@aral@mastodon.ar.al“Humanitarian zone” my ass.
Israel has forfeited the right to claim any moral position related to humanity given they lack it entirely. Oops, it”s kinda what happens when you commit genocide. (You know Israel is committing genocide, right? Do you live under a rock? Are you a genocide apologist and thus complicit in genocide? No. OK, so you know that Israel is committing genocide.)
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta updates Reels on Facebook to prioritize showing fresher and more-relevant content, and adds AI search suggestions and friend bubbles like on Instagram (Katelyn Chedraoui/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/news/social-media/fac
@hex@kolektiva.socialThere was once a machine that told you "you want this" and "this is good." It said, "there can be no better system and it's foolish to try to build one." That machine has long since failed to function. Now you choke on fumes as it is consumed by the wild flames of an abandoned cause.
That machine could not possibly work anymore because the evidence of it's falsehood has become too overwhelming.
No, only abject terror now can keep you from plotting your escape, from creating an alternative. No, the illusion has long since broken. All that's left now is triggering fight, flight, freeze as hard as possible. Most will be paralyzed, and those who fight can be used as an excuse to escalate the terror.
These are the final stages of a dying sun, expanding and consuming it's children before the final supernova.
There is no longer a stable system, no longer a system with a future. All that remains is the spectacle that hopes to distract you long enough that you too can be consumed, that it may sustain itself a few moments longer.
@servelan@newsie.social"You conservatives tried to kill woke, only for it to mount an impressive comeback," he added. "I hope that leaves you triggered, and I hope no one offers you sympathy for it."
'It's coming for you': Analyst reveals 'terrible news for red America' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/it-s-coming-for-you-analyst-reveals-terrible-news-for-red-america/
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"You will find sheep and cattle grazing there; they belong to a god, all-seeing, all-hearing Helios (the Sun). If you leave these unharmed--if you set your mind only to return--you may all of you still reach Ithaka, though with mu…
@cdarwin@c.imDurbin to Bondi
in this morning's Senate hearing:
"Although you've been a registered foreign agent for Qatar,
you didn't recuse yourself from signing off on Trump's solicitation of a free jet from the royal family,
even though this gift was clearly illegal.
Connections to Bondi seem to yield more favorable outcomes for defendants."
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comIf you run Debian 13 systemd-networkd bridging you are going to have a very bad day if you do a stable update of systemd
(It will segfault leaving you with no network)
Update: as pointed out by Colin you also have to be using VLANs.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioSo to quote post in a reply, you click reply and then you click, under same post, yes in the timeline, the repost button and then quote and it inserts it into the reply post form you have already open?
What???
For the love of science Mastodon, hire proper user interface designers
@yaya@jorts.horseit's actually so easy to just hear someone tell you what gendered words they don't want used for them and say "aight bet" rather than arguing
and yet.
@trochee@dair-community.socialLord help me I'm starting to enjoy coding in C .
I find myself saying "if you're writing *that* kind of C you've done something wrong at the design stage"
I caught myself feeling grateful that the language punishes you with unreadability and untestability when you do too much in one function
Is this... Stockholm Syndrome?
@eichkat3r@hessen.socialcome as you are as you were as i want you to be
@ethanwhite@hachyderm.ioKid: Dad!?! The (no longer maintained) software that school wants me to use is throwing a "Code C" error on the video we took in class (on a brand new iPhone). Can you help?
Me: I don't know who suggested you use this software. I don't know why. If the software company is telling you to pay for an upgrade, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career (in scientific software)
@oligneisti@social.linux.pizzaIf you are a guy who doesn't understand* women you could try to read books by women, listen to songs by women, watch films by women etc. Maybe that is likelier to enlighten you than getting your information from obnoxious men.
* If you think I am claiming to understand women I should clarify that I don't even understand people in general.
@newstik@social.heise.deStop underesteeming your bliss.
