how do people allow themselves to become the guy that designs the bomb, or builds the bomb, or drops the bomb, or transports the components for the bomb, given what the bomb means for their own existence and that of their offspring

have you ever been asked to do something horrible in your line of work, and if so, did you do it? not necessarily something like working for the SS, but maybe incorporating a dishonest framing into an article, or implementing mass surveillance software, or helping a corporation skip around environmental regulations, or jusr deregulating them, just any number of awful things

which means it's probably generated in large part by vibecode, and is probably pretty unreliable for that reason to depend on for performance? but I guess just don't update the software... but you know what, I have no real reason to assume that they are doing that, other than that fucking everybody is doing it.

I shouldn't put that poison on timothyschoen for no reason

PlugData (the JUCE frontend version/fork of PureData that works as a DAW plugin and as a standalone application), now has a link to an iOS build. You can presumably build and run PD patchers on your ipad now.

that's pretty sweet tbh, I've been looking for something like that off and on for years

The richest man on Earth owns X.

The family of the second-richest man owns Paramount, which owns CBS, and could soon own Warner Bros, which owns CNN.

The third-richest man owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

The fourth-richest man owns the Washington Post and Amazon MGM Studios.

Another billionaire owns Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, and now the Roku streaming service

Why are the ultra-rich buying up so much of the media?

Vanity may play a part,
but there’s a more pragmatic
– some might say sinister – reason.

If you’re a multibillionaire, you might view democracy as a potential threat to your net worth.
Control over a significant share of the dwindling number of media outlets would enable you to effectively hedge against democracy
by suppressing criticism of you and other plutocrats,
and discouraging any attempt to
– for example – tax away your wealth.

You also have Donald Trump to contend with.
In his second term of office,
Trump has brazenly and illegally used the power of the presidency
to punish his enemies
and reward those who lavish him with praise and profits.

So perhaps it shouldn’t have been surprising that
the editorial board of the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post
defended the razing of the East Wing of the White House to build Trump his giant ballroom
– without disclosing that Jeff Bezos-owned Amazon is a major corporate contributor to the ballroom’s funding.

The Post’s editorial board also applauded Trump’s defense department’s decision
to obtain a new generation of smaller nuclear reactors,
but failed to mention Amazon’s stake in X-energy,
a company that’s developing small nuclear reactors.

And it criticized Washington DC’s refusal to accept self-driving cars
without disclosing that Amazon’s self-driving car company was trying to get into the Washington DC market.

These breaches are inexcusable.
It’s much the same with the family of Larry Ellison,
founder of the software firm Oracle and the second-richest person in the world.
Ellison is a longtime Trump donor
who also, according to court records,
participated in a phone call to discuss how his 2020 election defeat could be contested.

In June 2025, Ellison and Oracle were co-sponsors of Trump’s military parade in Washington.

At the time, Larry and his son David,
founder of Skydance Media,
were waiting for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
to approve their $8 billion merger with Paramount Global, owner of CBSNews.

In the run-up to the sale, some top brass at CBS News and its flagship 60 Minutes resigned,
citing concerns over the network’s ability to maintain its editorial independence,
and revealing pressure by Paramount to tamp down stories critical of Trump.

No matter. Too much money was at stake.

In July, Paramount paid $16 million to settle Trump’s frivolous lawsuit against CBS
and canceled The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,
much to Trump’s delight.
Three weeks after the settlement was announced,
Trump loyalist Brendan Carr, chair of the FCC,
approved the Ellisons’ deal,
making David chief executive of the new media giant Paramount Skydance
and giving him control of CBS News.

In October, David made the anti-“woke” opinion journalist Bari Weiss
the CBS News editor-in-chief,
despite her lack of experience in either broadcasting or news.

Earlier this month, it was revealed that CBS News heavily edited Trump’s latest 60 Minutes interview,
cutting his boast that the network “paid me a lotta money”.

