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I understand why the "homework doesn't improve test scores" assertion is appealing, but the big thing that jumps out for me:
Maybe homework [in moderation] is ... good for something other than test scores?
@haubleshannah aubry Why does one use media? What changes when that media becomes social? How do different media and different social systems affect each other?
@haubleshannah aubry My short answer to your q, though is:
- to learn
- to laugh
- and to belong
Why do you use social media?
@haubleshannah aubry To get inspired by interesting people from all over the world, to talk with them, to learn new things. To follow for more info e.g. writers/journalists/scientists etc. (Unfortunately not enough on Mastodon, therefore I'm on Bsky, too).
And professionally, to find new readers/listeners for my texts/podcast - and show them knowledge and fascinating facts about nature and cultural heritage.
And just for joy seeing a sunset from Australia or someone seeing an insect in Indonesia.
Re: Factor is my favorite blog, John is still at it after 17 years https://re.factorcode.org/
おはよーございます
Close to the sea, down by the water..
Isra murdered Maria and her brother Salem Kashko in Gaza yesterday.
The Modern Persistence series and SQLite Data is worth the price of a subscription alone. https://hachyderm.io/@pointfreeco/115588502235105052
Using the "spiders georg" meme format I realize I have no idea how familiar that is to people on fedi. It's one of the foundational texts of tumblr and I assume it's spread extensively on other sites, but I can never be sure.
i feel u, buddy
This graph truly tells a story here. (via https://bsky.app/profile/jmcelroy.bsky.social/post/3m65yj7jr3c2n)
I turned 
@franzanthfranz's incredible art into puzzles! Franz is a scientific illustrator I first encountered on Twitter back in the day, thanks to his hilarious and intriguing posts about invertebrates. He also founded #InverteFest, an online event celebrating invertebrates https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9940
Trump has now set a deadline for Thursday next week, where he demands Ukraine signs an agreement to meet Putin’s demands:
— No NATO membership
— A reduction of its military to just 600,000 troops
— Accepting the loss of Donetsk, Luhansk, Crimea, and most of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia
— Forcing Ukrainian elections within 100 days
While Russia will
— Reenter the G8
— Have all sanctions lifted
This is not a peace agreement. This is capitulation.
👀 Pull Request marked as ready: "feat: フォローしているリモートのユーザーがリアクションしたノートを取得できるオプションの追加"
https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey/pull/16828
Warum nennen die meisten deutsche Medien das Paper von Trump und Putin "Friedensplan", obwohl es eine lupenreine Aufforderung an die Ukraine zur bedingungslosen Kapitulation ist?
Red Cross to cut 2026 budget by 17%, shed 2,900 jobs
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says it’s cutting its 2026 budget by 17 percent because of declining donor contributions and will slash 2,900 staff positions.
“As defence budgets surge, states must also put more effort and resources into preventing conflicts, defending the rules of war, and providing humanitarian relief. Failure to do so risks a world of ever more and greater suffering.”
Mirjana Spoljaric
![Hamas fighters accompany members of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza City [Jehand Alshrafi/AP]](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/589/294/459/330/952/original/f31b32e5cbff6f04.webp)
Isra murdered Maria and her brother Salem Kashko in Gaza yesterday.
Billy Joel is a national treasure!
The Top 5 Billy Joel Songs, Ranked By Billy Joel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEXQaxUjesE
#leyrersplaylist
Firefox 145.0.1 added Perplexity to my list of search engines, which I keep very small (only google ddg and wikipedia), without asking, despite my having set browser.ml.enable and browser.ml.chat.enabled false. They clearly have not spared a moment's thought for inferring user preferences on this, and we now know they have an incentive to ignore user preferences on this to goose their newly chosen success metrics.
A couple more changes like this and I'm out. After 22.5 years.
Seeing this Xmas decorations at St Pan gave me an overwhelming nostalgia in the old times I missed...I did not have a mobile phone until 2002, I did not have my own laptop until 2007 and not owned a smart phone until 2014, I have not yet used any LLM bot for my work for private life. I am one of those people who are quite slow on tech . I miss old tech: reading paper newspaper and magazine and liner TV.
I want this fast moving world to just stop! stop!
How would equitable access to heritage change life for future generations in your region? Patricia Diaz Rubio, the Executive Director of Wikimedia Chile explains the lasting effects of open heritage.
"In short, it's about giving the next generation the ability to see, study, and re-use our own heritage as something that belongs to us, not hidden behind barriers or licenses, but open to everyone, everywhere."
