Sergey Brin is leading a $90 million ad campaign to stop California's 5% billionaire wealth tax.

He is $133 billion richer since Trump's election.

But that's apparently not enough. He'd rather children lose access to healthcare than pay his fair share.

Greed is a sickness.

Friends, as ridiculous as it is that we even have to do this, I think Ghent should hear from us as the eugenicists are out in full force. This is a letter created by academics there to counter the ridiculous letter supporting the white supremacist fraud now being called a "whistleblower" by his ilk.

You can add your name.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenkE7wxDRTjgT5XArgRqIPipLPP-Ibb7LkmXya5ZuxfotTKg/viewform

http://weact.campact.de/p/RechtsruckStoppen

@decryption I love the keyboard. "now even more with AI-powered tools." - can you disable those?

Dusche, dann Dessau.

Cannes is a French City with 49,000 inhabitants, which is a lot but still 1000 people less than the 50,000 people American ICE detained in July.

Nuts!

@atlefren Det at du prøvde å få inkludert noe tekst etter produktet tilsynelatende var ferdig er bare 🤌

@dries Happy new instance 😊 !

@pluralistic

(Note: UK based POV)

I gave up on TV in 2004. The ads had become unbearable and I decided it was no longer worth enduring the crap to find the decent content. I've used only DVDs ever since, and I'm happy. I use YouTube for more ephemeral or up-to-date content.

However, I'm a stubborn guy. If I can't have entertainment the way I want it, I dig my heels in. Most people, it seems, go with the flow.

האסוציאציה שלי למפלגה החדשה "עמך ישראל"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hYTQ7__NNDI&pp=ygUWYmxhemluZyBzYWRkbGVzIG1vcm9ucw%3D%3D

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.

When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

@twistylittlepassages @futzle Yeah, this thread is confusing me too. Can someone add some audio to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/python please! :-P

For those in the UK puzzled why we Americans are so distraught over the passing of Dolly Parton: try to remember how you felt when you heard Queen Elizabeth had died. Then imagine how much worse it would have been if Queen Elizabeth had ever helped anyone

RE: https://mastodon.social/@3psboyd/117157180084565205

I would view this as a complete failure if anyone on my team felt this way. Nobody should ever be made to feel embarrassed for asking questions. We’re doing challenging and oftentimes confusing work. Good engineers ask questions!

In lieu of flowers, Dolly Parton’s family is asking for donations to her Imagination Library, which has distributed over 330 million books to kids. https://imaginationlibrary.com

#accaddeoggi - Medigliano (Padova), 26 agosto 1949: la polizia uccide il partigiano Bruno Cameran durante una manifestazione

https://www.osservatoriorepressione.info/26-agosto-1949-medigliano-padova/

Happy first anniversary to my weeknotes!

A special day, but our work continues as usual: a good initial response to our sponsorship drive, a couple of patch releases, some fantastic contributions from our team and community, a possible beginning for Herb support, and a definite beginning for resolvable errors.

https://timriley.info/posts/continuations-202634-first-anniversary

Nitter, an open-source front end that let users read X without an account, says X sent cease-and-desist letters demanding a takedown; Nitter.net is now offline (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/x-sends-cease-and-desist-to-open-source-project-nitter-over-alleged-scraping/
http://www.techmeme.com/260825/p44#a260825p44

@GustavinoBevilacqua @las_lallero la volta buona che la sentivamo cantare The Day The Nazi died dei Chumbawamba, LOL

@futzle wait how does everyone else say python/Python?