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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

people keep saying to me “everyone was worried about the internet and TV melting our brains and we all turned out okay” and I’m like HAVE YOU SEEN THE STATE OF THE WORLD WE DID NOT TURN OUT OKAY

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mrzool@mastodon.online ("b-loved dreamer") wrote:

“There’s no wiggle room here. No shades of gray. If you let your kids use either of these apps, you’ve failed the most basic test of guardianship: protecting the undeveloped mind of a child from a machine designed to liquefy attention and hardwire addiction.”
—@Daojoan

https://www.theindex.media/p/if-you-let-your-kid-use-sora-you-re-a-bad-parent

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

it's kinda funny/tragic that we've gone from regular stories like "the employee was fired for outsourcing work to sone third party contractor"

and now we live in the opposite world, where refusing to delegate your work to the lowest cost bidder is now grounds for termination

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay 🇪🇺") wrote:

Australian software engineer Sarah Spencer hacked a 1980's knitting machine to create "Stargazing: a knitted tapestry" to show the universe in a unique way. 🇦🇺

Sarah explains, “By using a floppy drive emulator written in Python and a web interface, I can send an image to the Raspberry Pi over the network, preview it in a knitting grid, and tell it to send the knitting pattern to the knitting machine via the floppy drive port ...

https://magazine.raspberrypi.com/articles/knitting-network-printer

#WomensArt #Tech #Knitting #raspberrypi

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

what they need to ban is:

only 10 calories per serving!*
share bag!**

* serves a hamlet of 100 for a month
** you'll eat it all, fatty

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89d54gv44qo

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

So Carr is both a liar and a coward

FCC chair claims he never threatened TV networks over Jimmy Kimmel | Trump administration | The Guardian https://share.google/k0Tpkb3rw6kPuRL5k

Boosted by jwz:
eschaton ("Chris Hanson") wrote:

Since I know a lot of iOS developers still read what I have to say:

Don’t use use a third party “metrics” or advertising stack in your application. Ever. The data gathered by such stacks is being sold, and among the buyers are fascists.

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

reading web dev blogs in [current year]

Attachments:

• gifv: opens fridge excitedly rubbing hands only to leave disappointed (with a "Chrom-only" badge)

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"US government shuts down after Senate vote fails"

But have they tried turning it off and on again?

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

lost the will to blog 😔

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
ballpointcarrot@social.lol ("Christopher Kruse") wrote:

Is there a public database of "stop using because they support the fascists/support genocide/etc." ? I'm finding the individual posts constantly and it's hard to keep up.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
foofaraw@beep.town wrote:

We are up to 98 entries and just a few more hours to go until the price goes up to $10/entry! Can we make it to 100 before that happens??? (No worries if you'd prefer to pay the $10 tomorrow though 😝) https://foofaraw.press/an-ordinary-contest/

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

This sort of deep, in-depth post about how the good web things we have came to be is why I love @marypcbuk's writing:

https://thenewstack.io/how-a-shared-test-suite-fixed-the-webs-biggest-problems/

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

Hello in There by John Prine

https://pandora.app.link/VhQyE5s85Wb

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
imyke@myke.social ("Myke Hurley") wrote:

Once again we have exceeded the goal for our campaign for St Jude this year. Thank you so much for your support.

You never let us down. You never let those kids down.

http://stjude.org/relay

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

What makes me deeply worried for the US is not how many I see scream in terror, because they know what Trump is doing.

What really scares me is, how many US citizens are silent, because they do not even realize that a fascist gang is tearing down every pillar of democracy in their country.

Apathy and ignorance is what made the Russian dictatorship possible.

The Russians did not wise up before all was lost. I sincerely hope the Americans are brighter and quicker.

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

Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia | The Verge

"AI Mode uncharacteristically pulls up a list of 10 web links instead of a written explanation."

The Trump Dementia Rule: If you ask Google AI a question and it omits an answer, then the controversial answer is the answer. https://www.theverge.com/news/789152/google-ai-searches-blocking-trump-dementia-biden

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
marypcbuk@hachyderm.io ("Mary Branscombe") wrote:

A couple of years ago I started writing about evolving web standards and @RickByers suggested I should cover WPT: the web platform tests project most people working with the web have a vague idea about that has evolved into an engine of interoperability. Since then I've been tracking down the right people.

I talked to @robin, Mike Smith, James Graham, Simon Pieters, Philippe Le Hégaret and @boazsender about the history of WPT: why we needed it, who did and didn't think that shared tests were important for the web platform and how they stubbornly got it started from some uncertain beginnings.

