@NFL@darktundra.xyzHow Joe Flacco, 40 and unbothered, became the internet's favorite QB -- and maybe the Browns' best hope
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-joe
@hynek@mastodon.socialApple has (maybe) seen the light and (maybe) goes CalVer 🥳
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-28/apple-to-rebrand-device-operating-systems-ios-26-macos-26-watchos-26
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI’m rambling, and struggling to figure out the heart of what I’m getting at.
It’s something about how maybe we should view the fecklessness of Democratic politicians the OP laments not as the •source• of the problem, but as the inevitable result of failing to form anti-fascist coalition, and to make that coalition into the other major political party in this country.
I feel like there’s something useful in there, something maybe strategically helpful that gives us a sense of agency. And man do I hate grand political cynicisms that rob us of our sense of agency.
/end
@pre@boing.world
A wish granting god baby, granting Conrad's wishes in service of the Rani, turns London into a misogynist utopia and The Doctor into a good husband and insurance worker.
Hard to say why misogynists are so keen on the American 50s. Perhaps because it was before blacks had the vote and women could do banking.
And if anyone doubts this ridiculous tale, their table stops working and their family might call the doubt police, so they soon learn not to. All very oppressive and subversive.
Ruby manages to doubt anyway. And all the disabled people who simply never enter into Conrad's mind. Nice touch that. Great scene in the tent city filled with the dispossessed. They don't seem to have actually done anything so far but maybe they'll get more useful in part two.
Conrad is on TV telling a story about a man named Doctor Who.
Giant dinosaur skeletons walk the city, stepping over sky scrapers, and a bone palace towers above the city. Because I guess Conrad wishes for it to be so in order to give the Rani somewhere to live.
The palace is beautiful and Gothic.
But doubt is seeping in. Rogue is back, on the TV in hell, telling the Doctor that tables don't work like that. So he investigates. Gets himself reported to the doubt police who take him and Belinda to the bone palace.
The Rani's split from Miss Flood gives the pair of them a good chemistry. Queen and her maid of honour. Seems like Mrs Flood is likely to be the Rani's downfall. She doesn't like being told to make a sandwich.
A lot of exposition going on, but they at least put a hat on it: "Isn't just exposition, I need you to doubt"
So that's the reason for the strange wishes: To make the doctor have doubts so severe that the reality collapses, and Rani can rescue Omega. Omega is the dude in a Mask from the first 3 doctors episode, who gave the timelords time travel and got trapped in the underworld in the process. Timelords forgot him and never mounted a rescue, but presumably Rani is now hoping he'll bring back Galifrey.
And with London collapsing into the underworld and the doctor falling from the sky, we get the episode break and have to wait until next week.
That's not a cliff hanger, that an already-falling-from-the-cliff hanger.
Poppy really is his daughter he's shouting as he falls. And you know what that means?
🤨🤔
Back in Space Babies, the worst episode of the Nchuti seasons, that space baby asked if he was her parents and he said he wished that he was their parents.
That wish has been granted somehow?
Is this space baby Susan's mother? They have very different skin tones, but that doesn't matter much in a regenerating species.
Never have found out much about The Doctor's child. When he traveled with his granddaughter everyone assumed he'd met his own kid, the grandchild's parent.
But that doesn't have to be true for a time traveler. Maybe he met the granddaughter before he met his own kid, and maybe his own kid was just wished into his family line 60 years later (or billions of years in his timeline I guess).
Pretty fun episode but not sure it makes much sense. Why doesn't the Rani just wish for Omega to be back instead of all this doubt and underworld bollocks?
Last one next week. Super long episode. Hope it's all cleared up. Good chance we'll meet Susan again I think. And maybe see Omega's mask once more.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioHow is it 2025 and a prominent Democrat brings up the fake “trans people in sports” debate again?
There is not such thing. People don’t change their gender to maybe win a few medals.
