@jwildeboer Alaska allows for up to 15 days post election for absentee ballots to arrive and questioned ballots to be cured. This favors inclusion of all voters and is pro-democratic. In cases where the election isn't this close that mostly doesn't matter and the outcome is clear before final certification.

But this one is real close, every vote counts and the state is allowing time to count all the votes.

I remain in favor of patiently counting all the votes.

James Webb telescope finds ice older than the star it orbits

Radiation and collisions reshape the planetary building materials.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/11/james-webb-telescope-finds-ice-older-than-the-star-it-orbits/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Remember: when someone says cutting Medicaid will save the government nearly a trillion dollars in a few years, that means nearly a trillion dollars of healthcare won’t make it to people who need it. It’s not like Medicaid recipients are going to go pay out of pocket. Now, those sick folks still get sick, and they eventually wind up in ERs, and every stupid, cruel turn of events along that pathway has costs to us all.

@slowe

"I don't see why anyone would need more than 64K."
Bill Gates -- 1970s

"The router being replaced started flooding other routers in the air traffic control system, Duffy said.

“We had over 1,000 connection attempts every four to five seconds, and what that did was gave us issues with our communication with airplanes, and it also caused some disruption with our radar feeds,” he said."

If that number is literally true and not just the face guy mangling it by an order of magnitude – if a mission-critical network fell over under a load of 200 connection attempts per second, which I'm pretty sure could be sustained by a plucky Nintendo DS – well, uh, yikes

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/11/14/us/live-news/us-ground-stop-flights?post-id=cmwglxsuf001e356u62toceis

@0xabad1dea I am so tired of rookie connection numbers like this in modern systems. People need to go back and realize what old network stacks did every danged day. What even simple, efficient code could do. Connection attempts, unless clogging up ports in tcp wait, should not be an issue. And that's tuneable.

> Sausage Party: Foodtopia is an adult animated dark comedy television series that serves as a sequel to the film Sausage Party (2016)

what are next

@SteveClough Prestwich or Bury.

@TartanGenerator I love how Mastodon still offers to translate this wordless post. It decided this tartan was French.

@baldur would love to see a proper dissection. I was stunned to read that someone is 24 years into a modernization effort started in 2002 on the ATC systems. Clearly not working that well. Can’t blame that failure on AI. I wonder if it is time to try something different.

Italy's data protection authority has fined Meta 805M EUR over Facebook's access to phone photo galleries, saying around 20 million users were not properly informed that their photos and videos could be used to suggest posts. Meta has 60 days to disable the feature by default and seek consent separately, with the regulator citing the scale of the breach and Meta's lack of co-operation. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwn83gxemk35o #Media #SocialMedia #Privacy

Hi, it's time for a new #Discoveries episode!
Join me tonight to check out a new topdown #shooter #game which looks really promising!
See you later on #peertube!

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@lauren @richardgrant Maybe. Not seeing how this relates to crediting Schumer for the win, or who is best to push the Democratic agenda forward.

@jalefkowit is this good

You know, major sites used to go down all the time. It was the hallmark of the Wild West internet. We simply accepted it, took a break, and focused on our own 9s (uptime). Twitter went down so often that their outage page image became ubiquitously known even outside twitter as "the fail whale."

This one is less about decentralization of internet services as much as it is about WHY THE EFF DOES YOUR WORD PROCESSOR REQUIRE INTERNET???

#microsoft365outage

@ryanl @_elena I’d say it’s imperfect. I have a Starlabs Starlite Mk V.

When you're a junkie, you reject all help until you hit rock bottom. When you're snorting LLM off a truck stop bathroom floor. Some of you are real close to that already.

@talleraas Also, not completely classless. Since I use my bash script (fileblog) to generate that site along with each of the other pages, I have put a few generated classes in to help with theming, but I'm certainly limited their use.

“Elon #Musk is a ‘real genius’, Russian President Vladimir #Putin said on Wednesday after revealing the two are in ‘close’ contact about satellite technology.” #Trumpland #FelonMusk #SpaceX https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c63djl148n3eo