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

“Google developers significantly misstate carbon emissions of proposed UK datacentres | Google | The Guardian”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/09/google-developers-significantly-misstate-carbon-emissions-of-proposed-uk-datacentres

> Emissions understated by factor of five

Why it's a mistake to take claimed environmental impact of data centres at face value

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

“Iran war is crushing Asia’s farmers, threatening global food supply - The Washington Post”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/05/09/iran-farms-thailand-food/

> Nam Aoi said she faults only two men: Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

They also all know who to blame, in case you thought the US would have any allies left come next spring

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

“Iran war is crushing Asia’s farmers, threatening global food supply - The Washington Post”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/05/09/iran-farms-thailand-food/

> Heading into planting season, many farmers said they are facing the worst conditions in their lifetimes. Not during the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war were shortages or costs this dire, they said. Nor during the pandemic.

This'll probably be paywalled for most, but the short version is that food shortages next winter are baked-in. The only question now is "how bad?"

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
Savon_qui_flotte@eldritch.cafe ("Soap") wrote:

Hello ! Je donne 2 billets de #train (un aller et son retour) :

- de Marne-la-Vallée Chessy à Marseille le 12/05 à 7h22
- de Marseille à Marne-la-Vallée Chessy le 19/05 à 18h27

Merci pour les retoots, ça fera peut-être des heureux·ses et ces places ne seront pas perdues !

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
lobo@meemu.org ("Lobo") wrote:

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
brie@social.lol ("🐈‍⬛ brie biker-ranza 🚲") wrote:

✍️ I wrote a guide describing how I'm using the $69 Xteink X4 as a serious part of my reading workflow:

https://brie.dev/tiny-ereader

I love this ultra-portable notification-free reading environment that syncs with my KOReader devices!

💰 I'm sorry about your wallet!

#XteinkX4 #Xteink #KOReader

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
veronica@explains.social ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

Anywho, I'm a big fan of GoToSocial after having used it for a few weeks, and I'd love it if we all threw them a few bucks over on OpenCollective (if you can spare it).

https://opencollective.com/gotosocial

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tek@freeradical.zone ("Tekniquelly correct") wrote:

Q: Why do you like living in the Bay Area?

A: It's a million little things.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Gustodon@mas.to ("Ω 🌍 Gus Posey") wrote:

Which statement is more true?

A. Control is an illusion.

B. The decisions we make affect overall outcomes.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Rainmaker1973@zpravobot.news ("Massimo :bot:") wrote:

This guy made a paper plane out of his match ticket during a UEFA Nations League match in a stadium in Germany.

Watch until the end.

Attachments:

• video: This guy made a paper plane out of his match ticket during a UEFA Nations League match in a stadium in Germany. Watch until the end. https://t.co/0gUH8c5Oxc

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kb9ens@mastodon.radio ("Tom - KB9ENS") wrote:

Metro is free for the weekend to celebrate the D line opening. My bride and I took the opportunity to adventure out on the system and go to the “Remainders Creative Reuse” store in Pasadena. #metro #crafting

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bendaubney@social.lol ("Ben Daubney :prami:") wrote:

We’ve some surprise guests on this countryside break

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

Uptime continues. No one has asked how I feel about that. Anyway: 'bathtub curve' — Common term for the curve (resembling an end-to-end section of one of those claw-footed antique bathtubs) that describes the expected failure rate of electronics with time: initially high, dropping to near 0 for most of the system's lifetime, then rising again as it 'tires out'. See also burn-in period, infant mortality.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/bathtub-curve.html

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

what a wonderful idea

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/books/traveling-bookstore-alabama.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.hVA.8xYw.zavotENQ%5Fyqy&smid=url-share

Boosted by jwz:
GeePawHill wrote:

Wow, so many news stories going on right now.

* The Epstein Fury War
* The Epstein UFO Dump
* The Epstein Illegal Memorial Pool contract
* The Epstein Tariff Illegality
* The Epstein Gerrymandering War
* The Epstein "Narco-Terrorist" Attacks
* The Epstein Medicare/Medicaid Fraud

Hard to keep them all straight. You'd think they'd come up with different keywords other than "Epstein". (It's like looking up the programming language "go" on the internet).

*Everything* is Epstein these days.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Some people think that venture capital is a fundamentally evil business structure. I disagree.

Thought experiment:
If you could press a button tomorrow, that would cause 50% of the entire population of the continent of Africa to die within 5 years😮, but would 50X your profits and create dozens of trillion dollar companies, and help humanity become interplanetary 10 years earlier, would you press it?

If you're on this weird little Mastodon thing reading this, then you are most likely:

1. A technologist of some sort
2. Not a genocidal maniac

So you would of course say no.

Some of you suspect that I'm going to *imply* that many VCs would say yes. But I'm not going to imply anything. I don't have to. Because many of these VCs have written papers and blog posts under their real names, celebrating the fact that they believe that it's wrong *not* to press that button.🤦🏿‍♂️

The problem with VC is neither the profit motive, nor the business structure.

The problem is that the vast majority of the funds that our entire society uses to solve hard problems, are controlled and allocated by people that believe that it is their duty to create new buttons like the one above, and then mash it repeatedly.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

#Firefly

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

crumble is a bit of a misnomer at this stage. it has hardened into a solid lump and the teaspoon i'm eating it with is struggling to break bits off.

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

no you're having leftover crumble at silly in the morning.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ricmac ("Richard MacManus") wrote:

Now they’ve discovered external style sheets.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
jnpn wrote:

You can now use paredit to edit rust code

https://github.com/ThatXliner/rust-but-lisp

#lisp #sexp #rust #plt #cs

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I immediately went to go fill out the form to get access for one of those computers to access outbound SMTP and then I paused and thought "why"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I just discovered that I no longer have administrative access to _any_ computer that can make an outgoing Internet TCP connection to port 25, and I do not have words for the emotion I'm experiencing.

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

#caturday

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MNSpy@mastodon.online ("Minnesota Spy Club") wrote:

May 9, 1921: Sophie Scholl was born on this date in 1921. She was a central member of the anti-Nazi White Rose group in wartime Germany. She was captured, charged with high treason for distributing anti-war literature, & beheaded along with her brother, Hans. Since the 1970’s her antifascist resistance has been recognized and honored.

#Antifa #Resistance #WhiteRose #Germany

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
astraluma@tacobelllabs.net ("AstraLuma") wrote:

Losers: I asked Gemini to generate a logo for my project
Me: I mushed together two free icons in inkscape

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

Pretty sure they have a recording of me going "Nope, I hate this"

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

I applied for a job and they just sent me a response that directed me to A CHATBOT INTERVIEW WHERE I HAD TO RECORD MYSELF ANSWERING QUESTIONS!?

Closed it and asked to talk to a person 😐

Shaken to my CORE

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
vga256@tomodori.net wrote:

tiny lua compiler: a lua compiler in a single file, that's well-documented, that was hand-crafted over several years, and made to teach you compiler/tokenizer/parser/lexer design.

this is a crazy impressive project, and in a time when people are haphazardly slopcoding projects, is a standard to live by.

https://github.com/bytexenon/Tiny-Lua-Compiler

#programming #lua

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

"Remember that prophecy that some old god would end the world last year?" the guy at the tavern bar laughs. "What happened with that?"

I feel Finna flinch beside me.

"There's no point telling them," I say.

"Well, I didn't kill that old god for their sake."

"Saving the world includes the jerks."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #SmallStories