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

Dispatch #99991 from Zuma (CONFIDENTIAL)

1. Demonic Causeway
2. Webcam Outhouse
3. Hopeless Astrobiologists

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

Of course it was Sameer doing the dirty deed. Can't have an actually secure, high-performance OS out there making Android look bad, can we?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/25/google%5Fandroid%5Fchromeos/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
servo@floss.social ("Servo") wrote:

This month in Servo…

📐🖼️ inline SVG rendering
↔️🖋️ OpenType variable fonts
🃏🎛️ CSS.registerProperty()
🔣🤖 TextEncoderStream
🫗⏳ Iterator map(), filter(), flatMap()

https://servo.org/blog/2025/09/25/this-month-in-servo/

Attachments:

• gifv: servoshell nightly showcasing variable fonts, with variable weight (`wght`) values smoothly increasing and decreasing

Boosted by jwz:
Dee@fedi.underscore.world ("Dee :heart_nb:") wrote:

this probably feels good when you’re a printer

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

Togedemaru doesn’t care for pumpkin spice lattes, but candy corn? Heck yeah.

#pokemon #togedemaru #togedemaBOO #halloween

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Google lawyers navigating European anti-monopoly laws: oh noes, too complex! can't innovate! reset plz?

Google lawyers navigating European tax laws: Double Irish with Dutch Sandwitch.

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

@owa So things happened. Almost all of them were embarrassing, but because our tech press is so abjectly...well...abject, Apple might get away with continued scofflaw nonsense:

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-antitrust-playbook/

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

I spent some time critiquing the tech press for stenography in their coverage re: the DMA, and I didn't have to look any further than El Verge to find a truly despicable bit of it:

https://www.theverge.com/news/785515/apple-eu-dma-complaint-interoperability-feature-delays

Did they reach out to consumer groups? Developer groups like @owa ? Sure doesn't look like it. But they did repeat Apple's hot trash about how much time they're having to spend to [ check notes ] obey the law.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
benroyce ("Ben Royce 🇺🇦") wrote:

"Regulating #AI hastens the #Antichrist, says #Palantir’s Peter #Thiel

#Tech #billionaire claims in a lecture about #religion that the #devil promises #peace and #safety by strangling #technological #progress with #regulation"

Oh fuck you you fucking wackjob

But of course, he has vast power, we do not

While we struggle with terrible conflicts today, this asshole sets up the next, more horrible one

https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/technology/article/palantir-founder-peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-religion-qzmpth35t

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cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

:thonking:

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

If you're using the phrase "builder" in lieu of "engineer", you're signaling lowered aspirations for quality, usability, and responsiveness. And you know what? I'm inclined to take you at your word(s).

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

What Apple is trying to pull in the EU is as embarrassing for Cupertino as it is for the EU and the tech press that have credulously repeated Apple's talking points. The only good news is that the EU declined to unilaterally disarm:

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-antitrust-playbook/

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a1ba@suya.place ("41402-nyan") wrote:

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk ("Prof. Catherine Flick") wrote:

Anyone who thinks technology is neutral needs a good understanding of these cables.

https://chaos.social/@jonty/115265394954718017

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oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

The reason we're releasing this in theatres is because it's incredibly fun to watch in a room full of people. People lose their minds at it. We want people to watch it together.

So! Do you run or know somebody who runs an indie theatre?

If so, contact us, and we'll let you screen it for free.

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wvistheduck@thepit.social ("Goseg Train Thread") wrote:

The guy who "wanted to avoid the appearance of being political" so he did something crazy political that changed the course of world history, now getting politically persecuted by the guy he got elected is wildly poetic. I know we're not supposed to take glee in political prosecutions but...lol...lmao even.

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

Despite Florida’s best efforts, I have succeeded in getting my Covid vaccine

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oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

A very big Onion announcement:

The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece.

It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile.

It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd.

Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.

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docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

Following the recall of Joel Engardio, two local supervisors are now threatening a new ballot measure that would shut down Sunset Dunes Park.

Volunteers of Sunset Dunes are encouraging #SanFrancisco residents to email a letter in support of the park to Mayor Lurie and Board of Supervisors using this easy link:
http://sunsetdunes.org/SaveThePark

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docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

http://sunsetdunes.org/SaveThePark

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

Looking forward to #DragRaceUK on BBC 3 tonight.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭🕹️") wrote:

DHH wrote a post with the title "Calling someone a 'nazi' is a permission slip for violence"—about two weeks after he wrote a post with the title "Words are not violence"

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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/

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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