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cazabon@mindly.social ("C.") wrote:

@darkuncle

Every web page with a comments section should have a "Herp Derp" button as implemented by @jwz on his blog.

#herp #derp #HerpDerp #comments #jwz #blog

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

Apple are totally shameless. Astroturfing this transparent is basically marketing against the very concept of regulation and the rule of law:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/damiengeradin%5Fcan-small-tech-survive-the-digital-markets-activity-7376973488991137792-M%5FkG

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

One less white supremacist running a state educational system. Yay.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/25/some-good-news-2/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
theogrin@chaosfem.tw ("Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊") wrote:

@slightlyoff

Similarities can and probably have been made to the case of Epic v. Apple in US courts, wherein Apple did everything they could to piss off the judge, to the point where her statement of "No more delays, no more tricks, just do what I've told you" was filled with substantial ire and between-the-lines derision.

(The fact that Apple's whiny efforts to deny the need to fulfill the order basically boiled down to 'but it'll cost us money' didn't help.)

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

WELL, WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/damiengeradin%5Fcan-small-tech-survive-the-digital-markets-activity-7376973488991137792-M%5FkG

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

I guess I'm going to be an invalid for the indefinite future.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/25/disappointment-and-despair/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
glecharles@gardenstate.social ("Guy LeCharles Gonzalez") wrote:

"But we all know managers who only budge if it shifts the bottom line. Environmental havoc and the rise of authoritarianism is less important to them than their quarterly numbers and they, for the most part, believe the spin that 'AI' is a productivity miracle.

That’s what The Intelligence Illusion is for."

One of my favorite books is now available in print and can finally sit next to my other favorites! Kudos, @baldur 👏🏽

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-print-edition-of-the-intelligence-illusion/

Boosted by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
QuietMisdreavus@squad.town ("vera grey :verifiedplural:") wrote:

parody song riffing off “Yakko Sings the Nations of the World” but it’s just me listing off the medications and supplements i take

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

2025 and people think I'm answering a number that isn't in my phone book

it's 50/50 if I know who you are tbh

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
abraham@indieweb.social ("Abraham Williams") wrote:

Bundler belongs to the #Ruby community

https://andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/bundler-belongs-to-the-ruby-community/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jonty@chaos.social ("Jonty Wareing") wrote:

They arrived.

oh no. OH NO.

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

You can tell the tech press is cooked because 95% of them can connect the dots. Apple's regulatory playbook is the same that Big Oil and Big Tobacco use: delay == winning. The steps:

- try corruption (a.k.a. "lobbying" usually works)
- plant fake "think tanks" (ACT, etc.)
- set up false comparison points with public
- petulance when laws pass
- market "compliance" (but do not comply)
- appeal to public, claim law hurts kittens ("jobs", "privacy", "american pie")

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

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

Well, it's here. Compulsory ID cards. #UKPol

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

Yum.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/25/watch-this-while-eating-your-cheerios/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DbTTXwY4cQ8

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

I do find myself in need of a new pet…

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/25/i-want-one-2/

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

AG Campbell Releases Statement After Court Finds Trump Administration’s Threats To Withhold FEMA Funding Unconstitutional https://www.mass.gov/news/ag-campbell-releases-statement-after-court-finds-trump-administrations-threats-to-withhold-fema-funding-unconstitutional

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk ("Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard)") wrote:

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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

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

#tylenol #tylenolgate #epstein #politicalhumor

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

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

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

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

stolen to add alt text

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

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

Attachments:

• gifv: Video taken by NASA/SDO and processed through Helioviewer.org. SDO filter AIA193.

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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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

By request.

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

Gotta love a helpful error message

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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

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/