@MsHearthWitch @bearmine Gonna go see if I can run it on my dying Linux

You Europeans are always complaining about #Europe. And I'm not saying Europe is perfect and deserves no criticism, but as an American I am often envious of your set of problems versus our set of problems. So some of you may roll your eyes at news like this but for me it is amazing and a glorious revelation

" #France to ban advertising for #fossilFuels"

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2026/07/09/france-to-ban-advertising-for-fossil-fuels_6755307_19.html

@mattblaze yes, we are lucky to be in Ontario, where there has been a huge push over the last decade to actually support emergency workers, acknowledging and supporting sufferers of PTSD. Having grown up in the US I shudder when I think of what EMS workers there have to face… much more gun violence, low wages, no public health support. It’s a terrible burden for those people and no signs of getting better any time soon.

Photos for anyone who wants to join in on the "What kind of squash is this?" game.

Yeah only thing left to do now is attack the front and back panels with baby wipes, then hit the switches with contact cleaner

Whenever someone posts on iNaturalist "I found this ant" but it's an ant mimic I just feel so proud of the ant mimic. I think they should get a little award.

In an era where companies need to become more efficient and diverse they’ve basically picked the least efficient way to do it, with the biggest risks and highest costs - because everybody else is doing it.

I know somebody at one of the big 4 who has written something in Claude that prompts Claude each twenty minutes for a question, then feeds Claude’s question back into Claude to use their tokens - because token usage is factored into employee evaluations. What are we even doing.

@SesameSquirrel i feel like she's some federal antiterrorism expert, which could probably justify that

I’m really serious about this one btw. Companies have no measurable way of knowing what employees are doing with GenAI. They’re giving Claude Code out like it’s candy and just presuming everybody is an IT power user. They aren’t. They’re converting PDFs and vibe coding garden planning tools.

Copilot M365 has a fake dashboard showing how productive people are.. it has no actual data. It just shows people use it. It’s CIO porn for the CEO. Orgs are pissing money up a wall worldwide.

@jdp23
Dreher seems like he is going to ignore my question and the story developing around where his campaign money came from is disturbing.
This is turning out to be a weird race.
Both David and Dreher, it turns out, potentially have strong ties to what I'll call toxic tech bro-ism.

@wyatt it looks soooooo good!!!

The annual TUAWreunion at @macstockexpo this year with @chartier @ttscoff @docrock @macosken & @MikeTRose 💟💻☮️

@inthehands @blogdiva @c_9

Well, my brain goes
🎵
Put the pizza in the box
Put the box into the car
Drive the car around the town...
🎵

@rolle Perintöä odotellessa, eli testamenttilahjoituksillahan yhdistys saa kerätä myös rahaa. Testamenttilahjoitukset ovat vieläpä verovapaita. Näitä tuntuvat kaikki yhdistykset nykyään hamuavan, erityisesti isot hyväntekeväisyysjärjestöt, mutta nyt oli sanaristikkoseurankin uusimmassa lehdessä juttu siitä, että testamentissaan voi sanaristikkoseuraa muistaa...

So the #FediverseChickCountdown was really a bust, only 7 chicks hatched (and I didn't post much because of fucking Reflect Orbital)

But those 7 chicks are SO CUTE. I reloaded the incubator, turned the temperature down slightly, didn't keep eggs for quite as long, and we'll try this experiment again. Tune in in 3 weeks to find out if I picked the right variables to mess with

(Farming is HARD. Biology is HARD. Orbital dynamics is so easy compared to this!)

US Embassy Tells Americans to Avoid Congo Over Ebola After Aid Worker Infected
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-13/us-warns-americans-to-avoid-congo-over-ebola-after-aid-worker-infected?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Travel @travel-bloomberg

Shout out to @Framasoft for walking their talk on this one. They show the way.

China Expands Strategic Mineral Toolkit With New Investment Firm
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-13/china-expands-strategic-mineral-toolkit-with-new-investment-firm?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Bloomberg Asia @bloomberg-asia-bloomberg

I watched too episodes of X-Files and Supernatural to fall for that Mitch McConnell proof of life bullshit