida") wrote:

The next version of #LibreOffice Calc (26.2) can directly open generic XML and JSON files and have them mapped to range of cells in Calc. I hope this will be useful to data science users. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.2#Generic%5FXML%5Fand%5FJSON%5Fmapping%5Fto%5FCalc

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
tkr@piaille.fr wrote:

hello, does anyone knows how to enable #xmpp and #ip #collaborative tools/addon on #abiword ?

dont hesitate to PM me ;)

thanks:)

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

Did you know that when government officials use ChatGPT, the chat logs are considered public records?

https://www.knkx.org/government/2025-08-26/washington-city-officials-chatgpt-write-government-documents-artificial-intelligence

via @muckrock

#news #FOIA #ChatGPT