Rob Whittaker :thoughtbot:
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Fireside Fedi Panel (Very Low Quality Recording)
Servers & Stability: The Fediverse Host – Victor – E99
Fireside Fedi Panel (Very Low Quality Recording)
Fireside Fedi Panel (Very Low Quality Recording)
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Worthwhile read on organizing around the upcoming #uspol midterm #election
"There are extremes of fetishization around voting that I see among liberals and leftists. You see some liberals for whom it is the end all be all... It is all they really think they owe the world politically.... And then sometimes you have leftists who fetishize non-participation as meaning things... There is no way to purchase innocence in the heart of empire"
https://truthout.org/audio/activists-are-preparing-to-defend-elections-this-november/
Sad to hear that newCardigan is going to be wound up:
https://newcardigan.org/civicrm/?civiwp=CiviCRM&q=civicrm%2Fmailing%2Fview&id=280
Anthropic is planning an IPO and filed their draft S-1 prospectus in June! They were circulating that draft S-1 around their investors last month. And it leaked to Reuters, who wrote it up.
Anthropic’s money situation is as bad as we thought. Actual revenue in 2025 was $4.6 billion. Just the operating expenses were $12.65 billion, for an operating loss of $8 billion. They spent $2.75 to make each dollar that came in:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/01/anthropic-ipo-filing-the-disaster-in-numbers/
Ahahaha
CEO: We need to cut costs.
Accountant: We paid you $50 million last year. You are being paid $1 million for this meeting.
CEO: Who's that in the hallway?
Accountant: That's Greg. He is the only thing keeping this company together. We pay him in nickels and Grubhub gift cards.
CEO: Fire Greg.
@lowqualityfacts Sounds like they pretty much did and he just won't go away.
iPhone privacy
Cowboy Bebop is not mixed to be heard over the treadmill noise.
US Deploys More Troops to Mideast, Anthropic IPO Target Date, More
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2026-10-02/us-deploys-more-troops-to-mideast-anthropic-ipo-target-date?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Dark Tower Blanket. If there was an evil demon king in a dark tower who was raising an undead army to spread darkness across the land, Trump would strongly support him and half the nation would say "Well actually both sides are problematic."
https://collabs.shop/fozrre
@lowqualityfacts
The evil demon king is just asking questions
#musiquinta
dessa eu gosto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWtjTkixv5M
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Throwing billions in public money behind a pipeline at a time of climate breakdown – while sweeping aside environmental protections, meaningful Indigenous consultation and workers’ right to strike – is absolutely not in the national interest.
This is just another gift to an oil industry already on track to make $100 billion in wartime profits this year alone. We pay, we take on the risk, and they reap the rewards.
Not gonna lie, I miss the early era of gamified apps.
That sweet dopamine hit of checking in at a location and earning a sticker? ooooooo.
Don't get me wrong, the surveillance capitalism was bad back then and is even worse now, and I'm in no way passing over that... but my brain, it misses those bright colors and squirts of neurotransmitters.
Every so often, there's some "adult merit badges" or "life quests" crowdfunding project that crosses my bow, and it is extremely difficult for me not to spring for it.
I want to have adventures and earn little trinkets for them!
@tinker oh gosh is this how you're supposed to explain things to 5 year olds? 😅
Me: "Well, the lights turned off because the electricity went out, probably because it's so hot and the electricity utility didn't invest enough in energy storage or energy efficiency rebates because they're investor-owned and prioritize profits over people, so they're doing rolling blackouts to prevent everyone from losing power at the same time."
@toddmedema - That's a wonderful way of explaining a scientific or technical question.
But how do you explain to your child that your child's lengthy in and out stays at the hospital caused so much financial stress that Mommy and Daddy began fighting and growing terse with each other? That the long days apart, tending to the needs of the child, allowed a gulf to be created between you two? That you two should never have had a child to begin with, that you only attempted it to show that you both took the marriage seriously. But now, sitting in that park, struggling to answer why the three of you never spend time together to a child who only sees beauty in the world and wants to know why she doesn't feel whole within the family, you realize that you would never trade it for anything. That while the child, through no fault of her own, destroyed what was left of a marriage, being here with her and seeing her life blossom makes everything right. You'll find a way to answer her question. You won't lie to her. But you want to make sure she understands how much each of her parents loves her and how she is everything to them and how, despite it all, life will go on.
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Do you host a wafrn?
TIME TO UPDATE, its a BIIIG ONE. It also includes small security fixes
https://codeberg.org/wafrn/wafrn/releases/tag/2026.10.01-HORFIX
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Digital Ocean sunset the open source credits program which we used to help offset the server costs.
We could really use more support, please consider donating and sharing this for more reach!
https://opencollective.com/pixelfed
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US May Add Carrier and 10,000 Troops to Mideast, Official Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-10-02/us-may-add-carrier-and-10-000-troops-to-middle-east-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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