marriage is just telling each other fun facts about the world until you die

Turns out I am not the only person paranoid enough to have asked this question https://www.reddit.com/r/gamingsuggestions/comments/1n37n8a/are_we_getting_farmed_by_some_bot_questions/

In particular, as I put it: "Wrong answers [that an LLM gives] to junior people who can’t evaluate them will waste more time from your more senior employees."

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If anyone was holding out hope that Disney was somehow not involved in taking Kimmel off the air, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/business/media/jimmy-kimmel-returns-abc.html should put an end to that. "But after senior Disney executives — including its chief executive, Robert A. Iger, and […]

In shocking twist, CDN company already on record as explicitly going to bat for hate speech, now explicitly supporting projects ran by bigots. #cloudflare #usefastlyinstead

Industry: hey GDC, we need you to move out of San Francisco and the US at large because it's unsafe, deal with the still-too-common harassment issues, stop charging egregious for-profit fees, and for you to provide proper compensation for speakers GDC: we hear you but best we can do is rename it

Me: Centrists aren't real Also me: Can I get a terminal with scrollbars that doesn't have a built-in AI assistant?

We are a mixed dialect household here.

Since English is an Anglo-Saxon language, we refer to its speakers as "Anglophones". We missed a trick not being called "Saxophones".

I have heard people getting denied for COVID vaccines because they don't have a health condition. Let this trans person teach y'all cis something: It is always ethical to lie to gatekeepers preventing you from getting the healthcare you need. Spin whatever narrative you need to in order to fit […]

According to WaPo’s termination letter my post referencing Kirk’s views on Black women was not even brought up. The Post’s stated reasons are *worse*. Read the termination letter for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

I was happier with the status quo ante in which I wasn't really quite sure which one was Ben Shapiro and which one was Charlie Kirk or whether they were actually two different people at all.

Many sidewalks in Korea are built with bricks, which makes maintenance underneath them for utilities, etc. easier than have to jackhammer away concrete. Also, they get these neat rivers of moss in the cracks #Mosstodon #silentSunday #nature #naturePhotography #korea #southkorea

The deep southeastern Arabian desert. Duuuuuunes https://mastodon.social/@aerialbot/115239743217641849

Assigned hyundai at dealership

Depressingly likely! https://dice.camp/@valthonis/115238136082284197

In March this year I gave a talk at #monkigras about how Free Software didn't understand it had invented a labour organising movement, and the the predictable consequences of that realisation. It wasn't recorded. Here's a repeat I gave at #pyconau this week. ENJOY! […]

There are a whole bunch of people who are not technically right-aligned who thought that diversity initiatives went too far, have tried to place roadblocks, and quietly welcome the undermining of what they consider to be far left organizations. To them I say: you will be remembered as collaborators.

I'm gonna be in #denver in mid-November. Never been before. What's good? I already know about the weird airport stuff, and intend to investigate it. Would like to know about weird non-airport stuff too.

**Hi, I'm micr0, the creator of Altbot.** Almost a year ago, your incredible generosity helped us raise the funds to buy the server that Altbot runs on today (locally and privately) It's been operating from my home ever since, and I'm so grateful for the support that made that possible. But […]

#mosstodon 👁️ 👁️ 👁️

The idea that Covid can erase immunological memory is terrifying. Imagine the consequence of such an erasure on vaccination herd immunity. It presents the possibility that great deal has simply evaporated. In other words that vaccination rates or vaccination levels have to be reevaluated in […]

News you didn’t know you needed: there is a single specific seal who seems to have dedicated their life to swimming through the Netherlands’ freshwater canals to tour cities. They’ve been at least as far inland as Utrecht and were last spotted in Amsterdam […]

Up late reading about this freaky little mess of a clade that somehow colonized five continents despite never leaving their holes

ayyy look who's here! Still one of my handful of daily browser games. https://mastodon.social/@catfishing/115233072942696288

Taking a break from the big screen…with the medium screen. And then!!! Getting distracted from the medium screen by the small screen. (My tiny screen: “SOON”)

Did you know? Bartenders will cut you off if you’ve had too much booze, but booksellers will continue to sell you books even after you’ve run out of space for them!

