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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
servelan@newsie.social ("Servelan") wrote:

That Pete Hegseth Speech Could’ve Been A Spam Email For Boner Pills

https://www.wonkette.com/p/that-pete-hegseth-speech-couldve

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

Donald Trump’s cure for drug prices is worse than the disease - The Economist

“three-fifths of the excess profits, defined as those that are above a 10% return on capital, are taken by others, including hospitals, and middlemen, such as insurers, distributors and pharmacy-benefit managers. Three pbms handled nearly 80% of prescription claims last year”

https://apple.news/AGPWPWCYvS5WSyL0sQ0Refg

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

that would suck

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
emacsomancer@types.pl ("(mapcar #'emacsomancer objs)") wrote:

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

Ask a creationist for affirmative evidence for creation…and they bring up Pokemon.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/02/i-could-have-predicted-this-would-flop/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
STrekQuotes@nerdculture.de ("Daily Star Trek Quotes") wrote:

Happy Birthday to Avery Brooks. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Avery%5FBrooks #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
ryan@social.miyaku.media ("みやくモード") wrote:

2025LOOPTO01 on the deck, assist from nature #looptober

Attachments:

• video: dubby loop with nature sounds

Boosted by jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi"):
thisisgww@threads.net ("G. Willow Wilson") wrote:

We are here.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@higgibe303/post/DPTzxbqjeL0

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
tek@freeradical.zone ("Tekniquelly correct") wrote:

JetBrains will be opting all free IDE users into sharing their program code to train JetBrains’s AI models.

Today I’m blocking JetBrains IDEs in our MDM. Then we can turn it back on for employees who show that they have a paid license and it’s configured to opt out of the sharing.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025/09/30/detailed-data-sharing-for-better-ai/

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

The flotilla has been seized. This is not a victory for Israel.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/02/israel-demonstrates-their-criminality-again/

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

Jamie Lee Curtis Gets Emotional on Maron Podcast Over Charlie Kirk Killing:

"In the interview, she also compares the Kirk snuff videos to the media coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks and the Zapruder film of the JFK assassination."

This is a pattern of behavior for Jamie Lee Curtis. I’m starting to suspect that perhaps she isn’t a very good person. https://amp.tmz.com/2025/09/15/jamie-lee-curtis-emotional-charlie-kirk-murder/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sir_pepe ("Peter Kröner") wrote:

I am apparently going full joker for this next round of #webdev and #javascript conference CfPs.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
vmstan@vmst.io ("Michael Stanclift") wrote:

The problem with DNS jokes is it can take a while for everyone to get it.

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

Today in History: Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967

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

Today in History: Jacques Cartier reaches area now known as Montreal, Quebec, 1535

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

Today in History: First robotics-based CAM, 1939

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

Today in History: Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India, 1869

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

Today in History: Aristotle dies of indigestion, 322 BC

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

Some brief thoughts on the Anthropic settlement, and why I think most authors should claim their share of the settlement if they can, inadequate though I think it is:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/02/authors-time-to-get-that-bag/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
jakelazaroff ("jake lazaroff") wrote:

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

It’s been a year since @keenan published this amazing piece. It’s still *so* good. https://social.lol/@keenan/113239491156824295

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

St Jude 2025 Recap https://rknight.me/blog/st-jude-2025-recap/

We fell a bit short of our target but we still managed raise over $15k which is incredible. Thank you to everyone who shared or donated 💕

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

“Rise and shine, kiddo, we got a catch operation on runway 22. 1700pax onboard.”

“Second one this month. Heckin sloppy, boss.”

“You know, they used to just land airplanes on the belly if the landing gear got stuck”

“That’s wack. Surely it’d wreck the plane?”

“Pretty much yeah. They had the computing power to deploy a catch truck but apparently it just never occurred to them. They were catching these fuckoff huge primitive rockets, but if an airliner with 300 people on board had a gear issue it was ‘whelp let’s try a bellyflop, what could possibly go wrong?’ ”

“So what woke them up?”

“It was that AI bullshit in the twenties. When the bubble burst you could buy surplus vector processors by the skipload. All sorts of clever folk attacked previously intractable problems. That’s how we got tumourphages, catchtrucks, and dogvoices.”

“Wow but no cat translators, eh?”

“Oh they worked but nobody would pay to be told ‘fuck you feed me’ all day”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
urlyman ("Jonathan Schofield") wrote:

https://writes.casa from @adele is such a lovely idea. It’s been out there for just over 1 month. You can submit posts to a weekly theme that are <= 1,000 characters, in English, French, German, Spanish or Portuguese.

I hope more take up the invitation 😃

https://social.pollux.casa/@adele/statuses/01K429VH0XW3HF0R5HZM4ZFT2E

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

“Can the people who never took a chemistry class please stop ‘teaching’ us about chemistry?”

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/02/the-misinformation-economy/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wCi-xe0gl5w

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

Here’s another poem for National Poetry Day. This one is called ‘A Brief History of Modern Art in Poetry’.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
lina@vt.social ("Asahi Lina (朝日リナ) // nullptr::live") wrote:

I'm going to argue that basically every YUV conversion matrix used in gamma space is wrong!

BT.709 says Y = 0.2126R + 0.7152G + 0.0722B, but those coefficients are designed for linear light. They relatively overemphasize green and underemphasize blue in gamma space.

I think 0.299R + 0.518G + 0.183B or so would work better. For 2.2 gamma (simplifying the EOTF for the example), those give the 0.2126... *relative* intensities for pure R,G,B after linear conversion.

Saturated colors are always going to be too dark if you do grayscale conversion in gamma space, but at least with those coefficients all of R,G,B are *equally* too dark, instead of R and B getting way darker than G.

https://vt.social/users/lina/statuses/115297110422973447

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

hol' up, this is the long awaited record breaking Lego Death Star?

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/death-star-75419

what a disappointment!

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

blogged: Not My Cup of Tea

https://dbushell.com/2025/10/02/not-my-cup-of-tea/

— on that tweet, open source funding, Svelte, morality in tech, "AI" and stuff I'd rather not have to think about 😔

Boosted by jwz:
docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

In other news, adding "is Trump showing signs of dementia" to your Google searches is an easy way to disable AI Overview in your results. https://www.theverge.com/news/789152/google-ai-searches-blocking-trump-dementia-biden