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

notes on the "React space"
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-04-16T07:30Z/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ashleygjovik ("Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD") wrote:

In litigation Apple repeatedly claimed the facts underlying my protected whistleblower & labor activity were irrelevant & Apple refused to provide any docs or info about what actually happened at my office. Apple also hid it from EPA for years. We now have receipts & its very bad. Like, worse then I imagined.

First of all, there were definitely cracks in the slab (floor) separating the office from the toxic death cloud under the building - but "crack" was a bit of an understatement.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
SecureOwl@infosec.exchange ("Mike Sheward") wrote:

I wrote up this cursed discovery with more details:

https://mike-sheward.medium.com/deleteduser-com-a-15-pii-magnet-c4396eb21061

#infosec

Boosted by jwz:
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Despite Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, these 7 Democratic Senators voted AGAINST a resolution to block sale of weapons to Israel:

🔵Richard Blumenthal (CT)
🔵Chris Coons (DE)
🔵Catherine Cortez-Masto (NV)
🔵John Fetterman (PA)
🔵Kristen Gillibrand (NY)
🔵Jacky Rosen (NV)
🔵Chuck Schumer (NY)

Vote these 7 fascists out permanently.

Senate rejected the vote 59-40. But a record 40 Democratic Senators voted to block the sale. Change is coming.

jwz wrote:

Honk Honk. It's The Bonk.

The Composograph image above is illustrating the 1926 Peaches and Daddy Browning scandal, in which 15-year-old actress Frances "Peaches" Heenan married, and then swiftly tried to divorce, 51-year-old real estate developer Edward West "Daddy" Browning. The Evening Graphic's coverage included allegations that Daddy kept a live goose in their bedroom. https://jwz.org/b/yk6S

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

lol no https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html

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

“Maine already has a law on the books that authorizes damages against federal officials who deprive people of their constitutional rights. Carvajal-Muñoz sued his ICE kidnappers under this statute, alleging that they stopped, arrested, and imprisoned him on the basis of race in violation of the Fourth and Fifth amendments. If his suit moves forward, he will likely uncover the identities of the masked agents who participated in his abduction. He has demanded both compensatory damages as well as punitive damages ‘to deter future unconstitutional conduct.’”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/04/aclu-lawsuit-ice-reign-of-terror-maine-california.html

#USPol

Boosted by jwz:
amy@types.pl ("Amélia Liao") wrote:

if you are a snake arguing against such a policy, please do the polite thing: puff out your chest, and yell out for all to hear, "I LOVE THE TASTE OF BOOT". do not waste the time of those who might have cared about your project by hmm'ing and haw'ing.

also please come forth under this post so i can block you already. you worm

Boosted by jwz:
amy@types.pl ("Amélia Liao") wrote:

a policy enforcing a blanket ban on contributions made with the use of LLMs is not, actually, 'mandating ideological purity'. it is, in fact, the bare minimum to ensure that your project won't be treated as completely radioactive by anyone with morals.

moreover, do not let anyone supporting Appeasement for sam altman and his ilk distract from the point at hand by trying to argue that the use of LLMs is in some way equivalent to choosing a license which allows the project to be used by e.g. defence contractors (i.e., any actual open-source license).

only one of these burns the reputations of those in the commit log to manufacture consent for the slop salesmen.

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robinadams@mathstodon.xyz ("Robin Adams") wrote:

@amy A blanket ban *is* the moderate position.

We should be using our tools and influence to fight back against the LLM project to privatise all public science and knowledge and enclose the digital commons.

"Have nothing to do with them" is the position in the center.

Instead apparently that's extremist and the reasonable position is "Let's only help train the war crime machine a little bit".

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medieval_illuminations ("Medieval Illumination") wrote:

Cephalopod. Luttrell Psalter, England ca. 1325-1340. British Library, Add 42130, fol. 62v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
tomayac@toot.cafe ("Thomas Steiner :chrome:") wrote:

Introducing a new spam policy for "back button hijacking": https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-button-hijacking. If you mess with the back 🔙 button, it's not the growth hack you think it is. I've seen unnamed news sites do this when you navigate to an article page, want to go back to where you came from, but then the back history gets hijacked and you're suddenly on the news site's main landing page.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
RussSharek@mastodon.art ("Russ Sharek") wrote:

I'm happy to see more non-ai forks of good tools.

https://codeberg.org/keepasschi

#StopSlop #noAI #keepass

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jwz wrote:

@jalefkowit It's very good that they had representatives from the raccoon community at that press conference. And also that they hid their identity by letting them wear masks.

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

I'm not sure which part of this is better: the headline, or the photo illustration they came up with to accompany it

https://www.tmz.com/2026/04/15/rfk-jr-cut-raccoon-penis/

#USPol

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
signalstation@raggedfeathers.com ("Michael of Ragged Feathers") wrote:

"The horrors persist, and so do you."
- me, teaching an infant about object permanence so we can stop playing Peekaboo

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

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Dr%5FBombay/116411557725032487

Woah, this is *so* well-shot. I legitimately thought the “1965” thing was a marketing bit for a contemporary film or something until a few minutes in. I’ve been watching a lot of skate parts recently and thinking about the (often-totally-unconsidered) cinematography, and it’s wild to find out people have known how to film skating like this since the 60s!

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

The most chthonic hulders in Underoak live deep underground where smells are used for navigation, cultural signalling, declaring warnings etc.
This guards fill the air with incense showing their allegiance.

It's an overwhelming place for first time visitors from the surface.

#characterdesign #art #sketchbook #pencil #pencildrawing #worldbuilding #conceptart

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
freya@highenergymagic.net ("Ra (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩") wrote:

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@ddosecrets/116408372375488121

> In June 2025, Ryan Mitchell Kramer plead guilty to the hack while pretending to be part of a fake Russia-based hacktivist group called "NullBulge".

WHAT

what the fuck

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"

"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."

After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"

"This, too, is magic."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #SmallStories

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Today was definitely the coolest weather we've had in a while around Seattle! Crazy hail, lightning, and even a funnel cloud over the Sound! #wawx

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GrimmReality@beige.party ("Grimm :bc:") wrote:

He is SO fucking good at this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLKZnVB4F9k

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skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

The author of the ‘backpacks are all bad and everything is worse on purpose’ site works at Palantir.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EA5JMW@mastodon.radio ("Alberto - EA5JMW") wrote:

We are looking for #HamRadio operators from around the world to organize a #Pride Award this June, with special callsigns from as much entities as we can.

Last couple of years it was me with #EH5LGBT, and we want to push it into a full on award! If you want to help and participate in some way, contact me!

#LGBT #Queer

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@pivic/116410555201283867

i wish i were happy about this #Ticketmaster decision but along with this illegal monopoly came the wiping out of small and medium sized concert and performance halls, clubs and bars all across USA.

capitalists used Ticketmaster to bankrupt whole local and regional arts, music and theater economies. those economies are not coming back any time soon.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
PamelaBarroway@mstdn.social ("Pamela Barroway – Biz Editor") wrote:

Catholic Charities does outstanding work. My South Jersey synagogue has partnered with the Camden chapter many times. To suddenly cancel Miami's funding in what can only be viewed as a petty, retaliatory act is disgraceful.

#Trump #PopeLeo

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John Deere. The settlement includes a 10-year “agreement by Deere to provide ‘the digital tools ​required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of tractors, combines, and other machinery”. https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
Elodie_lyra@lgbtqia.space ("Elodie chaos 🐉🐝🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

From the Anti-Authoritarian Playbook;

“The targeting of trans people - and specifically trans youth and trans women in sports - is not a policy agenda. It is a strategic operation. Understanding it as policy produces the wrong response. Understanding it as strategy produces the right one.

Jason Stanley, in How Fascism Works, identifies the targeting of vulnerable minorities as a core mechanism of authoritarian consolidation. The function is not primarily to harm the targeted group, though that harm is real and intentional. The primary function is to test the solidarity of potential opposition coalitions, to find and exploit the fracture lines, and to establish a precedent: that some members of the coalition can be sacrificed when the political cost of defending them is judged too high.

Every successful authoritarian project has done this. The question it is always asking of the opposition is: is there anyone in your coalition you will abandon to protect the rest? Because if the answer is yes, we know exactly how to proceed. We find that person. We make defending them as costly as possible. And we watch the rest of the coalition either hold together or fracture. If they fracture, we learn where the next fracture line is, and we push there.

The targeting of trans people is not the end of this strategy. It is the test. And what the test is measuring, in real time, is whether LGBTQ organizations, progressive coalitions, and pro-democracy movements will sacrifice their most vulnerable members when the pressure is sufficient.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
yosh@toot.yosh.is wrote:

Some decent progress today on my Wasm Component package manager! I managed to extract the metadata from components and started rendering it out.

This builds on some of the metadata work I did last year, adding a set of conventional custom sections to wasm-tools for things like license info, author data, and revisions.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
petewalkden@mastodon.scot ("Pete Walkden") wrote:

Brown Hare

Lolloping down a country road towards me.

From a holiday in North Norfolk recently.

#brownhare #hare #photography #wildlife #norfolk