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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
PeterRu@climatejustice.social ("🌍Peter 🔥 Antifa✊") wrote:

Trump administration rolls back car fuel efficiency standards

While the Biden-era standards would have required vehicle fleets to average 50.4 miles per gallon by 2031, the Trump administration on Monday brought that number down to 34.9 miles per gallon.
09/28/26

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/6114769-donald-trump-rolls-back-car-efficiency-standards/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MugsysRapSheet ("Trump & Epstein: Biz partners.") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/117348075772910437

An absolutely perfect answer. Covers all the bases (#Democrats take note.)

#Michigan #ElSayed #VoteBlue #Abortion

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The other day I posted a few two-year-old foggy photos from a hike around Hveragerði. These were taken in almost the same locations, except this time just after it had snowed. #photos #iceland #nature #hiking

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Your occasional reminder that @chucktingle is a national treasure

RE: https://www.threads.com/@chucktingle/post/Dd1MudMm4kE

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Parasocial media: why influencers really aren't your friend: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/04-parasocial-relationships/

Boosted by stephen@social.calmabiding.me ("Stephen Castro-Starkey"):
stephen@social.calmabiding.me ("Stephen Castro-Starkey") wrote:

So how do you connect a multi user dungeon to the fediverse elegantly? Do you have a “journal” you keep in your cabin that you write in to talk about your adventures?

stephen@social.calmabiding.me ("Stephen Castro-Starkey") wrote:

And this time the bugs were security related. Whee!

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Parasocial media: why influencers really aren't your friend

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/04-parasocial-relationships/

How the very design of social media supercharges misinformation and harm.

stephen@social.calmabiding.me ("Stephen Castro-Starkey") wrote:

Just got another massive LLM generated commit at work that is taking many hours of review to find so many subtle bugs it generated. What a waste. Again.. I could have coded it faster myself without all these bugs, which were all related to the pattern matcher not holding the meaning behind our design, which is impossible for a pattern matcher to do.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mauvehed@mauve.haus ("mauvehed 🐿️ (KØMVH)") wrote:

Upgraded the 4.5ft U/VHF antenna to a 17 footer. It still looks insane to me. It’s so damn tall!

I already made my new record for a simplex contact. I can’t wait for South Side Simplex on Tuesday!

#hamradio #amateurradio

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mauvehed@mauve.haus ("mauvehed 🐿️ (KØMVH)") wrote:

My wife has decided to make the cat a cozy spot on her desk while she works. Apparently this is how you get the cat to not sleep on your keyboard.

#cats

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

11 children among 43 injured in Russia's strike on a Kharkiv high-rise

The hit wrecked parts of several floors of a 9-story building before dawn. Russian drones later killed 3 in Dnipro and a woman in central Kyiv.

🔗 https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/09/28/russia-hits-a-kharkiv-high-rise-overnight-injuring-43-people-then-strikes-central-kyiv-and-dnipro-in-broad-daylight/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social ("Sarah Dal") wrote:

I had no idea about this - the company Historic England outsourced digital image provision to has gone bust. There is no way for the public to now access the images. Absolute travesty

https://www.sarsen.org/2026/09/historic-englands-photos-didnt-vanish.html?m=1

"SmartFrame did not store the Archive. It streamed it: zoom, captions, right-click protection, screenshot blocking, anti-scrape. A public body wrapped a national collection in a start-up’s DRM. When the start-up died, the pictures went with it"

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

Those who live by the rage post, die by the rage post.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
alternet_rss_bot@mas.to ("RSS AlterNet") wrote:

Food fight: 'Colossal' parasite outbreak is colliding with Trump’s promises

The run-up to the midterm elections is turning into a food fight — literally.

https://www.alternet.org/trump-food-safety/

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

extraterrestrial activities? ugh, bad move

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c65y7nl29k0et?post=asset%3Aee875a2e-da2b-4715-8851-8485a05c7e6e#post

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BBC@c.im ("BBC News") wrote:

#BBC #News #World Plan for controversial Sydney data centre scrapped after push-back https://w.st/ksqsn

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
libreoffice@fosstodon.org ("LibreOffice") wrote:

Sixteen years of #LibreOffice: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/28/sixteen-years-of-libreoffices/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
pacific06 ("Pacific Byiringiro 🇺🇬") wrote:

Our garden silently tells people:

“Go to the supermarket to buy your food. We will come there only to buy a matchbox.” 😂

Young people grow food, one harvest at a time.

