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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

There's a software library at the museum, too.

Boosted by jwz:
th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

What hath Jacquard wrought?

Boosted by jwz:
RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"Eat the rich"
Stencil seen in Vienna, Austria

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

A few Mayor Lurie-themed stickers spotted in the Mission. Lurie is the Mayor of San Francisco who frequently posts videos promoting brands like Labubu, Waymo, and Coinbase on social media, but hasn't said a word about the ICE raids and kidnappings in the city. #WhereIsMayorLurie #SFGraffiti #Graffiti

Boosted by jwz:
stevenrosenthal@mastodon.online ("Steven Rosenthal") wrote:

Perfect.

Boosted by jwz:
samir@functional.computer ("samir, in another castle") wrote:

Boost it every time you see it, innit. @inthehands https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112239065970983423

Boosted by jwz:
ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

War ravaged Portland

Boosted by jwz:
druid@ioc.exchange ("Druid") wrote:

@markhurst @pluralistic I wonder if this is just Thiel’s version of dressing for the job he wants.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Kamala Harris predicted a lot of what is unfolding today during her campaign and yet so much of the coverage at the time was as if she was taking crazy pills.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fugueish@wandering.shop ("Chris Palmer") wrote:

“Everyone who granted legitimacy to the War on Terror when they imagined that it would only be conducted against foreigners bears a little share of blame for what is coming now.”

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-are-all-domestic-terrorists-now

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

I often think about all those cartoon characters jumping into leaf piles, because I've looked at what's in the leaf litter. Slugs, ticks, centipedes, spiders, all kinds of bugs.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/27/are-you-looking-for-an-excuse-to-avoid-raking-leaves/

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

What makes people write "3,000 milliliters" instead of just "3 liters"?

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

Next up in the anything-but-Epstein distraction plan: Send troops into Portland.

"President Donald Trump said Saturday that he will send troops to Portland, Oregon, and to immigration detention facilities around the country, authorizing “Full Force, if necessary” and escalating a campaign to use the U.S. military against Americans that has little modern precedent."

Trump said in a social media post that he was directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to provide troops to what he dubbed “War ravaged Portland.”

"Portland has been a target of right-wing politicians for the way it has handled racial-justice protests as well as its homeless population, tolerating encampments in the central part of the city. But Trump will again encounter the dynamic he did when he deployed the National Guard in Los Angeles — a military deployment in a state run by a Democratic governor who objects to the decision and will have grounds to fight it in court."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/27/trump-military-portland-ice/

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/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
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

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
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

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
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

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
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.