Just fuck off.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMaybe Cowboys haven't already handed LT job to struggling 1st-round pick without a fight https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/27/cowboys-player-profile-asim-richards/84394642007/
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThere are probably hundreds, maybe thousands of people wasting away in prison for crimes they didn’t commit or sentences that were wholly disproportionate for the crime, and yet G Maxwell, a convicted sex trafficker, accomplice to a known child sex addict, gets to “urge” the Supreme Court to overturn her conviction?
America! Slap yourself out of it!
#epstein #trump #maxwell
https://flipboard.com/@cnn/politics-17jf08kfz/-/a-7MAyNK5LRjuuGGOGt-6sHA:a:132361178-/0
@aardrian@toot.cafe
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialI think I'm going to star calling these snorts from now on.
I did snort reading this snort of Amys, afer all.
https://thepit.social/@APBBlue/114763427339875379
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"I hate [politician on my side not doing what I want], they need to go!"
You can blame people you basically agree with, or you can work with the people available to try to work toward better.
1st feels good for maybe 5 minutes, then ruins improvement right now, the 2nd has a chance to make things better.
Try to take your anger, your resentment, which I share, to those chiefly responsible for problems, and not to those nearest and ablest to help, even if not as fla…
@servelan@newsie.socialWell, maybe anybody who isn't writing a lot of checks or autographing their 8x10 glossies, too...
“Pierce County Auditor asks young voters to update their signatures” - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=150659
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialI think I finally figured out why the hard push for AI everywhere. AI is the sports car of a developer's midlife/mid-career crisis.
The average age across most tech ecosystems is about 40 and we're all maybe not as sharp as we remember.
Time to get something that makes us feel young again. Like we haven't missed a step. But like everyone trying a little too hard, we look a bit ridiculous.
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialAnd a quick clip from today's walk as well. The clips from the woods are a bit ... unsatisfying (they seem to be unsharp / overcompressed). Maybe I have to change some settings or it's just not good for clips in darker forests.
https://video.franzgraf.de/w/9S7mkgereJmaoH5m4vVHse
@jtk@infosec.exchangeMy first, and maybe most notable, contribution to Wikipedia was the creation of [IBM] Token Ring page in October 2001. Some remnants of the original text surprisingly survive to this day: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IBM_Token_ring&oldid=351771239…
@fell@ma.fellr.netMaybe some Linux Kernel expert could help me with this:
Due to the nature of my work, I regularily run a very memory intensive process and my system runs out of memory during very few peak moments.
The system can't swap out memory fast enough and freezes. If I disable swap, the process gets killed instead.
Is there any way I can keep the system responsive? Ideally, only the offending process would get slowed down, but not other applications.
@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.worldMaybe I'm reading too much into this, but the top looks like Homer Simpson and the bottom looks like my mother accusing me of doing something I didn't even do.
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialMy crystal ball is suggesting that sometime in September, maybe early October, the FFOTUS treasury will be sending out $1000 checks to every tax payer (and the checks will, of course, bear FFOTUS weird signature.)
@adulau@infosec.exchangeSpotted yet another "NIS 2 certified" title on LinkedIn. Impressive, considering NIS 2 doesn't actually have a certification.
Are training agencies just inventing fantasy diplomas so people can avoid reading the actual NIS 2 directive?
Maybe we need a "Certified NIS 2 Reader" badge, read the document once, and you're more qualified than half the certifications out there.
#certification
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukMaybe this explains the brief power blips we saw the other week.
@lornajane@indieweb.socialAfter 6 weeks in a new job where it seems like everything happens over email (maybe because Teams is so poor?), I finally cracked and went full PA on my own inbox. I now have folders, categories and rules. I try not to admit to being a very competent secretary in a previous life but sometimes it comes in handy!
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialSo this is a recent photo of #LiverKing, some weirdo who’s challenged #JoeRogan to a fight to the death for some reason.
Dude’s got issues.
@datascience@genomic.socialSometimes {renv} just isnt enough to ensure your environment is controlled. Maybe {slushy} could be an option? https://gsk-biostatistics.github.io/slushy/index.html
@jake4480@c.im#NowPlaying for some wakeup music, a ripper of a record I somehow missed last year, 'Oh Dark Avenue' by New York's JACKED CHICKS. Kinda reminds me of Dan Vapid or his Methadones or maybe even Lillingtons or something. These songs are killer -- fast, catchy, short, satisfying.
