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Thousands–Including Many Visitors–Volunteer in Taiwan to Help Flood Victims Following Typhoon https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/thousands-including-visitors-volunteer-in-taiwan-to-help-flood-victims-following-typhoon…

Thousands Including Visitors Volunteer in Taiwan to Help Flood Victims Following Typhoon and Flood
Heading southward in extra trains, the volunteers included two Ukrainian women who had lived in Taiwan for 9 years.

I had over three hundred accounts following me that I didn't follow back, mostly because I lost track of all the new followers.
So I did the unthinkable thing:
I asked Perplexity to write me a python script to follow everyone back. I will just unfollow some of them later, if I don't like them enough. But for now, everyone gets the benefit of the doubt.😉
The script needed some adjustments, but it worked.
Here's the script if you need it:

followback
A short python script that looks for all your mastodon followers that you don't follow back, and follows them.

Ohne Werkstätten kein Radverkehr- Hamburg hält SH über Wasser
Die Landesregierung von SH blockiert einen - es gibt derzeit keinen - Schulstandort für die Ausbildung von Zweiradmechatroniker*innen in Schleswig-Holstein. Derzeit müssen Auszubildende aus dem ganzen Land nach Hamburg reisen. Auch aus den weit entfernten Orten wie Flensburg, Burg oder Niebüll. Selbst wenn die Bahn zuverlässig fährt dauert ein Weg bis zu drei Stunden.
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Hürden für Azubis von Fahrradwerkstätten: Was für Ben aus Kiel zum Stresstest wurde
Auf eine Fahrradreparatur müssen Kunden in Werkstätten in Kiel und der Region oft wochenlang warten. Das liegt auch an zu wenigen Zweiradmechatronikern. Ein Grund: Nahezu alle Azubis aus SH müssen zur Berufsschule nach Hamburg fahren – so wie einst Ben Dressler aus Kiel. Liegt die Lösung in Neumünster?

I haven’t added an example of how you implement migrations with Kitten’s¹ built-in JSDB database² yet but here’s one that I just used when renaming a field (property) in a table (JavaScript object) from “account” to “data” that illustrates the general granular approach you should take within persisted instances of JavaScript classes.
This is, of course, an advanced use case of the built-in JavaScript database that all Kitten apps have.
Kitten is simple for simple use cases. So ch…

Raiders QB Geno Smith looked improved in Week 9 following the bye https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/11/03/raiders-qb-geno-smith-looked-improved-in-week-9-following-the-b…

An interview with Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group CEO Tom Rothman on movies that inspired him, too-short theatrical windows, Letterboxd's influence, and more (Mia Lee Vicino/Letterboxd)
https://letterboxd.com/journal/tom-rothman-sony-interview/

Executive Decisions: Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group CEO Tom Rothman tells us why the future of film is on Letterboxd • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group CEO Tom Rothman talks to Mia Lee Vicino about his scrappy indie roots, championing visionary filmmakers like David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino, and why Letterboxd is the way of the future.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/uk/nursery-hackers-delete-data-intl-gbr
Nursery hackers delete children’s data following backlash, UK media reports

Nursery hackers delete children’s data following backlash, UK media reports
Hackers who stole the data of more than 8,000 children including photos, addresses and names and published some of the information on the dark web have removed the posts online and claim to have deleted the information, according to UK media reports.

From my LinkedIn post: “Telling your dev team to use AI coding tools is like telling your 2010 ops team to use AWS. They didn’t know how to code, they were ticket and click-it VMware people… developers who don’t have product management mindset or have never managed a dev team will fail by trying to micromanage the output of the tool rather than specifying the outcome of the product and managing the agent team to deliver that outcome.”

Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing… | Adrian Cockcroft
Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing tickets and waiting for data center ops teams to do what we need. We worked around the issues, built a new cloud native developer driven architecture and scaled Netflix at speed. At the time many people said we were crazy to run a large enterprise on cloud and would be back in datacenters when it failed. …

Better Than "Better Than Nothing": Design Strategies for Enculturated Empathetic AI Robot Companions for Older Adults
Isabel Pedersen, Andrea Slane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01192

Better Than "Better Than Nothing": Design Strategies for Enculturated Empathetic AI Robot Companions for Older Adults
The paper asserts that emulating empathy in human-robot interaction is a key component to achieve satisfying social, trustworthy, and ethical robot interaction with older people. Following comments from older adult study participants, the paper identifies a gap. Despite the acceptance of robot care scenarios, participants expressed the poor quality of the social aspect. Current human-robot designs, to a certain extent, neglect to include empathy as a theorized design pathway. Using rhetorical t…

Raiders report: Defensive lineman earns starting role following trade https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-report-defensive-lineman-earns-starting-role-following-trade-3433485/