@ncweaver.skerry-tech.com Yes. It turns out pushing (or hitting) back very often works quite well here.

@flexghost
> Is Connor Leahy right?

I think he's in a better position to know than I am. But I remember everything I was learning as a young environmentalist putting me off having kids. That was the 1990s, and that stuff I knew then is now common knowledge. So his argument certainly sounds convincing to me.

BTW do you know what program these clips are from and what I can see the whole thing?

@jonny
HA! Pleasant surprise! Come on feet is still my final mile running track:)

https://archive.org/details/the-unseen_202603/Come+On+Feet.mp3

OTOH, this President also seems to have way less power than he thinks, is no longer able to make many credible threats and can't make any credible deals. So although we can't ignore him, at the same time he does do a lot of face-planting failures.

@Natouille merci je vais regarder !

@sphcow

my first job out of the service was at a place doing OSI protocol conformance testing.

at the time, all the governments were pushing for OSI as the networking stack the world would use. TCP/IP was that weird free stuff they didn't trust. but they hit two problems:

the first was that lots of vendors supported TCP/IP on their gear. OSI support was nascent, twitchy, and not even available on lots of hardware.

the second problem was the real death knell of OSI. every vendor that did OSI had a "protocol conformant" implementation. but everyone discovered that the various vendors couldn't actually talk to each other or work on the same network.

what they thought they needed was protocol conformance. what they found they really needed was interoperability.

if you can't buy from multiple vendors and have a heterogenous network with everything working as expected, you don't have interoperability.

the quieter lesson that we're still learning is that if your protocol standard doesn't enable interoperability, it's a lousy standard.

27 August 1932 | French Jewish girl, Hélène Gradsztajn, was born in Paris.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 16 September 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

‘overcast transcribes about 30,000 hours of audio per day’

@markwyner 🙏

"The Boat Strikes (in the Caribbean) by the Trump Administration Aren’t Part of a War. They’re Murder. War crimes are violations of the law of armed conflict. By contrast, the boat strikes conducted by the U.S. military are extrajudicial killings. That is, they are deliberate killings that are outside the law. That means murder under domestic criminal statutes, and now likely crimes against humanity under international law":
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-boat-strikes-aren-t-part-of-a-war.-they-re-murder
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #ethics

Trump Plans to Mark 9/11 at the Pentagon, Not Ground Zero
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/us/politics/trump-911-pentagon-ground-zero.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into New York @new-york-newyorktimes

@mattblaze Also Ontario, Oregon (which is a place I recommend avoiding).

@inquiline Yeah, she was always shitty, but mostly I have always hated the art world for taking such profitable advantage of a person who was manifestly mentally unwell.

@heyheymomo 300 hour fully hand drawn rpg where forg goes on a quest for the ultimate ice cream cone

@adamgreenfield

that too.

Your @weirdunits wrapped:

- You were horrified by the implications of a unit 6 times.
- You alerted @gsuberland to moth-related units 4 times. He appreciates it.
- You alerted @gsuberland to month-related units 18 times. He appreciates the attempt.
- Your boosts per post were 0.06. You could probably measure that in dB!
- You replied "normal unit" 69471 times - the bot apologises profusely for the error, and will continue making the same error forever, because this is the way of the world now.

@kepano
- Obsidian of course! 😄
- AntennaPod
- the official Audiobookshelf Android client

One thing that I'm excited about particularly is that solar power and batteries fundamentally changes the individual and community's relationship to the state.

Now-famously, the Amish refuse to connect to the grid, but today those communities use battery powered tools all the time, recharged by solar power.

Put differently: they aren't rejecting technology. They're rejecting dependency.

That logic scales, everywhere, for everyone, in direct proportion to the amount of available battery.