For many years I wondered, "how bad will Republicans have to get before the media/political establishment in the US gets over its endless obsession with scolding & tone policing the left?"

I think at this point we have to acknowledge that the answer is: never. Literally never.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:c7ozmxoc5b2ky4iam2o36uic/post/3mucpt3d3os2t

"Merz hat im Sommerinterview vor einer AfD-Regierung in Thüringen gewarnt."

Ne. Er hat im Sommerinterview AfD und Linke gleichgesetzt "die Radikalen... sowohl AfD als auch die Linke." Damit hat er ganz und gar nicht vor der AfD gewarnt, sondern sie massiv verharmlost.

Ich will schon wieder Liebermann zitieren.

#Merz

@Strandjunker Ooof.

I appreciate the local news wanting to keep us informed but sometimes they sound like a toddler. “Fire rescue crews were seen. This is a developing story.” No additional information.

Same energy as “MOM DAD LOOK A FIRETRUCK” 🤣

We lost Dolly Parton last week at 80, and while the world was still crying, the crooks got to work within 2 hours. AI-generated audio and video "of" her scams hit across Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube. Fake charity accounts, phony memorial merch, donation pleas in gift cards or crypto. Type dollywoodfoundation.org yourself and give there. Dolly spent her life giving. Don’t let a scammer use her name, or a fake AI version of her voice, to take.

@funkwhale since I was just looking at logs, I saw it still has some text/xml issues in the thumbnail generator it's had since v2 - so that might still be part of why I get nothing. But yeah, don't care about federation enough at this time...

@bstacey I heard Anubis is losing effectiveness but hadn't heard anything to that effect about iocaine; did you hear something I missed?

Just noticed empty toots as pictured and not sure why ? Were they intentional?

Enabling equitable open access to commercially funded research publications | PLOS Medicine https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005207

Growing up with the phrase “Wikipedia isn’t a valid source,” only to end up in a daily life where everyone says, “Just ask ChatGPT.”

mrrr mrow mrrrp [source unknown]

Bug blindness https://danluu.com/bug-blind/

I am no longer letting Claude Code add itself as Co-author in my commits

https://igupta.in/blog/why-i-am-no-longer-letting-claude-code-add-itself-as-coauthor/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49502101

#HackerNews #ClaudeCode #CoAuthor #GitCommits #SoftwareDevelopment #TechEthics #Programming

0 Klimafragen in 30 Minuten: das ARD-Sommerinterview mit dem Kanzler – im Jahr mit 15.800 Hitzetoten (RKI), so vielen wie in keinem Sommer zuvor.

Der Fragenkatalog des früheren ARD-Klimajournalisten Jürgen Döschner lag längst im Brandmelder vor: "Sie haben es in der Hand, Kollege Preiß." Es kam anders.

Döschner jetzt: "ein Schlag ins Gesicht aller […] Opfer der Klimakrise".

Deshalb braucht es ein KLIMA° vor acht.

#MedienKlimaKrise #WirFuerKv8 #KlimaVorAcht #PrimetimeFuersKlima

There is a correct solution to the trolley problem.

It is this: you design the system with positive train control. You make it so the trolley cannot enter a section where there are people, and you make it so the trolley can be stopped quickly if something goes wrong.

I've been told that this is cheating, a cop-out, or avoiding the "interesting" aspects of the question. I don't think it is. Framing the world as a series of individual can't-win situations and lose-lose decisions _is_ the problem.

Don't do that.

Got curious who invented the coffee filter. A German housewife in 1908, tired of grounds in her cup, punched holes in a brass pot with a nail and lined it with her kid's school blotting paper. Melitta Bentz. Patented within the year. Every drip machine since is running her homework. #coffee #history

@ai6yr I put the seeds in a blender with some pomegranate molasses, some beets (to preserve color), and some red chili paste and it makes a dandy chutney.

You're a very lucky person.