The current state of X is a good metaphor for the current state of America, in that the only actual people left on X are Very Important People and awful monsters who are seeking to manipulate Very Important People, but the Very Important People would rather share space with awful monsters than go somewhere else where they might be perceived as fractionally less important

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/x-about-this-account/685042/?gift=nwn-guseqS6cY1kVeEKZAcCrBXkH5imrvoYRXquoAEY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

🍿 New Medialog entry:

The Life of Chuck

https://blog.scaglio.id/medialog/movies/life-of-chuck/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@joynewacc/115603564851743470

The only one who donated is my friend!
donate please
#gaza #genocide

calling myself a prompt engineer, because i configured my own shell prompt

What’s the worst thing that could happen to us?
That it rains in Gaza.
And now it’s pouring down heavily, and we’re freezing inside our tent.

(I’m scared the water might leak in💔)

“I didn’t know I was building a forest” https://www.rewildingmag.com/i-didnt-know-i-was-building-a-forest/

This 90-year-old woman in India offers a lesson on how small, incremental action can lead to meaningful change.

#ClimateChange #Nature #Rewilding

The Israel-Palestine peace process has always foundered because the West insists on taking Israel's side while pretending it's a rational, well-intentioned state actor and not a bunch of racist land-stealing sociopaths who need perpetual war to stay in power and out of jail. (The problem being this unspoken truth is why the US loves them so much.) Essentially, the Palestinians are never treated as having a legitimate grievance nor given a non-violent means to address it.

@huertanix, FPF’s senior digital security trainer, spoke with the Huffington Post about the privacy implications of uploading your personal identification onto your phone.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/apple-passport-digital-id_l_691debe3e4b06f2a60caf5d9

"Linux is too complicated for anyone"

Windows users:

#Linux #Microsoft #FuckAI #Windows11

Some helpful advice for all you software devs:

- You cannot solve social problems with code

- You cannot improve a system until you understand why it works the way it does

- You cannot produce tools for someone else without understanding how they work and what they are trying to accomplish

ah shit the pharmacy got my order wrong and gave me anti emetics but anti memetics . i can't remember anything

If the world is supplied with 100% renewable energy, 50% of the global shipping traffic will be eliminated, coal oil and gas no longer needs to be transported
#endfossilfuels
#oilkills

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@inquiline @Moss @Anneheathen
What about "refuse to be treated like garbage"

Oups, I nearly forgot to present our own poster... Luckily, Tiziana Ilie, M.A. student and first author on this project, did a grand job presenting our work on how DeepL deals with pronomial pickups of the hybrid noun "Mädchen". For this study, we used the #OpenSource model OLMo-2-7B to generate our experimental stimuli. Our abstract is here: https://paths.to/m%C3%A4dchen-poster and we will have a preprint out soon so watch this space...

#MachineTranslation #LLM #linguistics

This is a really sobering analysis, but I believe it is essentially correct.

https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie

If you want to see what is currently being worked on, check out https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-project-goals/