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

I have created a policy for dealing with fan mail and fan requests, which I know sounds ridiculous on the surface of it, but these days is actually useful to have, and to point people to, so they know that how I handle fan mail is not about them personally:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/09/29/how-i-handle-fan-mail-and-requests-2026-edition/

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Lame, we had an earthquake and I didn't even notice.

#seattle

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

“The Tech Industry: An Autopsy | Computational Impacts”

https://monroelab.com/2026/09/29/the-tech-industry-an-autopsy/

> The ‘AI’ scourge, is more than a propaganda campaign, it has mutated (as all things do) into a sort of religion. Unsurprisingly, considering the combination of capitalist mania, resurrected eugenics, and hatred for workers that spins, like a molten core, at its center, the scourge is relentless, deforming everything it touches.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

...weirdly I'm not motivated to play Scarlet Hollow right now

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

redtail hawk closeup

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

redtail hawk in Mt Hope Cemetery

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

seem to be getting somewhere.

using debruijn levels to index terms is indexing by availability - how many indexes/levels are available to use. so getting well-scoped syntax is fairly easy, it's a top down process to scope presyntax.

using named codebruijn indexes by need, so you need to work bottom up and construct the leaves before you can construct the branches (but the availability context within which to form them is constructed top-down...).

honestly, once you've built the equipment you need, it doesn't seem so bad. which is to say i've caused more problems for myself with the structure of the presyntax than the codebruijn has caused me. so far anyway - i'm literally just scoping here.

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media@eicker.news ("social media ᳇ eicker.news") wrote:

A surveillance company is pitching police departments on adding facial recognition to Flock licence plate cameras, despite Flock itself refusing to offer the feature. VIDIZMO says it can export Flock data for facial recognition, behaviour prediction and racial and gender analysis. Privacy experts say the company's plans are "appalling". https://www.404media.co/surveillance-company-tells-cops-it-wants-to-add-facial-recognition-to-flock-cameras/ #Media #SocialMedia #Privacy

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kcarruthers@infosec.exchange ("Eldritch kcarruthers") wrote:

Well well well long covid is real: Transfer of IgG from long COVID patients induces symptomology in mice

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666379126001102

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
austinkocher ("Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎") wrote:

Out today! Thanks to Project Censored for having me back on The Project Censored Show to talk about the Detention Mortality Map, a new tool that tracks deaths in ICE custody.

I also talked about medical neglect in ICE detention, the public paying for emergency care while private prison companies collect billions, and why the enforcement system reaches back well before ICE, to the INS.

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-detention-mortality-map/

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breadantoinette@beige.party ("snarl") wrote:

i refuse to let Craigslist die.
fuck Facebook

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blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

🗣DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO ANY #USApol #Elections2026 POLLS

vote with your protest boots on:

1. expect #GOP to contest all losses in the south and “purple” districts

2. expect #MAGA Johnson to refuse to sit elected Democrats in lost Republican seats

3. expect #SCOTUS #dirty6 to aid and abet in voting suppression

and to GenZ voters: PRACTICE YOUR SIGNATURE. don't let your mail-in ballots be suppressed for “incompatible” signatures

» Can the Polls Possibly Be Right? https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/09/midterm-polls-democrats-senate/688809/

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rohitfarmer@fosstodon.org ("Rohit Farmer, Ph.D.") wrote:

I presented "Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable #AI agents" in our journal club today. And it's a game-changer.

I already created two agents for HDStIM and Seurat, and they performed so well without me writing even a single line of code. All I had to do was point the data to the AI agent and ask it to carry out the analysis using the ChatGPT Codex interface.

This can be great for testing new methods and code without installing.

#agenticai #LLM

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11044-y

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karlbode.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Karl Bode") wrote:

automakers are some of the worst on privacy and security of any industry in America, which makes their push to ban Chinese EVs "for privacy and security" extra fucking annoying

Your car’s data privacy proble...

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/117356141005447405

as alliances crumble, previously avoided paths become inevitable. this is not always good, as in the case of nuclear proliferation

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

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@sk76/117356074193966178

1978 was a strange and wonderful time

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ricci@discuss.systems ("Rob Ricci") wrote:

I'm looking to hire a project manager!

I'm working on a project with materials scientists and physicists to build stacked quantum heterostructures, which have potential interesting properties as semiconductors, etc. It's a crazy process that involves crystal growers, driving microscopes with an Xbox controller, a adiabatic demagnetization refrigerators, and exfoliation with scotch tape. We need a project manager to help us ... well, manage the project.

Apply at:

https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/209788

Fine to ask me questions here or at ricci at cs dot utah.edu

#getfedihired

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TexasObserver@texasobserver.social ("Texas Observer") wrote:

New from Jesús Jank Curbelo: In her latest project, Violeta Álvarez, an experienced music photographer, turns her camera inward toward her own roots. Born in Texas to Mexican parents, she set out to explore the experiences that connect immigrant families, starting with her own. https://www.texasobserver.org/houston-living-archive-of-migration/

#photography #art #immigration #culture #Houston #GulfCoast #Texas

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

hanging out, pretending to be a monument

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novaramedia@mastox.eu ("Novara Media") wrote:

The NHS’s contract with Palantir has come under pressure at Labour party conference, with 20k party members backing a motion to end the service’s reliance on the US spytech firm.

