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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:

To test his vaccine theories, I think that non scientist should expose himself to diseases he WASN’T vaccinated for and see how that works out.

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

RE: https://socel.net/@catandgirl/115741862295216461

"What does it do to our souls to have our daily purchases and communications require us to assume that everyone involved is acting in bad faith?"

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

Weather: ☁️ Overcast, +49°F, 52%, ↑17mph, 1006hPa
Timezone: America/New_York
Now: 22:24:08-0500 | Dawn: 07:05:14 | Sunrise: 07:38:24
Zenith: 12:07:25 | Sunset: 16:37:06 | Dusk: 17:10:16
Location: Rochester, Monroe County, New York [43.1572,-77.6151]

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

quite the wind tonight, hope my end-fed "random wire" antenna doesn't tangle with that tree again 📡

#HamRadio

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

I’m not an expert but is it a good sign that Trump just announced the Hunger Games?

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5655553-trump-patriot-games-2026/amp/

jwz wrote:

The "Donut Shop Ends Police Discount" guy is no longer Deputy Director of the FBI.

"I think he wants to go back to his show," Trump said.
https://jwz.org/b/yk0p

Boosted by jwz:
mawhrin@circumstances.run ("flere-imsaho 🇺🇦") wrote:

“we're working very hard on becoming the world leaders in ethical goatfucking, boasts the new CEO of mozilla, mr. anthony enzor-demeo.

research into the value of goatfucking itself and the potential consent issues was found unnecessary.”

Boosted by jwz:
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

Mozilla right now.

#firefox #mozilla

Boosted by jwz:
johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.

Boosted by jwz:
claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

Fortunato Depero 1932 / Peter Saville 1981

Boosted by jwz:
deanpreston@sfba.social ("Dean Preston") wrote:

Many San Francisco politicians rushed to embrace the Fillmore Safeway development, but are running as far away from the Marina Safeway development as they can get. The starkly different reactions to these two Safeways are exposing the racism, classism, and hypocrisy at the core of SF’s housing discourse. https://www.deanprestonsf.com/blog/two-safeways

Boosted by jwz:
mhoye wrote:

If I understand this correctly the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist while economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".

Boosted by jwz:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

@firefoxwebdevs @SamatSattarov “why are you being so mean, we’re developers too” be fucking serious. Firefox is fucking cooked and so’s the web and you’re giving me PR language from an Oops! Not Actually Official! account and expecting me to not notice I’m talking to a salesperson under the employ of a millionaire who only recently told me and the rest of the Firefox userbase to personally go fuck ourselves

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Yuvalne@433.world ("Talya (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️✡️") wrote:

i came across this accidentally and now you get to hear it too.
https://maccabeats.bandcamp.com/track/latke-recipe

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mikehendley@vis.social ("Mike Hendley") wrote:

This griffon vulture wasn’t planned but insisted on being drawn. Used .3 & .5 Pentel mechanical pencils plus graphite powder. Vultures are survivors. Quiet, patient, powerful. Like floating grief with wings. #sciart #birds

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
t54r4n1@mspsocial.net wrote:

so many days I think about @naomikritzer 's idea for a cop whose job is to actually help people and writes you a ticket if you are outside in winter without a coat and the ticket is a voucher for a coat at any store in the city

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mhoye wrote:

God, _finally_.

https://dl.acm.org/openaccess

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social wrote:

@fromjason but it's especially important to stay grounded in your analysis otherwise you become one of those dumbass "LLMs are going to become AGI and AGI will destroy the world" people.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zeldman@front-end.social wrote:

Once more for the folks in the back: accessibility is a human right. Your web standards godfather shares thoughts on a small atrocity.

https://zeldman.com/2025/12/13/accessibility-is-a-human-right-cruelty-a-human-wrong/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=jetpack%5Fsocial

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

@owa Also, if you know anyone working at one of the big AI firms, pass this along. All are making browsers, none are investing in the commons. Looking to salve their guilt? How about $10-100K donations to OWA? Literally the least they can do.

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

@owa If you happen to be at a BigCo, your internal giving portal will find OWA listed as "Aspiration" (a US umbrella for tech non-profits). The tax details on OWA's donation page should be all you need, but be sure to include the text "in support of OWA's charitable cause" (or similar) as a note with your donation so that Aspiration knows to route your contributions to them.

And if you can afford it, why not set up a recurring donation with matching? The good you can do on autopilot is huge.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ravachol@mastoart.social ("Ravachol") wrote:

Hi mastodon,

I'm an artist in the ligne claire tradition, based in Sweden. I'm in the process of leaving Instagram. Follow me for scifi/fantasy drawings.

#introduction #MastoArt #FediArt #Art

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

It's that time of year, and there are many worthy causes jockeying for your donations (and corporate matching). If you make your living from the web (web apps, JavaScript, etc.), I can attest firsthand to the way @owa is using antitrust regulation to unlock browser choice jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction, for the whole web's benefit.

Yes, Mozilla should have done this, but it has instead fallen to a plucky band of independent web devs, and they need our support:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/donate/

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

I don't need more things, but I do dig the form factor on this little epub ereader:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/diptyx/diptyx-e-reader

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

It’s becoming clear to me that with any new technology coming out of Silicon Valley we should identify its absolute worse use case, multiple by 10, then judge the technology based on that finding.
My biggest issue with tech “alarmists” is their lack of imagination for just how evil these people can be. Q

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
pixelpaperyarn@masto.hackers.town wrote:

I had a book marketing plan, but fuck it. It felt forced, fake. The book is lyrical, romantic and may have a bit of wisdom about resilience and reinvention. I'm really proud of it. You can find it here:
https://jenniferlynparsons.com/books/05-all-is-hell-bent/

#NorseMythology #Loki #Sigyn #IndieBooks #FantasyBooks
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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

#ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents:

"The contractor, AI Solutions 87, claims on its website that its agents “deliver rapid acceleration in finding persons of interest and mapping their entire network.” It says the AI agents map out a target’s “services, locations, friends, family, and associates.”" https://www.404media.co/ice-contracts-company-making-bounty-hunter-ai-agents/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

I think the seminars of my Low Carbon and Sustainable Computing (LOCOS) group might be of interest to many of you.

The seminar series is fully online and as long as you have something interesting to tell related to low carbon and sustainable computing, #FrugalComputing, #Permacomputing etc, I'd love to hear from you.

Here are recordings and slides of this semester's talks. Thanks to all the speakers! @SylviaFysica @danmcquillan @ana_valdi @thomasfricke

https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/research/researchthemes/lowcarbon/
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denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.social/@plwt/115740603373161878

this is the only post about Mozilla drama you'll get from me, because a) I'm tired, b) I'll be on vacation starting tomorrow evening, c) most of y'all have either already used your brains, or you just want to knee-jerk - which is fine, too.

in any case, don't listen to me, because lots of folks will claim I'm biased anyway (which, tbh, is fair, given I like having a paycheck). so instead, check out this post from a community contributor who isn't paid, and who has no reason to be nice if he doesn't want to be nice:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange ("Jess👾") wrote:

You want to do the thing but you're scared of doing it, it's okay to just do it and be scared.