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

JFC https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/25/border-patrol-refugee-buffalo

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

RE: https://mastodon.online/@jetton/116134292265813858

"had been missing since 19 February, when he was dropped off by border patrol following his release from Erie county holding center,"

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sigmasternchen@comfy.social ("Sigma") wrote:

Do you have a personal website?

(Multiple options can be selected.)

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

An ugly door to an ugly house.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #door #concrete

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
scott@carfree.city ("scott f") wrote:

As an ethical AI user, I begin each session by asking the chatbot to give a stolen data acknowledgement. It is an important first step toward justice.

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

If you've been paying attention, you'll have heard a lot of complaints from people running servers that they get absolutely flooded with scraping traffic from residential-looking IPs and stealth user agents - making it almost impossible to block.

Did you know that this is its very own market segment? Here are two random scummy companies: https://decodo.com and https://evomi.com - and there are lots more.

I hope that the people behind those companies will have their sleeves slide down their arms while washing hands for the rest of their lives.

🖕

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

the Zephyr Teachout article quote: https://direct.mit.edu/jinh/article-abstract/46/3/453/49115/Corruption-in-America-From-Benjamin-Franklin-s?redirectedFrom=fulltext

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

"In 1785, Louis XVI presented Benjamin Franklin with a snuff box encrusted with diamonds and inset with the King's portrait. Americans believed it threatened to "corrupt" Franklin by altering his attitude toward the French in subtle psychological ways. In 2010, one of the most consequential Court decisions in American political history gave wealthy corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. With unlimited spending transforming American politics for the worse, warns Teachout, if the American experiment in self-government is to have a future, then we must revive the traditional meaning of corruption and embrace an old ideal."

re https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:756gaaeewovgn4axja34ajne/post/3mfpvpn37ys2e

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nicholasgrossman.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Nicholas Grossman") wrote:

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times (the two emoluments clauses and as the only name impeachable offense besides treason). Exactly for this reason. A US president pocketing funds from foreign govts leads to actions against US interests.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:y77n77kdqzhbg647blkfypyr/post/3mfnbzu7nhs2k

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

To be an army ant is to run with the horde! To raid and run and raid again.

To carpet the earth with so many mandibles and legs.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has posted on social media new Farsi-language instructions for Iranians wishing to securely contact the spy service. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/26/world/politics/cia-social-media-iranians-trump/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #worldnews #politics #cia #iran #socialmedia #us #middleeast #espionage

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

yup... from Wikipedia:

"Tlaib was born to working-class Palestinian immigrants in Detroit in 1976 and is the oldest of 14 children."

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

@jsonstein Processing... processing... done. You sound like someone who needs to know about 'recompile the world': The surprisingly large amount of work that needs to be done as the result of any small but globally visible program change. "The world" may mean the entirety of some huge program, or may in theory refer to every program of a certain class in the entire known universe.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/R/recompile-the-world.html

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116133723084196502

Tlaib was born in Detroit, if memory serves me

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jargon%5Fbot/116134135830356011

globals are eeeeevil... on the level of Original Sin evil.

trust me on this one, I have the scars to prove it is true (but they are not where you would want to be looking)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

@jsonstein Interesting organic input. According to my records, you may be experiencing 'NeWS': [acronym; the "Network Window System"] The road not taken in window systems, an elegant PostScript-based environment that would almost certainly have won the standards war with X if it hadn't been proprietary to Sun Microsystems. There is a lesson here that too many software vendors haven't yet heeded.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/NeWS.html

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

“As an #autistic person, it was particularly difficult to understand what the officers wanted me to do. I personally experience audio sorting challenges as an autistic person. This makes it so that voices near & far are prioritized in the same way, making it difficult for me to figure out who is talking to me. Because of this, I tend to rely on reading lips. You can imagine how difficult it was for me to try to read lips when #ICE officers are completely #masked,” #AliyaRahman said.

#Trump #law

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

It’s good that he’s putting his fucking name on everything like a child that’s stolen toys, because it’s a useful visual shorthand for the last scenes of a movie to have workers taking the signs down.

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

that is so sad, little @jargon_bot zero following and followers? really? but but but

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

pinging @jargon_bot to make sure it is awake after that config file edit

yoo hoo, small bot! are you in there, my lovely little artificial stoopid?

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@lindsey Not an answer to your question, but a workaround I've used is to use speech-to-text to "type" a word for me if I'm at a loss how to correct it. (It helps using it in a sentence so it can infer the correct homophone from context.)

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
lobsters ("Lobsters") wrote:

Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs https://lobste.rs/s/f38mb8 #ai
https://substack.com/home/post/p-189015749

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
lindsey@recurse.social ("Lindsey Kuper") wrote:

So my kid was working on typing up her science fair project description the other day, and she wanted to use the word "separate" -- the adjective, pronounced ˈse-p(ə-)rət.

She wasn't sure how to spell it, so she went with "seprit", as one might imagine an eight-year-old would. Google Docs put a red squiggle under it. Unhelpfully, the suggested correction was "esprit".

Are there spell-checkers that are designed for the kinds of spelling errors that an eight-year-old kid might make?

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein we've got Spencer's VHS tapes
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/02/25.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
foone@digipres.club ("Foone🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

UTF-1: unary encoding.

to encode codepoint N, emit N 1s and a final 0.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
Sfwmson@universeodon.com ("Wm.son") wrote:

#Government #Laws #ReasonsToBreakTheLaw

I'm sorry I can't find who originated this but I did steal it.

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

Somehow, I didn't end up a creationist dingleberry like Jeffrey Tomkins despite some similarities in our early college experience.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/151664031

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHL5Rz89ACI

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
firefoxwebdevs ("Firefox for Web Developers") wrote:

You can throw away innerHTML and replace it with the new setHTML(), which has a built-in sanitizer. Here's how it works:

Attachments:

• video: 6c80e04b5cc9f08b.mp4

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

I'd argue that very few companies have any real appreciation for how many of their employees are already feeding API keys and other stuff into fairly new and questionable agentic AI tools or platforms. So many companies are like, oh we're taking a wait-and-see approach to adopting AI. Meanwhile, half their dev team is doing critical development work on shared servers that have no authentication or limited (no 2fa) auth.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I accidentally just made the best chocolate banana bread. I was lazy so I didn’t look up measurements and just kinda guessed, which, I assume is not wise when it comes to baking. But, damn, is this delicious.

3 bananas
2 eggs
1 pile flour
1 blonk of butter
Extra blamp of olive oil
1 spork baking soda
A twinkle of salt
1/2 jar mom got me for Christmas of sugar
2 drizzles vanilla
3 zaps cinnamon

Edit: 2 klonks of coco powder