Healthcare workers and patients protested outside the venue, calling for the government not to renew a highly controversial £330m patient data contract with Palantir.

The company provides tech to the Israeli military during its genocide in Gaza, as well as custom surveillance tools to ICE in the US..

A majority of Labour voters (76%) believe Andy Burnham’s government should allow Palantir’s NHS contract to expire without renewal in February 2027.

Around 30 health workers dressed in scrubs attended the No Palantir in the NHS demo outside the conference in Liverpool on Tuesday, ahead of Burnham’s speech.

NHS doctor Rhiannon Mihranian Osborne, a campaigner at Medact, told Novara Media: “The government has the perfect opportunity to end this contract. It can do so safely and transition over to NHS-owned infrastructure.

“Palantir’s NHS contract is a threat to the ethics we sign up to as health workers, it’s a threat to our patient relationships and data privacy, and it’s a threat to the integrity and independence of NHS infrastructure.”

Patients cannot opt out of having their sensitive healthcare data stored on Palantir’s Federated Data Platform (FDP), and some Palantir staff are granted “unlimited access” to identifiable patient data by NHS England.

First secretary of state Louise Haigh used her conference speech to delegates on Sunday to say Burnham’s government will refuse to “be in hock to foreign giants”, in a comment understood to be aimed at Palantir.

The Cheltenham Constituency Labour Party (CLP) tabled a conference motion on tech sovereignty on Monday, stating that overreliance on US tech “poses unacceptable risks to the independence and security of the UK, its institutions and its people”.

Exeter CLP called on the government to allow the NHS’s Palantir contract to expire in 2027, look to Greater Manchester’s approach as a “blueprint” and build an NHS-controlled replacement system.

However, the motion was not chosen for debate, despite more than 20k members voting for it.

Greater Manchester, where Burnham served as mayor for nearly a decade, has repeatedly rejected Palantir’s FDP in its NHS services, using a UK-created alternative instead.

More protests against Palantir are set to take place across England as part of an international week of action uniting health workers and unions in the US, Brazil and Europe.

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

RE: https://newsie.social/@servelan/117355780873164464

"Trump agreed to dismiss his appeal "with prejudice," meaning he can never bring it again, according to a Sept. 25 order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. The president also withdrew his bid to make Carroll return the money, according to the 70-word agreement his attorney, Josh Halpern, signed with her lawyers.

The appeals court's order reached the Manhattan federal court's docket Tuesday."

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servelan@newsie.social ("Servelan") wrote:

Trump quietly caves on $5.6M payout as E. Jean Carroll case ends: 'A first' - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-caves-e-jean-carroll/

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

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/117355593211767785

wheeeee,,, let's dissociate!

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georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

Thank you for standing up for what's right, Luanne. https://www.comicsands.com/luanne-james-lawsuit-lgbtq-books?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=infeed&utm%5Fcampaign=linkprogram

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AlJazeera@flipboard.com ("Al Jazeera") wrote:

‘Truly historic’: Morocco’s king appoints first woman prime minister
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/29/truly-historic-moroccos-king-appoints-first-woman-prime-minister?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Middle East News @middle-east-news-AlJazeera

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eloquence@social.coop ("Erik Moeller") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sovtechfund/117354025834744671

Very excited to be able to offer these new services (and to continue our existing ones) for open source infrastructure projects. Huge shout-out to @tarakiyee for all the prep work to make this happen.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com ("ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

PHILLY CHEESE STEAKS X4 PLEASE

Area: Washington DC, USA
Type: Embraer 175 (Enhanced Wing)
A: #a5fbc4e5d21
F: #f6d4048e733

#acars #vdlm2

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digyoursoul@universeodon.com ("Voting is Your POWER") wrote:

Germany just became the third major economy to commit to phasing out fossil fuels entirely, in their case by 2045.

https://amp.dw.com/en/germany-sets-out-plan-to-phase-out-fossil-fuels-by-2045/a-79404028

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globalmuseum@mastodon.online ("Global Museum") wrote:

⭐ JOB POSTING⭐
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Coordinator.
Lawrence University, Appleton, WI.
Salary Range: $55,000 - $65,000
As the NAGPRA Coordinator, you will lead the day-to-day implementation of Lawrence University’s NAGPRA compliance program.
👇
https://lawrence.peopleadmin.com/postings/2196
#globalmuseum #museumjobs #jobs #NAGPRA #employment

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:

There's an author I deeply love that's stopped publishing, and I go back and listen to her books often. It's sad, but I know tons of authors that could have given the world amazing stories but just became tired of navigating a hostile world and a hostile publishing landscape, especially all the LLM bullshit, even with small publishers. I was a developmental editor for some of them! trust me when I say you don't hate the system enough. I was paid, but still, it's just sad you all will not get to see these books because the authors write instead of publish. #Books #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity