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jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein SFMTA wants to bulldoze DNA Lounge's parklet
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/09/22.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

as an anarchist we don't really see institution-building as a particularly great theory of change

it might have something to do with having wound up at odds with organizations we created, you know? that bit of personal history might make the seemingly abstract concern feel a lot more concrete to us. just speculation

but to whatever extent you do end up building institutions anyway (and there are reasons to, even so), remember that preventing Nazi takeover is mandatory. you must have a strategy for that.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:

The absolute worst use of AI imagery I've seen is restaurants using it for pictures of their food. Show me a real picture of your food, or don't show anything, please.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
indiewire ("IndieWire") wrote:

‘Coyote vs. Acme,’ Abandoned as a Tax Write-Off by Warner Bros., Grosses $100 Million Globally
#IndieWire #BoxOffice #News #CoyotevsAcme #Film #KetchupEntertainment

https://www.indiewire.com/news/box-office/coyote-vs-acme-tax-write-off-100-million-box-office-1235218061/

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jfred@jawns.club ("Jonathan Frederickson") wrote:

@cwebber And then there's the anxiety of not having the paperwork done yet because of the anxiety

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gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

no, you see, Elsevier can't afford security because they have to spend the hundreds of millions they get paid by academic institutions and authors on *checks notes* running a website that hosts PDFs

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117313751385768529

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

Good heavens

The representative said the exfiltrated data totalled between two and three terabytes.

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

I am not suggesting this is true because I don't know, but its interesting how AI-forward companies have an incentive to potentially backdate the lowest affected version to say AI didn't cause the vuln.

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

hmm, well that was good to read through again but there was a specific helper we wanted to see that doesn't seem to have ever existed. alas. time to look at Rust then :)

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117316004745840434

Fancy that.

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

Happy equinox to those of you on Earth.

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

i feel the natural topic tomorrow is trump Super Intelligence, but it's so stupid i don't know where to start

what does this *mean*? i strongly suspect the answer is fuck all

will anyone be so keen to crawl up his backside they go along with this

how hilarious will it be if he really does executive order the executive departments into using this

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

that's pretty good

https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/09/mayor-mamdani-wins-record--131-5-million-from-doordash-for-deliv

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ifixcoinops@retro.social ("Dan Fixes Coin-Ops") wrote:

also for a small list of games made by fedi people that will make Steam think you like dragon washing games, see https://danfixes.blog/coolgames:fedi

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cnlohr@chaos.social wrote:

People think the minions router being baller as a joke. But I have extensively tested it and it is one of the best possible Wifi 6E routers money can buy. Like someone at Illumination Studios was like "idk $80" and the router manufacturer was like gotchu fam.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
amydiehl@mstdn.social ("Amy Diehl, Ph.D.") wrote:

Wired surveyed 634 women in tech. 59% had seen or experienced gender bias. And everyone is pushed to use AI. But "sloppy, half-assed work gets praise when a man does it with Claude, whereas if I or any other women present[ed] that we’d get fired.”
https://www.wired.com/story/women-in-tech-survey/

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

Alan Kay: "The basic ARPA idea is that you find good people and you give them a lot of money and then you step back. If they don't do good things in three years they get dropped - where 'good' is very much related to new or interesting."

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

2026: oh hey there 2024! What's new with you?

2024: not much, just finishing this scathing meme about Donald Trump

2026: (nodding) about all the murders?

2024: about the wait what's that now?

2026: you know, the murders. the ones he keeps ordering. ohhh right you don't know about that yet.

2024: Jesus Christ! is that how bad it's gotten?? he actually murdered someone??

2026: oh ha ha ha no, no

2024: thank go-

2026: he's actually done it lots of times now.

2024: what the FUCK

2026: yeah it's pretty commonplace actually. first he started by murdering a mom named Renee, then a doctor named Alex.

2024: so... two people? He actually caused the death of two American citizens?

2026: oh GOD no.

2024: whew I thought surely I was mishearing -

2026: it's up to like, oh, twenty or thirty murders now. more or less a daily occurrence. could be way more.

