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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
morebento@aus.social ("ben moretti") wrote:

@jsonstein there’s a Zappa cover band here called Läther and they do these yearly shows for the arts fringe festival - extra special stuff. Here’s their playlist from earlier this year https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Q90O0E3OYtZABUnPIUyy6?si=AW7dBLscTfWOmywGiHjSSg&pi=wf0rmJJ0R-ynd

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

On Fending Off Flooding Attacks

In the quiet night,
Hope whispers through the shadows,
Fix brings peace again.

( doggerel courtesy https://arghstudios.com/ )

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

“Social media is toxic,” said the man who found that social media is being used as a tool for accountability.

“Social media is toxic,” said the man who doesn’t like what people say about him on social media.

“Social media is toxic,” said the man who would rather discredit an entire communication tool than respond to the central point of any criticism.

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

I'm talking about writing and my career and also I get political and talk about things like how book censoring and white supremacy - STRANGELY CORRELATED - both really suck a lot.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@liptakaa/post/DRzd6VDAJ%5Fo

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

It looks like the Republicans are in the process of alienating Minnesotans yet further.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/03/a-good-editorial-from-the-star-tribune/

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

If you're an artist/crafter/musician/other creator with things that would make great gifts this holiday season, today's the Whatever gift guide day for you to share your work with thousands! Follow the link to tell people how to get what you've got!

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/03/the-2025-whatever-holiday-gift-guide-day-three-arts-crafts-music-and-more/

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

Appreciate the buttering up and the flowers being given to some of the icons in this photo (hello Aimee!), but as a Gen Xer we should be the first to reject such a proposition and question why it's being asked. Also, any generation that houses political skin tabs like Ted Cruz and Nancy Mace and went majority for Trump in '24 has things to answer for.

(gift article)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t-magazine/gen-x-generation.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.508.3l8B.9S8jHHK1J1mI&smid=url-share

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

What kind of doofus gets a thorough medical exam without asking why or what the results were?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/03/this-is-what-stupid-rich-means/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
simeon@indiehackers.social ("Simeon Nedkov") wrote:

@adam I’m stealing “connect the red flags”.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
sleepless@social.lol ("Courtney") wrote:

Is there a polite way to ask, “Did the author just hit ‘Publish All’ after letting ChatGPT run wild for a week?'” when three ~250-page books drop in four days? Asking for a friend.

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

Hopefully he won’t see this, but if he does, he’ll inevitably post some vague whiny thing about how social media is just a pile of pitchforks and fake news.

Because when you’re on the wrong side of a moral argument, that’s really the only defense you have.

But everything in my post above is a fact. This guy never talks about the facts, though; he only complains about the medium used to deliver them.

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

I won’t share his name here, because whenever I do that he cries that I’m hurting his livelihood, but here are some more facts about the guy who runs that blogging platform:

- Portrays himself as “indie” and claims to be supporting the “small web”
- Consistently sucks up to big tech like it’s going out of style
- Openly praises CEOs who hate on marginalized people
- Has an employee on his payroll who uses Grok to get his work done

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

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

Today in History: Anton Webern is born in Vienna, Austria, 1883

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

Today in History: National Holiday in Laos

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

Today in History: The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert, 1971

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

Today in History: First successful human heart transplant led by Dr. Barnard, 1967

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

Today in History: First neon light display, Paris, 1910

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

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

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

The guy who made Bun is a huge fan of the guy who started Palantir. So the Anthropic acquisition makes total sense (Peter Thiel is a major Anthropic investor).

The other thing that comes as no surprise: following the news of the acquisition yesterday, the guy who runs a certain big tech blogging platform wrote this:

“Bun is our default for building the [redacted platform name] mobile apps. It’s good.”

*Of course* he thinks it’s good. But fuck that. https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-09-10T12:08Z/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ARISS_Intl@mastodon.hams.social ("ARISS - Amateur Radio on ISS") wrote:

ARISS Ops is anticipating the SSTV Series 30-1 event from satellite RS-38S will start around 00:01 UTC on Friday 05-Dec. (7:01 PM ET Thu 04-Dec).

Event is expected to run until December 13. Details in the graphic.

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

trying to harden my service file against flooding attacks a bit better, and tweaking recovery

I hate what has happened to the internetwork

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
SecularJeffrey@ohai.social ("GentleMan Gef") wrote:

Happy Stealing Baby Jesus lawn decorations season to all who celebrate

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:

The CSS Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of CSS Backgrounds Module Level 4. This module contains the features of CSS relating to the backgrounds of boxes on the page.

CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, etc.

https://www.w3.org/news/2025/first-public-working-draft-css-backgrounds-module-level-4/

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

The trash drives out the quality.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/03/i-was-already-predisposed-to-mistrust-dollar-stores/

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

I know Somali people in Minnesota. Does our racist president? I think not.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/02/disgustingly-racist-president-says-disgustingly-racist-things/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EwhBgi%5FMDxE

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

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

“Anthropic’s racing OpenAI to go public. | The Verge”

https://www.theverge.com/news/837142/anthropics-racing-openai-to-go-public

If they manage to go public before the bubble pops, the ensuing frenzy might IMO extend the bubble's life for at least a year or two

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

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