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

Wow. Anna Krylov thinks that asking her to review a paper is a sign that science has gone too far in pandering to feminists.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/28/thats-some-persecution-complex-youve-got-anna-krylov/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
rgadellaa ("Roderick Gadellaa") wrote:

@trygve_lie @jensimmons This sounds to me like a certain browser engine [1] was 7~8 yrs late to the party, and by the time they implemented Web Push, everyone who needed it already built a native app?

[1] which happens to be the *only* browser engine available on iOS

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

Morning looms over Montego Bay as Jamaicans await landfall of Hurricane Melissa
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/world/video/hurricane-melissa-montego-bay-digvids-intldsk?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World News @world-news-CNN

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

This is fine.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/28/patrick-gelsinger-christian-ai-gloo-silicon-valley

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

too much money rots the brain

https://mastodon.world/@paninid/115452139488287505

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

This just in: revolutionary new AI rewrites the sum of all human knowledge without bias.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

Everyone knows Jesus was a billionaire.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kb6nu@mastodon.radio ("Dan KB6NU") wrote:

Got my new Logbook of the World certificate this morning, installed it, and I'm back online (with my Linux computer) with LOTW. That was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be. #hamradio #QLog #LOTW

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot ("Bodhipaksa") wrote:

@pluralistic Nice try, but then again, there’s the Maya Angelou quote (don’t know if she actually said it), “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ufwupdates@union.place ("UFW") wrote:

"Eri" is harvesting olives near Redley CA and often ends up making below minimum wage. "Farm labor is not valued. The bosses don't care. We earn very little and the work is very risky with us climbing a 16ft ladder. It's the rainy season & our checks are very low." #WeFeedYou

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

Also to celebrate the 50k followers milestone, please accept this picture of a cat, cats, of course, being the natural currency of social media.

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

Harmless and easy to kill, the criteria used by bullies everywhere.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/28/theyre-harmless-lets-kill-them/

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

We're expecting a heavy snow storm later today and I'm trying my hardest to resist the temptation to just crawl under a blanket and hibernate until it's over 😝

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

A taste of what it's like to be from Seattle.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/28/using-identity-to-sell-beer/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSqsPNeB12U

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

Anyone built WordPress with ACF blocks v3?

https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/acf-6-6-released/

(I've started to throw away Gutenberg entirely unless the client requests it)

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

reading: "Start implementing view transitions on your websites today"
https://piccalil.li/blog/start-implementing-view-transitions-on-your-websites-today/

FYI — Safari 26 has a nasty bug that can break view transitions:
https://codepen.io/dbushell/full/bNEGRzo

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

Last days of autumn: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos/last-days-of-autumn-2025/

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

Last days of autumn

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos/last-days-of-autumn-2025/

The transition from autumn to winter this year has been sharp here in Iceland. But here are a few photos of the last days of autumn here in Hveragerði.

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

remember when you could just edit and save files

and you didn't need to login to a cloud

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

Video: Evil deeds vs evil people with @uoou
https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/86sy3tUFmRKPf8XYtY7HKB

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ekis ("she hacked you") wrote:

"AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say" - Guardian

The "research paper" was a tweet by an AI company

The "experiment" was asking the LLM to shut down

A model is ~not~ shutdown ~ever~ by asking a model to shut itself down

*The only possible response is a hallucination*

You shut down a model by turning off the deterministic software running it; so works every time w/o fail

Yet Guardian's shill tech writers just report AI industry tweets as if it was fact

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
bignose@theblower.au wrote:

@yakkoj
> a "AI is going just great" in the spirit of "web3 is going just great"

For my purposes, @davidgerard has that covered, with https://pivot-to-ai.com/

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

#NoKings fights for the absence of something, and are silent about the presence of anything. Ironically, this deft maneuvering away from any real substance is to attract the largest number of voters to its rally, which sounds exactly like the strategy that lost the #democrats the election. Because when it comes to setting your principles aside for mass appeal, liberals only go one way—towards centrism. The younger generations see right through that. They'll never show up to a centrist rally.

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

you're not "serverless" until you struggle to update a website because you've forgotten where it's hosted and how to deploy

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

reading: "I Built the Same App 10 Times: Evaluating Frameworks for Mobile Performance" https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/10-kanban-boards/

i may need a second coffee this morning :sweat_blob:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TonyStark@progressivecafe.social ("Tony, Pretty Much") wrote:

Trump handed 50 chemical plants a free pass to poison communities with cancer-causing pollution.

Now environmental groups have to sue him to try and stop him. Sure would have been easier to stop him with a vote.

Community, Health, and Environmental Groups Sue to Stop President Trump’s Unlawful Toxic Air Pollution Exemptions:
https://www.nrdc.org/press-releases/community-health-and-environmental-groups-sue-stop-president-trumps-unlawful-toxic

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

@kibcol1049
This is close to my heart. My partner lost her sight to macular degeneration.

A Guardian article published yesterday.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/20/experts-hail-remarkable-success-of-electronic-implant-in-restoring-sight

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Modern C++ is just like Rust, except the borrow checker is you, at 3 a.m., whispering "I think this is fine."

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

I was thinking how weird it would be if movies evolved like short form video feeds where the goal is to keep the person in the theater and not necessarily to make a good movie.

Then I realized oh shit that's how we got reality TV

Boosted by kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

The Python Software Foundation shows more spine than every single tech giant in just one single decision.

> Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core to the PSF’s values

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html