The KDE documentary 📽️ "A story of Free Software underdogs" premieres in less than an hour at 19:30 CEST.

Watch it with friends 🍿 here!:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2026/

#KDEat30 #anniversary #documentary #KDE

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/117439470425515675

Really really good example of why despite looking like news, The New York Times is part of the lies.

The poster adding the red arrow completely exposes what the NYT lies about and how.

Very good post.

#uspol #nyt #nytLies

This chart in this morning's NYT is awfully misleading. Suggested edits in red to avoid any confusion.

Everyone needs to see this and also acknowledge why reverse engineering is a super power.

Credit to https://instagram.com/ayoships
Guy reverses the dark patterns of mobile apps and publishes it, absolutely love it!

This fall, 35 states are voting—directly or indirectly—on who will run their elections. The results will determine who oversees the next presidential election.

Explore our guide for a state-by-state breakdown:

https://boltsmag.org/guide-to-contests-for-chief-elections-official-secretary-of-state/

Spicy Deidre is the BEST Deidre. #utpol

Must-read: Ahead of 2026 U.S. Midterms, Zuckerberg's Meta Paid 29+ Anti-LGBTQ Accounts for Their Shitposts
https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/ahead-of-the-midterms-meta-has-paid

Thread: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/117440029621198265

Voyager 1 is 25.81 billion km/16.04 billion miles away from Earth and will reach 1 light-day from Earth in 34 days, 18 hours: https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_voyager_1/distance?to=earth

Voyager 2 is 21.60 billion km/13.42 billion miles away from Earth: https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_voyager_2/distance?to=earth

#Voyager1 #Voyager2 #voyager #nasa #space

If you want people in high office who are strong enough and principled enough to stand up to bullies... you have no Republican options.

Nigel Farage suggesting the UK should "trade" the Chagos Islands to Donald Trump in exchange for him keeping quiet about the Falklands exposes astonishing foreign policy amateurism. Offering up territory to appease foreign leaders subverts sovereignty. Why tolerate grovelling diplomacy? 🤔 #FBPE https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/nigel-farage-says-uk-should-give-chagos-islands-to-donald-trump-410588/

RE: https://journa.host/@ScottLucas/117437721696870408

#Ukraine intelligence official summarizes #Trump camp recent support of #Russia

"If Trump had been running United States back in 1939, I think he would have been Hitler’s ally.

And on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto, #Witkoff and #Kushner would have built a posh hotel complex"

#Ukraine #TrumpRussia

There is hope for the world: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7379806

Overwhelming majority of Australians back government intervention to tackle rental crisis

New polling commissioned by The Australia Institute reveals overwhelming public support…

The Australia Institute · Australia

https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/overwhelming-majority-of-australians-back-government-intervention-to-tackle-rental-crisis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=overwhelming-majority-of-australians-back-government-intervention-to-tackle-rental-crisis

#News #Australia

Businesses: Here's some freebie advice for you. Did you want to know one area of work you could eliminate, freeing up velocity for your development teams? It's really easy. You just follow this rule:

If it
can be
done
via a
webpage,
Then an
app is
just
deliberate
tech debt.

Good to see Affleck's unashamed AI slop movie universally panned.

On this day in 1066, the Norman conquest of England begins with the Battle of Hastings, establishing Normans as rulers of England.

On this day in 1888, Louis Le Prince shoots ‘Roundhay Garden Scene’, believed to be the oldest surviving film.

On this day in 1936, the first International Brigades arrive in the Spanish Civil War.

On this day in 1943, about 300 prisoners at the Nazi’s Sobibór extermination camp stage a revolt and mass breakout.

#OnThisDay #Europe #History #OTD #OnThisDayInEurope

Good Morning, all,

yesterday was a bit of a Kinofest - two sessions at my favourite venue - the Little Theatre in #Bath.

Up, and didst hie me to 'The Social Reckoning,' a bleak but ultimately affirming story of resistance to the Facebook steamroller.

Jeremy Strong gave a very strong robotic performance as Mark Zuckerberg; leads Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White were excellent as whistleblower Frances Haugen and WSJ investigative reporter Jeff Horwitz respectively.

For me, this filum just reinforces my view that anyone who believes an artificial general intelligence made in the image of its creator, the boss of Meta (or, indeed, any of the American AI #TechBros) will act benignly in the interests of humanity, is sadly deluding themselves.

Strangely, the second movie was on a related theme: 'Coyote vs Acme [Corporation].' The audience was divided; there are some adults who have grown out of laughing at Wile E. Coyote.

And some who simply haven't!

#USpol #AI #AGI #Broligarchy

British friends: firstdirect have locked me out of my account because I use an open version of Android (Graphene), and, per the guy on the phone, "open source is not secure." Any suggestions for a UK bank that uses sensible security (e.g. authenticator app)?

Sam Altmanis upset someone left a recording device in his conference room. I guess he forgot to explicitly opt out of data collection for marketing and training purposes

“There’s almost no opposition to it... people really support this as a policy issue."

- Australia Institute Deputy Director Ebony Bennett on a 25% tax on gas exports, which could raise $17 billion every year."

'“If we had a 25% tax on gas exports as of this morning, we would have been up to $78 billion”

Australia Institute
@TheAusInstitute
·
14/10/26

https://gas.australiainstitute.org.au/