'It Ain't Right:' Texas Said It Would Halt Data Center Permits. The State is Pushing Ahead Anyway
> “The Caldwell Technology Park [...] the Stargate facility, and a bunch of other very large hyperscale facilities have gotten regulatory approvals [...] so it's not like a real pause."
Where Exactly Has the Warrior Ethos Gotten Us?
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2026/september/where-exactly-has-warrior-ethos-gotten-us
> The Marine Corps should revive its traditional ethos, emphasizing professional competence, readiness, honor, courage, and commitment for the demands of modern warfare.
Really really loved Ode to the Half-Broken.
https://astrapublishinghouse.com/product/ode-to-the-half-broken-9780756419585/
Excitedly buy a new Yes album.
Remember that apart from a couple of songs I'm not really a huge fan of Yes....
I'm assuming the recording is a Google service as I'm on Android. I feel like I would have clued in pretty quickly and know banks don't need my password and private info to do their job but I'm curious how scammers knew I'd opened the account.
Where does this information percolate out to and how do they go about finding it?
New credit card scam
I just opened a new card with my bank and added it to a few autopay accounts. Maybe an hour later I got a call from someone about checking for possible fraud. I didn't recognize the number and didn't answer but they called back right away and left a message both times. When I called back (thinking to reassure my bank that, yes, the flurry of activity was really me) I got a recorded message saying the number was likely a scam and I should hang up.
RE: https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/116997248666866971
I have found that sincere conservatives and libertarians are the most naive about human nature.
UPS offers discount so World Cup travelers can ship ranch overseas
https://www.wvlt.tv/2026/06/26/ups-offers-discount-so-world-cup-travelers-can-ship-ranch-overseas/
> World Cup tourists like American ranch dressing so much, UPS is offering a Ship and Dip discount to send it home.
> I don’t normally like to work with humans, period, even humans I know, who will listen to me in an emergency. But I needed to not look like a SecUnit and this was the best way to do it. I went to their kiosk and crouched down next to them. The four humans who were not currently shouting at armoredHostile1 looked at me, startled. I said, “Hi.”
I really enjoy seeing the character growth that gets SecUnit from anxiously reminding itself it mostly blends in in large crowds of humans and people making eye contact isn't the end of the world to:
Here's another one....
This song does good things for my mood ❤️
FOUND!!! Thanks to @mjibrower and everyone who boosted!
https://web.archive.org/web/20061230041502/http://home.earthlink.net/~ardesign/fontdownload.htm
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I'm trying to fix a cable knit pattern but I no longer have the font I used for the symbols. Its webpage was on earthlink years ago and it's gone now.
I was so excited for a moment when I found the folder with the documentation on my computer... But sadly there's no ttf file.
Does anyone out there have Knitting Symbols by CET? The one that used to be on the Aire River Designs site.
I've got a similar one, Kauri's, that works but doesn't have a couple of symbols I really want.
I have a blog on write.as that I'd like to move elsewhere cheaper to just be a static site. I've looked a couple of places for hosting but they need an A record and that... is this mastodon account. So is there anywhere else that will just let me link a subdomain?
Boosts appreciated!
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/116328522807584527
"To get to guillotines, you have to change society. By the time you’ve changed society, you don’t need the guillotines. If you focus on the guillotines instead of building that society, you will end up with a more brutal and repressive system than the one you started in."
RE: https://23.social/@leyrer/116180899239708746
I figured out how to add my phone card numbers to the dialup string to connect to my ISP long distance from a hotel room... Does that count? 😁
I may have had to take the phone apart, too 🤫
And yesterday I got the webcam working on my Surface Go 2 that's running KDE Neon!
I'm not really sure why... Not a huge fan of webcams. But it was the only thing that didn't work so I felt the need to make it work.
Also - fun fact - one part of the instructions was credited to @neil ! Which was a neat mastodon crossover.
Learned how to get my one holdover Windows program (it's my favorite tape calculator) onto the startup list so I don't have to go through the hassle of starting it up when I reboot 🎉
I'm very proud of myself 😂