@bourgwick@heads.social
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterWe saw some people zooming around on Ullswater today on things that can only be described as hover boards but on water.
They did look incredibly cool and great fun, so when we got back to our rental cottage we decided to look up how much they were. Maybe I could use one to commute up the Manchester Ship Canal to work every day!
Yeah, that's not gonna happen. These things start at just under £10k for the entry level model.
#Hoverboard
@rachel@norfolk.socialI *finally* got around to writing up a few words about my trip earlier this year to Algeria and Tunisia.
#algeria
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… Maybe just inject some plastic-eating microbes into your skull? I mean, what could go wrong?
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.socialwe’ve been home for about six weeks and are getting the travel itch again so we’re looking at apartments in paris for a month or so next spring, maybe also finally get to puglia for a week or two, also need to spend a few weeks in stockholm with the grandkids and want to tuck a visit to helsinki (on the baltic queen!) into that, so … a couple months? i’m not sure i want to be away that long 🤔.
@emd@cosocial.caThose lasted forever. Their replacements lasted maybe 6 years. https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/114757567578644852
@brentsleeper@sfba.socialMaybe it wasn’t as fresh as the original #Connections, but I thought Connectin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo had some fly categories.
#Connections749
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
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@tante@tldr.nettime.orgFrom CreativeCommons with their "signals" to the OSI with their "open source AI" fiasco it seems that the stewards of the legal structures protecting the digital commons are not on the side of people actually wanting to contribute to the commons for humanity. (Maybe they never were.)
If those organizations don't reorient themselves to align with people's needs maybe we need to fork.
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… @… Ran it against ext-ev, and that yielded maybe a 0.1% improvement. It's a single connection benchmark, so it doesn't utilise handling thousands of connections well. But will look at ext-uv tonight. Also haven't update…
@john@liberdon.comHow often do you see a woman of this age with a neck tattoo?
@Adam@social.lein.usWent to a pizza place in the Bronx that I had never been to before to get a calzone. After paying for it, the guy said, "See you tomorrow!" as if he knew me & I went there all the time. The calzone was very good... Maybe he knows something I don't.
@samerfarha@mastodon.socialPretty sure leaf blower guy is just standing there disassociating and blowing over the same spot for the last five minutes. I get it dude, but maybe just take you finger off the trigger.
@compfu@mograph.socialWhat was the name of that #webcomic that started maybe 20 years ago and ran like forever (maybe it's still going?) and that had plots dealing with love, aliens, vampires....
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsA while ago the media reported that most of the long-distance "suburban" trains between #Wrocław and #Poznań will be discontinued, and instead one will have to change trains midway. Irrespective of whether it's actually going to happen, let's consider it.
As you can probably tell by now, I'm not a stranger to changing trains. In fact, there are some direct connections that I do criticize. For example:
• Poznań — Szczecin — Świnoujście, where arriving at Szczecin Główny and turning back to leave the city is a waste of time. It's better to change trains at Szczecin Dąbie.
• Poznań — Krzyż — Kostrzyn, where instead of using a single railbus, you can use a larger EMU for the Poznań — Krzyż segment, and a smaller DMU for Krzyż — Kostrzyn (in fact, only recently the "direct" Poznań — Kostrzyn train involved just that, but it was supposed to be temporary).
However, good matches are the key. Say:
1. Max 10 minutes (when there are no delays) from one train to the other.
2. "Door-to-door" transfer — without having to carry all your luggage across platforms.
3. Reliable connection — if one train is delayed, the other train waits for it (or there are so many alternatives that it doesn't have to).
Can such a thing happen on Poznań — Wrocław route? I have my doubts.
I've been using these trains for years, and I can say this: there is no effort to match train from/to Poznań with other trains in Wrocław. Sometimes the trains depart 10 minutes before the first train from Poznań arrives, sometimes I need to transfer in 10 minutes, and sometimes I have to wait over an hour. And the same in the other direction.
