@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-08-21 19:24:03
Spagnola: Hunting sacks a thing of past https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-hunting-sacks-a-thing-of-past
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-08-21 19:24:03
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-09-21 14:06:40
Browns' Deshaun Watson-led win over Bucs was the worst thing for Cleveland in 2026
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/browns-deshaun-watson-win-over-bucs-wa…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-22 00:38:22
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Chuck Prophet:
🎵 Summertime Thing
#ChuckProphet
https://chuckprophet.bandcamp.com/track/summertime-thing-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1cip9sLyXtKxDoUonU3uAP
@3sframe@social.linux.pizza2026-07-21 14:44:04
The open source loop I've been in:
1. Need a specific thing for a thing
2. Find the thing on GitHub
3. Lots of documentation in the README
4. No instruction on how to install it.
5. Repeat.
@sofia@chaos.social2026-09-21 17:24:33
i'm so annoyed with petitions being like "we are against $bad_thing, but we also implicitly or explicitly recognize the motivation for $bad_thing as legitimate and propose the following shitty compromise."
i guess this will appeal to some centristy wishy-washy types, but are those even the people who will likely see that petition in the first place?
@ripienaar@devco.social2026-06-22 10:52:30
Small island nation that voted themselves out of the only thing that made them matter is doing yet another fucking stupid thing.
Just another day.
@chrysn@chaos.social2026-07-20 16:02:46
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-08-21 19:13:05
Spagnola: Hunting sacks a thing of past https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-hunting-sacks-a-thing-of-past
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-08-20 03:56:36
The most important thing Fernando Mendoza did Tuesday happened after the INT https://raiderramble.com/2026/08/19/the-most-important-thing-fernando-mendoza-did-tuesday-happened-after-the-int/
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2026-07-20 18:56:46
In my cat Strider's idiolect, a voiced uvular trill means "I REALLY want $thing" where $thing is probably (but not always) food.
A simple 'ÆW!' means "gimme that," but when followed by ʀʀʀʀʀʀʀʀʀʀ it indicates particular urgency and focus toward the item (generally sausage) in question.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-09-21 14:36:01
Q&A with Mark Gurman on the iPhone Duo, breaking Apple news, new AI-native devices, Tim Cook staying as executive chair, John Ternus, Johny Srouji, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/996874/apple-john-ter…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-22 01:23:44
“I only care about one thing,” Trump said. “Will we be No. 1 in crypto?”
-- You might say the corruption is the point.
NBC sought to calculate the amount of fines and fees owed by Trump’s wealthy pardon recipients and found:
The 87 people and one corporation pardoned by Trump in the last year had been ordered to pay more than
$298 million in fines and restitution
—$20 million more than the total owed by all of the pardon recipients in his entire first term,
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-09-20 16:23:44
One thing I still seem people who have gas cars get wrong about charging is they think about it like "filling up".
But you don't fill up an EV. if you have 50 more miles to drive on a trip you charge to 70 miles not to the full 80% or 100% charge.
@Jyoti@mas.to2026-09-21 08:22:50
What's this? Another billionaire tax-dodging racist says he doesn't like Britain?
Good thing he doesn't live here then, innit?
#AllBillionairesAreEvil #YesEvenThatOneYouBootlick #EatTheRich
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2026-08-19 17:21:34
'I Saw a Shiny Thing': Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman https://www.404media.co/i-saw-a-shiny-thing-cop-explains-why-he-used-license-plate-reader-to-stalk-woman/
@sysop408@sfba.social2026-09-21 06:27:10
As I've become a much better and confident photographer in recent years, the skill I've gained most of is in directing people on how to position themselves.
It's a good thing too because then you have exchanges like this.
"Move the sign to your right."
She takes one step to the left.
"No, the sign. Just move the sign."
She steps back to where she was and moves the sign to the left.
"No your other right."
She …
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2026-08-21 16:58:59
Khaki peanut butter & jelly sandwich
Try again later I guess?
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-09-20 16:25:24
her [to me]: "Go do [a thing outside], it's your favorite weather!"
her [simultaneously]: "cloudy and cool!"
14yo [simultaneously]: "gloomy and sad?"
