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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

What in the nepo baby is this?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/10/10/barron-trump-tipped-top-tiktok-job/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Tessa_Halloran ("Tessa Halloran") wrote:

Watching footage from Portland — protestors in frog suits, unicorns, dancing, humor in the face of absurd claims.

It reminds me that resistance doesn’t always roil and riot — sometimes it laughs, shines a light, and refuses to be afraid.

We need more of that.

#ResistanceIsCreative #StandUpNow #Portland #NoKings #CommunityPower

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
copter_chief@mstdn.party ("CopterDoctor") wrote:

Hegseth said he found 💰 to pay the troops during the shutdown. He said he is using RDT&E 💰to pay for MILPERS.

Hegseth is breaking the law.

The Misappropriation Act. United States Code, Title 31, Section 1301 applicable to DoD personnel managing appropriated funding (taxpayer resources).

This act requires appropriated funds be used only for the objects (purposes & programs) for which appropriations were made.

Congress has the "Power of the Purse”, NOT Whiskey Pete.

The
Trump
Shutdown

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

Today I needed a bit of code, but instead of asking an LLM I tried writing it myself and wow, this could be a new paradigm

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

FYI the Gaoin inflatable frog costume now has a three-week delivery backlog at Amazon and cannot be obtained by October 18, more’s the pity. I hope that’s a sign of its popularity

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

made an apple pie tonight

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

At a critical moment, the tech press are failing to connect the dots between Apple and Google's craven capitulations and the authoritarianism they have nurtured within their own ecosystems. Apple is now a corrosive force against democracy itself, and we have to get smarter about the way these forces interact:

https://infrequently.org/2025/10/the-app-store-was-always-authoritarian/

/cc @owa @pluralistic

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

Where They Never Say Your Name by Eilen Jewell on LOUD

https://pandora.app.link/33tCAFukoXb

Boosted by jwz:
stavvers@masto.ai ("Another Angry Woman") wrote:

So while I was posting this it turns out my gf in fact in the other room with the hacksaw, and I had mostly posted all of this to try and dissuade her from getting the hacksaw out and use a more subtle approach but long story short we have gin now

Boosted by jwz:
kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Popehat Agitates And Irritates") wrote:

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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

I swear to god half of the comments on #HackerNews are shills and bots. It's like LinkedIn for coders.

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

I don’t want my job to require less effort if it means a dozen artists have to give up their dreams and go work in an Amazon warehouse

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
snickerbockers@freeradical.zone wrote:

@gabrielesvelto "The UI/UX team is expanding to meet the ever-expanding needs of the UI/UX team"

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
thomaswilburn@toot.cafe ("Thomas Wilburn") wrote:

Man, if my choices are "be slower than the AI bros" or "LARP as a productivity grifter in order to convince my computer to write better tests" I'd rather just move to the mountains. Every time I read one of these agent transcripts, the second-hand embarrassment is smothering.

It's telling to me that the "sensible" LLM advocates are all like "wow, this guy's really onto something," and not "thumbs were a mistake."

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

Look, my proposal is really very simple: you can be a millionaire 999 times over, in perpetuity, but if you can't figure out something to do with assets above that line, we should build some schools, feed some kids, and eliminate medical bankruptcy.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blamellors@mstdn.party ("Blamellors") wrote:

Using the Federal government to outlaw a political party because some with leftist views are violent protestors is so UNAMERICAN .

During Vietnam this country was divided and the right used the same rhetoric and then we had Kent State ,and people turned because who supports using the NG to shoot kids on campus.

Hopefully sanity returns before Americans die.

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

Happy 84th Birthday, Rev Jesse Jackson Jr.

this is a leader who inspired me and many others. an admirable human being who tried all his life to be a force for positive change.

(truth in posting: I volunteered with San Francisco Rainbow Coalition in the 80s & 90s)

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
bobmonsour@indieweb.social ("Bob Monsour") wrote:

Issue 79 - 11ty Meetup videos, 11ty logo as Font Awesome icon, 11ty FA plugin hits 1.0, Add a CMS to ZeroPoint, Peter deHaan and Nunjucks loops, Kyle brings us Brewventy, Zach on Podcast Awesome, Hire Shiv J.M.,Dwkns debugs with a shortcode, Alex Russell performs hacks, Simon redirects on Cloudflare, Build your own Subspace...And 1 releases, 27 posts, and 11 sites to see https://11tybundle.dev/blog/11ty-bundle-79/ #11ty @eleventy

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

I want to build a little photo album web app thing for my blog. I want to post all my photos! Is that overkill? Should I just use Flickr or something?

Boosted by jwz:
alvaromontoro@front-end.social ("Alvaro Montoro") wrote:

A practical visualization of how robots.txt stops AI bots from crawling your website.

#webdev #ai #humor

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

My problem with optimism, or, rather, #TechnoOptimism, is that it's always framed with the message "if you give the people who control your lives a chance, it'll all work out."

That's not optimism. That submission.

#Technocrat

jwz wrote:

Perennial "Fuck the Blue Angels" post.

(NOTE: If you are about to "Well Actually" at me about this in some way, please be advised that I do not give the slightest shit.)

https://jwz.org/b/ykwb

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

🚨 OxF EUROPE-FRIENDLY TIME ALERT 🚨

AI is affecting many areas of life, but arguably none more so than higher education, where it is challenging the mechanics, the economics and even the purpose of post-secondary education. On Monday, @ahl and I will be joined by Michael Littman, professor of computer science at Brown University -- and AI Provost for the university. Join us at 9a Pacific for what promises to be a lively and wide-ranging discussion!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1426652393822752939

jwz wrote:

Protest costumes.

Brian McFadden:
https://jwz.org/b/ykwX

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
chojzina@kolektiva.social ("Brandenburger Krüppelkiefer") wrote:

@fromjason I am saying that for years. At some point it became the edgy thing to hate this band when you could just as easily ignore it. And if you take into consideration that they are a pop band, always were a pop band and never had any other aspiration than just being a pop band, you could be just pretty chill about them.

And the first two records are pop masterpieces as you stated.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
devxvda@mastodon.ie ("Dr.Nick") wrote:

Honestly can't believe the guy who threatened to invade Greenland, Venezuela, Panama, Canada, and is currently starting a war with his own citizens, didn't win the Nobel peace prize

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

A reminder that it's been a full week since DHS put out a press release claiming TEN CARS ambushed one of their agents, and have since charged ZERO of those alleged 10 drivers, arrested ZERO of those alleged 10 people, filed ZERO reports of alleged property damage, & have offered ZERO evidence of their claim.

I'm old enough to remember while filing false police reports was a felony.

Corporate media has done nothing to demand answers or hold accountable the abject lies from the Trump regime.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Alice@beige.party ("Alice McFlurry :bc:") wrote:

All of these people are asking restaurants for gluten free bread as if there's not free piles of cardboard sitting right out back.

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

Coldplay’s first four albums are all masterpieces and I’m not afraid to admit it.

#Music

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

Imagine that