Perhaps things would actually improve if the route is split. Perhaps people would actually care. Maybe even the trains would be fitted better to the timetable in Wrocław. But I find it hard to believe.
EDIT: One final thought — since there is no real reason to split these connections (except for profiteering), why make travellers' lives harder?
#rail
@eingfoan@infosec.exchange@… security theory question: is a #passkey rather a something you know or a something you have? In terms of MFA? I see different orgs that treat it either this way or that way. Any opinion or maybe even hard fact?
@wordsbywesink@mstdn.socialEarlier this month, the Copyright Office issued the third part of its report on on AI: this one covering how generative AI may infringe on copyright and whether that's fair use (short answer: maybe, maybe not). I have a new article up summarizing the report.
https://www.…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io[disclaimer: not a political scientist, talking out of my ass]
For the two parties are going to divide up the electorate, if one is the fascist party, maybe the other •has• to be the anti-fascist party — not just philosophically, but for practical reasons. Maybe you just can’t maintain a viable coalition to oppose a fascist party without bringing everyone who opposes fascism into your coalition. Sure feels that way now.
5/
@aardrian@toot.cafeLast week I asked Google to stop releasing broken things. Apologists said maybe I needed to contribute more, write code or demos.
Last year I outlined some of what I *have* done and how, for the most part, Google / Web•dev doesn’t give a shit:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/07…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caNotice scientists aren't exactly beating down Canada's door either.
Perhaps if we funded post-secondary and research. 🧐
or maybe even provded tuition some or all free education like most of those in this list
#braindrain #education https://mas.to/@mikegalsworthy/114584609202908831
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeStarting to look at how feasible parameterizing my curve25519 multiplier to use less DSPs at the expense of run time and maybe a few more luts is.
Ultimate goal is a factor of 3 (or more) reduction in multiplier usage allowing it to fit in a Trion T20.
@randy_@social.linux.pizzaI haven’t been very active in the last month. I haven’t watched many movies or taken much photography. All of this is because I finally found a new flat away from city life, close to nature. One thing that has changed is that I’m back to being very active on Couchsurfing. I love meeting new people from around the world, fellow travelers with great stories, and maybe even friends for life. This is much more interesting and important than following every footstep on what’s happening in the new…
@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social
@shriramk@mastodon.socialPerfect way to end the middle of summer: at the same time, an interesting parcours for the final TdF stage (with the usual scenic Paris shots), and a *gripping* cricket match finale. Very little comes close to a 5th day rearguard action: the excitement of a game that has no result! (Maybe.)
@samir@functional.computer@… Or maybe you just prefer not to piss off your colleagues on a daily basis. 😛
@Xavier@infosec.exchangeWhat are y'all buying during the Steam summer sale? I'll probably buy Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. Maybe Silent Hill 2.
#steamsummersale
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialAs I've seen a good number of people here post about "Worktree.ca" as a "Canadian-owned" alternative to GitHub: it's a closed-source fork of Gitea which "one day" (maybe, if the company doesn't change its mind) will be open core. It also runs on AWS…
Not that it's any of my business, but migrating there feels like the code-equivalent of leaving Twitter for Bluesky: Moving from one company-owned walled garden to the next, without having learned a lesson. All painted in a nationalist cash grab. 🤷♂️
@dotproto@toot.cafeMaybe RSS is the social media I've wanted all along 🤔
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
@brian_gettler@mas.toThis morning I have a meeting with a PhD student who's working on the history of media coverage of the royals in Canada at exactly the same time as the throne speech. Maybe that's the least interesting part of the day?
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialYears ago I read an SF story in which the Earth, while traveling thru space along with the solar system, happened to leave behind a large cosmic cloud of something or other that had been making people stupid, and this why the Renaissance and Enlightenment and scientific and technological explosions all happened. Welp, I fear we’ve entered another cloud. Maybe the same one? (1/3)
@sean@scoat.esMaybe it's only a me thing, but:
The late-night couch-based race between running low on laptop battery and getting that one last PR in…
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialThese guys use a lot of AI.
