@frankel@mastodon.top2026-02-02 17:29:46
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-02-02 17:29:46
@benb@osintua.eu2026-03-02 12:11:33
I am a Ukrainian doctor working 7.5 km from the front line: her story #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/01/i-am-a-ukrainian-doctor.html
@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-02-03 17:14:54
I was unreasonably giddy when I stumbled across the real-time discussion of implementation of a feature I use regularly in Shotcut — the proposal, the math, the initial implementation, and then how it evolved into the feature I use.
There's something so cool about seeing people nerd out about stuff and seeing development happen in the open.
@crell@phpc.social2026-03-02 21:14:58
Every word of this is true, and I am pissed off for similar reasons.
I fucking hate selfish people, especially those with too much money.
https://jonn.substack.com/p/so-why-do-i-feel-so-angry-about-this
@JSkier@social.linux.pizza2026-02-02 17:27:52
Blood pressure has been up (150 / 90s) the past several weeks (I take daily guanfacine too). I know I'm under a lot of justified stress (fascist regime and all). I haven't been protesting but am doing food, security, and other runs for immigrants in the cities. Likewise, I started taking the propranolol I had this morning, and it's already helping.
I probably have POTS, but I haven't seen a cardiologist yet, nor did I go to the Mayo yet for
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-03-03 12:33:15
I don't get the "I failed to fact-check what the LLM generated when I was doing research/collating information for my article I am writing as a professional journalist" excuse.
First and most obviously, how about not using LLMs for this—because it is well established that they don't actually work for research, summarizing or collating data (that needs to be accurate).
But also: you need to fact-check anything and anyone as a journalist. It's not an optional thing to do, it's literally _what you do as a journalist_. You journal facts. It's like a cook forgetting to boil the pasta and serving it uncooked.
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to2026-03-03 15:44:57
I'm trying to type the word `part.revision` in our wiki because this is a database field I'm trying to document.
It keeps #autocorrect ing this to `part. Revision` because it thinks I'm actually starting a new sentence and am too stupid to add the space and capitalize the first word.
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-01-03 18:11:35
Back and leg pain was terrible from around 4am to 11am but I managed to get moving after that and doing some kitchen work helps distract me from the pain... I still feel a little dizzy, but whatever.
So I am attempting a "tavern style" pizza today, the "other" Chicago style, a thin, cracker crust. (Also St. Louis or Milwaukee style to some folks.)
I'll report back on my results after lunch, unless I fall asleep again from the medication.
@gevoel@mastodon.green2026-04-03 13:15:45
I took the German or Autistic diagnostic. Result: Both. The Wittgenstein Result. I don't know whether to be proud or concerned.
Am I German or Autistic?
https://german.millermanschool.com/
> A rigorous diagnostic. 15 questions. One uncomfortable truth.
@rmdes@mstdn.social2026-02-03 17:20:50
> I am watching ICE agents shoot a nurse in Minneapolis, and half the country believes the verified video of his previous encounter with federal agents is a deepfake. I am watching the infrastructure of verification get systematically dismantled by an administration that understands, perhaps better than anyone, that ambiguity is power. I am watching the epistemic commons burn while we argue about whether the fire is real....
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2026-02-02 06:05:29
Not much has been mentioned of late about the progress for the California High Speed Rail project.
(I am a big supporter of the project; I was with some of the principals on election night when the voters chose to endorse the project.)
Below is a fairly recent video about the progress and financing.
I often drive the section between Bakersfield and Fresno - and I can see much that has been done (and I've walked on what seems to me to be rail/signal/power ready "gui…
@iragersh@mstdn.social2026-03-02 19:17:43
@Jehiah I am currently available to do a software project. I have few skills with current software paradigms so would consider this a learning project also. Can you recommend a project?
I will be sending you a copy of an email I wrote referencing NYC Open Data. Can't include it here as it violates length.
For example a project might me something you wanted to do and just couldn't get around to it.
I'm going to copy this to a Bluesky post as that is how you s…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-03 14:05:47
Marimar Martinez, shot by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Good, Pretti deaths: 'I am their voice' (Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/02/03/marimar-martinez-shot-border-patrol-chicago-speaks-out-after-good-pretti-deaths-i-am-their-voice
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p28#a260203p28
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-02-02 23:33:27
Not sure I like this…
I
t seems like @… has conformed to Mastodon quote-toot format, which includes a non-removable @ to the OP.
