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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I asked a trusted colleague for comments on a written document and they fed it in to chatGPT and sent me back that output and I just want to cry. Guess I won't be asking that person for help or advice on anything anymore. Enshittification happens in people's writing skills too, I guess. I also […]

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Shout out to this project. "Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost." Absolutely incredible. standardebooks.org

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Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

TAKE YOUR BALLOTS TO A DROP BOX THIS NOVEMBER. Don't use a mailbox. Use a ballot drop box, because the US postal service is _already_ fucking with ballots. This is not a guess, theory, or extrapolation, this is an _observed fact_. Here's the Thurston […] [Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net]

The Problem with Mail Delivery

By law, we must certify the election by a specific deadline. For the primary, that date was August 18, 2026, two weeks after Election Day. Any ballot that arrives after this date cannot be counted, even if it was mailed on time.

We are seeing two main problems with the post office:

* Slow Mail: Many people mailed their ballots well before Election Day, but the ballots sat in post office sorting centers for weeks. In one case, a ballot was mailed in late July but didn't reach our office until after the August 18 deadline. It took 19 days to arrive, so it could not be counted.

* Ballots sent Between Counties: In Washington State, you can drop your ballot into any official drop box in the state. Other counties collect those ballots and mail them back to us using USPS Priority Mail. In the past, this worked well. But this year, mail sent on August 5 didn't reach us until August 24, six days after the deadline.

So far, our office has received 70 valid ballots that arrived after the certification deadline. This has never happened before, and it means those votes could not be counted. One ballot took 19 days to reach us.

What We Are Doing for November

No voter should lose their vote when they’ve followed every rule.

To fix this for the November election, we will no longer rely on the post office to send ballots between counties. Instead, our team will personally drive to neighboring counties to pick up and hand-deliver these ballots ourselves. Even though this costs extra money and time, it is necessary to make sure every vote counts.

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

As Cory Doctorow notes, "Big Tech has proved that its only principles are not paying taxes, invading your privacy, and not being broken up by antitrust enforcers." So they've effectively joined the Trump regime, and any nation that dares challenge them risks a a great deal […]

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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beSpacific @bespacific.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Via #LLRX The #EPA #data on #cancer risk from #airpollution has gone dark – Grist reporter Sachi Kitajima Mulkey explains how EPA’s data on #cancer #risk from air pollution has gone dark. For decades, communities have relied on the agency’s cancer risk estimates to hold #polluters accountable […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Myth: "Public libraries and book stores have to dispose of books all the time so at least if these companies are scanning the books for AI they will be preserved for history." I keep hearing people say this and it's based on a huge misunderstanding of what training data is and how it works […]

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Mike Olson @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

I'm reading @gilduran's book Nerd Reich right now. It's a lot, but that's mostly because the people he writes about are a lot. @jessewellsworld just dropped a new song that's pretty fun: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwz1XwHwWhY h/t @cutting for the link.

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Ionica Smeets @ionica.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

The A.I. trolley problem

A cartoon of a trolley in front of a switch that goes either to 1 or 5 people tied on the tracks and two people looking at it and saying: “Luckily, the A.I. trolley will decide who to kill all on its own” - made by Paul North for The New Yorker

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

When I was a teen the first computer spellcheckers became popular. I always struggled with spelling and decided to use them whenever possible. One of my teachers said "but you may never learn how to spell on your own if you lean on these tools too much" She was correct. This could happen to […]

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

#KennedyCenter #finances deteriorated sharply after #Trump name change Budget & meeting documents show ticket revenue & fundraising plummeted even as leaders publicly touted a financial turnaround. Ticket sales had already dropped in the 10 months following Trump’s takeover, but both ticket […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Also made some of @jwz's cards. For my sanity's sake.

A stack of red cards based on @jwz's "Do not talk to me about "AI"" design

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Wow. "AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. " […]

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

"Over the past year and a half, at least 28 federal datasets have been deleted and another 338 data collections have been modified, according to an online tracker released last week from dataindex.us, a group of data policy experts, researchers and developers that formed last year to monitor […]

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keet @keet.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Fighting with Libreoffice Math again. The online guides are not helpful. I need to be able to place a double sided arrow over text to indicate a line. This is the standard for most high school geometry texts. I can easily do a bar or a vector, but not a line. What am I missing here? #math […]

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

it’s really ridiculous how react and friends killed server templating because it’s supposedly inefficient, and now that everyone knows client-side react sucks, the technology that fixes that is… server templating, but broken and made of leaky abstractions like, you don’t need what react is […]

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Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

I don't get the argument that public institutions "have to be where people are". Why? Pornhub has about the same amount of monthly active users as X. No one thinks our EU commissioners or the Swedish parliament must be on Pornhub. In the pre-socials era no one expected the prime minister to […]

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Bodil @bodil.lol · 13/08/2026

Good morning and happy Bindependence Day! If you're eligible to vote in the Clacton by-election, please make your vote COUNT today!

