In lieu of flowers etc., Dolly Parton's reps ask that contributions in her memory be made to the Imagination Library.

https://www.imaginationlibrary.com/

🇮🇹 FediMeteo è disponibile anche in Italia.

Se vi fa comodo avere le previsioni meteo della vostra zona direttamente nella timeline del Fediverso, date un'occhiata a FediMeteo.

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È un piccolo progetto costruito intorno al Fediverso e agli standard aperti, e nel tempo stiamo aggiungendo nuove località.

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Be a fourth as good as Dolly Parton and you'd be an amazingly good person.

Books for kids, charitable work, helping sponsor research that resulted in a COVID vaccine; she did so many good things.

May her memory be a blessing.

Dolly Parton is dead:

https://people.com/dolly-parton-dead-7565853

@82mhz I can, at the very least, investigate why the constraint exists in the first place! @Mastodon

@adamgreenfield @mikebabcock There are the obvious "no aid beyond a certain geographical point" policies for wildfires. Indigenous communities have it the worst, but they aren't alone. There's the Grassy Narrows scandal, which also affects northern settler communities, not just Indigenous Peoples. The county v. district setup of Ontario's administrative units blocks districts from pooling infrastructure resources like counties; they are REQUIRED to rely on provincial or private largesse.

Cops really don't like the public interfering with Flock cameras because this interferes with cops stalking their ex-girlfriends.

CSS color functions and custom properties - Manuel Matuzović:
https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2023/hsl-custom-properties

"Of course I did"? Fuck you!

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/business-titan-cops-to-using-ai-to-pen-blockbuster-wsj-op-ed-criticizing-his-protege-scott-bessent-of-course-i-did/

Voting data is public by design, but ICE is looking for a federal contractor to help it handle voter registration and history files to find what it describes as fraud.

https://www.404media.co/ice-wants-the-countrys-voter-data/

I have a problem with this story about AI “Becoming So Powerful, It’s Stumping Those Trying to Contain It.” All the tech bros, and the reporter, suggest that the AI’s have agency here. In fact, the AI’s are being programmed and designed and set in motion to carry out cyberattacks—to “hack certain targets.”

Then there's unexpected damage!

Maybe stop doing that? But don't pretend the AI’s have gone rogue.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/technology/irregular-ai-test-hacks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8FA.sshI.oIu8V0zrv2Ux&smid=url-share

RIP Dolly Parton. One of the good ones.

If every hyperscale data centre application in Scotland was built, they'd consume more than 1.5 times our entire peak electricity use.

We urgently need a pause on these applications.

👉 https://greens.scot/datacentres

One of my favorite Dolly Parton appearances was when she guest starred on the sci-fi show The Orville. Creator Seth Macfarlane was a HUGE Dolly fan and he was determined to write her into the show. They created a special set at her home so she didn’t have to travel to film. The whole ep makes me smile but here’s the awesome setup:

https://youtu.be/qaujMuj63jg

@pezmico @mu "visible only to those who are signed in", sigh

A tale in two pictures.

There are a lot of folks who've spent the last years saying Russia would never attack NATO.

Just saying.

Life360 expands pet tracking with new $8 scannable tags and zoomie alerts https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/life360-expands-pet-tracking-with-new-8-scannable-tags-and-zoomie-alerts/

It is spelled Omarchy, but it is pronounced DOGE slash Linux.