JP Sugarbroad

This thread is amazing https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/115415782377064702

LB: remembered that I'm giving away advertising space for free PURELY BECAUSE THE WORST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WANT TO CHARGE LOADS OF MONEY FOR IT, please give me your 468x60 pixel non-animated banner for your hobby website or small (small!) business.

Make it colourful and cool looking like […]

North Ronaldsay sheep on the sheep shore

North Ronaldsay sheep have a highly unusual diet consisting almost solely of seaweed. This has evolved due to their unique location, confined to the shoreline by a 1.8 m (6 ft) dry stone wall, leaving only seaweed for food. Apart from the marine iguana, native to the Galapagos Islands, it is the only land animal known to have such a diet. 141[361 Studies have shown that, due to preference and availability, the sheep eat mainly kelps (Laminaria digitata and Laminaria hyperborea).

The sheep have evolved a somewhat different physiology from other sheep, due to their unusual diet: their digestive system has adapted to extract the sugars in seaweeds more efficiently. 22] A 2005 study at the University of Liverpool found that they have a greater susceptibility to copper toxicity, when compared with a more traditional breed such as the Cambridge. 145) This is because seaweed has a chemical which inhibits the absorption of copper, so the sheep have to absorb copper more efficiently to obtain the required amount. 122] The levels of copper found in typical sheep feed, including grass, are toxic for this breed. [31][46] Studies at the Universities of Liverpool and Minnesota suggest that they can extract four times more copper from their diet than more traditional breeds. [451[47]

Learning about the breed of sheep that has evolved to eat only kelp and can no longer abide the grass of its ancestors. Perhaps one day it will return to the sea as a cousin to the seal and the dolphin

EVERYONE IS WELCOME HERE * EXCEPT I.C.E. * NOTICE TO ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT & IMMIGRATION AGENTS • This is a private business. I.C.E. is not permitted to enter non-public areas of this business (including offices, break rooms, storage areas, and staff-only areas) without a valid JUDICIAL WARRANT signed by a federal district court judge or magistrate or a state court judge. • An I.C.E. administrative warrant (form I-200 or I-205) does not authorize entry into private areas of this business. • You may not question employees or search the premises without proper legal authority. • All employees and visitors have the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney. IF YOU ATTEMPT TO ENTER THIS BUSINESS WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT YOU WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE. IF YOU PRESENT A JUDICIAL WARRANT, PLEASE NOTIFY MANAGEMENT AND LEGAL COUNSEL IMMEDIATELY BEFORE PROCEEDING. IF YOU ENTER PRIVATE AREAS, YOU ARE TRESPASSING, AND WE WILL SEEK LEGAL RECOURSE. This policy is in compliance with: • Fourth Amendment, U.S. Constitution • See v. Seattle, 387 U.S. 541 (1967) • Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967) • ex rel. Envil, Improvement Agency v. Albuquerque Co. 991 P.2d 117 (1977)

Hey #Charlotte, if you want to help businesses resist CPB and ICE, I can adapt this sign specifically for NC. Can also share informational brochure telling businesses their rights to exclude ICE from private spaces.

Maybe time to move instances. Any suggestions?

RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115526751946121927

“These conversations matter for democracy,” says the call-to-action at the top of every Factually article. The donation button urges readers to “support independent reporting.”

https://aphyr.com/posts/398-the-future-of-fact-checking-is-lies-i-guess

Because voting "no" while letting others vote "yes" is strategic misdirection that lets Democrats fold every hand while claiming that only some of them fold some hands.

No more tricks. Clear the decks. Put in a new batch.

The Extraordinary Power of Standing For Something Winning by creating vision in the positive space of shared standards, and expertly negotiating the negative space of shame.

Mamdani created vision that shamed this cowardice: by having standards, and then showing everyone what his standards are, and then proving that he truly held those standards by standing for something without shame. This tapped into something powerful.

www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...

The Death of Shame Modern Nazis, careless people, and the offensive necessity of caring in a shameful age.

I wrote about Nazism in a small Michigan town, and in a large North American country; about the uses of and limits of shame; and on the importance of holding shared standards. www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...

3 panel cartoon of a figure demanding of a 2nd figure that they must move toward a nazi to win the center. in the third panel, the 1st figure moves to the right of the Nazi, and as he passes says "on your right." the first figure, who has not moved, looks back to see that he is standing the the right of the sign that says 'the center" with an arrow pointing off panel to the left.

When you're right, you're right.

Opinion The New York Times Editorial Board: The Partisans Are Wrong: Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win

"Win" what, in order to accomplish what, for whom.

