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

Just had a great conversation with @eff and Luísa Franco Machado from EquiLabs

https://www.youtube.com/live/1hG2kx2w-2o

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Edit: This is fixed now!

I’m aware of an issue with editing profiles on social.lol following the 4.6.0 upgrade. Looking into it! If you need to update your profile in the interim, you can do it with any Mastodon client as a workaround (the issue appears to be with the web UI only at this point). Will get this sorted out ASAP, though! Sorry for the trouble.

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

Itty-bitty baby orbweaver.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/17/how-do-they-avoid-motion-sickness/

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

(And I remembered to fix the character limit before compiling this time! 😅)

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

:mastodon: social.lol has been updated to Mastodon v4.6.0+glitch.

Learn what’s new:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/

https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.0

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
brennen@federation.p1k3.com wrote:

materials:

- 1 or more rocks of a good throwing size
- 1 (one) pinecone

field of play:

mostly-empty parking lot, campsite, driveway, etc. somewhere the pinecone can skitter around and bounce off of stuff without getting bogged down in grass or mud is ideal.

play:

locate pinecone sitting on ground. this is the starting position. define a goal: under a dumpster, base of a tree, etc. take turns throwing rock at cone until it reaches goal.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Today in GIGO specifics: structural sexism in, stochastic sexism out: https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/116766449813889548

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

Scientific American's Megha Satyanarayana asked me what advice I have for young scientists. My answer:

"Question everything, question the source of information that you get [...] Just follow all the rabbit holes [...] You spend years and years and years still asking the same question or following a specific rabbit hole that other people are too tired to follow. And that’s really where there is no shortcut to scientific discovery or innovation. You have to struggle."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/timnit-gebru/

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

Herr Trump thinks everybody else is stoopid:

‘“It’s a very strong deal.” he said. “Nobody knows what it is, but it’s very strong. Most people seem to be very happy. Who’s really happy is the market,” he added, referring to a surge in stocks in recent days’

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/us/politics/trump-iran-peace-deal-obama.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

a social media platform with a single letter name? nah i'm good, that went real well last time 😂

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

i have no idea what this means but it sounded good in my head.

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

oh right yeah i was avoiding calculating

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

idris is truly the angle grinder of the agentic era

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

the best way to write a computer program is to go a little bit insane first

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

data structures involve a lot of maths, i have noticed. someone should do something about that

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

Oh, man, Kent is going to be so mad.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/17/anticipating-kent-hovinds-next-wack-a-what/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vxmu36TsVE

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

stretches fingers stand back, i'm going to do maths

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Fuchs") wrote:

RE: https://social.anoxinon.de/@codebergstatus/116765466028092709

can't have nice things can we

Mastodon wrote:

A big new release after months of work is a good time to mention that #Mastodon is crowdfunded. Unlike many other platforms out there, we don’t take venture capital, we don’t sell ads, and we don’t sell your data. We rely on your donations to pay our team. Please consider chipping in:

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Mastodon wrote:

#Mastodon 4.6 is here! It's been a long time in the works, but it's finally ready. In this release, we're introducing Collections—a way to share curated collections of profiles to help old and new users discover more of the #Fediverse. We're also updating the look of profiles, alongside many quality of life and accessibility improvements. Read more here:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
kore@chaos.social ("Kore Nordmann") wrote:

Your `` is invisible to keyboards and screen readers. Nothing made you write it, but nothing in your framework's workflow ever asked you not to.

The browser ships `` with focus trap, Escape, and correct semantics, built by people who do nothing else. Your component library re-implemented it in userland, with its own bugs.

The cheapest accessibility work is the work the browser already did: https://kore-nordmann.de/blog/htmx-and-web-components-instead-of-react.html

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

Bees have brains. News at 11.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/17/respect-the-intelligence-of-all-living-things/

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

Ours is the Theory, my #GameOfThrones podcast, now has its own domain, which you can follow on the fedi:

https://oursisthetheory.uk

@oursisthetheory.uk

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

LOL, subtitle on youtube:

(auto subbing didn't stand a chance)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
meg@fediscience.org ("Megan ⚘") wrote:

"Morality is rooted in love, not institutions: the enduring impact of Héloïse’s 12th-century romance with Abelard"

https://aeon.co/videos/there-can-be-no-sin-committed-from-love-the-radical-ethics-of-heloise

#History #Philosophy #Women

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

(i don't really see what other approach you can even take to I/O on linux)

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

Documenting design of some code

We thus do what we can and pray that it works out.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art ("Nick East (Indie Writer)") wrote:

If I had known then what I know now I could have saved so much time and gotten isolated and weird so much sooner 😜😂

@galacticwriters @writers @books @fantasy @bookstodon @joinin
@writingbooks @keepwriting @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#WritingMemes #Meme #Memes #Humor #Humour
#Author #IndieAuthor #Indie #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
gnomon ("Ben Zanin") wrote:

The key value of rapid prototyping *for the author and prospective contributors* is lost when the prototype proves only that a mechanism is possible, without also capturing and expressing the kernel of the implementation idea.

(Incidentally this is also why I love those rare projects which preserve the initial rapid prototype in the repo for reference, long long after the program has grown into a full-fledged robust implementation.)

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
gnomon ("Ben Zanin") wrote:

This process is exactly why shell scripts, with their rich variety of implicit behavior & syntactic shortcuts plus the surrounding userspace ecosystem of highly composable tools, are so useful: they offer the two complementary benefits of extremely expressive terse idea kernels & crucially the ability to _gradually_ add sophistication: error handling here, variable type restrictions there, logging a bit later, and so on.

The tool must be able to wrap the ball of yarn and then knit the sweater.