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

this smells like a contract that was really just another grift

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-ukraine-light-armoured-vehicles-9.6947629

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

During World War II, the British installed fuel tanks in pits in Öskjuhlíðin. Between the pits, there are these walls and convenient steps for crossing over. The fuel tanks are, of course, long gone.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #trees #history #WW2 #WWII

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gilduran.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Gil Durán") wrote:

I interviewed Paulina Borsook, who warned of tech culture's toxic underbelly over 30 years ago. She wrote a prescient and scathing book, "Cyberselfish." It tanked her career, but a new generation is discovering her work as tech fascism tries to kill democracy 👇www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-k...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:waplkqr2wuy2c4qbge6h6ed4/post/3lzm3dyh5js27

The Woman Who Predicted Tech F...

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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Shaming businesses who do business with the Trump regime is righteous work. https://www.thebanner.com/economy/growth-development/aceco-donald-trump-white-house-east-wing-demolition-ballroom-JYH3KX4SYVAG5KWWZZ2NSSPUPE/

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

@verge @owa Seeing this happen, on a loop, is so maddening.

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

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

If you are a California voter, I implore you to back Proposition 50, a hopefully temporary measure to block the Trump-Republican scheme to rig U.S. House districts for perpetual GOP control.

They declared war on democracy. Vote Yes. A no vote gives them what they want.

https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/quick-reference-guide/50.htm

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

@verge @owa I mean, I'd volunteer to give the entire Verge staff a tour of web apps, come to their office, etc. etc. But they should really, *really* be talking with @owa

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

Reading the latest Regulator by @verge, and they're so *so* close to connecting the dots...but it doesn't seem like either the reporter or their editor (the person interviewed) grok what web apps are, or are intentionally obfuscating how they could change the dynamic 🫠🤦:

https://www.theverge.com/column/803693/ice-epic-games-apple-app-store

/cc @owa

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realjuddlegum@threads.net ("Judd Legum") wrote:

The New York Times describes Trump demanding his own Justice Department pay him $230 million as a "potential" ethical conflict.

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

@surma Also, structured serialization/deserialization had been implemented in Chromium for long, since it's what powers e.g. worker.postMessage(). Making structuredClone() work literally took me less than a day, and this was before I worked at Igalia, so I had to wait hours for a local Chromium build.

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

Today I was reminded of that time when I implemented structuredClone() in Chromium, and how although @surma had proposed it while working on Chrome devrel and had worked on the spec, the Chromium issue only had the OP until I set out to implement it, even after other browsers had shipped it.

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firesidefedi@social.firesidefedi.live ("Fireside Fedi") wrote:

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

"because of an emergency he created… China has stopped buying U.S. soybeans to protest Mr. Trump’s tariffs on imports. In response, Mr. Trump plans to send billions of dollars of tariff revenue to U.S. soybean farmers who no longer have buyers for their crops. At the same time, Argentina has taken advantage of Mr. Trump’s tariffs to sell more of its own soybeans to China — yet Mr. Trump is planning to bail out Argentina, too."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/opinion/trump-soybeans-tariffs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

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

‘Lawyers said the nature of the claims posed undeniable ethics challenges… Bennett L. Gershman, an ethics professor at Pace University. “The ethical conflict is just so basic and fundamental, you don’t need a law professor to explain it… And then to have people in the Justice Department decide whether his claim should be successful or not, and these are the people who serve him deciding whether he wins or loses. It’s bizarre and almost too outlandish to believe.”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/politics/trump-justice-department-compensation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

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Herne@corteximplant.net ("Problem Fox") wrote:

My #selfhost #RaspberryPi is back in 100% #solar mode. The last test showed the battery isn't big enough to run it overnight but the 20w panel and 5ah battery are more than enough to run it during the day even with the panel in partial shade propped up against the house.

Now do I plug it into the grid overnight or go really #smolweb and only let it run with the sun?

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

truth

https://www.threads.com/@alvinfoo/post/DQELJWLiTMQ?xmt=AQF0HbpIlWx2t-eW0k9-Pvtvfy7MgoGnhncn1hF40pQEng&slof=1

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

That sound you hear is a thousand AI bros telling Cursor to add ARIA roles to the buttons in their React apps to make things work in Atlas (sometimes).

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Signed up to volunteer with #Kitsap county's fix-it fair! Next one should be sometime next year, can't wait!

https://kcowa.us/fixitfair

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

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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/

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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

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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

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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.