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

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wackJackle@norden.social ("Weltzeitgeist") wrote:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
neauoire@merveilles.town ("Devine Lu Linvega") wrote:

The Image at the End of the World: Communities of practice redefining technology on a damaged Earth, by @l03s
https://researchportal.lsbu.ac.uk/en/publications/the-image-at-the-end-of-the-world-communities-of-practice-redefin
#permacomputing #uxn

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

For anyone in the UK wanting to sign the .gov petition against compulsory ID cards.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

BRITS: This parliamentary petition is rapidly closing in on a million supporters. Please consider signing it:

"Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards."

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

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

I'm not against a UK digital ID system but technically it needs to navigate around blockchain, "AI", US companies, whatever Tony Blair is scheming today, mass surveillance, and not ostracising the homeless further.

We're getting "Login with Facebook", aren't we?

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

a week until Ghost of Yōtei and then Silksong is in the bin!

(post credits content be damned!)

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

Wrote this up. It makes me so, so tired to see the tech press fumble the basics day in, day out. I wish the @404mediaco crew had space to cover this. The Verge *et. al* are dropping the ball badly:

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

Boosted by jwz:
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

Boosted by jwz:
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/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
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

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
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.

Boosted by jwz:
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

Boosted by jwz:
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.

Boosted by jwz:
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"