Query: if the Affordability Crisis is hitting you and your household like a freight train, slide into my DMs.

I'm looking for folks who'd be willing to talk with local media in these markets:

IL
VA
PA
NM
NY

Particularly if you are:
A parent
A working mom
An Independent voter
Someone who uses child care or provides elder care
If you need paid family leave
Or someone just trying to make ends meet

Slide into my DMs.
Please.

@joachim le lien de ton deuxième pouet ne fonctionne effectivement pas…

I'm at a festival being badgered to sign a petition to legislate for mandatory on-device AI detection of CSAM. A really good, well-meaning charity has been convinced by an AI company that, through legislation, they can get their third-party commercial model included on every Android and iOS device in the UK. Apparently I'm the bad guy for pointing out that these people are charlatans and the odds of this happening are precisely zero.

Ik kijk er echt naar uit: op donderdagavond 24 september presenteer ik mijn eerste boek, Dit is AI, in Katoenhuis (Rotterdam).

Vandaag kondig ik één van de beste sprekers die ik ken als gast in het programma, de fantastische @Felienne Hermans!

Dus: wees erbij. Je kan je aanmelden via https://ditisai.eventbrite.com

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

-- Mary Wollstonecraft (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792)

#feminism #quotes

@thomasnoel il n’y manque plus qu’une instance du Fediverse ! (Pas Mastodon car Ruby, mais GoToSocial devrait marcher pile poil)

Plan: lawyering, followed by three days of not lawyering.

RE: https://bonfire.cafe/pub/objects/01M11S3WJA6HPZY6V8Z0JTTQ50

A great feature of #Bonfire that should work for #OpenScienceNetwork too ! 👏

Useful for managing public identities, certainly, but, I guess, could be useful for team work too, associated with scope limiting features.

#fediverse

I found a new disrupive technology called pen and paper. Its a text and image storage and editing system. Its a game changer.

#technology
#lolz

RE: https://serbianism.com/2025/10/26/dearly-departed-war-criminals-and-some-basketball/

Ratko Mladić will be buried with the highest state honors, Serbian Justice Minister Nenad Vujić confirmed today to Banja Luka's Alternative Television (ATV).

So, don't think that Mladić's death will somehow dispel the myths and victimhood narratives of Serbian nationalism.

Milošević died before the end of the trial, which his adoring fans used to proclaim his "innocence" and throw him a state funeral. It will be the same with Mladić- a poor, sickly old man who died in a Hague dungeon, etc.

UK gov changes structure of education to embed AI. Talk about the cart leading the horse!
"Importantly, this respecification of pedagogic practice requires a reshaping of educational materials and documentation into standardised forms to meet the limitations of AI training programmes. This is shown in the proof of concept technical report, which specifies the need for ‘codification of the National Curriculum’ into ‘AI-friendly structures’:"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767724.2026.2720476#d1e459

/1

@evan uh oh

The sky cleared up in time for the peak. If my neighbors didn't already think I'm weird, this should clinch it. Stalking the sidewalk at midnight, with binoculars in my left hand, iPhone in my right hand, and a bug net over my head for mosquitoes.
#eclipse #LunarEclipse

si vous vous demandez à quel niveau de parasitisme est rendu le patronat de ce pays : la salle entière du Medef se marre à gorge déployée quand Jean-Luc Mélenchon dit qu'il faut augmenter les salaires 🤡

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Como dice un post de reddit que acabo de ver:

"If they're going to be so cowardly they cut the word "transsexual" out of Rocky Horror, they shouldn't be doing Rocky Horror.

Using the song and cutting out the word just sends a message to trans youth: you're so fucked up we can't even use the word "transsexual" in a song that uses it in the goddamn chorus."

"Rocky Horror is about queerness/transness. It's a camp send-up of the flamboyant queer alien/villain from old sci-fi and horror B-movies. That's its point, that's the whole thing's reason for existing. And this is its most widely recognized song, with the chorus specifically sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania.

Nobody could hear their version and miss the change. They took the trans people out of Rocky Horror. WTF."

https://www.reddit.com/r/lgbt/comments/dtw51/glee_changes_rocky_horror_lyrics_is_transsexual_a/c12w7l8/

It looks like the migration to this new instance was [mostly] successful. However it does appear I lost some followers and followees.

Note to fediverse app and ActivityPub maintainers: we really need one and only one schema and format, based on flat text lines or .csv, for importing, exporting, migrating profiles, posts, follow(ing) lists, etc. Too many cooks spoils the stew.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon

@Greguti la nature est aussi belle que terrifiante !

"You get a snapshot of your potential every time you read a novel." (Jason Reynolds)