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_Do not cite the deep #memes to me, squid. I was there when they were written._
If there ever is #Internet / #Meme History 101, then this would be in it following the birth of YouTube. Though I saw it either on Slashdot or Digg…

Photojournalist Dave Decker was arrested in November while documenting a protest in Miami, Florida.
A coalition of 23 press organizations spoke out against the charges
— and this week the prosecutor agreed❗️
The following statement can be attributed to Adam Rose, deputy director of advocacy for Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):
“I hope law enforcement officers take this to heart: Swearing an oath to protect the community means protecting everyone — including pre…

Florida prosecutor agrees: Photography is not a crime
A coalition of 23 press organizations spoke out against the charges — the prosecutor agreed

All set for flying out to Paris today, to attend a conference on digital #commons in Strasbourg next week - and meet some friends and family before that. 🥐
Being a very clever girl, Ohana recognized that me packing my travel backpack means that I'll be gone for a while, and she told her sister too. 🎒
#dogsofmastodon

Making this a subtoot so I don't come across as smug or condescending...
My decision to stop using github when they started providing services to ICE back in ~2016 felt awkward at times but has been feeling really good in hindsight right now.
I see a bunch of people now saying "why boycott X company over some "minor" transgression or political capitulation (or over a "neutral" stance on LLM code). The answer is: it shows what their values are, which predicts their future behavior, especially under the tilted playing field of capitalism. I'm by no means perfect at this and I don't think shouting at people to boycott is a good idea for several reasons. People should boycott what they want to, for their own reasons. But I am posting this to try to help others be aware of the upsides of taking action when confronted with "subtle" evidence of corporate unvalues.

Numerical study of friction reduction and underlying mechanism of air film via parallel and tandem injections on a hypersonic flat plate at high altitude
Xiuzheng Cheng, Mengyu Wang, Qin Li, Lingyun Wang, Yihui Weng, Pan Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18975

Mahomes begins rehab, eyes Week 1 return https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47337180/chiefs-mahomes-begins-rehab-eyes-possible-week-1-return

„ For teaching, this means teaching language with an explicit focus on wellbeing of all class members and striving to be an inclusive setting for all learners. It means finding ways to bring in critical reflection to prompt thinking about social structures, people’s thoughts and feelings in relation to their positioning within social structures, and ways to value and empower individuals.“

3 days ago the RSS feed of planet.ubuntu.com stopped working due to a TLS cert error.
I THINK it's due to them overhauling & moving it to a github-hosted replacement, but as this was done just by redirecting DNS the new host doesn't have a TLS cert with the correct name. If so, this means that people following the old RSS feed can't do so any more and they got no notice that this was going to happen.
I don't know for sure though because my query remains unansw…

A meditation on miracles and near-death experiences
In Yale Divinity School’s latest “Quadcast,” religious historian Carlos Eire — author of the recent “They Flew: A History of the Impossible” — discusses evolving Protestant and Catholic views on miracles and other social phenomena.

Head Coach Jim Harbaugh on Building Momentum After the Cowboys Win https://www.chargers.com/video/jim-harbaugh-press-conference-monday-week-17-2025