CC @sustainable_schools @econetwork

#Joke #PARABLES #SustainabilityTransformation #foodproduction #kitchengarden #Farmhumour #gardening

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Philsturgeon@mastodon.green ("Phil Sturgeon") wrote:

Just saw someone zoom by on a Solar powered recumbent e-bike, clearly homemade. I barely got a photo before he was away. Just commuting to work in Chippenham I think? Legend.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
esoastronomy ("ESO") wrote:

The gleaming Trifid and Lagoon nebulae can be seen between our New Technology Telescope (left) and the ESO 3.6-meter telescope (right) at La Silla.

Their red colour comes from hydrogen atoms ionised by young stars in these clouds. The Trifid nebula also shows a blue tint caused by dust reflecting the light of some of these stars.

Discover more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2639a/

📷 J. Rodrigues/ESO

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #astrophotography #space #science

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jwcph@helvede.net ("JWcph, Radicalized By Decency") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/117348646207622557

To everyone who likes to cynically declare that the billionaires control everything & we might as well just give up: Fuck you & the defeatist horse you rode in on.

He's the richest man who ever lived & you better believe he wants this movie killed & that his rich peers are rallying around him - but they still can't stop the signal.

I repeat: They still can't stop the signal.

Resistance matters. Resistance works.

#resist #musk

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

🚨 Only a few more days to get your hands on a drawing by me of anything you want, our sticker pack including sparkly Jimothy, or a hand-made bracelet from @neatnik in colour or monochrome!

Even if you don't want that stuff, you can still donate which helps fund childhood cancer research and treatments at St Jude and just generally kicking cancers arse.

👉 https://stjude.omg.lol/ 👈

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

How does sheltering rapists "Build Better Men"?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/28/building-better-men/

Boosted by stephen@social.calmabiding.me ("Stephen Castro-Starkey"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"There is no worthwhile career in AI-anything.

The AI industry is designed to dehumanise and commoditise labour. Everyone who has dedicated their life to token servitude has become a dull fungible meat proxy."

(Article title: Leaving them behind)

https://dbushell.com/2026/09/28/leaving-them-behind/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/117348316997310623

"There is no worthwhile career in AI-anything.

Simple as that. The AI industry is designed to dehumanise and commoditise labour. Everyone who has dedicated their life to token servitude has become a dull fungible meat proxy."

Boosted by pixxl:
N33R@fops.cloud ("N33R "violently concerning" ⚸ 🩸 :lesbian: ") wrote:

stephen@social.calmabiding.me ("Stephen Castro-Starkey") wrote:

@brib Only if you’re rich

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

saw someone on HN say they will never contribute to Nura again since we ban LLM generated contributions (they had receipts too, they had contributed in the past)

their argument was that having done device porting manually before, doing it with an LLM was something like 10x faster

having seen the various LLM driven ports going around, we can't deny that LLMs are capable of doing kernel bringup, finding a functional implementation, and making many more attempts to trial and error than we humans are.

of course, this doesn't come without a cost, as with most technical advancements this cost is mostly offloaded onto those without the resources to prevent it -- the under educated working class and the global south, those who will be most affected by droughts and worsening climate change

this is reason enough to disengage from this technology, at least the implementations of it that cause most of this harm, but there is another more devious issue that i haven't seen mentioned a whole lot

in the same way that huge retail chains and global shipping extract wealth from small towns, LLMs extract knowledge from communities

the Nura wiki and other infrastructure was unusable for days at a time due to web scraping, and now imposes a proof of work on visitors (which also prevents access from old devices)

now that this data is in accessible models, people who aren't active in our community can use an LLM to port a device, to generate their own private documentation, they can enable devices in the mainline kernel or contribute to other upstreams if their LLM patches are accepted. People that may normally have become active members of the Nura community instead engage with a chatbot operated by big tech, which of course uses their chat history for training new models

As maintainers, for us to allow LLMs into our community would in my opinion be the beginning of the end, as our community knowledge base would be gutted, developers would become burnt out and disillusioned, and our culture would be erased.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Carl%5FZimmer/117345065655681591

oh look, that out of nowhere discovery anthropic claims to have made seems to have been helped by a non-affiliated expert using claude to analyse their data.

surely there are only so many times this can happen before academia stops fucking using chatbots.