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

RE: https://c.im/@BBC/117090920808932927

Answer: A Giant condom, because he is such a large dickhead

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

In my Feb 2026 talk, "Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of "AI": The View from the Humanities", I call on humanities scholars to make legible to the broader world how even as we work with texts (and write more texts), the words aren't the work.

This recent paper by Lauren Goodlad of @CriticalAI is an excellent example:

https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2026.175.3.80

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

Link to the talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Lc6QNxolQ

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
newsguyusa@flipboard.social ("Steve Herman") wrote:

A former Navy carrier pilot reacts to the president’s ‘steam’ order . https://news.usni.org/2026/08/13/new-white-house-memo-calls-for-foreign-built-warships-return-to-steam-catapults-on-ford-carriers

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

these seem worrisome and widespread depletions: https://newrepublic.com/post/214338/donald-trump-lost-quarter-reaper-drone-iran

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

ahhhhhhh

https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-am-weary-let-me-rest/1469581485?i=1469582699

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

AI coding agents, or as I've started calling them: tech debt as a service.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
xapmat@mstdn.social ("Xapmat :heart_pan:") wrote:

Our owl family had moved out after the babies grew up enough to be in their own.
But we got some new ones who moved in. They are getting used to us and being a little more bold in coming up by the house.

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

and meat in fact doesn't aim to destroy the craft of cooking, it actually provides more options to the skilled chef.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

using zencastr for video podcast recording and it's excellent!

they just made a pile more stuff available on the free tier too, from 1080p to 4K

and shoved AI options in your face, because of course they did

i'm worried a bit because what's their corporate health like? that's a very expanded free tier. does anyone know anything?

for comparison, riverside charges $30/month for similar

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

you know, if meat producers thought they could get away with 10x costs overnight, they totally would. of course meat doesn't make you depend more on meat the way slop code does, so uh, yeah...

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

i admit it's kind of difficult to find good arguments when they're bundled in with calling everyone an SJW for not wanting the world to burn, but i feel like even without that, it wasn't exactly a winner.

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

personally i thought when linus brought up veganism while calling everyone SJWs, we all generally agreed that was a shit argument.

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

binface seems to have a youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@realcountbinface

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Haha. I don't have a problem with distraction, *you* have a problem distra... Okay, Sorry... I *may* have a problem, and I shouldn't speak so strongly about any problems you may or may not have. Apologies... But this music did help me with the distraction for a bit.

"Music for People Who Are Tired of Being Distracted":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ1R%5F-EaNyE

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

the level of spying on folks who are simply exercising their constitutional rights is astonishing

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/us-government-spied-anti-ice-protesters?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

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

still blows my mind how much of the internet is fucking ads

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
jripley ("John Ripley") wrote:

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

Thought this was a really well known attack vector (I’ve used this as a PoC on other platforms) but from the reactions, apparently not?

(Platforms I worked on were made immune to this class because this is known)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
fay59@tech.lgbt ("Félix") wrote:

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

what, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mlncn@social.coop ("benjamin melançon") wrote:

Are there any movements, groups, or volunteer-heavy organizations you are part of that you think work particularly well? Do you have an idea of what makes them work well? Any public statements of goals or values, or guidelines for people engaging in the community, that you feel contribute to successful functioning? Please share!

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

here's binface's first ever (2020) interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9WDy2xhp9I

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115279113555007665

A trans women named Autumn Hill was sentenced to 50 years for her participation in a protest.

They didn't arrest her at the protest. They broke down her door.

Protesting is effectively illegal, and we should start acting as such by not posting photos of peoples' faces to social media, by not RSVPing with your name, email and phone to a fucking protest, and by not treating protests as Instagram photo parties. It not only puts yourself in danger but others too.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mcnees ("Robert McNees") wrote:

Painter, illustrator, and noted sci-fi artist John Berkey was born #OTD in 1932. While he doesn't have a lot of name recognition outside of nerds of a certain age, you've almost certainly seen his work or the results of his concept art.

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

Oufffrr.,.
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 | Tom's Hardware https://share.google/GMVTwA0nQLlQtfeLM

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/117077837225854052

Update: Pi 5 retired and pulled from the mikro-rack, migrated HA to a Proxmox VM.

Deeply impressed with how seamless HA restore from a backup was despite CPU arch differences. Exposing various hardware peripherals was also painless. Five stars, would migrate again.

Amazing work, @homeassistant

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
theruran@masto.hackers.town ("theruran 💻 🌐 :cereal_killer:") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/117089855118834424

finally, a good Spectrum article :cereal_killer:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
coleenwalter ("Coleen Walter") wrote:

This Luna moth waited for the sun to warm her wings on a curb in a parking lot early this morning. I’m very lucky to have seen her because a Luna moth lifespan is only a week to 10 days. #moth #moths #nature #insects #wildlife

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