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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Here at Vibe Industries we have great plans for 2026!

Vibe nuclear engineering: rods in? rods out? Just trust the flow!

Vibe air traffic control: let's see which plane feels like landing first.

Vibe bridge construction: eyeball the angles, gravity vibes along!

Vibe bomb disposal: cut whichever wire resonates with your aura.

Vibe firefighting: spray wherever the hose wants to go.

Vibe elevator repair: kick until the machine hums in the right key!

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hubba_hubba_revue ("Hubba Hubba Revue") wrote:

THIS SUNDAY! - START YOUR SPOOKY SEASON with a trip to scenic Santa Carla!

T I X https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/10-05.html

Get your TICKETS & join us at @dnalounge for THE LOST BOYS: Movie Screening, Dance Party & bloodthirsty COSTUME CONTEST! -- Doors 7:30PM, Movie 8:00PM.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

After the triumph of vibe coding, we proudly introduce vibe surgery: close your eyes, follow the rhythm, just pure trust in the scalpel's aura!

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cabel@panic.com ("Cabel Sasser") wrote:

portland update: this just crossed the street in front of me holding a bright yellow sign that said WELCOME TO HELL

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lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E09
🎥 Episode: Protocol
🎬 Directed by: Akihiko Nishiyama
📅 Release Date: August 31, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0558

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fraying@xoxo.zone ("Derek Powazek 🐐") wrote:

Anyway, the Riyadh Comedy Festival gave us one gift: a list of comedians to never support again.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyadh%5FComedy%5FFestival

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zoom_earth@mapstodon.space ("Zoom Earth") wrote:

#Humberto and #Imelda are so close to each other that their circulating winds cancel each other out in a calm “col” area in between them.

🇧🇲 #Bermuda needs to be on alert however as Imelda will likely cause flash flooding and damaging waves from Wednesday into Thursday.

Attachments:

• gifv: Wind gusts forecast

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virtualbri@mastodon.online ("Brian Tatosky") wrote:

I know some probably totally agree with the Secretary of "Macho Performative Bullshit" but the vibe I get from this picture is "listen to this jackass".

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

Yes, at a moral level it's detestable, but also, VCs, come get yer boi!

Deep, deep #ceofail

Imagine, if you can, either not understanding or not caring how this would play with your employees and customers. 🤦🤦🤦

(sorry for the double-screenshot of @sachagreif's bsky post):

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

Incredible.

https://youtu.be/C8uOPrU4B9s?si=bO1Vg8FDwpWAhE7f

/via @phae

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

Awkwardly to the tune of “love and marriage”

Networks and encryption, networks and encryption
They go together like language and diction
They go together like truth and fiction

This I tell you, brother
You can't have one without the other

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
rjbs@social.semiotic.systems ("Ricardo Signes :sickos:") wrote:

Hofstadter's Law, except for how stupid things are.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

It's an interesting test of one's ethics when you are presented with a check by a questionable entity, and after you say "no" they keep adding zeros to get you to say "yes." That said, this implies an underlying objection that must be overcome, and it's entirely possible at least some of these folks simply didn't care, or have measurable ethics, to begin with

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/sep/30/riyadh-comedy-festival-saudi-arabia

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Oh, is it because instead of actually effectuating change, he and his party are basically being an only-very-slightly paler shade of Tory, and also he has all the personality of a wilted celery stalk?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/uk/keir-starmer-labour-party-conference-intl

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icm@mastodon.sdf.org ("ICM") wrote:

The Interim Computer Festival FALL 2025 is this weekend October 4th and 5th at INTRASPACE from 10am - 6pm each day. This is a free event. Exhibitor registration will close soon.

https://sdf.org/icf

#free #event #seattle #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #pnw

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

This Kickstarter just launched from @realtomtomorrow and if you have a hankerin' for quality alt-journalism political cartooning (which, incidentally, has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist), you know what to do here, which is to back it, yes, that is what I think you should do, sorry if I was previously unclear about that

