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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mitch@hachyderm.io ("Mitch Wagner") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Mediagazer@mstdn.social wrote:

More than 800 unionized USA Today staffers call on the company to dissolve its recently announced partnership with Palantir, citing "significant ethical issues" (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab)

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/an-inherent-conflict-of-interest-800-usa-today-co-employees-want-the-company-to-end-its-new-palantir-partnership/
http://mediagazer.com/260810/p8#a260810p8

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eloquence@social.coop ("Erik Moeller") wrote:

New Sovereign Tech Agency job opening just went live.

If you live in Berlin or are able to independently relocate & work there, this is an opportunity to give #opensource maintainers access to deep human expertise: security audits, post-quantum encryption work, Cyber Resilience Act conformance, and more.

Alongside our direct investments in maintainers, this program focuses on paying for resources that keep projects secure & make them more maintainable over time.

Learn more about the job here:

https://www.sovereign.tech/jobs/program-manager-resilience

Feel free to DM me here if you have Qs.

#GetFediHired

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blamellors@mstdn.party ("Blamellors") wrote:

Two Different America's.

Trump is right there are two America's. Not the Islamaphobic intent he posted but the one where a conman married to an escort he allegedly met through Jefferey Epstein, and who entered the US on a work visa and lied to immigration about her skills ( speaks five languages, graduated from college and applied for an Einstein visa ) when the only skill we've seen is lesbian photos.

The other America is a doctor with a humble Muslim wife who are living the American dream.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gottalaff.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("@GottaLaff") wrote:

2019: Hegseth said, "I don't think I've washed my hands for 10 years. Really, I don't, I don't really wash my hands, ever. [...] I inoculate myself. It's just not — germs are not a real thing. I can't see them, therefore, they are not real."

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3msqlva64k42v

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
shonin@c.im wrote:

May have paywall >>

Adapting to arid conditions, local farmers embrace water-resilient practices - Lookout Eugene-Springfield

https://lookouteugene-springfield.com/story/environment/2026/08/09/adapting-to-arid-conditions-local-farmers-embrace-water-resilient-practices/

"Four 3,000-gallon tanks loom over her farmstead, filled by water that cycles through a rain catcher collecting runoff from the greenhouse roof. Her farm, however, needs less water than most. A one-third-acre plot of her land is designated for dry-farmed crops."

"Oregon’s wet winters help set farmers up for dry summers of growing. Dry farming allows deep roots to absorb residual moisture from these wet seasons. " #drought #Oregon #agriculture

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SharonCrockett@toot.community ("Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ Persists") wrote:

From Langston Hughes poem "Beaumont to Detroit: 1943"

"You jim crowed me
Before hitler rose to power
And you're STILL jim crowing me
Right now, this very hour.

Yet you say you're fighting
For democracy.
Then why don't democracy
Include me?

I ask you this question
Cause I want to know
How long I got to fight
BOTH HITLER and JIM CROW."

#langstonhughes #ww2 #blacksinww2 #poetry #blackpoets

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
FuturamaGifs ("Futurama Gifs") wrote:

Season 7, Episode 23: Game of Tones

#Futurama #S07E23 #Cartoon #Morbotron

Attachments:

• gifv: 223185da2f848951.mp4

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

RE: https://journa.host/@msfreepress/117072338098968191

JFC two of the poorest states in the country just signed a ecological suicide pact. they really want that 24/7 #Mississippi Is Burning experience.

UPDATE:
OMFG IT IS WORSE THAN I THOUGHT.

this is a #KinderMorgan project. if you are in your 60s or older, this name will ring a bell: it’s one of the companies created from the #Enron implosion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder%5FMorgan

#petromafia #climateCollapse #pipelines #methane #Alabama #USpol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
br00t4c wrote:

DC residents call Trump's National Guard extension 'demoralizing' as they endure a 'police state'

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-national-guard-deployment-washington-dc-extended-2029-b3030586.html

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

Was all the food we ate while growing up that forgettable?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/10/what-did-i-live-on-in-the-years-from-0-to-30/

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
Elizafox@treehouse.systems ("Elizabeth :therian: :cascadia:") wrote:

Everyone thinks everything has gotten worse

Here’s some things that actually haven’t:

