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We made a comic about Achilles.

Connecting dental floss to the internet was a mistake.

@arstechnica ¿Y que esperaban? Y que sepan que luego explotan

@fribbledom Limiting the size of donations might reduce corruption (which is why there are ineffective or no limits in the most corrupt countries).

USA 👀

@kramaker Presidencies (and similar unitary individual executives) are just a reified non-hereditary replacement for the monarchs of yore. They can, in principal, be replaced more easily when they crap out. But in practice, if it deteriorates into oligarchy we're fucked the same way. And they always try to accumulate more centralized power.

The EU at least has a rotating chair held by whichever nation has the baton and it's not really about exercising king-like individual power.

@Gina
And that's why I take the train on Monday when I go to Berlin.🤞

@nina_kali_nina @bemc @jspath55 @the_wub merch is important!

Did the final safety sign off on the lathe and the mill at the makerspace. This required doing some test cuts. It's good to be making swarf again finally.

Most people are gone home for the day leaving me with 3 hours left on a 3d print, and a whole makerspace to enjoy. I wonder what I should do with myself now...

@TheBreadmonkey This is when the genx desire to keep every cord and charger ever comes in handy. I have a box labeled the cord graveyard.

@zotz yeah the online presence is scattered youtube videos, which i'm playing through

@bagder point taken.

Mastodon admins, if you're looking for a way to find/report accounts affected by the current spam wave, you can run the query below. There may be some false positives, but the results are largely accurate.

Drop into the DB first (sudo -u mastodon psql mastodon_production) and run:

WITH bounds AS (
SELECT ((extract(epoch FROM timestamptz '2026-10-15 00:00:00-04') * 1000)::bigint << 16) AS min_id
),
counts AS (
SELECT m.status_id, COUNT(*) AS mention_count
FROM mentions m, bounds b
WHERE m.status_id >= b.min_id
GROUP BY m.status_id
HAVING COUNT(*) >= 10
)
SELECT s.id,
s.created_at,
a.username || COALESCE('@' || a.domain, '') AS author,
c.mention_count,
COALESCE(s.url, s.uri) AS link
FROM counts c
JOIN statuses s ON s.id = c.status_id
JOIN accounts a ON a.id = s.account_id
WHERE s.deleted_at IS NULL
AND a.suspended_at IS NULL
AND (s.text ILIKE '%google%' OR s.spoiler_text ILIKE '%google%')
ORDER BY s.created_at DESC;

#mastoadmin #fediadmin

"Procrastination is bad for your health."
"Why?"
"Let me get back to you on that."

The bug is fixed, but privacy concerns remain.

Today in Labor History October 17, 1950: The "Salt of the Earth" zinc mine strike began in Silver City, New Mexico. The strike lasted for 14-months and inspired the film “Salt of the Earth,” which was blacklisted. The film was one of the first to portray a feminist political point of view, particularly through Actress Rosaura Revueltas’s role as Esperanza Quintero. When the Company uses the new Taft-Hartley Act (which also bans General Strikes) to impose an injunction preventing the men from picketing, their wives go walk the picket line in their places. LGBTQ and labor activist Will Geer also played in the film. Writer Michael Wilson, director Herbert Biberman and producer Paul Jarrico had all been blacklisted for their alleged communist ties. Only 13 of the 13,000 theaters in the U.S. showed the film. Geer is most well-known for his role as Grandpa Walton, in the long-running TV series, The Waltons. Because of his activism on labor and political issues, he was blacklisted in Hollywood for many years. In 1934, he became a member of the Communist Party. He also met LGBTQ activist Harry Hay that year and they became lovers. Together, they supported the San Francisco General Strike and demonstrated against fascism and for workers’ rights.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #strike #union #GeneralStrike #lgbtq #tafthartley #communism #feminism #chicano #censorship #freespeech #mining #fascism #antifa #antifascism

@luca

I would separate three things: actual single use software (not a new concept, a lot of scripts are basically that), software only for one person's need/use, and then whatever vibe/cuck coders do. A lot of generated stuff is "single use" only because they have to replace it fully when it fails. 1 and 2, on the other hand, are a different story.

(And pray to your gods or some other person's gods when LLMs start concepts for architecture and security, given the data they were trained on.)

My husband ordered a handmade arcade controller from a mysterious man named Alpenmeister who does in fact live in the Alps and who is known to always take several months longer than anticipated to hew each circuit board from primordial Alpine silicon, but every serious button-presser simply Must have one

@leni Good point on fit.