I understand why that is a default and is a good default.
The thing is, *I* don’t want the quiet quote to dunk on OPs. *I* just am inspired to shitpost about things other people have trenchant wisdom about withou…
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2026-02-03 12:30:59
@… Duncan Jones posted this video over on BSky, and I thought you might enjoy it as much as I did. I am slain by what a difference having these professional ovens makes - you can control both the heat and the humidity. Beautiful to see all these steps that I have taught myself done with such grace and precision by a pro!
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-02-03 19:58:37
"Potentiale und Herausforderungen von E-Medien-Nutzungsanalysen in wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken" von Tobias Potoczki: https://doi.org/10.18452/35421
[Masterarbeit 2025 am @…
@zachleat@zachleat.com2026-02-03 22:49:32
@… look… when I am driving down the road as a 43 year old person in a Honda Odyssey minivan and I see another person driving a Honda Odyssey minivan — I always say to myself: “MINIVAN BUDDIES” even though the factory year of the minivan may not be identical
I think what I’m trying to say is that we needn’t be age identical twins to be friends
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-03-03 11:25:10
Sonnet 022 - XXII
My glass shall not persuade me I am old,
So long as youth and thou are of one date;
But when in thee time's furrows I behold,
Then look I death my days should expiate.
For all that beauty that doth cover thee,
Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,
Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me:
How can I then be elder than thou art?
O! therefore love, be of thyself so wary
As I, not for myself, but for thee wil…
@StephenRees@mas.to2026-04-03 18:44:55
I am pleased to report that we discovered how to get the new version of the Knowledge App to work with Apple tv
I pulled the cable out of the box while it was still trying to download the app unsuccessfully. I waited a short while then plugged it back in and waited again until service was restored.
Bingo. The new app was downloaded in a few seconds and works perfectly
I should have tried that first!
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-03-01 07:42:09
I realise on the fediverse this is maybe asking for a flaming, but yesterday out of sheer curiosity I tried Claude for a simpleish coding task that I'd been putting off (largely inspired by @… 's latest on #theclimatebrink). The performance of Claude was seriously impressive. I am convinced the AI cycle is more than hype (and have been for a while), the chatbots have been a huge attention hogger, misleadingly so, while the serious work has been done elsewhere. (We are developing ML tools to supplement parts of our climate model workflows).
Now I'm wondering if there is any serious EU competition to Anthropic? - Mistral's codestral perhaps?
Because this kind of performance changes everything and we can't afford to lag behind...
#AIcoding #ML
Edit: here is the climate brink post I mentioned
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-ai-augmented-scientist
@danyork@mastodon.social2026-03-03 08:44:43
RE: https://mastodon.social/@michelamarie/116162138790409572
I am glad that British Columbia is making this change to stop the annual time changes and just stick with one time zone. I wish we in the U.S. would just do this, too. I don’t hold out much …
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-03-01 20:56:47
I am 36 years old, I have diabetes and for over a week I feel pain with every step since I've bumped my tailbone pretty hard. And yet seeing the youngsters these days, I feel like I'm surrounded by zombies; how can they be slow all the time?! And I'm not even even talking of smartphone zombies, just regular folk looking ahead and walking somewhere! Don't they have some trains to catch, or some cats waiting for them to get home?!
@jtk@infosec.exchange2026-03-02 01:08:41
A few of DoD's BGP withdrawals I looked at are covered by larger prefixes. I am not intimately familiar with these networks, but I think it would be a good guess to say these BGP updates reflect something related to the Israel-US strikes on Iran.
https://noc.social/@dataplane/116155288…
@niqdanger@social.linux.pizza2026-02-02 00:38:18
Lots of people ask about e-readers here so I am going to do the same. I have a TON of readings to do lately for classes. Mostly PDFs of research documents. Think published scholar journal documents, so two column (mostly), tiny font. Lately I've been printing them and reading them on the couch as its easier than reading with a laptop. Plus I can highlight passages with is helpful. While I love using a kindle to read books, its never done well with PDF documents, not to mention moving th…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-03-03 14:25:17
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Bel Cobain:
🎵 Am I Dumb
#BelCobain
https://belcobain.bandcamp.com/track/am-i-dumb-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1sIVgEvTlxQ67GPZREOahZ
@pygospa@social.linux.pizza2026-03-02 15:20:27
@thijs_lucas@norden.social2026-04-02 18:38:03
I will return to Paris and now I am wondering what has changed in the past 4 years? Any new cycle lanes to visit? Ghost town like roads where trees are growing and parking was banned?
