@Uair It's not, or anyway, so far, I'm not saying it is, brilliant.

But we don't see so very many shows that take LGBQTIA+ experiences as straightforward and legitimate, and this one does.

I ran @p_malin's program and got this.
Source: https://bbcmic.ro/?t=eKOTi #bbcbasic

Would it be weirder for Madame Taussads wax figures to be anatomically correct or not? Like Elvis Presley and Robert Mugabes (I haven't been since I was a kid and have no idea who's there) junk in fine accurate detail. Are they circumcised? What are their nipples like? Or just misshapen lumps under clothing. Has someone spent an afternoon working on Beyoncés vulva? If you go up there will you find a wax womb? Let's have a look at Charlie Chaplins prostate. Anyway good morning.

Russian President Vladimir Putin lauded the "heroes" of his military in stepping up a campaign on Ukrainian targets, while acknowledging that reciprocal attacks by Ukraine have caused economic damage. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/23/world/politics/putin-economic-impact-ukraine-strikes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #oil

RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/british-columbia-i8sdok9nz/-/a-sQTfE4aGROSSx176MDAODg%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0

This may be the best athlete interview of all time

@mttaggart Truly, neither. Not our biggest problems. Show me the glitch that predisposes us to confirmation bias - I’d like to iron out that one.

I wrote up some thoughts on Boris Tane's argument for putting AI agents on-call.

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/08/22/wild-ai-related-reliability-incidents-are-coming/

@GeePawHill

You talked me into it.

My old woman loved that show and told me to watch it, but she was omnivorous and led me astray too many times. Now I'll give it a go.

Gentle reminder, when someone is sharing some small piece of resistance they have done, DO NOT SHIT ON IT. Do not tell them it isn't enough or it's still bad because blah blah other stuff...

Everyone is tired and overwhelmed and trying to find some accessible way they can push back. Cheer that!

Celebrate the small; celebrate the imperfect.

No single action is gonna solve everything, but a whole bunch of small actions start the sea change.

Don't punch down when we all need lifting up.

Redlands irrigation results https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/108528

@jpm https://youtu.be/KC8_HTBx8SE “hey buddy, enough with the curse words alright?”
“Kiss my sweaty balls you fat fuck!”

This is slightly early days, but:

I'm looking for a copy editor on the Fediverse.

It's a paid gig. I don't expect anything for free.

* Must have a track record of finished editorial work

* Must understand UK grammar and spelling

* Must have a collaborative attitude (I've paid too many people who spoke to me like I was a contestant on Kitchen Nightmares, I don't want that to happen again).

* Knowledge of fantasy and sci fi genre conventions essential, cyberpunk a bonus.

(More below)

@CCC I did not expect to have a flock camera case here in Germany. Every day we are normalizing camera surveillance a little bit more.

Things that can be surveilled with a camera are always the symptoms, and removing them with force is not treating the problem, but suppressing it. Sooner or later it will show itself in another place.

Very saddening.

Friends, have you seen the investigation on UK students, including those at Oxford and Cambridge, hiring Kenyans to write their papers and dissertations?

I assume it wasn't cross Atlantic news as the media only seems to be interested in laundering eugenics into the mainstream.

Think about the audacity of them telling Black people that we're subpar DEI hires and frauds such and these students hiring Black people to do their work for them and pass it off as their own.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/sep/14/kenya-shadow-scholars-paid-to-write-essays-for-uk-students

Footage of Spider-Man going down from a Mpls journo, sorry it's a Bsky link: https://bsky.app/profile/reportermark.bsky.social/post/3mtornwjuak2l

also here are the Minneapolis police being assholes all the way back in about 1982 (sorry i am not making light of Spider-Man's arrest but I will never stop laughing at these cops busting a party with the most intense MN accent of all time):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGxINyXiVgQ

The End of an Athlon

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-end-of-an-athlon/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406333

#HackerNews #Athlon #TechHistory #CPU #Nostalgia #OS2Museum

@fds @carnage4life hard disagree. If Jobs is the "benchmark", those guys in that video are assholes, too. https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/117143325400212195

That's 51 kilos of coal is that

Thinking in kWh is a great antidote to the fossil fuel industry's constant drip of you-can't-stop-this, you-don't-matter dispiriting propaganda, because it gives you an Actual Number

Like imagine what 51kg of coal looks like, that's like two thirds of a Me, could I lift that up, would I need two trips, how filthy would the air round my house be if I burned it all at once,

https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2026/08/22/une-minorite-privilegiee-sacrifie-la-planete-afin-de-preserver-ses-richesses-et-son-pouvoir_6752623_3232.html

"Depuis les années 1980, si ce n’est depuis les colonisations, une minorité privilégiée a choisi de faire sécession de l’avenir commun, de sacrifier une partie de la planète et la majorité de l’humanité afin de préserver ses richesses et son pouvoir. Ce qui est nouveau, dans la séquence actuelle, c’est que ce « programme » cynique soit devenu celui de gouvernements élus démocratiquement, autoritaires voire fascisants, tel celui de Donald Trump aux Etats-Unis, et soutenus par les milieux d’affaires des énergies fossiles, de l’extraction d’hydrocarbures à l’agro-industrie.