@mastodonmigration

The Times is an institution, owned by billionaires, millionaires and other vested interests in maintaining the inequality, graft and favor system that keeps New York and beyond outside the American Dream for most Americans and immigrants. And yes, an institution is a tool.

@TheBreadmonkey american here who married an englishman. he himself doesn't drink, but whenever we go back to see his family i am always AMAZED at the amount of alcohol that's even just casually consumed by your compatriots. we were there for about ten days over xmas and i think i drank more during that time than i'd done all year.

lunchtime -- have a drink? back from the shops? let's sit down and have a drink. time for tea -- would you like a drink? how about a drink with dinner? after dinner? ...nightcap?

and that's just regular family life, not even close to the hardcore pub life of the average british male. or the students OMG.

We published a large study on the US midterms: Kremlin disinformation appeared in 12.5% of AI assistant answers.

Dosimeter is our non-profit project that monitors disinformation in the answers of AI assistants.

A week before the US midterm elections, we asked popular AI assistants about American politics 1,000 times.

The result of our study: 7 AI chatbots sent American voters to Kremlin websites: Russia Today, Sputnik and the Pravda network.

“People are making rip-offs of my work and copying my ideas."
https://www.404media.co/world-of-warcraft-forever-is-already-overrun-with-ai-slop/

Tonight I watched the superlative V for Vendetta again with the kids, and then spent a couple of hours writing up an ode to writing Scalable Vector Graphics for fun, by hand, because in 2026 we should do more things by hand, and for fun.

Enjoy! https://people.freebsd.org/~dch/posts/2026-11-07-svg-logo

Special thanks to MDN https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG for reference material, and https://www.svgviewer.dev/svg-to-data-uri which was a lot easier to use than mashing F5 repeatedly in my browser.

You gotta love the approachability of the modern web.

Good news.

I have successfully recreated The Ground Round's Apple Crisp experience.

Yum.

For a while, I was under the impression that all spiciness, or burning sensation in food flavoring, would come from capsaicin, the compound that causes it in chili peppers. Then I realized that Sichuan peppers are a quite different kind of heat. Wasabi (horseradish) is different yet again.

How many hot-flavored compounds are there? At least five!

Kalsec: "The Elements of Heat"

kalsec.com/insights/crafting-t…

@press_rouch :O

@grumpybozo Part of my question is whether we have entered a zone where the written rules and the rules as practiced have begun to diverge

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@bigzaphod

I’m definitely not playing it right now, and definitely if I were it would not be enjoyable. :-P

I sometimes see my own Lemmy posts, and often others’, on Mastodon, but I have no idea how it happens: It seems random, and I’m not the one doing it…

Not every message the activitypub can send is suitable for every platform. Reddit style discussions just don’t map to Mastodon.

The most important thing is that lemmy, Mbin, piefed, etc. can communicate freely. You can try to build a platform that does it all but I think it will be messy.

@lynnandtonic 100% — most lovely thing I've watched this year.

I finally contributed to another #disquietJunto project! This one's all about time. Visit the SoundCloud project description or the Disquiet project forum for all the messy info-dumping about how I FINALLY synced my #Moog Matriarch and Mother 32, and how I scored a Pocket Operator used and tried to sync it too! 😊 https://soundcloud.com/jessica-the-vi-artist/the-time-has-come-disquiet0775

larplarplarp

I still often think about the fact that Aaron Swartz was only 14 years old when he helped develop RSS..

Imagine what he could give us when given the chance 🙏

RIP Aaron♥️

https://disobey.net/@yawnbox/117577346350075263