@heidilifeldman Does he?
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What’s a thing you recently did/built/participated in/read/watched/enjoyed that’s not terrible?
@thomasfuchs Elle, the Legally Blonde prequel set in 1995 Seattle, is surprisingly good, despite the constant product placement for Starbucks. Otherwise I'm rereading the Murderbot Diaries and rewatching The Expanse.
Woozle Hypertwin
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It’s meant to be.
@moz @juliette Can confirm your Wollongong observation. Where I am e-bikes are changing the gendered nature of independently getting about for pre-drivers: many more teen girls are transporting themselves and each other further distances than they would walk or cycle on relatively dark bike tracks. I’m curious to see whether teen girls on e-bikes graduate to full motorbikes.
@kate @juliette I suspect that depends on what clampdowns happen. Right now the e-motorbikes are very usable and also very cheap and easy (etc).
Using a registered, licensed motorbike would cost a lot of money and stop them riding on the paths they currently use. But if the e-motorbikes get banned, or kicked off paths (with both rules and enforcement) I suspect we'd see a move back to cars rather than to motorbikes. There's social pressure that way.
Em :official_verified:
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EFF recently joined 60+ organizations raising serious concerns about the UK government's plans to deploy facial age estimation to assess asylum-seeking children. Join us in calling on the Home Secretary to immediately halt these plans by signing this petition. https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-the-home-office-using-experimental-ai-on-asylum-seeking-children
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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We're hiring a new technical support specialist to join @ProPublica's enterprise technology team.
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize winning non-profit newsroom that investigates abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust by government, business, and other institutions - so you're helping support an incredible mission with some unique technical challenges. It's a meaningful place to work and make a difference.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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Count Binface has a dormant account on the Fediverse at:
Getting a few more follows might prod him into posting again? I think it might at least trigger an email from the server to tell him he is still getting followers 🙂
Em :official_verified:
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🎉 Hey everyone, it's spec release day! Matrix 1.19 is officially here. 🚀
There are 6 new MSCs, with some highly anticipated features including:
✨ Native custom emoji support (image packs)
🔐 Encrypted room history sharing
➡️ Read the full announcement:
https://matrix.org/blog/2026/07/08/matrix-v1.19-release/
[LLM Homer voice] mmm.... Fried Chinese Curry Chicken-Fish & Chips (with left ice-cream)
What’s a thing you recently did/built/participated in/read/watched/enjoyed that’s not terrible?
Alle denken bei "Bürokratieabbau" immer daran, dass ihr Leben irgendwie einfacher wird. Und dann wundern sie sich, wenn sie eine Sozialleistung nicht mehr bekommen, aber die Kätzchen-Shredder-Fabrik jetzt direkt neben ihr Zuhause gebaut wird.
@tante wie kommst du auch Katzen?
David Gerard
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RE: https://mas.to/@zzt/116881735266013762
"we don’t have to accept good code from dickheads either"
Good code is not that hard to come by. There's this notion of oh no, what if you accidentally turn down some good code, what if you turn down someone who could eventually write good code, what if you piss off someone who could write good code just because they're a twat, etc.
A good contributor is much more useful than a bunch of good code. A good contributor brings some good code or docs or translations in, helps with integrating it to the project, and if they stick around, they are a positive addition to the team. They help maintain a workable environment. They're open to learning, collaborating, feedback, improvement, and criticism. And they can do the same as those hypothetical twats you turn down.
Coding is not that difficult.
Not only am I back to regularly getting my Apple Account "locked," there's now a new twist where the "unlock" flow returns HTTP 503 responses unless I space out my actions during the process, leaving several minutes between steps—but not too many minutes, or else the whole thing times out! I've been trying to unlock my account for ~30 minutes so far…
This is the error that appears on the web page when some part of the execution of a step gets a 503 response.
Em :official_verified:
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When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money".
But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings:
Tech millionaires dropping fortunes on longevitymaxxing are repeating the exact same psychology as ancient kings eating mercury pills.
They view death as a technical problem waiting for a technical solution.
It's a desperate refusal to sit with the discomfort of finitude.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/given-the-alternative-i-find-myself
what a bunch of ridiculous idiots
being rich doesn't mean you are smart or competent
also, i'm in my 60s and the idea of living even another 10 years terrifies me
death is part of life, get used to it, deal with it, let go
@wlaatje I'm sure israel has nothing to do with this
I will accept Farade, Farake, or Farase; nothing less!
Why not Forage?
Em :official_verified:
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Aaron Swartz didn't die so that Sam Fuckin' Altman could get away with this shit.
@danieruotakuboy Surprisingly many instances do this. It's like, "let's block those who don't block." If you support commercialism or happen to be an entrepreneur, you get labeled as a capitalist or a tech bro. If you say anything remotely positive about Meta or Twitter, it automatically means you're supporting them. I've been called out quite a few times - check #FediOnFire. I created a user interface called Mastodon Bird UI and got issues like this one: https://github.com/rollecode/mastodon-bird-ui/issues/30 and so on...
@rolle Damn, I'm sorry to hear what happened with your project; I hope you can revive it in the future.
Btw, I love your project Mastodon Bird-UI, it inspired me to create my own project Mastodon Ven-UI (which was agonizing for me to understand in Mastodon's original CSS) for my own instance. Before I was using your project instead.
Keep going, I think that you can create amazing things, people in the Fediverse are amazing, regardless of each person's way of thinking.
