@futurebird The last time I was down home, I caught my dad watching pro-Mark-Carney/Pro-Liberal Party of Canada propaganda channels.

There are worse things he could be watching these days, so I didn't say anything. But the video he was watching was uncanny AF. It was obvious just from listening from the next room that the audio was AI generated, and the video was even more obvious. This old guy in a rocking chair kept moving in ways that human bodies just don't move.

There were a couple of lines of the monologue that stood out to me, so I jotted them down and went searching. I found no fewer than 4 other YouTube channels, all with AI-generated people so deep in the uncanny valley it hurt, regurgitating the exact same script.

All of them had large numbers of very enthusiastic comments.

The boomers are not ok.

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After chatting with my students this semester I was inspired to redraw & re-letter my "Ins and Outs of Webcomics" comic.

A 9 page Scott McCloud-style narrative for those looking for comics-related reading material, how-to guides, or an introduction to webcomics!
#Webcomics #Comic #MastoArt

NEW: Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say
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The Republican U.S. Senate nominee from Texas appears to have omitted rental income and multiple mortgages from his recent financial disclosures, making it difficult for voters to get the full picture of his wealth.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-senate-financial-disclosures-ethics-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #TX #KenPaxton #Law #Ethics #Financial #Transparency #Rent #Mortgages

Schleswig-Holstein hat pro 100k Einwohner genau so viel Kriminalität wie Sachsen-Anhalt; in ersterem fühlen sich die Menschen am sichersten, in letzterem am unsichersten.
Was dazwischen liegt ist die Angst-Ernte der Faschisten.

So sinngemäß Ulrike Hermann, sie hat so recht.

Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/04/judge-blocks-x-rival-from-using-twitter-name-but-allows-tweet-for-now/

RE: https://esq.social/@icymi_law/117213149743192720

Great list of people to follow here 👇

For your #FollowFriday consideration, some #law / #LawFedi folks:

@heidilifeldman

@mattblaze

@lawfare

@bespacific

@annmlipton

@petersuber

@chrisgeidner

@evacide

Kein Widerstand erwünscht – Wie ein Finanzamt gerade darüber entscheidet, ob Vereine die AfD bekämpfen dürfen

#afdverbotjetzt #zivilgesellschaft #vvnbda #antifagemeinnuetzig

I've just finished the first review of my EuroBSDCon presentation. As usual, it'll be hard to stay in the time slot, but I'll do it.

https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/KAEQA8/

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #RunBSD

A security release of YunoHost has been published today.

Please run the migration.

https://forum.yunohost.org/t/security-run-the-manual-migration-0037-fix-bad-permissions/42916

🇪🇺 European Citizen's Initiative against ID age verification online

Just yesterday, Stop Killing the Internet, from the people at @StopKillingGames, launched an ECI against ID age verification! This is great but it needs 1 million signatures !

So, if you live in #europe, please sign it! If you don't, or even if you do, still share it around so more people know about it and can sign it!

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public/#/screen/home

Reaching the signature threshold will not mean that ID age verification will immediately become illegal, but the subject will be brought to the @EUCommission and they'll have to do SOMETHING about it. This is already a huge step in the right direction!

Please boost and share this post to spread the word! Thank you!

@privacy

#stopkillingtheinternet #ageverification #privacy

https://travailleur-alpin.fr/2026/09/03/universite-grenoble-alpes-le-parcours-du-combattant-des-etudiants-etrangers/ (Université Grenoble Alpes. Le parcours du combattant des étudiants étrangers)

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Suppression des APL, application – après la volte-face de la présidence – des frais d’inscription différenciés...

À l’Université Grenoble Alpes, comme un peu partout en France, la rentrée s’annonçait délicate pour les étudiants extra-européens, cibles de mesures antisociales.

Un galop d’essai avant la généralisation à l’ensemble des étudiants ?

C’est ce que craignent les syndicats.
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#racisme #etudiantes #etudiants #campus #grenoble #antisocial #UGA

@pushcx @cwebber It was a year ago, and don't call me a liar because your own search is shit https://lobste.rs/s/zoirhl/appealing_ban_user_friendlysock#c_y9irbd

you have decided you like having these guys around, don't act surprised now

Along with strict rules that machine generated content, if ever used at all must be clearly identified faculty members are advised they must discuss any such content with another faculty member before using it.

For example if someone used an LLM to make up a bunch of extra sentence translation practice problems based on an existing list they'd need to show it to another language teacher and discuss it before using it.

RE: https://w3c.social/@w3c/117213201212086888

Yeah totally trustworthy sponsors that always have the best interest of the open web in mind.

@afewbugs Oooh, one more thing (probs obvious). I keep a bunch of hwbs - which I use in "normal" times to save heating anyway - and recycle the water in them all winter, in a separate kettle. Yes, I have got three kettles 😂

It's a quick way to get and stay warm.

not any specific person, tho if it's one of the 35 on my block, that would be extra nice

Nice bash prompt: PS1='(\[$(tput md)\]\t <\w>\[$(tput me)\]) $(echo $?) \$ '
-- Mathieu <mathieu@hal.interactionvirtuelle.com>

Continuing my reading on how Papyrix renders text...

There's a method for rendering truncated text which 1st sizes the text to see if it needs truncation, for Arabic/Thai (due to greater text-sizing nuances) iterates over all prefixes (longest 1st) to find the 1st one which fits with the appendeded ellipsis, or binary searches for that location, & returns the truncated text with the added ellipsis.

Then there's a suite of methods for breaking line of text into multiple.

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