@servelan@newsie.social2025-11-05 18:25:07
Why doesn’t the ‘right to life’ apply to climate change?
https://prismreports.org/2025/11/05/lighthiser-v-trump-right-to-life-climate-abortion/
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-06 13:16:10
Guess who misremembered having 25 seconds per slide and instead has 15 seconds per slide on Monday?
FML! :)
Goodness, I hate formalistic presentation styles like Ignite. But don’t worry, I’m breaking the form three times in the talk – including starting with a minute of silence for Gaza (that’s four black slides and 1/5th of the 5-minute talk), a transition (ok, it’s a 15-second transition, but still), and a live demo (yep) – and using that to demonstrate the case that we do not …
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-11-06 19:58:57
Jason Proctor is contributing to the CBC's live blog scroll from a legal perspective and as always, his stuff is illumniating. I'll paste his report in because it can get lost in the scroll easily.
"Creditors circle as cull looms
Jason Proctor
I'm Jason Proctor, a reporter with CBC Vancouver who looked into a series of lawsuits facing the owners of Universal Ostrich Farms Inc.
Last month, I spoke with three creditors who are watching today's ruling with great interest — and some skin in the game.
B.C. Supreme Court judges have ordered the farm's owners to repay debts worth more than $250,000 but, up until now, the creditors have been unable to collect. Normally in this kind of situation, a creditor would move to seize the business assets — but because in this case those assets are ostriches caught up in a legal battle, that's been challenging, to say the least.
All three creditors have tried to garnish the CFIA to intercept any money the agency might pay out as compensation for killing the birds (potentially up to $3,000 a bird, the CFIA says) but it remains to be seen how that will work. The creditors, however, told me they are anxious to recoup their losses.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/bc-ostrich-farm-decision-scoc-9.6968394?ts=1762453717737
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-05 16:10:42
On the Isles of Scilly, seagoing rowing gigs
—32-foot boats built from fine elm planks for strength and lightness
—once played a vital role in maritime life.
These boats carried pilots to ships navigating treacherous waters,
rescued lives and cargo from wrecks,
served in island farming and in coastal trades such as kelp making,
and supported the building and maintenance of lighthouses and other maritime infrastructure.
Though traditional gig rowing dec…
@jake4480@c.im2026-01-05 21:41:24
This is 'Future Fortune' from West Springfield, Massachusetts' hardcore punk outfit RESTRAINING ORDER, and mark this down as the THIRD punk LP I'm annoyed I missed for my lists last year (for those keeping track, the other two are Kaleidoscope and Imploders).
https://restrainingorderhc.bandca…
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de2025-12-06 10:04:17
@anneroth@systemli.social2025-11-04 22:14:02
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@jerome@jasette.facil.services2025-11-03 21:23:15
With iOS 26.1 now released, is it worth updating if we are still holding on iOS 18?
How's battery life? Bugs?
My iOS 18.5 is working quite well so i'm not really in a rush
#ios #liquidglass
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social2025-12-29 21:15:32
I love what Tauri has done, a lightweight version of Electron, where you author the backend code in Rust.
But while I love Rust, I do not love it for app building, and I wanted to have that HTML-model for programming but available in Swift.
I used assorted AI tools to port Tauri to Swift (it still reuses the big chunks of code from Tauri), but now you can write HTML desktop apps in Swift:
@jake4480@c.im2026-01-02 13:10:42
It's the first #GrindayFriday of 2026, and I have a ripper. This is the debut LP of Virginia antifascist grinders LAY WASTE. 14 short, brutal tracks with fantastic titles like 'Make Guillotines Great Again'. Kinda oldschool grind, kinda deathgrind. Probably would've made one or both of my lists had it come out earlier in 2025. Fuck fascism, listen to grind.