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

Speaking as an Ohioan and human, representative Max Miller sure looks like an abusive piece of shit who no one should ever vote for

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

That thing where you read a sort of interesting blog post but the context is unclear—it’s a critique that be either conservative or progressive—so you check the other posts and, no, it’s a “women’s role in society is to manage the households” site

Yikes. And nope. Very much nope. No link

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
necromanticnomad@mastodon.online ("Markus Gaines") wrote:

Computer users of Mastodon, (aka... all of you) what is your preferred method of mousing?

I'm curious because my current setup involves both an MX Master 2S and an Apple Magic Trackpad 2 in very close proximity to each other.

#polls #ComputerMice #Mousing

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
bongmaster@hol.ogra.ph ("Bongmaster") wrote:

@ChrisWere@toot.wales "Wash me like one of your French Towels" :v

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
stellarskylark@solarpunk.moe ("φ-52 "Skylark"") wrote:

like a ukulele isn't a failed guitar, it's a very intentional adaptation of the guitar into the existing Hawaiian musical tradition. everything that makes it seem twee and cute and cringe to white people was a design decision

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

Current bun!

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

one of the things i've thought for a while is that it would be nice to have ad hoc product types where instead of defining ADTs/enums for everything, you just select the data structures to consider part of the union.

racket's type system actually does this and after porting some racket to idris yesterday, i've decided it's confusing and i don't like it after all.

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

neat

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/

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

you wait weeks for a website launch and then two come along at once

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

AI is the quiet quitting they were worried about.

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
githubchangelog ("Unofficial GitHub Changelog") wrote:

Restricting npm bypass-2FA granular access tokens https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-31-restricting-npm-bypass-2fa-granular-access-tokens
#github

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
batkaren@mastodon.online wrote:

🎶 Beetles all over this squirrel
Join glands
Start a bug brain
A bug brain 🎶

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

I, for one, think it is extremely awesome and high tech that we get AI suggestions to add multiple slightly different, single-use functions defined in place in the same location in every pull request now.

particularly since it's trying to 'protect' against a thing that if it were to be exploited would mean that the entire server was already pwned.

sure yeah why not define getSafeExternalUrl and sanitizeExternalUrl ... twice ... in the ... footer component ... to sanitize constants

https://github.com/NeuromatchAcademy/mastodon/pull/90#discussion%5Fr3700733027

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ancient_catbus@jorts.horse ("Catbus") wrote:

hey friends what was that android mastodon client that grouped notifications? I can't remember the name

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
radiofreefedi@musician.social ("radio free fedi") wrote:

Ahoy friends!
Less than a month to #NHAMFest26
26-28 August UTC time

https://fest.nham.co.uk

An ALL DAY live streaming marathon parade from the creative, talented, fun and friendly artists and makers right here in the neighbourhood. Plus a bonus day of events!

Concerts, discussions, hangouts, watch parties, music, video, art, writing, science and more on our own platforms of more agency for artists and punters.

Check our preliminary schedule, set your calendar to #joinIn the celebration.

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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

I'm gay for @vv

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ EVIL DEAD 2 + ARMY OF DARKNESS: MOVIE SCREENING at DNA Lounge tonight: Sun Aug 2, 7:30pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2026/08-02.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #evildead2 #armyofdarkness #cyberdelia #sanfrancisco

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

Yes. I'm going to outlive every single one of those motherfuckers and die happy in the better world we've built on top of their worthless bones.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@blairimani/post/Dbjb9dMkQO6

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

(and the equivalent of that for coding too; but I am not sure what personalities come readily to mind, I don’t spend enough time on LinkedIn to get a sense of the equivalent bad thing, and I am not sure who the good personalities would be exactly either)

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

and yes I am a little personally bitter but I can quash my own ego with relatively little difficulty. what I substantively want is for e.g. Squawk Box to be replaced entirely with a show that is just Ed Zitron and Michael Burry reviewing spreadsheets line by line

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

“no one could have predicted this” say guys who pointedly ignored or derided everyone who predicted this

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Really wondering if these Thought Leaders who are now — at this late moment, now that the KOSPI is tanking and Nadella is saying that trusting OpenAI will annihilate your business — are coming around to the idea that maybe LLMs aren’t really all *that* useful, will give *any* credit to the people who have been saying it for years

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jockr ("Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴") wrote:

Trump offering early access to online posts in move seen as corruption | Donald Trump | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/01/trump-truth-social-early-access

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

Short doco: Iran: The making of a war

A CIA-MI6 coup in 1953 ousted the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh & installed a US-compliant monarchy under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Societal discontent with two decades of Pahlavi's repressive policies & continued western interference culminated in the 1979 revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/featured-documentaries/2026/8/1/iran-the-making-of-a-war?ref=upstract.com

#USPol #UKPol #EUPol #IranianHistory #CIA #MI6 #USCoup .

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dan@dankim.com ("Dan Kim") wrote:

According to Eugene there’s no such thing as “too many pillows”. #dogsofmastodon

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

My recollection of the COVID lockdowns was they came too late and weren't enough and didn't last long enough but they were still the smartest and most humane thing I had seen this country ever do. So it's perplexing to me how many people treat it like the Year From Hell even when they didn't lose anyone or anything.

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

back from seeing Nolan’s film “Odyssey”, & think it was well done despite the mixing of source’s & the modification of Helen and her sister Clytemnestra being twins.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
bontchev@infosec.exchange ("VessOnSecurity") wrote:

A computer can never be held accountable...

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
defcon@defcon.social ("DEF CON") wrote:

We will launch the #DefCon 34 Original Sound Track (OST) early Wednesday on https://media.defcon.org and at https://defconmusic.org so people can listen while they travel

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

Dear YouTubers, when you set up your camera, make sure it's focused on you and not on the microphone directly in front of you, which means you will be ever slightly out of focus the entire time you are speaking. That's really annoying and distracting.