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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
croyle@wandering.shop ("David Croyle") wrote:

Oh, deer.

Early #caturday offering. #cat #CatsOfMastodon

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@adam/115628649162992170

Imagine being so hung up on petty details like "who did it first" that you misunderstand simple statements, and then you use those misunderstandings to fuel your claim that Wikipedia hallucinates more than ChatGPT does.

Sheesh.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
macdude22@oldbytes.space wrote:

Hi Fedi friends! I’m having a bit of a philosophical difference of opinion with my current employer (both technical and ethical) I am seeking a new role and would appreciate your support. If you hear of any opportunities or just want to catch up, please send me a message or comment in thread. I’d love to connect.

About me & what I’m looking for:

💼 I’m looking for System Administrator, Information Technology, or Solutions Engineer roles. I would be open to pivoting to Information Security roles.

🌎 I’m open to roles in Iowa, Wisconsin, remote or hybrid.

⭐ I’ve previously worked at The University of Iowa Health Care, Grinnell College. I have extensive experience with Apple platform administration and integration of Apple devices and services in heterogeneous environments.

#macadmins #appleinenterprise #systemadministration #jamf #opentowork

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rejinl@masto.nyc ("Rejin") wrote:

Hegseth and the henchmen who followed his orders to murder these people in international waters, better face consequences if this regime is ever overthrown.
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115628553790727594
#USPol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rahmstorf@fediscience.org ("Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf") wrote:

A sub-field of science looks at whether the Atlantic ocean circulation #AMOC has weakened. Direct measurements suggest yes but only started in 2004. So people look at temperature and salinity data.
A new study finds a robust slowdown fingerprint at 1000–2000 m depth.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02793-1

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

this is seriously Not Good

https://fediscience.org/@rahmstorf/115627205666672953

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

Running my NPM checks again today, I see eight remaining infected packages still circulating on the Microsoft owned platform.

Unlike nodejs package index https://socket.dev NPM does not show ANY security warnings on these package's pages.

It's pretty wild that these known compromised packages have been circulating for four days now with now response or action from Microsoft despite it being one of the largest security stories this month.

#NPM #microsoft #GitHub #Sha1Hulud #cybersecurity

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
denisedwheeler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Denise Wheeler") wrote:

Black Friday Reminder: The victim of a Republican war on immigrants was granted asylum by a Republican, got his hands on guns the Republicans make available, and shot two people carrying out illegal orders by a Republican. That is the real narrative.

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

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MAKS23 ("MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦") wrote:

💥🛳️ According to preliminary information, the tanker Kairos, formerly Philikon, was damaged. It transports Russian oil to India and China.

Attachments:

• video: 1cf0f3fa816f1b26.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
IveyJanette ("Ivey Janette McClelland") wrote:

Because Haiti is Black.

But whites from South Africa are welcome.

#blackmastodon
https://newsone.com/6645000/trump-admin-ending-immigration-protections-haitians/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
theradr.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg") wrote:

Today in I Really Love My Kids, I’m with my teenager at the Medieval Torture Museum

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:

WOW. This was an outstanding episode of Veritasium on the Power Law probability distributions (i.e. probability distributions described by an *exponential* relationship between the variables). I never realized these types of probability distributions are so common, and that they behave in such similar ways to each other.

Even more bizarrely to me, there appear to be many systems in nature that *spontaneously* organize themselves in a way to exhibit Power Law probability distributions. In fact, I suspect that “black swan” events are possibly a symptom of mistakenly perceiving a Power Law distribution phenomenon as one exhibiting a Normal or even Log-Normal distribution.

#math #physics #probabilities #blackSwan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBluLfX2F%5Fk

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TexasObserver@texasobserver.social ("Texas Observer") wrote:

“There are enough voters out there who can absolutely turn an election and blow up what they are trying to do.”

New from Edward Brown: A broad coalition in Tarrant County are fighting for the spirit of their community, after GOP redistricting galvanized community organizers into action. https://www.texasobserver.org/tarrant-county-redistricting-grassroots-pushback/

#Republicans #Democrats #activism #democracy #news #politics #USpol #NorthTexas #Texas

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TexasObserver@texasobserver.social ("Texas Observer") wrote:

Featured story: Weeks after a transphobic attack, dozens of #trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming folks gathered on the “free side” of #Austin’s Barton Springs to swim, celebrate, and fearlessly take up space.

