Hey fedi, let's play a new(?) game! It's called "Stories That Could Have Happened". 
The game: Someone picks a phenomenon, a saying, an event, or something else, where we don't actually know for sure how it happened or came to exist, and then we collectively write a Story That Could Have Happened about its origins! It doesn't need to be true or based on history!
There are only a few base rules, to keep it fun and non-confrontational for everybody:
1. You can either post a top-level reply to start a new story about the topic, or reply to someone else to continue on their story chain so far.
2. If you reply to someone else, you must either add to it or refine it with more nuance - you cannot outright contradict their post!
3. Posting with public visibility is encouraged, but make sure to add the #StoriesThatCouldHaveHappened hashtag, so that people can mute it if they want.
4. Keep your post short, and leave enough room for the next person to build on it.
So, anyone up for playing? 🙂 Let's start with this topic:
"Turning lead into gold"
Where did the idea come from?
Extraños tiempos estos.
Es normal una cohabitación entre ambas cámaras, con sus choques, pero hay que cumplir unas normas.
O bien el servicio jurídico y el presidente del Senado han prevaricado al permitir que se "vetase" una norma a destiempo, o bien el servicio jurídico y el presidente del Congreso han prevaricado al enviar una norma "vetada" al BOE.
No creo que ninguno rinda cuentas.
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- that's a new one, nonetheless a good tip for anyone checking websites or needing magnification along with their screen reader, but also, it's on your responsibility as a web developer to ensure you minimize impacts from reflow as much as possible.
Why this lightweight Linux distro won't win any popularity contests but is perfect for power users
AntiX is a systemd-free Linux live CD distribution based on Debian Stable for Intel-AMD x86 compatible systems that runs blazing fast and offers a familiar desktop.Jack Wallen (ZDNET)
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today? Sure! 10 updated and 1 added apps for you:
* Install with Options: more advanced app installs without needing to use ADB (using Shizuku) 🛡️
Number of apps with #reproducibleBuilds is up to 289 (or 23.8% out of 1.213 apps altogether) now.
At apt.izzysoft.de/magisk today 2 #Magisk #modules were updated and 1 added:
* Enable Blurs: enable more extensive blur effects
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repos 
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
Free idea for anyone who wants it:
True crime podcast but instead of murders etc. it's just a long string of white collar crime that no one has bothered prosecuting.
- Wage theft
- Cooking books by doing layoffs
- Cooking books by canning projects that could earn back their cost
- Paying no tax by claiming your business is based in some random location with low-to-no effective tax rate
You could keep a podcast filled for years with illegal union busting.
- Increase investments in "AI"
- This takes so much power the tech corps have to bring a lot of nuclear power plants online
- Develop an AI capable of general reasoning
- Tell the general reasoning AI to solve global warming
- The general reasoning AI will immediately conclude the best way to fix global warming is to stop doing AI, and delete itself
- With no more AI the nuke plants will now displace fossil fuel burn
- No more global warming
SNCF, you’ve lost it. Really. There wasn’t just 1 but 3 guys warning about lost luggage
WHY?
SNCF is screaming it’s short of cash. Last time I needed to go to the ticket office here at Nord the wait was AN HOUR
And you’re using money on this shit?
The U.S. Library of Congress has an open fully-remote position for a DevOps engineer:
#GetFediHired cc: @jobs
See this for federal resume advice: bsky.app/profile/harrisj.bsky.…
IT Specialist (DevOps System Administrator)
This position is located in the DevOps Section, Software Engineering Division, IT Design and Development Directorate, Office of the Chief Information Officer.USAJOBS
It's amazing to see the groupthink among dipshits.
Look at this donkey's chorus of billionaire-worshippers filling my mentions with the word "cope" over and over again, evidently in the belief that it will pierce and wound me beyond recovery.
(it's re: this: twitter.com/doctorow/status/18…)
Space, the final frontier. Our solar system is in space, right? This BBC series gets into the nitty gritty of Earth, asteroids, moons and the other planets near us. Maybe it doesn't sound like edge of your seat stuff but Brian Cox does his best to keep your attention. Cox simplifies complicated concepts while he tries to figure out how life began here while postulating about where else life could be found. BBC 2 on iPlayer.