Maybe in part due to that, they also make some of the best public service announcements around AI I've ever seen. Such as this one.
https://youtu.be/M4TXO4kQwSQ
@mia@hcommons.social
@evemassacre@assemblag.esI have always been a copyright sceptic but I wouldn't have wished AI to be the force to crash it. Time to think for new models of how to keep writing and music alive. Maybe a society deciding to prioritize guaranteeing giving everyone the possibility of a safe basic income, food, housing and health care instead of forcing them into competition hell could help? Maybe?
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toYou know you're at a low point with your current #job when you go to access the Sharepoint or some network facility and its unavailable and your first thought is "Yes, they've locked me out! Maybe I'm getting packaged out."
In reality its just bad IT. How does #SharePoint go down, its manag…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI am a licensed attorney (in California) and also admitted before various Federal district courts.
Today I got yet another of those postcards about a class action settlement - you know, the kind where the harmed victims get a pittance while the attorneys walk away with the lion's share.
In this case, the attorneys will get about $75,000,000, the lead plaintiffs maybe $20,000, and the rest of us ... probably close to nada.
Class actions are a good thing - especially sinc…
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoLast fall, when I got my #AmateurRadio license, I got an inexpensive VHF handheld and expected to want to talk voice, and maybe later digital modes. I wasn't going to touch morse. After a few weeks of listening to repeaters ID in morse code, I caved and started trying to learn morse. I bought an HF rig, and didn't end up using VHF much.
Tonight, another ham in the family joine…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgI've been a member of the RSGS for almost 30 years and still never visited the Fair Maid's house. Maybe I should 🤔 It looks lovely...
https://mastodon.social/@Infoseepage/114751023629030656
Infoseepage@mastodon.social - Today I walked into Perth and visited the Scottish Geographic Society's digs in the Fair Maid's House. It was, in its heyday, a sort of Scottish adventurers club. They've got an interesting reference library and an overstuffed map room. Ernest Shackleton was briefly secretary of the society and they have some of his stuff on display.
@LorenAmelang@neuromatch.social@… Both "s3" and "S3" show you as the fourth result on the first page - for me. Old iPhone SE2020, current iOS. Maybe they know I have the ShellFish TestFlight? Are they that invasive?
@gray17@mastodon.social... it just occurred to me. It's hard to be a good writer without reading a lot, and this is kind of ignored in programming. Most programmers don't really spend a lot of time reading other people's code unless necessary.
(and it's kind of funny that LLMs are bad at code when they have read it all, or maybe because they *have* read it all, without a sense of taste.)
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.toThe idea is to provide a safe haven and a fertile ground for the next generation of scientists to work in peace and freedom to solve the most significant challenges of our time; but the geopolitical argument will prevail. As Jorge Luis Borges said in his short story “Nathaniel Hawthorne” from his book “Other Inquisitions” (1952):
“The past is indestructible; sooner or later all things return, and one of the things that return is the project to abolish the past.”
@hey@social.nowicki.ioIs there anyone with Norwegian language setup on a desktop or mobile browser?
I need to know what your browser declares in `accept-language` header?
Is it nb-NO or no-NO? Or maybe both?
Boost for visibility please!
#webdev #programming
How to do it? Open any web…
@Nathan@social.lostinok.com
@shoppingtonz@mastodon.socialI'm like ok but the fediverse only put in the hashtag (#)WesnothMusic and I'll find the music there.
RESULT:
1️⃣ ... ************
I'm gonna upload all main soundtrack GPLv2 music that Wesnoth has released.
Maybe you remember I said I wanted to upload a lot of Jonathan Mann's music too? Guess what?
I got burnt out!
So we'll see how many songs I get here before my next one!
@aardrian@toot.cafeTime is short — submit to #ID24 today (or tomorrow, or I guess maybe Saturday):
https://inclusivedesign24.org/2025/
Submission window closes 31 May.
Then block out your calendar for ID24 on …
@billbert@mastodon.socialWell, maybe I needed that nonsense I’m too dang old for
@gfriend@mas.toAnd in a strange parallel with what we’re doing to the _living_ world…
Maybe AI Slop Is Killing the Internet, After All - Bloomberg Businessweek https://apple.news/AntpOpqOKQMeKlRgY0qfq1A
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaIDK, I’m autistic, and like, let’s not... or maybe we should?... ehh, IDK, maybe make this my most liked Pixelfed post? But also, no, let’s definitely not.
Should I go boost it? Nah, the heat outside has me too confused already, better to leave it as mysterious internet drizzle.
https://pixelfed.social/p/midt…
@jacob@mountaincommunity.coOur movers come next week to collect our stuff, maybe we'll see it in 3 mo on the other side
@Schrank@phpc.socialgit clone fails on bitbucket shell runner? Maybe you are running the same runner twice
https://winkelwagen.de/2025/06/26/bitbucket-shell-runner-behaves-weird-git-clone-fails/
@Archivist@social.linux.pizzaI ordered my 28h raylway adventure of August for 460€, it's gonna be fun, or tiring, or maybe even both... Adventure!
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgWell, maybe we’ll get swamped with excellent applications when we (hopefully) have an opening for a PhD position in fall…
But requiring French limits the candidate pool so much, I guess it won’t make any difference.
https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/114557615125630255…
@bourgwick@heads.social
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.pageCall Me Maybe: Enhancing JavaScript Call Graph Construction using Graph Neural Networks
Masudul Hasan Masud Bhuiyan, Gianluca De Stefano, Giancarlo Pellegrino, Cristian-Alexandru Staicu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18191
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialAs I've seen a good number of people here post about "Worktree.ca" as a "Canadian-owned" alternative to GitHub: it's a closed-source fork of Gitea which "one day" (maybe, if the company doesn't change its mind) will be open core. It also runs on AWS…
Not that it's any of my business, but migrating there feels like the code-equivalent of leaving Twitter for Bluesky: Moving from one company-owned walled garden to the next, without having learned a lesson. All painted in a nationalist cash grab. 🤷♂️
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialSubtooting since people in the original thread wanted it to be over, but selfishly tagging @… and @… whose opinions I value...
I think that saying "we are not a supply chain" is exactly what open-source maintainers should be doing right now in response to "open source supply chain security" threads.
I can't claim to be an expert and don't maintain any important FOSS stuff, but I do release almost all of my code under open licenses, and I do use many open source libraries, and I have felt the pain of needing to replace an unmaintained library.
There's a certain small-to-mid-scale class of program, including many open-source libraries, which can be built/maintained by a single person, and which to my mind best operate on a "snake growth" model: incremental changes/fixes, punctuated by periodic "skin-shedding" phases where make rewrites or version updates happen. These projects aren't immortal either: as the whole tech landscape around them changes, they become unnecessary and/or people lose interest, so they go unmaintained and eventually break. Each time one of their dependencies breaks (or has a skin-shedding moment) there's a higher probability that they break or shed too, as maintenance needs shoot up at these junctures. Unless you're a company trying to make money from a single long-lived app, it's actually okay that software churns like this, and if you're a company trying to make money, your priorities absolutely should not factor into any decisions people making FOSS software make: we're trying (and to a huge extent succeeding) to make a better world (and/or just have fun with our own hobbies share that fun with others) that leaves behind the corrosive & planet-destroying plague which is capitalism, and you're trying to personally enrich yourself by embracing that plague. The fact that capitalism is *evil* is not an incidental thing in this discussion.
To make an imperfect analogy, imagine that the peasants of some domain have set up a really-free-market, where they provide each other with free stuff to help each other survive, sometimes doing some barter perhaps but mostly just everyone bringing their surplus. Now imagine the lord of the domain, who is the source of these peasants' immiseration, goes to this market secretly & takes some berries, which he uses as one ingredient in delicious tarts that he then sells for profit. But then the berry-bringer stops showing up to the free market, or starts bringing a different kind of fruit, or even ends up bringing rotten berries by accident. And the lord complains "I have a supply chain problem!" Like, fuck off dude! Your problem is that you *didn't* want to build a supply chain and instead thought you would build your profit-focused business in other people's free stuff. If you were paying the berry-picker, you'd have a supply chain problem, but you weren't, so you really have an "I want more free stuff" problem when you can't be arsed to give away your own stuff for free.
There can be all sorts of problems in the really-free-market, like maybe not enough people bring socks, so the peasants who can't afford socks are going barefoot, and having foot problems, and the peasants put their heads together and see if they can convince someone to start bringing socks, and maybe they can't and things are a bit sad, but the really-free-market was never supposed to solve everyone's problems 100% when they're all still being squeezed dry by their taxes: until they are able to get free of the lord & start building a lovely anarchist society, the really-free-market is a best-effort kind of deal that aims to make things better, and sometimes will fall short. When it becomes the main way goods in society are distributed, and when the people who contribute aren't constantly drained by the feudal yoke, at that point the availability of particular goods is a real problem that needs to be solved, but at that point, it's also much easier to solve. And at *no* point does someone coming into the market to take stuff only to turn around and sell it deserve anything from the market or those contributing to it. They are not a supply chain. They're trying to help each other out, but even then they're doing so freely and without obligation. They might discuss amongst themselves how to better coordinate their mutual aid, but they're not going to end up forcing anyone to bring anything or even expecting that a certain person contribute a certain amount, since the whole point is that the thing is voluntary & free, and they've all got changing life circumstances that affect their contributions. Celebrate whatever shows up at the market, express your desire for things that would be useful, but don't impose a burden on anyone else to bring a specific thing, because otherwise it's fair for them to oppose such a burden on you, and now you two are doing your own barter thing that's outside the parameters of the really-free-market.
@threeofus@mstdn.socialListening to farmers telling us how difficult farming is on Woman’s Hour. I don’t doubt that it’s hard work, but if it’s making you ill, maybe do something else?
And quit your whinging about #inheritancetax - even the few farmers that do qualify will only pay half the rate that non-farmers do.
#farming
@lmc@mastodon.socialI don’t remember but we obviously took our Christmas card photos at the end of the summer! No sunscreen in the early 70s. Maybe around when school pictures were taken? Kind of digging my flower vest.
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeTime to give the human their morning pep talk
@jake4480@c.imMy grandparents are all passed now. My dad and his brother used to call their mom 'Bones' for as many years as I can remember, as a strange term of endearment, I think because when her bones would pop and stuff when she would stand up, etc. I now have a cat named Cubone (the one in my avi), and I've noticed that for the past few years, I've started calling him 'Bones' instead of Cubone a lot of times. Maybe because it's shorter, the one syllable is just easier to…
@samir@functional.computer@… I’m definitely seeing this more as well! My body goes, “welp, time to get up, I do not care that you were on your computer until 3am”.
I guess it’s also seasonal: it’s very bright out, and I feel it, even when my partner makes the room as dark as possible.
Maybe I should start on the melatonin again…
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… Agreed. Now of course, maybe this simply isn't the question Even wants to ask, and he's of course free to pick what his polls are about. But *I* would wonder, before we talk about funding at all, what people think the answer is to "Should podcasts be a commercial activity?"
And to your point, would the answer differ from people's opinions…
@sean@scoat.esRemember when XML-RPC got cool so everyone rushed to haphazardly attach endpoints to their stuff? And then how also everyone found that maybe they should have rushed less to a more complete solution that actually took care of things like… security?
Ok, now: MCP.
@nelson@tech.lgbtMaybe I'm just being horny but it just occurred to me this gentleman and this book are remarkable fetish potential.
@teledyn@mstdn.caThis forum thread has a telling evolution, starting from "about ten minutes" for #Ubuntu 12.10 and "an hour maybe two" by 20.04? 🤣
system installation - How long should installing Ubuntu take? - Ask Ubuntu
https://askubuntu.com/questions/230134/how-long-should-installing-ubuntu-take
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgMitsuharu Yamamoto’s Emacs Mac port provides the ‘mac-osa-script’ function, which allows you to use JavaScript to control Mac apps using JavaScript (JXA), in addition to AppleScript.
Some years ago, I made a small package to insert links from Mac apps into Emacs, inspired by grab-mac-link, but simpler, in part due to using JXA.
