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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Paulatics@mstdn.ca ("Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦") wrote:

In the wee small hours of the morning, the Alberta legislature passed a bill that preemptively invoked the notwithstanding clause, ordering striking teachers back to work, and imposing on them a contract they had already rejected. Today, by coincidence, the Senate's Transport and Communications committee began a study of strikes in the transport sector. Since we had two great expert witnesses before us - labour lawyer Paul Champ and business professor Ian Lee - I seized the opportunity to ask what precedent Danielle Smith's bill might set. https://youtu.be/oKSYDrSCx8U?si=ItXTHkQemJOqZLSW #cdnpoli #SenateofCanada #ableg #abpoli #ATA #AirCanada #Alberta #DanielleSmith

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ericschutte@mastodon.nl ("Eric Schutte") wrote:

@JonChevreau @obot50549535 @georgetakei
Some background about the link between an MRI and Alzheimer.
#uspol #RemoveTrump #RemoveGOP #DementiaDon

https://radiopaedia.org/articles/alzheimer-disease-1

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
franksting@theblower.au ("Frank’s Ting") wrote:

The so-called ‘ceasefire’ in #Gaza will only begin when someone takes this genocidal maniac out of the equation https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41732280.html

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

"It's flagrantly illegal, under both domestic and international law, to summarily kill civilians who are suspected of committing crimes. And for this reason, members of Congress from across the political spectrum, former government officials who served in presidential administrations of both parties, international bodies and numerous civil society organizations have all agreed that these strikes constitute murder, pure and simple. "

https://fair.org/home/the-governments-own-disclosures-demonstrate-these-strikes-are-not-lawful/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
servelan@newsie.social ("Servelan") wrote:

US citizen, 67, has ribs broken by Border Patrol agents after being dragged out of car while driving home into street they’d blocked off | The Independent

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-citizen-assaulted-border-patrol-chicago-halloween-parade-b2853988.html

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

Spent an hour updating an old local #Python code to a yet another current vision of how project metadata should be described.

Somehow we as a discipline (software engineering) can't quite figure out a way for code not to break if you simply don't touch it for a while.

(I'm just grumbling, don't mind me.)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

I’ve commented before on the heroism of the federal district court judges attempting to use law appropriately to rein in a lawless, anti-constitutional Executive branch. Calling them heroes is not hyperbolic. In Nazi Germany, not a single judge stood up to Hitler and his goons. Many U.S. district court judges are showing their professional and ethical mettle.

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

Massive police raid in Rio de Janeiro leaves at least 64 dead
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/americas/brazil-police-raid-rio-de-janeiro-latam-intl?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World News @world-news-CNN

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

such an appropriate use of resources (NOT!)

https://mastodon.social/@hstone519/115453735387993120

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

https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo/115453703444498862

observing observers observing voters... we live in a cartoon now

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

Great news: Today, we have managed to distribute our Forgejo instance across two servers. A main instance still handles most traffic, but requests from #CodebergPages are now handled by another server. Going forward, we'll try to route more read-only traffic there to distribute the load.

This is an important milestone, because such a setup was never tested with #Forgejo at this scale.

This should improve availability of both Codeberg.org and Codeberg Pages.

Details: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/259

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell 🏴") wrote:

Can't wait for AI to be making DNS decisions

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell 🏴") wrote:

Practical LLM Security Advice from the NVIDIA AI Red Team

(from October 02, but I missed this when it came out)

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/practical-llm-security-advice-from-the-nvidia-ai-red-team/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SidFudd@4bear.com ("Taylor Jessen") wrote:

And AS IF THAT WEREN'T AWESOME ENOUGH, the open reel on which we found "Tunnel" also contained "The Sword and the Stoned", the second version that Firesign performed on December 17, 1967 from which we were missing the first minute and a half. That show likewise is now restored and available for free download from the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/ft-lat-mm-12-the-sword-the-stoned-truncated-restored

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SidFudd@4bear.com ("Taylor Jessen") wrote:

As buyers of Firesign Theatre's "Live at the Magic Mushroom" know, our reissue contained every Magic Mushroom play except "The Last Tunnel to Fresno", because no copy was known. YOU WILL NEVER GUESS what just showed up.

Yes, 58 years late but digging fast, the prison-camp-escape mini-epic returns, ripped from the maw of the historical void and now up at Archive.org FOR FREE:

https://archive.org/details/ft-lat-mm-02a-the-last-tunnel-to-fresno

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

:neocat_box:

Attachments:

• video: Video of a bobcat playing in a chewy box while purring and playing in the cardboard box like a happy kitty. The big cat sanctuary is outside with snow on the ground, and an animal house to sleep in at night can be seen in the backbround. In another scene at the very end of the video, the danger kitty can be seen munching on something in box like a beef jerky stick (though I'm not sure what it actually is.)

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

Bill Gates makes a stunning claim about climate change | CNN Business:

"Climate change is not going to wipe out humanity, he argued, and past efforts that strive for achieving zero carbon emissions have made real progress."

I’m sure this has nothing to do with the energy-guzzling data centers Microsoft is building. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/business/bill-gates-climate-change

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:

You stole milk from our breasts so we couldn’t feed our own kids. WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:

So... let me get this straight... he took a dementia test, then had an MRI? Clearly, nothing to see here.

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

I'm playing around with making randomly generated images and seeing if anything interesting comes out. I quite enjoyed these. The green one made me think of @ozoned

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

That's because they're racist as fuck or willing to be told how to think by people who are racist as fuck, which is just being racist as fuck with extra steps

https://consequence.net/2025/10/bad-bunny-super-bowl-show-partisan-split-poll/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Ashedryden@xoxo.zone ("Ashe Dryden") wrote:

Do any personal #wiki folks have suggestions for organizing complex subjects and ideas without things getting lost? I have a lot of topics that feed into and off of one another. I use #obsidian if that makes a difference.

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/