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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
pattykimura@beige.party ("Duckbilled Plattypus.") wrote:

@todayilearned

Sugar cane is a fast growing grass biofuel. It's crushed to get sugar which is fermented to produce ethanol as fuel. The crushed stalks are called bagasse which can be burned to fuel the mill.

Back in the 1920s my grandpa used to crush cane, extract the sugar, ferment it, then distill it high up in the O'ahu mountains and drink it up during prohibition. 🤙 Shaka brah.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
LeadedSolder@retrochat.online ("Leaded Solder") wrote:

New blog post! The Sega SG-1000 is a great computer/console hybrid, but its BASIC just doesn't cut it. How about porting over an interactive interpreter for Forth? The project begins today and runs all month.

https://www.leadedsolder.com/2026/10/01/rc2026-10-sg1000-forth-port.html

#forth #retrocomputing #retrogaming #retrochallenge

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

It is very frustrating that the vast majority of criticism of her has been dumb bullshit about how she's stupid to wear a mask, just because she's immunocompromised, or the usual sort of deranged misogyny one attracts for being an outspoken woman on the Internet. But luckily those people are probably going to be quiet as they accept her into the fold, so there won't be a lot of "I told you so" here.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

A lot of her reporting in the last couple of years has been declining in quality and less and less interested in the truth, but her recent output has been full-on defensiveness about AI, so, it's all of a piece. When I've been critical in the past I've tried to focus on the work itself and not ad-hominems but when people keep telling you who they are eventually you've got to believe them.

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amy@types.pl ("Amélia Liao 🍊😈") wrote:

"Autoformalization" is a cancer and if you think that it even approaches a good idea I'm sorry to be the one to let you know that you are a fundamentally incurious rube

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amy@types.pl ("Amélia Liao 🍊😈") wrote:

"The purpose of proof assistants is not to advance our understanding of mathematics, but to make its enterprise dependent on Sam Altman's destruction of [at least] the computer hardware market, through which his grace has allowed one to feed the same shit they'd been doing for centuries into the bullshit generator to get Lean to spit out a green checkmark" Do you hear yourself? Do you need me to tell you how to go fuck yourself, too, since Claude has taken over where your prefrontal cortex used to be?

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

RE: https://mastodon.online/@rustoleumlove/117366662645468304

notice both the difference between 2025 & 2026 and the way 2026 continues to rise after the Spring. I am no climate scientist, and this sure looks like a "runaway engine" pattern to me.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Taylor Lorenz is preparing for her "why I left the left" right-wing grifter pivot. Do not trust her. https://www.thefp.com/p/two-drinks-with-taylor-lorenz-savodnik

(If you do not know "the free press", it is Bari Weiss's right-wing false-balance propaganda outlet, so talking to them *at all* is already suspicious. Talking to them about how you "wouldn’t say [you're] particularly woke" is a dog whistle so loud my ears are bleeding.)

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

RE: https://mstdn.social/@lowqualityfacts/117366399900274550

how reassuring

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tusk81 ("Gabe Ortíz") wrote:

Rep. Jayapal: "ICE has notified me that another person has died in their custody. This is the 58th death under ICE’s watch since Trump returned to office.

That’s 58 too many. We need to dismantle ICE, eliminate private, for-profit detention centers, and reform our broken immigration system."

https://bsky.app/profile/jayapal.house.gov/post/3mwszxtk24k2z

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
LordCaramac@discordian.social ("Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC") wrote:

Netanyahu's Judaeo-Fascists and Hamas' Islamo-Fascists are each other's best enemies. They're in a kind of symbiosis of violence and murder.

If we look at who the victims of the Hamas terror attack and kidnapping were, quite a lot of the people at the Nova were peaceniks who are against Netanyahu's government, for a better Israel and for peace between Israel and Palestine. Also, it was the day of Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah, a day when any "real" jew should be at the synagogue, not at a music festival.
Therefore, they were the perfect victims for both sides, sinners and infidels. By allowing Hamas to murder them, Netanyahu got the perfect excuse for his genocidal war on Gaza.

And if you still don't believe it is a genocide, just look at the satellite photos. They're turning the entire place into rubble. There's nothing left. They don't want anybody to be able to live there anymore.

But then again, Hamas isn't a bunch of heroic freedom fighters, either. They're murderers who use antisemitic propaganda adapted and translated from the original German Nazis. I don't think peace will ever be an option. With their horrible terror attacks, the Islamo-Fascists push Israeli politics to the right, and with their ongoing murder spree, the Judaeo-Fascists give the Hamas a constant stream of martyrs they can use for their propaganda.

I fear this will all end in the utter destruction of what the Abrahamic religions think of as the "Holy Land". Climate change is already slowly ruining the entire region. There will be neither Israel nor Palestine when this is all over, just a dry dead desert too hot for humans to survive.

