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1. Had a nice nap
2. Had a nice 2nd nap
3. Had a dream that I was driving a motorcycle while my childhood friend and my cat in a deep river (as one does), when all of a sudden, the kitty went missing from the motorcycle. I got worried that I couldn't find kitty right away, so I drove up and down the river on the motorcycle at mach fuck, looking underwater and on the shore while flinging large boats and yachts out of the way while ramming into them (as one does), when finally I saw that kitty was swimming and breathing underwater right next to me while having fun chasing fish whole time The end
Oh crap. Now the cats know how to swim. The oceans are surely doomed.
Brain of a male fly completely mapped, joins earlier map of a female brain
Every neuron and connection in the brain of a fly has been mapped—twice.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/brain-of-a-male-fly-completely-mapped-joins-earlier-map-of-a-female-brain/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica the regions, annotated
@citizen428 wasn't sure, little bit too tired this week, joke just flung over my head with a woosh :-)
oh, actually I quit filing my config, somehow Doom emacs is so amazingly comfy for me, I literally have 3 lines of my own
@ag All good 😊
When I first used Emacs, there weren't many starter packs around. I tried Doom for a bit after and found it pretty good. But I went back to a hand-rolled config, mostly embracing things that Emacs can do by itself now and reducing the number of external packages.
BTW, I was serious about tramp-rpc. If you use Emacs to edit files remotely, it's a significantly better experience!
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I am decommissioning the toolsforthought .social Mastodon server, and taking the opportunity to test moving my boris @ tft account to my main atproto account.
This should happen somewhat automatically thanks to @anew.social@bsky.brid.gy's Bounce service bounce.anew.social
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@datarama/117214107554538348
I am *so* here for watching people advocate for their favourite map projections. This might be my favourite type of nerd debate.
Thank you, Fediverse.
(Also: https://xkcd.com/977/)
@sundogplanets Baseball in a cup in it's side (Universal Transverse Mercator) for north-south aligned areas of interest where you need to keep distance distortions low and traffic cone on a basketball (Lambert Conformal Conic) for east-west. Engineers and surveys still need to turn angles and travel distances to land navigate and distance distortions are easy to correct. Where the sportsball intersects the container there are no distance distortions, nearby they are small enough to ignore.
@lykso i say that because he was unfortunately completely right that allocating path strings repeatedly will never ever come close to the time it takes to perform any VFS predicate syscall (e.g. open() or stat(), both of which accept a path string). i hated that he was right so much because i couldn't fucking BELIEVE that in fact no filesystem designer has ever once given a single shit about making the value of an inode meaningful to the application developer who is specifically performing VFS traversals and therefore is not interested in setting up a formal open()/close() relationship with a file descriptor
@lykso linux has the most half-assed possible way to respond to this which is to add an O_PATH bit to the open{at,{2}}() flags argument so you can express to the kernel "i do not care about the data contained in this thing whatsoever, just tell me if it exists and what type of thing it is". that was surprisingly legitimate and this is why linus torvalds is so effective at achieving truly evil shit (because he recognizes that criticism from people who give a shit about doing things the right way is a valuable source of input)
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Some small UX is on the fly 
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Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this "No Gods, No Masters, Only Honks" Shirt. In Dante's Inferno, Satan is described as a wretched long-necked beast, with feathery wings white as snow and a monstrous honk of a roar that could shake the heavens. Sound familiar?
https://collabs.shop/ibdhup
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Remember: They want you to fear Muslims, immigrants, and Black and brown people so you forget that a Muslim immigrant from Uganda and South Asia just hastened the safest New York City summer in history.
They want you to believe MAGA propaganda over Mamdani’s proven example. Don’t fall for it. ❤️✊🏽
Training AI models on copyrighted works is "squarely what transformative use is," EFF’s Tori Noble told Reason - these are "general purpose tools" and "exactly the kind of creation that copyright is designed to foster.” https://reason.com/2026/09/04/doj-says-barring-ai-training-on-copyrighted-material-could-severely-hamper-tech-progress/
@eff yooooo this sucks
i mean, completely unsurprising from y’all at this point, but regardless. sucks. big sucks. sucks shit.
The United States and China are gearing up for talks later this month on artificial intelligence safety risks. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/09/05/tech/us-china-ai-safety-talks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #ai #us #china #uschinarelations #xijinping #donaldtrump #tech
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You cannot control everything. Fortunately, a surprising amount of everything is being controlled by people who also have no idea what they’re doing. #gooderliving
#Akkoma #Statistics 2026-09-05 05:00 CEST
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Number of active instances: 681
Number of users: 22 348
Number of statuses: 10 084 221
Number of users last 4h: 5
Number of statuses last 4h: 1052
#Fediverse
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@catsalad alttext: Knives Out, a Benoit Blanc mystery
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"Adam Telle said Friday that he is “honored” Donald Trump named him as the acting army secretary to replace Daniel Driscoll."
And this is why we need to disband the Pentagon too, among other reasons.
Brey, it is categorically impossible for the Nazi child rapist narcissist whackjob who is starting to suspect he actually IS the messiah, to "honor" anyone. You're a chump bootlicker for Nazis and I hope you catch an Iranian missile up the ass...
