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Here superswingdistricts.org/2026/ is a project a dude on Mastodon mastodon.social/@glyph/11747... does every US election, where he does Math to try to sabermetrics which candidates offer maximum impact per $ donation. Does that work? Does it make sense in an election this swingy? I don't know.

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

TIL that the ultramassive black hole TON618, 66 billion solar masses, 30x larger than our whole solar system, heavier than our whole galaxy, is fully named “Tontanzilla 618” but “nobody says that because it is too hard to say”. I’m sorry what. TONTANZILLA. How can you not say tontanzilla. I […]

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

A convincing debunking of the claim bouncing around the internet today that disinfo bot activity plummeted after the Yandex data centers were bombed. I.e., there's no evidence that it's true and it probably isn't. Money quote: "If you take a long, hard look at the sources here who told you it IS […]

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eepy august [0x08] 🏳️‍⚧️🇲🇰 @august.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

a sentence will always look like poetry if you hit enter a lot

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Really cool event on Sunday, put on by a local bike racing team (but not at all racing focused): www.brazendropouts.org/teejop-commu… Bike tour of Teejop Community Art Project sites in Madison. "The Teejop Community Art Project promotes learning and awareness of the […]

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Julia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

dumb git question: in a merge-based workflow, if you’re working on a branch, is there any reasonable way to integrate new changes from `main` back into your branch without using `git rebase`? I have this belief that there are people who only use merge commits and not rebase but I don’t […]

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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lea @lea.ordinary.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

If you/your project is affected by DigitalOcean stopping their OSS credits program, please shoot me a PM immediately. Might be able to help. Boosts for visibility would be appreciated. #foss #linux

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Søren Have @sorenhave.dk · 01/08/2026

How did Denmark get from basically 0 to 80% new sale of EVs in 5 years? Here’s my slides from a recent presentation on what I think has been instrumental in achieving this.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 29/09/2026

Utilitarianism is broken because quality of experience is not actually a scalar value. It does not ideologically admit the possibility of the need for things like balance and rhythm. Consider the fact that you can die of thirst and you can die of drowning. While you *can* reflect this fact in a […]

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Your playbook failed. Management wants a root cause. You have 30 seconds. Introducing larvitz.bofh, an Ansible collection that returns Bastard Operator From Hell excuses: "Root cause: The mainframe tripped over an unhandled SIGSEGV in the automated […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

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robinhouston @robinhouston.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

For my birthday, my brother-in-law gave me a 4992-digit hex number that, when used as a seed for Python’s random number generator, makes it so that printing a sequence of “random” ASCII characters actually prints a birthday greeting. I find it rather amazing that this is possible! This is the […]

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Scott Francis @darkuncle.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

“‘Sceptic’ comes from the Greek skeptikos, meaning enquirer, and has a long and serious pedigree in philosophy. Yet, since the 1990s, the term has been hijacked by science-denial movements, giving us oxymorons like ‘climate sceptic’, ‘vaccine sceptic’, and ‘evolution sceptic’. These movements […]

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I find it _interesting_ that most modern portrayals of fairy tales involve kings, knights, princesses and so forth - the privileged aristocratic classes on top of the social pyramid. Even if the protagonist of such a tale is poor, they are still secretly from privileged parents, and their story […]

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 19/06/2026

I really need people to understand that Palantir is not an engineering marvel; it is a multi-billion-dollar contractual containment layer wrapped around the world's ugliest legacy open source frankenstack. It's a shitty Snowflake for companies that don't know how to do data engineering.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I'm impressed to see IBM's Granite LLM model, which is open source, with open weights, trained exclusively on non-copyrighted text. I'm running it on my M5 MacBook Pro right now, for a big text-summarization project. No ethical concerns, either in training or in operating…I think I've found an […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

It's nowhere near the worst or most consequential thing he's done, but I think Trump's threat to demolish the Kennedy Center if he isn't allowed to name it after himself is the clearest demonstration yet that he's gone mad with the imagined power of his office. It doesn't advance any policy […]

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Troubling. Here’s the link: ewerickson.substack.com/p/the-midwes...

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Scott Francis @darkuncle.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

wow, Tycho went *off* about AI companies and their shenanigans, and I'm here for it www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2026…

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John Kristoff @jtk.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Ever see or hear of NetFRAME? They were a kind of elite and pricey PC server in the early/mid 1990s. They had a reputation for high availability and reliability in a market many mini/mainframe people considered replete with cheap junk (not entirely untrue). In a water-flooded data center event […]

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 15/09/2026

Please admire this slop-guide to the U.S. government that my kid received in his ninth grade government class. “Watergsstate Impreachment Imeachment bolity Precedent”

A sort of map of US government, with lots of arrows and words. It’s labelled “SIMPLIFIED CONCEPT MAP: U.S. GOVERNMENT.”

Close up of the diagram:

Example: Watergate Impeachment Key 2473 - Watergsstate Impreachment
Imeachment bolitiy Precedent
Legislative Checks
Executive
Veto
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Executive Cheeks
Example:
Washington's 2-Ter-in Precedent
Example 3: Impeachment Precedent Key 2016 - Declares political inconinitional comnoladunt precedions hutsite avothov Uncostitutional: Bleachmens on the divisience of the Barizon Precedent

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Glyph @glyph.im · 12/09/2026

James Talarico throwing trans people under the bus is a WAY more overt, more harmful, and less ambiguous tactical error than some random trans person getting disgusted with him and protest voting or staying home.

