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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
assignedmale.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Sophie Labelle ") wrote:

A special kind of audacity

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

The government does not track how often immigration agents hold Americans. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#News #ICE #Immigration #Trump #USPolitics #Law #American

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Ashedryden@xoxo.zone ("Ashe Dryden") wrote:

I am looking for remote (US) volunteer or part-time paid opportunities in criminal justice reform/transformative justice. I am particularly interested in counteracting the use of modern day police surveillance tools being used against marginalized populations. I've got a background in sociology, computer science, and public interest technology. #GetFediHired #FediHire

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
noondlyt@hellions.cloud ("BACALLOWEEN") wrote:

Called my senators and Rep and told them not to give one inch on the healthcare.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rooniecomics@comics.town ("Roonie the Rabbit") wrote:

Reframe the choice. | More comics: https://rooniecomics.com/comics/choose?utm%5Fcontent=buffere744c&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fcampaign=post

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

uhhhh, no.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/15/jd-vance-racist-messages-young-republicans-chat-leak

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

you cannot just wave your hands and wish it away, Little Donald...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/16/inflation-economic-pessimism-poll

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
anndulhanty ("Ann") wrote:

Just on the way to brush my teeth and ….
Is it me, or is that a Cheshire #cat grin?
#CatsOfMastodon

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Priorities. #grickledoodle #horror #zombie #apocolypse #toiletpaper #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
literalgrill@sakurajima.moe ("LiteralGrill") wrote:

Today is the day the Black Panthers were founded. As a disabled person, I'm going to remember how the coalition they built with Disabled people and their support during the 504 protests are the reason we even have the ADA today.

As a gay person, I'm going to remember how Huey Newton gave speeches to defend gay rights and how the Black Panther movement literally changed minds during the civil rights movement on how gay people were perceived.

And I'm going to think of the Black Panthers who NEVER CAME HOME to fight that fight for us and thank every power I know they made that sacrifice.

https://jacobin.com/2025/10/black-panthers-oneal-tanzania-legacy

#History #Disability #BlackHistory #BlackPanthers #Queer #Trans #LGBTQ

https://stefanbohacek.online/users/stefan/statuses/115378251205877314

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

Of course the fascists who hate Americans want you to believe that the people who protest against the fascists who hate Americans are actually the people who hate America, but the thing is, the fascists who hate Americans can go fuck themselves

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
lofty@fieldprogrammable.gay ("big awoo notation") wrote:

I wrote the LUT article for my blog!

https://github.com/Ravenslofty/blog/issues/16

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
lproven@vivaldi.net ("Liam Proven") wrote:

NordVPN open sources its Linux GUI client under GPLv3

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/nordvpn%5Flinux%5Fgui/

Joins its command-line client from a couple of years ago

<- by me on @theregister

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

The evidence for the historicity of the “Founding Fathers” in the state religion of ancient USia is poor at best. The surviving fragments of the Testament of Independence and the New Constitution show evidence of heavy redaction over the generations following the fall of the First Empire. The Euhemeristic thesis—that great myths stem from a kernel of historical truth—was explicitly embraced by the Senators (a local term for high priests) of the second-empire-period congress, and used as a means of ideological control; this control via iodeological immersion began from a young age. Religious observances such as the display of the Ten Amendments in schools, the continual preparation for the Active Shooter Rapture, and the Pledge of Consumption formed the core of an apocalyptic prophecy that led the culture to its own extinction. In this paper we argue that recent archaeological excavations show

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
trevorflowers@machines.social ("Trevor of the cemetery Flowers") wrote:

Cray Coin!
https://www.usmint.gov/news/press-releases/united-states-mint-releases-2026-american-innovation-one-dollar-coin-program-designs

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

“We were angry | A Working Library”

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/we-were-angry

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
AceArsenault@fosstodon.org ("Andrew "Ace" Arsenault") wrote:

Recently I've been working with analog magnetic sensors for reading keyboard position, velocity and aftertouch.

Wrote a quick FM-synthesis engine for some sweet 1980s synth bells. Then took the prototype keyboard for a test drive on one of them free jam-tracks. : }

#music #instruments #electronics #diy #firmware

Attachments:

• video: 2x10 multitouch compact keyboard matrix being played to a jazz track.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
kelsiraespace@mstdn.social ("Kelsi🔭📷🌠") wrote:

My system 7 project is continuing at a good clip, ps/2 keyboard input, sb16 emulation and started converting the pascal and assembly source for macpaint from Bill Atkinson to C also for inclusion #RetroComputing #macintosh #OpenSource https://github.com/Kelsidavis/System7

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

I know I ask this periodically but:
SPACES or TABS?

(If you convert your tabs to spaces, then you use spaces.)

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

there wasn't supposed to be gravity...

Attachments:

• gifv: "snake" game but the snake comically accelerates too fast and drops off screen

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

A classic style rambly video about my Newsboat and Lynx browser setup.

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/gQ9pCFCgmcihC67rnMMhUz

#foss #linux #newsboat #lynx

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

the gentleman says safety AND justice are possible? what a concept 🙏

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000732122350

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

Science brain meets bad SF movie, and suffers horribly.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/16/the-problem-with-trying-to-make-sense-of-a-bad-sci-fi-movie/

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

"this looks broken, there is an error"

"can you copy the error and maybe screenshot the problem?"

*radio silence*

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

“Datacenter GPU service life can be surprisingly short — only one to three years is expected according to unnamed Google architect | Tom's Hardware”

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/datacenter-gpu-service-life-can-be-surprisingly-short-only-one-to-three-years-is-expected-according-to-unnamed-google-architect

More details on the Google architect's short service life estimate for GPUs

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

‘revival begins with the people proclaiming, by word and deed, “I have sinned.”

MAGA Christianity has a different message. It looks at American culture and declares, “You have sinned.”

And it doesn’t stop there. It also says, “We will defeat you.” In its most extreme forms, it also says, “We will rule over you.” That’s not revival; it’s revolution, a religious revolution that seeks to overthrow one political order and replace it with another…’

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/opinion/christianity-charlie-kirk-revolution-revival.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
jaffathecake ("Jake Archibald") wrote:

I dug into progressive image rendering and found a bunch of common assumptions aren't quite true.

➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari
➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive
➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't
➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF
⬇️ …and more

https://jakearchibald.com/2025/present-and-future-of-progressive-image-rendering/

Boosted by jwz:
iso7010@hacksrus.xyz ("ISO7010 pictogram of the day") wrote:

W041 — Asphyxiating atmosphere

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISO%5F7010%5FW041%5Fwarning;%5Fbreathing%5Fhazard.svg
Author: Wikimedia Commons user Repeater-reclaim
CC0 (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en)

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

The scenarios the post outlines are wildly optimistic bullshit that assumes there are no shenanigans going on and that the demand will inevitably be there, but the initial observations are interesting

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

“Lifespan of AI Chips: The $300 Billion Question - CITP Blog”

https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/10/15/lifespan-of-ai-chips-the-300-billion-question/

> Per my calculations, this hole grows to over $1.5 trillion annually if the true total cost of ownership is taken into account