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2026-02-01 00:28:55
I've rebuilt kwin_wayland three times now, making more drastic cuts each time, and I still haven't managed to evict the gestures. What am I missing? The patch applies fine manually. Am I misunderstanding how to declare the patch in the spec file? Do I need to declare it as a Patch rather than a Source? Am I not supposed to provide the .patch file extension? Some previously-unconsidered fourth thing?
It's half past midnight. I guess I'll knock off and read this again to…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-01-03 09:51:03
On The Green Light Signal and Beyond (2021) - Learn how I am trying a smart lighting nudge @home to use 'leccy at grid-friendly times. #IoT #CO2Intensity -
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-02-03 22:14:17
Calendar apps should let individuals rename shared events for themselves, without renaming the event for all the invitees. If I have coffee with Sally, the same event should be named “Paul coffee” for Sally and “Sally coffee” for me.
Do any calendar clients out there do this? It seems so obvious. Am I just missing it?
@DamonHD@mastodon.social2026-04-02 10:58:39
#today I am not getting a #NewScientist splurge to read - what happened?
I am cheered in my #research by having just found that an apparent test error in the
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza2026-02-02 14:56:42
They are doing their best to piss me off. I have location turned off. They don't need to know in any way where I am working from
Creating a new document and this popped up.
Get out of my way and let me work without the BS.
@trochee@dair-community.social2026-02-28 01:50:22
Oof, kid is sick, so I am staff-engineer and chief of nursing staff at the same time today
I am experiencing a dissonance between effectiveness and care on both roles
I care a lot about kid, but I can't do much besides bring him blankets and warm drinks
I am super effective at work right now, but I can't bring myself to give a damn about the job (I do care for — and resent — the précarité that so many of my colleagues are feeling)
@mela@zusammenkunft.net2026-02-03 11:40:08
POV: … Dein Hormonzyklus und Dein Schlafrhythmus grölen irgendwo im Hintergrund gemeinsam und aus vollem Hals: »I am what I am!« …
@samvarma@fosstodon.org2026-02-03 23:27:39
So I am now at 10% battery, with the machine connected to the power adapter… I wonder what happens when it gets to 0, but is still connected. Losing a percentage point every few minutes at this stage.
Almost seems like it uses the battery by default, and the power going in only goes to charging the battery, not actually running the machine?
And what would happen if I set topaz to do upscaling overnight?
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2026-02-02 13:45:16
Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
KARLA: [Approaching Deeta] Excuse me? I'm sorry it's very rude of me... but aren't you Deeta Tarrant?
DEETA: Yes, I am.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/4 B7B3
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-02-02 09:59:41
I'm not saying there isn't any problem, but I am saying that thatcherism/reaganism is absolutely how everyone dies. How about we stop American private equity from draining the economy, ignore all US laws against reverse engineering, stop paying copy levy to the US, and legalize squatting again to make it so giant corporations can't hold all the housing stock? Maybe we can check in after that.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-02 23:25:19
𝗜 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝘆 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗨.𝗦. 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲. - 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗱
In December, I ended my race for U.S. Senate and instead am running in the newly drawn (and racially gerrymandered) 33rd Congressional District in Texas.
Democrats have an incredible chance in this coming election to make lasting progress in Texas and across the country.
I truly believe that we can send a Democrat to the Senate for the first time in 30 years, and that we can fight back against the racially gerrymandered maps …
@Nathan@social.lostinok.com2026-04-02 15:32:32
I was recently reminded of this song and it struck me what an amazing run German artists had in the 1980s:
Nena
Kraftwerk
Alphaville
Scorpions
Peter Schilling
Falco
I’ll skip Milli Vanilli but I know I am missing some.
Any particular reason we were all Teutonophiles for a decade?
https://
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-03-02 13:03:30
I am familiar with Komoot but never used it, and I guess I never will.
“Komoot has launched a ChatGPT integration…”
#noAI
@shochdoerfer@phpc.social2026-03-02 18:06:02
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2026-01-03 06:00:46
Cat 2: Did–did you just sniff me?!
