Funny #mastodon search interaction. I was looking for something about MIT (the US University). But there’s a lot of German speakers who use the word “mit” a lot. (It means “with”)
No problem, right? I can search for “language: English”. And that’s when I find all the bilingual posters who post German language in a post labeled English. A lot more than you’d expect.
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Wings West Airlines Timetables.
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The Silent Singing Bird of Flamboyant Plumage
Whenever I get the infrequent opportunity to walk the wild deserted Cape Cod outer Atlantic beach in the early morning, I exult in the sea’s silent roar. It extinguishes the cacophonous dreck that …OffGuardian
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 31st, 2025 - 9to5Linux
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for August 31st, 2025, brings news about Linux's 34th birthday, Armbian 25.8, KDE's initial setup wizard, and more.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
China Banks Pressured by Rising Loan Losses, Low Margins
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-01/china-banks-pressured-by-rising-loan-losses-low-margins?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Hard to describe how much I appreciate that Mastodon can’t succumb to (fascist) laws like Mississippi’s internet age limits.
That’s freedom of speech, of info, of the ability to learn. That’s important. One of the few things I’d call myself a zealot about.
A $68 Billion Japan Pension Slashes Underperforming Active Funds
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-01/a-68-billion-japan-pension-slashes-underperforming-active-funds?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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As far as I can find, only one major journalism organization -- the Guardian -- published an accurate and contextual headline describing Trump's illegal executive order on voting.
What made the difference? The Guardian added the word "unconstitutional".
Come on, journos, do your damn jobs.
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Frente do Agro teme que uso da Lei da Reciprocidade contra os EUA prejudique o setor produtivo - Paulo Figueiredo
A Frente Parlamentar da Agropecuária (FPA) divulgou nota nesta sexta-feira (29) onde sinaliza “preocupação” com a sinalização de que o Brasil use a Lei da Reciprocidade contra as tarifas impostas pelo presidente dos Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, cont…Mickaely Spakoski (Paulo Figueiredo)
Lucca, investito un bambino: trasportato in Ospedale in codice rosso
Il fatto è avvenuto davanti a un centro commerciale in località San Vito. Intervenuti gli operatori del 118.
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Spirit can’t find a winner, settles for a draw with stubborn Chicago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/08/31/washington-spirit-chicago-stars-trinity-rodman/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Judge orders administration to halt deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/08/31/ice-deportation-unaccompanied-children-guatemala/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Le gouvernement espagnol annonce déployer « toute sa protection diplomatique » pour la flottille de Gaza.
Pendant ce temps @jnbarrot continue de regarder ailleurs.
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s visit to Bulgaria’s largest state-owned arms producer on Sunday drew protests from nationalist parties, laying bare domestic tensions over the country’s burgeoning role as a hub for arms production.
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Von der Leyen visit spotlights Bulgaria’s uneasy growth as European arms hub
The European Commission president’s trip comes on the heels of an announcement by Germany’s Rheinmetall that it plans two new factories in Bulgaria, making the country Europe’s largest gunpowder manufacturer.Antoaneta Roussi (POLITICO)
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GNOME Shell & Mutter Land Last Minute Additions Ahead Of GNOME 49
Ahead of the GNOME 49 release candidate being announced in the days ahead, today marked the "49.rc" tagging of the GNOME Shell and Mutter compositor components. Some last-minute user-facing changes have landed along with other improvements for polishing ahead of next month's GNOME 49 stable release...
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GNOME Shell & Mutter Land Last Minute Additions Ahead Of GNOME 49
Ahead of the GNOME 49 release candidate being announced in the days ahead, today marked the '49.rc' tagging of the GNOME Shell and Mutter compositor componentswww.phoronix.com
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Granpa Goes Golfing!
You KNOW Donald Trump is having health problems when he took to Truth Social Sunday to post:
"I've never felt better in my life"
- Trump (Aug. 31, 2025)
The 79 year old Trump has been looking frail and ill in the recent past.
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Typepad is shutting down
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New Zealand Home-Building Approvals Stuck in 15-Month Slumber
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Oswald Prucker - Blog: Tröts mit Papiertüchern, Rock’n’Roll und ein paar unerschütterlichen Wahrheiten oswald-prucker.de/2025/08/troe…
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Oh, well this is bad. I lost my Kobo e-reader and there is no way to de-activate that device short of deleting my entire Kobo account and re-registering with a new email. So if someone finds my device and starts using it, they will be able to buy 10,000 books.
Just sheer ineptitude.
I loved Kobo, the company, up until now. Apparently no one ever considered that a user might lose their device?
EU capitals are drafting detailed plans for post-war military deployments to Ukraine, backed by US capabilities, Ursula von der Leyen said. She stressed security guarantees as “paramount” while touring eastern EU states to boost defense readiness.
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Europe has ‘pretty precise’ plan to send troops to Ukraine, von der Leyen says
Post-conflict security guarantees will be fully backed by US commitments, commission president tells FTHenry Foy (Financial Times)
One of the things I hate about AI is how it makes everyone lower their standards with regard to user privacy.
Including companies like Apple that have a well deserved reputation for protecting it.
Yesterday I got a push notification about a new feature in the Feedback app that everyone in the iOS beta has installed. There’s a new “Rate Your Experiences”.
Which is a cleverly named function that sends your and your friends private data to Apple in plain text.
There’s a new purple button:
A death cult. Specifically, a spiritual and mental death cult.
The whole freak show is the "Synthesis of Opposites" to achieve the predetermined plan in the middle.
Minimum $480 urgent by morning for past due hotel. Hotel will be a week past due then. Nothing has come in today. Upcoming hotel of $650 due Tuesday morning. $250 needed for food.
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Vibe coding as a coding veteran: from 8-bit assembly to English-as-code
Link: levelup.gitconnected.com/vibe-…
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Vibe Coding as a Coding Veteran
A 40-year coding veteran explores AI pair programming with Cursor, finding 2X productivity gains, new challenges, and a synergistic human-machine alliance.Marco Benedetti (Level Up Coding)
yay!!! That's great!
I've been enjoying Actual Budget but I haven't really been using it to budget things the same way I used to on YNAB because the flow is still weird, but it does help me immensely to track all transactions and make sure scheduled things will process smoothly
Germany reached 70% gas storage two months early, easing winter shortage fears. Falling summer prices sped injections, boosting Europe’s preparedness after losing Russian pipeline flows in 2022.
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in reply to Dan Gillmor • • •If they work for a billionaire, which most of the ones you're talking about do, covering this up IS their job.
You cannot pay attention to billionaire owned media and expect a different outcome.
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in reply to Dan Gillmor • • •I cancelled NYT and WaPo subscription a while ago and put that money towards the Guardian, Wired, and Atlantic Monthly.
I find both the reporting and writing for the Guardian to be pretty great (aside from some surprisingly basic copywriting issues now and again).
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in reply to Dan Gillmor • • •There hasn't been real journalism since about the 1990s. Right around 2000 when reality shows became a thing, news changed to infotainment.
CNN started reporting on bullshit like the Kardashians.
Not news.
Not facts or data.
Not journalism.
CRAP.
It's ridiculous.
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