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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

PEOPLE OF OXFORD: this is today! Come on over to Blackwell’s on Broad St later this afternoon for an hour of silly poems (mine) and brilliant drawings (Joe’s) as we celebrate the publication of ‘A Poem for Every Question’.

Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brian-bilston-and-joe-berger-a-poem-for-every-question-tickets-1480220562549

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tuckfrump ("The One") wrote:

#tylenol #tylenolgate #epstein #politicalhumor

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ScienceScholar ("Science Scholar") wrote:

New 'Megaraptor' Species Found With Shocking Last Meal Still in Its Mouth https://www.sciencealert.com/new-megaraptor-species-found-with-shocking-last-meal-still-in-its-mouth #science

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Free_Press@mstdn.social ("Aure Free Press :verified:") wrote:

Putin Ally Viktor Orbán states Hungary will continue buying Russian oil, despite US demands to stop.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO

Orban

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
hanse_mina ("Hanse Mina") wrote:

Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) struck Russia's oil terminals in #Tuapse and #Novorossiysk with naval drones on Sept. 24, "paralyzing" major export operations on the Black Sea coast, a source in the agency told the Kyiv Independent on Sept. 25.

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-paralyzes-russias-key-black-sea-oil-terminals-with-drone-strikes-hur-source-claims/

#Ukraine #Russia

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
domo@pizza.enby.city ("Domo 🦇 :they_them: :he_him:") wrote:

stolen to add alt text

A picture of well known characters and TV hosts from American public broadcasting such as LeVar Burton from Reading Rainbow, Barney, the magic school bus, sesame street, Mr. Rogers, and Arthur. Over the image, in big white text it says: PBS didn't "become woke." You grew up to be a bad person.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
KC8JC@mastodon.radio ("J.C. KC8JC 📻") wrote:

Using pat from the command line to check my winlink messages makes me want to switch back to pine.

It also really makes me want a version WSJT-X that is console based. I'd love to tear that thing apart and reimagine the UI.

#AmateurRadio

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
g7izu@universeodon.com ("𝑮7𝑰𝙕𝑼 𝑹𝙍𝑫") wrote:

Space Weather

Solar tornadoes four times the diameter of Earth dancing on the NW limb.

#spaceweather
#nasasdo
#g7izu

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

This was a bullshit error message at a service that couldn't be arsed to write a human readable text, which in this case would have been: "fuck off, your country is too small for us to bother."

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Boosted by jwz:
NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

By request.

A photo of a box of tylenol rapid release but with the name "rapid release" changed to  "rapid release the epstein files"

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

Gotta love a helpful error message

A website error message saying: "Please address the following errors: The country selected does not allow digital signatures"

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mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz ("Matt McIrvin") wrote:

The Rapture? Oh, it is as it was predicted when I was but a young man. The man from Mars stopped eating cars and eating bars and now he only eats guitars

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

"This relates directly to encapsulation. We want the effect of a function to be contained in the same place – in the same class. When it isn’t, we end up having to share internal details with whichever other class is handling that piece of business – otherwise known as 'coupling'."

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/what-are-the-objects-in-object-oriented-programming/

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

“Goodbye, paywall | Go Make Things”

https://gomakethings.com/goodbye-paywall/

> tl;dr: a paywall is really antithetical to my solarpunk anarchist values, so I’m making most of my members-only stuff free and public.

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

so is it safe to `npm update` yet or are we just not anymore?

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social ("swtyndall.notwhatwethink") wrote:

"The government won't tell you that they are fascists but they will tell you that anti-fascists are their enemies "

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xkallisti@gram.social ("DJ the Nomad") wrote:

Boop the snoot

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xkallisti@gram.social ("DJ the Nomad") wrote:

Ryvyn!

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

ICYMI, @owa keeps receipts:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma/

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

"so, um, this law you passed...yes, we know we're not complying, and, well, you see, it's *inconvenient* that we keep getting caught trying to mislead you. Could you scrap it? Cheers."

-- Cupertino

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250925-apple-asks-eu-to-scrap-landmark-digital-competition-law

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Boosted by jwz:
saucerlost wrote:

#antifa #antifascism

Geordi Drake meme with NO to Uncle Sam and YES to Aunt Tifa

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

It's a bit of a surprise to me, but there are still tickets available for performance.now(), the most important web performance conference of the year:

https://perfnow.nl/

I'm booking my travel, and hope to see you in Amsterdam next month!

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

So, how is your evening going? Mine's going all right, I have to say.

My latest book, The Shattering Peace, is a New York Times bestseller!

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Boosted by jwz:
mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

I have been learning more about PDFs than I really wanted to for maybe the absolutely most funny reason possible - letting agency forgery: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73317.html

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stevelieber ("Steve Lieber") wrote:

Panel from a Drew Friedman comic. An extremely old man is slumped in his chair.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Iris@scholar.social ("Iris van Rooij 💭") wrote:

“AI technology is much more akin to a ouija board than anything else: promoting and enabling mysticism, pseudoscience, and pseudo-intellectualism” — (@olivia Guest et al., 2025)

Full paper here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17065099

An ouija board with on it the letter “AI’ and a quote: “AI technology is much more akin to a ouija board than anything else: promoting and enabling mysticism, pseudoscience, and pseudo-intellectualism — (Guest et al., 2025)”  Full reference to the paper:   Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., van Meerkerk, E., Oude Groote Beverborg, A., de Haan, R., Reyes Elizondo, A., Blokpoel, M., Scharfenberg, N., Kleinherenbrink, A., Camerino, I., Woensdregt, M., Monett, D., Brown, J., Avraamidou, L., Alenda-Demoutiez, J., Hermans, F., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17065099

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
fasterandworse@hci.social ("Stephen Farrugia") wrote:

Software as a Service permits anti-design because it has none of the attributes that make good products earn the space they take up in the world.

It takes up no space in a store, in your home, and on your computer.

7/x

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
fasterandworse@hci.social ("Stephen Farrugia") wrote:

Dispatch #31: Anti-Design

Design to compensate for a lack of design

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3eLYxVYjV4

Audio: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/1190f134/anti-design

1/x

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

The crates.​io team was notified of two malicious crates (with similar names as legitimate crates) which were actively searching file contents for Etherum private keys, Solana private keys, and arbitrary byte arrays for exfiltration. The malicious crates have been removed.

See the blog post for details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/24/crates.io-malicious-crates-fasterlog-and-asyncprintln/

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Boosted by jwz:
weirdsatellite@mastodon.art ("Weird Spy Satellite") wrote:

Update #822 from FalconSAT-8 (Q CLEARANCE)

1. Office of Boomboxes
2. Cybertruck Foam

Aerial satellite photo labelled in bright yellow letters:  1. Office of Boomboxes 2. Cybertruck Foam