I’m old enough to remember when CBS News would never have surrendered to a demagogic president.
But that was when CBS News
– the home of Edward R Murrow and Walter Cronkite
– was independent of the rest of CBS,
and when the top management of CBS had independent responsibilities to the American public.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/13/trump-media-ultra-rich-democracy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I guess a big stash of Dexcom G7s got stolen from a factory, and may have made their way to third party sellers, and that those units may harm users

but wouldn't they have already been packaged in the factory? presumably post-QA? they wouldn't package them twice right, that doesn't make sense.

so maybe the recall isn't as risky as they suggest. but maybe you wouldn't want to risk it. But if you're buying from sketchy third parties, maybe you're desperate? idk

maybe with costumes or jewelery that are engineered to degrade very slowly and remain relatively intact 20,000 years later

it would be fun to put in the will that you want to be buried in a dramatic pose to give future archaeologists something to ponder

Canada’s citizenship study guide has glaring omissions. Critics say it sanitizes the past

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/canadas-citizenship-study-guide-has-glaring-omissions-critics-say-it-sanitizes-the-past/article_c59aabc2-6e2f-4958-85a1-bc68aafa52da.html

> The official source before taking the citizenship test has come under fire for the way it deals with Indigenous Peoples.

It expects new Canadians to adopt the same shameful attitudes to Indigenous people as those born here.

Appalling.

#CDNPoli #CanPoli

I'm kinda feeling like the Bridge doesn't add much -- I'm thinking, removing the dominant (actually, all the chord voicings), removing the bass, maybe just a lonely string voicing the B over some overblown spacey sfx, building into a thick unison synth layer

might not fit either though

this is still pretty imperfect but what say you? #Music

I know I've asked this before, but I'm running low on spoons and would appreciate any help or recs, if people have them.

My current Mastodon/Hometown hosting provider has been having more and more issues as of late, in addition to being bad at communicating, and I'd like to switch to a different host. Does anyone know of good people who offer hosting for Hometown servers?

I'd love to go with Fedi.Monster (and possibly switch to Glitch in the process :da_la: ), but they say on their website they're unlikely to accept new applications right now. (I've sent an email anyway, I'm crossing my fingers 🤞)

If you know of any others, please send me a link! I'd like to get this all figured out sooner rather than later; If it was just myself I could deal with the sporadic service, but it's affecting my other users as well, and I can't accept that. ;____;

Thank you so much in advance. :boosts_ok_gay:

#Question #AskFedi #MastoAdmin

know what team you're on, do your weight lifting, do your pushups, do your swimming laps, do your target practice, do your drone combat simulations, do your CTFs, solve your rubicks cubes, practice your 1a2a3a4a, and make sure your shreddies are on point

Ok, I toss this out every 6mos or so as fedi grows...

I'm gathering local connections of fedi folk in #Guelph and area. Get some low key meatspace hang outs going on.

Walks, masked movie nights or board games, knitting in a coffee shop, hanging out at the library...

I'm hoping to do more structured events at some point but am pretty low energy these days so keeping it simple.

We have a signal group to connect and organise. Hit me up if you'd like an invite.

🔄✨

#fediLocal #covidCautious

RE: https://alpaca.gold/@Jeremiah/116705151599183194

I cancelled two. You can do it!

So apparently ICE has big feelings about people posting that their guy #JonathanRoss murdered #ReneeGood, lied about having “internal bleeding”, and fled the scene like a cowardly loser (also known as an ICE agent) so definitely don’t post about him or share his name or his photo or anything like that.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DaEM9sSjnVu/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
#coward #murderer #traitor #racist #nazi #idftraining #ice #fuckice #homan #tomhoman #noem #kristinoem #mullin #markwaynemullin #news #history #politics #uspol #uspolitics

When teachers, nurses, veterans, and first responders can't afford to live where they work, the housing market isn't healthy.

It's broken.

Housing policy should build neighborhoods, not billionaire portfolios.

#SaveHousingFromTrump

This is not about identifying the *perfect* system. It is about why universal healthcare, in some form, is *economically* better than the more free-market alternatives. https://wallsandbridges.substack.com/p/why-universal-healthcare-is-an-economic-dad

Nearly 5 years ago, I was arrested for doing my job

#cdnpoli

https://thenarwhal.ca/bracken-rcmp-arrest-after-five-years/

(for the record, I would never do this, I'm not a rich freak and I try to keep my butt clean, and the creations I compell you to see might be low effort slop, but they are authentic and original)