Count Binface, rampant, in front of the Palace of Westminster.

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aburtch @aburtch.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

This is why I read @pluralistic He's so good at succinctly summing up important high-level concepts and then connecting them with the current problems we face. #capitalism #wealth #oligarchy

Piketty shows that this holds true across markets and nations and eras: all other things being equal, the market system produces a class of hereditary aristocrats who command the world's capital and direct its deployment, despite never having done anything. The market's most lavish rewards do not go to its most productive participants, but rather, to those participants who have the good fortune to emerge from the luckiest of orifices.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

RE: social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/1… Most city dwellers don't know how much of the night sky has already been stolen by billionaires, because poorly planned, wasteful city lights have already drowned out the stars for them.

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

After experimenting with local LLMs for a couple years now, I'm excited to release my newest project: The Ethical Assistant! It provides all the benefits of an LLM assistant but with low energy usage, completely private, and no cost to use. tinysubversions.com/ethical-assista…

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The Ethical Assistant

Get the most important benefits of LLM assistants without the associated environmental costs, privacy risks, and economic brinksmanship.

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

From XenophonsXiphos on Reddit, few years back. They've only gotten worse.

"You all don't get it. I live in Trump country, in the Ozarks in southern Missouri, one of the last places where the KKK still has a relatively strong established presence. They don't give a shit what he does. He's just something to rally around and hate liberals, that's it, period. He absolutely realizes that and plays it up, they love it, he knows they love it, and the fact that people act like it's anything other than that just proves that liberals are idiots, all the more reason for high fives all around.

If you keep getting caught up in why do they not realize blah blah blah and how can they still back him after blah blah blah, you are not understanding what is the underlying motivating factor of his support. It's fuck liberals, that's pretty much it.

Have you noticed he can do pretty much anything imaginable and they'll explain some way that rationalizes it that makes zero logical sense? Because they're not even keeping track of any logical narrative, it's irrelevant, fuck liberals is the only relevant thing, trust me, I know first hand what I'm talking about. That's why they just laugh at it all, because you all don't even realize they really truly don't give a fuck about whatever the conversation is about, it's just a side mission story that doesn't really matter anyways. That's all just trivial details - the economy, health care, whatever. Fuck liberals.

Look at the thing with not wearing the masks. I can tell you what that's about. It's about exposing fear. They're playing chicken with nature and whoever flinches just moved down their internal pecking order, one step closer to being a liberal.

You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness. And I mean passionate, sadistic hatred. And I'm not exaggerating. Believe me. Sadistic, passionate hatred, and that's what proves they're strong, their passionate hatred for weakness. Sometimes they lump in vulnerability, a compromised circumstance, or an overwhelming circumstance in their with weakness, too, because people tend to start humbling themselves when they're in those circumstances and that's an obvious sign of weakness.

Kindness=weakness. Honesty=weakness. Compromise=weakness. They consider their very existence to be superior in every way to anyone who doesn't hate weakness as much as they do. They consider liberals to be weak people that are inferior, almost a different species, and the fact that liberals are so weak is why they have to unite in large numbers, which they find disgusting, but it's that disgust that is a true expression of their natural superiority.
Go ahead and try to have a logical, rational conversation with them though. Just keep in mind what I said here and think about it."

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

RE: aus.social/@bastardsheep/1170193129… I bought a used Toyota EV and wanted to rip the telemetry device out of it. They make it SUPER hard. It’s buried deep in the dashboard. I went on a Toyota forum asking about whether anyone had done it on a BZ4X. (I’ve seen the one where […]

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 01/08/2026

2016: Russia, if you can hear me... 2025: DOGE axes federal cyber security agency CISA 2026: POTUS starts war with Iran, which has active industrial cyber-attack capabilities Iran cyber-attacks US industrial targets POTUS tries to deflect by blaming D govs. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Walz blasts unfounded Trump claim on cyberattacks

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Friday responded sharply to unfounded allegations from President Donald Trump that Minnesota was behind recent cyberattacks on municipal water systems.

