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Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
rooster@beige.party ("Jessica Rooster") wrote:

If I remember the right wing culture war talking points correctly: since it's Transgender Day of Visibility, it's also Easter I think?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
gwentacles ("Gwentacles") wrote:

I'm trans and stuck in Texas because nobody will hire me and I can't take my job with me when I move to Seattle. So my options are move and end up homeless, or stay where I am in increasing danger.

I have 12+ years of experience in call center work and legitimately just need a job so I can move.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
gwentacles ("Gwentacles") wrote:

Actually, let me try something different than just asking for money for TDOV:

If you have any possible leads or hiring power for a job that hires for WFH customer/tech support out of Washington state PLEASE message or DM me and if you don't please share this.

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

You can be a happy couple no matter who is wearing a dress or camouflage fatigues.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/31/oh-no-i-agree-with-nancy-mace/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
zersiax@cupoftea.social ("Florian") wrote:

I was helping an open-source app become more #accessible yesterday and we ran into the problem that it looks like #screenReader Orca has a bit of a tendency to crash when exposed to webkitGTK applications. I've not done Desktop #linux for a long time and have no idea what the workarounds for this would be, does anyone know anyone who might know what's happening here? Do we need to set a random environment variable somewhere or update a specific package so this person can do basic screen reader testing on their app? #tech #openSource #screenReaders #linux #GTK #webdev

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

I am happy to be visible to other trans people, to people who might actually be trans and not yet realize it, and to cis people who want to use that visibility to advocate for me and people like me.

I'm not happy to be visible to people who want me hurt or even dead, and I am not happy to be visible to people who want to use me as a wedge to hurt others.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
welshpixie@mastodon.art ("Calligrafae") wrote:

Does anyone here have any experience running or even just attending a community space that's a kind of drop-in art studio/creative workspace? Like somewhere that has a bunch of different art and craft supplies and tools, you can take your own project, you can speak with people there, learn new skills, try the stuff they've got, etc.

I'm interested in knowing what activities went on there, how you ran it or what you got from it as a participant, etc.

:boost_ok:

#AskFedi

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

PyCon US 2026 is May 13th to 19th in Long Beach, California. If you've been meaning to learn to program, I'm doing a 3-hour tutorial (additional registration required) for absolute beginners who have never coded before. I hope to see you there! https://us.pycon.org/2026/

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
pndc@treehouse.systems ("@pndc") wrote:

Go on, you want to own this iconic piece of computer history that's got rather more than usual under the hood: https://www.amibay.com/threads/amiga-a1000-vampire-complete-system.2458361/.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ZachWeinersmith ("Zach Weinersmith") wrote:

It'd be like saying "the rapture is coming and the worthy dead will soon return to the bosom of Christ, so make sure to keep eating fiber"

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ZachWeinersmith ("Zach Weinersmith") wrote:

One of the weirdest things to me about the tech scene for AI is you regularly hear variants on "Super-human intelligence is coming next year and will permanently alter life as we know it. Prepare your business and finances accordingly." Setting aside what you think about the first half, how does the second half make any sense? Like... what would you do differently, other than move to the woods?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MSTODAYnews@flipboard.com ("Mississippi Today") wrote:

Federal 'God Squad' exempts oil and gas drilling in the Gulf from endangered species rules - Mississippi Today
https://mississippitoday.org/2026/03/31/gulf-oil-gas-drilling-endangered-species/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Mississippi Today @mississippi-today-MSTODAYnews

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

"Post-Chiles, Dobbs, and Skrmetti, states can deprive people of reproductive autonomy and youth of gender-affirming care, while simultaneously allowing medical and non-medical actors use falsehoods to deprive people of abortion or discourage them from living as themselves."

https://bsky.app/profile/gemmadonofrio.bsky.social/post/3miekfh2zpk25

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
copter_chief@mstdn.party ("CopterDoctor") wrote:

China is salivating over the fact that the US has fired a bunch of their tomahawk & Patriot missiles. They know Hegseth is incompetent, predictable & trigger happy. They manipulate Trump with flattery.

They likely know when our stockpiles are running low, based on the current burn rate. If replacements are long lead times, then they can strike at Taiwan & not worry about the American response.

Trump may say it’s too far away, let the allies in the Pacific handle CHYNA.

#nobootsontheground

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

what a lovely idea

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
acdha@code4lib.social ("Chris Adams") wrote:

The NPM Axios package maintainer suffered an account takeover:

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-compromised-on-npm-malicious-versions-drop-remote-access-trojan

Even if you’re unaffected now, it’s a great time to set a dependency cooldown period for everything you use.

If you use #NodeJS, enable minimum package age in NPM/PNPM/Bun/Yarn.

If you use #Python, enable exclude-newer in uv, minimum age in pip, or help the Poetry maintainers finish the open PR: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/pull/10763

Boosted by jwz:
cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

ma po don'tfu

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

“Iran, despite the decapitation of its leadership, has dealt the United States a strategic defeat in the classical sense. It will end the war in a stronger position than when it came under attack. The United States will end the war in a weaker position than before it launched its war. The rest is details.”

https://www.forever-wars.com/so-you-lost-a-war-to-iran/

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Newsletter: Coinbase is accused of holding the cryptocurrency industry hostage over stablecoin rewards, prediction markets face an onslaught of opposition, and a Stand With Crypto poll can’t even get enthusiasm from its own activists

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-103/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

trans day of variables

until today you thought they were constants, mwahaha

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

happy trans day of violence, my pretties

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

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. I know trans people and I know fascists who are making life difficult for trans people. The trans people are pretty cool and I'm glad I know them. The fascists can go fall down a deep dark hole.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! To all of my trans friends: I see you, you’re beautiful, and you matter. :prami_hearts_red:

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

The worst case scenario here is Götterdämmerung/ragnarök so let’s just hope it doesn’t come to that.

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

AFAICT and very much not an expert, but some of the places to watch for the really serious warning signs: India (food), Australia (energy-intensive mining), Japan (plastics), South Korea and Taiwan (semiconductors and other industry). Shortages are likely to be a much bigger issue than the market price of oil

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

Trying to read up on and comprehend the economic impact of certain current events is outright nightmare fuel. There’s a non-zero chance this will play out in a substantially worse way than the pandemic 😬

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.world/@paninid/116324402697434215

This is a huge problem and we need to be holding people making chatbot interfaces accountable for some of it. The _shape_ of these tools matter immensely. They need to be presented as not just ‘might be wrong' in a disclaimer sense, but deeply integrating their epistemic status in the UI. These are suggestions, leads, pointers, rough summaries.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

#CognitiveSurrender is when people give up their own thinking to follow #ChatGPT's recommendations 90%+ of the time when it’s correct and also still followed its advice ~80% of the time when it was completely wrong​.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/study-do-what-chatgpt-tells-us

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Also, honestly? Dumb models are easier to understand and less likely to try to escape the box while solving problems.

Easier to trick, but that's always a small matter of how much easier not whether, and we need to be building process to mitigate anyway.