✍️ Sign the Statement: https://lnkd.in/geJ3-uWJ
法面坂道秋の色
#マストドン写真部 #photography #PowerShotV1
Firefox 145.0.1 added Perplexity to my list of search engines, which I keep very small (only google ddg and wikipedia), without asking, despite my having set browser.ml.enable and browser.ml.chat.enabled false. They clearly have not spared a moment's thought for inferring user preferences on this, and we now know they have an incentive to ignore user preferences on this to goose their newly chosen success metrics.
A couple more changes like this and I'm out. After 22.5 years.
とりあえず 
585545d0d5 (upstream/main) Add coverage for `media#player` scenarios (#35947)
d967137adf Remove unneeded type check on Status in `og_image` partial (#36980)
ad7839e551 Fix the translation of "Latvian" (#36876)
8a235dd187 Refactor PrivacyDropdown to TypeScript (#36979)
48fe679728 Separate remote thumbnails into cache/ directory (#36911)
687f3a2a01 chore(deps): update dependency vite to v7.2.4 (#36964)
7ffa5fa0c4 Add models to represent "Collections" (#36977)
cfa4f402ef New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#36976)
aa131e538c chore(deps): update dependency core-js to v3.47.0 (#36931)
6151febd73 Suggest ES image version 7.17.29 in docker compose (#36972)
a54334b714 Increase HTTP read timeout for expensive S3 batch delete operation (#36971)
シュレディンガーの〇〇
We should all be using dependency cooldowns
Link: https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using-dependency-cooldowns
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46005111
You can make PS2 games in JavaScript
Link: https://jslegenddev.substack.com/p/you-can-now-make-ps2-games-in-javascript
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46006082
元気がでない。レッドブルｶｼｬﾌﾟｼエナジージェルﾁｭｰﾁｭｰ #もうだめだ
Trump’s Dept of Education saw the US nursing shortage and said “How can we help make this worse”, and then they did.
Dept of Ed has reclassified nursing degrees so they are no longer considered professional degrees. This functionally means that the loan caps for nursing students are much lower.
You know what the US needs? Barriers to people going into nursing. /S
2ゃーん
fucking insane interview with the CEO of roblox https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/podcasts/hardfork-roblox-child-safety.html
Cosy vibes pre #caturday #catstodon #CatsOfMastodon
Something happened to me recently, and I don't mean to be dramatic, but it's truly a shameful thing.
Two days ago, I joined the writing platform #substack & even though 
@aralAral Balkan & 
@fabioFabio Manganiello told me it wasn't a good platform for me, being Palestinian, I decided to interact on it and post my poems there.
I was subjected to awful abuse in all verbal forms by Zionists there.
But I preferred to remain silent instead of arguing with any fools.
Today, the platform’s banned me!
Thank you for your continued support!
Mona 7 will be available later this year as a new app.
Free features will include browsing timelines, posting with photos and videos, favoriting, reposting, and limited customization.
Premium feature pack (supports Family Sharing; works on iPhone/iPad/Mac) will be available for 3 USD per month or 20 USD per year.
If you have Mona Pro Max, the premium feature pack will also be available for just 20 USD as a one-time purchase (limited-time offer).
観測するまで出したと出してないのどちらの状態も存在している可能性が
We should all be using dependency cooldowns
https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using-dependency-cooldowns
Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no longer an open commons
Link: https://www.molecularist.com/2025/11/did-qualcomm-kill-arduino-for-good.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46005553
Building a Minimal Viable Armv7 Emulator from Scratch https://lobste.rs/s/bv3570 #assembly
https://xnacly.me/posts/2025/building-a-minimal-viable-armv7-emulator/
The New AI Consciousness Paper
Link: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-new-ai-consciousness-paper
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46005928
“Never Again” is good, but I almost prefer the German “Wehret den Anfängen,” which means: “Resist the beginnings.”
After days of hard work, I've finally finished the serverless cloud infrastructure for Exquisite.
Here is a picture of the finished thing:
there are few right ways to do a cookie consent check but a lot of wrong ones.
case in point: this site I just visited made me do one, then I clicked "make appointment" which redirected me to a subdomain, which did its own consent check
The old adage:
Everyone has a test environment. Some people are fortunate enough to have a separate production environment.
Weekend project: "Raspberry Pi Pico Weather Station" by 
@stfn
Right now, I only have a BME280 sensor and a Pico 2 W, solar power will have to wait. Sensor readings look good!
A #ThankGNU! to Sydian Garlathy for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m
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earthling
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Julia Evans
pkg update
mcc
GENKI
Hugo van Kemenade
Paul Cantrell