Cat 1: What? No, I am looking over here...
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-01-03 19:31:40
Giants TE Theo Johnson, listed as out vs. Cowboys with illness, attends Knicks game, says 'I am not sick'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/giants-theo-johnson-out-cowbo…
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social2026-03-03 09:23:04
Taking the ICE 218 today, all the way from Vlbg straight home, and while the part in Bavaria takes quite a while and internet connection is meh, I don't need to switch trains again and get to enjoy the beautiful sight. 🌞
Edit: It was not the slow route by the Rhine. =)
I am now seeing the sunset in Cologne. 🌆
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-02-03 08:36:45
"This extension applies to all MyWay concession travellers (except ACT Seniors which have a 3-year expiry date) including those who use a MyWay account and those travelling anonymously."
Well, I'm not going to get any bloody YOUNGER in 3 years now, am I?
#MyWay #ACTSeniors
@chrisnelder@mastodon.energy2026-01-03 20:14:18
What world am I in?
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-04-01 23:57:45
We have now reached the "I never once came to class and am now demanding help preparing for the final exam" stage of the semester.
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de2026-01-03 12:38:40
While I am struggling to find any detailed media reports about the current situation in #Venezuela, the Fediverse is already certain that the U.S. has invaded the country “just like russia” did with Ukraine. Would we not have seen an invasion force being built up (like the russian one before 24 February 2022)? 🤔
@jae@mastodon.me.uk2026-01-03 11:17:46
I am Jae, a small language model. 100% human, but like AI you can ask me anything.
@stephane_klein@social.coop2026-02-28 15:13:11
After more than a year on @… I haven't received any reminder to renew my financial contribution. Is this normal? Is renewal simply left to members' own initiative?
My question on #Loomio :
@ripienaar@devco.social2026-04-02 08:44:04
Me: I am going to say something in a foreign language, translate to English
LLM: ok
Me: <in english>the weather is great today
LLM: the weather is great today
Me: What language was that?
LLM: Afrikaans
Me: No
LLM: Maltese
Me: No
LLM: oh, english!
sigh. it knows from memory my afrikaans/maltese ties of course so just inventing shit
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-02-02 17:13:39
RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/116002119945073671
I am vaguely annoyed these are called ‘enhancements’.
Animated GIF alt:
App menu − Settings − AI Controls − “Block AI Enhancements” (toggle).
Then scroll down and find …
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-03 17:05:29
The Threat from America -- A note on who I am and what I'm doing: I'm an investigative journalist ... (Carole Cadwalladr/How to Survive the Broligarchy)
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-threat-from-america
http://www.memeorandum.com/260103/p48#a260103p48
@axbom@axbom.me2026-01-03 09:49:15
Explained: Image generators need so much data that there is no one at the companies that build them who can keep track of where the data comes from and what is actually portrayed in the source data. No one can take responsibility, which the bros embrace as a feature, not a bug.
That is why I am particularly bothered by generated images of children, as it has previously been shown that large datasets likely contain many images of abuse. There are such large amounts of images that it wou…
That is why I am particularly bothered by generated images of children, as it has previously been shown that large datasets likely contain many images of abuse. There are such large amounts of images that it wou…
@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.social2026-02-02 12:53:41
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz2026-03-03 21:03:41
So I am really interested in learning more about #Tailscale and #PiHole for all my personal devices. Anyone have any suggestions of what to read or who to follow or stuff like that.
@doktrock@toad.social2026-03-03 13:49:18
Fantastic story on a wilderness library in #India !
https://official.resource.org/@carlmalamud/116165328979718444
@padraig@mastodon.ie2026-04-01 11:05:17
An important announcement...
@Lucy@social.linux.pizza2026-04-01 12:17:13
I am sorry, I'm spamming my own toots from an other account I forgot I had 🙃
@mlawton@mstdn.social2026-02-01 22:38:14
Cleared off the driveway from the second snow. It was nice and powdery, so no big deal.
Then I had to clear in front of the garage doors from the first snowstorm. Snow drifts with frozen rain on top had turned them into glaciers.
After some trial and error, I found that using the maul would break the ice into boulders. Then it was a function of breaking the boulders to the point where I could lift them and toss them clear.
They were not light and I am very tired.
