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

lettuce, jalapeños, and now eggs? Make America Heave Again

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/health/fda-egg-recall-salmonella.html

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

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@voyagers/117123041953507689

On November 17th, Voyager 1 will be a full light day away from the Earth.

That seems like something worth celebrating.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@b0rk

Host *.via.*
ProxyCommand sh -c 'cuttable="$(echo "${0}" | sed -e "s/.via./~/g" )"; to_host="$(echo "${cuttable}" | cut -d "~" -f 1)"; via_host="$(echo "${cuttable}" | cut -d "~" -f 2- | sed -e "s/~/.via./g")"; local_port="${1}"; echo "Connecting to <${to_host}> on port <${local_port}> via <${via_host}>." > /dev/stderr; exec ssh -q "${via_host}" -W "${to_host}:${local_port}";' '%h' '%p'

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/117124922138023137

No! Not the Heinz 57 Bomb!

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mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

Maybe they were hiding him from Natalie instead of Iran. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social ("Democracy Matters :verified:") wrote:

REPUBLICANS: When Trump bankrupts the country, you lose too!

U.S. Debt Hits $40 Trillion as America’s Borrowing Binge Continues
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/business/economy/us-debt-40-trillion.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.6lA.2gnC.fdztuE8bvAHt&smid=url-share

#TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansDidThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

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

Amazing.

A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine just succeeded in a 1,137-patient Phase 3 melanoma trial…

Each vaccine is built from mutations in that individual patient’s tumor

Earlier results have now held for 5 years: 49% lower risk of recurrence or death / 59% lower risk of distant metastasis or death

Waiting on full Phase 3 data but something that seemed like a far off dream could be a reality!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:

A new little project from me: Dashboard Touch, which lets you make a Touch ID-style sensor for your Mac using off-the-shelf parts, so you don’t need an Apple Keyboard. By emulating keyboarding typing in your password, it works anywhere that macOS asks for authentication. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zXN-JzjkgY

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

always brings a tear: https://www.pandora.com/artist/john-prine/john-prine/hello-in-there/TRrPjpxcvl3ql4Z?part=ug-desktop&corr=8104885

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

Anyone in Daytona Beach? It's about to get lit!*

*watch The Town in my hotel room and eat a $40
cheeseburger.

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jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

hi, senator expert here! This is not funny, senators only do this when they’re in extreme distress

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6037420-darline-graham-national-security-knowledge-criticism/

#USPol

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

https://www.pandora.com/artist/emmylou-harris-alison-krauss-and-gillian-welch/o-brother-where-art-thou-music-from-the-motion-picture-deluxe-edition/didnt-leave-nobody-but-the-baby/TRp7P7dj3ZVrmgg?part=ug-desktop&corr=8104885

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

RE: https://graphics.social/@metin/117123760167000114

An interesting result that confirms (perhaps suspiciously neatly) what you'd expect: lack of struggle results in lack of learning; letting the AI do your homework harms later exam performance:

“The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of AI users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores.”

Haven’t studied the methodology closely (nor am I well qualified to evaluate it) and the results confirm my own expectations, so…grain of salt!

1/2

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

https://www.pandora.com/artist/mississippi-john-hurt/vanguard-visionaries/make-me-a-pallet-on-your-floor/TRn4PV5ZlX2bhzJ?part=ug-desktop&corr=8104885

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

mood: https://www.pandora.com/artist/john-prine/lost-dogs-plus-mixed-blessings-deluxe-edition/same-thing-happened-to-me/TRXj5V25tc6plj4?part=ug-desktop&corr=8104885

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

Wow. "AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. " https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/117123155597432737

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
i0null@infosec.exchange ("Hacker Memes") wrote:

SOC status: too many alerts

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

the world *needs* bacon-wrapped chocolate

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

The concept of "trauma dumping" seeping into our culture has made an already difficult act—speaking up and asking for help—that much harder. Depression already lies to you. You already feel like you're taking up too much space.

I really dislike that term even if it's a legitimate phenomenon.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

Question for my code-inclined friends on here: if you had to draft up definitions, how would you draw the lines between the command line, the terminal and the shell?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

8yo: Are you ready to go yet!?
me: Give me just a moment…
8yo: Oh wait let me just update my calendar for a minute I'm not ready yet…
me: People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
8yo: People in glass houses should MOVE.

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

RE: https://tane.codes/@tanepiper/117124428094992312

wild story that i find incredibly telling about how apple deals with employment.

except it's not just apple, it's almost every company ever.

if i felt i needed an accommodation, i would never ask before the paperwork is signed because i know what the world is like to the neurospicy.

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

The core argument from an upcoming piece; something I've come to view as nearly an iron rule in BigCo's:

Going from decent to excellent performance is a technical challenge, but moving from poor to decent performance is fundamentally a management and culture problem.

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

@dalias It can definitely go wrong, but when you don't have anything else to go on? Wow, does it ever work well as a heuristic.

Definitely not a robust philosophy, but it doesn't need to be to be useful as a rough rule to go by in situations with limited information.

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dalias@hachyderm.io ("Cassandrich") wrote:

@xgranade That last part--

"listening to what my enemies want me to do, then not doing that"

--is sooooo underrated.

In any situation where it's unclear (morally, tactically, or whatever) what you should do, it's almost always the optimal answer.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

Any good faith I was willing to extend towards Bluesky and ATProto has long since been incinerated, with a few special highlights along the way:

• Overriding their own moderation team to protect Jesse Singal
• The then-CEO workshopping new transphobic slurs with Singal (that hilariously failed to take off, thankfully)
• Bluesky's declaration via Attie that anything reachable via ATProto is theirs for AI training
• Bluesky adopting vibe coding to piss off trans people they don't like

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

I really wish we could collectively stop pretending that Bluesky is anything other than a centralized, VC-backed, corporate social media enclave. It's just so exhausting to have Bluesky likers demand to be included in every conversation about decentralization and federation, only for the net result to be that Bluesky-the-company gets more money and gets to claim that they're "billionaire proof."

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

It feels very odd to have a conference dedicated to federated social media highlight ATProto, a protocol which turns out to be anything *but* federated in actual practice.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117124432211395564

ten bucks says the camera feeds off these things are gonna get fed into ring and flock

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

I think its cool when things are things and not everything is app or website.