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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Okay, so, I'm at Walmart. Let's see if they even take these. I'm trying three cameras first.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Holy shit. This is my mom’s collection of undeveloped disposable cameras, some dating back to 1998. Should I try to get them developed? I doubt all of them would work, but maybe some?

#Photography

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Looks like there is a new in-person #BloodOnTheClocktower game from #NoRollsBarred.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5lsx3uk2lw

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Every five years or so, I get me a new pair of New Balance 997s (Made in USA). I still have my old pairs and I just decided I’m going to write in marker on the soles all the countries and cities I walked in with them.

Here’s my new ones! I bought them hoping they see as much of the world as the others.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
anke@social.scribblers.club ("Anke") wrote:

@mekkaokereke @mhoye
For another example: There was a study in 2023 where they tried to study differences between "fast" and "slow" learners, and found instead that everyone learns at the same pace. Kids who seemed to learn faster actually had prior exposure; an example mentioned was already knowiing at least some fractions from baking at home.

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/62750/a-group-of-scientists-set-out-to-study-quick-learners-then-they-discovered-they-dont-exist

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
grimalkina ("Dr. Cat Hicks") wrote:

Someone I know who is a young grad student studying genetics posted on LinkedIn that his grant was defunded, with zero political commentary literally just sharing the information about what his work was, and got drowned in hundreds of DOGE supporting, sickening comments attacking every single thing about him and making up endless other lies besides.

I have been online as a researcher for a while, but it's never been like this for science. It's like science gamergate happening everywhere

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ancient_catbus@jorts.horse ("Catbus of Lost Souls") wrote:

Wes Anderson saw these computers as a child and never recovered

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david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

@lina @commdserv

I can’t speak for fd.o, but I was in a leadership position on another project where we got a similar case disastrously wrong, so I might be able to illuminate how that happens.

The first mistake we made was not to differentiate harassment from conflict resolution. Most of the issues we had between contributors were personality clashes or technical disagreements that escalated. As you say, most of these have both parties acting in good faith. The main thing that the project needs to do is deescalate and get the people involved to talk again. This is absolutely the wrong approach in cases of harassment. There were two key causes of this:

First, (as you mentioned) no one involved had any formal (or, in most cases, informal) training in how to deal with harassment. Most employers offer this, but it’s rarely compulsory. After the initial incident, I signed up for this training with my employer (as did another colleague involved with the same project). This highlighted some of the things we did wrong, but it was quite illuminating who was there: we were the only men on the course who were there voluntarily. Most of the people were women who were there because they had been targets of harassment or bullying and wanted to understand the processes better. The rest were men who had been forced to take the training because they had been accused of harassment (and, from a lot of their comments, I suspect had been engaged in it long term).

Most F/OSS (or other community-led) projects don’t have any formal structure for providing this kind of training. And the work-provided training wasn’t sufficient. There were a bunch of ‘and this is where you need to escalate it to HR specialists (or the police)’ moments, but volunteer projects don’t have those experts. One of the biggest things a F/OSS charity could do to improve the situation would be to hire real experts that projects can use as consultants. Companies that back projects could help out be loaning HR as well as engineers to the projects.

Second, we had very poor visibility into what happened. There’s a natural tendency for humans to trust the first person who explains a situation. In our case, it was made worse because the only thing that happened on project infrastructure (and so the thing that we saw) was an IRC exchange where one project member connected and had a go at another member then left. We didn’t see the backstory, which involved a load of gamergate nonsense on Twitter and elsewhere (and those of us not in the Twitterverse had only a very vague idea of what Gamergate was. I thought it was a handful of people who were upset some game they didn’t like won an award, I had no idea that it was a coordinated harassment campaign). When a lot of the things that happened are private messages, or in non-project spaces, it’s hard to know what the real context is. We saw a load of things quoted out of context that made both people look bad. We also had friends of both people jumping in and defending them and attacking the other.

It really takes weeks of investigation to properly handle this kind of thing and dig to the truth. And this compounds the problem of the people dealing with it not having the right training. And, unless they are employees of a foundation backing the project, they also lack the time to do a good job. And, again, the assumption that people are basically decent (which is normally valid) hurts when one of the people is not and is actively trying to subvert the process. The evidence from an honest person reporting what happened and a dishonest person cherry-picking out-of-context comments will look very similar. Unless you personally know the people involved (which brings its own problems of bias) then it’s very hard to work out who is telling the truth. This is even harder when one or both people involved are highly visible in the community, because they will both be publicly sharing a narrative and one is mostly accurate (but only mostly: no one is 100% objective when they’re being personally attacked) while the other is a carefully crafted fabrication, but there’s pressure to respond quickly because both are public and the community is full of people who believe either one and are complaining.

In the last few years, the problem has become worse. A lot of CoC complaints now are malicious. Far-right folks absolutely love baiting people into saying things that look bad when quoted out of context, then deleting the context and reporting the remark. They make a game out of trying to get people kicked out of projects. So the workload has gone up, which compounds the other problems.

I wish I had a good answer for how to improve this.

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

“Michael Tsai - Blog - What Happened to Apple’s Legendary Attention to Detail?”