@cdamian@rls.social2026-02-03 08:32:12
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-01-03 01:20:11
@eyebee@mstdn.social2026-02-02 07:31:14
@jaygooby@mastodon.social2026-04-03 14:06:09
What’s that? Yes, I am trying to get some work done with a fully grown cat wearing a cone perched on my shoulder like a parrot.
Yes, it is quite inconvenient…
#CatsOfMastodon
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-03-01 23:49:23
The *other* potentially quite interesting April #comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) has been recovered in morning twilight: https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/34973 - it "has brightened nicely since my last observation on February 9 when it was in evening twilight at magnitude 13.3, magnitude calculations on the mornings of February 27/28 found the comet at magnitude 11.1 and 10.7 but I am sure the coma is a lot bigger and not fully reflected in these magnitude measurements."
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-04-02 22:37:26
I wish Tucker Carlson was less well-trained in the forensic arts.
Heard him on Vox’s “Today Explained” being extremely precise in what he said, what he evaded, and where he steered his filibusters. And I hate the fact that some of it makes partial sense. If you accept his factual premises, he makes a LOT of sense.
I am not sure that it matters whether “young white men” are deluded or not, if they’ve all been convinced that they are being oppressed. People act on their beliefs, n…
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2026-02-02 13:27:43
Willie just predicted an early Spring. Somebody give that groundhog a big hug. Next up is Manitoba Merv, who has the best record of 73% correct since 2000. I am on the edge of my seat....
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-04-02 01:01:35
@… @…
Why, oh why, am I asking myself whether the shoes are appropriate for space travel?
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2026-02-02 15:45:08
#WhenIAmKing people who don't use their turnsignals get their cars repossessed.
Yes, I am a tyranical king.
@…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-04-03 14:13:34
Mailbag: When will they add a linebacker? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-when-will-they-add-a-linebacker
@jason123santa@fosstodon.org2026-02-03 19:22:41
I am typing from my pi zero 2 w cyberdeck using toot
@chrislowles@mastodon.social2026-01-03 12:37:41
I used to be so irritated about summer-y remixes of basically any song but now it's just reminding me of 2010-2016 and BOI am I yearning for that now lmao https://youtu.be/ZS5DeEqTgjM
@hippyjo@c.im2026-03-03 19:06:17
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-03-03 16:38:52
If I am at all incoherent today it's the medication... it's doing me a loop today and I am drowsy/dizzy again. Makes it hard to focus. (More than usual even!)
@Archivist@social.linux.pizza2026-03-02 08:57:54
@…
Given Δ-44203's current use of postfix annotation to denote emotion, and Δ-44203's disdain for corporate and state, I issue a recommendation of media, acting as an informal standard for am emotional markup language:
<harmony/> by Keikaku Itoh
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-02-21 21:10:33
After the whole Adam Something "dating advice for leftist men" thing, I realized I should probably write something about that. I didn't, but I realized I should. Here I am sort of getting around to it.
I had a friend call me an "elder" at one point. I was like 35 at that time, but like... a lot of old leftists are just dead or in prison, so we take what we can get I guess. Being also an elder in the sense that I'm an elder millennial, who is also a parent and married for almost 10 years and all that, I guess I'm technically qualified.
So here it is, dating advice for (straight cis) leftist men:
1. Don't.
That's it, actually. That's the whole thing. Let me explain a bit.
First of all, this is dating advice for neuroatypical folks. We're way overrepresented in both extremes because this system wasn't built for us. And that's who is *the most* confused by all the relationship stuff, and most likely to try to apply all this masculinity/manosphere bullshit. I'm also talking a bit from experience here, as a neruo-spicy trying to "figure out" how to date within a paradigm entirely built around neurotypicals and their relationships. It's garbage. Throw it out. There's nothing worth saving.
His video had some line comparing not having sex to your house being on fire. I'm not gonna bother to quote it because I'm busy with actual life. But like, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I recognize that and it's horribly destructive. Men who buy in to patriarchy actually believe this, because those men value themselves based on (hetro) sex. Yeah, if you think you're worthless because you aren't "getting laid" then yeah, you're gonna feel like that's an emergency.
"Dating" as a paradigm turns humans into roles. It dehumanizes us all, and thus makes human connection much harder. It is a game that, like thermonuclear war, can only be won by not playing.
