Mastodon Feed: Posts

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

Darline Graham is a symptom of an American disease.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/26/if-the-electorate-were-rational/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

This time tomorrow! Come watch for free at https://fest.nham.co.uk/ and hear some of my new stuff, including:
• The Cleaning-Up Rag, a tale of woe and Hammerbarn orders gone awry.
• See Me Now, an anthem about defeating adversity that you’ll swear is by the band 1927.
• Reviewer 2, a creepy gothic horror about academic peer review.

Also old favourites, including Big Boat Stuck [with a new verse!], Clank! I Just Thought of the Romans Again! [with a new verse!], Space Parity [“I’m on Hold to Telecom”], and many more. With a guest video appearance* by none other than Void, and candid cat content.

Schedule in the previous toot. 👆🏻

#NHAMFest26 #music #LiveInAbsentia #RadioFreeFedi #IndieMusic

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

hmmm, is iris.well.com down? email server is not responding from here…

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Brett@aus.social wrote:

The best thing about Dolly Parton is that I've read maybe 40 opinions on why she was a great person, and each one was talking about a different reason.

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

Public polling suggests the US' severe anti-data center backlash is primarily driven by local environmental and economic concerns, not anti-Big Tech sentiment (Andy Masley)

https://blog.andymasley.com/p/i-think-the-data-center-backlash
http://www.techmeme.com/260826/p23#a260826p23

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

A great loss for us all. A light in our darkness, a talent like none other. Rest in song and mirth, Dolly. The heavens have a new star among them.

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

“Consider the president’s trade war with Canada, one of our closest economic partners. There is no logical reason for this conflict, and it does not serve the interest of people on either side of the border. It is principally a function of Trump’s boundless ego and his monomaniacal obsession with tariffs as the path to national prosperity.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/opinion/trump-king-canada-trade-war.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

She was the best of all of us 🖤

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

somehow, i have still not managed to find a job in this hellscape where nobody with money gives a shit about talent any more.

please give generously to support my continued existence habit if you are able https://ko-fi.com/dysfun

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

I'm a highly experienced software engineer with over 20 years of experience and thousands of FLOSS projects to my name, as well as some household names on my CV.

I've done most things software over the years at all levels of the stack. If you have a software-shaped problem, I'm your guy!

Available immediately. Contract or perm. Located in the netherlands but happy to remote to anywhere #FediHire #GetFediHired

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

@niklasnisbeth @david_chisnall @kevin the consumer software experience in 2026 is an iterative exploration of just how shitty you can get away with making your software

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

Why is it always the easy ones which stand in the way of my perfect solve??

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 26th 2026 (Medium), in 05:58
🟨🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟩🟩🟩
https://cluesbysam.com

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

Friends, as ridiculous as it is that we even have to do this, I think Ghent should hear from us as the eugenicists are out in full force. This is a letter created by academics there to counter the ridiculous letter supporting the white supremacist fraud now being called a "whistleblower" by his ilk.

You can add your name.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenkE7wxDRTjgT5XArgRqIPipLPP-Ibb7LkmXya5ZuxfotTKg/viewform

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

My "Artists of Mastodon" collection is finally ready to be shared. Please peruse if you want to fill your home feed with art.

https://mastodon.social/collections/116777306758391615

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

Friends, have you seen the investigation on UK students, including those at Oxford and Cambridge, hiring Kenyans to write their papers and dissertations?

I assume it wasn't cross Atlantic news as the media only seems to be interested in laundering eugenics into the mainstream.

Think about the audacity of them telling Black people that we're subpar DEI hires and frauds such and these students hiring Black people to do their work for them and pass it off as their own.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/sep/14/kenya-shadow-scholars-paid-to-write-essays-for-uk-students

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mstdn.business ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

If you're interested in the design of agentic workflows, remember this formula:

R = 1 - (1 - P)(1 - C)

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

Everybody hates the AI, more and more

Take heart, you’re not alone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABcEse%5FMEtk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260825-everybody-hates-the-ai-more-and-more - podcast

time: 3 min 50 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/25/everybody-hates-the-ai-more-and-more/ - blog post

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Tak@gush.taks.garden ("Tak!") wrote:

all the "don't speak ill of the dead" people should sit up and take notice of how everyone reacts when somebody nice dies

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt ("Summer Jo :v_enby: ☀️:neocat_melt_3:") wrote:

🎯 :neocat_science:

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
InternetEh@dads.cool ("Sid 🇵🇸") wrote:

Top 10

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Matrix apologists cannot fucking read, I swear.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49435728#49444684

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
madcoder@infosec.exchange ("Pierre H.") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbWGkCe0fWQ

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

That part of a linux machine configuration when you aren't sure if the mistake was Wayland, XWayland, X11, or giving Unix machines access to anything more than blinkenlights and webservers.

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

RE: https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/health-l59qepnvz/-/a-Gqcs5BQ7SLqADHdV8I7seA%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0

What do you do when you oust a klepocracy?

Do you let bygones be bygones? Do you pardon them for “unity?”

No. You prosecute the crap out of them and every crooked deal they ran until they are smoldering piles of ash. Then you prosecute the ashes.

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

"hey have we considered just not doing the wild bullshit that should never happen"

merged

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

all pull requests now:

fix: do some more wilder bullshit to compensate for some wild bullshit that should have never happened in the first place (+3,154/-15)

• [5 pages of AI text, two tables, an unrelated fix, honest caveats, loads borne]
• [copilot review: 4 suggested changes that either make no sense or just fix typos]
• [approving maintainer review: here's the honest truth, you wrapped the shared seam through the hot path, two fixes drop today, one more serious than the original issue]
• [followup issue raised: add even wilder bullshit still to compensate for the wilder bullshit that compensates for some wild bullshit that should have never happened in the first place]

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

Guys, I can't keep doing this. I know you subscribed to this channel for daily updates on your favorite video game. But the whole project is so soul-crushingly corrupt I just can't deliver anymore. Every time I boot up the launcher it's like staring into Satan's nostril. It's breaking me. Each day feels like a new death.

Let’s talk about it. But first a word from my sponsor, NordVPN

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
treyhunner ("Trey Hunner 🐍") wrote:

I wrote something today about Dolly Parton and #DjangoConUS

https://treyhunner.com/2026/08/a-dolly-parton-developer/

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

I'm back from Megaplex but exhausted from all that fursuiting.

I will try to find something interesting to say or do in the near future, but until then, I sleep

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

I hope the tech billionaires who are always grousing about how everyone hates them are watching the reaction to Dolly Parton’s passing. Nobody hates you because you’re rich. We hate you because of what you decided to use being rich to accomplish