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MLNow@sfba.social ("Mission Local") wrote:

Immigration agents are coming to the Bay Area. Here’s how to protect yourself.

Federal immigration agents could be deployed to the Bay Area as early as Thursday. Consulting with attorneys and immigration advocates, Mission Local has compiled a list of know-your-rights tips for people in San Francisco. This is part of a series of resource guides we’ve run on immigration enforcement. Read the others below: “How can you mobilize for immigrant rights in S.F.?

https://missionlocal.org/2025/10/immigration-agents-are-coming-how-to-protect-yourself/

jwz wrote:

Exterminate all rational AI scrapers, redux redux.

Nine months ago I added an infinite-nonsense honeypot to poison LLM scrapers.

Today, it comprises 69% of URLs served.

Normally it feeds junk after a few seconds delay, but in "high-load mode" it bans IPs. That mode starts when the free-worker count is low, and ends when it has been calm for 15 min.

This month it has been in high-load mode 50% of the time.
https://jwz.org/b/ykwy

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Western hemlock. Western hemlock is the official tree of the State of Washington. It's different from fir and spruce by its soft needles.

#darktable

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

A Minnesotan should know better than to wait until the last minute to prepare for winter.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/22/i-waited-too-long-to-prepare-for-winter/

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
charfish ("Charles B") wrote:

@simontatham Peter Guttman's paper "Do Users Verify SSH Keys?" has one of the best abstracts I've ever seen.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/105484-Gutmann.pdf

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assignedmale.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Sophie Labelle ") wrote:

Truly makes you think

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kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:

I wrote about Bluesky’s moderation tensions and the White House’s threats and the critical need for open networks that can do broad connection and also care for communities at Tech Policy Press:

https://www.techpolicy.press/trump-administrations-arrival-on-bluesky-highlights-growing-pains-for-open-networks/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gutenberg_org ("Project Gutenberg") wrote:

The Project Gutenberg community mourns the passing of our CEO, Dr. Greg Newby (@gbnewby).

Without his years of leadership, Project Gutenberg wouldn't be what it is today. Learn more about him and his contributions at

https://www.gutenberg.org/about/newby.html

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

Epic score!

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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Smart beds leave sleepers hot and bothered during AWS outage
“Would be great if my bed wasn’t stuck in an inclined position ..."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/smart-beds-leave-sleepers-hot-and-bothered-during-aws-outage/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

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stevefaeembra@mapstodon.space wrote:

Flight down Glencoe, done in a 80s/90s Sci Fi movie style.

Contours done in #QGIS , using data from Ordnance Survey Open ZoomStack

Used a trick to do hidden faces removal 1/2 :)

#Blender

Attachments:

• gifv: Flight down Glencoe in 3d. The hillside is shown as glowing neon contour lines, in a sci-fi movie style. The flight heads from east to west, banking a couple of times to turn corners.

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mattsheffield ("Matthew Sheffield") wrote:

I think I'm going to stop boosting all Bluesky bridged accounts.

The authors want the audience of the fediverse but don't want to engage. That seems disrespectful to fedi posters.

I get that we all have only so much time. Still, a Bluesky-bridged account is a zombie account in my opinion. Why boost it?

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kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record") wrote:

Mike Johnson has not heard anything about the entire East Wing being demolished and cannot speak to that.

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hayao.lol@bsky.brid.gy ("Garth Marenghi's Catbus") wrote:

running for president in '28, my entire campaign is just two posters, one picturing prominent members of the current administration beneath the banner headline "PRISON", and another of all the leading techbros beneath the banner headline 'WE WILL TAKE ALL THEIR MONEY'

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

Disclosure: I have no tattoos *specifically* because there's nothing I'm sure I would endorse having on me for life. The one exception would be if I lose my current wedding band, I lost two of them before this one, so Krissy had it engraved on the inside with THE NEXT ONE IS A TATTOO so I agree that if I lose this third one, a tattoo would be totally reasonable (also, I've managed to keep this one for 20 years, go me).

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

While I'm posting oh-so-controversial opinions today: Maybe don't get something permanently inked into your skin that you don't understand the meaning of, I don't know, that just seems like basic due diligence, and if you're about to come in going "that's a lot of ask people to do for a tat" I mean a) is it really and b) IT'S FUCKING ON YOU FOR LIFE maybe that shouldn't be an impulse buy when you're drunk or whatever

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

I'm 100% sure the folks in the comments here going "but there's context" are saying the same thing about the Nazi GOP group chats (sarcastic)

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scattergather@freeradical.zone ("scatter//gather") wrote:

ooh, the xscreensaver that ships with trixie now has a screensaver that slowly flies past transmission towers, thanks @jwz

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gooba42 ("Urzl") wrote:

@quietmarc I'm not sure what the CEO actually does in any company.

The CEO at my current employer has changed like 3 or 4 times since I've been there and literally nothing has changed. It's actually weird anybody cares enough to change them out.

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internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org wrote:

It's official! The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has unanimously declared October 22, 2025 as Internet Archive Day — celebrating our 1️⃣ trillion webpages preserved & our mission to provide universal access to all knowledge.

🔗 Learn more & celebrate with us tonight ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/happy-internet-archive-day/

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

Anti-work & anti-cop stickers by @Krime spotted in Katoomba, NSW

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NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net ("Mark Newton") wrote:

@franksting @ianb Selling a house on the north shore for $3 million yields enough cash to pay for $250 per night hotel rooms for 33 years. Maybe 25 years if you get a room service meal every night.

If you’re in your 70s you probably won’t live longer than that.

So you can live in four-to-five-star luxury with a concierge and silver service chef-prepared meals for the rest of your life.

I first made this observation when the SMH published a story about some old people complaining about how their sprawling Victorian-architecture house was decaying into ruin because they couldn’t afford to maintain it, and had to seal off all of it except for a bedroom, a sitting room, bathroom and kitchen because they couldn’t afford to heat it, because they were eking out a meagre existence on the full pension and didn’t want to sell their house because then they wouldn’t qualify.

And all I could think is that one simple transaction would relieve all that suffering, financial stress and self-imposed artificial poverty, and immeasurably improve their quality of life.

So easy.

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

FYI, the time to fix your Nazi tattoo AND be open about the stupid shit you did and said in the past that you now regret and pledge to spend the rest of your life working to atone for and fix is FUCKING WELL BEFORE you decide to run for public office

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

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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tylersticka@social.lol ("Tyler Sticka") wrote:

All these AI web browsers are making me salty https://tylersticka.com/journal/ai-browsers-ad-nauseam/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
vkc@linuxmom.net ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

In a world where an algorithm is working on programming **you**, right now, to accept complacency, it feels real good to assert control over something minor like "dumping your own ROM" or "ripping your own media".

If someone's pumped about that, don't harsh their buzz by telling them they can get it from a piracy website.

Your snark might make you feel good but if it's diminishing someone else's light, knock that shit off.

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

First Amendment? First Amendment!

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/21/nx-s1-5580738/judge-banned-books-returned-to-military-school-libraries

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

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
rose_alibi@post.lurk.org ("a libi rose from the dead") wrote:

if you, like me, are in the US and relatively stably employed, consider giving (or giving more) to your local food pantry/rescue/bank on your next paycheck. the shutdown means SNAP benefits won't go out and those places are already stretched thin. give money if you can, they know how to stretch a dollar 10x as far as you do.

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

I am fully 36 years old and almost 20 years into a professional career and a man at work just sent me an email beginning with "Afternoon young lady" 😐