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

Education is not synonymous with indoctrination or propaganda, although the Right believes that it is.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/06/the-future-looks-bleak/

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

Mastodon *is* microblogging. You publish posts, and people can subscribe to your RSS feed. Just like a blog.

If you subscribe to my feed (http://social.lol/@adam.rss), you’d never even know that my posts came from Mastodon. They could be from Bear or Pika or Movable Type.

The best part? All of the “social” parts of Mastodon are excluded from the feed. No favorites, boosts, or replies. Just posts!

Maybe I’ll just call this my blog from now on.

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

Our email exchange continues, and it's good. I'm trying to make the case that algorithm-free social tools like Mastodon are nothing like their algo-driven counterparts, and that Mastodon is more similar to blogs and RSS than this person may realize.

A point I made: if you encounter outrage on traditional social media (X, Facebook, etc.), it's because it was amplified to boost engagement and drive revenue on that platform. If you encounter outage on Mastodon, it's because you follow someone who happens to be upset, or you follow someone who's sharing a post about someone else who’s upset. This is no different than if you subscribed to someone's RSS feed and they publish a cranky post, or they publish a post about someone else's crankiness. In both cases, if you don't like what you see, you can just unfollow/unsubscribe (or filter/mute if your RSS client lets you do that, like you can on Mastodon).

Mastodon wrote:

We appreciate that certain politicians have recently admitted their naivete in entrusting the voices of their governments to corporate / for-profit social media.

To these politicians, we say: https://joinmastodon.org/hosting

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

“estimate that even a 10 percent reduction in eligibility could result in approximately 750,000 fewer people receiving benefits over the next decade, with an additional 80,000 widows and children losing benefits tied to a disabled spouse or parent”

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/trump-officials-plan-to-tighte-NQMhqZBxRZmpVfy1rwYNWw

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

I am by no means trained in economics, so my opinion is probably worthless…

AND

really looks to me like there is an “AI Bubble”, and the current buildout is all that is keeping the US economy out of recession. seriously concerned that bubble is going to pop this quarter, as labor force issues & import taxes hit home during the key consumer buying period of the year and smaller businesses begin folding.

seeing circular financing happen (like Nvidia & OpenAI) is Not A Good Thing

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

Crispy food is delicious. Being so burned out that *we* are crispy, not so much. @keenan and I talk about it. No hot takes here, just a whole bunch of figuring stuff out together. Like friends do!
https://social.lol/@keenan/115327564334583744

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

learning: How to group arrays in JavaScript without reduce()
https://allthingssmitty.com/2025/10/06/grouping-arrays-in-modern-javascript-object-groupby-and-map-groupby/

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

There’s a somewhat popular view in the indie blogging scene about social media being toxic. Today I had an email exchange with someone about this topic, and I tried to convey my view about why this is a harmful perspective that’s held from a position of privilege. Sharing my response here. https://paste.lol/adam/social-media-email-reply

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

They're just ordinary Americans, which is the scariest thing I can think of.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/06/i-sometimes-wonder-how-ice-agents-live-with-themselves/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Apparently you can make me watch and share a 12 minute product advert if you hire Matt Berry and Jemaine Clement for it and let them loose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbO1z13WP8o

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TheAtlantic@flipboard.com ("The Atlantic") wrote:

The Everything Recession
https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/10/everything-recession/684450/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into All Stories @all-stories-TheAtlantic

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

yup

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/10/everything-recession/684450/

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kittylyst ("Ben Evans") wrote:

For the next time some racist / #climate change denier claims that "there's no point doing anything b/c China and India won't & they're much bigger than us" - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/indian-railways-to-achieve-net-zero-targets-in-2025-itself-5-years-ahead-of-2030-goal/articleshow/121481828.cms

Indian Railways hits net zero 5 years early, and will be 95% electrified by 2029-30. Given the size and scope of the Indian rail network and the challenges involved in upgrading it, this is no mean feat at all. FWIW the UK is *nowhere near* 95%. #climatechange

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺") wrote:

Slightly ranty post of Discord's data leak, the online safety act, and compulsory IDs in the UK.
https://chriswere.wales/posts/discord-users-are-first-victims-of-uks-online-safety-act.html

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

“All but one of the respondents rated Trump’s second term as a greater or much greater threat to the rule of law than his first term. They consistently characterized the president’s abuses of power — wielding the law to justify his wishes — as being far worse than they imagined before his re-election.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/magazine/legal-experts-trump-justice-department.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

Fucking hell, the glimpses I’m getting in my feed reader, of how people enveloped in the current tech and “AI” orthodoxy think, are stupendously annoying

These people all used to be less annoying, interesting even, but something shifted when COVID hit and accelerated with the “AI” bubble. Now half my feed is just outright annoying

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺") wrote:

Blog post: Discord users are first victims of UK's Online Safety Act
https://chriswere.wales/posts/discord-users-are-first-victims-of-uks-online-safety-act.html

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The colors of autumn.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Cumbria

jwz wrote:

Also greatly enjoyed fielding the multiple questions: yes that is in fact the official Warner Bros Entertainment-approved music video for Cry Little Sister, I am *not* pranking you on this -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az-zvXNxfu4

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fingolas@journa.host ("Martin Holland") wrote:

Macron: "We were incredibly naive to entrust our democratic space to #SocialNetworks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

🤔

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art_codesmith@toot.cafe ("Artemis") wrote:

@davidgerard I don't know what the third social network will be like, but the fourth social network will be sticks and stones.

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0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

while researching the rubygems takeover situation, I ended up on the blog of someone who insists on using AI header images, and now instead of engaging with the actual post I’m stuck on “why is there a puppy on the table? WHY do the evil corporate overlords holding a sinister meeting have a PUPPY on the TABLE?”

but of course, there is no “why”; it wasn’t an artistic choice meant to convey anything deep or clever. This is much worse than no image or a boring image: it’s a nonsensical assault on the senses preventing any possible connection to meaning; it’s the bitwise inverse of art. It doesn’t decorate your writing, it casts a shadow of profound doubt upon it.

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neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

Have your personal data been exposed in a company's personal data breach?

jwz wrote:

In these fascist times, sometimes all you can do is fill a room full of people singing and screaming along with a dumb movie about ambiguously gay vampires.

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

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TheOldGuy@qoto.org wrote:

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QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Last month Judge Diane Goodstein ruled against the Trump regime, and blocked the State of South Carolina from giving millions of voter data files to the DOJ.

Last week Harmeet Dhillon of Trump's DOJ openly condemned Judge Goodstein's ruling in a tweet.

Yesterday Trump lackey Stephen Miller called "left wing judges & lawyers" as "terrorists" requiring force to rebuke.

Now this is Judge Goodstein's home, on fire, and being investigated for arson.

Probably just a coincidence.

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evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

I don't want to be alarmist, but "troops occupying major cities" seems like the kind of milestone that we'll look back on and regret that we didn't stop.

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spocko@mastodon.online ("Spocko") wrote:

How we fight in #Portland.
Ridicule is working! #ICE & #CBP backed up!

The frog finally jumped out of the slow heating pot!

Thank you #AntiFascistFrog on TikTok
https://www.tiktok.com/@theantifascistfrog/video/7557153362249026846 @lolgop

@emptywheel @GottaLaff @jimstewartson @nicolesandler

Attachments:

• video: #AntiFascistFrog going up against ICE in Portland on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@theantifascistfrog/video/7557153362249026846

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LAGilman@raggedfeathers.com ("Laura Anne Gilman") wrote:

Trump tried to circumvent a judge’s ruling this weekend by calling up the California NG to go to Oregon. California and Oregon both went “oh fuck no” and tonight the judge, in an emergency hearing, ALSO went “oh fuck no” and issued a second, broader ruling saying Trump can’t send ANY state NG into Oregon w/o real cause.

DOJ lawyer requested a stay, stay was denied.

Judge 2x reminded the DOJ lawyer that he was an officer of the court. That… you do NOT want a judge to have to say that to you.