It's going to be so amazing being alive in 2026 because the front page will say "BREAKING Mamdani Received Free Cheese Pizza From a Local Vendor, Calls to Resign Mount" and then on page 3 you'll see "Hegseth's Pentagon Rape Dungeon Raises Legal Questions."

Crafting UI from the work-in-progress game Traveling At Night. On the left is input: Catalyst, Fuel, and Stuff. On the right is output: Output, Output, and Trouble.

I swear this image encapsulates the vibe of every Alexis Kennedy game I've ever seen.

Screenshot of a paragraph from linked website: Through a series of public records requests, Cascade PBS and KNKX obtained thousands of pages of ChatGPT conversation logs from city officials in Washington. The volume of the records suggests widespread use of the technology in local government. In addition to drafting mayoral letters, officials have asked ChatGPT to generate social media posts, policy documents, talking points, speeches, press releases, responses to audit recommendations, application materials for grants and replies to constituents’ emails.

Did you know that when government officials use ChatGPT, the chat logs are considered public records?

https://www.knkx.org/government/2025-08-26/washington-city-officials-chatgpt-write-government-documents-artificial-intelligence

via @muckrock

#news #FOIA #ChatGPT

A variation of the "Epic Handshake" meme from the 1987 sci-fi movie Predator, showing a close-up of four men (instead of the original 2) greeting each other with an arm-wrestle handshake. Each arm is labeled with the following text: - Blind and vision-impaired people - People with temporarily impaired vision - People with slow internet connection - People wondering WTF they're looking at The words "alt text" are shown in the center where all four hands meet.

Everyone wins!

#AltText #accessibility

One of the key AI-related themes from this week, from multiple conversations and presentations, has been that if AI is used, it should be used as *a* tool, and that a human must ultimately be responsible. Also: if your use of AI reduces your personal workload but this increases the workload of […]

"Me using Android 2015": Clip of Squid Game with happy Seong Gi-hun. To the right of him there are logos of SuperSU, TWRP, Titanium Backup, ES File Explorer, ClockworkMod Recovery, WhatsApp+ and CyanogenMod, which were the staples of modding Android phones back in a day. There are also images of old Android recovery, including the Android logo that was shown in the recovery when the phone was busy, old Google logo with their old motto "Don't Be Evil", a folder named "obb", image of Android logo pissing on the Apple logo and text "Sideloading" "Me using Android 2025": Clip of Squid Game with now very angry Seong Gi-hun. To the right of him there are logo of Magisk, text "A/B Partitions", screenshot of Play Integrity spoofing checker and also various Reddit posts such as: * "[TUTORIAL] Make Banking Apps work" from r/Magisk * "Android 11 blocks /android/data folder" from r/android * "Magisk ksu or apatch?" from r/androidroot * "AOSP is no longer open source" from r/android (this one is fake by the way) * "Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year"

We all suspected it, now it’s confirmed.

#Musk ordered shutdown of #Starlink satellite service as #Ukraine retook territory from #Russia

A previously unreported order by #ElonMusk to cut satellite #communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of […]

Please report any account that tells you that you need to verify your #Mastodon account to continue using it through a private message. It is a scam. We do not require identity verification. Real staff accounts either have a special role badge on their profile or are verified through the […]

We ditched CGI in the late 1990s because of the overhead of starting, executing and stopping a process for every incoming request... turns out modern servers (plus languages like Go or Rust with a fast startup time) mean CGI isn't such a bad idea any more! […]

Wikipedia has a cheat sheet of well-known tells for identifying generated text. (With an appropriate warning not to over-index on minor ones as absolute proof) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/AI_catchphrases

Did you know that there’s a premium version of Whatsapp which :

- Has no advertising
- Has no mandatory AI integration
- Has no tracking and does not gather your personnal data
- Has increased privacy and stronger encryption
- Is exclusive and allows you to chat with other premium members

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The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity

TIL Windows 10+ has clipboard history. Why is this not more discoverable?!

Types of codebases my customers send me:

- Enterprise javabean factory factory... on a SIM card

- C# programmer retasked to write an authenticated bootloader in C for an arm platform with no training

- Beautiful well-written, easy-to-read C by an experienced systems programmer, with one […]

Thomas Pornin (@pornin@infosec.exchange) 18 Posts, 12 Following, 396 Followers ·

Apparently this is @pornin. Props for the most excellent paper!

Today's light reading: https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1325.pdf

Remarkably comprehensive survey of the subject matter (binary elliptic curves) and very clever construction. Useful in specific cases where differential addition isn't available.

#elliptic #cryptography #math

So I finally got set up with Bridgy Fed. Any particular Bluesky accounts I should follow?

US states that don’t criminalize trans existence.

Just a reminder for con organizers, even outside immigration risks, this is genuinely all that is still relatively safe for gnc attendees in America, 2025.