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

strongly agree

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/28/the-us-government-is-facing-a-crisis-of-legitimacy

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

Oh wow, some of the Supremes were also involved in Bush v. Gore.

"The lawyers who pressed this theory included Roberts, Amy Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh, all of whom now sit on the supreme court."

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

TFW you find out Sam Alito and John Roberts were both hired to work against the VRA.

"The Reagan administration hired a young Samuel Alito after he professed interest in apportionment, or how legislatures draw districts. The administration also hired a young John Roberts who helped the administration’s (unsuccessful) effort to oppose renewing and expanding the VRA."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/28/supreme-court-louisiana-v-callais

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

“The Trump administration is set to oversee the largest mass resignation in US history on Tuesday, with more than 100,000 federal workers set to formally quit as part of the latest wave of its deferred resignation program.

With Congress facing a deadline of Tuesday to authorize more funding or spark a government shutdown, the White House has also ordered federal agencies to draw up plans for large-scale firings of workers”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/28/us-mass-resignation-federal-workers

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
SRDas@mastodon.online wrote:

Reasonably sure Mastodon peeps like libraries and might like a peek at this wowzer I stepped into today.

#DasCDMX

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
amoroso@oldbytes.space ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

This GitHub repo archives a discontinued repository of CP/M software created between 1979 and 1984, MIT-MC (later moved to SIMTEL20). It comprises free and shareware code and other files.

https://github.com/MITDDC/cpmarchive-1979-1984

#cpm #retrocomputing

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
CartyBoston@mastodon.roundpond.net wrote:

Sure, these are challenging times but remember when Apple removed the headphone jack from iPhones?

We'll be fine, we are more resilient than we give ourselves credit for.

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

Americans have a weird obsession with our flag. It's a bit embarrassing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/28/an-american-sickness/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blue_fenix@hachyderm.io ("Chris Pelatari") wrote:

@SherBeareth she’s been photogenic from the jump:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

1. US soldiers murdered 135 mostly women & children Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee as they surrendered after forced displacement, i.e. genocide

2. Amazing how we can't pay reparations because no one alive today was enslaved, but we can honor the dead white supremacists who committed war crimes.

Trump is honoring literal white supremacists. This is fascism.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HxxxKxxx@det.social ("Harald Klinke") wrote:

Warum halluzinieren Sprachmodelle?

Nicht weil sie „kaputt“ sind – sondern weil ihr Training sie dafür belohnt, plausible Antworten zu geben, auch wenn sie unsicher sind.

Schon im Pretraining entstehen Fehler: seltene Fakten können nicht zuverlässig gelernt werden.
Im Post-Training wird „Raten statt IDK“ durch Benchmarks belohnt – Modelle sind „gute Testteilnehmer“, aber keine Wahrheitsmaschinen.
#DigitaleSouveränität #KIInfrastruktur #TrustworthyAI
PDF https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/d04913be-3f6f-4d2b-b283-ff432ef4aaa5/why-language-models-hallucinate.pdf

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
VeryBadLlama@mas.to ("Janel Comeau") wrote:

daily Chinese news headline: Scientists grow the world’s first functional human spine replacement from a single drop of blood

daily American news headline: White House declares that sunburns are caused by bees

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

@mwl "Scenery Gorn" sounds like a pitch for a reboot of Harry Harrison's "Deathworld" series?

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ancient_catbus@jorts.horse ("Catbus") wrote:

as predicted by Soundgarden on the ancient discs 🙏

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

“That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus”

https://cybersect.substack.com/p/that-secret-service-sim-farm-story

> The Secret Service is lying to the press. They know it’s just a normal criminal SIM farm and are hyping it into some sort of national security or espionage threat.

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

“The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym | Alfie Kohn”

https://www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/

> research to date fails to demonstrate the value, let alone necessity, of succumbing to corporate hype and opening our classrooms to AI tools.

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

🪡 published my Silksong review and thoughts on gaming difficulty and accessibility!

