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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Burna junta aircraft dropped two 500-pound bombs on Mrauk-U General Hospital, resulting in dozens of casualties. https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/hospital-massacre-in-mrauk-u-junta-airstrike-kills-33-injures-76.html

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Jes@labyrinth.zone ("Jes - Hedgehog Edition ") wrote:

tbh people shit on devices that take AA or AAA batteries but I think they're wrong. use rechargeables, you get both replaceable batteries and rechargeable ones. if the battery life sucks then Phillips has lithium rechargeable.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

This is a great analysis of why conservatives feel persecuted for others simply existing or being acknowledged.

It’s fear their identity and choices will stop being mainstream or normal. That’s why they get upset at Happy Holidays (acknowledging other religious celebrations exist) versus Merry Christmas.

Attachments:

• video: 5821dd7f7694b714.mp4

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
rail@flufftech.net ("rail 🦊") wrote:

Pilgrimage has been done

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

@codinghorror "I write alt text" along with "Be gay, federate" are on my shortlist for next designs (along with "My friends are not for sale" for a more serious one). I'll see what I can do about making it a t-shirt!

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

All jokes aside I do really like these dudes. Alex recently made it clear that all this AI shit was big tech trying to get their AI licenses which yay! And for Adam, for some reason I had always thought his politics were lame but I was very wrong. This dude is based. Love them both

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

No hate to people who love Hank Green, I was one of them for a long while and I know that the internet loves a good white guy nerd.

But might I offer two white nerds—Adam Conover and Alex Falcone—for one Hank Green?

You get all the cool factoids, minus the lazy centrist sensibilities and big tech shilling. And hey, Adam even platforms women and POCs in tech sometimes.

#Nerds #HankGreen

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

AFAICT this is the context for the Disney-OpenAI deal:

Disney has been cannibalising its legacy media businesses—linear TV and media licensing—to build up streaming, crushing margins and profitability. It did well on box office but that won't offset other decline

The legacy businesses are going to be dragging down the stock price, so they need a good story to prop it up, and "we're a part of the AI future" sounds better to the market than "we're going to crush AI with lawsuits" 🤷🏻‍♂️

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Rust 1.92.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀

This version adds RwLockWriteGuard::downgrade(), adds Location::file_as_c_str(), improves diagnostic and validation for various attributes, no longer warns for unused Result<(), Infallible>, and more!

Check out the announcement: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/11/Rust-1.92.0/

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

Invite codes for https://message.casa

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this list is updated frequently

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
harold ("Harold Jarche") wrote:

"The entire business model of silicon valley is surveillance." —Carol Cadwalladr

https://www.ted.com/talks/carole%5Fcadwalladr%5Fthis%5Fis%5Fwhat%5Fa%5Fdigital%5Fcoup%5Flooks%5Flike

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
maffsie@queer.party ("your purple friend") wrote:

friends, i’m sorry, but queer.party will, after eight and a half years, shut down on the 15th of December, 2025.

for more information, please see the announcement posted on the home timeline - this announcement also includes links to, and a list of, other instances that have offered invites or opened registrations to queer.party’s users.

a full timeline of the shutdown is posted on SourceHut, where queer.party's
source code is hosted: https://paste.sr.ht/~maff/67f89a7d69279ee04ea7e352056149f86ac08ec4

Thank you for being here. It’s been lovely.

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

I'm not trying to be obtuse, I get it. But think of it this way—a group of people are being targeted and hunted, whose ancestors have experienced genocide at the hands of this country already. And we're all like, hey you know what this reminds me of? Some other country's genocide.

Americans have plenty of historical context to explain what's happening now and we should lean on that history more instead of outsourcing the imagery. Instead of distancing ourselves from our domestic atrocities.

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115616738840241228

Myndasagan sem ég gaf út er á jólatilboði í Pennanum fram á mánudag, held ég

„Virkilega vel skrifuð, skemmtileg og falleg saga. Kötturinn minn, Basil, hefði gjarnan viljað kynnast Kisu.“

— Bragi Ólafsson

https://www.penninn.is/is/book/kotturinn-og-eg

#myndasaga #jólabókaflóð #bækur

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

We use "Nazis" to describe these people as if the United States lacks the history to properly contextualize what's happening. As if Nazis weren't America's biggest fans, and Jim Crow wasn't Hitler's muse.

It's overused to the point where we rarely if ever look to our own history to understand. As if white supremacy was an import. As if our parents and grandparents didn't build the systems currently leaking from the margins today.

#ICE

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
brandibuchman.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Brandi Buchman") wrote:

If calibri is woke then wingdings is terrorism

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

If one more of my rights get taken away in the name of "protecting" your ugly-ass kids, imma lose it.

#ageverification

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

Advent of Code day 11 status: done ★★

https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-12-11T10:16Z/

— big success today following yesterday's failure 🎄

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:

"How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it"
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?utm%5Fcampaign=post
#googlemaps #restaurants #london

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
tomgag@infosec.exchange ("Tommaso Gagliardoni") wrote:

Dear #Mastodon can someone explain me why sometimes a thread gets "broken" and I cannot access part of it anymore?

Example:

I toot "A", other users reply to the toot as "B" and "C", and I reply to both with "BA" and "BC", respectively.

After some time I see that my original thread only shows one "branch": it has become A->B->BA.

The other branch still exists, I can see it from my "posts and replies" feed, but it appears as detached from the main "A" thread.

What's going on?

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
karmaburrito ("Karma Burrito") wrote:

It's entirely possible to have too much AI in things

(Courtesy Jules_Starn on Insta)

Attachments:

• video: Reel on intolerability of AI, by Jules_Starn on Instagram. A purple AI avatar hectors a very frustrated user. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR7XrssDY9k/?igsh=YWp1aDA0dzZreDRn

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
williampietri@sfba.social ("William Pietri") wrote:

@dsalo Just read that bit recently! @overholt

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
amuse@infosec.exchange ("Matt Linton :donor:") wrote:

I'm super out of touch, why do so many Instagram reels have a very quiet audio track underneath the main audio, which drones on and on about the thing you're watching at almost subvocal levels?

Is this a secret hypnotism thing or something?

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
datum@zeroes.ca ("datum (n=1)") wrote:

Long COVID treatment study recruiting volunteers now in the USA:

trial will test if two repurposed HIV antivirals can reduce symptom burden in adult participants with Long Covid

This is the excellent Putrino lab! Participation criteria and contact info: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06511063

#LongCOVID #SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
mycrowgirl@flipping.rocks ("Lisa 🦔") wrote:

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn't a selfie?

Easy:
https://mastodon.wurzelmann.at/@wurzelmann/114160322969674883

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
enby_of_the_apocalypse@kolektiva.social ("undead enby of the apocalypse") wrote:

@wurzelmann

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

You can refuse to provide official ID or biometric data for social media accounts requiring age verification.

Actually, I bet if everyone did refuse, and let their account dormant for a couple of weeks, you would suddenly see American Big Tech transforming into the fiercest defender of your privacy rights, using their powerful network of lobbyists to fight these invasive government regulations.

They need you more than you need them.
Force them to work for your rights.
Do not comply.

#Privacy #AgeVerification #Biometrics #AusPol #USpol

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who actually told you so.

And then it will be rinse and repeat, onto the next grift.

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

Aw, man. I loved Sheen. RIP.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hollywoodreporter/post/DSG3uMRjhzj

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Christmas time means an attrition battle between my cats and me about whether the baubles belong on the tree or not.