Good. Job seekers are avoiding AI interviewers. They tell Fortune they’re outright refusing to do AI interviews, calling them dehumanizing and a red flag for bad company culture.

fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai-inte…

This is how richer stay richer, instead of properly hiring HR folks, AI bots. Instead of paying for artists for Ads making or creative writing they use AI bots. They will do anything to gain profits, fire humans & replace with AI except they forget humans also need money to buy their goods

AI is doing job interviews now—but candidates say they’d rather risk staying unemployed than talk to another robot

Job-seekers tell Fortune they’re outright refusing to do AI interviews, calling them dehumanizing and a red flag for bad company culture.

^{Emma Burleigh (Fortune)}

Parabéns a todos os idiotas úteis do Hamas:

Selon un porte-parole du Hamas, la reconnaissance de la Palestine par plusieurs États occidentaux est «le fruit du 7 octobre»

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Selon un porte-parole du Hamas, la reconnaissance de la Palestine par plusieurs États occidentaux est «le fruit du 7 octobre»

Ghazi Hamad s’est félicité de cette mobilisation occidentale. De son côté, le ministère des Affaires étrangères israélien estime qu’«établir un État palestinien aujourd’hui, c’est instaurer un État du Hamas».

^{Solène Vary (Le Figaro)}

With the launch of Ghost 6.0, every publication that runs on Ghost becomes part of the #fediverse. You can follow and comment on Platformer or 404 Media articles without leaving your Mastodon feed. This is the future of social media.

Congratulations to @johnonolan and all the team at Ghost!

ghost.org/changelog/6/

Ghost 6.0

Networked publishing, native analytics, and $100M earned by indie publishers

^{John O'Nolan (Changelog)}

Our In-Process blog is out! This week featuring:
- NVDA Satisfaction Survey 2025
- NVDA 2025.2 Beta 5
- How to test an NVDA Beta?
- Extra voices updates (Including Eloquence and Vocalizer)

Read more at:
nvaccess.org/post/in-process-4…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Blog #News #Newsletter #Update

Pay €7.99/mth for ad-free or pay with your data and see personalized ads on Instagram. 🤔 No thanks Meta, we will take neither.

✅ A better option? Switch to Pixelfed!

Find out more on the best Instagram alternative here 👉 tuta.com/blog/instagram-altern…

I'm a huge advocate for making apps accessible, but I find myself saying "fuck it" when dealing with Liquid Glass.

It's not possible to maintain contrast across a range of app content with a text label that's non-deterministic. When someone who's empathetic to the needs of others gives up, it's a huge loss.

Apple has a well earned reputation for accessibility and Alan Dye is fucking that up for a lot of folks who need affordances.

We should not be choosing between the lesser of two evils.

Even happier eyeballs

#curl's connection racing goes next level

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/08/04…

Even happier eyeballs

Back in 2012, the Happy Eyeballs RFC 6555 was published. It details how a sensible Internet client should proceed when connecting to a server.

^{daniel.haxx.se}

#Tuba v0.10.0 is now available, with many new features and bug fixes!

✨ Highlights:
- New Composer
- Grouped Notifications
- Play media from third-party services in-app with Clapper
- In-app web browser
- Collapse long posts
- Mastodon quotes
- Iceshrimp Drive
- 'Featured' Profile tab
- Local-only posting
- Search History
- Alt text from file metadata
🧵

As always, there are too many changes to list here, if you're more interested, check out the full release changelog:
github.com/GeopJr/Tuba/release…

Fair.

bbc.com/news/technology-586789…

China declares all crypto-currency transactions illegal

Trading Bitcoin and other crypto-currenices is a criminal activity, China's central bank says.

^{BBC News}

If you go see naked gun, make sure you watch the credits carefully- these are from the original trilogy

#movies

Did you know the reason why they don't really plow the fields anymore as a way to avoid the need for herbicides to eliminate all the weeds is that plowing fields releases a lot of co2 and not doing so is claimed to sequester carbon?

This 2018 paper discussed the controversy, has some new stuff in there I wasn't aware of

soilassociation.org/media/1747…

The untrammeled greed of the founders of Philz Coffee -- and the financial looters who are buying the company -- is exceeded only by their pure contempt for the employees whose shares in the company are being vaporized.