For example, you failed to appreciate how good your day was so far, as you had not thought about My Heart Will Go On at all.
You know, that one: Neeeeear, Faaaaar, whereeeever you are, I believe that my heart will go oooooon!
Count your blessings, thank me later.
@cheryanne@aus.socialIf You Know You Grow
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
@wraithe@mastodon.social
@whitequark@mastodon.socialkickstarter to launch a satellite that could be used as a sovereign ground for the principality of sealand
if you have, like, $150m or so you could just do this, right? it's effectively exterritorial unless somebody spends the effort to bomb it out of the sky (which isn't going to happen). you can just stream pirated content from it, run a casino, whatever
@NFL@darktundra.xyzFive strangest bets you can make on defensive players for 2025 NFL season: Travon Walker, Sauce Gardner, more
https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/f…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
@lysander07@sigmoid.social
@pre@boing.worldIf at first your protest doesn't succeed, try, try again. But after that you are legally obligated to give up or risk arrest. 😆
Hard to imaging those who are protesting by getting arrested for bogus terrorism laws giving much of a shit if instead they are arrested for protesting too many times.
What a joke. You can't just legally define a false thing as true. Palestine Action are not a terror group, even if you define them as one in law you authoritarian crazed lunatics.
I wish this government would just fuck the hell off. Imagine being more authoritarian and illiberal than the conservative party. 🙄
Police forces will be granted powers to put conditions on repeat protests, the government has announced, a day after nearly 500 protesters were arrested.
RE: #ukpol #protest #authoritarian
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsClaiming that LLMs bring us closer to AGI is like claiming that bullshitting brings one closer to wisdom.
Sure, you need "some" knowledge on different topics to bullshit successfully. Still, what's the point if all that knowledge is buried under an avalanche of lies? You probably can't distinguish what you knew from what you made up anymore.
#AI #LLM
@fortune@social.linux.pizza$you = new YOU;
honk() if $you->love(perl)
-- Seen on Slashdot
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotIf you really want to crush "good old" Christian Capitalism, don't buy anything other than basic food and toiletries between November 1st and the end of February.
This will also hurt Chinese Capitalism, as so much plastic tatt which is consumed during those four months is made there.
And you and your family? You'll be richer, slimmer and 100% more relaxed than all the people around you.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI heard a comparison where someone said:
The Republicans rob you like a stick-up. They're brazen and open about.
The Democrats rob you like a pick-pocket. They're sneaky and you don't see it happen.
Damn...
#USPOL
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizzaSword of the Sea (Multi, XP'd on PS5) Restore a dried up ocean world to its former glory as you surf along the land on a magic sword.
From the people that brought you Abzu, The Pathless, and Journey, SotS is the latest gem in their crown of gaming goodness. If you've played any of the previous games, you already have a good idea what to expect from SotS (and should have already played it TBH 😆 )
Basically, this is Journey x Tony Hawk. You travel this world as a Wraith on …
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioWhat @… said here, and so well said.
Note that deciding it’s the wrong time to rub somebody’s nose in how incredibly wrong they were doesn’t make them any less wrong. Listening is not the same thing as accepting. Sometimes it’s a moment to say “you dumbass,” and sometimes it’s a moment to say “And how did that work out for you?” The wise know the difference.
People who were taken in by the likes of these scammers •can• walk out of it in moments of cognitive dissonance — and if you’re in a position to do what Luna describes with someone you know, you might just change a life.
https://defcon.social/@corbden/115329960629783431
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineThe ONE thing computers have going for them is that, when you manage to describe exactlly what you want, you get exactly what you want.
The idea that somebody would trade that for a computer that will mostly do something that's kinda like what you want except sometimes it's not is just really fucking baffling.
There are oh so many free ways of not getting what you want, why would you pay for that
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza"Hello! I am an American syndicalist, and I study political science. If you're interested in international political history, philosophy or a rare dose of contemporary political analysis from a pro-Western perspective, this is the place for you."