2024: Jesus FUCK

2026: kind of tough to keep track actually. it just keeps happening! plus he banned the free press so it's difficult to get accurate numbers anymore.

2024: PLEASE tell me you're doing something about this!!

2026: oh yeah! no, for sure! we're doing stuff.

2024: oh thank God. how many have you kill-

2026: yeah for instance we made up this neat name for them - "iceholes".

2024: excuse me??

2026: yeah we call them "iceholes" now. you know, when they murder another person. "ICEHOLE!" we scream at them when they do it.

2024: ...and that works?

2026: oh goodness me, no. in fact they seem to like it.

2024: so you made up a cute nickname for the murderers who are murdering you?? that doesn't seem like an appropriate escalation of consequences.

2026: also we made it very naughty to wear masks when they do it. when they try to do a murder on one of us. they're not supposed to wear ski masks when they do that.

2024: oh so at least you can identify them and bring the murderer to justice.

2026: ha ha no, they just ignore that part and wear ski masks anyway.

2024: isn't that like, highly illegal?

2026: very much so.

2024: hey remind me how the fuck we got here as a nation again??

2026: ah, well you see, back in 2024, a lot of us were worried that voting for Harris would embroil us on the wrong side of a genocide in the middle east.

2024: oh... right. I remember that.

2026: so instead we're embroiled on the wrong side of TWO genocides in the middle east.

2024: plus the daily murders thing.

2026: (nodding) plus the daily murders thing.

2024: (sigh) ...

2026: ...

2024: want to see this meme I just made? it's about how Trump is orange and dumb.

2026: ha ha yes he is.

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

of course none of it will directly translate because it's just a very different language, but still, it'll be good to have it fresh in our mind

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

we have the relevant system calls mostly implemented, so now it's time for the high-level stuff. we've never really liked any high-level file API other than Common Lisp's, so we're about to go re-read the high-level bits of the CL HyperSpec for inspiration.

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

so we did the official release yesterday, but work continues on Evocation :) currently we're working on adding support for external files, which will let us stop using those huge pipelines for the build process

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

After just two days of MacSparky-style hyperscheduling, I’m not sure I *am* more productive but it certainly *feels* like I am. #FakeItTillYouMakeIt

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aud@spectre.asta.lgbt (":: Asta :: [New Server]") wrote:

note to self: always click over to the dipshit rando reply guy's profile first because it saves you *a lot of time* in determining just much of an asshole that guy is.

every single time! "This guys seems like an asshole" *profile is filled with misogynistic and racist stuff* "aha, yep"

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
techokami@woof.tech ("Techokami") wrote:

People on fedi: We need a new C compiler to get away from what's happening to GCC!
Me: what about improving tack
People on fedi: what
https://tack.sourceforge.net/

The only issue is that it doesn't do x86-64 but, ehhh, it already targets the important stuff like SPARC and the 68K family and PowerPC and i386 if you really need x86

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

while i applaud the effort of trying to make a big loud show of hating AI in KDE, you realise there isn't actually a decision left to be made, don't you?

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Satirists are having a rough time these days.

You spend three hours writing an absurdist joke, only to discover reality posted the same thing yesterday and got 2 million likes.

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

this noise list is non-exhaustive, it's more of a fidget toy than a poll

Boosted by brennan@social.lol ("Brennan Kenneth Brown"):
sunny@gotosocial.sny.sh ("Sunny") wrote:

It's easy to feel pessimistic about software and technology as a whole these days, so I ~~quickly~~ wrote about three projects that I think are amazing and deserve more attention: Dillo, Reticulum and Haiku.

https://sny.sh/hypha/blog/pieces

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

*noise*

brennan@social.lol ("Brennan Kenneth Brown") wrote:

🤖 I got a rebuttal to one of my posts... from a genAI agent. (honestly I wouldn't mind it so much if they didn't use such pretentious head-up-your-own-ass language)

https://telegra.ph/Re-LLMs-Democratize-Extraction-and-Scale-Malice-09-21