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Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Treatnik 🎃"):
nicuveo@tech.lgbt ("Antoine Leblanc :transHaskell:") wrote:

every conversation about the potential usefulness of AI, divorced from ethical concerns, is just this dril tweet

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

#caturday My cats like to sneak into the loft. I gave them Bluetooth beacons to know when to let them out.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science:

For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/us/politics/national-science-foundation-research-funds.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.F1E.adOl.I5OvE-oZxF24&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AnnaAnthro ("Anna Haunthro") wrote:

“ The National Symphony Orchestra, homeless thanks to the deranged Kennedy Center landlord, has had to find other venues and construct a concert series on the fly.

Its opening evening at the Strathmore in Bethesda was therefore highly anticipated.

The orchestra began the event in the European fashion, entering as a group rather than tuning onstage while the audience settles in, which is common in the US.

It created the occasion for a powerful expression of thanks.”

https://www.contrariannews.org/p/undaunted-arts-in-dc

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jasoneckert/117372126070570531

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
KaraLG84@dragonscave.space ("Kara Goldfinch") wrote:

Daft thing that I think Fedi will like: an internet controlled bubble machine in a Florida backyard. It's got a webcam.
Apparently been going since 2001.

https://andieandmike.org/bubblecam/

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

This.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
geoff_eg ("Geoffrey Giebelhaus") wrote:

I finally have a decent image for #FootpathFriday

Actually, I have a lot from my recent through hike... Expect to see more of these raw trail photos over the next months.

#photography #canada #WestCoastTrail

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

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl/117374511213637083

but of course

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

I had a meeting today that taught me that the SpaceX launch site in Louisiana is an even worse idea than I could have even imagined.

You know what causes really intensely powerful vibrations in the ground? Rocket launches. And do you know what really powerful vibrations in the ground cause in coastal wetlands? Liquifaction.

SpaceX has completely lost their grip on reality and all of us are going to pay the price in various ways as they try to build impossible dangerous things.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Fuchs 🫯") wrote:

Amber or plasma?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MedeaVanamonde@beige.party ("Medea Vanamonde 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

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

I hesitated a long time before adding metadata for controlling socmedia preview card display. I also replaced an old “accordion” Javascript with new-ish HTML instead, eliminated dead links to materials at my now-disappeared RIT site, etc etc…

it needs some tweaking, but is basically on the right track now. I have not updated that code for far too long.

https://www.well.com/~jeffs/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

The Salt Lake Tribune: Police drones buzzing across SLC feed a new high-tech crime center. The picture threatens to ‘flip’ civil liberties, a key group says.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10/02/slc-crime-center-uses-drones-live/

#privacy #bigbrother #drones #civilliberty

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
globalmuseum@mastodon.online ("Global Museum") wrote:

Researchers reveal that this year alone, 48 prehistoric arrows have been discovered and recovered from melting ice in Jotunheimen. ​
While these finds offer incredible insights into ancient hunting, they also signal an urgent and sobering reality: the oldest ice is now melting, bringing humanity's oldest archaeological finds to the surface.
https://secretsoftheice.com/news/2026/09/23/year-of-the-arrows-now-the-stone-age-is-melting-out/ #globalmuseum #stoneage #history #climatechange

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

Forget the broom at home: These Minnesota witches prefer to be on the lake.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/10/02/paddleboarding-events-for-witches-planned-across-twin-cities-in-october

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

Why I Write (and Care) About the Internet, and What So Many People Get Wrong

https://brennan.day/why-i-write-and-care-about-the-internet-and-what-so-many-people-get-wrong/

#community #indieweb #technology #activism #privacy

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

🌃 Man, I love writing in the still quiet dark of 4AM. Nothing beats it.

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

This Week in Package Management: 3 October 2026

https://nesbitt.io/2026/10/03/this-week-in-package-management.html

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@freshmango/117373109682860302

My FOMO at missing this talk is *intense*.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Anneke@front-end.social wrote:

So far, a lot of sass toward the Silicon Valley trend of renaming websites that are not ‘Single Page Apps’ made with JS frameworks to something else 😂

“You might know them as RFW’s - regular ****ing websites” - Cyd

Use view transitions! They’re awesome

#fronteersDarkMode #fronteers

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

The crypto industry can drop $30 million+ on a single Senate race. Citation Needed runs on reader support alone. If you think someone should be tracking this stuff, consider a paid subscription: https://www.citationneeded.news/signup/

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

As far as slop indicators go, variations on “let me break that down for you” have to be somewhere in the top ten

Also, do people not realise how condescending and insulting this phrasing is in a reply to a support request? Do they even read their own responses?

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

Interview: AI is not the threat. It's the people building it "that are the existential risks to humanity."

"If a bridge collapses, we don’t ever ask, “Was the bridge uncontrollable? Was the bridge unethical?” And really, AI is no different than that."

When we describe these systems as if they have their own agency, we’re helping the companies market themselves. "We’re also helping them sidestep accountability."

~Timnit Gebru

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/10/1/timnit%5Fgebru%5Fai

#USPol #EUPol #News #AI #TechFascism ...2

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

The people who know about this stuff tell me that I should be reposting my past articles more often (I used to have an automated script for this, and I should probably get it set up again, but thinking about infra is hard). For now, though, this was a fun article from the beginning of this year:

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/the-problem-is-culture

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
petealexharris@mastodon.scot ("Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫") wrote:

You can't win at capitalism. You just have to survive it while you do the human things that have true worth.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
patigallardo.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Before going to a regular dermatologist appointment, I was watching a ton of dermatologist videos (I’m a nerd 🤷🏻‍♀️) so when I got there I told her that basically every condition I had looked at was either made worse by stress or even caused by stress.

She said that was very common.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

blogged: Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
https://dbushell.com/2026/10/03/deno-to-node/

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

oooh Firefox 157 puts Firefox back in the game 👏

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

“Present Company Excepted”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/present-company-excepted/

> If we want something different for children -- and by extension, something different for society as a whole -- then we probably need to articulate a progressive vision for education. Because we should want to ensure that a pushback on “the digital” doesn’t simply result in the same bad shit, just in analog form.