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CM Harrington @octothorpe.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

BECAUSE OPENAI IS MADE OF FUCKBOIS WHO CAN’T FIGURE OUT EVEN BASIC SECURITY This has always been a PR stunt. Shit doesn’t ‘escape containment’ if you leave the front door, back door, and all the windows open. It literally did what you told it to do, and did it with the programming you gave it […]

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

I mean seriously, all I have to say is LOL 🤣🤭😂🤣🤭😂🤣🤭😂 #DOJ drops “criminal” case against ex-Olympian charged with damaging #ReflectingPool #Trump #TrumpsALoser #law #FrivolousLawsuit #propaganda #trumpaganda #bullshit #gaslighting #TaxpayersMoney #vanity #narcissism […]

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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

So, this "curing cancer" thing will have to wait to feed the word salad generator. www.engadget.com/2225849/google-shu…

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beSpacific @bespacific.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Last year, the #Trump administration delayed a $10 million #grant that was supposed to help #Minnesota thin out about 4,000 acres of dense, dry #forest at high #risk of #burning. Most of that work never got started, according to five people familiar with the situation and a document reviewed by […]

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Donald Trump: I will break all sorts of rules to retaliate against NYT for exposing shortcomings with my Flying Bribery Palace. NYT: Okay then, we'll published a **4,500 word** story, replete with pictures, detailing those shortcomings at far more length. 🤣 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u...

Four photos showing a lower entryway door which is supposed to be included on Air Force One, but which is not on the new plane. The photos show the new plane before and after being painted.

Old Air Force One

Lower entryway

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Lower

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Qatari-donated jet
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No lower

entryway

Photo by U.S. Air Force
With presidential paint

No lower

entryway

Photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

“When you open a new credit card, you necessarily give the credit card company your address. You probably expect that information to remain with your bank. But when you open a new credit card or change your address on file, your address leaves your credit card provider, travels through a web of […]

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Chao-c' @xchaos.f.cz.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Solar-powered tricycles help Cubans navigate fuel shortages and blackouts apnews.com/article/cuba-fuel-crisis… #solarpunk #cuba #solar #climate

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

In case there was any doubt, #Trump is fully condoning the #ExtraJudicialKillings by #ICE. Federal Agents Were Told #FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE “Confrontations” Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days […]

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Joe Wynne 🌻🚗⛰️ @joewynne.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

📰 Curb‑cutting Resistance Helped Reshape Tucson’s Urban Ecology 🌧️ Tucson: A man illegally diverted rainwater into streetside basins in 1998. Years later, it transformed a desert neighborhood into a shaded, food‑producing micro‑ecosystem. 🌵 The approach revived Indigenous rain‑harvesting […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Oh gosh this article makes me want to cry. Why does everyone keep printing what that awful CEO says without fact-checking it? www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-… I saw a quote in a different article where someone from Reflect Orbital said it was totally fine to look at the […]

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Flipboard Tech Desk @techdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Madison Square Garden is suing @WIRED over stories relating to surveillance at the venue. Wired stands by its reporting and has lifted the paywall on two of the stories so you can read them for yourself. Here they are: flip.it/CmOGtT flip.it/2n8E4_ #Technology […]

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keet @keet.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

While everyone was focused on the possible demise of Mitch McConnell, nobody was paying attention to Lindsay Graham. That was unexpected to hear from a non-South Carolinian's perspective at least.

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keet @keet.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

In the past, I've had much success using abraunegg's OneDrive client for linux. The only downsides are that the initial setup uses the terminal (not a big deal, tbh..) and the fact that it stores everything in your OneDrive locally. With this new(to me) system running Kubuntu, I do not have the […]

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keet @keet.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Gotta love being "very computer". My minipc may have failed today and won't boot. I've disassembled/reassembled everything and cleared its cmos, but no dice. It has done this before, so I prob need to be patient. In the meantime, I've taken an old water-cooled i7 quad core pc and installed […]

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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Interviewer: Why would you want to stand to be the MP for Clacton? @CountBinface : Why not? (Dead air/deathly silence for way too long.) Interviewer: That's a good question. Time for some real #Bindependence www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAXT5xf9ot4 #MakeEveryVoteCount #BringBackCeefax

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

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