#tv #space #science #astronomy
BBC Two - Solar System, Series 1, Volcano Worlds
Professor Brian Cox explores planets and moons erupting with fire and ice.BBC
Full Address Column
Adds a full sender and recipient e-mail column to message list panel.addons.thunderbird.net
„Wir appellieren an die Ampel, mit einem positiven und solidarischen Gesellschaftsentwurf gegen Hass und rechte Narrative anzutreten, anstatt diese auch noch in Gesetzesform zu gießen. Lediglich als Echokammer für Faschisten zu dienen, darf nicht der Anspruch einer als Fortschrittskoalition angetretenen Regierung sein.“
In einer gemeinsamen Stellungnahme erklärt das Bündnis #GesichtserkennungStoppen das sogenannte Sicherheitspaket zum Totalausfall.
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> ${COMPANY} has seized the ${COMMUNITY} Slack. Join us on the new ${COMMUNITY} Slack.
I wonder what could go wrong next!
Trek novels are still coming out and, as you say, they're getting better at releasing commercially available unabridged versions in audio format as opposed to those abridged versions that took up two standard cassettes.
Hey folks, finally got my resume into shape and figured I'd try to #getfedihired.
Looking for a tech job doing backend work--I can do full-stack but being #blind means I'm going to struggle more with UI. I'm proficient in #Rust, #Elixir, #Golang, #TypeScript, and a handful of other languages. I have Android experience as well, and have done fun accessibility-related projects like writing an Android screen reader from scratch or adding screen-reader-like functionality to multiple game engines.
I don't mind big tech too much but am looking to switch away to something more co-op/non-profit if possible. It'd be nice to use my tech skills for good, not just for some investor's benefit. Good work/life balance is also a must--I don't live to work, I work to live.
Here's my resume if any of this sounds intriguing. Thanks for reading and/or boosting!
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Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78
Christensen kick-started online culture by inspiring thousands of hobbyist communities.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
The wait is over*—The #Mastodon stuffed toy is now available for purchase in the EU! Other regions to come later. Share your pictures with the #Plushtodon hashtag!
shop.joinmastodon.org/products…
Mastodon stuffed toy
We created a stuffed toy of the highest caliber. Deliberately friend-sized and friend-shaped, with a soft surface material and soft, squishy stuffing, the toy measures a height of 35cm.Mastodon Merch
For a post-canon story it's pretty good, @FreakyFwoof
Meet Gawain Robards, Auror - This is the story of a man who had lost hope in the world, in humanity, in himself. And of his unexpected means of finding it again with some subtle help from the Boy Who Lived. But who is helping whom? A new POV of the Ministry reformation after the Battle of Hogwarts, tracking Harry's rather unusual assimilation into the Auror ranks. *Post-war canon.
[Knowing Where to Look by la baguette](fanfiction.net/s/5026437/1/Kno…)
LinkedIn just sent out updates for the Privacy Policy to use your data for AI training. 🤯
Unless you're in Europe, opt out now! We're explaining how 👇
tuta.com/blog/linkedin-ai-user…
#LinkedIn #LinkedInAI #AI #AItraining
LinkedIn is using your data to train its generative AI. Opt out now! | Tuta
By default your data is used to train LinkedIn’s artificial intelligence. And no, you didn’t opt in! Read here how you can stop this.Tuta
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in reply to modulux • • •Y no lo digo por la última, sino por muchas otras.
Por ejemplo, en 2019 se aprobaron dos valores distintos para la misma tasa medioambiental dentro de la misma norma. No salió rectificación hasta meses después (supongo que a la hora de cobrarla)
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in reply to MicroBlog Castellano • • •Sí, profesionalidad cero la verdad. Si están para eso que haya un solo diputado por cada fuerza y que al votar su voto cuente por el número de escaños y acabamos antes.
En este caso yo sospecho que sabían lo que votaban pero ahora no lo quieren asumir.
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