In the US, PM₂.₅ from wildfire smoke already kills about the same number of people as guns and cars (~40k each), but this will increase significantly with climate change. 😐 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09611-w

"This is my stick, get out!" Kingfisher (Alcedo athis, 🇩🇪 Eisvogel, 🇵🇱 zimorodek). #birds #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #nature #naturephotography #vogelflausch #ptaki

Literally me this week (albeit 400, not 401). The offender? Google, of all places. https://mastodon.social/@whitequark/115226713485322685

The investigative newsroom I work for, @ProPublica, is raising money right now. This is the last few days of our pledge drive. We report on abuses of power in the public interest. We reported on who works for DOGE and revealed Clarence Thomas’s conflicts of interest. It was the first outlet to […]

A) good, I was expecting this part of the US to follow the West Coast's example. B) I can't shake the feeling I'm very literally watching the opening act of how we end up in the sci-fi future of a fully Balkanized "former US" made up of the Northeast, the Pacific States, and Jesusland* […]

It's 13:37, make a wish!

I am both very irritated and concerned because this is the first time in a long time, I think the first time since I switched to mastodon three years ago, that I feel like something I posted got *widely* distorted in bad faith and *widely* straw-man-argued. I don’t like it. Not a good sign. It […]

It would be disturbing enough if Kimmel's show had been pulled (at the FCC's behest, no less) for speaking ill of Charlie Kirk. But the monologue wasn't even about Kirk. It was about the hypocrisy and opportunism of those using Kirk's murder to advance a right-wing narrative. Comedy can be a […]

he told me he needed a new graphics card so he could play Cyberpunk 2077 at 4k 120??? he doesn't even have thumbs???

Every time I see somebody complain about how tired they are nowadays, I immediately wonder how many times they’ve had Covid so far. Like, yea, obviously there are so dang many other reasons to be tired right now (AMHIK) but also…

We need a Ruby Central which is not beholden to DHH and Shopify money but representative of the larger community. Why aren't the board of directors publicly elected, like Python? https://ruby.social/@adarsh/115215323757719078

It can't be said often enough: the contemporary US right simply does not accept the background presumption that "we all have to live here together." They want to eliminate liberals! They're very vocal about it!

When you think about it, referring to our current point in time as "late-stage capitalism" is quite appropriate, given how disease-like the whole "number must go up at all costs, what's sustainability, precious?" extraction thing is.

I’ve taken this as common knowledge but maybe it’s not, so, PSA: yes your #apple devices are /expected/ to run like crap for a bit in the wake of a software update! Don’t make any inferences about a new release’s performance until it’s been a day or so […]

I’m not sure this is a good idea; it takes them out of circulation for the people who are looking for them. While it seems nice, the actual effect of this will be a denial of access to the very works you’re trying to protect. https://library.love/@kimlockhartga/115219402708136710

Any y’all #catsofmastodon owners happy with microchip feeders, and if so, which brand(s)? Our newish boy is an incredible glutton and we think it’s time to try solving a problem with Technology(tm), lest he starve our other cat when we’re away. Cat tax attached!

Yesterday, 10 years ago, Let's Encrypt issued their first #tls #certificate to the domain name `helloworld.letsencrypt.org`. Since then, they issued 7 billion certificates. To quote Borat: "Great success!" Congrats! #letsencrypt #tls #ssl #https

Maybe think twice if you have Wyze Cams and pay for their cloud subscription. If you have a supported camera, maybe consider the Thingino firmware. #privacy #wyze #wyzecam

Good morning, especially to the two new and two returning @ThePSF directors! And _especially_ good morning to the @ThePSF's moderation team. Y'all do great work and we don't thank you enough (nor could we)! #python

Elizaeth Warren introduces bill banning employers from running credit reports in hiring https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/15/elizabeth-warren-credit-reports-employment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-The-Guardian-Politics