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So Luxon could remain, but weaker than ever with Act and NZ First combining as a very big tail to wag the dog. With Willis out, this gives Seymour disproportionate negotiating power to become, l'horreur, Finance Minister.
Plausible, however brutal?
@JulianOliver Seymour has spent the last fortnight humbly accepting the job whenever anyone mentions it. He absolutely is rubbing his hands together this morning.
Tomorrow is "everyone lies about Aaron Swartz day" which is almost as bad as April Fool's
Where were you when tosti machine broke?
I was bed
Woke up
Tosti machine broke
No
@ludovic They are older, from the marketing of Cyberpunk 2020, they had repeated pro-gamergate comments and transphobic comments: I didn't follow them for a few years after that. It shouldn't be hard to search for 'GOG Gamergate" to get sources.
I haven't followed them for a few years after that, but I did hear a theory that CD Projektred sold them off to quit dealing with their PR issues, no idea how true it is, but it seems this keeps happening
@Canageek I'll check it out, thanks!
I've been carrying around an idea for a federated code forge for a while. Two things sharpened it recently: Tangled's post on the federated code forge, which builds a forge on the AT Protocol, and a Jujutsu workshop (Korean) by Seongmin Lee (@boltless.me), who works at Tangled, held at @turingappledev.
My version would build on ForgeFed, the #ActivityPub protocol for code forges (spec), so that repositories, issues and merge requests federate the way posts already do. The idea is early enough that I haven't even come up with a codename. What I want from it, roughly:
jj) as equal clients. Not Git hosting with Jujutsu support bolted on, but a forge that understands both, so what Jujutsu is actually good at, stacked changes, becomes a first-class unit of review instead of a pile of separate pull requests.forge.example/myrepo instead of forge.example/owner/myrepo.Where this stands: I haven't read the whole #ForgeFed spec, Fedify doesn't ship the vocabulary yet (fedify-dev/fedify#751), and I have too much else going on to start soon. If you've run a forge or implemented ForgeFed, I'd like to hear whether any of this makes sense.
Tangled
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♥️
@stux Reminds me to boost and support the humans who come my way.
Where were you when tosti machine broke?
I was bed
Woke up
Tosti machine broke
No
KSNT (Kansas): Topeka woman finds live bobcat stuck in car after morning commute 11/7/26
@ai6yr wild. Glad kitty gets to use another life.
“There is a small percentage of people, the four of us on this pod and all of our friends, who are the asset owners of America. And we have benefited in every weather condition.
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And then there's everybody else who are wage earners, and the structural capacity of the American economy to support and grow wage earners is broken” - Chamath Palihapitiya
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An “are we the baddies?” moment for tech billionaires
He missed the mea culpa for the four of them on the pod and their friends celebrating the idea of Anthropic and OpenAI destroying the livelihoods of America’s wage earners so they could get even richer.
From my local 350 group:
"There's a bill in the U.S. Senate scheduled for a vote on Monday —
the so-called Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act.
Don't let the name fool you.
This bill is stuffed with blatant environmental attacks. It would:
• Gut the Clean Water Act, making it harder to protect water and stop polluting projects.
• Weaken the Endangered Species Act, limiting its ability to protect imperiled species like North Atlantic right whales and monarch butterflies.
• Lock in decades of fossil fuel dependence instead of supporting clean energy.
• Fuel energy-hungry data centers by accelerating federal approval of new gas pipelines and infrastructure.
• Hand mining companies unprecedented rights to occupy and degrade public lands, while removing the people's right to oppose these projects."
Jim Morrison shocked the mountaineering world last year when he became the first person to climb and ski down the north face of Mount Everest. His feat is covered in the breathtaking documentary film “Everest: The Other Side,” helmed by co-directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. Culture writer Coleman Spilde likens Morrison’s obsessive pursuit to an extreme act of religious faith. “Such a wanton, helpless display of pride makes for a character study as gripping as it is frustrating,” Spilde writes in his thought-provoking critique for @Salon:
You can probably drive up there in a Hilux.
Do we have any Mastodon friends in or near Spokane who could recommend a store that would deliver a new mattress and take away the old one? I need to buy one as a housewarming gift.
@Alice husky boys probably have the same complaint.
@nguarracino I was honestly thinking about this when I bought it because I didn't try it on, but I was like surely they added some fabric to the chest area for those husky boys?
How a small, wealthy AI-safety network that organized in Signal chats grew into a coalition that beat the $100M super PAC Leading the Future in the midterms (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/11/06/ai-big-tech-2026-midterms-anthropic-openai-01152312
http://www.techmeme.com/261107/p18#a261107p18
Proof that beside being quantic, cats also have magnetic poles.
Do we have any Mastodon friends in or near Spokane who could recommend a store that would deliver a new mattress and take away the old one? I need to buy one as a housewarming gift.
@NorcalGma2 Costco is always a good bet!
Friday night, I was in Montreal to accept the 2026 Freedom of Expression Award from the Canadian Media Lawyers Association, in recognition of a lifetime of work fighting for freedom of speech, open courts and civil liberties as both a journalist and a Senator. It was a truly moving honour to receive - one I share with every colleague who supported me, every editor and publisher who had my back, my Senate colleagues and staff, and all the lawyers who advised, protected and inspired me. #yeg #yul #cdnpoli
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