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NEW: In Alabama, politicians and prosecutors have long proclaimed their mission to defend the unborn.
But it’s easier to punish women who take drugs while pregnant than abusers who endanger a fetus.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alabama-fetal-personhood-laws-punishment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
A bit of a departure on this #Noisevember from the "norm" this time round (if there is such a thing). https://faircamp.thurk.org/noisevember-2026/10/
To my office, and there drew up a letter to my Lord, stating to him what the world talks concerning him, and leaving it to him and myself to be thought of by him as he pleases, but I have done but my duty in it. I wait Mr. Moore’s coming for his advice about sending it.
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Me, a person who doesn't own a PS5 or a gaming pc and hates Rockstar's business practices, watching everyone get excited for Grand Theft Auto 6.
@bitprophet How on earth did you get Armenia? Finland is easy peasy compared to that....
@dajb I knew it was “over there somewhere” but one of my incorrect guesses was Albania because I always mix up those two due to the A, consonant, consonant, [ae], nia, construction. And both being vaguely Eastern European and smol.
Then I guessed Azerbaijan but _of course_ it’s literally got an exclave and the dot was in between the exclave and the rest of Azerbaijan…
and THEN I remembered how to spell Armenia
tuco keeps picking even more expensive cat foods, when he wants food at all
@paperposts @mazz In my former life, I published interviews with a lot of these people, and I recall one where someone had founded a company to deliver mostly-ready meals (ie just need to microwave/heat it up or maybe mix things together) because they had gone their ENTIRE LIFE EATING OUT or ordering delivery, and then they had a baby and realized they couldn't cook ANYTHING. So they decided a startup to deliver "ready to microwave/cook" meals was the ticket.
@ai6yr @mazz 🎯
That's why no one is employing design researchers, most of the founders base the 'untapped market need' solely on their own very limited and often W.E.I.R.D world views. Can't abide it being questioned.
That combined with no empathy and off the charts arrogance is why we have the current mass of tech dirge in the world (IMHO).
Tonight on Star Trek
Spock is trapped in an addictive game called ioquake3 although could have prevented all of this if they had scanned the ship first
The Legion of PCAST
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/11/15/legion-of-pcast
Fanttik’s S1 Pro electric screwdriver is $40 off in the run-up to Black Friday https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/1033620/fantikk-s1-pro-electric-screwdriver-black-friday-2026-deal-sale
@evan
yes but not the #coconut from #thailand picked by enslaved #monkeys. https://www.peta.org/lifestyle/food/coconut-brands-no-forced-monkey-labor/
Picard management tip: As soon as you find out that a person is truly toxic, get them the hell off your ship.
@PicardTips Wisdom that dawned on Picard after he learned about how Sisko welcomed Q to Deep Space 9.
You can leave the mariachi band though, they're fun!
@neil
This is happening a lot with @bitfolk as well. It only really started about a year ago, but when they say where they came from it's often an LLM recommendation. Makes some sense for hosting services.
I do feel completely unprepared and bewildered by how to appeal to LLMs, but I'm used to feeling unprepared and bewildered with regard to marketing.
looks like a minor contributor who made a small volume of changes years ago but suddenly in 2026 it's a larger volume of commits all from claude
@scanlime when I look at someones github activity graph and it lights up like christmas in september'26 
i only watch youtube videos that say "i swear this is interesting" in the thumbnail
The most corrupt administration in American history. Maybe in world history.
"Lutnick Pushed to Weaken Chip Rules That Overlap With His Family Business
The commerce secretary has been writing new rules that would affect Southeast Asian data centers, some of which are clients of his former firm."
The explanation below is basically what I said yesterday.
The more I read about it, the obvious it becomes that the big news story regarding Nvidia is corruption and financial shenanigans, not the affairs or honestly even the spy rumours. The scale and potential consequences of the former far outweighs that of the latter.
somehow, nVidia managed to operate as a publicly traded company without D&O insurance, something that I thought was mandatory for sox compliance but -apparently fucking not-
https://www.ft.com/content/4aba8386-35cc-463b-a79c-a0c85c362c89?syn-25a6b1a6=1
@munin oh nooooo
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