How can this be legal? Because "capitalism" rules.

missionlocal.org/2025/07/philz…

Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145 million

Employee stocks will be canceled as part of the deal; former employees point to culture change across Philz Coffee.

^{Jessica Blough (Mission Local)}

Interesting review on an upcoming book regarding nuclear energy from a Marxist standpoint: multiracialunity.org/2025/08/0…

#NuclearEnergy #EnergyTransition

The Poverty of Green Philosophy: A Book Review

by Ellen Isaacs August 3, 2025 The Poverty of Green Philosophy, A Marxist Case for Nuclear Energy in a Cooperative World, by Bill Sacks and Greg Meyerson (to be published October, 2025) Most Americ…

^{The Multiracial Unity Blog}

The current administration in the US has, through various funding agencies such as the NSF and NIH, has recently suspended virtually all federal grants to my home university, UCLA (including my own personal grant, although that is far from the most serious impact of this decision), on the grounds that UCLA was “failing to promote a research environment free of antisemitism and bias”. One can certainly debate whether these grounds were justified, or whether they merit the extremely draconian damage to the very research environment that this decision is claiming to protect, but if nothing else this unprecedented decision does not appear to have followed the usual standards of due process for actions of this nature; for instance, there appears to have been no good faith effort by the administration to receive a response from UCLA to its allegations before implementing its decision.

The suspension of my personal grant has a non-trivial impact on myself (in particular, my summer salary, which I had already deferred in order to allow the previously released NSF funds to support several of my graduate students over this period, is now in limbo), and now gives me almost no resources to support my graduate students going forward; but this is only a fraction of a percent of the entire amount being suspended. A far greater concern is the impact on the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) ipam.ucla.edu/, which despite receiving preliminary approval earlier this year for a new five-year round of funding (albeit at significantly reduced levels) from the NSF, now only has enough emergency funding for a few months of further operation at best if the suspension is not lifted. (1/4)

road safety pro tip: back in the days before smartphones, "loose objects in the cabin" was the #1 cause of distracted driving crashes

this includes both things moving around unexpectedly, and messing with items when you shouldn't 😒🍌

sootoday.com/opp-beat/driver-s…

Driver slips up while trying to reach for banana: OPP

Hungry driver in southern Ontario was fortunate to sustain only minor injuries after veering across the centre lane of a highway and smashing into a tree

^{SooToday Staff (SooToday.com)}

"UN says booming solar, wind and other green energy hits global tipping point for even lower costs"

Clean energy is far cheaper to add than fossil fuel energy, despite fossil fuels having 9x the government subsidies worldwide!

We've hit the point where good financial sense aligns with saving the planet

#climatechange #climatehope #cleanenergy #fossilfuels #solar #wind #geothermal

apnews.com/article/climate-cha…

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 9 updated and 1 added apps:

* LockLock: a lightweight, privacy-first app locking solution 🛡️

RB status: 671 apps (50.9%)

4 #Magisk modules have been updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo

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}

Want to cancel your Adobe subscription but don't want to pay a massive cancellation fee?

1. Sign up for a disposable credit card with a low spending limit (e.g. $5); I use privacy.com/
2. Switch your Adobe billing information to use it; the $1 preauth will go through and your old card will be removed from the account
3. Cancel your account (optional)
4. Cackle for the next 9 months as Adobe repeatedly tells you your account is past-due and it'll be cancelled if you don't pay the fee

Virtual Cards That Protect Your Payments | Online Payment Security

Protect your payment security. Shield your financial information and protect against credit and debit card fraud with secure, randomly-generated virtual card numbers.

^privacy.com

Embloggeration happened: bassi.io/articles/2025/08/03/g…

For those who were unable to attend, or see the recording, these are the notes for my GUADEC 2025 presentation about introducing a formal technical governance in GNOME, starting from a "change proposal" process, through the addition of a steering committee to evaluate those changes, and all the way down to the removal of the role of the "maintainer" for projects that exist under the GNOME umbrella.

#gnome

Governance in GNOME

For those who were unable to attend or see the recording, these are the notes for my GUADEC 2025 presentation about introducing a formal technical governance in GNOME, starting from a

^{halting problem}