@serapath @economics_that_works

Son, you just established you don’t have any idea what political or cultural power is.

The thing that distinguishes human beings from our primate relatives is an extraordinary capacity for collective action. That ability can be hijacked to serve dominance hierarchy, which is standard with our primate relatives.

And all that happened a long time before money was invented

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@catsalad

Oh crap. Now the cats know how to swim. The oceans are surely doomed.

@arstechnica the regions, annotated

@ag All good 😊

When I first used Emacs, there weren't many starter packs around. I tried Doom for a bit after and found it pretty good. But I went back to a hand-rolled config, mostly embracing things that Emacs can do by itself now and reducing the number of external packages.

BTW, I was serious about tramp-rpc. If you use Emacs to edit files remotely, it's a significantly better experience!

I am decommissioning the toolsforthought .social Mastodon server, and taking the opportunity to test moving my boris @ tft account to my main atproto account.

This should happen somewhat automatically thanks to @anew.social@bsky.brid.gy's Bounce service bounce.anew.social

Bounce

@sundogplanets Baseball in a cup in it's side (Universal Transverse Mercator) for north-south aligned areas of interest where you need to keep distance distortions low and traffic cone on a basketball (Lambert Conformal Conic) for east-west. Engineers and surveys still need to turn angles and travel distances to land navigate and distance distortions are easy to correct. Where the sportsball intersects the container there are no distance distortions, nearby they are small enough to ignore.

@lykso linux has the most half-assed possible way to respond to this which is to add an O_PATH bit to the open{at,{2}}() flags argument so you can express to the kernel "i do not care about the data contained in this thing whatsoever, just tell me if it exists and what type of thing it is". that was surprisingly legitimate and this is why linus torvalds is so effective at achieving truly evil shit (because he recognizes that criticism from people who give a shit about doing things the right way is a valuable source of input)

Some small UX is on the fly

Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this "No Gods, No Masters, Only Honks" Shirt. In Dante's Inferno, Satan is described as a wretched long-necked beast, with feathery wings white as snow and a monstrous honk of a roar that could shake the heavens. Sound familiar?
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Remember: They want you to fear Muslims, immigrants, and Black and brown people so you forget that a Muslim immigrant from Uganda and South Asia just hastened the safest New York City summer in history.

They want you to believe MAGA propaganda over Mamdani’s proven example. Don’t fall for it. ❤️✊🏽

@eff yooooo this sucks

i mean, completely unsurprising from y’all at this point, but regardless. sucks. big sucks. sucks shit.

The United States and China are gearing up for talks later this month on artificial intelligence safety risks. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/09/05/tech/us-china-ai-safety-talks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #ai #us #china #uschinarelations #xijinping #donaldtrump #tech

You cannot control everything. Fortunately, a surprising amount of everything is being controlled by people who also have no idea what they’re doing. #gooderliving

@catsalad alttext: Knives Out, a Benoit Blanc mystery

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