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DGI@graeber.social ("David Graeber Institute") wrote:
David Graeber once wrote an important piece about the power of protest and the police. This is an extract.
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freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:
37 Debian LTS Advisories about security updates for various packages were released by Debian LTS contributors in October. These include notable security updates for https-everywhere, openjdk 11 & 17 and intel-microcode. LTS team also contributed towards updates for Debian packages in various releases.
Read about these and more in our report for October: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-10/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social
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Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
joshsusser@autistics.life ("josh susser") wrote:
A short tale from way back when I worked at Apple: My team had a lot of lunchtime meetings and they usually got pizza to feed us lunch while we worked. There were two of us on the team who were vegetarian, so they'd order six or eight pizzas for the team and all of them would have meat except for the one meatless pizza they had for just the two of us. But everyone likes vegetarian pizza, so people would get in line, take what looked good which included the veggie pizza, and by the time I got to the veggie pizza it would be gone and I'd have no lunch (and the other vegetarian had the same problem, of course). They tried to get the non-vegetarian people to stop eating the veggie pizza, then tried to hide it so only we veggies could get it, but nothing worked. So I suggested they order four kinds of vegetarian pizzas and a couple pizzas with meat, and that worked out great and there was much rejoicing.
This is a post about gatekeeping disability accommodations.
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matuzo@front-end.social ("Manuel Matuzović") wrote:
On day 3 @tunetheweb introduces us to Speculation Rules and recent improvements to the API that help us speed up our websites. #HTMHellAdventCalendar
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frontenddogma@mas.to ("Frontend Dogma") wrote:
Get the Core Right and the Resilient Code Will Follow, by @bell.bz (@btconf):
Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:
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Mastodon FeedXScreenSaver and PAM.
Lazyweb, I have PAM questions. I added support for PAM to XScreenSaver in 1998, when PAM itself was a little two-year-old baby. Your keyboard was still PS2 and HDMI hadn't been invented yet. For lo these many decades, nobody...
https://jwz.org/b/ykx%5F
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oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
octothorpe@mastodon.online ("CM Harrington") wrote:
Possibly the best joke in a cartoon that went to air:
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:
Trump announced on Wednesday that he is repealing the Biden-era federal fuel economy standards,
significantly weakening fuel efficiency requirements for tens of millions of new gasoline-powered cars and light trucks.
It marks the US president’s latest effort to dismantle pollution regulations and federal support for cleaner-running vehicles and renewable energy.
Burning gasoline is a significant contributor to global heating and transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/trump-fuel-efficiency-rules?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
system status reports are so much better after piping through cowsay
prove me wrong
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
KimPerales@toad.social ("Kim Perales") wrote:
Co backed💔by D Trump Jr’s firm nabs $620M govt contract
Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnets startup backed by Don Jr.’s VC firm 1789 Capital, has secured a $620M contract from the DOD, as reported by the FT.The contract is part of a $1.4B partnership with the US govt & ReElement Tech to expand & boost the dom supply of magnets, acc to the co.
Trump Jr joined 1789 Capital as a ptnr in 2024. The firm is said to have invested in Vulcan ~3 months ago.
#Corruption #USPol
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realTuckFrumper ("#TuckFrump") wrote:
'People are having trouble getting by': Conservative slams Trump's economy on Fox News https://twp.ai/9PXpos
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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
State Department says today it "renamed the former Institute of Peace to reflect the greatest dealmaker in our nation's history.
Welcome to the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.” (USIP, a nonprofit think tank, was an early target of DOGE.)
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KimPerales@toad.social ("Kim Perales") wrote:
Pres Trump🚨pardoned the co-founder of stadium developer Oak View Group Tim Leiweke, who was charged earlier this year with rigging bids for a Texas arena, according to a document released by the Justice Department.
His DOJ charged Leiweke.
It's not just projection with Trump, he's actually committed the very crimes that he's pardoning people for. He's a shameless, soulless, conman.
#Corruption #Pardons #Fascism #RICO #Bribery #PayToPlay #Protest #USPol
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/politics/tim-leiweke-pardon-trump
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
signalapp@mastodon.world ("Signal") wrote:
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Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nek@hear-me.social ("Dave á Jus") wrote:
YES! One state is protecting the public from a belligerent and vindictive, weaponized US Department of Justice.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jackie@social.linux.pizza ("Jackie Jude") wrote:
@fromjason it would be like if google convinced the government that
1. search engines are an inherently dangerous technology
2. google is the only company doing it safely
3. open source projects need to be banned
Mastodon FeedBoosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
nsmsn@social.lol ("Nick Simson") wrote:
❄️ Advent of Not Looking at the Computer So Damned Much.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jackie@social.linux.pizza ("Jackie Jude") wrote:
@fromjason the AI companies arguments are so dumb that it would be funny if our governments weren't falling for them: OpenAI theoretically has a "kill switch" to shut down ChatGPT when it "inevitably" becomes sentient and open source LLMs like DeepSeek do not, therefore the government needs to ban open source LLMs and fund OpenAI to ensure they get to AGI first in a "safe" way
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
President of #Signal, Meredith Whittaker (@Mer__edith ) calls the AI apocalypse a "A fantastical, adrenalizing ghost story is being used to hijack attention around what is the problem that regulation needs to solve"
I agree. And I think Hank Green would agree if he took a closer look at #AIdoomerism and the people and orgs he platformed in his last two videos on #AI.
I wrote about it here.
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/hank-green-and-the-fantastical-tales-of-god-ais/
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Without question one of the greats.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
lichencats@scicomm.xyz ("Lichen Cats") wrote:
"This is not the time for lazy science."
Many thanks to Evie Unraveling for making this video about the science, history, and technology of knitting. If you didn't see the video SciShow knitting video, it is full of misinformation, lazy science, and misogyny. I love SciShow, but that was irresponsible. As a female scientist and crocheter, this correction video by Evie was very affirming.
https://youtu.be/5btQokB32dQ?si=X0hh33uuicnX2RlJ
The video was removed from SciShow's YouTube page after the backlash and Hank Green has posted an apology on his own Tiktok.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMKfgxx4/
#knitting #physics #technology #science #SciShow #HankGreen #MaterialsScience #history #misogyny
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
I was told I had been selected and I very happily did not argue
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Is Hank an AI-doomerist now?
I wrote about Hank Green, my trip to Savannah, and AI-Doomerism.
It's not lost on me that Hank is the internet's favorite science influencer. That's what makes his last two videos on AI so jarring.
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/hank-green-and-the-fantastical-tales-of-god-ais/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I have been wrestling with how to stabilize this puppy for over a month now, with attackers taking it down every hour or two.
fook them, fook them with a pitchfork. I hate what has happened to the formerly cooperative spirit of those on the internetwork ;^{
[danger, grumpy olde farte whining]
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
we likes seeing this, we duz...
jeffs@rocky:~$ sudo systemctl status storyteller
● storyteller.service - Storyteller Web Service
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/storyteller.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2025-12-03 12:28:44 UTC; 10h ago
Main PID: 289714 (storyteller)
Tasks: 61 (limit: 19140)
Memory: 21.3M
CPU: 3.514s
CGroup: /system.slice/storyteller.service
└─289714 /etc/storyteller/storyteller
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nate@social.lol ("Nate Beaty") wrote:
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lumon@beep.town ("Lumon Gif Refinery") wrote:
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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz FINAL (1).DOCX") wrote:
Remember how every December your CD player did not confess that it had been spying on what you listened to all year