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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

(Addendum) This is obvious to people who work in product management and engineering leadership, but for the people at the back: Values like “accessible to every customer” aren’t a simple matter of caring enough to do it. There are more things to do than time available, so fixing WebTV for three […]

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

How intelligent is a million dollars? A million dollars in the hands of 1000 people with $1000 each will have many carefully considered impacts on a wide range of companies and ventures. A million dollars in the hands of a single person is much less intelligent. It's just not going to be […]

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"supports immune function" What, like Emotionally

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Ben Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

This one will hurt: I love 1Password as a product. But I'm the son of a concentration camp survivor. I will not give money to companies that align themselves with nationalism, and certainly not ethnic cleansing. Completely disappointing, @1password […]

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 05/09/2026

Next Saturday at #EuroBSDCon 2026, I'll tell the story of one of the longest nights of my career. On 10 March 2021, I had just fallen asleep when the alerts started arriving. One server down. Then another. And another. Different servers, different […] [Original post on mastodon.bsd.cafe]

Cover slide for Stefano Marinelli’s EuroBSDCon 2026 presentation. A nighttime photo shows the OVHcloud Strasbourg data centre engulfed in flames and thick smoke. A huge orange "142" overlays the fire. Below, on a black background, the title reads: "The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. Physically."
In the top-right corner: "Stefano Marinelli · EuroBSDCon 2026 · Saturday 12 September, 11:15 · D.0.02."

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

So there are basically two ways for this to go, and I honestly have no idea which one it will be: (sane option): Everyone recognizes that this can't happen, and the EO has no effect until the courts have ruled on the merits (after November) (chaos option) USPS refuses to accept/deliver blank […]

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

Can someone explain to me what it would mean and why it would be bad for "China to beat the US in the AI race?" I'm having trouble understanding how this could have any traction as an argument at all? What would this "defeat by China" look like? Materially speaking? Do me a little steel man on […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

It's kind of odd to think about how for Euclid, Pythagoras was kind of a folk story. A guy with a possibly math themed mystery cult. He lived 270 years before Euclid. Kind of like a George Washington? With stories about chopping down cherry trees that might not be true. The theorem that's named […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@associatedpress/poli… This headline is misleading; the Court didn't "clear the way" for the vote-by-mail restrictions executive order, but rather dismissed one of two lower court injunctions currently blocking […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

"But no one will ever know that the factory is polluting the water. The factory is owned by David Dollars and his brother Bingsbly Dollars owns both of the town newspapers!" If you saw this in a movie or read it in a book you'd understand the plot point. Conflict of interest, control of […]

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mcc @dryad.technology · 20/08/2026

Anyway I think it would be great if interfaces for clearly expressing one's ideas existed, and programs that could mechanically enact those ideas and clearly present results back existed, and people knew how to use the programs, and the programs worked. That would be a nice world to live in.

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

This is the most damning and horrifying text in this article: >Bonica found that out of some $670 million in donations, just $11 million wound up in the coffers of campaigns, national party committees, and individual candidates. The other $659 million stayed with the fundraising groups […]

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Stars & Stripes publisher announces sudden retirement, telling staff his philosophy of leadership and “understanding of the value and mission" of the newspaper differ in “fundamental ways” from the direction DoD wants to go in. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

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Stars and Stripes publisher announces retirement

Max D. Lederer Jr., the longtime publisher of Stars and Stripes, announced his retirement, ending a three-decade career at the organization.

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Applies to the coming Anthropocene extinction event as much as to galloping, worldwide fascism.....

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TechAltar @techaltar.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

The Fairphone Gen 6+ is here and it's also the first Fairphone to come to the US! Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/techaltar-fairphon… (YouTube coming soon)

Thumbnail showing me looking at a Fairphone gen 6+

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

[death and mourning] The traditional Jewish mourning process for a parent has 3 phases: shiva — seven days of mourning after the funeral¹; shloshim — 30 days of mourning after the funeral²; and the year after the funeral (actually 11 months and one day³). Today marks the end of shloshim for my […]

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Wrote about text watermarking, a concept only slightly more offensive than AI “writing” by which AI companies show yet again that they don’t understand or care about writing at all: www.404media.co/anthropics-t...

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Anthropic’s Text Watermarking Proves AI Companies Do Not Care at All About Writing

AI companies see words as interchangeable and have zero clue how to judge the “quality” of writing.

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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

After publishing the results of Discovery Week, we can now give you a first sneak peak at Mastodon 5.0, our next big version. It will bring a new visual look to your screens, a refreshed and calmer layout, as well as a new composer […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

What makes a country free? Here are my metrics: 1. To what extent does wealth, ethnicity distort the enforcement of laws and punishments for crimes. Can you send a rich criminal to prison? 2. To what extent does wealth, ethnicity distort the press and free expression? 3. Are you producing […]

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 14/08/2026

When I warn leaders of state agencies that it is dangerous to rely on a single vendor, because they could close up shop, they'll sometimes argue that they're relying on *Microsoft* (or whoever) so they're fine. That's when I ask "Who do you think will be around longer: Microsoft or your state?"

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Joshua Barretto @jsbarretto.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I want to remind you: these bastards have spent $1.5 trillion of society's money on this technology. That it's produced *something* should not be surprising. That's 'solve aging', 'cure cancer', 'eliminate all poverty', 'shift climate change into reverse', or 'send a probe to another solar […]

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Maho 🦝🍻 @mapache.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

I have it, I use it! - @phanpy

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Glyph @glyph.im · 11/08/2026

one of the horrifying things about watching the software developer community's slow-motion collapse is realizing just how many coders (and managers, for that matter) have been understanding loose metaphors and allusions as literal truth. if a system provides a "guarantee" you can't actually get […]

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