Thank you, #UncleSam for your contribution to our financial wealth and health!
When we hear the US Govt #debt has hit $40 trillion, that is a reference only to the amount of UST #bonds issued since the founding of the USA,
chart @reuters.com
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-debt-crosses-40-trillion-threshold-after-doubling-under-trump-biden-2026-08-19/

@lutindiscret
aawwww... ipfs. Ouais j'ai pas eu une super expérience avec ce protocole.
@lcheylus

@cstross #WordWeavers Aug. 21: What's a trope you enjoy writing, even if it's unpopular? Macguffin quests. Either get or get rid of. They're a good excuse to send the characters out and about, into all kinds of sticky situations.

#fedihire #hiring #python #django #aws

UK based only - Senior Developer for The Electoral Commission // £70,000 // fully remote possible, hybrid at UK hubs also fine if your preference.

Fancy working with interesting data problems, and services that need to scale to millions of voters? You'll help bring a major voter-information service in-house and shape what comes next.

YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU! We all need you. Plz.

Interested? I'm sole recruiter for this > thayer@team-prime.com CVs pls!

@sebsauvage @lcheylus je suivais aussi, ça semble abandonné. Ça a buté sur les limites de ipfs

"About 200,000 of the 1 million proposed SpaceX AI1 satellites would be decommissioned each year. Based on their May 29 FCC filing, about 40,000 would definitely deorbit and burn up in the atmosphere. (Those materials would largely be dispersed throughout the atmosphere, turning a resource into a diffuse contaminant that slowly settles over the globe. One related issue: the aluminum would cause an unknown amount of ozone depletion over a period of decades.)"

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/spacexs-orbital-data-centers-would-create-a-new-category-of-e-waste/

People have been using computers to do all kinds of fancy statistical analysis, to solve complex problems, but we didn't say "computer predicts weather!!!" Or "computer discovers oil!!!".

All these announcements saying "AI™ does (whatever)" are just marketing to try to make us think a type of software tool is more like a human than other software.

They are trying to get us to treat it as autonomous in order to avoid responsibility, just like they did with corporations and states.

@MsHearthWitch that shouldn't happen ❤️‍🩹 would you please get in touch with our support team to see if there's a way to save those? You can send them a message by going to this Help Page and scrolling all the way down to the red button. Hope they figure it out!

https://help.vivaldi.com/services/account/forgotten-account-credentials/

@romanoroth - You joke... https://www.autodesk.com/solutions/autodesk-ai/ai-in-architecture-engineering

59 years of predatory occupation.
1,049 days of genocide.
7 governments.
One statement.
Zero sanctions.

And it even misses the international law obligation: per the ICJ 2024 Advisory Opinion, it's the occupation itself -not just the E1 plans- that must end.

So: Cut trade now.

This month's annoyance: people non-consensually assigning me tickets in their organisation's ticket tracker.

As #PuTTY maintainer, I'm often asked to fill in annoying government paperwork, usually from someone else's country. "All the software our organisation uses must comply with the National Foo Directive, so please fill in this huge questionnaire to confirm that you do."

Often without bothering to even mention which nation's National Foo Directive it is. Often without noticing that a lot of the questions are obviously meaningless (e.g. assuming the product is hardware, or a cloud service, or something). And _always_ without thinking through the difference between a commercial software vendor (who has a financial incentive to do this kind of paperwork, and can employ staff to do it out of the revenue stream from selling the software itself) and an unpaid free software maintainer (LOL no).

In the past, this has generally involved an email from some actual employee tasked with going through the Big Spreadsheet of all the software that (they know) they're using. So you can reply to the person and explain their misunderstanding. (Generally I wait until the followup email before bothering, in case they manage to engage their own brain before then, which sometimes they do.)

But a new and unwelcome development is that they're starting to do it by automated ticketing systems, so I get an email saying "[employee] has assigned you a task" and I have no doubt it's going to carry on automatically pestering without any way of making it listen to reason. Probably I have no choice but to start blocking these ticketing systems' email addresses.

2009 Quentin Tarantino Classic, Featuring One of the Greatest Movie Villains of All Time, Released 17 Years Ago Today
https://www.mensjournal.com/news/2009-quentin-tarantino-classic-featuring-one-of-the-greatest-movie-villains-of-all-time-released-17-years-ago-today?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News @news-mensjournal

The latest Pixelix version added selectable color themes.

#Pixelix #Pixelfed #Vernissage

having just helped rescue the neighbour's dog, who was running up the dual carriageway, and then kept them in our garden while trying to contact the owners: please cut the balls off your dogs.

B is a lovely big friendly dog who listens to me, but they instantly started peeing all over our garden and harrassing our dogs. i can only guess at why they decided to run off.

There is zero reason, aside from displaced gender anxiety, to not neuter your dog. i have no sympathy for you if your sense of your potency depends on your dog being a prick to other people and dogs, or indeed on your dog being used for breeding. go play dodgy video games or something.

#neuterYourDog

RE: https://aus.social/@bencourtice/117132766662628854

The fascists are fascisting, you say?

Popping some excess luggage into the frunk?

“It’s laughable”: Global AI experts challenge Zuckerberg’s “AI for everyone”

｢ The labor benefits of data centers are primarily concentrated during construction, and once operational, they employ only a small fraction of permanent workers. While there is a marginally increased impact on home prices, this benefit doesn’t translate to local wages ｣
https://restofworld.org/2026/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai-for-everyone-manifesto-global-critique/

#meta #ai #bigtech

44 Years Ago Today: ‘The Greatest Singer of All Time’ Had New Single Debut on ‘Billboard’ 100
https://www.mensjournal.com/news/44-years-ago-aretha-franklin-jump-to-it-album-billboard-100?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News @news-mensjournal

Zomi Frankcom did not deserve to die. Israel’s refusal to investigate her death and its failure to apologise is despicable

"The Israeli ambassador has claimed ‘a court came to a decision that there’s no criminal liability’ but there is no evidence that any court has been involved.

[Frankcom] and her six colleagues were traveling in a clearly marked humanitarian convoy to distribute food to starving Palestinians on a route that had been communicated well in advance to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). It bombed them deliberately and repeatedly."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/aug/21/zomi-frankcom-killing-death-israel-idf-ntwnfb

#BoycottIsrael #LaborFail #Complicit #FireWong #News #AUSPol #Gaza #Palestine #HumanRights #Activism #RoyalCommissionIntoLaborComplicity

@domi That’s cool. But it has universal support and it’s smaller and better quality than an animated gif.

My personal shit list is too full of billionaires and trillion-dollar corporations and fascists to extend to file formats at the moment :)