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brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
"probably a scam, probably a scam, underpaid, scam, ai mandate, scam, underpaid, wants 5 years of experience in niche skill nobody has, scam, ai, scam, scam, scam, more ai, wants 5 years of experience in ai, scam, scam, underpaid, scam that doesn't even pay enough for anyone to fall for it"
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
Reading job posts is the perfect way to induce depression
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gleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:
Lovely essay in the @publicdomainrev on the incomparable Dorothy Parker, who provides a coruscating epigraph to my forthcoming book:
"What kind of civilization is it that would take telephones into its privacy so that it could be got at any time, night and day, by anyone with the wit to think of a few numbers and vileness to do nothing but sigh into its drain when that awful, vulnerable idiot answers it.”
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/when-dorothy-parker-got-fired-from-vanity-fair/
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RonSupportsYou ("@RonSupportsYou") wrote:
Donald Trump years ago said*: "I think it's catastrophic that we have $15 trillion in debt."
With Trump as president, we now have $40 trillion in debt. Trump made this worse.
* A video clip of Trump saying this was played yesterday on #WashingtonWeek on PBS.
copy: @renewedresistance #NationalDebt #politics
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Amputado@mastodon.cc wrote:
BBC | The #UK , #Canada and #Australia have described as "shameful" Israel's decision not to launch a criminal investigation into strikes on a World Central Kitchen (WCK) convoy in Gaza in 2024, which killed seven humanitarian workers.
The statement said that on 1 April 2024, the #Israel Defense Forces (IDF) fired on the WCK convoy as it was delivering food to civilians in #Gaza .
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MarkAsser@beige.party ("Mark Asser") wrote:
A bit of good news.
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N4JAW@mastodon.radio ("Jim "Ham on a Bike"") wrote:
The New 50% Ham Radio Tariff from Canada to the U.S. is now in effect. Listen how this effects the #AmateurRadio #Hamradio community in the U.S.
https://youtu.be/dc4hKXpjHdw?si=B5PMZyIWHXZLwHE7 via
@YouTube
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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 👏🏽
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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.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
watching for a breakfast snack
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brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org ("💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]") wrote:
Mastodon Feedneatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:
omg.lol Office Hours start soon! https://home.omg.lol/office-hours
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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."
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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
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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
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ProgressivePower@newsie.social wrote:
Wise words
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jockr ("Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴") wrote:
American tariffs on Canadian goods take effect after trade talks fall apart | CBC News
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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.
Mastodon Feedandrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:
This Week in Package Management: 22 August 2026
https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/22/this-week-in-package-management.html
Mastodon Feedbaldur@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.)
Mastodon Feedbrib@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
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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
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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.
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ahihi@anticapitalist.party ("pulusound") wrote:
Frequently Asked Questions
1. what the fuck
Mastodon Feedbaldur@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.
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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.
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vale@fedi.vale.rocks ("Vale") wrote:
Does anyone know how to get the magic blue smoke back into electronics?
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
If, like me, you juggle many machines at your desk, I cannot recommend this page enough:
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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.
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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.