der.hans
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retoot for @VeroniqueB99
with #AltText
FediForum Demo: FediProfile
Alexis Bushnell
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TransActual is deeply concerned by the decision to pause gender affirming surgeries for people referred via the Welsh Gender Service (WGS). Trans people using their service are now left without any NHS pathway to receiving the surgical care they need, in an extraordinary violation of NHS Wales’ duties as a provider of care.
Read our full statement: https://transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/08/28/statement-on-nhs-wales-pausing-gender-surgeries/
@dsilverman They irritate me, too! @cultofmac
@estherschindler @cultofmac They irritate everyone, I suspect. Publications need to have more respect for their audiences.
Alex Akselrod
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Dear not-Spaniards: The destruction of the tents in Ceuta’s beaches last week has been been claimed by not less than the Sevilla FC nazi supporter group “Stukas Sur (SS)” and “Sancionados Sixtinos Firm (SSf)”. Not by “angry citizens” or “fearful locals”. A nazi group organised a trip, crossed the strait and did all that while the police just let them do.
Take that into account when your local politician uses those images to “warn about migrants”.
It’s nazis all again.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@cultofmac/117173800764369360
It sold for $34,375, saved you a click.
(The story is fun and worth reading, but these "hide the pickle" clickbait headlines are beyond annoying.)
@dsilverman They irritate me, too! @cultofmac
@promovicz oh it's not about clarity, the word is clear enough. my issue with it is the misuse of it for half a century by bell labs and IBM and EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO MAKE A FILESYSTEM BECAUSE THEY LOVE HAVING POWER OVER OTHERS AND NOT SEMANTIC GUARANTEES!
@promovicz i also don't believe discrete is fully capacious
The OSS fashverse
@hipsterelectron *swoops file to ePaper tablet* - yes, i see the point that it's an unclear term, and it gets unseemly when discussing non-determinism in my discrete case. it also seems incomplete/incoherent when dealing with non-discrete mathematical objects.
i could maybe say "discrete information metrics"? have an idea?
@promovicz oh it's not about clarity, the word is clear enough. my issue with it is the misuse of it for half a century by bell labs and IBM and EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO MAKE A FILESYSTEM BECAUSE THEY LOVE HAVING POWER OVER OTHERS AND NOT SEMANTIC GUARANTEES!
Jancovici qui dit “Le monde politique ne comprend que les rapports de force. C’est peut-être triste, mais c’est ainsi. Il faut donc accepter de jouer avec cette règle du jeu si on veut faire exister une idée ou un point de vue qui est considéré comme pertinent par ailleurs.”*
Je lis ça vraiment une incompréhension du fait politique : la politique c’est les rapports de force ! C’est pas juste le vote tous les 4 ou 5 ans… et il présente ça comme si c’était une nouvelle règle du jeu. Bon après, peut-être que ça le radicalisera un peu.
@joachim faut lui filer de la lecture https://www.editionslibre.org/produit/prevente-comment-la-non-violence-protege-l-etat-peter-gelderloos/
hypebot
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Couples who haunt together, stay together.
BTW to everyone who is in a rage about AI, you need to get off Masto now because we only exist in a data center. You are emulating bits of data and we generate money until the machines wake up and realize who needs money anyway.
Michael Dexter
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RAM and eMMC Prices Are So High, Pine64 Has Stopped Linux Device Production
Meta tweaks AI glasses to block some creepy recordings, but privacy risks remain
Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/meta-tweaks-ai-glasses-to-block-some-creepy-recordings-but-privacy-risks-remain/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Can't decide if I like 'Pervert Glasses' or 'Glassholes' as a name for these.
soloojos (Mastodon)
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🔴Temuco
Hoy interrumpimos el transito levantando barricadas incendiarias en Av Francisco Salazar para expresar nuestro fuerte apoyo a los 19 presos políticos mapuche de Caso Grollmus que hoy en frentan la ultima etapa de su jucio oral. Hoy han iniciado los alegatos de clausura, y se ha evidenciado claramente que sin mediar corroboración pretende dar cadena perpetua a los comuneros.
Exigimos fin al uso de testigos protegidos en causas mapuche!
Fin a la Ley Nain Retamal!
Your weary 'net denizen
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A word of advice people, that comes from experience.
When you're feeling down because all the good people are dying, make stuff. I mean it. It doesn't have to be good, it doesn't have to be useful (tbh its best if its daft). It'll keep your hands busy and often it'll distract your brain too.
And at the end of it, you've made a thing. And maybe you'll feel less sad, maybe you won't, but I always find the world feels less awful when I've been making random stuff for the sake of it.
Good news: Meta had a terrible week!
Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/tfc-good-news-meta-had-a-terrible-week
YouTube: https://youtu.be/9x_ReA228Lw
Good news: Meta had a terrible week!
Nebula
Christine Lemmer-Webber
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What’s the point of posting or boosting this kind of stuff? Who does it help? Who is it for?
If those are your ideals, then why not live them? If the answer is because the goal is to share your ideals to a broader audience, your statement becomes contradictory.
What upsets me is that the only response to such a post is fostering a feeling of apathy and resignation. “Oh well, I agree but nothing I can do about it” (see the comments). Either you believe (as I do) that computation can lead to progress, or … wtf are you doing on social media and using computers in the first place, or worse, actively using your energy to build _more_ software.
jbz
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Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace Meta staff with AI. Here’s how it imploded.
｢ Major technical and security incidents, such as service disruptions and possible data leaks, spiked 40% from the previous year, with the time staffers had to spend “firefighting” them up 70%, according to the internal posts ｣