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2026-09-22 00:04:42
how much is animist sociology a thing. not sociology focusing on people who believe in it, but sociology *by* people who believe in it
@mia@hcommons.social2026-06-22 08:01:37
Great post on the 'Opportunities and Limitations of Computational History' / Digital History from Sarah Lang @… https://latex-ninja.com/2026/06/2…
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social2026-07-20 15:59:18
Ooooooooh noice, #binwalk did the awesome thing:
They rewrote it in #Rust!
https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk…
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-06-22 01:03:57
The Big Stupid of this whole thing is that painting the pool to seal it was always going to fail.
The concrete from 2009 (the original had been asphalt & tile) wasn’t intended to take a sealant paint, presumably because it didn’t need it. Hydraulic cement is a technology dating back to Rome…
It’s really hard to get any coating to adhere to hydraulic cement. Epoxy would work, I guess. @…
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot2026-07-21 21:06:29
It may have been Tuesday today where all of you are, but where I am it was definitely a Sunday. Time is a weird thing.
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-08-21 15:00:53
"‘Carbon-neutral’ isn’t the goal, cutting emissions is"
#CarbonNetural #Emissions
https://www.
@sean@scoat.es2026-07-21 00:11:36
When the local drive-thru answers you in AI voice, it's your societal duty to red-team that thing until you get a human handoff.
“Oh, could I add an order of triple salted uncooked fries, extra small, and a diet water with no ice, but make the ice extra cold? Plus a sundae with double pickles and make sure I don't get the same toy as with the fries. What's your favourite flavour of ketchup?”
@christydena@zirk.us2026-08-20 01:09:12
What is an extreme positive thing?
It's easy for me to think about what a negative extreme thing is. Negative as in anti-social, and extreme as in the worst, mass.
For instance, rape and murder are the extreme end of a rape joke. Genocide is the extreme end of an everyday slur.
What is positively extreme? I can think of positive things turned bad. Which means, to me, that extremes are inherently negative?
Are there extreme positives?
A regenerative feedback…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-07-22 01:13:23
That feeling when "ancient Native American burial mounds" are mentioned on page 2 and you think "oh God here we go with some intense racism/cultural appropriation again" but then you remember that you checked this book out because it was Native-authored and so it's actually a good thing.
@jensilber@mastodon.social2026-08-21 14:21:47
Weird thing stuck in my head that I can't fully remember: growing up in the U.S. in the 1980s there was an elementary school lesson on American folklore. I want to say that we read/studied a group of four stories; and I remember that three of them were about Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan, and John Henry; but I cannot remember what the fourth was or would have been.
@totientfunction@mathstodon.xyz2026-07-20 19:22:45
@kurt@nelson.fun2026-09-21 18:36:43
It's such an American thing to after breaking some minor law involving panhandling, double parking, or general antisocial behavior to end your statement with "God bless you."
No thank you, I don't want anything to do with your god.
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2026-07-21 20:43:38
@… But that is *literally* not what concern means in the English language.
A concern is not defined by something that there is evidence of actually occurring.
So if you’re asking for evidence of something happening, while Matt is describing it as a concern in the field, then we’re simply not talking about the same thing.
@…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-09-21 11:02:15
Through 2 games, one thing is clear: Drake Maye hasn’t arrived yet https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7615521/2026/09/21/patriots-steelers-drake-maye-struggling/
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place2026-08-21 12:04:53
I said something in a meeting and then someone said that he suggests to do [INSERT THE SAME THING I SAID].
Fucking hell.
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza2026-08-21 15:24:15
NO. The only thing that would fit TACO is naming a garbage scow after him.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/politics/navy-weighs-renaming-carrier-black-war-hero-to-trump
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizza2026-08-21 07:32:53
Hot take
The KDE fedora shipping on default on framework laptop is a good thing.
@JSkier@social.linux.pizza2026-07-21 00:19:52
Still running, on an elliptical 😊 It’s been an adventure adapting to new disabilities. Still registered for the half marathon but I don’t think I’ll be able to run it without walking or a wheelchair this fall.
