I was looking through old notes and found this cartoon. I think the Fedi would like this. https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a28044-rd2

#python friends, you got any favorite libraries to help introspect large import trees? (use cases: providing feedback during the early import-the-world phase of loading a monorepo; determining how to extract internal dependencies or resolve cycles; etc) My fallback is to just whip something up […]

Go out on Friday night? Sorry, I've got plans with my buddy. #cat #catsofmastodon

@nyrath looks interesting! https://youtu.be/jo454Gsex-k

I'm guessing they did some rigorous risk analysis. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/insurers-move-to-limit-ai-liability-as-multi-billion-dollar-risks-emerge?mtm_kwd=mastodon via @mhoye https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/115684936101043331

Incredible lava fountains! https://youtu.be/TK2N99BDw7A?si=WryA26-qi6MQCUrE

WaPo: Washington Post This man carries shelter dogs to help get them adopted "Bryan Reisberg spends one day a week taking shelter dogs out of their kennels. He puts them in a backpack that says "adopt me" and shows them around New York..." […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

@futurebird My kid is imagining future co-evolutionary branches or ants and the pangolins that chase them into the water. I thought you might enjoy the sketches.

We need this in Edinburgh!

Buying some perfume online. "Would you like an installment plan?" For a $26 purchase. If I wanted I could set up the installment plan for the $26 purchase and have it charge my credit card. Call it "micro leverage on leverage." Some puritanical grumpy voice deep in me that came from my dad […]

I am an adult. I’m short, yes, but this is ridiculous. The hood on this truck is higher than my shoulder. It forms in 90° angle with the ground. hideous! There’s no way they could see me in the crosswalk. They were double parked. Even with the engine off it […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

Major MAGA accounts on X (Twitter) were exposed as being operated from outside the U.S. Some examples: MAGANationX (nearly 400,000 followers) — based in Eastern Europe IvankaNews (about 1 million followers) — based in Nigeria MAGA Scope (over 51,000 followers) — based in Nigeria America First […]

No ads. No* algorithm. No influence campaigns. No AI. No bots. Just people on the internet talking to each other about all the little pointless things, (and big incredible things) in our lives. *I realize that the demonization of the term "algorithm" in social media is unfortunate in many ways […]

Yuki is very focused when playing. #caturday #catsofmastodon #cats #stangerdanger

your car is too big and it looks like an expensive tumor. It looks like a pug who was selected as a poster child for the dangers of the poor breeding practices of puppy mills. It looks sad. and it doesn’t fit anywhere: not in a parking spot, not in the garage, not through the opening to the […]

“Make unstoppable happen.” Sounds more like a threat than a slogan— I regard JP Morgan’s new slogan as a negative market indicator. There’s something self-conscious about it. Why would a proud and venerated investment bank like JP Morgan Chase even think about our glorious, ever-rising stock […]

Someone put this "blue plaque" on a London Tesla showroom to mark his becoming the world's first trillionaire. “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk. Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.” […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

I guess furlough is fine time for jury duty. Sure.

First time I’ve been allowed to #vote in any #election - and I got to vote for #zohranmamdani 🥳 So glad my #us citizenship came through on time to register! If y’all can vote today please do!!! #nyc #newyork #mamdani

In US first, #newmexico launches #free #childcare for all Saturday NM became the first #us state to offer free child care to all residents in a bid to boost its #economy & lift #education & #childwelfare levels… NM Gov Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) told reporters #child #care was "the backbone of […]

If you are a California voter, please vote Yes on Proposition 50, a hopefully temporary measure to counter the Trump-Republican rigging of U.S. House districts for perpetual GOP control. They declared war on democracy. Support Prop 50 to fight back […]

X-59 first flight. Photo by Gavin Douglas

X-59 about to first flight https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=abc9f4

@cvvhrn are you around Palmdale?

#catsoftodon #caturday #kitty

If someone had said “if Trump gets elected, he’ll literally bulldoze the White House” just a year ago, everyone - right, left, and center - would have told them to shut up and stop exaggerating.

Colombia: “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters” “Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing.” “The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure.”

This morning's 3.7% illuminated Moon. #astrophotography #seestar #moon

Meanwhile, in Sports.... It's apparently BIG TURD day.

I will call "No Kings" a big success. Multiple outlets are reporting on millions of participants. It was bigger than the one in the summer. A lot of people participating in something like this for the first time. It was national and even a little international (Thank you London and Dublin) No […]

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

Got a call with Caller ID saying it's from my Credit Union. They told me there was an account breach. In a very Indian accent. I asked if it was a breach or an incident. He told me it was a breach. I asked what of my data had been exfiltrated. He said third parties had access to all of my […]

We have been proclaimed to celebrate #columbusday here in the USA and my mind immediately turns to the oatmeal (which is also what I ate for breakfast.) https://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day

*Curing Alzheimer's in mice *Skeptics will go, "heyn that's in mice," and rightly so, but curing it at all, that's a big deal https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-025-02426-1

BBC: Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2rz08en2po #climateemergency #Climate

This is pretty amazing. I'd like to look at this for Mars EDL. https://youtu.be/6rrDW6YIbXI?si=t2k-kww52gGf2hI7

A judge worth reading. Re Trump having the pardons and the tanks, he says we have our sense of duty and the Constitution. https://dakotafreepress.com/2025/10/01/deportation-of-visiting-students-for-pro-palestinian-speech-violates-first-amendment/ Same judge came up with "indelible obloquy" "To […]

Welp.

War ravaged Portland

This is Yuki's first #caturday (and my first one, too.)

This is probably a dumb thing to ask of my 3 followers on mastodon, but has anyone experimented with side-by-side stereo for 3d glasses? I'm looking for something simple/inexpensive ... the meta quest/apple-vision-pro approach of everything running on the goggles has nice results, but then there […]

Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border. This is how the police dealt with them. Literally beat the hell out of them. This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.

@nyrath or friends: Does anyone have a GIF animation snippet from The Expanse where everyone rushes to their seats for high-acceleration? I have wanted this for some Discord conversations.

[USpol] The Trump administration had dozens of children loaded onto planes with plans to immediately remove them from the United States when a federal judge temporarily blocked the deportations […]