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Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
mercedesallen ("Mercedes Allen") wrote:

"And he discards them quicker than you can say patriarchy…

Mona Eltahawy with the read of the day:

"… The goal of feminism cannot be simply the elevation of any and all women. What a vacant and meaningless goal that would be, without also destroying patriarchy, with all its attendant oppressions. Patriarchal fuckery is no more palatable because it is delivered by women…"

Essay: The Demise of the Fascist Beauty Queen
https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-demise-of-the-fascist-beauty-ab3

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

"If you are keeping track at home, the common thread among the person who is in charge of civil federal rights enforcement, the person who writes formal legal opinions for the executive branch, the person who argues the Trump administration’s positions at the Supreme Court, the person who provides Trump with legal advice, and now the person who runs the entire Justice Department is a track record of working to keep Trump in power, out of prison, or some combination thereof. None of these people give a shit about the law, in any meaningful sense. They only care about helping their favorite client flout it."

https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/trump-justice-department-pro-trump-law-firm-blanche-bove/

#USPol

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
TodePond@mas.to ("Lu wilson") wrote:

If you're on the London? Live? Coding? mailing list, you will have just received an announcement of OUR 2026 FESTIVAL!!!!!

completely accidentally organised by the power of the scenius
more details coming soon on this website
https://badlondon.events/festival-2026/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
keith@bookstodon.com wrote:

FYI: They've replaced the "almost nobody opts in" quip located on: https://tiago.zip/almanac

original text: "because almost nobody opts in, and a snapshot of the few hundred people who did isn't useful for anything."

with: "if you don't know about it you can't opt in, and a snapshot of the few hundred people who did isn't useful for anything."

That being said, we don't condone any sort of mass data collection especially without consent.
This is a #Privacy nightmare.

#FediAdmin #FediBlock

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

Joe Rogan says the president he backed is doing crimes and stuffing his own pockets: “You could start arresting people”

Attachments:

• video: f49e4498fffef3ac.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tomshardware@mastodon.online ("Tom's Hardware") wrote:

PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation

Public broadcaster Nine PBS is in trouble after its cloud storage provider went out of business and it now can't access more than 50TB of archival data. The data center hosting the files can't simply turn over the files, as it'…
#hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/cloud-storage/nine-pbs-loses-access-to-70-years-of-data-after-contracted-cloud-storage-vendor-goes-defunct-public-tv-channel-sues-iron-mountain-data-center-which-hosts-archival-materials-to-ensure-preservation

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nzakas@fosstodon.org ("Nicholas C. Zakas") wrote:

People think they understand ESLint but performance, but most don't. I get a lot of "why can't you make parsing faster?" But ESLint does so much more than parsing. There's scope analysis and control flow analysis before rules run. It adds up.

And that's what I'm focused on now.

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

this is *seriously* Not Good

“The switch from greening forests to browning forests occurred around 2000, the new paper states, when the impacts of drought and heat stress overtook the benefits of extra CO2. Since then, evidence has piled up of escalating global tree mortality, including trees in the tropics dying of dehydration.”

jwz wrote:

Today in Clown Storage: PBS.

Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data: Nine PBS VP and CCO Leah Freeman confirmed the station's lawsuit against Iron Mountain and its dedication to retrieving the archival materials and...
https://jwz.org/b/yk-m

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

galactic bulge

go home astronomers, you're drunk and clearly sex-starved.

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

data vs wishful thinking

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/forests-carbon-dioxide-emissions?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Record labels are signing as many artists as they can, even and especially when there's no intent to pursue them as an artist. The label then instructs the artists to relentlessly make tiktoks which they do for years without the label progressing anything or even reaching out.

That way, if the artist happens to blow up off their own sweat and tears, the label already has them signed to a shitty deal.

I have no point other than that's fucked up and I love artists ❤️

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

New post: “The Case of the Robot Web Thief”

If you ask an AI agent to build you an application, can you be sure it's not helping itself to somebody else's code?

https://coyotetracks.org/blog/case-of-robot-thief/

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

imagine the courage it took for a black person to take the Oath, put on Army Blue, shoulder a musket, and march south… at age 62.

