I cannot express how much I love this 🥲

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1MhS9uEv2M

Courtesy Donny Dania.....

Wow some terrible reporting about Google's latest horrible ideas about how to distort information access in the name of "convenience" (or something):

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/

A short thread
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@heidilifeldman You will need more than one generation to do that

My new album 'Sender' is out today! Six calm longform ambient pieces to look out a window to. Entirely made with an Elektron Tonverk and using only samples from my kalimba. The digital version is name-your-price for one week and cassettes are ready to ship. And there will be videos for each track coming over the next weeks. I hope you enjoy it. Thanks so much for your support! 🖖 jogginghouse.bandcamp.com

So, I dunno what else to say. I don't hate you. I just don't agree it can be fixed. It must be replaced.

I mean you know how I feel about most of the Berniecrats. I do believe many of them have their heart in the right place - but it's a planet that can sustain 8B+ people (please do not post Malthusian bullshit in my replies, I am fucking begging you) or capitalism. There is no reform. You folks are at the end of the day simply wrong about the degree of change required to save this grand experiment in human civilization.

Cruise ships pose the same sort of public health challenge medieval Venice faced – but the U.S. just stepped back from the international system that evolved over the centuries to manage disease outbreaks across borders.
https://theconversation.com/from-medieval-plague-ships-to-hantavirus-how-outbreaks-at-sea-helped-to-shape-the-international-public-health-system-282957

@matt I have seen some people talking about the boom of writing accessibility game mods, positioning it as empowering because we are able to write a solution for our own needs rather than having to wait for a day that never comes. I find this to be extremely misguided. It's true that we are now able to do something that we couldn't before, but calling it a solution is super premature. We still want--and need--the industry to think about us when designing their apps. If we do the work for them, they'll just think "cool, we don't have to worry about this. Thx!" Relying on a small army of unemployed college students paying Anthropic $100/mo to do the work of a AAA studio, for free, is just not sustainable. It is a stunning lack of foresight.

This weekend I was telling someone that I started buying earthquake insurance when my husband's illness prompted my retirement.
While making excuses for why I would purchase such a high deductible expensive policy I said that in the event of an earthquake that toppled our house I would be homeless without insurance coverage.
He said I have so many friends I wouldn't be homeless.
It made me think about how much my friends mean to me and how those connections get me through some tough days. I don't expect to need a couch to sleep on but I do know I wouldn't be alone in a crises and I wouldn't want that for anyone else.
I've come to depend on Mastodon for a daily dose of kindness. A virtual support system of real people.
To be a part of this community is an honor a privilege and a life saver.
Thank you from the fullness of my heart.
(Not the bottom but the whole heart)
Hugs.

npm is pronounced napalm, because if you use it it'll stick awful stuff to your code and then set it on fire

@leaverou Hey Lea!

I was looking for the accessibility section and the only thing I could find was about syncing :user-invalid with aria-invalid, and this is described as the way to make error announcements accessible?

I also couldn't find any accessibility guidance for keyboard management so now I'm assuming it refers to the built-in management that comes with <dialog> and popover?

Is this all? or am I missing something important somewhere?

@evacide they are really destroying the Internet, LLM contamination everywhere! 😡

@sysop408 It's a dark world out there, to be sure, but sometimes, the universe provides.

The role of US capitalists in this slow corporatist coup is exhaustively documented in season 1 of the The Master Plan;

https://the.levernews.com/master-plan/

FYI season 2 episodes started dropping in March this year. Taking up the story and showing how it produced both the MAGA Presidency, and the Clintonite-dominated Democratic party.

(7/?)

I've probably biased things, but... Wow! I got a half-decent sample-size practically all of whom dislike computing as it is today!

93% of 53 votes fantasize about leaving computing or rebuilding it in our image. A single vote expressed some satisfaction with computing as it is.

So now I'm curious: What would computing in your image look like?

I've been talking about what computing in my image looks like...