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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

It looks like some Democrats are preparing to help the GOP reauthorize a little-known law that lets the government sidestep the Constitution and spy on US citizens.

Let’s be clear: Zero Democrats should vote to allow the regime to gobble up mass surveillance data to punish Trump’s enemies and round up immigrants. https://prospect.org/2026/04/13/congressional-black-caucus-support-spying-powers-blm-activists-fisa-702/

Boosted by jwz:
a2_4am ("4am ❧") wrote:

I am so fucking tired of seeing this warning

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@botgov/116403728665224748

If you are wondering what the “Tech Prosperity Corps” might be, it is apparently a new Peace Corps program to send people into developing countries and tell them to use AI

https://www.peacecorps.gov/about-the-agency/media-center/news/peace-corps-launches-tech-prosperity-corps-initiative/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

I'm immune to LLM sycophancy because I'm terrible at taking a compliment.

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

right, where did i get to with my NaNboxing[1] before dinner?

[1] It's not quite NaNboxing, it's "exponent boxing""

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

i locally reduced entropy!

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

#SmolFedi has a new filter system for notifications

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw ("Joscelyn Transpiring") wrote:

Following up on the thought of finding women in uniforms hot, I wonder how much of fascism is just people sublimating their kinks into politics?

Tradwife - girl, you just want to be a sub and be dominated by your man with some extended play outside the bedroom. That’s great! Just don’t then make it everyone else’s problem by trying to take away the right to vote from women.

Bootlickers: seriously, you can just be a subby wubby little guy/gal that is stepped on and licks the boot. That kind of scene is hot. You don’t need to make it a form of government.

Chaste theocrats: chastity play is hot! The wait, the anticipation, the build-up! But um…maybe don’t nonconsensually use the law to criminalize sex for a bunch of other people.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

Passing along a question from a friend who was recently fired and is on the job market again. I would prefer *not* to receive "I ran a web search for you" replies instead of direct knowledge, thanks. Boosts welcome.

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Are you familiar with any professional organizations catering to LGBTQ+ and (in particular) trans #software engineers?

#AskFedi

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

(this will be your cue to tell me how terrible your skin was at 26, go ahead, the floor is yours)

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Thoughts on leaving YouTube, and moving away from big tech...again

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/g75gRtk2tmKyFGxa5fNPJT

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

Seeing a post about how a 26-year-old movie star gets their notably great skin, and aside from any other way, I think being 26 probably is a great foundation for that

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein our long pizza delivery nightmare has finally reached a middle
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/04/14.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

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

FET (Field Effect Transperson)

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

church (dim sum)

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

Announcer: Now back to 'Jawin' with Jawas' Tattooine's top talk radio podcast

Jawa1: *incomprehensible gibberish*

Jawa2: *incomprehensible gibberish*

Jawa1: *questioning gibberish*

Jawa2: *angry gibberish*

*silence*

Jawa1: utini?

Jawas: UTINI!

*laughing gibberish*

*coffee sipping sounds*

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mntmn ("Lucie / minute") wrote:

MNT Station prelaunch page is finally online at @crowdsupply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt-research/mnt-station

Subscribe by leaving your email there if you're interested in updates about our universal open hardware computer for your desktop, homelab, or wall-mounted edge device/router!

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

@indutny what resource(s) would you recommend for someone who's a bit rusty with 日本語 for someone who's probably between A1 and A2?

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

resistors are an ohmage to entropy

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116404215577421255

Time to #TalkAboutHumanities -- Linguistics is the study of how language works and how we work with language, and linguists end up very sensitized to language use and how it shapes our social world.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It's #PortfolioDay, and for once I'm also going to partake by sharing a few of my photos. I am a photographer and I shoot predominantly on film. I enjoy the slow and tactile process, and I love the grain. I try to take pictures of things I find beautiful or meaningful. You can see more of my work on my website:

https://eugenrochko.com

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
lislis@toot.cat wrote:

I'm looking for a beginner/noob pcb design tool. Bonus if I can order low quantities right after the design process. Any recommendations? :boost_ok:

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

Folks that do software and analog electronics: (and please boost for visibility)

Is there an OSS tool that simulates analog circuits for signals? In particular, I want something that I can script and write expectations of the output signals for given inputs. And ideally that scripting would include programmatically adding/removing/changing components in the simulated circuit and then testing the outputs.

Thanks!

#electronics #analogElectronics #simulations #programming

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Nikita Lisitsa") wrote:

New blog post! I really hope I'll get a decent amount of people mad with this one 😈😈😈

It's OK to compare floating-points for equality:

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/its-ok-to-compare-floating-points-for-equality.html

#programming #computing #floatingpoint #geometry

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

Today, EFF sent complaints to the attorneys general of California and New York urging them to investigate Google for deceptive trade practices over Google's broken promises to users targeted by the government 🧵(1/4) https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-state-ags-investigate-googles-broken-promise-users-targeted-government

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

It is early in the morning on Sunday, and I am opening the back door to see if there are any ripe lemons on the tree.

Instead I almost tread on a fox. Curled up and asleep.

Now, you have to understand that ever since Europeans settled here, we have had Japanese immigrants as well. Some by choice, some ... less so.

This is why I am not too surprised to see that the fox has three tails. My opening the door has not awakened it, so I step over and continue on to the lemon tree. There are two ripe lemons this morning, which suits me just fine.

I have another look at the fox on the way back, just to make sure, but there is no sign of any injury. I step over again, and leave the screen door ajar.

Charlie is still asleep upstairs as I start putting breakfast together. I am cooking pancakes, and I know the smell of them will wake her up. Eventually.

I'm on the fourth one when I feel a nose in the back of my knee. I look down at the fox, and nod towards the crockery cabinet. "Can you get some plates out please? The medium ones." I ask.

The fox looks at the cabinet, back at me, back to the cabinet, and sneezes. The young woman standing in its place sticks her tongue out at me "You're no fun" she says in a broad accent.

"I'm Toby, Charlie's husband. A kitsune is fairly normal by my standards. Now, do you want bacon on your pancakes?"

"Sally. Your wife, Charlie? She's the witch?"

"Yep. What's the problem?" As I speak, I put some bacon on as well.

"Um, I need some help finding Mum."

"She's missing?"

"Yes? No? Sort of? I was adopted. And, well, I had no idea what I was until a year ago."

"Are you in trouble?"

"No, but I don't know what I should do. I um, I like this guy back home, but there's also my best friend, and they don't know about me and I don't know what to do."

The last came out with a bit of a whine, and she blushed, clearly embarrassed by it all.

I smiled a sympathetic smile "OK, I'll get Charlie, and let's get you sorted. If I know how these things go, it will not be too bad. But first, breakfast. Tea or coffee?"

"Um, do you have hot chocolate?"

"Of course." Plus the smell of chocolate will get Charlie down here even quicker than the coffee and pancakes.

#CharlieAndToby #SF #SFF #UrbanFantasy #microfiction #tootfic #microfic #IAmWriting

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

"Postal Service union launches ad campaign promoting mail voting as Trump assails the method"

https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/116404027611130106

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

You ever need to pull over immediately because there's a rainbow?

You ever need to pull over a second time (but somewhere more picturesque) because it only intensified while you drove?

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

you know i think all those consumer brands that were shutting down are about to start right back up.

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

wahey, RAM prices are starting to crash