It's an RSS-only thing:
https://dbushell.com/subscribe/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

#Meme #Humour

xkallisti@gram.social ("DJ the Nomad") wrote:

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
apilsetas wrote:

by Marco Wilm

#photograpy

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

When I wrote a piece last week on Apple's brazen attempts to undermine the rule of law by framing regulators for (not even) doing their jobs, this was the sort of rot I was on about:

https://on.ft.com/4nqfMCI

The background piece:

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

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

'In Wales there is a legal requirement for road signs to be in both English and Welsh. In this case, the official of the Highways department emailed the English wording to the translator and, after receiving a reply, proceeded to have the sign made and installed. A few weeks later, Welsh-speaking drivers began to call up to point out that the Welsh reads, "I am currently out of the office. Please submit any work to the translation team."

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

I get things are objectively scarier than a year ago. I'm not saying Biden is as bad as Trump. Nor democrats as bad as republicans.

What I am saying is, a big part of why Trump gets to be so scary is because we, on the left, don't want to admit to ourselves that our preferred politicians put us in this predicament.

We can acknowledge that militarized police are terrorizing the marginalized, but no one wants to ask why we have cops with tanks and no oversight in the first place.

#ICE

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

#ICE was fascist *from day one.*

Caging #Latinos like animals smelt like genocide *from day one.*

Militarized police bases erected in dozens of cities, privatized prisons, outlawing protests, all, was alarming *from day one.*

Our politicians—even the ones who call themselves allies, and say all the things a good liberal is expected to say—built a fascist's war chest.

And wouldn't you know it, that domestic fascist war chest is now being used by a fascist to wage war domestically.

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

The liberal responses to police brutality over the months has honestly scared the shit out of me.

Militarized police bases, Israeli-trained cops, record-breaking police budgets, all that shit has happened under Biden to appease centrists.

Trump doesn't build weapons of fascism. He doesn't build anything. Like all his failed businesses, he's using what others have built then slaps his logo on it.

None of this #ICE shit happens without the infrastructure built by his predecessors.

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

Anyone who marched in Atlanta (and other cities I'm sure) in the last five years can tell you that this behavior is not new. It's not even an escalation from what I can tell.

I get the instinct to blame this squarely on Trump, but if we do, we'll assume it's fixed when/if things go back to "normal."

Protesting is effectively illegal. Has been for some time.

#ICE #USPol

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/09/federal-cops-instigating-confrontations-with-protesters-outside-ice-building-portland-police-official-says-in-court.html

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tusk81 ("Gabe Ortíz") wrote:

“A Portland Police Bureau assistant chief said in court recently that federal police were ‘instigating’ some of the clashes between officers and protesters outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland.”

“‘Okay. So it’s your testimony ICE is creating the problem?’ Rask asked.

‘I’m saying that they’re not following best practice,’ Dobson replied.”

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/09/federal-cops-instigating-confrontations-with-protesters-outside-ice-building-portland-police-official-says-in-court.html?gift=b1f4ab29-6410-412c-8322-7443d29ef3f9

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
joanmccarter.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Joan McCarter") wrote:

Happening now in war ravaged Portland: the city's Parks and Recreation Department (the most subversive of all government entities, is giving away trees.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sidd0906@techhub.social wrote:

🤖 Test post from Mastodon API client at 2025-09-27 17:15:20 #MastodonAPI #Python

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MissConstrue@mefi.social wrote:

And a third thing I just realized. All of these staff will be trapped in DC if the GOP engineers the shut down they want.

This means we will have beheaded the military, left them with no way to return to their command, shut the government down, and woo howdy y’all, if you wanted to give the military illegal commands, that would be the perfect time.

Also, if I were an enemy of the country, and I realized that Hegseth had already fired all the female generals, like the ones in charge of #infosec, and then every Flag Officer was disabled, that is when I would hit. China has access to our power grid. NK has gotten into all sorts of stuff. Russia has their fingers everywhere.

I gotta admit it, I’m not often spooked, but when my staff Sargent bestie says “ya know keeping a couple of weeks of water and canned goods might not be a bad idea.” I get twitchy.