—@thejaylino
https://www.youtube.com/@thejaylino
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI like how JC Penney is like, "Sure, we sent you the wrong item, but we're going to charge you $8 to return it. Because we can. Fuck you."
I hate Amazon, but I also shed no tears when most of these other shitty chains go bankrupt.
[Yes, it's free to return to the store, but that's not how I bought it in the first place and it's not the least bit convenient.]
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioLLMs are a fundamentally useless technology because their applications (supposedly) boil down to humans not having to think for themselves or do their own writing / drawing / filming.
But if you can do it on your own - why would you need a robot to do it? It’s, at best, a novelty.
That’s why this shit only resonates with executives and capital owners. “Get things done with fewer people and expenses” is at least an actual pitch. “Get things done faster for yourself” isn’t.
The individual angle really works for things you already were trying to avoid doing because you’re either disinterested or don’t have enough time to do things right.
“Avoid your work” as a value proposition doesn’t work when you’re dealing with intellectual labor rather than commodities. Not large scale, not long term.
Sorry for the rant, I saw some Notion ads on the subway and got irritated 😅
#AI #llm #LLMs
@aardrian@toot.cafeFrom “Design a Spaceship” by Andi Buchanan in Uncanny Magazine issue 24 (“Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction!”), September / October 2018.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/f145b753-ba18-4d1b-a5e1-8b7c66e254b7
I’ve seen the answer to this quest…
@joe@toot.works... If you aren't a door-to-door salesman or a "super commuter", wouldn't you be better off just renting a car at $75 per day for the few times you want to take a road trip? 🤷♂️
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchangeDo you ever find a particularly pretty leaf and you carry it with you for a block? Just because you want to appreciate how magical it is that nature can create that shade of red? #bloomscrolling
@timbray@cosocial.caAnd if you go watch that video, which isn’t bad, YouTube will queue you up some, um, surprising follow-ups.
https://cosocial.ca/@aeisenberg/115325492154916206
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
@memeorandum@universeodon.comYou can't get anti-institutionalists to trust an institution (pbump)
https://www.pbump.net/o/you-cant-get-anti-institutionalists-to-trust-an-institution/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p133#a251006p133
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeWhen you successfully transplanted a curled up cat from another person to yourself without disturbing the kitty, you must say "the operation was successful"
@tante@tldr.nettime.org(When 4 people directly send you a link to a job, you probably should send in a CV, right?)
@mapto@qoto.orgThis is particularly bad in #Italy, where #WhatsApp is the default means of communication. In other countries I've lived in at least they consider alternatives. In Italy people don't even ask you if you have an account before adding you in school parent groups or contacting you for work over WhatsApp.
@Stomata@social.linux.pizzaexactly! There is something that I can not even explain to myself.
@…
https://mastodon.world/@NoRomBasic/115146988360996382
@aral@mastodon.ar.alMohammed has badly burned his leg with boiling water while making coffee.
(I’ve seen photos without the bandages and it is bad.)
Please help with his fundraiser as he will need additional funds as he recovers:
https://chuffed.org/project/mohshbairgaza
Thank you!
…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialNHS forewarns us about reduced eligibility for COVID jab. Won't end well.
"National Booking Service: Hello Mark [don't be so familiar - Dr Burton to you!].
The rules about who can get the free COVID-19 vaccine have changed this year. You may not be offered it on the day if you're not in a priority group. Staff will confirm on the day. Check here:
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgIf you are using nextcloud as your main file and photo backup (for personal files, not work!), what are you using for organising your photos?
Photoprism? Memories? Something else?
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialPicture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/
@floheinstein@chaos.social@… just a question, I had a look at some your extraordinary work, and I realized that in the example pictures you have an Æ/æ and a Þ/þ, but there's no Ð/ð. Is the letter missing just in the picture or also the fonts? I know Icelandic doesn't have many uses, but since you created two of the special characters I wonder if you forgot the third
@keen456@infosec.exchange
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
@jswright61@ruby.socialThat feeling when you try to fav a toot and you can’t because it's been deleted.
