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

The GOP tried reining in public ballot measures in Ohio a few years back and it failed pretty widely. I would not be entirely surprised if it failed in Missouri too. Turns out the public doesn't like to be told to shut and just do what the politicians tell them.

https://boltsmag.org/missouri-amendment-on-ballot-initiatives/

jwz wrote:

Loving these breathless articles about how a brief Amazon DNS outage "cost billions". Oh noes, some people had to choose between playing Tetris or being alone with their thoughts at an extra-long lunch, and now billions of dollareydoos of made-up play-money that was supposed to materialize might be delayed by several hours. Billions! Of real things that definitely exist! Finance bros are touching their faces! They are concerned!

"lol" as the kids day, "lmao".
https://jwz.org/b/ykww

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anarchiv@todon.nl ("Souvlaki Space Station") wrote:

I'm literally laughing and crying simultaneously as I'm typing this, bear with me for a second

I was going to do a dumb bait-and-switch on here by pretending to link to a pro-Effective Altruism think piece but then it's actually Goatse

Now, I had to find out that... the original website, the blood red chasm from which all memes were born is now home to a place where you can buy the original image with cryptocurrency and that... pretends to be run by an AI as a marketing gimmick or some shit

I am old. I am defeated. Satire is dead. The world is moving too fast. Pass the fentanyl.

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docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

Does anyone know of any venues or bands that have official polices on the use of generative-AI for marketing purposes.

I know Thee Stork Club and DNA Lounge have policies forbidding the use of AI-generated media on fliers (as discussed in this post https://docpop.org/2025/09/ai-posters-are-filling-up-our-streets-heres-how-we-stop-it/ )

I'm researching a personal project and looking for as many official policies (allowing or forbidding AI) as I can find.

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@cynicalsecurity I could believe this.

Thief: "We need you to take down US-EAST-1".

Insider: "OK, but it will cost you."

Thief: "Name your price."

Insider: "I need the crown jewels of France."

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Paulatics@mstdn.ca ("Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦") wrote:

Today, senior executives from CBC/RadioCanada came to testify before the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications. I had the chance to ask a lot of questions. But I made sure to ask why the CBC is still committed to X - and why they haven't investigated Mastodon (and Bluesky). Here's my exchange with CEO Marie-Philippe Bouchard and Editor in Chief @brodiefenlon. #CBC #Mastodon #X #Bluesky #SRC #Canada #cdnpoli #SenateofCanada #TRCM #CanadianBroadcastingCorporation #SocialMedia https://youtu.be/lJUeQZlvD-E?si=msTknV5VyaI-drCD

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
haloedrain@toot.cafe ("Pam") wrote:

Apparently not everyone has seen the Raisin Brahms ad, this must be fixed https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EOsbyuLyPbE

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#Leprous - Acquired Taste (Live 2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmUg%5F37zVEI

#NP #NowPlaying

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

I wouldn't mind killing all NFTs, except that everything else is also dependent on Amazon.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/21/nfts-are-still-a-thing/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

"What treasure did your adventure yield?" villagers would ask on her return.

"None," she would laugh, "except memories, scars, and a favour owed me by a wolf!"

Or a dragon, toad, sow, or gorgon.

"When will you call in all the favours owed you?"

"Only when I must," she said.

She never had to.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
hailey@hails.org ("Hailey") wrote:

Do you use git gui or other Tcl/Tk apps and find yourself annoyed that your staid old unix program does not look very nice on your beautiful new hidpi monitor?

Simply LD_PRELOAD=tk-hidpi.so and enjoy Tcl/Tk in gorgeous high definition! https://codeberg.org/hails/tk-hidpi

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
at@mathstodon.xyz ("AT") wrote:

@letterror In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means the kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism that is illegal to build in Mordor, Harad, or Rhûn.

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

38 Debian LTS Advisories about security updates for various packages were released by Debian LTS contributors last month. These include notable security updates for modsecurity-apache, cups, python-django, thunderbird and many more.

Read our monthly report for September to know more details: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-09/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Become a sponsor of Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) and enjoy the benefits (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits).

#freexian #debian #debianlts #cups #modsecurity-apache #thunderbird #django

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

Autumn walking 🍂

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
nor4@chaos.social ("nora 🐭 (she/her)") wrote:

Time off as a service

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

"History? Who gives a sh*t abouit history?"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/20/trump-white-house-ballroom-construction

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

"“Trump hates all the right people.”

From "Ezra Klein Show"

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

“it would be better if you could have a mixed geographic coalition, is it actually possible or do you just have to work from a place of futility?

No, it's not futile. But what it takes is a long term strategy of deep, full time, year round organizing and listening to rural Americans. Parties like to put a focus on messaging.

Messaging is very surface level and it does not have enduring effects. But organizing really matters.”

From "Ezra Klein Show"

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

“Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country | Insects | The Guardian”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/21/mosquitoes-found-iceland-first-time-climate-crisis-warms-country

Guardian covers the Icelandic mosquito news.

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

Is the Daily Wire always this superficial and stupid?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/21/we-asked-no-kings-protesters-what-made-trump-a-king-they-couldnt-say/

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

Still using the "intern" metaphor?

Real interns would have learnt the role, been promoted, and started teaching the next generation by now.

Your "AI intern" is still shitting the bed.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz ("Colin the Mathmo") wrote:

Taking a moment to remember Martin Gardner on what would have been his one hundred and eleventh birthday.

Thank you Martin for *so* many fabulous ideas, for connecting so many people to each other and to those ideas, and for a wonderful afternoon in your company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%5FGardner

Ron Graham said of him, "Martin has turned thousands of children into mathematicians and thousands of mathematicians into children."

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

Who decided it was a smart idea to fire live artillery ammunition over I-5?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/21/the-gang-that-couldnt-shoot-straight-screws-up-again/

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

The newsletter also had some foggy autumn photos

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos/foggy-photos-2025/

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

The inevitability of anger

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-inevitability-of-anger/

This week's newsletter is on culpability in the AI Bubble, how social media shapes what we say and how we respond to it, and the inevitability of a reckoning.

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

If you like CRTs and obscure product history wrapped in a nerd adventure story, this is a lovely way to pass 35 minutes. https://youtu.be/JfZxOuc9Qwk

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
socketwench@masto.hackers.town ("Socketwench") wrote:

I'm not talking about the f-ing Apple store.

I'm talking about fix-it clinics. I'm talking about having a volunteer desk at a library to help people with their tech problems.

I'd rather have friends and family not spring tech problems on me over turkey, but feel comfortable to say, "Oh, I'll just go to the fix-it clinic on Sunday. They'll get me sorted."

*That's* a culture of mutual tech support and mentorship.

*That's* what will break monopolies.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
jaseg@chaos.social wrote:

I've got a new paper out on eprint: Monitoring tamper-sensing meshes using low-cost time-domain reflectometry.

In the paper, I wrote up how you can build a ~200 ps resolution time-domain reflectometer from an STM32 and some cheap display bus redriver ICs. The circuit is sensitive enough to distinguish several identical copies of the same test specimen PCB from manufacturing tolerances!

blog post: https://jaseg.de/blog/paper-sampling-mesh-monitor/
paper preprint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1962

#electronics #embedded #security

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ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🍑") wrote:

hm. i wonder what this may cause

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

why is all WordPress hosting PHP 3 on a 500 Hz vCPU with a 5 nanosecond execution limit