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

Been working on my own custom syntax theme, specifically for when I'm writing my blog posts in Markdown in my IDE that prioritizes both readability and joy.

Trying to figure out a name. 🤔

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
thegibson@masto.hackers.town ("The Gibson") wrote:

Since it seems like it’s Veilid Friday around here, a little something not ready just yet, but coming soon.

Veilpass

https://veilpass.io/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mauro@mograph.social ("It's a me, Mauro") wrote:

Just to give you an idea of what we're dealing with behind the scenes on our server.

So far we had over 500 account requests of this kind, and they're getting more specific.

WTF.

#mastoadmin #ai #spam

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.social ("Brad Rosenheim") wrote:

The only way we will keep our institutions intact in such a situation is to vote loudly and clearly so as to make their claims of fraud absolutely absurd.

This is a call to vote, to be clear.

40% of us voting in a near tie, which is typical in the U.S.A., will not be enough. We need numbers. Like 60% (a vast improvement but still embarrassingly low). I would assume the extra turn out would be there to humiliate the guy who made Iran the controllers of the world economy, who started a trade war with Canada, who kissed the feet of the Chinese dictator on USian soil. We have to get people out to vote, whether you believe in the system or not.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
redcrew@mstdn.social ("Deborah Edwards-Oñoro") wrote:

It's not stretching the truth.

US Senate candidate Mike Rogers lied about his work in a car factory.

Multiple times.

Said he worked at a car factory at the same time he was a member of Michigan's state legislature, after he went to college and joined the military.

https://michiganadvance.com/2026/09/24/mike-rogers-claims-he-was-an-assembly-line-worker-the-uaw-said-that-is-stretching-the-truth/

#Michigan

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
skykiss@sfba.social ("♾️🇺🇦 Skykiss will Vote") wrote:

After the midterms, Trump regime to start new war by invading Cuba.

U.S. military lays groundwork for action around Cuba. "The U.S. Army Reserve is examining whether it can provide the military's Southern Command with police forces, medical personnel and other support units within the next four months, according to an internal Army message reviewed by CBS News." Translation, New American War Alert.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-groundwork-potential-action-cuba-trump/

#elections #midterms #vote #usa #news

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

Sat plan: Coffee and shitposting and pluggage; household chores; a visit to Chinatown / Thaitown / Haymarket for various things including the “Merchants of Haymarket” exhibition at MOCA https://moca.com.au/exhibition/; evening TBA, unless I’ve forgotten something.

MOCA is the lovely little Museum of Chinese in Australia. The photo is captioned:

Founders of Wing Sang & Co., Sydney, 1890
059\059012
City of Sydney Archives
Courtesy of Gordon Mar

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
dima@3dots.lv ("Dima") wrote:

The token collider machine told me that one month of money ($100B) poured into ai in 2026 would globally close the radiotherapy gap WORLDWIDE saving 26 million live years.

I don't really care about the correctness of this claim, I'm horrified this text was produced at all.

Think about this when you hear ai curing cancer and the cost of having fun speaking to a chat bot. There are countries that don't have existing radiology infra present.

Number correcrions are welcome.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

problematize the eschaton

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:

“you’ll never need to learn how it works underneath, we take care of it!” is a trap, folks. every. fucking. time. learn the thing, it’s cool. it’s good. learn the thing.

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

@glyph @xgranade @MaddieM4 good line

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
MichaelEMann@fediscience.org ("Michael E. Mann :verified:") wrote:

"Former VP Al Gore: A clean Earth is within world’s grasp even as climate dangers accelerate" by @borenbears for #AP:

https://apnews.com/article/al-gore-climate-change-optimism-renewables-doom-d34078b0bed9bd1243de54688cc3b7dd

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
newsguyusa@flipboard.social ("Steve Herman") wrote:

