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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
benroyce ("Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩") wrote:

"#Sudan's Last Functioning Hospital in #ElFasher Attacked, 20 Dead"

The #RSF paramilitary group had apparently opened fire on Tuesday and Wednesday at the hospital and a mosque where displaced families had sought refuge

https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00094361.html

Since April of 2023 when the civil war began, it is estimated over 500,000 children have died from malnutrition in Sudan

World:

The suffering in Sudan is soul crushing

And attention is scant

Please, let us turn our attention to Sudan 🇸🇩

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

The blue wave accounts are pouring into the #fediverse and they're using AI generated images to spark their revolution. 🫠

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
FediTips@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Tips") wrote:

If you have a website or blog, you can verify your account using Mastodon's self-service verification system:

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After your account is verified, your profile's link to your site or blog will turn green.

If you've tried to verify and it's failed to turn green, there are lots of suggestions for how to fix this in the guide linked above.

#FediTips #Mastodon #Verification

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

I happen to own a little open source software company that is expressly anti-fascist, has a “No AI” policy, and has recently been called “aggressively queer” in case you’re interested in supporting tech companies like that:

https://elementary.io

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

PSA/rant for fellow makers: my recent order from Heltec (ordered directly) arrived with some #LoRa boards missing. I've provided shipping evidence, but so far they refuse to resolve the issue 🙄

Lesson learned: always record your unboxing! It really helps if something goes wrong.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
alwirtes@indieweb.social ("Al Wirtes") wrote:

A fascinating letter in today’s #Boulder #Colorado #DailyCamera #EdgarAllanPoe #Nevermore

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Historians and legal experts warn that Trump and the Maga world have exploited Kirk’s killing to justify unleashing far-reaching attacks on multiple critics.

Trump and his allies are using 'page one of the authoritarian playbook' in their accelerating attacks on political foes', said Harvard government professor Steven Levitsky, who co-authored the book How Democracies Die."

~ Peter Stone

#CharlieKirk #Trump #MAGA #authoritarianism #ChristianNationalism
/1

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/11/charlie-kirk-trump-maga-allies

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Russian president Vladimir Putin said the [Nobel Peace Prize] committee’s 'credibility has largely been lost,' prompting Trump to thank him on social media.

That Trump and his loyalists are standing with the autocrat Putin rather than democracy is clearer every day."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #MikeJohnson #NobelPeacePrize #Putin
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-10-2025

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Josh Dawsey reported in the Wall Street Journal today that administrative officials joke about ruling Congress with an 'iron fist' and that Trump ally Steve Bannon has compared Congress to Russia’s largely ceremonial Duma.

Today House speaker Johnson announced he would cancel another week’s session, making four weeks he has kept House members from their jobs."

#Trump #MikeJohnson #NobelPeacePrize #Putin
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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought”

https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-data-centers-finances

> In short, this is because data center components age rapidly, either made obsolete through rapid advances in technology, or broken down over years of constant, high-powered usage.

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

hmmm… using text outputted by Argh Studios Storyteller ( https://arghstudios.com ) as input to Sora gets interesting results

https://sora.chatgpt.com/p/s%5F68ea6424f4bc8191b9f798c45c967288

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen") wrote:

A short video about Ela Minus from "Synth History":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyYGEv-g7Pw

I'll be curious to see their next videos.

Ela Minus is on bandcamp:

https://elaminus.bandcamp.com/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭🕹️") wrote:

US peeps, before I eBay it, anyone need a Atari 800? Working, comes with full RAM complement. No power supply or other extras.

To make an offer, please name a dollar amount of what you’d be willing to pay and your zip so I can give you a shipping estimate.

#retrocomputing #atari

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

I don’t just use AI btw. I even own multiple VR headsets and once a year check out Meta’s metaverse.

I just did my yearly check in. It’s still deserted. I eventually managed to find 4 children in a K-pop Demon Hunters world, making fart noises at each other.

A few years ago, leading financial analysts said the Metaverse would be a multi trillion dollar market by now. In actual fact it’s a wet fart, which orgs flushed billions down toilet with based on the word of techbros and Morgan Stanley.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Dianora@ottawa.place ("Dianora (Diane Bruce)") wrote:

I love little libraries ! We stuck a couple of books in the other day.
We have our own copy of the Margaret Atwood book as it is a very good read.

#Ottawa #LittleLibrary

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TheConversationUS@newsie.social ("The Conversation U.S.") wrote:

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board — the agency that investigates refinery fires and chemical explosions to prevent future disasters the way the better-known NTSB investigates plane crashes — is shut down and may soon be eliminated entirely.

Scientists who study chemical disasters say this dangerous move will save the federal government a mere $14 million. https://theconversation.com/refinery-fires-other-chemical-disasters-may-no-longer-get-safety-investigations-265546

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

How did this guy ever get put in charge of medicine in our country? He's going to kill a lot of children.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/11/he-wants-us-all-to-die/

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

I have reached peak Onryō

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

the original LLM

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
Beurkeek@peoplemaking.games ("Nina Kiel") wrote:

After several months of work, I finished this #embroidery project yesterday. It's my second ever attempt at embroidery and I'm really, really happy with the result.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Definitely the weirdest part of the AI thing has been watching so many smart people blindly run off a cliff when the red flags have been *everywhere*.

Generative AI is, for the most part, porn you can post on LinkedIn.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz69qy760weo

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
grimalkina ("Dr. Cat Hicks") wrote:

ICYMI, I am putting together a free Developer Science "office hour" where you can join me to walk through the basics of designing a study....as long as enough new folks sign up for fight for the human 🤠

Why do this when research isn't your job??
- backstage pass to science when you learn methods
- no better way to think carefully about data
- get better at criticizing BAD research designs!
- it's genuinely fun and you might inspire real future science!

https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/115344101004741880

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

What on earth compels people to reply to a post with “TL;DR”? Do they have an inner voice constantly telling them to find ways to simultaneously piss on people’s posts and demonstrate their illiteracy? Or are they just assholes

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jwcph@helvede.net ("JWcph, Radicalized By Decency") wrote:

@baldur Also, another instance of how "We strive to accommodate everyone inside our big tent!" always, ALWAYS means right-wing fascists & racists, never marginalized groups...

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

A recurring thing you see on social media, tech especially, is an intense discussion between two seemingly diametrically opposite positions, neither side realising that the “opposites” are artificial—their sides are socially defined to be in conflict but, actually, both can be true at the same time

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

“Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support? | Arya Bread Crumbs”

https://crimier.github.io/posts/Framework-Omarchy/

Yet another instalment of "tech company just can't resist overtly supporting white supremacists, even if it is strategically a massive own goal"

Boosted by jwz:
NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
stefan@front-end.social ("Stefan Judis") wrote:

Oct 14 Firefox 144 will ship JS-powered view transitions with `startViewTransition`. 🎉

Of course, this is only the first step because we're all waiting for cross-document view transitions, too, but I'm still very happy about view transitions being on their way to work everywhere.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Tarn Hows.

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

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

jwz wrote:

Today in Christofascism.

The meandering gospel of Peter: Peter Thiel is worried about the antichrist. It could be the US. It could be Greta Thunberg. [...] On the day of Thiel's final lecture in San Francisco, as the mostly young and mostly male crowd...
https://jwz.org/b/ykwV