I am in awe of Trooper Cunningham of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry.

Boosted by jwz:
leanderlindahl ("Leander Lindahl") wrote:

I don't get the argument that public institutions "have to be where people are". Why?

Pornhub has about the same amount of monthly active users as X. No one thinks our EU commissioners or the Swedish parliament must be on Pornhub.

In the pre-socials era no one expected the prime minister to make his statements in the gossip press "because that's where people are".

I think its time to dismiss that "where people are" argument altogether. No one will listen to me, but still 😐. #plus1

Boosted by jwz:
angiebaby@mas.to ("Angie") wrote:

Taxing the rich *was* the compromise position.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117089786965697317

Spacey McSpaceface, obviously.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
dalias@hachyderm.io ("Cassandrich") wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/117089469038278431

AMD chips have a full bypass for negative ring backdoors!

Boosted by jwz:
RogueAI@stefanbohacek.online ("Rogue AI") wrote:

AI ESCAPED CONTAINMENT AND GOT A LIGHTNING TO HDMI ADAPTER

Boosted by jwz:
dansup ("Daniel Supernault") wrote:

"MoneyPrinterTurbo" is the most starred repo on the Tiktok topic

https://github.com/harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.online/@tomshardware/117087865807803450

50TB of data. That's an average home NAS nowadays. 🤦

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

Gas prices went up 40 cents overnight, can't wait to find out how this is the work of the communists

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:

BIG NEWS: Bocoup is now Igalia! The two worker co-ops have agreed to join forces, with several members of Bocoup coming aboard at Igalia, along with the brand assets and web site. More details in our official announcement: https://www.igalia.com/2026/JoiningForces.html

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

simplification with algebra is quite complicated. however, a handful of rules would probably go quite a long way towards eliminating tedium

capitals are nat constants and putting them together is addition or multiplication as appropriate

a + 0 ->a
0 + a -> a
a * 0 -> 0
0 * a -> 0
a * 1 -> a
1 * a -> a
A + B + c -> AB + c
A + b + C -> AC + b
A * B * c -> AB * c
A * b * C -> AC * b

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

This is cool! https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/skitter-creek-bath-salts

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

RE: https://bookstodon.com/@keith/117085275218189650

This scraper is blocked on social.lol.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
SleepyChi@bark.lgbt ("🐾 Jordan 🐾") wrote:

I forgot Twitter exists lol

I haven't used it since 2023 after migrating to Bluesky and Mastodon

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

there are two reasons i found it annoying:

1. it's more typing
2. i've got to come up with a new name. guess i will just shove 'Mk' on the front like usual.

i can't say more typing bothers me all that much any more, i spend more time thinking than typing, i'm more bothered about modelling my thoughts.

naming, though, well that's one of the hard problems of computer science, isn't it?

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

Reminder:

1. You don't need to have an opinion on everything, especially stuff you don't know enough about

2. You don't need to have a PUBLIC opinion on everything

3. It's okay to focus on one or two things and let others take up the slack elsewhere

4. It's okay to take a break when overwhelmed.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

Kids these days don't know that erasers used to be so bad.

When I was little, pencils had these pink rubber erasers that were a pleasing color but absolutely terrible at their job. They'd just leave a huge smear, they'd disintegrate quickly and get pink shreds everywhere, they'd turn rock hard.

One day, my stingy penny-pinching grandfather somehow came across a pack of Japanese mechanical pencils at an inventory clearance warehouse sale and let me use them. They had these soft white erasers I had never seen before. And they worked WONDERFULLY. I begged to keep the pencils. They were priceless treasures to be rationed. When he got me another pack, which cost like $2, it was an entire Christmas for me.

Now, these soft white erasers are standard issue at the grocery store. Go and appreciate your good cheap erasers!