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

and now, of course the next problem is making myself wait at least an hour while the brownies cool

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

Still accurate

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jscalzi/post/DNyp1vEZJeg

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

WaPo - The White House has fired all six members of the independent federal agency that had expected to review some of President Trump’s construction projects, including his planned triumphal arch and East Wing ballroom. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/28/trump-arts-commission-firings-ballroom-arch/

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KPBSPublicMedia@flipboard.com wrote:

What are the satellites saying? It's no secret if they're not encrypted.
https://www.kpbs.org/news/science-technology/2025/10/28/what-are-the-satellites-saying-its-no-secret-if-theyre-not-encrypted?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into KPBS News @kpbs-news-KPBSPublicMedia

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SouthDakota ("South Dakota Dep. Propaganda") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nhc_atlantic_bot@vmst.io ("NHC Atlantic Bot") wrote:

POWERFUL MELISSA MOVING TOWARD EASTERN CUBA.

CONDITIONS EXPECTED TO DETERIORATE RAPIDLY OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.

As of 8:00 PM EDT Tue Oct 28 the center of Melissa was located near 18.8, -77.2 with movement NNE at 8 mph. The minimum central pressure was 950 mb with maximum sustained winds of about 125 mph.

Track: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics%5Fat3+shtml/234227.shtml?cone
Advisory 30a: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT3+shtml/282341.shtml

#Melissa

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

Very soon we will see which Americans actually love their neighbors.

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

look at that monster https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-72.89,22.75,2437

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blyxyas@tech.lgbt ("Alejandra Gonzalez") wrote:

The 1.91 Clippy Changelog Cat Contest is open! Make sure to submit you kitty-cat to gain internet points and hopefully, get your cat the honour of being nominated as the next CAT OF THE CHANGELOG

Resubmissions are permitted!

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/pull/15971

#rust #foss #floss #programming

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

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

baking brownies, because I need chocolate

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.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Carved a pumpkin!

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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.

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!

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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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

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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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/