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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

The Correct Incantation

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

A comic in four panels: Panel 1. The gothic sorceress, dressed in dark, flowing robes, stands in the middle of a desolated land. She gazes at the colorful mechanical parrot flying near her shoulder: the Avian Intelligent Parrot. The sorceress asks with a hint of curiosity. > Gothic sorceress: "Hey, Avian Intelligence, what's the incantation for summoning a fireball?" > AI Parrot: ":sparkle emoji: The correct incantation for a fireball is "IgnisMe"." Panel 2. The gothic sorceress cracks a wicked smile, her eyes shining with anticipation as she raises her hands in front of her, fingers spread and ready to cast. > Gothic sorceress: "Alright, let's give it a shot... IgnisMe!" Panel 2(small insert in previous panel). Only the eyes of the gothic sorceress are visible in a large flame. > Gothic sorceress: "?!!" Panel 3. The gothic sorceress is burnt, her face contorted in a mix of shock, anger, and pain. Flames and smoke dance around her, her dark robes burnt and tattered, revealing exposed parts of her anatomy. > Gothic sorceress: "You #*$%@& bird! You gave me a self-immolation spell instead of a fireball spell!" Panel 4. As the sorceress facepalms, the Avian Intelligent parrot replies with stoicism. > AI Parrot: ":sparkle emoji: You're absolutely right! The correct incantation for a fireball is "PyroBolus"."

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Boosted by jwz:
adwright ("TheWholeTruthXX 🎨 ❤️ 🍁 🛡️") wrote:

So back in 1944, a German U-Boat Commander named Heinz-Wilhelm Eck did exactly what US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered US military forces to do - kill the survivors of a destroyed boat at sea.

Now, as then, this is considered a War Crime.

In 1945, Commander Eck was tried, found guilty with his own logs condemning him and executed by firing squad by the Allies.

USA, this is where you are now.

Doing literal war crimes every nation condemned the Nazis for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz-Wilhelm%5FEck

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Boosted by jwz:
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Commanders specifically ordered Navy SEALs to fire on and kill two survivors of (alleged) drug boat sinking in September. "The order was to kill everybody".

Analyzing this as an unlawful order or as homicide or as a war crime is, of course, necessary, but at the same time it seems morally inadequate. It's a revolting, shameful stain on our country.

https://wapo.st/49KbUJ1 [gift link]

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

I love walking with our neighbor

extreme closeup view of large curly blonde dog head staring directly into the camera

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

technology, economics, and identity… when all three go through a period of rapid change at the same time, revolutionary shifts & backlashes seem to happen

(reading Zakaria’s latest book)

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Y'all, I spend a few weeks every year in the data about global networks, devices, and (web) content,[1] and my eyebrows may never return to their previous position after encountering the "device hoarding" discourse.

The deep, abiding immorality of the anti-right-to-repair/pro-e-waste contingent has never been so nakedly transparent, and yet so seemingly ascendant. Burn it with fire.

[1]: https://infrequently.org/series/performance-inequality/

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

Young people in the U.S. have been priced out of their dreams. Stop acting like it’s their fault.

Screenshot of a tweet from Cory Archibald on X.com criticizing claims that young people are “hoarding” devices. The tweet says Boomers spent years telling young people to save money, and now blame them for not buying $1500 phones and for “costing the economy” by living at home. Below is a tweet from unusual_whales stating that $12 billion a year is being lost because younger people spend less on housing, transportation, and food due to living with family.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

What quiet quitting and device hoarding have in common—besides being lies—is the worldview of people who believe in, worry about, and report on them.

The premise of quiet quitting and device hoarding alike is that you owe everything to your corporate masters. That giving less than everything to your job is "quitting," that spending less than every dime in your bank account is sabotaging the economy.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Stanford Institute report on the economic impact of Brexit:

https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/working-paper/economic-impact-brexit

It reduced UK GDP by 8%, investment by 18%, employment by 4%, and productivity by 4%. Also reduced Treasury tax revenue by £40-80Bn/year.

(Note that this is NOT a UK think tank but a US one so more likely to be ideologically in favour of Brexit as a starting point.)

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
waldo.net@bsky.brid.gy ("Waldo Jaquith") wrote:

When you’re extremely concerned about drugs coming from Central and South America.

Trump Announces Pardon for Hon...