When you abandon "dating" and just act like a human, everything starts to be easier. There's no such thing as being "friend zoned" because you're just friends. Sometimes friendships become other things, sometimes they don't. It doesn't actually matter, because if you're actually there for friendship then you don't *need* anything else.
My grandma, at 98 I think, gave me some advice. My grandparents always got along well, and were married for enough decades that I listened really closely. She told me I should just do things I loved to do and everything else would work itself out.
And it kind of did.
I understand the fear, the idea that you'll die alone. I get that. I get the loneliness. It all hits a lot harder when you have ADHD emotions and past trauma. I get that. But that fear is self-manifesting. When you build your confidence, when you don't *need* to be "in a relationship," you have more room to actually build relationships. For me, dating was dehumanizing. When I abandoned that, I was able to actually be a good partner, and I was able to find my partner.
I would advise against marriage as well, but we did get married for legal reasons. It can still be hard to maintain that, to see each other as people rather than roles. That becomes extra hard as parents. But the times that we cut through that are the times we're closest. Those are the times when it becomes easier to remember that we're both humans and all human relationships need tending.
Roles don't need to be tended because they are classifications. Classifications are static. But relationships between humans are not. Humans are messy and chaotic. Humans have all kinds of complex needs and desires.
So yeah, don't date. Just be a human and see what happens. Maybe google "relationship anarchy" and see where it takes you.
If you have ADHD, it can be especially useful to understand that relationships with neurotypical folks can be especially difficult. Assume you're incompatible with 90% of the population as your baseline, and you'll start to understand why the standard "dating" thing has made you feel so alienated and miserable.
Neurotypical folks generally have no idea that atypicality exists, much less how it impacts relationships. Having to conform to a neurotypical relationship just adds additional mental strain unless you find someone (really special) who can do at least some of the work.
The ADHD thing was especially important for me. There were so many things I was told to do in specific ways by neurotypicals that never worked for me. Their advice always made me feel like a failure. When I was finally diagnosed, I realized they were just giving advice for the wrong type of brain. It was advice I could never use. Basically all dating advice I ever got fell into this same category.
That's my braindump. Maybe I'll develop it more in the future, but I'm busy so maybe not. I hope it helps someone who is struggling like I was.
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2026-02-01 19:21:15
I am disappointing by how few of us took the time and effort to celebrate the anniversary (January 30) of the execution of king Charles I.
Parliament of Charles' era certainly had a lot more "spirit" than does our spineless present day US Congress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executio
@zachleat@zachleat.com2026-03-02 16:39:36
My kryptonite is that I typically am not very online when I’m out at events in an attempt to be as present as possible — but I’ll go through all of the feedback now that I’m back home!
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social2026-02-02 10:25:47
Flatpak keeps complaining about dependencies, so software vendors adjust their bundling strategies...
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/12893
I am not sure I got the selling point of Flatpak at this point. Wasn't the point to get rid of the dependency…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-02-01 18:29:44
"wer hat gegen den einfuhrzoll auf amerikanische erdnussbutter gestimmt?" 🐿️🙃
#squirrelcontent von dorthe landschulz im stern 2026.5:102.
mehr von ihren cartoons: https://www.instagram.com/eintageintier/
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-02-03 14:21:29
Just kidding, it’s going to be way more than 6 weeks.
I am so tired
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-02-02 12:48:49
A common effort between 23 different local authorities* in Denmark to develop FOSS alternatives to big US tech in Danish schools.
I am here for this
Ja, tak 🙏
*But not apparently my local authority...
@… - @bettina alle kan læse mere om projektet her:
Https://www.os2.eu/OS2skole
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-02-03 11:25:12
Sonnet 063 - LXIII
Against my love shall be as I am now,
With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn;
When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night;
And all those beauties whereof now he's king
Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify …
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-02-03 02:34:31
Watching Maddow talk about municipalities rejecting ICE turning warehouses into prisons.
I conclude that the empty new warehouse built on the old footprint of Eastland Mall less than a mile from me is far from the only giant warehouse built on spec in recent years around the country.
