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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

On Little Donnie Boy Seeking Revenge

In shadows you plot,
A heart turned cold by anger,
Peace lost in the chase.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Remember when the web was younger and some dude went on Twitter like - "hey my dad is autistic you should hear the shit he says." And that was enough to get a tv show

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petrabrandstrom@mastodon.art ("Petra Brandström") wrote:

Also for those interested, I had some trouble getting the perspective on the wings right, so I built a paper dragon to help me draw the base. :ablobderpy:

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petrabrandstrom@mastodon.art ("Petra Brandström") wrote:

Here it is: Flying Dragon
A tribute to dragons, adventure, and flying!

I finished this just before my first gallery exhibition with the theme "Fantastik" (fantasy), where this painting had its premiere showing as a canvas print. The art show was a lot of fun, and I'm so happy my fellow nerds appreciate my art ❤️ Here's to dragons! 🔥

Digital painting made in Krita.

PS It works great as a phone screen, feel free to download for personal use!

#DigitalArt #Krita #Fantasy #dragon #FantasyArt #noai

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

If this brainstorming program actually comes together, it will probably be too Dramatica-inspired for people who don't like Dramatica, but not enough for people who love Dramatica. 🎯

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tymwol@hachyderm.io ("Timothy Wolodzko") wrote:

The "do something and if it fails return None" pattern is responsible for a lot of strange bugs in Python code. Stop doing this! None is a valid return type only if "no result" is a valid result. Yeah, in languages like Rust or Haskell the Option monad is pretty popular, but they also force handling it properly. In dynamic languages, you end up with "None" strings, math errors when doing arithmetic operations on None, or even less pretty bugs. In such a case, None should be returned only in cases where user should expect it as a valid result, so is expected to handle it properly. Otherwise, it begs for bugs.

#python #monads

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

I just want to say... thank you.

We thought this thing was dead in the water. Instead, over 100 independent theatres, bars, improv spaces, and random people with projectors emailed asking to show this dumb movie because making fun of the president and his dead pedophile friend is important.

If your city isn't on this list and you run a theatre or event space there, email jeffreyepstein@theonion.com and we'll let you screen it for free.

Again, this is real. Thank you.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Now I will need a song to dislodge this one, but later... much later.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Woke up with "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" in my head, which is appropriate I suppose.

But I was looking for a way to dislodge the song from my mental record player and came across this new song and video from Florence and the Machine, "Everybody Scream":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03iBgkXb1EE

Which uh... Yeah... 😳

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MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!") wrote:

Just re-upping this amazing protest sign I saw over the summer

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@don_atoms feeling this. I got out of a meeting minutes ago where I was asked: why did we build this thing this way?

Because we were told these were the tools to use, (and the pattern to follow) so we did as we were told.

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alex@dads.cool ("alex dadsite") wrote:

turns out the real jazz was the notes you didn't play along the way

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swordlace@www.librepunk.club ("Ada Swordlace") wrote:

Colorado

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• video: Clips of a bunch of people riding custom vehicles down the street, such as a ladder, a bunk bed, an aircraft carrier, and a trampoline

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DocPop@pixelfed.social ("Doctor P. Popular") wrote:

Hack the planet. Spotted on Mission St. #SFGraffiti #Graffiti

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

Transmission #10759 from RASR-2 (L CLEARANCE)

1. Moat of Space
2. Menacing Solar Eclipses
3. Black Hole of Bonesaws

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ GOTHICUMBIA at DNA Lounge tonight: Fri Sep 26, 9:30pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/09-26.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #gothicumbia #losgothsco #gothic #cumbia #postpunk #rockenespanol #darkwaveymas #sanfrancisco

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• gifv: ee7659861b607bc4.mp4

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kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Fatal Funnel Hat") wrote:

/2 HEGSETH: NOBODY tells a warrior "hey ease up" or "haven't you had enough" or "must you vomit into my handbag" GENERALS: [eerie silence, cough, creak of chair] HEGSETH: and NOBODY tells a warrior how to keep his women in order or how to chase tail GENERALS: .... HEGSETH: NOT. EVEN. MOTHER.

jwz wrote:

Today in TicketBastard.

The SIM Farm Hardware Seized by the Secret Service Is Also Popular With Ticket Scalpers: The technology used, which can be seen clearly in photos released by the Secret Service, are regularly used by SMS scammers, spammers, and...
https://jwz.org/b/ykv3

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Dio9sys@haunted.computer wrote:

pretty messed up how magic smoke is smoke that indicates a fried pcb instead of smoke that makes a genie come out of your pcb

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alcinnz@floss.social wrote:

Software Performance: Avoiding Slow Code, Myths & Sane Approaches – Casey Muratori @ The Marco Show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apREl0KmTdQ (YouTube)

CW: "AI" comes up in conversation at the end.