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BBC@c.im ("BBC News") wrote:

#BBC Trump says he will pardon ex-Honduras president convicted of drug trafficking https://w.st/JJpP

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

I can hear the sleet smashing against the house in the wind. f*ck Winter, with a pitchfork.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

College freshman is deported flying home for Thanksgiving surprise, despite court order

https://apnews.com/article/babson-student-deported-thanksgiving-467393d8d9b9ae6351f99de7b9cbfb98

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
LesleyPhillipsArt@toot.wales ("Lesley Phillips art") wrote:

Castell Coch

Castell Coch

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

Writing JavaScript for the first time in a while after doing exclusively Rust for months. It feels like moving from navigating a Virginia-class submarine with every conceivable technological aid and guardrail to sailing an inflatable pool raft across the ocean with a map on the back of a bar napkin.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
N4JAW@mastodon.radio ("Jim "Ham on a Bike"") wrote:

I'm ready for some cold weather #hamradio #amateurradio #pota #parksontheair #morsecode CW #qrp #qrpradio activations in spite of #solarcycle25 #coronalholes creating increased levels of #solarwinds


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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

The existence of leftover pie from Thursday, does not invalidate the need to bake more pies on Friday.

- ancient proverb, probably.

I'll do it again! Goofy meme with three pies below.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jockr ("Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴") wrote:

'Made-up quote' in Canadian satire site The Beaverton fools Time Magazine | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/beaverton-dupes-time-hoekstra-9.6996328

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

#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.

Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons

Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the 1960s, in front of a radio telescope. she is a white woman with dark hair, wearing a sensible duffle coat given how cold it must have been out there.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the 2010s. She is a white woman with dark grey hair.

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I think it would've been easy to throw the #Mastodon logo at some print-on-demand website and be done with it, but I've always wanted Mastodon merch to be something bespoke, something you'd genuinely want to keep for years. This is why I chose the difficult path: Manually finding suppliers, prototyping, ordering in advance and distributing through our own shop. It's a lot of work, which is why it tends to happen as individual "drops" rather than a continuous, all year round stock.

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

Hank Green And The Case of The Missing Spine

#AI #HankGreen #Anthropic #AIDoomerism

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Tealfuleyes@mastodon.art ("Tealful Eyes") wrote:

Working on some brushes for myself in Rebelle using a portrait for a potential TTRPG character I may play in a future campaign.

#Art #Anthro #DigitalArt #TTRPG #mastoArt

Painted portrait sketch by the artist Tealful Eyes of an anthropomorphic dragon bunny flexing with an open smile as furnace like flames emit from their mouth and openings in their charred forearm.

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

Hegseth ordering war crimes like they're whisky sours

https://wapo.st/49KbUJ1

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

These washing line poles are clearly no longer in use.#Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #decay #rust #grass #plants #trees

Rusty old washing line poles surrounded by beautiful nature.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

For this Black Friday I'm bringing the "everything bundle" back out of retirement one last time, which lets you buy all four of my ebooks at a 60% discount

https://payhip.baldurbjarnason.com/b/UwFnP

I'm also going to be discontinuing two of those ebooks – I am Uncluttered (Yellow) and Bad Writing – after the sale to focus on the books I think are likelier to have an audience over the next couple of years

"I am Uncluttered (Yellow)" will still be available in print albeit less prominently on my site than before.

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Boosted by jwz:
ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

A teenage boy looks up at somebody while one hand rests inside the baseball mitt on his other hand and says, “You guys ever think about how life as we know it is a BARELY COGENT expression of SIMPLISTIC PATTERNS, and how, given the sheer SIZE of the universe, the activity of the human race is BASICALLY INDISTINGUISHABLE from randomized BACKGROUND RADIATION PATTERNS, which is to say, LIFE is essentially the same as NON-LIFE?“

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Boosted by jwz:
Strandjunker@mstdn.social ("Andrea Junker :verified:") wrote:

So, Hegseth illegally ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water. — This is the real reason why Trump & Hegseth absolutely freaked out about the video against illegal orders.

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
bodil@treehouse.systems ("Bodil") wrote:

I got a new drinking fountain for @bark_maul, and to my delight I found that it has a Home Assistant integration with a water level sensor, so I can put a warning on my HA dashboard when it needs refilling. This makes me a lot happier than it reasonably ought to, but that's Home Assistant in a nutshell.

Screenshot of a part of a Home Assistant dashboard, most notably an alert saying "water level at 52%, please top your puppy up!" Also of note is a UK council bin collection day sensor, because of course it is.

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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Another usability problem is that every browser has its own password manager, and every vendor pushes their own thing.

Apple locked out competing browsers from Safari's keychain, so all browsers created their own keychains. Apple tried to remedy the fragmentation they caused by offering a browser extension, but that creates a DIY duplicate autofill UI that fights the other autofill UIs.

Where are the passwords? Where are they saved to? Who knows!?! Depends on JS events and z-index.

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

Listen to "I Hate You" from CARROT: The Musical! https://youtu.be/x8fdY%5FBBWc0