Idzie
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I'm still struggling a lot with cash, what with all my insurances coming at once, so if you can spare a few quid here and there, I'd hugely appreciate it:
I love spotting mushrooms on the forest floor, part of the miniature forest that rises up from the leaf litter (leaf compost, leaf humus).
No clue at all what species this is (I'm in southern Quebec, if anyone wants to make any informed guesses). #mushtodon #mushrooms
@AnarchoNinaWrites jfc, I missed that one
@Andres4NY All of this is highly illegal. There are court orders prohibiting it now. But as the story says - Trump is applying to SCOTUS for emergency relief and SCOTUS has been DEAD fucking silent on what it plans to do - while the Post Office behaves as if Trump has ALREADY won the appeal.
Ominous.
Uber Hit With A Nearly $1 Billion Fine For Automatically Deactivating Drivers In Europe https://blog.quintarelli.it/2026/08/uber-hit-with-a-nearly-1-billion-fine-for-automatically-deactivating-drivers-in-europe/
But with Jan. 6, election deniers everywhere, gerrymandering Congress, & threats of armed force at polls, the #BrokenTimes twee authoritarianmeter is only a 3.
Postal Service Publishes Finalized Plan to Restrict Mail Ballots https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/postal-service-rule-restrict-mail-ballots.html?smid=tw-share
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@AnarchoNinaWrites jfc, I missed that one
Their actions went generally unnoticed until 28 December 2013, when Certicom’s patent application was announced by Lange in a presentation [4] with Bernstein and Heninger at the 30th Chaos Communication Congress, crediting a tweet [28] by “nymble” earlier in the month.
jesus fucking christ. CCC might as well be def con after that
then he's making a whole thing about the patent that was filed in 2005 that claims to describe in detail how to use the evil elliptic curve as a backdoor. i don't understand at all how anyone can take any of this seriously
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Ael Yokan
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Give us back the "Do not update game no matter what" control that Steam used to have, please. These fuckass publishers keep adding microtransactions and breaking mods and fucking up save files years and years after release and it's a fuckin problem.
My software on my own god damn computer should update exactly when I tell it to on purpose, and not under any other circumstances.
Every Friday Stretch - Episode 3 - Hip opening
Friends, have you seen the investigation on UK students, including those at Oxford and Cambridge, hiring Kenyans to write their papers and dissertations?
I assume it wasn't cross Atlantic news as the media only seems to be interested in laundering eugenics into the mainstream.
Think about the audacity of them telling Black people that we're subpar DEI hires and frauds such and these students hiring Black people to do their work for them and pass it off as their own.
@timnitGebru colonizers just can't stop colonizing
Anyone come across a fedi project (client or server) that lets users set custom CSS for any account they follow?
Hey Glitch Mastodon admins!
Are you running Glitch without rich text formatting activated? Is there a particular reason for not activating it, or do Glitch servers pretty much always allow it nowadays?
(I'm trying to help people discover Glitch servers with rich text, but the admins usually don't mention whether it's available or not in their descriptions.)
I never go anywhere, so if you do, I would absolutely love seeing your vacation or excursion photos. Vicarious tourism.
@kimlockhartga@beige.party Northern New Brunswick
I mean look, I know you folks aren't gonna like me saying this but that ain't make it any less true:
It is DEEPLY fucking funny that James Comey, the former head of the FBI, is getting the full "he wrote violent rap lyrics" treatment like he's a hood rat from 7 and Runyan. Is it fair? No it's not fair. It's corrupt Nazi bullshit. But James Comey and tons of FBI guys have spent their entire careers defending the system that wrought this so it is a little delicious he's in the fuck barrel now.
Rheinmetall made my dream product come true: Invisible EV charging.
No giant charging stations in a million colors polluting the visual experience of every city. Just a discrete socket in the curb.
Please, could we agree that this future is SO much better?
@randahl I like the idea, but I think it would be defeated by dirt, rain, and ice. It’d also be inaccessible to people with disabilities.
mkb
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Enabling every eligible voter, getting the word about hand delivering absentee ballots and early voting, and anything else we can to do promote massive turnout is vitally serious work. Learn more about the status of our effort in NM. If any grassroots activists from other states want to confer about voter protection and motivation, dm me. https://www.landofaction.org/new-directory-listing-news-about-free-and-fair-elections-nm26/ 3/
RE: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/117136649933380203
Same.
I in fact block every single shithead using AI slop anywhere.
It accelerates environmental destruction, practically tortures the poor people who are forced to live near the datacentres, and emboldens technofascism.
There are literally no excuses for posting or sharing AI slop images, text, anything. And I will instablock you for as much as sharing a post with AI slop.
@kimcrawley @drahardja I am blind. At the beginning of this AI trend I was happy about image generation and even got the illusion "I can create visuals" but then it has no control. I usually interact with an AI trained for blind, it's called "be my AI", to describe images. So I could generate pics, then have them described. But it can easily allucinate. If I generate images, I have no full control on them anyways, so I do what I can do: WRITE.
I use however AI coding feature when I have to satisfy some needs that aren't covered by free or even paid software: too many "traditional" developers, especially in the linux environment, DO NOT THINK of accessibility; many collaboration systems such as OnlyOffice for example, despite statements, have very poor accessibility issues and most answers are "do it yourself if you need" so, for building custom tools, AI has increased self-determination for us.
I know many vibe-coding blind folks creating and sharing software, some very good, other very poor. But I work in different way - aware of how much dirty code there is, and how many vulnerabilities I could spread, I play on my own covering my needs, and stop.
The exception for images though, comes with Castopod: I could build a podcast, audio version of my written contents, or even some audio demos, and federate it with Castopod. But guess what? For RSS reasons, you MUST include a 1400x1400 cover image. Even if the visual content is completely useless for readers/listeners, the paradox is that I could independently do whatever with audio, but the mandatory picture prevents me from even creating a podcast! So? I would need a sighted person just for image or... There could be AI generator.
But, fanatic folks like you, MANIPULATING us with guilt, say "if you generate image content with AI I wouldn't even read", are creating a barrier to people using AI as an assistant for disability. Like saying "don't enter with your guide dog, I'm afraid of dogs".
Environmental problems exist. Dangerous authoritarian politicians and tech leaders exist. Privacy issues as well.
But, what fucking alternatives do we have as blind people? Who on Fediverse has ever been worried of "let's create a 24 hours available human-driven worldwide photo description network?" No one. Be My Eyes has videocall volunteering (centralized) since 2014, BeMyAI exists since 2023, but humans (SIGHTED humans) are always ready to criticize and place boundaries, without proposing real alternatives for us, allowing the mentioned tech leaders with no regards for humanity and environment, to make us (vulnerable people) dependant on them.
Too many "no AI" movement folks are worse than taliban.
Am I a taliban pro-AI? No. I know its limits, its dangers, but when it can work as an aid, I do not want folks around behaving like my parents did when I was a child "eat, baby. Empty that bowl! Think of African kids of your age, dying for hunger!" F. Off. Heartfelt.
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
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