Regardless, great interview! Really cuts through misconceptions I see regularly.

jwz wrote:

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 254.
https://jwz.org/b/ykv1

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• video: fcb815c60a60b75a.mp4

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don_atoms@hostux.social ("gofoss") wrote:

The most radical act in tech isn’t building something new. It’s keeping the old ideals alive: that people should control their tools, not the other way around.

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EmilySchnall@mastodon.art ("Emily Schnall✨Commissions Open") wrote:

He forgot it was casual friday

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SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

The United States Secretary of Defense (aka, Major Pete) is either (a) openly celebrating Nazis and planning to destroy the US government from within or (b) a punk-assed internet troll trying to look tough to offset his gross deficiencies. Neither is good.

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SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

Must read article from Zeke Faux about Justin Sun, the guy who paid Trump $75M to get an SEC investigation against him dropped so he could continue to run his money laundering operation. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-09-26/crypto-billionaire-justin-sun-went-from-pariah-to-trump-moneyman

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sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

Here's the official Global Meteor Network camera video of the reentry of Starlink 1066 on Monday night/Tuesday morning from Lucky Lake, Saskatchewan! This video is courtesy University of Western Ontario and Defence R&D Canada.

I counted 13 pieces in the video, how many do we think made it to the ground and are sitting on canola stubble east of Saskatoon?

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• gifv: Starlink debris slowly flying across a starfield. It looks like a clump of comets. Video courtesy University of Western Ontario and Defence R&D Canada.

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msbellows@c.im ("M.S. Bellows, Jr.") wrote:

The most dangerous man on earth is billionaire defense/spy agency/surveillance contractor (and JD Vance's sugar daddy) Peter Thiel. Here's more reason to believe that:

He is giving secret (!) lectures claiming that AI is God's chosen weapon against evil and anyone who opposes AI is literally helping the Antichrist (which he previously has said might be young environmentalist Greta Thunberg).

This isn't a metaphor; he means it literally. This from from a "Christian" who made his billions helping spy agencies, governments, and private companies spy on citizens using facial recognition, AI, and huge secret data collections (which is why he named his company Palantir after the technology JRR Tolkien's evil wizard Sauron used to spy on people and manipulate their beliefs). One of his products, "Palantir Gotham," is an intelligence tool used by police in multiple countries for "predictive policing" (ie, identifying who will commit crimes instead of merely those who already have committed crimes, as in the Tom Cruise sci-fi film "Minority Report").

But he thinks Greta Thunberg is the Antichrist, not himself. And he owns JD Vance. And he's a huge Republican donor, including to Donald Trump.

Pay attention. And be afraid.
https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/technology/article/palantir-founder-peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-religion-qzmpth35t?fbclid=IwdGRzaANC0NBjbGNrA0LQy2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeQi1s68xH44kwo3aV5HOtxF45%5FacTjXZ5NBDzBJO4lH3%5FWJxDF7xTwMtQhP4%5Faem%5F8j%5FVCSxdHf3AChGM18whxg

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c0nsid3rate@infosec.exchange ("considerate") wrote:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/24/robo-lickspittle/#just-not-evenly-distributed

"The more isolated they get, the stupider they get. No one's telling them no. Sergey Brin has gotten unmistakably stupider since he stopped going to Town Hall meetings where Google's once-valued engineering staff got to criticize the company."

Yes, the real ethical concern with AI is not that it is going to take away jobs, but that sycophant LLMs will drive us all into madness and lead us to be as stupid as billionaires who pay people to tell them what they want to hear 24/7.

Thanks so much for your persistence on topics like these, @pluralistic. Confirmation bias (on steroids) -- in all its forms -- will likely be the death of us all.

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combs@mastodon.art ("Chris Combs (he/him)") wrote:

Here's my first permanent public artwork, "Periscopes." When you look through its bulbous lenses, you see scenes that might seem faraway, such as heron stalking their prey; but all of the footage was filmed (by me) within 10mi of its site at Buzzard Point in southwest Washington, D.C., USA.

I worked with a team to install this artwork yesterday. Steelwork by Steven R. Jones.

#MastoArt #electronicart

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

Offering a Medieval emotional support dragon for everyone who needs one✨