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Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
binarydigit@social.lol ("Bee 💾") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@brennan/117136056673309754

“This is the Internet. Many marginalized folks face far worse harassment for simply existing.”

We sure do.

Deleted my Pagecord after all this nonsense.

Great article Brennan 👏🏽

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
ThePlant ("Liam S-H") wrote:

I am of the opinion that if your website depends on a single social media website like X, your website sucks.

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

watching for a breakfast snack

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org ("💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]") wrote:

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

omg.lol Office Hours start soon! https://home.omg.lol/office-hours

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eliasulrich@hachyderm.io ("Xamanismo Coletivo") wrote:

#GOP and #DataCenters : "The Republican Party just privately begged #SamAltman to save it from losing the Senate."

Let that sink in…

"A political party just told its own donors that it cannot sell the thing those donors are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build."

https://x.com/ric%5Frtp/status/2090807270309335437?s=46

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kibcol1049@mstdn.social ("Col") wrote:

Russia has continued to pummel Ukraine, using increasingly high-tech equipment, with “devastating consequences”. When Ukrainians started digging through the rubble after major attacks to analyse fragments of the Russian weaponry, they realised a lot of the most high-tech components were coming from Japan. Tokyo is a vocal supporter of Kyiv, but owing to its lack of a foreign intelligence service, it’s a “spy paradise”. Russia has a specialist spy unit dedicated to evading Western sanctions there

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jockr ("Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴") wrote:

Pentagon fires Stars and Stripes' top editor, publisher and a reporter | AP News

https://apnews.com/article/stars-stripes-pentagon-censorship-media-d42affb0c17fef31c6089645c8dbbe70

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

Wise words

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jockr ("Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴") wrote:

American tariffs on Canadian goods take effect after trade talks fall apart | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-us-tariffs-trump-imposes-new-50-per-cent-levy-on-canadian-goods-august-22-9.7311417

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TheConversationUS@newsie.social ("The Conversation U.S.") wrote:

International students can currently stay in the U.S. as long as they remain enrolled and follow visa rules.

Starting Sept. 15, that changes.

https://theconversation.com/a-seemingly-technical-change-to-international-student-visas-could-disrupt-teaching-and-research-at-us-universities-290021

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

This Week in Package Management: 22 August 2026

https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/22/this-week-in-package-management.html

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

I truly, genuinely hate what Apple is doing to the UX of its platforms. Beyond the ongoing decline of autocomplete, they’ve changed something about how buttons work on iOS so now I regularly trigger button presses when I try to scroll on both the iPad and iPhone.

(Don’t come at me with ‘but Android’. I’ve tried Android. In my experience, their UX is even worse.)

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

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 22nd 2026 (Hard), in less than 13 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com

Boosted by jwz:
Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

The new Third Place is the front seat of your massive SUV, burning $5.00-a-gallon gas to run your air conditioner, doomscrolling on your phone with your foot on the brake clueless that another car is waiting for you to back out so they can have the space to do the same thing

Boosted by jwz:
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

@zzt @becomethewaifu I'm mostly pissed off at Apple for fucking the social acceptability of Airpods, which I depend on when out of the house (noise cancelation is impossible to manage without these days). I hope they're visually distinctive: if not I'm going to have to abandon some expensive earbuds, just as I wouldn't be seen dead in Raybans today.

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
ahihi@anticapitalist.party ("pulusound") wrote:

Frequently Asked Questions

1. what the fuck

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

“Charting the rise of tech fascism - by Brian Merchant”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/charting-the-rise-of-tech-fascism

> How the tech right seized power, with Gil Duran, author of the Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
siderea@universeodon.com ("Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis") wrote:

This might be the most 2026 thing to happen all year. It turns out that when comparison shopping toothbrushes you need to specify if you don't want it to come with AI.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
vale@fedi.vale.rocks ("Vale") wrote:

Does anyone know how to get the magic blue smoke back into electronics?

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

If, like me, you juggle many machines at your desk, I cannot recommend this page enough:

https://www.displayninja.com/kvm-switch-monitor-list/

Boosted by chris@fedi.freebooters.uk ("Chris Were"):
hamishtpb@mewblog.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Hamish The PolarBear") wrote:

I had forgotten there was a genuine moment of drama during this episode as @chris makes a revelation right after @uoou is talking about not sellling out.

video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/2yqMa9X4UfxZK9Jjhp2bkA

#Podcast #SpaceVirgins #DinnerInAmerica

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ancoghlan ("Alyssa Coghlan") wrote:

@phildini @jamey @glyph The 25% was Ee's last report covering the 8 years to 2025. The infuriating number is the 40%+ growth in 2026, as most of that is presumably slop noise rather than anything that meaningfully benefits humanity.

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

@Taweret bars tbh
https://youtu.be/YIpcf9OThvw

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

I do like that people are now going through all the pictures of Donald Trump out in public and playing Where's Waldo with Natalie Harp

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/donald-trump-extremely-close-aide-37579124

#USPol

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

Of all the Trumpworld figures that could have been lifted from "Veep," Harp is the Veepiest

Boosted by jwz:
rmi@cloudisland.nz ("Rob Isaac") wrote:

Harbingers of Apple’s doom, #92: Autocorrect insistently inserting an apostrophe in “harbinger’s” when you’re already three sentences away.

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

Exciting news for the dozens of us (dozens!!!) rocking aarch64 Linux on the desktop:

https://community.signalusers.org/t/beta-test-signal-desktop-for-linux-arm64/76184

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

https://www.manton.org/2026/08/21/macstories-and-x.html

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

Manton Reece: "I’ve seen some people post about unfollowing Federico or cancelling their Club MacStories memberships. Is that really what we want, to withdraw support from a long-time blogger who has had such a positive impact on the indie Mac and iOS ecosystem?"

Yes. The answer is *yes*.

The people I know who have decent principles (and the spines to stick to them) are not going to lower their standards just because someone is a "long-term blogger". Tenure doesn't offset the harm here.