Kit @oconnell was there to witness this moment of queer joy and resilience... https://www.texasobserver.org/protect-trans-joy-barton-springs/

#culture #water #LGBTQIA #Texas #CentralTexas #photography

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

I'm not a gamer. Everyone is always shocked to hear that lol. But, I am thinking of maybe getting a steam account and buying something like CyberPunk.

I'll be using my MacBook M1 (I know I know) for now.

Any advice for a newbie? Like, to everything lol. #gamer

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

Hey you know what’s super easy to say? White supremacy is bad. Anyone who espouses white supremacy is a bad person. Any company that endorses white supremacists is a bad company.

Dear white people specifically: why the fuck is this so hard for you?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
M7XXI@mastodon.radio wrote:

Hello! I'm Tom, M7XXI on the radio. I am interested in lots of things, but on the radio I'm often on #2Metres and #70cmBand, and I run a few #meshtastic stations, details on tomprobyn.uk/radio. Outside of radio, I'm a hobbyist #soundengineer, currently in the process of becoming professional. I normally write about things I am interested in, including sound, radio, the open web, programming, linguistics, information architecture and Ecclesiastical architecture. #introduction

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

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

Going forward, public utilities throughout California should understand that they cannot disclose customers’ electricity data to law enforcement without any “evidence to support a suspicion” that a particular crime occurred. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/victory-court-end-dragnet-electricity-surveillance-program-sacramento

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
markush@chaos.social ("Markus Holtermann") wrote:

The entire software department at work was fired yesterday. I had already quit and today is my last day. While I already have a new position starting next week, the rest of the department is looking. There are QA, frontend ( #angular ), and backend ( #python #Django) engineers, technical writer and software compliance specialists, UI/UX designers, SREs, our manager. If you're #hiring #remote in #Germany or on-site, I'd love to forward contact details. #getfedihired

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mitch@hachyderm.io ("Mitch Wagner #DEI") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

Why can’t we have nice things, too?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
burnoutqueen@todon.nl ("Jackie 🍉🏳️‍⚧️☭") wrote:

Facebook users are irritating.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GayDeceiver@mstdn.social wrote:

“It was a really good Thanksgiving dinner, the cops only showed up twice, and no one got arrested.”

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CatsOfYore ("Cats of Yore") wrote:

Two unrelated postcards in my collection that tell a story together. 🤕

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DrOinFL@mstdn.party ("OhSnap!Dragon") wrote:

Trump Fireside Chat #32:
I HOPE Y0U'RE ALL ENJOYING THANKSGIVING NOW THAT YOU'RE SO POOR YOU HAVE TO EAT CRANBERRY SAUCE OUT OF A CAN, YOU LOSERS. THIS COUNTRY WAS A TOILET UNDER SLEEPY JOE BIDEN; LET ME TELL YOU, IT WAS A REAL MESS, BUT WE RIGGED IT AND NOW IT'S GREAT AGAIN, AND I MEAN BIGLY. I MEAN, JUST LOOK AT THE STOCK MARKET. IVANKA, GET OVER HERE AND SIT ON DADDY'S LAP, YOU NAUGHTY LITTLE MINX. SOMEBODY BRING ME SOME KETCHUP. PEDRO, WHERE'S PEDRO?
#TrumpIsARapist
#Thanksgiving

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
KimPerales@toad.social ("Kim Perales") wrote:

Trump has abandoned & angered most of the world, & Americans:🚨"Carney announced that his govt would put new restrictions on the amount of steel & lumber imported into #Canada, in an effort to help domestic producers.

Among the new measures is further limiting foreign steel imports from countries w/o a free #trade agreement with CAN -from 50% to 20% of 2024 levels -a measure largely aimed at reducing Chinese steel imports.”

#Republicans #Betrayal #Tariffs #Economy #USPol
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/canadian-pm-says-close-trade-relationship-with-the-u-s-has-ended-under-trump/

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

a recent investment