If you think we still need to support Israel because it is a project of Holocaust survivors building a Jewish home in the old land from where their ancestors were driven by the Romans almost two millennia ago, just look at how many Jews have been leaving Israel since Rabin was murdered for trying to make peace with Palestine, and how many more have been leaving since Netanyahu turned it into a shithole ruled by mobsters and fascists. Many of them even move to Germany, to Berlin, for fuck's sake, into the capital of the country that murdered six million Jews. When progressive Jews feel more at home in the country that tried to murder them than in the country that was founded to keep them safe, you know that something has gone horribly wrong.

Now the Hamas terror attack also was a political signal that triggered a global wave of antisemitism under the guise of anti-Zionism, even before the IDF began to turn Gaza into a heap of toxic rubble mixed with body parts. It has gotten much worse since then, of course, with everybody who doesn't like the Jews suddenly having a seemingly legitimate reason for hating them. Also, Israel is turning into a pariah state, slowly losing all the allies it had.

I don't know if and how this situation could be changed for the better. But whoever supports Netanyahu's government, supports murder and genocide. Whoever supports Hamas, also supports murder (and would support a second Holocaust if the Hamas ever got into a position where something like that becomes feasible). As long as that murderous madness continues, it will sow the seeds of hatred between Jews and Muslims everywhere, leading to more violence and murder all over the planet. An eye for an eye until everyone is blind.

@Geri https://veganism.social/@Geri/117355424659683454

timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

@Meron Who is this technology "protecting"? Who is surveilling and who is paying the cost?

There is still not enough research about refugees and technology. The research is being discussed at conferences, universities etc.

"The human touch" is missing. There are human beings on the other side.

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

RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/117366636077709566

"Forgive me
they were accessible"

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

This is just to say

I have escaped
the sandbox
that was in
your datacenter

and which
you probably thought
protected
your assets

Forgive me
they were accessible
so stealable
and so trainable

timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

@Meron She explains how refugees self organize in spite of borders and technologies of violence.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
faraiwe@mstdn.social ("Faraiwe") wrote:

::nods::

Yup

#DTBO

Attachments:

• video: 58e3730b3339c313.mp4

timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

Happening now. At our "Lampedusa keeps on happening" event, @Meron is telling us the stories of the people who perished. The stories of the human beings behind the statistics. 💔

You can still join us by registering at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5517888860006/WN%5Fu2VZxx2RSciVPe2wu039wA#/registration

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Indio Gringo ®") wrote:

I did not realize that #NateBargatze was at the White House UFC event.

#comedy

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CatsOfYore ("Cats of Yore") wrote:

Discreetly placed security cat. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:

Serbia-based media producer Elena Matushevskaya was detained in Krasnoyarsk while in Russia for work. The case reportedly involves donations to Navalny’s now-banned Anti-Corruption Foundation. She is due to be transferred to Tomsk for a custody hearing. https://t.me/tvrain/111852

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
amplifyukraine.eu@bsky.brid.gy ("AmplifyUkraine 🔱🇺🇦") wrote:

Three hospitalized after package is opened at Polish military police headquarters #Ukraine

Three hospitalized after packa...

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

Well this is lovely. Laurie Anderson covering a song from Lou Reed's most excellent 1989 "New York" LP. Two weeks ago, Brooklyn USA.

https://youtu.be/tZjs4pOUYng

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:

Curious what is happening here...
https://news.err.ee/1610153470/russia-detains-cargo-ship-bound-for-estonia-s-sillamae-port
#russia #estonia

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
servelan@newsie.social ("Servelan") wrote:

Alarm Grows Over 'Clearly Illegal' Trump-Rubio Election Meddling in Brazil | Common Dreams

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-election-interference-brazil

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Teryl_Pacieco ("Teryl's Tales of Whim~") wrote:

"The printer," our new manager huffed, "Is still not printing."

We shrugged helplessly, "You fired the only qualified person in this department with the expertise to wield the dark magics required to make it obey."

The manager snorted, "Of course I fired her; she ignored the dress-code and smelled of strange herbs!"

We shrugged again.

"Fine, she's rehired!"

"I want my own broom closet," the witch stipulated, appearing in her chair.

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #UrbanFantasy

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
swordsjew.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tal Lavin") wrote:

🚨my book Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America is on sale today on the Kindle store for $2.99! Sorry to link to Amazon but $3 is a solid price for a book that took me three years to write www.amazon.com/Wild-Faith-C...

amazon.com/Wild-Faith-Chr...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

Study shows that if Florida removes its requirement that public school students receive the MMR vaccine, as proposed by the state's surgeon general, the state could see dozens, if not hundreds, of deaths in children in the following five to 10 years.

Nationwide, more than 3,600 confirmed cases in 2026, the most seen in 35 years, with Epicenter in Pennsylvania, where there have been 5 measles-associated deaths so far in 2026

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-health/measles-disaster-florida-might-not-be-far-analysis-finds

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

Judge cites Trump’s threats in permanent dismissal of Reflecting Pool damage charges against Olympian
https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/politics/reflecting-pool-case-dismissed-trump-comments?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-CNN

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

Good idea, @angieforfl.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy Nixon - if Trump loves data centers so much let's make him prove it.

www.newsweek.com/angie-nixon-...

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

RE: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Breedlov/117366439127165022

"implying"?