"The Free Software Foundation has been sliding into irrelevance more and more by entirely failing to address its big Creepy Uncle problem. Open-Source has turned into a form of unpaid internship to be hired to make shitty apps that bring more surveillance and ads to our world."
https://aria.dog/barks/forklift…
Interior Department Cuts Would Hit Major National Parks, Per New Court Filing (Anna Kramer/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/interior-department-rifs-shutdown-national-parks-court-filing
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p86#a251020p86
Revolutionizing brain‒computer interfaces: overcoming biocompatibility challenges in implantable neural interfaces https://jnanobiotechnology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12951-025-03573-x
Eagles Locker Room Interviews: November 19, 2025 https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/video/eagles-locker-room-interviews-november-19-2025
Can anyone recommend a tool for basically mass unfollowing Fediverse/Mastodon accounts or otherwise managing your followings?
I'm following almost 2000 accounts and while my feed is very much alive and buzzing, it feels like it doesn't really match my interests. It's too generic.
I need to weed out what I actually care about. Is there anything that can help with that?
#Mastodon
Nano Banana Pro is great at following instructions, generates interim "thought images", and makes full infographics with well-rendered text from a short prompt (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/20/nano-banana-pro/
A paradox I think about:
If advertising doesn’t work - why is that the business model nearly every internet business defaults to?
If advertising online is so lucrative, why are marketing departments all over failing to meet targets and struggling to show any results?
Everything is ads and none of it is working. And I’m just a lone marketer screaming in this forest of nonsense hoping some tree falls and hears me.
You Don't Know Until You Click:Automated GUI Testing for Production-Ready Software Evaluation
Yutong Bian, Xianhao Lin, Yupeng Xie, Tianyang Liu, Mingchen Zhuge, Siyuan Lu, Haoming Tang, Jinlin Wang, Jiayi Zhang, Jiaqi Chen, Xiangru Tang, Yongxin Ni, Sirui Hong, Chenglin Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14104
Thickness Dependence and Fundamental Limitations for Ion Permeation in Nanoscale Films
Jay Prakash Singh, Konstantin I. Morozov, Viatcheslav Freger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14725
China introduces new rules to curb monks' and clergy's use of livestreaming and AI for unlicensed online preaching and commercial activities, following scandals (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3f0f240b-c002-4726-a757-01ded711a5a8