One thing I’ve enjoyed lately is working with an Italian fella and his QZ Fitness app. I made an #esp32 bluetooth bridge to get better data points, and help get some PRs for impro…
@pixel@mastodon.online2026-08-22 14:28:25
I can't even put into words anymore how often GitHub has cost me like 10 minutes because their search is so fucking broken
There are 7 results according to the sidebar, but none according to the actual results thing, wtf
@lanefu@social.linux.pizza2026-07-19 21:00:24
I think now we know why this Altra Server won't POST.
Gonna see if a shop down the road will try to straighten the pin for us.
Now for the gripe. The reseller slapped a 128core altra max cpu in this thing as an upgrade. When I log into IPMI it can't talk to the motherboard nor initiate power on... And it says the last known configuration was a 80 core Ampere Altra. So that really makes me think this thing was not tested before shipped. And of course the reseller i…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-08-20 23:23:31
“Don’t step on obvious landmines”: Colin Cowherd makes feelings known on "Raiders doing non-Raiders thing" with Fernando Mendoza https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-don-t-step-obvious-landmin…
@bici@mastodon.social2026-08-18 15:39:53
The “dickover” is the scourge of the modern age. Coined in May by John @… a tech writer, it is defined as “a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user”. Essentially, it is the thing (or more often, things) you have to click away in order to read the thing you wanted to read" ..…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-22 08:44:24
@yetiinabox@todon.nl2026-08-20 12:50:06
yesterday after much anticipation the proper futon arrived. not a squudgy foam foldable thing, a solid extremely firm not very thick actual futon. i only know one place in the uk that makes these. and I slept. i actually slept, and today my back does not feel like it has folds and twists, it's just a column of bones and muscles and nerves all stacked up.
for context, when I used to have travel for work, I would pull the hotel duvet onto the floor and sleep there.
@ripienaar@devco.social2026-09-20 14:32:30
The EU age verification thing is clearly not a good thing but it at least sounds like they have it some thought and it could be worse. (Hello the UK)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/how-eus-age-verification-app-children-would-wor…
@laf0rge@chaos.social2026-08-12 09:53:10
James Randall "I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed" on software complexity, abstractions, AI and older vs younger developers: https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/the_thing_i_loved_has_changed/
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-07-22 11:37:14
Popular Front recently did a piece on the current conflicts in Ethiopia:
https://popularfront.substack.com/p/everything-you-didnt-know-about-the
It's a good primer for anyone who's unfamiliar, but is definitely lacking if you know any Ethiopian folks or pay attention to much news out of the Horn of Africa.
The interplay between authoritarian liberal nationalism, as represented by Abiy Ahmed and his government, and tribal federalism , represented by various tribal factions, reads to me very similarly to the liberalization of Europe (enclosure of the commons, a push to sacrifice ethnic identities for nationalist ones, etc). Like the liberalization of, say, France, it's a lot more complicated than "old thing bad, new thing good."
Liberalism was violent and authoritarian. It often sacrificed leftists. Liberalism's focus on borders and national identity led directly to pogroms and Nazism. Similarly, liberalization of Ethiopia has led to genocide and ethnic cleansing.
People think of "the terror" in France as a leftist thing, but it wasn't. It was a Liberal thing, centrist extremism, carried out against right and left.
I understand that tribal federalism is also not a good system, but I don't have a ton of depth so I'm not going to try to explain it. During the European Liberal revolutionary period of 1848, ethnic minorities would often side with some monarch or emperor against liberalism out of fear of liberal nationalism. It makes sense to support a system that's bad if your other option is a nationalism that erases your identity.
But even in Europe at that time, anarchism offered an alternative but that alternative often also drew from simply a different branch of liberalism that also suppressed culture and identity. Today the world is different. Democratic Confederalism offers a solution to *exactly* this problem, tested for more than a decade in Syria and developing now in Myanmar.
But the cross pollination between Syria and Myanmar in terms of fighters really made the ideological cross pollination possible. I don't think anything like that is happening now in Ethiopia.
Eurocentrism makes it easy to ignore what's happening now, but Addis Ababa is the seat of the African Union Commission. Ethiopia is a major military power in the region, so these developments carry a lot of weight. Especially as the US collapses and the world becomes more multipolar, the development of regional powers like Ethiopia will have a big impact on how that part of the continent develops.
If any folks are more familiar with Ethiopia than I am (which shouldn't be hard since I'm basically not), please correct me or add context if anything is missing or wrong.
@KazuShuSora@social.tchncs.de2026-09-19 16:29:54
First thing I did today, was dropping the Collector's Edition of the I.M.P board game, that just arrived.
The axe of Millie's acrylic standee broke off.
Gotta get some superglue and fix that, next week.
*sigh*
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-07-19 10:17:32
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2026-08-19 03:23:28
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-09-22 11:40:38
TV networks deny Trump the one thing he craves most: Attention (Dan Merica/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/09/22/tv-networks-deny-trump-one-thing-he-craves-most-attention/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260922/p20#a260922p20
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-18 21:47:20
“If we don’t connect those dots between the struggles, we’re never going to get anywhere,”
says Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist
Rhiannon Giddens.
“That’s what music is for. …
We have to make music with people from different backgrounds because then we have that conversation.”
Giddens has had a wide-spanning career,
including her time with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an old-time Black string band,
and her work as a musical c…
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-07-15 09:24:41
Your Honour, It's a Blak Thing!
The podcast centres Aboriginal voices, knowledges and lived experiences to deepen cultural understandings and support culturally safe legal practice...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/your-h
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-07-18 21:59:17
the one cool thing about marshall allen no longer being able to tour with the arkestra is all the music he's now getting to make with other people. https://universeodon.com/@SunRaUniverse/116942771481962067
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-08-18 15:06:59
This post gets regular inline updates:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/04/what-you-can-do-as-a-web-builder-on-earth-day.html
Today I added a Nature article, the Web Sustainability Guidelines Impact Ratings, and the Carbon in Context calcula…
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place2026-09-21 18:21:03
“What you should be consistent about is this ***process of naming*** itself. The decision of what to name something should take in as many inputs as you can gather, not just the type of the thing, and not even just its current usage. Look around, consider essence, and also consider symmetry.”
https://kolemannix.com/blog/h…
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2026-07-06 07:28:07
@zachleat@zachleat.com2026-08-14 16:35:15
@… every professional thing can be personal but not every personal thing needs to be professional
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2026-09-19 12:09:50
Everything in life, at some level, is about storytelling, so they say. Yet, telling my own story, about my own work, the reasons/impetus, the processes, the details, mistakes, insights, lessons, connections etc. It is the hardest thing ever.
People don't buy the art, they buy the artist.
As much as I do love writing, I've always strongly disliked writing about my creative works/efforts, probably because I so often wanted The Work™ to stand on its own and also because I so frequen…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-07-19 14:42:04
from my link log —
Qalculate time hacks.
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/qalculate-time-hacks.html
saved 2026-07-17
@sherold@mastodon.online2026-08-13 15:13:31
If you find yourself struggling with this question, it’s probably because of the frames you unconsciously use as a yardstick. So let’s give them a little nudge. 🌱
https://finest.day/posts/what-is-one-thing-youre-good-at-without-even-realizing-it
@wraithe@mastodon.social2026-07-18 19:10:36
My thumbs started aching just looking at this thing:
https://intellivisionrevolution.com/intellivision-sprint
@cdamian@rls.social2026-09-19 13:38:01
12th European TramDriver Championship in Warsaw
Probably the best thing happend today
https://youtube.com/live/R1PeT9Zeiow
> Experience the best moments of the 12th European TramDriver Championship in Warsaw in full - featuring all 52 competition runs by 25 teams from 24 nations.
@trezzer@social.linux.pizza2026-07-18 18:39:05
Playing some Gunvalkyrie for a gameclub. It is quite a bizarre game - but the most bizarre thing is the early 3D controls. Thankfully, you can remap them on a modern Xbox, so my dash button is now A instead of L3 and Y is flipped for right stick camera so left stick doesn’t do regular while right stick does flight mode. It was a rough combo. Slight tweaks to controls would have made this game so much better out of the box.
@knurd42@social.linux.pizza2026-09-19 04:31:29
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@fedora/117294922462732334
Switched for Fedora 45 about a week ago, everything is working fine, there is just one minor thing with gnome-text-editor that I find kinda annoying:
Pressing Ctrl F while search is open does not foc…
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe2026-07-17 21:20:38
The fun thing about SITUASION is I think everytime I saw a pictures of some members, they are always new and I see them for the first time.
