Goo Truther @thufie@pixie.town

Readers, I cried 😂

"Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper."
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/03/05/publisher-demands-500-from-impersonated-author-to-retract-paper/

PS: Here's hoping that publicity about this shakedown costs the publisher -- Walsh Medical Media -- more than $500.

#ScholComm

#FlatwormFriday

sure this is all very bad for activitypub but this is truly amazing content

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester

A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.

https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MohammedHussein/116165340200307377

yo everyone can we toss some money to Mohammad please? he's my acquaintance from Gaza, and he suffers from bad eyesight just like i am. he needs new glasses, like, asap. please share, donate, pass it around, tell everyone who is sympathetic to his plight.

thank you

free Palestine

#mutualaid @mutualaid #mutualaidRequest

free people need freedom from software.

(Following thread was prompted by people pointing out that the Bluesky dev team seems heavily into vibe-coding now and originally posted on said vibe-coded Bluesky platform that is now constantly failing.)

Over the past year, every single time one of the apps or services I use suddenly became less reliable and more buggy, I never have to look far for the "Claude is amazing and now writes most of my code" post for the devs involved.

does anyone have recommendations for open source wysiwyg style latex editors? a friend is stuck using overleaf for their academic work, and i swear i've seen people here sharing open document formatting programs with nice ui's!

banging on the same nailhead again. just gonna say that while i understand a lot of people don't do this out of outright malice, i find it very side-eye worthy how so many people on here are very comfortable adopting aesthetics and aligning themselves with a regime that called itself socialist and yet has killed, exploited and assimilated kazakh people.

i talk about this and there's always at least one person who is mad at me about it

On Tuesday, March 3 at 10pm CET, Fadimat105 welcomes #Faircamp developer Simon Repp to his radio show. Of course, the music featured in the third edition of “Music from the Faircamp's” comes exclusively from musicians who use Faircamp. The show is in German, but an English version will be available soon on the Faircamp page of base. Tune in! #radio #linz @freebliss https://www.fro.at/fadimat105-march26/

I love when I look up a project and it's like "okay to build this, install poetry" and I click poetry and it goes "poetry should be installed with pipx" and I click pipx and it says "on windows, you should install pipx with scoop" so I click scoop and then my brain melts out my ears because this is too many layers deep

How do we use LLMs responsibly is the new how can reform police departments.