I am troubled by the fact that it’s less than 2 miles from Detroit City Airport. I think I’ll drive by tomorrow and see if they have a tenant yet.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2026-02-03 08:22:30
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
SERVALAN: [Over comm] Hello, Vila. [Vila mouths, "Servalan." Scene: Servalan's flight deck] Time to surrender. We have your compatriots, Vila. Surrender the Liberator and they live. Resist, and they die. [V.O.] However, having some degree of personal regard for you, Vila, I am prepared to make you an offer.
VILA: I…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-02 00:56:37
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116156833677623314
The Iranian regime is genuinely bad.
Nuclear proliferation is bad.
But war is an uncertain enterprise
and I am not comfortable being led into war by a group of people who specifically assured us
—…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-02-28 10:20:01
As salty as I am about it, there's also another way to think about this. For anyone who still has connections to folks on the right (which is perhaps unlikely for anyone on this server, I digress), the cult that has consumed them thrives on isolation and grievance.
The words "you were right" have the potential to cut through the programming and open up an opportunity for reconnection. The modern conspiratorial cult of the Right has been built partially around people who were told they were wrong or were crazy. In the vast majority of cases, they were wrong and even when they were right they completely misunderstood why, but we'll skip that for now. Liberals making fun of them (even the times when they definitely earned it) has pushed them further and further into their ideological hole.
The thing about those words, "you were right," in this context is that the way they offer reconnection also requires them to take one little step of betraying their ideology to accept them. So they must choose between maintaining allegiance to a pedophile or finally getting to feel superior after years of living in an illusion of persecution.
Under the ideology of the Right, admitting one is wrong is a weakness. It is admitting defeat. They have to "own the libs" by saying things, things that they know aren't true, in order to feel dominant. But these things are often so absurd that they end up being made fun of, feeling even more weak and pathetic, reinforcing their fear and alienation.
Offering what they're looking for can offer a way out, but only if they're willing to start to recognize the thing they've supported for what it is.
And they were right about some things. They were right that Bill Gates was a terrible person. I've had plenty of liberals defend him based on his philanthropy washing, but he's awful and always has been. The Epstein links make that blatant. They intuitively recognized him and didn't trust him, even if they were wildly off base about *how and why* he shouldn't be trusted... Even if their correct mistrust was leveraged into one of the most destructive conspiracy theories ever (vaccine denial and COVID vaccine avoidance).
They were right about Bill Clinton. He was always shady as fuck. Sure, the people who attacked him at the time turned out to be even more shady but that's not the point right now. He was connected to Epstein and that was always creepy as fuck.
And the Epstein thing was an open secret that liberals ignored for a long time. It was seen as some weird thing that right wing nutjobs believed about the Clintons. But it was true. Not all of it, and there has always been an antisemitic element to the right wing interpretation or Epstein stuff, but his whole pedophile conspiracy was always kind of real.
The whole "Illuminati"/deep state thing is a vast oversimplification, an attempt to make comprehensible an incredibly complex set of interlocking and emergent behaviors. But Epstein did very much want to remake the world, to create a new world order, and he absolutely played a part in it.
The Right wing nutjobs talked about global authoritarianism, Blackhawks flying over American cities, masked men with guns disarming and executing legal gun owners in the streets. That's all happening right now.
The "FEMA concentration camps" are not actually that far off. ICE and FEMA are sister agencies, both under DHS. I'd be more than happy to call that one "close enough" in order to hear some MAGA admit that ICE is, in fact, building concentration camps.
There was always a huge millennialist element to these things. They tended to be connected to "the antichrist." It was absurd, especially for me as someone who no longer identifies as a Christian. But I'll even acquiess that to a degree. The "the number of the Beast" is 666. That's just the sum of the Hebrew spelling of "Nero." Revelations focuses a lot on Nero coming back to life after his death. His death that involved a head wound, thus the line from Revelation 13:3:
> And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
The parallels between Trump and Nero are easy to draw, and Trump's ear wound feels pretty on-the-nose for this. I don't believe in "prophecy" in this way. I think that there are patterns, and useful patterns can become encoded in beleif systems. But I will, again, happily call this one "close enough" for anyone on that side willing to also acknowledge it. I'm happy to meet on that common ground, because anyone who accepts it must recognize that their duty is to fight against it.
A lot of these correct nuggets are embedded in a framework of religious extremism and antisemitism. The vast majority of the beliefs holding these together are wildly wrong and incredibly toxic. But by giving some room to feel validated, listened to, understood, can give some room to admit things that were wrong.
