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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Media Notes (October 2025)
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/media-notes-1/
Some of the stuff I've been watching, a surprising amount of which is available on YouTube of all places.
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Ra@mstdn.social wrote:
https://substack.com/inbox/post/175921873
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sohkamyung@mstdn.io ("Soh Kam Yung") wrote:
"Hidden under tonnes of rock, a dinosaur superhighway is emerging - where palaeontologists are walking in the footsteps of these giant beasts.
This summer’s excavation at this extraordinary site has uncovered one of the longest trackways found anywhere in the world."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-5f8c77b0-92bc-40f2-bf21-6793abbe5ffe
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Claiming it's "highly likely" that circumcision causes autism is an irresponsible lie.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/14/the-latest-medical-nonsense/
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mhoye ("mhoye (temporarily spooky)") wrote:
This is Roald Dahl's 1986 plea to parents to get their children vaccinated against measles; his daughter died of it in 1962, before vaccines were widely available.
Turns out measles can just kill you outright weeks or months or sometimes years after infection, when you're supposedly over it and healthy again.
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phire@phire.place ("jenny (phire)") wrote:
I wrote about AI art and why I philosophically refuse to use generative AI regardless of its potential utility, but it's actually about mortality and authoritarianism and book clubs and Bowling Alone. (I resisted an extended metaphor about curling, you're welcome / I'm sorry.)
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Man Stores AI-Generated ‘Robot Porn' on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets:
"the man told investigators he felt his bosses spied on him too much and that the interrogation over the porn snafu was akin to the “Spanish Inquisition.""
Why are robots fucking on your computer?
What is this? The Spanish Inquisition?
Lololol https://www.404media.co/man-stores-ai-generated-robot-porn-on-his-government-computer-loses-access-to-nuclear-secrets/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
At least 11 million year old -- a spider squash prep.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/14/not-the-prettiest-jumping-spider-ive-seen/
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combs@mastodon.art ("Chris Combs (he/him)") wrote:
Here's "Subatomic," an artwork about the search for something impossibly tiny.
It's one of the artworks from my show, "Desperate Remedy/Little Ones," focusing on the search for neutrinos at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, a particle physics lab ~1.5km / 4850ft underground in a former gold mine; I am their artist-in-residence for the year.
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Lol get fucked you ghoul
Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook case https://search.app/ktZhh
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“timely” is one way to put it…
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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:
A few days after this, Star Tribune informed Angela Denker that they weren't renewing her contract. Three days ago, she shared the editorial that Star Tribune refused to publish. It speaks truth many of us, including media outlets, do not want spoken.
Denker says,
"Among others, Kirk was the progenitor of a new sort of young, white, male conservative."
#CharlieKirk #ChristianNationalism #Minneapolis #media #ToxicMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #misogyny #homophobia #heterosexism #racism
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onokoto ("Onokoto █") wrote:
On most distros Python🐍 has a http server out of the box.
simply into the directory of your choice and execute the following command:
~λ python3 -m http.server 8080
#Lisp #GNU #Guile #Elisp #Emacs #Lambda #Linux #Bash #sh #BSD #Debian #python
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golgaloth@writing.exchange ("Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)") wrote:
have you thought about trying a different economic system in your world?
#WorldBuilding #AmWriting #writing #ttrpg #dnd #GameDev #Gaming #capitalism #economics
Mastodon Feedchipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:
Okay, I know I'm just working through the toy “Your First Flutter App" codelab, but wow: Flutter's hot reloading is what Xcode's live preview wants to be when it grows up.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
probably a reasonable idea:
'Recent reports have indicated that Apple has suspended development of a truly next-generation Vision Pro, along with a lightweight and lower-cost "Vision Air" model, as it focuses its efforts on smart glasses.'
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CNN@flipboard.com wrote:
Military families concerned about not getting paychecks during government shutdown
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/us/video/military-families-paychecks-government-shutdown-food-pantry-ldn-digvid?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPosted into US News @us-news-CNN
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
from CNN site:
"CNN affiliate, KXXV, reported military families were in line at a food pantry as they feared not getting their paychecks during the government shutdown."
that is Not A Good Thing
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thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:
China-U.S. trade war and political turmoil in Japan weigh on Tokyo stocks, with benchmark index down 2.58% as traders return from long weekend. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/14/markets/stocks-after-coalition/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #business #markets #tse #nikkei #stocks #ldp #komeito #diet #sanaetakaichi
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
The most common forum used today seems to be Discourse. Blogs are WordPress. And retail is Shopify or WooCommerce (which is just another flavour of horrible and dysfunctional).
What have we done to deserve this?
(Don't answer that, I've read history books.)
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Me when I have to wade into a Discourse theme to fix an issue for somebody: "OMG, this is a horrible POS. No documentation to speak of. Hyper complex. Why is anybody using this?"
Me when working on Wordpress: "OMG, this is a horrible POS. Why is anybody using this?"
Same with Shopify or pretty much any given established web project that's commonly used.
It genuinely feels like pretty much everything in tech, popular web software especially, is just unusably awful.
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell 👻") wrote:
deleting Biome toolchain + plugins, what a piece of trash!
I've given it multiple chances all year. I didn't think July's experience could be worse https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-07-17T12:36Z/
but it refuses to work *at all* this week. Good riddance!
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revenant wrote:
https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?t=26295
wrote up a bit of info on a less common US revision of Micro Machines for the NES, featuring a pretty nasty bug, discovered just a little too late and then worked around by using a PLD to patch a single *bit*. this is what day one patches looked like in 1991!
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
I will be marching in the No Kings rally on Saturday, not because I'm paid, but because I care about my kids' future.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/14/the-things-we-do-for-our-kids/
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mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:
Primary source for the WIRED satellite story. Truly incredible work.
https://satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/
We pointed a commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish at the sky and carried out the most comprehensive public study to date of geostationary satellite communication. A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being broadcast unencrypted, including critical infrastructure, internal corporate and government communications, private citizens’ voice calls and SMS, and consumer Internet traffic from in-flight wifi and mobile networks. This data can be passively observed by anyone with a few hundred dollars of consumer-grade hardware. There are thousands of geostationary satellite transponders globally, and data from a single transponder may be visible from an area as large as 40% of the surface of the earth.
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hamishtpb@mewblog.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Hamish The PolarBear") wrote:
The finale of Space Virgins is finally released:
video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/4A7Nq6ndFx2RPYMK3WGYLe
@ChrisWere @uoou and myself finally got together to ramble our way into a finale of this iteration of our show. As always it is mostly us talking nonsense but, hopefully, entertainingly.
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freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:
Freexian’s September 2025 Debian contributions report covers a variety of interesting work.
Find the full report here - https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-09-2025/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social
You can read about #C23 and old Debian Printing software, work done to decommission packages.qa.debian.org, rebootstrap using *-for-host and more!
We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) for making this possible.
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Mabelz@misskey.bubbletea.dev wrote:
this house in Istanbul contains architectural layers from four distinct historical eras, spanning nearly 1,800 years.
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floppy@mastodon.me.uk ("James Smith 💾") wrote:
Very impressed that the UK Green Party have now passed 100k members, after a 50% increase in the last few weeks. That's now more than the Lib Dems, and probably getting close to the Conservatives (though they don't publish their numbers).
Seems that actually standing up against the far right, rather than pandering to them, is pretty popular!
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djc@hachyderm.io ("Dirkjan Ochtman") wrote:
Any #rust suggestions on how to get build-std to work with sanitizers?