I talked to @bkardell & @Meyerweb about the old days, how for half the lifetime of the web there wasn't a comprehensive test suite, why it's so important, as well as how it feeds into projects like Interop; @foolip and Kadir Topal about how it feeds into Baseline and dashboards.

James and Simon talked me through how WPT works, integration challenges and how much work older test suites were; @patrickbrosset reminded me how Microsoft and Google helped jumpstart test262 and Philip explained how WPT changed Chromium culture when Google joined in.

Web standards keep evolving so I talked to @littledan.dev, @technosophos @andreu @joyeecheung about processes: standards written in code > written in words.

I also touch on funding and who contributes to WPT and how. I lived through these developments; it was fun looking back to make more sense of things like ACID tests, Test the Web Forward and the importance of Opera but I learned a LOT. I hadn't realised before how much WPT helped bring the once-fighting WHATWG and W3C communities together.

WPT is a cooperative and collaborative effort that doesn't pit one browser against another but to test interoperability; it's not what it's for but you can use the test results to look at implementation cadence to see which browsers consistently get features sooner and which get them later.

The web is, as Douglas Adams might have said, *really big* and it needs a big test suite. I needed a big article to write about WPT; where it came from, how much work it takes and how much it's delivered. You might not have heard of it but it's hard to imagine the modern web without it

https://thenewstack.io/how-a-shared-test-suite-fixed-the-webs-biggest-problems/

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

In this house

#BLM #defundthepolice #ice

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

it has never been more clear that the good people of the web must work together

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bascule@mas.to ("Tony Arcieri🌹🦀") wrote:

Whenever Trump is gone and a Democrat is President again, they need to direct all government web sites to create a section documenting the horrible, horrible damage Trump did to the federal government

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/30/nx-s1-5558393/government-shutdown-trump-ethics-hatch-act

#uspol

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

It’s been a shit day, but at least I remembered to finally donate to this very good cause.

Very close to their goal now!

From: @adam
https://social.lol/@adam/115253553681172323

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Now that immigrants have been violently torn from their families and communities have been destroyed, now that trans people have been blamed for everything and live in fear, now that free speech is on the brink of collapse - has your life gotten better?

Have your groceries gotten cheaper? Has your health insurance premium gone down? Has your work/life balance improved? Are you happier?

Has the widespread suffering of others paid off for you [...], or are you still waiting?

-- Matt Bernstein

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Deglassco ("Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco") wrote:

And then came January 6th. Flags through broken windows. A noose raised outside the Capitol. Lawmakers fleeing. To many, it was insurrection—the violent rejection of an election. To others, it was protest. Even patriotism.

7/17

Image: Kevin Seefried holds a Confederate flag in the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Deglassco ("Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco") wrote:

For some, Watergate proved democracy’s strength: Press exposing corruption. Congress investigating. Courts demanding compliance. A resignation that showed no man was above the law. For others, it was only a witch hunt.

5/17

Image:Tourists reading President Nixon resignation news, 8 August 1974. Photograph: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Deglassco ("Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco") wrote:

Reconstruction was the first great inkblot. The war was over. The Union preserved. Slavery abolished. To freedmen, it meant democracy fulfilled: citizenship, schools, the vote. To white southerners, it meant humiliation: Black men in office, white supremacy shaken. The same moment: freedom, or tyranny.

2/17

Image: Union soldier representing the Freedman's Bureau / Drawn by A.R. Waud, 1868. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/92514996

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Miro_Collas@masto.ai ("Miro Collas") wrote:

"The Italian Navy announced that it will stop escorting the Freedom Flotilla once it approaches within 150 nautical miles of Gaza, to avoid a diplomatic friction with Israel. The flotilla considered the step “sabotage” that serves Tel Aviv instead of protecting the volunteers, while the Israeli Navy prepares to take control of the largest convoy to break the siege, which includes 50 ships and hundreds of activists from 44 countries."

https://xcancel.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/1973103915408490745

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine

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

Every morning Ted Cruz has to wake up to the existentially debilitating knowledge that he is in fact Ted Cruz, and that there can be no release for him from that terrifying condition this side of the grave

RE: https://www.threads.com/@dannykpolitics/post/DPPUkYygUA%5F

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
ansate@social.coop ("Melissa Santos") wrote:

I've started volunteer helping with data for Health Care for All Oregon #HCAO and as well as working with the data the org has, I'd love to pull together some health outcomes/opportunities/needs data, especially for the state of Oregon.

Whatever we can use to tell the story of universal healthcare being good and worth it and helping all kinds of people.

sources for county/zip/city data very welcome, I can do the aggregates or make maps

#data #healthCare #Oregon

boosts welcome

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!