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/10/24/what-happened-to-apples-legendary-attention-to-detail/

> This morning, the “d” key on my keyboard stopped working. This has happened several times over the last few months. I know it’s a software issue because the problem also occurs with other keyboards

The list of issues is both mind-boggling and long. Something's gone seriously wrong

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya "Lethal Precision" Bidniss :CIAverified: 🇺🇸") wrote:

David Super, the Carmack Waterhouse professor of law and economics at Georgetown University Law Center, said while Congress has given the government a broad authority to accept gifts, spending those funds without congressional appropriation would be unconstitutional and a violation of the Antideficiency Act.

“Whether the government is or is not lawfully paying the troops salaries can’t depend on this gift. It has to depend on whether there is another appropriation available for this cost, and I don’t think there is. And if there isn’t, then they can take the gift and hold it, but they can’t spend it without approval of Congress,” Super told Federal News Network. #military #DOD https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/10/can-dod-use-private-funds-to-pay-troops-during-shutdown/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

In 1537 Pope Paul III issued “Sublimis Deus” forbidding slavery and punishing those who do so with automatic excommunication. This didn't stop the bishop in Alabama or priests in Georgetown from owning slaves during the US Civil War, and #MAGA Catholics are good with that, but they don't want Biden to receive communion because his party platform affirms bodily autonomy for women. #02

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

It's neat how if you ask Claude Code questions about itself it can answer them, because it knows how to fetch a Markdown index of its own online documentation and then navigate to the right place

I wish more LLM tools would implement the same pattern! https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/24/claude-code-docs-map/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
copter_chief@mstdn.party ("CopterDoctor") wrote:

Remember NAFTA? Trump got rid of it & passed the USMC act. He claimed it was the best trade deal ever between the United States, Mexico & Canada.

Now, he says Mexico & Canada are ripping us off with the worst trade deal ever.

Dude, you negotiated & signed it into law. Don’t remember? You bragged about it on YouTube.

Now, your little feelings got hurt by an advertisement that played Reagan talking about tariffs & you stop talking about trade with them.

Dude, grow up. Better yet, croak!🐸

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

When a private entity pays DoD $130 million, anonymously, to pay troops during a shutdown, that’s a bribe. That’s someone buying something.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
denisedwheeler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Denise Wheeler") wrote:

Please watch. Please share. Trump's masked thugs attacked a blind protestor in South Portland last weekend and dragged him away like an animal. The man is 4'6" and legally blind. A US citizen. "They picked the weakest person they could find," he told The Oregonian/OregonLive.

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• video: 2b4073a11db8f22c.mp4

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

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

I had a brain idea so I made a picture of it. #pride

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

We get sidetracked in-game by a discussion with morality

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/86sy3tUFmRKPf8XYtY7HKB

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

good lord,that is a helluva pension

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/explained-retired-nypd-chief-john-chells-295k-disability-pension-approved-by-nyc-police-pension-fund/articleshow/124805798.cms

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Embrace true happiness, and become one with the socks 🧦

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• video: Cute video of a happy purring black cat who is snuggled under a pile of socks in the sock bin. Human: You helping? Kitty: mrr Human: Yes Kitty: mew Human: Are you one with the socks? Kitty: *half blinks while purring* Human: *zooms in* you just crying in there Kitty: meow *rolls head to side* Human: Do you want some more socks? Kitty: Meow! Human: Yeah? You want some more socks? *places socks around head* Kitty: *purr purr* Human: How's that? Kitty: (happy) mew

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

You helped us find a defense correspondent once. Let's do it again: your favorite Ukrainian media outlet longs for a deputy editor-in-chief.

One that's in for the long game. One that will take us to the next level. Let's go
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/23/vacancy-deputy-editor-in-chief/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Easedale Beck on a rainy day.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Cumbria

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jockr ("Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴") wrote:

Earth’s Falling Reflectivity Means the Planet Is Getting Darker—And Hotter | Scientific American

https://archive.is/2025.10.22-151352/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earths-falling-reflectivity-means-the-planet-is-getting-darker-and-hotter/

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

science

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Checking in on this. Not too bad!

No composable moderation yet, but the rest of the list looks pretty solid!

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113506002032852095

So Mastodon got quote tweets and improved moderation tools, and the world didn't end.

Again, I'm not here to argue with people, or to ask for your permission. I'm here to help make Mastodon better, safer, and more welcoming for Black people.

If that's your goal too, then cool! We can talk about how best to accomplish that.👍🏿

If that's something that you are fundamentally against, because you think everything is just fine how it is, or because you don't want millions more people on the Fediverse, then we are against each other. We don't have to talk about it. We don't need to meet half way, or have debates about it. We can just get right into it.

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

Me and @uoou on one of our livestreams

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• video: Chris and Drew talking some shite about the time police.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jgordon@appdot.net ("John Gordon") wrote:

Anyone else in US notice some consumer items are in short supply? A few times in the past week I've run into supply issues that surprised me. Today it was an REI cool weather running pant -- at a time of year when they would sell a lot of them.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tzimmer_history ("Thomas Zimmer") wrote:

As their vision of an ethno-state dominated by wealthy white Christian men has come under pressure, they believe any measure – regardless of how extreme – is now justified.

The conflict that shapes America today is the latest iteration of a very old struggle.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
funhouseradio@mastodon.world ("FunHouse Radio") wrote:

► https://FunHouseRadio.com <- TUNE IN
#meme #memes #scifi #cartoon #comic

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

The local activists and organizers who were the beating heart of No Kings Day are continuing to lead the fight on the ground in your community. Check out our map to see what groups are near you and get in touch with your local organizers: http://indivisible.org/groups #NoKings

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• video: ad42b55f5cf2bd34.mp4