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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

fixed that for you

#Wikipedia

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

Shibari day.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/28/its-a-feeding-day/

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

Blood would be spurting from my actual arteries if I tried this with any of my cats

RE: https://www.threads.com/@ami.l.berger/post/DQXAvj-Efh5

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

Old DVDs (media notes): https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/old-dvds/

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

Old DVDs (media notes)

What I've been watching lately.

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/old-dvds/

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

tough draw for my Interop 2026 proposal lol

adios styled RSS feeds 🫡

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/CxL4gYZeSJA/m/yNs4EsD5AQAJ

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
cczona@hachyderm.io ("Carina C. Zona") wrote:

> Ultimately, however, the value of the work and the size of the grant were not more important than practicing our values and retaining the freedom to support every part of our community. The PSF Board voted unanimously to withdraw our application.

https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/115446996011967190

This is how to lead with integrity and commitment to the community. Kudos to the PSF board members for a courageous decision. If we want this kind of leadership to continue to be the norm, we all have to stand behind it using both voices and money. $1,500,000 was a lot for such a small organization to forgo.

A) Tell your employer it's time to become a PSF sponsor, or to increase PSF sponsorship level. It's so important that the core funding base be diverse and sustainable.

B) As an individual, if you are active in any aspect of Python community this year then also make sure you are a member. The board is going to have to defend themselves in the next election. You need to be eligible to cast a vote for them or other candidates who would make the same call.

I'm so glad, and proud, that Python community always walks-the-walk wrt its professed values. Political and financial pressures like these are where you learn which entities gladly fold DEI as soon as political winds change (e.g. Google shut down Women Techmakers) and which entities firmly decline to rationalize that a fat check somehow justifies throwing community members under the bus.

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

Oooh, that's going to make the Republicans mad.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/28/good-news-from-minnesota/

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

Attachments:

• video: eca56a43b63fb180.mp4

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/