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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to greenlight paraquat use on millions of acres, and has downplayed scientific findings linking paraquat to Parkinson’s, an incurable brain disease"
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:
RE: https://flipboard.com/@ctvnews/kitchener-q0c2oi5az/-/a-Y01P0uL6QEy4tQqdccIOpw%3Aa%3A2823982346-%2F0
"Bring a burner phone to visit the Land of the Free"
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has brought renewed attention to the issue, after the court ruled that the U.S. government does not need reasonable suspicion to conduct a cellphone search at the border."
that is just plain obscene
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
In other news here's a fops
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AberdeenLocal1312@kolektiva.social ("Sabot Media") wrote:
ITS HERE:
BECOME THE THOUSAND SERVERS
Autistici/Inventati’s shutdown left a pretty obvious question behind: what happens when infrastructure movements depend on disappears?
We spent the last couple weeks turning that question into a practical field course on autonomous movement infrastructure.
This is not a guide telling every collective to buy a VPS and become its own ISP. It’s about understanding the systems we already depend on well enough to map them, maintain them, back them up, move them, preserve what matters, and pass that knowledge on.
The course has 13 guide sections and 12 practical lessons. You’ll map the dependencies behind a real project, investigate DNS, SSH into a disposable Linux machine, put something online, inspect what you exposed, make and restore a real backup, destroy and rebuild a service, migrate it, stop being the only administrator, preserve published work, troubleshoot a local network, experiment with another networking model, and teach somebody else what you learned.
No account required. Progress stays in your browser, with export/import and optional private recovery.
The point is not to memorize commands.
The unit of resilience isn’t the machine. It’s the person who can reproduce the machine.
Each one, teach one.
Become the thousand servers.
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
Figure 1: Grass, meet hand
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
just came up with 'aliexpressium' and quite like it
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Cahatstrophe2@isometry.group ("Sexiest Clown") wrote:
you've heard of two factor authentication. you're heard of three factor authentication. now get ready for just never being able to fucking log in at all
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
i am reading about abstract machines to try and make sense of papers
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tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:
"These are – for actual human beings – very embarrassing things to admit. Why would techbros do that? Constantly."
(Article title: The Test)
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WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:
I’m considering putting my foot down with my friends that just can’t seem to quit using Facebook messenger, even when I give them numerous other ways to get a hold of me. Sure, it’s a lot more effort to ask me what I’m up to rather than reading it online but I have my own website, I have my Fedi account.
The messenger app is slowly becoming unusable, the facebook app has so many problems I find it a chore to keep up with friends even when I am looking at their profile exclusively, and a whole canyon of other things.
I’m considering just leaving my friends with a final message and then deleting my account and if they can’t SMS me or send me an email, then they like Facebook more than me.
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renaud_vigourt@mastodon.design ("Renaud Vigourt") wrote:
Étant donné que je suis en train de déménager mon autre compte Mastodon vers celui-ci, certaines images vont peut-être se perdre (ce qui n'est pas grave).
Mais ce travail-là je l'aime bien, alors hop ! je reposte !Pour rappel, c'est une #illustration que j'avais réalisé pour le #newscientist (UK) que j'ai animé sur le logiciel libre #Krita .
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hackaday@hackaday.social wrote:
FPGA for All — CERN Releases “colibri” VHDL Library
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/24/fpga-for-all-cern-releases-colibri-vhdl-library/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
This movie is stupid, for stupid people.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
How dare Drexel close the oldest natural history museum in the Western hemisphere?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/25/another-sign-of-americas-anti-science-turn/
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
Phone waiting aside I've made a decent amount of progress so time to touch some grass
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
I also take Cash App and Apple Pay
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
can't wait 'till I'm back fighting unholy horrors caused by my shitty ancestors rather than whatever this is, which is also unholy but wasn't caused by my ancestors
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
I will accept apologies on behalf of all Latinos in the form of Venmo payments or pastries.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
Sources
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
I have become a connoisseur of phone waiting music.
This particular flavour is certainly interesting. It is trying to be funky I guess? But it is also incredibly tinny. Lo-fi but not in a good relaxing way, and more in a "do I seriously have to listen to this for 10 minutes" way.
Have to admit though it's nice having slightly more upbeat music on the other end of the phone line for once
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
The two major justifications for liberal anti-Latino racism were:
1. Latinos handed Trump the election
2. Majority Latino men voted for TrumpTurns out, neither are true (and even it were, still racism).
1. If you take out all Latino votes from the 2024 presidential election, not a single electoral vote changes.
2. New poll with a larger sample size finds that Latino men voted Harris 56-43%.
I can almost hear all the dirty deletes across all the social media platforms. No apologies though
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
i mean it's not supposed to be hilarious, it's written in that faux advisory style, but the irony is just too good
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
i've just read a piece by some slop codder who is annoyed they've been put on a team with someone who doesn't even read the code anymore and it's hilarious
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
I've learnt all of those tricks to getting through to a human on systems which do everything they can to prevent that
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
Spamming "I want to talk to a human" into the AI phone screen works surprisingly well
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
I don't love talking to robots
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
“Support Pivot to AI — and be in the patron name read for September – Pivot to AI”
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/24/support-pivot-to-ai-and-be-in-the-patron-name-read-for-september/
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
“How the stories about all-powerful AI are swallowing the world”
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-the-stories-about-all-powerful
> But even if you believe AI systems do present a novel threat to civilizational infrastructure, it seems the more grievous error to ignore how the narratives about those threats are being shaped and wielded in pursuit of very specific ends—and, as of now, I might add, very successfully so!
Mastodon Feedjonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
the reason that its so funny that this devolves into "free VPS for everyone" is that this is sort of the shortest path to what they want to do and it must be this way or it's shit. you want a persistent computational system for someone that can do very general tasks. ok! that sounds like a virtual machine, there's lots of tools for that already. you provision an LLM inside a box and let it do computer things, you even tell it that it should be forthright about being an LLM in a box. so in order for it to do anything useful at all that you could call a "personal life assistant" it needs to be able to do arbitrary computation, rather than a specific set of canalized actions. i was surprised that there was a switch to allow arbitrary network access, but that too is somewhat inevitable given the needs of the product. you do a ton of engineering to prevent the LLM from going off the rails and doing something terrible, but by its design it should be maximally permissive to the human using it. so here you are - provisioning a persistent, permissive computing environment, run by something with an infinitely large attack surface - for your customer base that consists of 99.9% of people who have never paid you a dime, so, pretty much for free.
congratulations: the only form that this kind of product can take is a botnet factory.