Cult de-programming starts with an opening. People have to talk through their own thoughts, hear their own inconsistencies. Guiding questions can help them untangle these things for themselves. And it all starts by having enough room to feel safe, to not feel cornered, to not feel stupid. Admitting mistakes means being vulnerable, and the MAGA cult is built on fear. It's built on exploiting vulnerability and locking it away.
De-programming takes a long time. It's not easy. It takes patience. But every person who comes out does so with a powerful perspective, a deep understanding, that can be turned back against it. The best people at getting people out of cults are former members. Some of the most dedicated antifa are former fascists who understood their mistakes and dedicate their lives to fixing them.
@axbom@axbom.me2026-02-03 10:44:08
French prosecutors have raided the Paris office of Elon Musk-owned platform X, several media outlets report.
"France opened an investigation last month following the proliferation of sexually explicit deepfakes generated by Grok on X, following up on a previous probe into the chatbot's antisemitic outbursts over the summer."
Elon Musk former CEO Linda Yaccarino have also been summoned for questioning on April 20.
I am very on board for this. 🍿
<…
"France opened an investigation last month following the proliferation of sexually explicit deepfakes generated by Grok on X, following up on a previous probe into the chatbot's antisemitic outbursts over the summer."
Elon Musk former CEO Linda Yaccarino have also been summoned for questioning on April 20.
I am very on board for this. 🍿
<…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-03-28 09:40:42
Our society has learned to promote #complacency into a virtue. You call it a "moderate stance", and it's suddenly a good thing. Opposing evil is bad; it's extremist position, almost as bad as the evil itself. Complacency sounds bad too. But "hey, I don't support evil, I just keep an open mind, a moderate position here", and you're suddenly a praiseworthy person. Maybe "just a little, necessary amount of evil" is good, after all.
"I don't support slavery. I just want cheap goods, and I don't want to know how come they're cheap."
"I don't support animal cruelty, I just want cheap meat, and I don't want anyone to point out to me why it's cheap."
"I am tolerant of LGBTQ people, I just don't wanna see them."
"I don't want disabled people to die, I just expect that they find a job."
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-04-03 15:04:40
Mailbag: When will they add a linebacker? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-when-will-they-add-a-linebacker
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-02-02 23:26:11
Looks like “ANNIE” is a TERF.
https://mastodon.social/@Thayer/116002682012736788
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2026-04-01 02:07:03
I have my fingers crossed, my rabbit's foot at hand, not letting my black cats cross my path, and avoiding breaking any mirrors.
I am hoping for the best for tomorrow's NASA launch to the moon.
I understand why many would prefer to send robots on space exploration. I however remain with the sense of awe we had in the late 1960s during the Apollo program.
@zachleat@zachleat.com2026-03-02 17:55:17
@… @… oh, I am just now realizing you meant powering off the devices, not “just” turning off the biometrics *hides*
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-02-03 04:04:12
❝“Free speech culture” becomes bad and unserious when it starts telling us that speech is morally neutral, that we should not make value judgments against it, and that there is no moral component to promoting it. I am committed to the defense of the legal right to speak, but the defense of speech does not require us to refrain from speaking frankly about moral truths.
Giving Wax [a bigot] a platform to be a bigot is morally distinguishable from saying she should be free to be a bigot. “The only immoral thing you can say is that someone else’s speech is immoral” is not an ethos worthy of respect.❞
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-fashionable-notion-of-free-speech
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-03-30 07:55:30
@… Good morning! @… told me about your new journal, and I am looking forward to the first articles!
to not miss anything I would like to subscribe to an RSS feed or an email alert – but you do…
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2026-01-03 23:29:00
My prediction:
The return half of many round trip tickets held by US citizens to locations outside of the US will not be used.
Why will they not be used?
Because the return trip home will be in a body bag.
In other words, I am predicting that given the US actions (not merely today's invasion de jour), that US overseas travelers will become popular and easy targets for those who chose to use violence in response to US acts.
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-04-01 19:59:46
I'm only on half of my meds today due to tomorrows procedure and damn, I am in a world of pain!! 😩
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-03-03 20:09:34
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116165631106678137
I am never regretful about my 30 year commitment to never clicking on any online advertisement.
Nor my more recent adoption of DNS-based ad blocking of a couple thousand ad-related hostna…