I just used the Merlin app to determine the noise coming from my vents was not a bird.

#Birds

@joe a dictatorial guy who insults people... and other other one has orange skin?

Saddest headline of the year 😞

Germans swap friends for screens in their free time
https://www.dw.com/en/germans-swap-friends-for-screens-in-their-free-time/a-78497420

@Daojoan

Does it in any way involve a large roll of teletype-size newsprint purloined from a UPI supply closet?

Queryable Executables

https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/24/actually-queryable-executables

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442589

#HackerNews #Queryable #Executables #technology #future #innovation #coding #programming

At last: a unified home for Swift documentation, pulling together the language reference, core libraries and tooling, and platform specifics into a single central home, no matter what you're building! Check it out and give us feedback: https://docs.swift.org/

@jpm there’s some dark magic happening here

In the November IDW solicits they released all the covers for issue two of Star Trek: Zero Point

And I am *obsessed* with this cover by the series artist Isaac Sánchez González

@parismarx I’m a American and I’m pretty much off US tech the last thing is my phone

Public #introduction post cuz apparently I didn't have one.

I'm River. I'm a queer college student studying computer science. I'm a big nerd about lots of things.

Big fan of community and online spaces where social connection is rewarded.

On that note, feel free to pop in the thread and say hi (regardless of how long from now that you see this).

Optional prompts (or feel free to make your own prompt):

- What's your favorite book, movie, TV show, or video game?
- Tell me a cool hobby or activity you recently started enjoying.
- What's something fun you learned recently, that you wanna share?

#flowers #bloomscrolling #gardening #photography

did you know that Fibonacci numbers (where each number is the sum of the previous two) can convert miles to kilometres?

1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, ...

pick any number in the sequence as your miles, and the next number in the sequence approximates the number of kilometres

this works because the ratio of consecutive Fibonacci numbers converges to 1.6180334 (the golden ratio φ), while the number of kilometres in a mile is 1.609344

to see how close this is, consider the approximation compared to the actual kilometres

miles km actual km

1 2 1.61
2 3 3.22
3 5 4.83
5 8 8.05
8 13 12.87
13 21 20.92
21 34 33.79
34 55 54.71
55 89 88.50
89 144 143.20

#math

My entire life you told me the Russians were gonna get me and it did not ever happen. It was bullshit then. I suspect it's bullshit now. Sorry but even if Trump actually IS working for Russia, I'm just tired of playing this game.

Brey, I just need to warn you all in advance that I'm not going to be interested in THIS round of Cold War stuff about Russia either. Like I dunno what to tell you man, I look at Trump and it's super fucking obvious to me that he's working for nazi billionaires and oil companies. I don't need Putin to explain his behavior and I'm just not buying what you're selling because and I say this as respectfully as I possibly can:

RE: https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/health-l59qepnvz/-/a-Gqcs5BQ7SLqADHdV8I7seA%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0

What do you do when you oust a klepocracy?

Do you let bygones be bygones? Do you pardon them for “unity?”

No. You prosecute the crap out of them and every crooked deal they ran until they are smoldering piles of ash. Then you prosecute the ashes.

Anthropic has told its staff to work from home as security guards go on strike. I guess this is the one job they can't replace with an LLM 🤣 But the even bigger question is why are security guards going on strike and what kind of work do they do that requires 24/7 security?

https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-san-francisco-staff-work-remote-office-security-strike-2026-8

One of my favorite Dolly Parton stories that she told often was that she entered a Dolly Parton look-a-like contest without revealing her true identity and she came in second place… to a drag queen. She told that story with love and laughter. #DollyParton