@eyebee@mstdn.social2026-09-20 08:52:36
It’s a lazy Sunday morning here. I’ve been awake since about 6.30 am, but I made coffee and took it back to bed. I read some stuff on my iPad, and then I got up and made more coffee. Not had breakfast yet, as I can’t eat first thing
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2026-09-20 00:54:03
#funFact
Looking and seeing are not the same thing. Looking is the eyeball being moved around by the various relevant muscles, forming the lens, shaping the iris, run by the sensorimotor cortex feedback system, focusing light on the retina, triggering sensory info that makes its way from the retina thru several cortical layers and paths to be interpreted by the visual cortex. That’s seeing. Tw…
@panna_pudi@mastodon.gamedev.place2026-09-18 15:54:43
> Don’t worry - the math isn’t as scary as it looks.
Is the whole thing AI generated? And why is official vulkan guide, oriented for graphics programmers, babysitting math?
https://docs.vulkan.org/samples/latest
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-07-17 16:15:38
@luana@wetdry.world2026-09-21 00:42:36
Content warning: re: A Plague Tale: Requiem spoilers, playlog
One thing I find interesting is that in this article Amicia has a bandage that she doesn't have in my game: https://godisageek.com/2022/10/a-plague-tale-requiem-windmill-puzzle-guide/
I thought the La Cuna open world fun was over and that now it'd be now dark full of rats (except for the clear lack of enough fireplaces around it to lit in that case), but maybe Amicia gets hurt now and we get back there? Weird that the article does mention chapter 9 tho...
Also when going to the round tower I didn't think it'd already be the goto the fort and end of the open world, if I did I'd have done a last exploring around the world first (even tho I think I found everything, I did want to see if re entering the castle was possible...)
Oh and yeah I was now reminded that slavery was still a thing when this game is set, add another one to the list of historical facts these games made me notice or remember.
@StephenRees@mas.to2026-09-18 23:48:40
The wealthy 1% heading to Mark Carney's summit are relying on the power of their money.
But we know, just like you, that the many can stand up against the money, and win.
Our leaders should work for us, not the corporate class. The only way we can make that happen, is by ramping up the pressure with more voices calling for the same change.
Will you do one more thing and share this to three of your friends?
Like you, there are so many Canadians who are worried abou…
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-07-19 17:25:10
constantly amaze how well Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is scripted and plotted. it's really good. just 30 episodes in. Everything really builds on every thing.
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2026-07-17 15:48:40
RE: https://eldritch.cafe/@miranda_blue/116935608086213327
This is showing one thing that I think should become general principle: Using an LLM for someone else _is rude and bad_. Presenting something untranslated that _they_ can have an LLM translate is better than doing it yourself, and not showing that input — the prompt here is not included and is a key piece of context, and the results are also bad _with no recourse_.
Information has been destroyed. Trust has been broken (or in the case of commerce, failed to be established). Even if the total amount of LLM-use were the same, this is worse than the reader using it.
PROMPTING AN LLM FOR SOMEONE ELSE IS RUDE.
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-22 08:23:26
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Courtney Barnett:
🎵 One Thing At A Time
#CourtneyBarnett
https://courtneybarnett.bandcamp.com/track/one-thing-at-a-time
https://open.spotify.com/track/2o2s7sFRf9XByKXoV0Qw6e
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social2026-08-17 13:48:43
The job of management boils down to deciding where to invest company resources to maximize returns.
But saying yes to one thing means saying no to something else. Deciding what gets cut (and getting buy-in for those decisions) is hard! So instead they started agitating for "velocity" in a foolish belief that they would never have to prioritize one idea over another ever again.
@ruario@vivaldi.net2026-09-17 12:44:57
So of course the first thing I did was install Opera go to a video I know failed for us and guess what…
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-07-16 18:00:46
"California is releasing 500,000 mosquitoes. Here's why that's a good thing"
#California #Mosquitoes
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-19 17:44:58
"The current fascist administration thinks hyper-aggressive masculinity is the only thing needed for a successful military"
-- @…
#Hegseth #testosterone
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-09-17 00:41:07
Kirk Cousins Could Be the One Thing Holding the Raiders Back https://raiderramble.com/2026/09/16/kirk-cousins-could-be-the-one-thing-holding-the-raiders-back/
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-07-15 17:41:20
Looking at something claiming “Accessible by default” with its barely-WCAG-passing thing & tiny 10px text, vibe-coded patterns, SC misrepresentations, Twitter-only social presence, and failure to use HTML correctly reminds me that this ‘law’ also applies to sites:
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/03…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2026-07-18 02:07:37
Party like it’s Friday night!