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomorrow/our-long-national-nightmare-by-tom-tomorrow/

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effinbirds@threads.net ("Effin' Birds") wrote:

However you like to plan shit, I've got you covered for 2026. Effin' Birds wall calendars, planners, and day-to-day tear-off calendars are available right now at your local cool bookstore. Or check https://eatf.art for some online ordering options.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Your reminder that a) tech people are doing every possible thing to justify their expensive, thirsty new toy, b) the contempt "AI" tech people have for actual humans, whom they think of as replaceable cogs, is substantive, c) Hiring an actual human is soooooooo much cheaper and will have better results

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/sag-aftra-slams-ai-actress-tilly-norwood-xicoia-union-1236388942/

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Someone give her the actual Nobel Peace Prize, she's earned it for her philanthropy alone

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hollywoodreporter/post/DPO9xxjjjiZ

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It’s dangerous to go alone #Plushtodon

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

more fuckin "but you *have to admit* AI makes you more *efficient*"

of course, it's unfair to ask for numbers on these alleged gains

i hear that one every time

you're just being *mean* asking for evidence

you could call someone saying "i'm so much more efficient bro trust me bro" a study with n=0 because there isn't any other number

a "use case" is what someone claims as justification for a thing that doesn't seem to do anything well

and wasn't designed for a purpose

see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcBCji6XvE by @fasterandworse

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alda@topspicy.social ("Alda Vigdís") wrote:

I am re-introducing my Github Sponsors profile as I am currently broke after having had zero income since July.

I am getting an open source project that has been very important to me for the past couple of years into a release-ready state and while I am reaching out to sell services related it it, I have only limited freelance work.

I am not going to make a list of monthly living expenses but I have to pay for food, housing and insurance like everyone else.

https://github.com/sponsors/aldavigdis/

#MutualAid

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ddrake@mathstodon.xyz ("Dan Drake 🦆") wrote:

Achievement unlocked: I have ridden a bicycle with square wheels. This is from earlier this week at our department's "block party" for our majors and interested students.

I'm proud (and a bit intimidated TBH) to work in the same department as Stan Wagon, the mathematician who made the square wheel bike -- and the surface on which you can ride it.

https://stanwagon.com/

https://www.macalester.edu/mscs/multimedia/squarewheeledbike/squarewheelbike/

#HeyMac #macalestercollege #bicycling #catenary

Attachments:

• video: Video of me riding a bicycle with square wheels on a track made of inverted catenary curves.

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

I refuse to recognize AI as deserving of rights. Cry for me, robot.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/30/no-that-broken-robot-does-not-need-human-rights/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

One argument I sometimes hear against trunk-based development is that the code may be changing rapidly, so it's better if developers work in isolation on their own branches.

That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Surely it's the opposite? The faster the code's changing, the more often we should be merging?

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

“Frank Chimero · Selling Lemons”

https://frankchimero.com/blog/2025/selling-lemons/

> I think we’re in the lemon stage of the internet.

Akerlof's lemon paper was an early major influence on my thinking so it's always good to see it spreading

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

“Given the press and popular support of using a specialized font as a remedy for dyslexia, it is critical to highlight that results from this study failed to identify any positive effect for using it. Currently, there is no documentation to support a specialized font is an evidence-based practice.”

Unfortunately, it looks like dyslexia-friendly fonts (Open Dyslexic, Dyslexie) don’t work.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5629233/

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

While I’m not *predicting* a recession between now and the MacBook Pro purchase I’m planning, I’m moving the cash for it from investment to high-interest savings right now, you know, just in case. (And if it’s worse than I fear, that will buy a lot of canned beans.)

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annie@social.lol wrote:

@fromjason I would read 10-15 pages of this. Also, “phlegmingly.”

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

Wondering if #WaPo finally joining #AppleNews+ has anything to do with readership decline since Bezos forbade the paper to endorse Harris.