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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

@tehstu As I point out in the blog post that I linked to, this is because several of the stalkerware apps include instructions to disable Google Play Protect as part of the installation process.

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

jury nullification of injustice is A Good Thing

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-s1-5600772/trump-justice-federal-surge-subway-sandwich

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

Subway sandwich thrower found not guilty in D.C. jury rebuke
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-s1-5600772/trump-justice-federal-surge-subway-sandwich?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-npr

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
bruno@rocha.social ("Bruno Cesar Rocha ★ rochacbruno") wrote:

The #gotosocial puzzle from Exploding Kittens game #gotosocial :GoToSocial:

https://www.explodingkittens.com/products/the-slothness-of-memory

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
theinternet@intuitivefuture.com ("The Internet Review") wrote:

Fun fact:

If you’re a #Mastodon admin, you can browse through custom emojis installed throughout the #fediverse and even copy from other instances over to your own! TIL 🤯

:blob_cat_aww: :awesome: :ireview: :blobcatrainbow:

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

Trying out a new little project. Check out https://freebooters.uk

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

Latest Freebooters podcast: Grifted Reform voters, ethics, and Divinity Original Sin - Livestream chat

https://freebooters.uk/media/grifted-reform-voters-ethics-and-divinity-original-sin-livestream-chat.mp3

Livestream discussion blending gaming and philosophy. We start by exploring the lore and morality of Divinity: Original Sin, then dive deep into questions about ethics, age, and the value of life, from trolley problems to utilitarian dilemmas. The chat evolves into a nuanced debate about modern UK p...

#Freebooters

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

After discussions with #smolweb fans, it appears to be a good idea to add thead, tbody and tfoot to the smolweb #HTML subset.

Their semantic roles add more accessibility to the table structure.

https://smolweb.org/specs/element-table.html

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

Studio Gallery in pac heights in sf is opening their annual tiny show tomorrow. I've got a couple bits in it. I'll be at the Sunday 9th November opening reception 2 - 3pm, if you must have my presence in order to look at the tiny (and a few huge) pieces of art.

more deets: https://www.studiogallerysf.com/tiny-2025

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

Is it my imagination or is Threads being wonky with links today

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

Justice is on a roll

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/politics/sean-dunn-dc-sandwich-thrower-verdict

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cgervasi@fosstodon.org ("Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥") wrote:

TIL that aliquot just means "some of" a sample. I've been working as an electronics engineer at a #chemistry company for 7 years, and until now I thought taking an aliquot was some complicated chemistry procedure. 😂 But it just means taking a little bit of something. It comes from Latin. I'm going to think of it like Spanish "alguna cantidad," which probably is etymologically related.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
spenot@mas.to ("Spenot") wrote:

@justvanrossum Me too, however... "Beyond proving hallucinations were inevitable, the OpenAI research revealed that industry evaluation methods actively encouraged the problem. Analysis of popular benchmarks, including GPQA, MMLU-Pro, and SWE-bench, found nine out of 10 major evaluations used binary grading that penalized “I don’t know” responses while rewarding incorrect but confident answers." https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ndw@toot.wales ("Norm Tovey-Walsh") wrote:

Hey, accountants! Suppose I have two accounts A and B. A is a 32 day notice account. On Jan 1, I move $100 from A to B. That’s recorded as a withdrawl from A on Jan 1. On Feb 2, a $101.23 deposit is recorded to B. Thats $100 plus 32 days interest. How on earth does one reconcile this in double-entry bookkeeping? Where do I get/put the extra $1.23?

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

okay, this is seriously screwed up

https://globalnews.ca/news/11485001/russian-snipers-canadian-rifles-sanctions/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

This is a good example of the power of #language to reframe positions.

#GeorgeLakoff would be proud.
https://journa.host/@stevebenen/115503806067079411

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

as an early adopter and with the 250 character limitation, i was part of a cohort of people pushing the boundaries on how much meaning ―not just information, but meaning― i could pack into a tweet.

in digital anthropology this is called a folksonomy and every single Twitter feature came out of how people like me were using the platform to create meaning.

the first example of this was the HASHTAG. its “invention” is attribited to Chris Messina, but it’s use was created in community… 🧵

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

NYTimes: “The boldest move so far is a push by the major food companies for federal legislation that would take power away from states that have been adopting tough new rules and would place it solely under the authority of slower-moving federal regulators.”

this fight is going to be interesting 🍿

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

Okay I need to share my workout smoothie with yall because I think it’s pretty good:

Spinach
Almond Milk
Water
Chia seeds and flax seeds
Frozen berry mix (and frozen cherries)
Protein powder
Greek yogurt
Cocoa powder
A little Splenda

It’s pretty, pretty, pretty good.

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

"Ethnonationalists also ruled this country in the 1910s and 1920s… Wilson… segregated the federal government. Confederate statues were erected. “The Birth of a Nation”… was all the rage. The 1924 Immigration Act imposed racial quotas to defend the Anglo-Saxon character of the country.

Americans like to think of our country as one of the oldest democracies in the world. But we only truly became a liberal democracy in the 1960s, in the living memory of many Americans."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/opinion/jd-vance-blood-and-soil-america.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

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

"In 2024, the Americans who decided the election voted for lower prices and a lower cost of living. What they got instead were soldiers on the streets, masked agents leading violent immigration raids, arbitrary tariffs, new conflicts abroad, dictatorial aspirations, endless chaos and a president more interested in taking a wrecking ball to the White House to build his garish ballroom than delivering anything of value to the public."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/opinion/trump-mamdani-spanberger-sherrill-democrats.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

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

https://adactio.com/journal/22235

☝️ wise words in this link

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

It's interesting that YouTube has adopted a bastardized version of Markdown for comments. One asterisk on either side of the word indicates bold on yt, but the standard md says that's italics.

Anyway, I love #Markdown, don't love the creator so much, but think md should flourish across the web, even the corporate web. Just keep the standard for goodness sake.

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

‘“Jesus says very clearly that at the end of the world, we’re going to be asked, you know, ‘How did you receive the foreigner? Did you receive him and welcome him or not?’” the pope said’

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/trump-bishops-communion.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
xankarn@mastodon.online ("Alexander Karn") wrote:

Go fuck yourselves, NYT.

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

Untangled!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/06/untangled/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

Australia has so much solar that it’s offering everyone free electricity. “The program would require electricity retailers to provide free electricity to everyone for at least three hours a day…” https://electrek.co/2025/11/04/australia-has-so-much-solar-that-its-offering-everyone-free-electricity-3h-day/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

Meta, Meta, Meta. So Meta. This Reuters report is 🔥

"Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show"

"Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day. Among its responses to suspected rogue marketers: charging them a premium for ads – and issuing reports on ’Scammiest Scammers.’

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/?utm%5Fsource=substack&utm%5Fmedium=email

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

Good

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/operation-midway-blitz-injunction/