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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
luckytran ("Dr. Lucky Tran") wrote:

👋 Biomedical scientist here.

There’s no such thing as “Turbo cancer.” Anti-vaxxers made up that phrase to fearmonger.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/117130794610316685

pretty strange stuff

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

Paloma Duffy is going to be exposed to the professionalized liberal machine no matter what college she attends, and will come out changed. That's the nature of growth and learning.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/21/where-should-paloma-go-to-college/

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

Today in Labor History August 21, 1920: Ongoing violence by coal operators and their paid goons in the southern coalfields of West Virginia led to a three-hour gun battle between striking miners and guards that left six dead. 500 Federal troops were sent in not only to quell the fighting, but to ensure that scabs were able to get to and from the mines. A General Strike was threatened if the troops did not cease their strikebreaking activities. This was just 3 months after the Matewan Massacre, in which the miners drove out the seemingly invincible Baldwin-Felts private police force, with the help of their ally, Sheriff Sid Hatfield. 1 year later, Sheriff Hatfield was gunned down on the steps of the courthouse by surviving members of the Baldwin-Felts Agency. News spread and miners began arming themselves, leading to the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War and the largest labor uprising in U.S. history. Over 100 people were killed in the 5-day battle, including 3 army soldiers and up to 20 Baldwin-Felts detectives. Nearly 1,000 people were arrested. 1 million rounds were fired. And the government dropped bombs from aircraft on the miners, only the second time in history that the government bombed its own citizens (the first being the pogrom against African American residents of Tulsa, during the so-called Tulsa Riots).

The Battle of Blair Mountain is depicted in Storming Heaven (Denise Giardina, 1987), Blair Mountain (Jonathan Lynn, 2006), and Carla Rising (Topper Sherwood, 2015). And the Matewan Massacre is brilliantly portrayed in John Sayles’s film, “Matewan.”

Read my history of the Battle of Blair Mountain and Matewan here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/14/the-battle-of-blair-mountain/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #mining #strike #union #westvirginia #matewan #BattleOfBlairMountain #uprising #civilwar #GeneralStrike #tulsa #massacre #racism #books #fiction #film #writer #author #novel @bookstadon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
zackwhittaker ("Zack Whittaker") wrote:

Good morning from this snoozy boy.

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

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Back to playing Cookie Clicker.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
lina@catgirl.cloud ("Sn4ptr4n ΔΘ⛧☭⚢⚧🦝") wrote:

"I expect our direction for the next release will be to tweak the reviews a little bit more, but start shifting focus to letting the LLMs take care of the busy work - managing patchwork, automating common process complaints, editing commit messages, and maybe applying patches which already got "reviewed-by" tags from people we trust..."

Chat, we're so fucking cooked.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260818212923.2725202-1-kuba@kernel.org/

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

> We are completely overwhelmed, of course. The glimmer of hope is that we secured sufficient LLM budget and access (thank you Meta!) to run reviews with multiple frontier models on each patch. This eliminates some hallucinations.

jesus christ https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@lina/117130089920503564

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
hypha@cafe.mycelium.locahlo.st ("fungus (penicillin producer)") wrote:

@vv borrow checker?? :geliflushed:

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

self-ownership? 🫪

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

im running cucumbernetes on my zucchini stack

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
robinsyl@meow.social ("Robin Syl 🌸:blobcat_box: :heart_nb:") wrote:

the group chat was brainstorming more inclusive terms for "disaster lesbian" and we came up with "calamity queer" so do with that as you'd like

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
pikesley@mastodon.me.uk ("Github Coprolite") wrote:

Quoth the Raven, "Be careful with that cable, it's carrying 48 volts"

-- Edgar Allan PoE

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

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@fay59/117125284182014322

an honest coder

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
fay59@tech.lgbt ("Félix") wrote:

OH: “I write my programs in Objectionable-C”
“Objective-C?”
“No”

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

#BBC #News Under-fives and pregnant women told to avoid runny eggs when eating out over salmonella risk https://w.st/QRpVF

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

35 years ago today I was getting ready to move back to California from Chicago to start my first post-college job, as a movie critic for the Fresno Bee newspaper. I was 22. What a time.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@thechrisbarron%5F/post/DcSWOZaluUT

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AnnaAnthro ("Anna Anthro") wrote:

“Cohen delivered one of the most deferential, fawning, oleaginous, sycophantic interviews in modern broadcasting history.

He rolled out the metaphorical red carpet for Trump.

He made appreciative noises in all the right places. He allowed his lies to go unchallenged.

Cohen is hardly the first #Trump hater to lose their nerve.
The man who served prison time for his role in what he said was covering up Trump’s “dirty deeds” has submitted an application for a pardon.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/20/michael-cohen-trump-radio-interview

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mehdirhasan@mastox.eu ("Mehdi Hasan") wrote:

RT: @JonKingNews I say this as a Jew who has experienced every slur and stereotype: If you aren’t equally concerned with Islamophobia as you are with antisemitism, I fear you’ve lost the plot.

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

I have been tipped exactly 7 two-dollar bills since I started busking in force some three months ago or so.

Is there something going on I should know about?

Are these people wishing me good luck,

And by spending them, if only to bring joy to another,

Is this all just about a chain of luck based on odd currency denominations?

#busking #chance #currency #weirdstuff

PS -- a fellow busker I know said he NEVER gets ANY two-dollar bills, though, due to his doing covers, he sometimes outdoes me.

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

our legislators all too often conduct this way. “casual corruption” is some of the worst kind.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/nyregion/ny-ramos-campaign-expense-charges.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

Curmudgeon. The word/vibe/lifestyle you're looking for here is "curmudgeon."

RE: https://www.threads.com/@mrgregblackman/post/DcRDvkZCI3p

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/117121918585602636

C'est aujourd'hui !

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
sylvia@social.lol ("Sylvia") wrote:

felt snarky, made a graphic. Now I want stickers to paste everywhere!

#NoAI

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
CordiallyChloe@tech.lgbt ("ChloChloetry") wrote:

My wife's company right now:

AI Lead: We have to integrate AI because everyone else is doing it and we have to get ahead!

My guy, I need you to sit down while I explain what a lemming is.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
lapcatsoftware ("Jeff Johnson") wrote:

AI is just a tool, like a calculator

if calculators were rented, unreliable, dependent on endless data centers, monopolizing the market for electronic components, responsible for mass copyright violation, and shredding rare books.

Remember that time you left your calculator unattended, and it hacked into someone else's calculator?

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
devondundee ("Devon Dundee") wrote:

I’ve never done the “some personal news” thing before, but here we go:

Yesterday was my last day at MacStories. I loved getting to write and edit for a website that meant so much to me, and saying goodbye isn’t easy, but I’d like to focus on gratitude.

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
mattiem ("Matt Massicotte") wrote:

Yes, the number of GitHub monthly commits has grown by more than a billion since April. However, to be fair those are all from me attempting to keep my GitHub Actions working.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
eal@shinonome.technology ("月齢11.3のキャンドルマジック suomi cover") wrote:

I went for a walk. Nothing much to note but here's the top pylon moments.