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  So apparently don't plan on traveling in LA during the LA Olympics. "Hundreds of miles of Southern California freeways and streets will become permit-only “Games Route Network” lanes during the 2028 Olympics, reshaping everyday commutes from L.A. to Orange and San Diego counties." https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-05/la-freeways-roads-to-be-closed-to-general-traffic-for-2028-olympics-how-will-it-hit-your-commute #LA28 #Olympics #LosAngeles

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  Stupid AI scraping companies filling up my webservers root disk. These ip address ranges were generating the majority of my servers scraper traffic and I just banned them all. (Sorted by traffic generated) 216.73.216.0/22 comment "block claudebot" 47.82.48.0/21 "block alibaba scrapers" 47.79.192.0/19 "block alibaba scrapers" 47.82.14.0/23 "block alibaba scrapers" 47.82.8.0/23 "block alibaba scrapers" 47.82.12.0/23 "block alibaba scrapers&q...

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  I have a new challenge. One of my kids friends got banned from Instagram, and apparently tried to create an account on X. I of course said how about mastodon, and kid said "that's just old people". So I'd really like to have an alternative to X to suggest. Is there anything on the fediverse that's decent for teens?

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  @movim@piaille.fr I asked my discord using kid, and they use google meet for video calls instead of Discords built in tools. So I think the bundle of related rooms is probably most important. I personally think tools to streamline moderation and being able to kick out harassers is a big reason why group chat tools are more popular than public forums or microblogging tools.

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  @RikerGoogling@mas.to Big data is stored in giant tables, Big lore is stored in giant wikis.

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  @randahl@mastodon.social Bonus if Putin looses Russia too

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  @Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it I wonder if the COVID t-cell exhaustion that some groups have reported is contributing to it taking longer to recover from other diseases?

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  @sashag@anarres.family Some police switched to encrypted digital radios and are hard to listen to on scanners. Shakes fist at local police department.

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  @annika@xoxo.zone The woods might be worth it even if you can find a decent docker container manager Here's a buff lesbian lumberjack @NicoleCoenen@m.youtube.com

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  @mike@social.chinwag.org I was wondering how hurd is doing. also someone's got a partially verified in written in ada posix kernel https://ironclad-os.org/

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  @drwho@masto.hackers.town @martin_t@mastodon.social Yes some things sound like conspiracies. But sometimes we've got the court cases showing there were intentional conspiracies. Straight up funding for a climate denial group was found as an outstanding debt for a bankrupt coal company. https://thenarwhal.ca/canadian-climate-denial-group-friends-science-named-creditor-coal-giant-s-bankruptcy-files/ The USA oil companies figured out global warming would happen and threaten catastrophic d...

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  @drwho@masto.hackers.town @Mimesatwork@wandering.shop @danirabbit@mastodon.online There's a bunch of men who really love the idea of domination others and they're killing us all. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/22/masculinity-gender-climate-crisis

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  @Mimesatwork@wandering.shop @danirabbit@mastodon.online Also don't learn about racism, sexism, global warming or activism. I think a big reason for the push to erase kids is Gretta Thunbergs activism because it threatened the oil industry "The most common theme in the banned non-fiction books was activism and social movements." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/07/banned-non-fiction-books-doubles

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  A friend who's a professor at CSU campus asked me my opinion about if it's safe to log into canvas. This was my answer. So I'm not involved in the recovery so I don't have any certainty. This is Instructures write up but when I read it it seemed pretty useless at this point basically saying we hired some contractors to help us figure out what happened. https://www.instructure.com/incident_update Here's a security journalist's write up. https://krebsonsecurity.com/20...

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  @futurebird@sauropods.win Wildfires absolutely bump up pollution. Do you know about purple air's particulate map? https://map.purpleair.com/air-quality-standards-us-epa-aqi?opt=%2F1%2Flp%2Fa10%2Fp604800%2FcC0#11.56/40.8461/-73.8967 They've got a cheap reasonably accurate sensor that can measure pm 2.5 and pm 10 particulates. (It does not detect ozone) Their sensors often shows massive spikes near wildfires.

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  @gbargoud@masto.nyc @Wilto@front-end.social Yeah. That's my immediate worry too. I kind of want to confirm a bit more before spamming everyone to stop using chrome.

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  So because putting food waste into a landfill causes methane leaks and worsens global warming California mandated the use of a compost bin and now compost gets picked up separately from trash. Of course plenty of people are morons and don't bother reading the signs and so put non-compost into the compost bin. Given the upcoming fertilizer shortages, I wonder if the commercial compost programs are generating sufficiently unpolluted compost that it can actually be used to fertilize crops.

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  @dabeaz Worse. They're making up their own religion.

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  @scott Bluesky was down for a bunch of hours today. Here's the official bluesky status page reporting about an 11 hour outage today. https://status.bsky.app/history And people here who use both are reporting some parts are still broken. The gloating is due to us over here on the indy anarchist mastodon are still getting to slack off while the corporate funded social network is broken again. (The bluesky users like to blame the bluesky devs love of vibecoding for why it keeps breaking)

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  I thought this was interesting. It's the FRED "Motor Vehicle Retail Sales: Domestic and Foreign Autos" chart for the USA It's kind of interesting how car sales started dropping in 2014, and hit a new low in covid and have never recovered.

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  @noondlyt He can go hang out with Kyrsten Sinema in the dump for sell outs.

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  Oh I looked in my email and the EFF is looking to get people to lobby against an age gating law for California that would ban anyone under 16 from social media and require everyone else to provide government ID to access social media. https://eff.salsalabs.org/stopcasocialban/index.html AB 1709 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1709

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  @Lkdc Here's a Tom Scott bit on a bridge that by treaty happens to be in two countries. There also happens to be a museum to the Schengen Area, and he includes clip of the collection of the hats from the border guards uniforms that were no longer needed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw44wHG4KOc

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  @petersuber Conservatives don't argue in good faith. They just say whatever let's them win in the moment. They felt the need to make justifications earlier because they didn't have to power to just unilaterally do it. In Texas they do, so they don't care about making an argument.

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  My Bluesky using spouse asked if Mastodon was gloating today. I said yes.

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  @gwynnion I want that list and to block ads and other malware.

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  This cat thinks all the human food is for him. This is the one that also ate my sourdough.

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  Kid's playing Tomadachi Life and just said "have to play the stupid mini game to get lesbians"

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  I searched aliexpress for #Debian and this was the first item. (They have other colors too)

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  @peterdutoit WHY DIDN'T THE USA LISTEN TO JAMES HANSEN IN 1988? living under almost 40 more years of warming sucks.