Everytime someone says to me "I know it's cool now to be anti-AI", another angel gets its wings. 😇

Good job, everyone!

parton (n.): unit of measure for the extent to which a wealthy person uses that wealth to make the world a better place. Sadly, the milliparton and microparton are more commonly used. Note that negative values are frequently observed.

@clarebee

https://theshovel.com.au/2026/08/27/canada-renames-lake-ontario-lake-of-hormuz-just-to-fuck-with-trump/

@Greguti
Huée ? Mais pour qui se prennent-ils ? (oui je mets les patrons au masculin parce que d'après les images que j'ai pu voir on ne baignait pas dans la mixité).

@marinetondelier

https://www.usluck.com/887113/mark-carney-takes-the-high-road-in-response-to-trumps-childing-renaming-of-lake-ontario/ Mark Carney takes the high road in response to Trump’s childing “renaming” of Lake Ontario #Humor #Political #PoliticalHumor

Rubio usa la legge antiterrorismo per vietare un servizio di posta elettronica sicura. La presa di posizione di @eff

Il Dipartimento di Stato non accusa Autistici/Inventati di aver fatto altro che fornire account di posta elettronica "irrintracciabili". Ma questo è sufficiente per dichiararla organizzazione terroristica.

"L'idea che un'organizzazione che offre servizi di hosting alternativi – per email, siti web e altri servizi – possa essere designata come organizzazione terroristica semplicemente per aver fornito un servizio richiesto da molte persone... è spaventosa", afferma Jillian York, direttrice per la libertà di espressione internazionale presso l'organizzazione no-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation. "Potrebbe sembrare un'ipotesi complottista, ma il fatto che questa decisione provenga da un'amministrazione che ha stretti legami con i giganti della Silicon Valley, in un momento in cui la sfiducia nei confronti di queste aziende è molto alta in diverse fasce della società, non mi sembra una coincidenza."

https://reason.com/2026/08/27/rubio-uses-terrorism-law-to-ban-secure-email-service/

@eticadigitale

I’m renaming the Atlantic Ocean the Merciful Briny Expanse Which Separates Us All From That Fucking Cunt.

Please update your maps accordingly.

#trump

@troed I am on premium too.

[Rubio usa la legge antiterrorismo per vietare un servizio di posta elettronica sicura. La presa di posizione di(https://reason.com/2026/08/27/rubio-uses-terrorism-law-to-ban-secure-email-service/) @eff

Il Dipartimento di Stato non accusa Autistici/Inventati di aver fatto altro che fornire account di posta elettronica "irrintracciabili". Ma questo è sufficiente per dichiararla organizzazione terroristica.

"L'idea che un'organizzazione che offre servizi di hosting alternativi – per email, siti web e altri servizi – possa essere designata come organizzazione terroristica semplicemente per aver fornito un servizio richiesto da molte persone... è spaventosa", afferma Jillian York, direttrice per la libertà di espressione internazionale presso l'organizzazione no-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation. "Potrebbe sembrare un'ipotesi complottista, ma il fatto che questa decisione provenga da un'amministrazione che ha stretti legami con i giganti della Silicon Valley, in un momento in cui la sfiducia nei confronti di queste aziende è molto alta in diverse fasce della società, non mi sembra una coincidenza."

https://reason.com/2026/08/27/rubio-uses-terrorism-law-to-ban-secure-email-service/

@eticadigitale

@cstross @davidgerard The end of Moore's Law has left silicon valley jumping from bubble to bubble for over a decade now.

Facebook alone, their "pivot to video" was a scam in 2015: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/was-the-medias-big-pivot-to-video-all-based-on-a-lie

Then in 2019 "Libra" crypto coin was going to replace the US dollar: https://lite.cnn.com/2022/02/01/tech/facebook-diem-association-dissolving

Then that little Zucker did "the Metaverse" and committed to the bit so hard he renamed the company.

Then he went all in on AI.

This is desperation. Downing swimmer thrashing to get one more gasp.

@liaizon I think I would try to transfer ownership to a friend overseas?? Or try to move?? I have no idea

Apparently, people have become so thoroughly fed up with WhatsApp Desktop and WhatsApp Web that they've reached the "fine, I'll build my own WhatsApp" stage. ZapZap is one of those attempts, built with PyQt6 and QtWebEngine to turn WhatsApp Web into a more proper desktop experience, with things like multiple accounts, native notifications, system tray integration, and more. I haven't tested its accessibility yet, so that's a completely separate adventure.
https://github.com/rafatosta/zapzap

Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this "Waiting For Societal Collapse" Patch. Well, the good news is you won't have to wait long. The bad news is also that you won't have to wait long.
https://collabs.shop/fsrwq5

Look, I want you to understand that there ARE very smart Nazis, working on this fascist project. Trump himself is clearly an idiot, but there are DEFINITELY folks who've studied Hitler and Goebbels running this project.

With that having been noted - literally so much about what Trump does is about forcing the rest of the country to pretend the insane shit he believes is real. For example - we just fired teacher at West Point for teaching the man-made origins of climate crisis.

People, seriously, give us a break - LOL! Every time I open GitHub, there's another ancient TTS showing up for NVDA. One more Metro-era speech engine and we're going to need a museum license. Please, don't stop. This is way too much fun. This time it's Nokia Klatt TTS, bringing those wonderfully ancient Symbian S60 voices back to life through NVDA. It's a bit slow, and the pronunciation quality is, well, pretty terrible. But honestly, what did you expect? These voices came from old Nokia phones. That's practically archaeology with a speech buffer.
https://github.com/djgraco/nokiaKlatt/releases/tag/v0.5.1

"La seule des sept candidat·es qui a été copieusement huée, @marinetondelier a dû attendre près d’une heure pour pouvoir glisser que « les cotisations, c’est aussi du salaire différé » et rappeler qu’à l’issue de deux mandats d’Emmanuel Macron, la France compte « 11 millions de pauvres » et « 1,5 million de travailleurs pauvres »."

Pour leur premier débat, les candidats à la présidentielle sommés par le Medef de faire des économies
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/politique/270826/pour-leur-premier-debat-les-candidats-la-presidentielle-sommes-par-le-medef-de-faire-des-economies

Hey fedi friends!

I'm considering a move to freelance work around being a freelance Laravel developer.

~ 15 years dev experience. Most of that including Laravel (since 5.1).

With a view to attract a small number of client retainers for website maintenance, regular updates and new features.

If anyone in my fedi-network knows of anyone who could do with the help of such a person, please send them my way.

Thank You!

#AskFedi #FediHired