Cornish Bagpipe Sextet. There are only 3 human players, but they count their pipes as members of the ensemble. I dunno if that’s a piper thing, a Cornish piper thing, or a joke.
Hey! https://youtu.be/4jEo_KOrMTw?is=LioYHHyZmPkqQjE6
@Jyoti@mas.to2026-08-19 13:08:03
RE: https://beige.party/@thestrangelet/117100831904981770
I know I'm a grumpy old git but it's because I can't do maths. Language is my thing so I'm haphazardly pedantic about that instead.
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2026-09-18 04:50:59
Tap tap tap... this thing on?
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-07-18 17:00:16
It must be galling to him that we no longer have the pre-Reagan pre-cable FCC regs and station norms that empowered the POTUS to monopolize the media in primetime.
I expect that many non-olds don’t even realize that was a thing. Once upon a time all TV was broadcast and most was network-affiliated or network-owned, and those all took the feed from the White House when it was offered. There was no escape... @…
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe2026-07-18 10:54:41
The last thing you remember...
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social2026-08-17 13:48:43
The job of management boils down to deciding where to invest company resources to maximize returns.
But saying yes to one thing means saying no to something else. Deciding what gets cut (and getting buy-in for those decisions) is hard! So instead they started agitating for "velocity" in a foolish belief that they would never have to prioritize one idea over another ever again.
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-09-17 14:47:30
canonical, really. the closest thing there is to a proper bootleg series box from the never-ending tour. lots of sweet soundboards (& a few audience tapes). https://heads.social/@livetapes/117286837043249972
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-07-15 06:32:06
Let’s get one thing straight: if you’re bigoted against Jews, you’re no better than Israeli settlers and the Israelis who are complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
Someone being Jewish does not mean that they’re Zionist or complicit in genocide. Not all Jews are Zionists. And not all Zionists are Jews.
Conflating the two is antisemitic.
And Israel and Zionists are guilty of pushing that narrative more than anyone else. (Yes, Israel and Zionists a…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-07-14 04:39:23
Former Cowboys defensive back says one thing about his old quarterback that critics refuse to acknowledge https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/forme…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-18 17:34:22
Mark Zuckerberg was so convinced the metaverse was the next big thing that he renamed his company after it.
Meta, as Facebook is now known, bet the farm on virtual reality,
investing more than $80bn into metaverse-related ventures over the past five years alone
—only to abruptly decide it wasn’t the future after all.
In March this year it was announced that Horizon Worlds, Meta’s flagship metaverse venture, would shut down its VR operations in June, continuing only as …
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2026-07-17 21:34:07
Content warning: Lightweights in Ōtautahi
For those here in Ōtautahi Christchurch, my band, 3kg, is playing tonight at A Rolling Stone (Colombo St) from 8:30. We're a 7 piece rock, funk, swing band with lots of singing and a bit of brass. No cover (though the pub might ask for a koha at the door). All welcome! Might be some swing dancers in attendance, too, if you like that sort of thing!
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-07-16 10:44:13
RE: https://mastodon.social/@aproposnix/116929213080115007
Notice how Linus leaves out the “justice” bit.
Go on, Linus, say the whole thing: “social justice warrior.”
The only people who use that term are assholes who don’t give a shit about…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-09-19 17:48:45
What Raiders Need More of in Week 2 and Beyond https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-need-more-week-2-beyond
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-17 21:25:18
It’s been described as “the mother of all earthquake faults,”
the source of both our geological birth and, perhaps, our ultimate undoing.
But the most unnerving thing about the San Andreas fault these days may be its silence.
It’s a mystery scientists are still trying to unlock.
The San Andreas is central to any discussion of California.
It’s the massive 800-mile spine of the state,
trundling up the Coachella Valley to the San Gabriel Mountains,
and p…