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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
vmstan@vmst.io ("Michael Stanclift") wrote:

I’ve seen this movie before.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/28/lab-monkey-escape-mississippi

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

baking brownies, because I need chocolate

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Microsoft has refused to comment on the White House using Halo in their anti immigration campaigns.


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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Carved a pumpkin!

A small pumpkin with a smiling face carved into it, lit from the inside with a tea candle. On either side, a curious cat checking it out: one is black (Jiji), one white with orange patches (Peaches).

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt ("Nina Kalinina") wrote:

TIL Apple IME for Japanese supports IME for vertical text and it is awesome. It is also probably the first time I'm seeing a vertically-oriented drop-down (drop-left?) menu in a non-game user interface.

A screenshot of a vertical text editor in Japanese, showing Apple IME  - multiple columns of options for the word conversion to kanji

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

Look at this ridiculous little friend Dana gave me from Yukai Engineering.

He blows on your hot tea!

Battery operated silicon cat that blows air and sits in the lip of a cup or bowl. A nekojita FuFu by Yukai Engineering

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Boosted by jwz:
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Eight years ago today, while in the Trump motorcade, I saw a bicyclist give the bird to the president’s vehicle. I tweeted an AFP photographer’s picture of Juli Briskman. It went viral. She got fired. Then she got elected. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/09/trump-middle-finger-julie-briskman-virginia

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Boosted by jwz:
babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roOoOsevelt 👻🎃") wrote:

And it's done! This one is going to a new home tomorrow so I've had to get it fully hollowed out in advance, which means we can see it lit up.

This is pumpkin #15 , I think? Something like that

Ornately carved pumpkin with a big sharp toothed grin
Ornately carved pumpkin with a big sharp toothed grin
Ornately carved pumpkin with a big sharp toothed grin
Ornately carved pumpkin with a big sharp toothed grin

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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

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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

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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

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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/

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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

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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.)

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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.

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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

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

such an appropriate use of resources (NOT!)

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

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

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

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

California State officials observing US Department of Justice officials observing a long line of smiling voters in a polling place.

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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

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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

Tweet from @meowmental titled "loving the future" showing a smart watch. The watch displays "You have 2 reminders on your shopping list: washing powder, and that's not what I said."

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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/

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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

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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

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

:neocat_box:

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

A canvas of blurry red, with dark blue text which reads "blastogenesis".
A canvas of blurry green, with green text which reads "ozonosphere".

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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/

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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.