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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

pico de gallo implies the existence of peta de gallo.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

A woman is suing Fargo ND police for falsely imprisoning her for SIX MONTHS based on a bad facial recognition hit. She’d never set foot in ND, and the photo the cops fed into the recognition database didn’t look anything like her. She lost her home, car, and possessions while incarcerated. She’s suing for $10 million.

To me, that honestly seems reasonable. Fuck those cops. Losing six months, everything you own, and having a felony arrest wrongly show up in AI shit for decades is a problem.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
notsle@kzoo.to ("Myk") wrote:

oh this is fun. Who wants to go first?

#ssh #itmeme #humor

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

so anyway, much as fluorine chemistry is scary these days, it was bloody terrifying back then.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
harld@masto.ai ("Harld") wrote:

Go paperless.

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
atax1a@infosec.exchange ("mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)") wrote:

you'd think "usage of the thing that is directly and explicitly built on the exploitation of the world's collective creative labor is unacceptable" would be an easy sell among leftists but fuck me, i guess

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

He found a way to make genuinely anhydrous fluoric acid

run away

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

I see the vibe coding is working out great over at Google

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
digyoursoul@universeodon.com ("Voting is Your POWER") wrote:

Researchers believe magnetite deposits beneath Australia’s red deserts could generate enough natural hydrogen to power the country for generations.

Scientists at Edith Cowan University found that magnetite reacts with hot water deep underground to produce hydrogen gas, a clean fuel capable of powering heavy transport like ships and jets, and they developed a method to stimulate that production by injecting solutions into iron rich rock formations.

Lab tests replicating underground conditions over 60 days showed hydrogen generation depends heavily on how easily water can reach fresh mineral surfaces through cracks and pores in the rock.

Researchers say *Western Australia’s vast banded iron formations could make the country not just energy independent but a major exporter of clean hydrogen.*

The findings, while promising, are still early stage, with actual underground hydrogen yields not yet demonstrated at commercial scale.

https://www.ecu.edu.au/newsroom/articles/research/green-hydrogen-goldmine-ecu-researchers-discover-hidden-energy-source

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
potterybyosa ("Pottery by Osa") wrote:

Just switched up my website header photo. It's from a shoot I did with Ringling College of Art & Design graduate Jesse Clark in 2024. https://www.jesseclarkart.com/

#photography #StillLife #BlackArt #AddToBlackSky

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

There was a time when computers would scream in pain when we connected to the internet.

This was a warning we should've paid attention to...

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jockr/117306109932096274

'Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, told parliament that intelligence assessments suggested Russia might launch an attack with drones or missiles on Nato territory in the coming months, as part of efforts to prove that “article 5 is more theoretical than practical”.'

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

What could possibly go wrong?

Trying to isolate fluorine? What could go right?

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/117306116084606382

and after the US refused to help defend their "ally" Saudi Arabia... this may have interesting repercussons

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
zer0billionaires ("ZER0 BILLIONAIRES") wrote:

They went to court to stop cheap groceries.

#Zer0Billionaires #socialsciences #poverty #USPolitics

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

For more than 70 years, chemists had been trying and failing

i'm just going to stop you there, it's perfect as it is.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
FediVideo@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Video") wrote:

#PeerTube is more than just techy stuff nowadays! 🥳 Here's a thread of human-curated video playlists to help you discover what's available:

TOPICS
3D Printing - https://fedi.video/w/p/qax18Q5wPJw7E7SDKUJFTE
Adventure Games - https://fedi.video/w/p/sVAoWjJZQnSZnw9kyur9Y3
Animals - https://fedi.video/w/p/dUP8ub8SkvAQZygMacmx3w
Animation - https://fedi.video/w/p/18pM2fMmVb11TDokdbPBCP
Art & Artists - https://fedi.video/w/p/5ipZQ3F61oGHLrSEEBcFMo
Board Games & Card Games - https://fedi.video/w/p/rVaisWFBTK9ECVHdL7NNo2
Books, Reading & Writing - https://fedi.video/w/p/nJCANXPGtVkQCELSgTgMnL
City Planning & Urbanism - https://fedi.video/w/p/gfM65MJwWNUQFXVhj19M8A

🧵 1/8

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
coreysnipes@hachyderm.io ("De Gallo") wrote:

Do you microwave your ice cream briefly before scooping it?

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

RE: https://federate.social/@mattblaze/117305459087110671

truth

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

don't miss this: the rigor of colorimetric titration analysis

i missed half the words because i fell asleep, i think i can risk missing the video

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

0% of numbers are knowable

that's alright, we only need Z and S

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
leahmcelrath.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Leah McElrath") wrote:

“People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter.”

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

"marking another attempt by the Trump administration to censor topics that do not align with the president’s agenda."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/20/trump-order-nih-health-research-funding-board

Boosted by pixxl:
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

And all of that applies 1000x over in the case where the experience involves anyone else, even if indirectly. Being present for human connection is in fact priceless, though often not easy, and not something we should surrender to the AI bros and their marketing.

Boosted by pixxl:
danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

The key takeaways for me are:

* Reiterating the fact that one of the largest predictors for whether someone will go into computer science or not is how little they care about social change. And how sad that is.
* That programming can be something we do as people for other people to make each other’s lives better
* That nothing in the world is “just the way it is”. It’s all made up and we can decide to make it something else

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

@evan More data points pointing to "a threat model is needed": https://bsky.app/profile/thisismissem.social/post/3mvy76ijbtc2x

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
BruceMirken@mas.to ("Bruce Mirken") wrote:

RE: https://flipboard.com/@npr/u.s.-news-aspd61boz/-/a-NuRnF9TcRo21ygnEeYx5Zg%3Aa%3A3195441-%2F0

A violent criminal gang is on the loose in the U.S. Its name is #ICE

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social wrote:

In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay I shall…

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

I randomly stumbled on one of my old twitter posts where I marveled at one of the most clownshoes technical advertisements ever published: the Atari Jaguar's marketing materials claimed "an incredible 850 million pixels per inch rendering speed."

Read that again if your brain glossed over it.

I googled this quote to get a better image to make a new post about it. And Google's AI helpfully popped up to "inform" me that this is a "humorous misquote" and obviously the original said "850 million pixels per second."

No it didn't. That's a lie. Google is fucking gaslighting me. It clearly says "inch" right there in the scan of the marketing materials on archive dot org. My old post about it far predates this higher-quality scan, so I saw it in a completely different scan.

This post is taking a stand. A stand that Atari's marketing team, burdened with trying to pitch a horrible product, made a stupid typo 31 years ago and it's funny because it's REAL, dammit. The AI apocalypse can't take that from us.

https://archive.org/details/atari-jaguar-over-50-new-64-bit-games-previewed/page/n1/mode/2up

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

Tiny adventures in 11ty syntax highlighting, featuring @davatron5000's excellent MicroLighter web component:

https://infrequently.org/2026/09/microlighter/