• Weather forecasting: it’s better than ever (outside of the US)
• Solar: cheaper than natural gas
• Coal: essentially dying from not being cheaper than natgas or solar
• Timekeeping: now accurate over galactic timescales
• Flash storage: surpassing spinning rust
• Public transit ridership in the US: Amtrak is posting the best numbers ever
• Union membership in the US: rising
• Murder rates: falling in the US and worldwide on average, believe it or not
• CFC’s: essentially abolished and gone, the biggest environmental win of our lifetimes
• Acid rain: increasingly a nearly-solved issue
• Electrical access: still rising worldwide
• Internet access: most people are now connected everywhere
• China is leading the way in green tech and actively working to get off fossil fuels
• You can charge an EV from 0 to 80% in 15 minutes with the newest chargers and tech, and it’s still getting faster

And so much more. Lots of quiet wins that people never hear about because all they do is doomscroll.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
elementary wrote:

Just popping in to say that we haven’t leaked any of your personal data. We don’t collect it 🙌

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
vnzn@mas.to ("Christian Noll") wrote:

curl: Nobody wants to work with Windows

https://www.heise.de/en/news/curl-Nobody-wants-to-work-with-Windows-11409147.html

#windows #Microsoft #curl #programming #Linux #security

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
alfiekohn@sciences.social ("Alfie Kohn") wrote:

Ad in The Onion

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

fiddling with a new 6m band quad loop design, aimed at hitting 50Ω so I can (hopefully) eliminate the weight (and added complexity) of a balun. I’ll keep the inline RFI choke at the feedpoint.

a 2:1 height to width ratio seems (theoretically) to work.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I should find something more interesting to do than aimlessly scroll Mastodon while my nerves are still frayed

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

Seeing a lot more of the "I think stochastic parrot is a pejorative term but I'm totally, honestly not an AI booster, I do appreciate people's concerns" line of debate from a certain crowd these days

That is, it's the crowd that has noticed how bad the bubble is but are still themselves believers in LLMs as a tech (just being more subtle about it these days) and are obviously still hopeful about being able to profit from it.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
emptywheel.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy wrote:

Me, in March.
emptywheel.net/2026/03/09/t...

CNN, today.
edition.cnn.com/2026/08/10/p...

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
fossheim@front-end.social ("Sarah L. Fossheim") wrote:

Involved from the sidelines in a volunteering project and reviewing their website. It’s made by a developer who has switched to “vibe coding”.

Me and the other contributors have now spent maybe twice as much time pointing out VERY OBVIOUS issues (both with the code, design, and copy) than it would have taken me to code it all from scratch without gen AI.

But sure, ✨ it’s the future ✨

Boosted by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
CarlMuckenhoupt ("Carl Muckenhoupt") wrote:

Steady is the scepter
Deadly is the stone
Heavy is the crown
Ready is the throne
Trendy is the fashion
Teddy is the bear
Belly is the button
Medi is the care
Genshi is the impact
Bentley is the car
Smedley is the butler
Hedy is Lamarr

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Not a "productive" day but the sort of busyness that leaves me exhausted at the end of it

Boosted by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
Ai16C@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Adventures in 16 Colors") wrote:

Here are some words about how my opinion of the EGA color palette changed over the years:

https://reanthsoft.com/blog%5F260806%5Fega%5Fand%5Fme.html

#EGA #PixelArt #GameDev #Blog

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

and i've now made two minor variations on it as well, so that's 3 64 line functions.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
prahou@merveilles.town ("Tomáš") wrote:

THEODORE ROOSEVELT SHOT BY CRANK IN MILWAUKEE STREET

#content_review #unix_surrealism #fediverse #loops #mastodon #lemmy #art #mastoart #javascript #cats #snac

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

who's been doing cool shit with Steamboat Willie era mickey ever since he went public domain

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
cR0w@infosec.exchange (":rainbowCrow:") wrote:

tech companies doing incident response

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
patcharcana@furry.engineer ("Patch Arcana") wrote:

Hey, I need some help from our #illustration community here on the Fediverse. DM me if you think you can help.

I am looking to #commission a ~6"x9" illustration of an urban fantasy cityscape to be used as a rear cover on an upcoming book release.

I'd like to secure the quote from an artist before I actually hire them because I will be crowdfunding the publication costs, and having a quote from the outset will help me size the goal of that effort appropriately.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
joepie91@slightly.tech ("Sven Slootweg, ("still kinky and horny anyway")") wrote:

this is incredible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBvLadXo7XA - the song itself, everything in the comments section, and how youtube's "AI summary" apparently produced a series of variously incorrect summaries until eventually someone at google turned it off for this video entirely

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
SeaFury@aus.social ("SeaFury 🦜🍃 大家姐") wrote:

Another job rejection, this is getting to me and I know it shouldn't, it's not personal but still... Please cheer me up with cute pet photos! #JobSearch #cuties