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Stefan Bohacek @stefan.stefanbohacek.online.ap.brid.gy · 4h

Hey fediverse, today is the World Sight Day!

How about, as a small gift for the blind and visually impaired folks on here, we step up our alt text game!

Visit https://alttexthalloffame.org to learn why this is important.

#alttext #imagedescriptions #accessibility #worldsightday

A chart showing the percentage of the last 35,957 images posted with alt text from various fediverse servers:

beige.party - 100%
jorts.horse - 95%
mastodon.art - 83%
aus.social - 78%
chaos.social - 75%
meow.social - 68%
troet.cafe - 68%
c.im - 67%
hachyderm.io - 67%
mastodonapp.uk - 63%
kolektiva.social - 57%
norden.social - 56%
mamot.fr - 54%
mathstodon.xyz - 54%
piaille.fr - 51%
infosec.exchange - 46%
mastodon.online - 45%

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Ricardo Harvin @ricardoharvin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

the trauma is real

From: @rooster
https://beige.party/@rooster/115339557714857267

Attached: 1 image

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Ricardo Harvin @ricardoharvin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

@chrastecky you may be on to something...

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Dominik @chrastecky.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I'm not sure, but the code might do something with UUIDs.

#programming #golang #uuid

A screenshot from an IDE with the following code:

func Uuid(uuid uuid.UUID) UUID {
return UUID{UUID: uuid}
}

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Ricardo Harvin @ricardoharvin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@IanAMartin Mosstodon 💀

😂

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Talked to my friend who is furloughed from an intel agency on Sunday. Told her to enjoy her furlough and that she'll get paid when it's over. She snorted and said, "Yeah maybe."

Every federal worker - including those now working without paying, like TSA - need to know the dictator's plan is to […]

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Jon Hancock @bigjackbrass.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 1d

"…mind-bendingly dull sci-fi, more a screensaver than an actual film"

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/07/tron-ares-review-gillian-anderson-sci-fi-jeff-bridges-jared-leto

#tron #film #movies

Tron: Ares review – even Gillian Anderson can’t slap this mind-bendingly dull sci-fi into shape

Pointless threequel delivers a leaden cameo from a white-robed Jeff Bridges and an irritating turn from Jared Leto as a hipster-haired humanoid

www.theguardian.com

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Mike McCue @mike.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Hello fediverse,

The AltStore is federating! It’s time to give developers and users an open platform to directly connect with each other while drastically improving app discovery. I believe so much in this mission that I joined their board to help.

More here from @rileytestut […]

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Ricardo Harvin @ricardoharvin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@climate.skyfleet.blue Badenoch is another who will soon discover that they're never going to let her be white.

All she is—and all those like her, everywhere—is the black friend, the literal token.

When white is the default, when there's everybody except white, that equals failed integration […]

‘Not words that I would have used’: Stride distances himself from Jenrick’s ‘no white faces’ comments – as it happened

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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 1d

‘Not words that I would have used’: Stride distances himself from Jenrick’s ‘no white faces’ comments – as it happened #Climate

Shadow chancellor distances himself from words after Robert Jenrick accused of racism in comments he made about Handsworth

www.theguardian.com

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Can Bari Weiss reinvent CBS News?

Can John Wayne Gacy reinvent party clowns?

Can the Imperial Japanese Air Force reinvent Pearl Harbor?

Can William Tecumseh Sherman reinvent Georgia?

#journalism #cbsnews

Can Bari Weiss reinvent CBS News? 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/4nDvRoY
That is what Paramount Chief Executive David Ellison is betting on with a $150 million deal to acquire the Free Press, the popular news and opinion site Weiss founded in 2021 as a check on what she saw as the media’s “woke” orthodoxy.
He is installing the outspoken journalist as editor in chief of CBS News and empowering her to set the storied news organization’s editorial vision.
CBS News plans to launch a debate-style program that Weiss will oversee that is similar to debates the Free Press streams on topics ranging from immigration to the ethics of gene-editing embryos. Weiss will also continue as CEO and editor of the Free Press.
In an interview, Weiss said she and Ellison are aligned in their desire for “news that reflects reality” and journalism that “doesn’t seek to demonize, but seeks to understand.”

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Bongolian @bongolian.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Jonathan V. Last: The Washington Post and #cbs News are dying. The Bulwark is the future. We drink their milkshake.

#washingtonpost #Media #journalism #ellison #paramount #billionaires #autocracy
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-washington-post-and-cbs-news

The Washington Post and CBS News are dying. The Bulwark is the future.

We drink their milkshake.

www.thebulwark.com

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beSpacific @bespacific.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

SC Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein walking her dogs on beach when her $1.1M Edisto Beach home went up in flames, explosion. Fire under investigation by authorities left 3 people severely injured including son & husband, former Dem state lawmaker Arnold Goodstein. Judge under fire from #trump […]

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Ricardo Harvin @ricardoharvin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

I now understand why Macron is so strongly and wrongly opposed to Mélenchon or anyone from La France Insoumise becoming Prime Minister: Mélenchon was born in Morocco and, therefore, clearly not truly French in Macron's narrow world view, and unworthy of steering French politics.

It's not […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Speaking of image alt text, as a photographer who tries to put care into this, I would really love it if there were a single standard EXIF field in which alt text could be embedded and from which the text was reliably extracted when the image was uploaded. It would be much easier to write a […]

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Ricardo Harvin @ricardoharvin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

So, when are all y'all gonna boycott Paramount/CBS News?

Yeah, that's what I figured 😑🙄😮‍💨🤡

#bariweiss #cbs #cbsnews #paramount #News #reporting #journalism

Ricardo Harvin @ricardoharvin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Ironically, a pixelfed post with a bunch of hashtags and the just the word "yeehaw" came into my timeline now.

Muted and blocked the account.

Sure, they're probably not (actively) racist, but just like with people being enthusiastic for the rabidly racist Lovecraft, anyone who enthusiastically […]

JustME (@[email protected])

Ricardo Harvin @ricardoharvin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

This thread makes me glad I decided to not watch Rainmaker because it opens with too much country "yee haw" music for my taste, and comfort.

Apparently the entire show is more trash fire than good drama.

From: @justmegi
https://mstdn.social/@justmegi/115324681867149043

Content warning: Rainmaker TV show spoilers

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JustME @justmegi.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

[Rainmaker TV show spoilers]

The TV version?

Great Benefit is a Hospital and there is a nurse doing mercy killings and that's what they're trying to cover up, not how they are denying care for profits. ie, exactly what came up as an alleged motive in the UHC/Luigi Mangione case.

To be a fly […]

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JustME @justmegi.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

[Rainmaker TV show spoilers]

So when the male nurse started kidnapping people I was like... hmm, let me look this up.

And then I remembered the book's plot. tl;dr An insurance company called Great Benefit is denying the stem cell transplant for a this kid.

Kid eventually dies and insurance […]