(Reuters) — Hackers claim they stole psychiatric and medical records of FBI staff. https://www.reuters.com/world/shinyhunters-hackers-say-they-stole-psychiatric-medical-records-fbi-staff-2026-09-25/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@ireneista @xgranade @MaddieM4 it's like tarot. my favorite Contrapoints line ever: "prophecy has its place as long as prophecy knows its place"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@ireneista @xgranade @MaddieM4 it does bug me when people are conning themselves. like I think it's fine to appreciate the ritual and ceremony and storytelling about wine. it's fine to spend a lot of money, even (agriculturally, wineries don't make much sense, so if you value them, sure, overpay). it's fine to say make-believe things about flavors and terroir or whatever. but there's a spectrum from "cultural activity" to "grift" that is … very short

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

@glyph @MaddieM4 @xgranade right. it's indirect information at best. it's interesting to us primarily because we have an autistic special interest in humans and this is a specific category of humans we wish to study, not so much because of the wine.

like, wine is fine. we enjoy it. we have nothing against wine.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@ireneista @MaddieM4 @xgranade yeah I am sure _they_ believe that. but a lot of the antivaxxers are quite earnest as well. (a full-employment program where every antivaxxer would get vaccinated and then get a job at wine spectator would be absolutely fine with me, though)

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
caffinepwrd@infosec.exchange ("Rev. caffinepwrd ☕") wrote:

@obscuravpn I had to use one while visiting Utah last week. Just so I could look at social media sites without proving my identity.

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
obscuravpn ("Obscura VPN") wrote:

VPNs are used by journalists, activists, businesses and ordinary people to protect their traffic, access information and make surveillance harder.

Privacy tools shouldn’t become illegal just because they make surveillance harder.

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
obscuravpn ("Obscura VPN") wrote:

The excuse is always "online safety." But these laws make you hand over your ID or scan your face to use the internet, then go after VPNs so you can't opt out.

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
obscuravpn ("Obscura VPN") wrote:

Today is Defend VPNs Day, organized by @fightfortheftr.

Sometimes you need to stand up for yourself and others when a threat emerges.

Governments everywhere are trying to restrict or outright ban VPNs, and if we don't fight back they'll get away with it.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
newsguyusa@flipboard.social ("Steve Herman") wrote:

A jury in the state of New Mexico finds that Facebook willfully deceived users with claims that Meta protects user data and keeps harmful information and misinformation off its platforms. https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/new-mexico-jury-reach-verdict-in-states-privacy-violation-case-against-meta/

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

@glyph @MaddieM4 @xgranade the editors we spoke to specifically felt that putting color dye in wine to fool a taster is unfair and based on a shallow understanding of what makes wine good

we have no stance on this, of course, we're not qualified :)

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

"We need React because " has a different sell-by date for every shop, but things have curdled horribly by the time you're tokenmaxximg.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@ireneista @MaddieM4 @xgranade IME some coffee snobs are describing real stuff but wine snobs are mostly just making shit up. (this viewpoint is actually validated by scientific studies and double-blind taste tests; fermentation isn’t *that* interesting of a process, chemically speaking, and there’s a much narrower range of flavors that a grape juice can express than the language around them suggests.)

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

My work-hours belief is that if you tell me robots are making you so productive and you aren't even writing code any more, you've invited *more* questions about why the results are so shit vs. back-of-the-napkin, not fewer.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Hollywood and game studios have finally achieved infinite nostalgia recursion.

The Definitive Edition of the Remake of the Remaster of the Original!

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
EatYourSheep@furries.club wrote:

The Steam Frame is now my favorite VR headset, of all time—bar none.

Can't recommend it enough, especially once the price comes down.

#SteamFrame
#VirtualReality
#vrheadset
#Steam
#Valve
#vr

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

Since I haven't seen any mention on Fedi, y'all should be aware that Jaiy Buck (gooeydeer.com) has died.

His partner, Pocket, posted about it on BlueSky.

https://bsky.app/profile/pocketgrok.com/post/3mwei7f6td22b

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

An old clothesline post is hidden among the plant life. Can you spot it?

#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #naturephotography #nature #abandoned #decay #tree