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

All I can add [1] to @pluralistic's latest is that Apple are the primary force keeping us from having powerful, interoperable apps on phones through suppression of the web. It's not an accident, and @owa has the receipts [2]:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/26/empty-threats/

[1]: https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-antitrust-playbook/
[2]: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma/

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jorgecandeias ("Jorge Candeias") wrote:

Cory @pluralistic Doctorow in a must-read on Apple, the EU, privacy and the absolute need to get rid of facist-adjacent (or fully fascist) tech infrastructure.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/26/empty-threats/#500-million-affluent-consumers

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

“Hegseth says Wounded Knee soldiers will keep their Medals of Honor” (historical records document that they massacred civilians and those fighters who surrendered)

https://apnews.com/article/wounded-knee-hegseth-soldiers-medal-of-honor-0310c47952ad7aeabb176f94d8af4d52

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

JFC, sure… let gov start shooting citizens so they don’t think about what fresh hell our nation is entering now [sarcasm alert]

“Trump says he'll send troops to Portland, Oregon, to handle 'domestic terrorists'”

https://apnews.com/article/trump-federal-troops-portland-oregon-f8659de72f28289ef22bd924d149a52f

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timon@social.lol ("Timon") wrote:

My first post on social.lol is one to remind me that I removed _all_ color from #iOS26 a week ago (accessibility settings to the rescue) and only recently started to turn it back on from time to time. Adapting to #LiquidGlassUI really doesn’t come easily to me and removing color was the only thing that helped taming its visual noise and clutter. Maybe I should look out for a phone with an e-ink display…

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

“The elimination of the office last month was little noticed because it came amid a flurry of activity by Ms. Gabbard, including the closure of the National Intelligence University and sharp cutbacks of officers working on foreign malign influence and election threats.”

https://archive.ph/2025.09.26-151342/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/us/politics/gabbard-intelligence-report-cancellation.html

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

Large language model the size of a small language model

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

I am not surprised that Megyn Kelly believes in witches -- she is a deeply unserious, untrustworthy drama queen.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/27/megyn-kelly-is-deeply-weird/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
pjf@cloudisland.nz ("Paul Fenwick") wrote:

Today I fixed a television out of spite.

One of the most common faults with modern TVs is a backlight failing. These are cheap to replace, and the tools to test them are cheap to obtain.

But the effort to get to the backlights? Oh my!

A TV that was made to be repaired would have a separate pane for backlights you could slide out, or some other access mechanism.

But today's consumer TVs require you to disassemble practically everything to get to the backlights. That means getting to them is a huge investment in time (for self-repair) or money (if you go to a repair shop and pay for labour). TV companies know that most people will just buy a whole new TV.

So today I fixed the TV out of spite. Not because it was rewarding, or for environmental or financial concerns (although all of these are valid). I fixed it because the company that made it did not want it to be easily fixed.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
quietui ("Quiet UI") wrote:

Here’s a component that shows random content from a collection. Great for testimonials, tips, quotes, and more.

https://quietui.org/docs/components/random-content

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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Who should we blame for the current war on science?
A vaccine developer and a climate scientist walk into a bar write a book.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/who-should-we-blame-for-the-current-war-on-science/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

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alios@23.social wrote:

Mount Rushmore ... as(s) seen from Canada

#lego #netzfund

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
npr@flipboard.com ("NPR") wrote:

Experts say Trump's TikTok deal payment is a shakedown
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/27/nx-s1-5554408/experts-say-trumps-tiktok-deal-payment-is-a-shakedown?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business @business-npr

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
JellyTBeagle@plush.city ("jely da beegol") wrote:

20 years ago, normal people avoided technology and techies would jump on the newest gadgets as soon as they could

now, normal people buy smart toasters & coffee mugs while every techie I know is on the verge of retreating to the forest

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Gustodon@mas.to ("Ω 🌍 Gus Posey") wrote:

People give wasps a hard time but did you know that not a single wasp has ever supported a Republican candidate?

#USPol

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
tdp_org ("Neil Craig") wrote:

Now I've thought of this I can't un-think it

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
puffer@beige.party ("C Puffer") wrote:

The Onion on point as always.

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

Skotta here continues to be the raindrop connoisseur who prefers to lick water off leaves over the mud puddles her siblings like #caturday

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

Ducks in a row. When the window to my home office is open, I can hear these neighbours when they're feeding

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

Horses! Horses attract bugs and bugs attract starlings.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

@darkling

The story about him being asked to sum all of the numbers from 1 to 1000 and finding a shortcut as a child is probably as fake as the one about George Washington and the cherry tree. But, I still like it and it is a part of Mathematics Culture, it's one of our parables that illustrates the values of the community.

So, I still tell it with that caveat and the hope that it will inspire young people to look for ways to avoid drudgery.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
shoq ("Shoq") wrote:

So much for just going after “criminals”, right?

At the rate they’re taking us down, what conservative fools always said about liberals like me will be true: I will finally hate America

Ice detains superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/26/ian-roberts-ice-detention-iowa-school-district-superintendent?CMP=share%5Fbtn%5Furl

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

“Court records in Pennsylvania show that Roberts pleaded guilty in January 2022 to a minor infraction for unlawfully possessing a loaded firearm in a vehicle, and was fined. The case stemmed from a citation in Erie county issued the prior month by a Pennsylvania game commission officer, who stopped Roberts as he was finishing a day of deer hunting on state lands.”

https://mastodon.social/@shoq/115276063038394115

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

“short squeezes are more common when many individual speculators are active and convinced they have a knack for trading…
The combination of social media and a boom in stock options has made squeezes more common and potent. Sometimes the reason for the crowd’s excitement over a stock is the very fact that a high percentage of its shares have been sold short.”

- WSJ email newsletter

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
greenpeace ("Greenpeace International") wrote:

Don’t give in to hopelessness.

Everything we do helps, no matter how small.

jwz wrote:

New mixtape: 4 boosts.
Some shit that happened 30 years ago that you kinda remember: 714 boosts.

You bitches need to get your heads right.

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Viss wrote:

important internet late night things

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joeress ("Joe Ressington") wrote:

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infinimatt@hci.social wrote:

when I say “free software” I mean “free” as in “use after free”

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I have been made to endure much in the last 10 years but being made to simultaneously root for James Comey, Jimmy Kimmel, and fucking Tylenol all in the same week is a bridge too far