Today I finally took some time to add documentation. If you use the Emacs Mac port, maybe it’s of interest.
@Adam@social.lein.usMy nephew never wants to use Windows 11 in the future. Never! He only wants Windows 10 on his gaming PC. I said maybe he can get Steam OS on a desktop like he has on the Steamdeck.
@samerfarha@mastodon.socialHow does this car pass a safety inspection? I mean, maybe the no-doors thing is ok, but no wing mirrors?
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialToday's Trump v. CASA decision screams for an expansion of SCOTUS.
Why?
Because this opinion means more cases will come to SCOTUS to be resolved to achieve national consistency.
Yet SCOTUS is overworked.
This was mentioned in the SistersInLaw podcast from last week, "Pretzel Logic" where it was said:
"I mean, this is maybe grounds for we need a bigger court. We need two Supreme Courts so that they can handle enough cases."
I ha…
@pre@boing.worldDear Emily Thornberry,
I don't usually bother to write to you on most issues because I figure there is pretty much no point communicating with a whipped MP in a safe seat under first past the post. Such an MP has no reason to listen to their constituents at all, and is entirely a tool of the party leadership.
I make an exception today since I hear your government is about to classify Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Despite them being peaceful, non-violent, and dedicated entirely to preventing the greater crime of the ongoing genocide of Gazan Palestinians.
This is obviously a gross overreaction and a completely unjustifiable act designed not to prevent domestic terrorism but to cover up British forces and UK government involvement and collaboration with the genocide in Gaza.
If we are taking suggestions for groups to ban as terrorists even though they aren't terrorists, I would like to suggest the Labour Party! The party has helped facilitate a genocide abroad, and continues to supply the perpetrators with arms and intelligence to aid their actions.
I don't expect you to take that suggestion seriously, but maybe Reform will take it seriously when they get elected in a few years and I suggest it again to them. After all, a precedent will have been set that groups which aren't terrorists can be banned under anti-terror legislation anyway. Democracy will have already been eroded.
I was ready to be disappointed by this Labour government, but I confess that the level of gut-wrenching visceral disgust I am experiencing at them surpassed all my wildest expectations. Taking money from the disabled to buy new war-planes from a fascist US president while abetting a genocide in Gaza makes me wonder if Reform wouldn't be better in the end anyway. At least they might do electoral reform and nationalize the water companies.
Labour's only hope, the country's only hope, is to remove Starmer. I wish you had won that leadership election instead of him.
Anyway, as I say, I don't expect it to make any difference at all because under this election system even MPs in safe seats are nothing but tools of the party leadership and the party leadership seems determined. But I thought I'd let you know that I see you. I see what you are doing.
I support Palestine Action more than I support this government. Let me know where I should hand myself in for my "crime".
Yours sincerely,
Adam
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI’ve generally disliked South Park — not because it is rude and raunchy, but because it made it seem like being a cynical asshole is somehow brave and countercultural. It made the case that it’s OK to be carelessly hurtful as long as you hurt •everyone•. It tried to make a virtue out of disaffection. Its compulsion never to be caught actually •caring• about anything or anyone robbed it of its capacity to have insights or a moral center. It flirted with satire, but always ended up just being trolling.
But who knows? It feels like trolling the fascists might be what we need right now. Maybe the show finally has its moment.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgAnd so to bed. Or maybe not. Always difficult to force myself to sleep with the midnight sun blazing away. So first, a nice cup of tea and some view appreciation...
/Fin #FieldDiary
@samir@functional.computerI appreciated Hillel Wayne’s latest article on “typing is not the bottleneck”.
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/maybe-writing-speed-actually-is-a-bottleneck-for/
Typing is not the bottleneck, but typing faster…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialAs people who read my posts know, I am of the belief that the US is now on a runaway train racing downhill towards deadmans' curve, with no brakes and mad engineer. and with no brakeman willing to throw the derail switch to stop the train.
And we are all riding on that train.
So catastrophe is out there sometime soon - maybe this year, maybe next, maybe the year after. But it is coming.
Thus we will face "the day after".
I expect blood, lots of it. Few …