Wait what? it was good enough for a fav, why would you delete it?
@cjust@infosec.exchange
@matthiasott@mastodon.socialIn case you love to dabble with (digital) synthesizers: you can currently buy ujam‘s STRANGER synth for $/€5 at Plugin Boutique – and you’ll get Native Instruments‘ MASSIVE for free on top. 😊 (no affiliation, just FYI)
https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/1-I
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 08 - Duel
MUTOID: Keyeira.
TRAVIS: You were very beautiful, very much admired. Shall I go on?
MUTOID: As you wish.
TRAVIS: [Obviously disappointed] This doesn't interest you at all, does it?
MUTOID: How could it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/388…
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzFor people who want the Fediverse to thrive as a welcoming space, this explanation from @… of typical harassment methods is important to understand.
It's a key part of the answer to "How come Black people or disabled people say they're receiving horrible posts, but _I_ never see anything bad here?" Or "Why don't these people just learn how to block?"
Once you understand the practical framework of what's able to happen invisible to you, you're much less likely to come over as disbelieving and dismissive - a dynamic which otherwise forms another layer of the problem.
#Fediverse #moderation #FediMeta
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialYou can tell you're finding good music if they have several albums out but no avatar on Qobuz
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzAnalyst goes scorched earth on 'atrocious' Jets after Cowboys loss - 'You have any pride?' https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/new-york-jets/news/analyst-goes-scorched-e…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialThe Vegan Logic Test: If You Believe These 6 Things, You’re Nearly There https://veganfta.com/blog/2025/09/24/the-vegan-logic-test-if-you-believe-these-6-things-youre-nearly-there/?utm_source=Mastodon
@saraislet@infosec.exchange"They were engaged, but then they got disengaged"
"They got disengaged?"
"Yeah, what else would you call that?"
"No, no, you're right, they got disengaged"
@kcase@mastodon.socialDo you have any projects that have stalled out? Could you use some prompts to help break them down into smaller pieces?
Now in TestFlight, OmniFocus 4.8 plug-ins can consult Apple's new on-device Foundation Models. These AI models are built into your device, so you’re not sending any data to any other systems, nor are you using any expensive outside resources—you’re just using more capabilities of the device that’s already at your fingertips.
@cdarwin@c.imLegal teams in Chicago are mobilizing to educate children on their rights and document any coercion.
But make no mistake
—this is cruelty by design.
https://immigrantjustice.org/press-release/operation-freaky-friday-what-you-need-to-know/
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI tested Mastodon and found a bug within 2 minutes lol
(When you edit a post that has a quote post attached, but while you do it try to reply to another post, the new reply form has the quoted post from when you did the "edit post" in it, which doesn't make sense)
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaDo you guys know what you're doing, or are you just hacking?
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI tend to talk to kids like they are regular human people. A small child said to me "You're phone is little." and I replied:
"Yes, this phone is 5 years old. It still works, so there's no reason to replace it. There's really no good reason for people to get a new phone every year or two except for consumerism gone out of control. You see, the more money you put into the pockets of big tech, the more..."
The small child walked away at that point, bu…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsYou can close your eyes, and your nose will tell you what train station you're arriving at.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRegulating Big Tech is like regulating a malignant tumour. You don’t regulate a malignant tumour. You cut it out, with enough of a surgical margin to ensure you get every last putrid bit to avoid regrowth.
(This is moot, of course, as we’re not even regulating Big Tech, we’re feeding it with subsidies, government contracts, and access to national healthcare and other sensitive data while the folks who should be regulating them eye their next lucrative gig beyond the revolving doors of …
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaNot sure if you knew, but you can actually make a #Portfolio on #Pixelfed. I just updated mine if you want to check it out.
https://
@cdarwin@c.imTruly, everyone's a "rogue capitalist" now.
It's almost like the problem with companies isn't whether their business model is based on showing you ads or charging you money,
but rather, whether they can abuse you for profit and get away with it.
-- Coty Doctorow
https://mamot.fr/@…
@aardrian@toot.cafeMe, a hammer salesman: “Let's fix that window, you know, for accessibility.”
[ smashes glass ]
you: “Why did you do that?”
me: “For accessibility.
you: “It wasn’t broken.”
me: “I made it better for accessibility.
you: “But how does th—”
me: “FOR ACCESSIBILITY!”
[ waggles hammer overhead ]
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump calls Florida's move to eliminate vaccine mandates a 'tough stance': 'You have vaccines that work' (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-calls-floridas-move-eliminate-vaccine-mandates-tough-stance-you-have-vaccines-work
http://www.memeorandum.com/250906/p7#a250906p7
@wraithe@mastodon.socialMy wife: “Wow, you can get over $100 for just the box, with nothing I it!”
Me: “I’m pretty sure you can get 3-5 in the federal pen if you have the full set.”
Wife: *cackles*
(Yes she keeps me around cos I make her laugh 😂)
And yes, we have a full Jarts set.
@servelan@newsie.social"all babies must be conceived the old-fashioned way, through two minutes of vigorous thrusting and fluid exchanges, followed by a good two hours of gnawing disappointment and regret."
Heritage Foundation Wants You To F*ck For America!
https://www.wonkette.com/p/heritage-foundation-wants-you-to
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioMost software should calm the fuck down, there’s no reason to have an update every week.
Imagine buying a chair and every week someone shows up to change something with the chair.
In some weeks you end up not being able to use it because it collapses every time. You have to wait until the week after for a repair.
And every two years or so they switch the chair out with something completely different.
You now have a toaster.
1/🧵
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 11 - Orbit
AVON: I didn't come here to be... flattered.
EGRORIAN: You came here out of curiosity and because you scented there might be something in it for you, mm, am I right?
AVON: Close enough.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/127 B7B5
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project."
—Alex Borstein
#acting #coaching #inspiration
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI launches AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, including Agent Builder, which Sam Altman described as like Canva for building agents (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/openai-launche…
@hex@kolektiva.socialI had 12 weeks of parental leave for each of my children. (Six of those were paid by my company, and 6 by Washington State. In the US, this might come across as bragging but functional countries will be shocked at how little it is.) My partner fed them, because we had the privilege of being able to breast feed, so I took care of diapers, tummy time, and what other things I could.
I learned about elimination communication (EC). We used cloth diapers, for ecological reasons but also because they can help with potty training later. With EC, it was relatively easy. I actually only had to change dirty diapers a few times. I was available, so I could pay attention to our babies. I could learn their body language. Both of them rarely cried because we knew what they needed before they had to cry about it.
When I was forced back to work, the EC thing fell off. We continued to use cloth diapers for a while with our oldest, but it became too hard with our youngest. We had to switch to disposable diapers because of the overhead.
There have been so many wasteful things we've done because we don't have space to do the right thing. Having kids is both isolating and overwhelming. To maintain sanity, you just have to take short cuts when you don't have time or help.
Before kids, we used to really enjoy cooking together. We would start from basic ingredients and work our way up. We made pad thai, squishing tamarind paste from pods by hand. Even after having kids, my oldest and I would collect acorns from the tree down the street and crack them together. The other day we all cracked acorns we had collected for the first time since moving over here (and I made some Dotori-muk. We've also started making bread together again.
Kids really love making and processing food. There's a sensory element to it, which, if you don't have kids, is actually a really big thing kids need. But there's also a social element to making food together. They just behave better when we do things like that. It's almost like there's some kind of evolutionary incentive for kids to *want* to help. Go figure.
I've really been wanting to make seitan as we try to reduce how much meat we eat in our house. Even that meat consumption is partially about convenience. It's relatively cheap and easy to throw a bag of chicken wings in air fryer, or some ground beef in with pearl couscous in the instant pot, and just have low effort food home made food. My partner is vegan. I used to eat mostly vegan at home and only eat meat on occasion, usually eating out. But it just takes more mental energy to cook without meat. It's an easy protein, and our kids are picky.
These threads, and a few others, all connect back to a single thing. When we can slow down, we can be more careful and thoughtful. We can be mindful. We can make decisions that are better for the environment, that account for climate change. When we are under pressure, when we are tired and overworked, it's just harder or impossible to be careful and mindful... and that's exactly the point.
At a time when the survival of our species depends on our ability to slow down and be mindful, we are more stressed and overwhelmed than ever. Because, if we had a chance to slow down and think, if we could make good choices, we would make choices that would destroy the industries at the core of the global order. To slow down, as we did at the beginning of COVID, is catastrophic for "the economy." Of course it is.
When an industry runs out of room to expand by driving efficiency, it must increase demand. If demand is already fulfilled, it must create waste. The more pressure there is on the population, the worse decisions people make, the more they waste. Waste is the point. We are in an existential conflict. If we do not destroy this system, if we cannot simply slow down and think, we will be destroyed by it.
I think about the microplastics from those diapers, the methane from them rotting (not captured in the municipal biogas digester, but released directly into the environment), the little plastic containers of everything, all the opportunity costs of the carelessness inflicted on us to survive, and I wonder, "is any of this really worth my time in the office? Did I really produce so much more value doing my work than when destroyed in order to allow me to work?" Of course not, because the invisible hand, in it's infinite wisdom, has shuffled away that cost. The cost of our family thrashing is borne by society, we are a burden on everyone, while the value of my labor is internalized to the company.
How much of your "carbon footprint" should belong to your employer? There can be no capitalist solution to the climate crisis because capitalism is the crisis.
#ClimateCrisis
@Stomata@social.linux.pizzaIf you use "Fossify gallery" go to phone/Android/data/org.fossify.gallery/files/Pictures
And you may find your long lost Deleted photos that you cropped with it.
I don't think that's a good privacy features. They are deleted photos and they are still here..
Edit: these are the photos that were originally cropped to use as wallpaper and was deleted but Fossify gallery kept them anyway
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgNow having a debate about whether. Kim Larsen's version of Kringsat av Fjender counts as "positive" and indeed "European"...
what do you think? On Qobuz:
#DancingWithTheEuropeans 🇬🇧 that @qobuz brought to my attention today -> surely there are some slightly more uplifting variants? We have a continent wide music contest every year after all!
Husband suggest Joost's Europapa 🇳🇱or perhaps TransEurope Express 🇩🇪 and kids came up with From Paris to Berlin by Infernal 🇩🇰, but pretty sure there are other options.
Will make a playlist for a party with this as theme so #Fedibrain - what would you add?
@aral@mastodon.ar.alFolks, just a quick heads up: I’m in touch over Signal with Mahmoud from the “Help Mahmoud Family” accounts you might have seen contacting you.
Like you, I was hugely suspicious of them due to the many accounts and automated spam-like messages (I also reported and had one of them taken down as a scam).
It’s looking to me now like this was more of a misguided (and understandably, given the circumstances) desperate attempt to get help.
I ask that we keep an open mind and offe…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI tend to talk to kids like they are regular human people. A small child said to me "You're phone is little." and I replied:
"Yes, this phone is 5 years old. It still works, so there's no reason to replace it. There's really no good reason for people to get a new phone every year or two except for consumerism gone out of control. You see, the more money you put into the pockets of big tech, the more..."
The small child walked away at that point, bu…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsRemember: don't you dare scratch the cat tree, unless you want the #cat to be really mad at you.
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaThe most exquisite peak in culinary art is conquered when you do right by a
ham, for a ham, in the very nature of the process it has undergone since last
it walked on its own feet, combines in its flavor the tang of smoky autumnal
woods, the maternal softness of earthy fields delivered of their crop children,
the wineyness of a late sun, the intimate kiss of fertilizing rain, and the
bite of fire. You must slice it thin, almost as thin as this page you hold
in …
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioOccasionally a guy shows up to “fix something” but it’s a rogue agent and installs razor blades in the armrests.
Someone else shows up and takes the chair away “until further notice”.
The month after you get a delivery of a water bed.
Sometimes the manufacturer of the chair sends a letter that for your own convenience the chair is now suddenly a rental chair.
Last month they increased the rental fee because exciting news! the chair is now sentient and you can help you do your homework and also generate furniture porn.
2/🧵
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“The gates of hell are now opening” – who said it best, Satan or the Israeli defense minister?
To the morally-vacuous West: these are the monsters you call your friends and allies. Hang your heads in shame, you decaying husks of humanity. This is your genocide every bit as much as Israel’s. And it will haunt you forever.
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imDear Senator:
I am writing to urge you to take action on gun violence.
I have not always agreed with you over the years, but I have always respected your integrity.
I do not expect my elected officials to respond to polls, per se, but when 93% of the nation supports background checks,
I do believe that you should seriously consider the moral implications of betraying the will of the people.
Perhaps a story will help to clarify my views.
Just after gradu…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 02 - Power
PELLA: [Having entered unnoticed] Yes, Avon, why?
AVON: I didn't.
PELLA: Your finger was on the trigger. YOU killed him.
AVON: I didn't, Pella. But YOU did, didn't you?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/392 B7B4
@cdarwin@c.imIt pisses me off that NBC Nightly News showed actual footage from this presser -- and neglected to mention the guy from Novo Nordisk keeled over seconds later.
And there was no mention of this now-iconic photo.
Just, yay, cheaper weight loss drugs. -- No visuals of the sociopath sociopathing.
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@rasterweb@mastodon.socialYou know the old saying...When life gives you bruised bananas make banana chocolate chip muffins!
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io[Carl Sagan voice]
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first stop reposting screenshots of tweets from fascist government agencies.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
VILA: You wouldn't be interested in what comes top of it, would you?
KERRIL: You! [hits Vila playfully]
[In the room]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/545…
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineForgetting for a moment you 2 chuckle fucks invaded DC w/the military just to have them add mulch to parks (that's your raising up warriors?!) but chess playing computer, Big Blue, beat human players not by trying to make the most winning move, but by making the move least likely to lose.
How about kegseth the Ax Tosser and the Bone Spur in Chief google the phrase "game theory" learn a thing or 2 and update the group chat from there, you dumb bastards.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioHi there new followers!
You will need to pay the new follower tax!
Which is either post an image of one (1) old computer or of one (1) pet or alternatively of one (1) thing you like.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIf this was tech, all the thought leaders in the astronomy field would write articles like “aliens are inevitable” and “if you don’t believe in aliens you will be left behind”.
https://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/2025/08/06/more-avi-and-3i-atlas/
@cdarwin@c.imGeneral and current reminder:
if you see unusual police or fed activity in the Chicago area,
reach out via Signal at unraveled.66. Anonymity always protected
https://bsky.app/profile/unraveledpress.com/post/3lwzd7mve7k2e
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioAnyone from Microsoft following me?
I’m going to leave GitHub (I’ve been a user since the beta days) and will incessantly ask everyone I know to leave it as well if you don’t roll back the “can’t opt out” force-feeding of “AI” nonsense.
You should also have no integration or collaboration with Xai at all, ever.
Make your management have some sense, this is hostile and disgusting and wrong.
#github
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imI am once again asking you to stop sending us money.
But we do need your time. ⏰
https://zohranfornyc.com/events
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