We Can't Keep Ignoring Our Water Crisis
https://www.thebrockovichreport.com/p/we-cant-keep-ignoring-our-water-crisis?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@mia I hope you are right! By the way I know tons of others that would love a CMS to Eleventy. I did find the post very fascinating though

Why did Amazon donate $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund and $40 million to license a truly awful shlockumentary about Melania?

Because that’s how you conduct business on a gangster’s turf. Those bribes buy indifference to the company’s egregious business practices and pay dividends to the tune of dozens of billions of dollars.
@pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/cheating-at-fraud/

I continue to be amazed that this community exists unspoiled by whatever spoiled all other social media platforms.
Everytime I have need to know something someone here takes the time to nudge me in the right direction.
No matter the topic or the ask.
Mastodonians are generous, kind, loving and down right smart.
I know a lot about somethings and nearly nothing about other things but because we have friends here the answers to those other things are just a toot away.
Summer and I watched the sky get beautiful for just a minute so we could have something to give back to our friends who give us so much.

#Fedilab 3.43.3 has been published! It mostly brings fixes. The custom MarkDown support no longer breaks the instance formatting. It also fixes some mentions and links not opening inside the app. The lost position when coming back should be fixed for all timelines, including #GoToSocial.

Release notes: https://codeberg.org/tom79/Fedilab/releases/tag/3.43.3

PS: the attached apk file is the same as the one submitted to Google, you can download it here.

This carriage was maybe 10% occupied when I got on. Why the fuck is some gormless idiot standing in the doorway of the train making it harder for everyone getting on board ? FFS.

@blotza @EmmaLee Okay Vode linux seams to be a solid chois.
How about accessibility on void - is TTS working?

@Gina No. You can't make me.

I didn't get a lot of bird photos on my trip, sadly. I couldn't linger as long as I wanted since there was too much ground to cover, and my friend is, in her own words, a yapper. I found myself getting frustrated at first, that I couldn't listen for birds very well, and had to stop myself and ask whether I wanted to feel resentful of my good friend who I enjoy spending time with because she was making birding harder, or if I wanted to enjoy my trip, enjoy my friend, and just take it all in. I chose the latter. It is what it is! And someday I can go back and do more birding and bird photography there.

@strypey

> You can run a Matrix homeserver on a Pi;

I am sure you could, but you can't use it in any reasonable way nor join any big group etc., try hosting +5k users there, not to talk about the storage

but to conclude this pointless conversation: whatever floats your boat, use whatever you like, I honestly don't care, have a nice day

@mattblaze Let the pistols duke it out on their own.
Or use Silly String at 5 feet.

@marghe su @scambi 2026:

https://mondomarghe.jimdofree.com/2026/09/04/scambi-festival-2026/

#ScambiFestival

Using fast, non-cryptographic hashing on shared caches turns situational awareness feeds into attacker-controlled propaganda in 38 seconds. Never trade collision resistance for performance on untrusted input.
https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/security/advisories/GHSA-9gp4-366w-pcq3

brb creating a bitter llms.txt that just says "refer to robots.txt because that's all you are and all you'll ever be"

@timbray what news did I miss?

Strengthening Trust and Leadership: Reflections on National Institutes of Health (NIH) 2026 Community Days: Securing NIH Controlled-Access Data and Our Data Protection Journey | Data Science at NIH https://datascience.nih.gov/director/director-guest-blog-strengthening-trust-and-leadership

If I'm understanding correctly, this means I could set up a fediverse account that I could access from newsreaders, offline first, on my DOS laptops and palmtops, and my Palm Pilots.

I'm probably going to spin up a server and quietly play with it over a few days to see if it's something worth adding to my general workflow.

My 5 year plan is to nap a lot

@danirabbit just was not in the clear if there was nuance and did not get the reference imminently, not so deep in the game, I do try to pay as much attention in as many fields with relevancy as just possible.

Also super funny to get an essay defending them having the right to be a reactionary nazi type as a "political opinion" while them saying you are not allowed to have "political views" in their own company. The reactionaries and liberals use this "political views" narrative whenever it opportunistically benefits them in many different forms.