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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
NumenSkog@mastodon.art ("🎃 Numen Skog - Spooky bird 🎃") wrote:

Just a brush test (i've like zero spoons this week so help with alt text is appreciated)

#art #sketch #digitalsketchbook #procreate #portrait #artistworkout #MastoArt #fediart #DigitalArt #ALT4you

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
tubetime ("ToOoOb👻Time") wrote:

hmm i guess technically this is an alligator clip because it has the wider jaw

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

“Beyond credibility | A Working Library”

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/beyond-credibility

> That is, faced with the horror of women’s experience, Freud rejected the evidence in front of him. Rather than believe the women he had collaborated with, and so be forced to revise his image of the respectable men in his midst, he chose to maintain that respectability by refusing the validity of his own observations.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

Maayan Sophia Weisstub's updated version of The Great Wave of Kanagawa 🌊

#Art

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
yetzt@yetzt.me wrote:

turns out, spiderman lightsabers are the thing to have as a six year old in brandenburg.

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

Bubble's gonna burst!

OpenAI generated US$4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025, according to financial disclosures to shareholders.

The artificial intelligence firm reported a net loss of US$13.5 billion during the same period, with more than half attributed to the remeasurement of convertible interest rights.

Research and development expenses were its largest cost, totaling US$6.7 billion in the first half.

(OpenAI current valuation: $500Bn.)

https://www.techinasia.com/news/openais-revenue-rises-16-to-4-3b-in-h1-2025

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

Video: AOC says Democrats are ‘tremendously united’ in effort to end government shutdown | 4:09

https://youtu.be/jWlYGKXe1zM?si=Q62VTN1Ka1Y5Tc9S

"They are getting walloped in these negotiations because they have no plan for the people... we're fighting to make sure that people's health care premiums can remain as low as possible after $1 trillion cuts to our healthcare system... that's what we're trying to make sure we are protecting the people from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWlYGKXe1zM

cc: @renewedresistance

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

from briefing.com

“The key takeaway from the report is that it carries some stagflation messaging for the nation's largest business sector[services]: no growth, contracting employment, and higher inflation.”

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

My whole life I was told that if we ever forced corporations to stop exploiting the poor that those corporations would go overseas.

It turns out that the US Government does actually have the power to compel corporations to do things, because every Fortune 500 CEO has happily bent over for Trump.

#Apple #ICE

https://www.theverge.com/news/791170/iceblock-app-store-removed-by-apple

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

From a walk up Low Rigg.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Cumbria

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
debian_ar@rebel.ar ("Debian Argentina") wrote:

🎉 ¡Ya tenemos logo ganador para la #DebConf26!

El logo elegido es “DebConfest” de Romina Molina 🖌️, licenciado bajo CC BY-SA 4.0.

Top 3:
1️⃣ DebConfest – Romina Molina
2️⃣ El sol y el puente – Ana Carolina Autalán
3️⃣ El puente, la brisa y el Ceibo – Ana Carolina Autalán

👉 Logo y propuestas

#Debian #DebianAr #DebConf26 #SoftwareLibre #Artwork

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

omg https://www.catawiki.com/en/a/1150289-eames-by-eames-a-design-legacy?utm%5Fsource=Klaviyo&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=Campaign%20Oct%202%2C%202025%20at%202%3A08%20PM&utm%5Fcontent=campaign&%5Fkx=xRTjXEIt%5Fq5pWOYf%5FL4OKoX2WVM8thdDitBjwSs%5FyFI.VDJbyw

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

Shocked, shocked I am to discover hypocrisy within this political movement

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/jack-posobiec-voter-fraud-pizzagate-maga.html

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
Richard_Littler ("Richard Littler") wrote:

"We get it; the clock is ticking. That's why we're burning through vital, vanishing natural resources to work out why all the vital natural resources are vanishing so quickly..."

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

Stripe's international rollout seems to have slowed down to a crawl. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks they'd rather promote their Atlas service for incorporating in the states than support more countries.

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

Lemon Squeezy is clearly heading towards abandonware after the Stripe acquisition

Got an email from them to update my tax information, which honestly isn't that unusual of a request when a company changes hands, but any attempt to click to the payout/tax section of the app results in an internal server error

I'd migrated away from LS a while back, but was planning on keeping it ready as a backup, but that's looking less and less likely

(Regular Stripe does not accept Icelandic businesses)

jwz wrote:

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Boosted by jwz:
flexion@oldbytes.space ("/usr/people/flexion") wrote:

YESS! 😎 Sonic 1 now runs on IRIX 🥳

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

“"AI is an attack from above on wages": An interview with cognitive scientist Hagen Blix”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-an-attack-from-above-on-wages

> If we think about the AI as a wage depression tool rather than a productivity increasing tool, then I think the idea that we should get our hopes up [for the AI boom to end] because all these studies say productivity isn’t actually increasing is a bit premature.

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

Nobody loves a coward

https://share.google/cOhUlqyTMkG5MRoau

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

.@404mediaco : no mention of web apps as an alternative
Bloomberg: same
Reuters: ditto
BI: you were expecting...what, exactly?...from BI?
The Verge: [ drooling sounds ]
NYT: [ copies The Verge's homework ]
Engadget: [ copies less prestigious outlet's homework ]
BBC: lolsob, but in British accent
Bloomberg: same slop, but at Bloomberg because you're at a terminal, I guess?

Cooked. Totally, absolutely, Tim levels of cooked.

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

Would a web app be fully censorship resistant? No. But it wouldn't be a single point of failure like this.

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

The tech press are 100% cooked. I double dog dare you to find any mention in any of the stories covering this that point out it there is an alternative to the App Store:

https://www.techmeme.com/251002/p40#a251002p40

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

Apropos of nothing, but maybe monopolies on software distribution are, like, bad? And a threat to the legitimate exercise of civic rights?

Anyway, make web apps and support @owa

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

First, fuck Apple. Second, put these apps on the web where they can’t be blocked by tech CEO sycophants.

https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/115307410162592084

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
neauoire@merveilles.town ("Devine Lu Linvega") wrote:

Doctorow having an unparalleled lucidity with words "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."

jwz wrote:

The emotional rollercoaster when "BandNameOfficialVevo" has an "HD Remaster" of a video and then it's clearly just a hamhanded "AI" mangling of a VHS version.

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

If the person who runs your social media platform or blogging service can’t make clear and unequivocal statements of support *for* transgender people and *against* bigotry and transphobia, they’re on the side of the bigots and transphobes. Period, end of discussion.

Boosted by jwz:
violetblue ("Violet Blue") wrote:

Chapter One: A is for ANEMOI drops tonight for subscribers at the $4.51 level and up at 12:01 am PST.

Free (no paywall) 13 hours after that.

This 10-chapter serial is scary, funny, engages with real history and creepy urban legends, and also copes with witnessing the real-time horrors unfolding in America. It's centered on the experience of expats, immigrants, queer, and Indigenous characters surviving colonialist BS.

Wellington's afterlife opportunities await!

Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ghost-hunters-to-140257376

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

Ruh roh. https://bsky.app/profile/fortheloveofexy.bsky.social/post/3m2avps6sgk2i