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Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz, but scary") wrote:

2005: Don’t trust anything you see on Wikipedia

2025: Don’t trust anything you see online unless you saw it on Wikipedia

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭🕹️") wrote:

Software in 2025

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
ThePSF@fosstodon.org ("Python Software Foundation") wrote:

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html
🧵
https://www.python.org/sponsors/application/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
bazurk@social.lol ("ᗪave") wrote:

If you are able too financially pick up a 12 pack of cup-o-noodles or mac and cheese and leave it out with whatever candy you do during this Halloween. It will be appreciated by some parents.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
NewsDesk@flipboard.social ("Flipboard News Desk") wrote:

The U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and his committee usually make decisions about monetary policy based on a wealth of information. But when they meet tomorrow, they won't have access to stats like monthly employment and detailed inflation data because of the federal shutdown. Jason Reed, a professor of finance, writes for @TheConversationUS about what information the Fed will use to set interest rates, and where the U.S. economy might be heading.

https://flip.it/gsuTdP

#USGovernment #USNews #USEconomy #FederalReserve #JeromePowell

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

this looks like a kickass job

https://social.opensource.org/@osi/115447493796110117

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
osi@opensource.org ("Open Source Initiative :osi:") wrote:

The OSI is seeking its next Executive Director, responsible for advancing its mission, growing and diversifying its funding base, and fostering a global, inclusive community of stakeholders. https://opensource.org/blog/open-source-initiative-now-accepting-your-application-for-executive-director

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/

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

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
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!

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.

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

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

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.)