CombatWombat

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CombatWombat @feddit.online 2w ago

In the Spring a young goat’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of cats.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, probably

3w ago

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Lots of things would happen, but the specifics wouldn’t much matter because there’d be no-one left to tell the tale afterwards.

3w ago

Kristi Noem Fired After Attempting to Buy, Wear Seattle Hat ‘n’ Boots

LLMs are known for their wordplay and fellatio jokes nowadays?

3w ago

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles

There’s a capital strike on, and you can’t simply withhold capital or else it is put to use elsewhere so it has to be employed for enshittification.

3w ago

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles

If you used Google Translate previously for translations, they’ve switched out the backend for Gemini. Most of the existing translation tools have been destroyed and replaced with LLMs already.

3w ago

Elon Musk is set to take the stand in a trial over claims he deflated Twitter stock before purchase

I mean, he definitely did it. We all remember the breathless coverage of his 2am ketamine tweets to manipulate the market:

Musk’s May 13 tweet — “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users” — was “false because the buyout was not, in fact, ‘temporarily on hold,’” the lawsuit says. That’s because Twitter did not agree to put the deal on hold, and there was nothing in the merger agreement the two parties signed that allowed Musk to put it on hold, according to the lawsuit.

I wonder if he has enough clout left with the Trump admin to weasel out of this one, like he did with the Tesla deal.

www.thenutmegnews.com /current/2026/3/3/department-of-homeland-security-announces-that-its-only-100-days-until-they-get-to-imprison-some-visiting-world-cup-soccer-fans

3w ago

Department Of Homeland Security Announces That It's Only 100 Days Until They Get To Imprison Some Visiting World Cup Soccer Fans

3w ago

Congratulations to Me, a Kamala Harris Voter, Who Got Exactly What I Voted For

If I got a satire post from the perspective of a Claudia de la Cruz voter I would giggle and kick my feet like a five-year old at Disneyland.

3w ago

Congratulations to Me, a Kamala Harris Voter, Who Got Exactly What I Voted For

Maybe it’s just wishful thinking, but generally I think the worst of it stays out of the comments in satire communities. At least, let’s hope it does this time.

www.mcsweeneys.net /articles/congratulations-to-me-a-kamala-harris-voter-who-got-exactly-what-i-voted-for

3w ago

Congratulations to Me, a Kamala Harris Voter, Who Got Exactly What I Voted For

www.thenutmegnews.com /current/2026/3/1/parlay-of-chicago-fire-winning-and-over-2-american-deaths-in-the-war-in-iran-hits-for-man-on-mls-official-betting-app

3w ago

Parlay Of Chicago Fire Winning And Over 2 American Deaths In The War In Iran Hits For Man On MLS Official Betting App

theneedling.com /2026/02/26/lynnwood-removes-flock-cameras-to-protect-identities-of-people-who-have-to-live-in-lynnwood/

3w ago

Lynnwood Removes Flock Cameras to Protect Identities of People Who Have to Live in Lynnwood

theneedling.com /2026/02/27/hilary-knight-accepts-invitation-to-knock-out-rest-of-jack-hughes-teeth/

3w ago

Hilary Knight Accepts Invitation to Knock Out Rest of Jack Hughes’ Teeth

4w ago

Is there such a thing as "megathreads" in the Fediverse? I'm asking because of current events, as many posts are repetitive and the discussion is therefore inconsistent.

Web Development @programming.dev

If you create a new community and start up megathreads for big news events, people can vote with their feet (so to speak). Folks who don’t like them can keep posting to their communities, and folks who do can join yours. I like a megathread for folks who have a take on an event, but don’t care to read the particular article they’re commenting under — I totally get it can be tedious to read a bajillion articles on the same event just to participate in the conversation, but it’s also annoying for those of us who are interested in discussing the contents of a specific article. Megathreads seem like a good compromise that can make everyone happy, so long as you understand that your thread will not prevent other kinds of posts in other communities.

tympanus.net /codrops/2026/02/26/building-async-page-transitions-in-vanilla-javascript/

4w ago

Building Async Page Transitions in Vanilla JavaScript

4w ago

Looking for a Q&A community that isn't as restrictive as StackOverflow

There’s a lot of people who come to fedi looking for this spot — maybe it makes sense to see if programming.dev is willing to host such a community?

4w ago

Sarcasm is a whitewash way to be mean.

I think unfortunately we’ve lost a lot of that older meaning as it’s been crowded out by a more racially charged usage.

4w ago

Sarcasm is a whitewash way to be mean.

The word sardonic used to mean what we now use sarcastic for — verbally ironic. Sarcasm comes from the Greek "to tear flesh, bite the lip in rage, sneer" and meant “bitterly cutting or caustic” when it first entered English. For me, although I understand that hypothetically you could have sarcasm that doesn’t have this inherently negative bent to it, the word still retains a fair bit of its original connotation for good reason.

4w ago

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I dunno about your district, but we usually have some pretty good candidates through the DSA on our ballot: https://platform.dsausa.org/

4w ago

How to Replace Air Conditioning? Passive Strategies for Addressing Global Warming

Huge benefits for small cost if we design with this in mind:

It is incredibly easy to press a button on the remote and watch the room temperature drop by 10 degrees Celsius in a matter of minutes. However, perhaps we would not be so reliant on this sudden cooling if our cities offered high-quality and accessible urban design featuring vegetated surfaces, shaded areas, or water elements that help reduce overall urban temperatures. The revitalization of the Cheonggyecheon River in Seoul is a practical example of how we should approach our cities. Following its revitalization and integration into Seoul, it was observed that temperatures along the river decreased by between 3.3°C and 5.9°C compared to a street just a few blocks away.

In addition to urban considerations, when it comes to architectural strategies, passive mitigation of high temperatures relies on several well-known yet perhaps equally underestimated measures. These include shading (via vegetation or built volumes), reflective surfaces, generating thermal mass through materials, proper solar orientation, and cross ventilation. Research suggests that combining these passive strategies can result in an average internal temperature decrease of 2.2°C, a 31% reduction in cooling load, and a 29% energy savings.

Climate @slrpnk.net

www.archdaily.com /1015113/how-to-replace-air-conditioning-passive-strategies-for-addressing-global-warming

4w ago

How to Replace Air Conditioning? Passive Strategies for Addressing Global Warming

4w ago

Find Out Exactly How Much Downtown Highways Cost Your City

Hint: It’s more than you think:

In Chicago, for instance, reimagining those right-of-ways could open up nearly $8.3 billion in redevelopment potential within three miles of the Windy City's epicenter; in Boston, it's $16.3 billion.

And in both cities, the annualized household costs of maintaining infrastructure over its lifestyle and paying the costs of driving are north of $23,000 a year — a price so few residents are willing to actually pay that local governments are struggling to fill their potholes.

"What we typically hear in the press is that congestion costs us billions of dollars a year," Kennedy adds. "But whatever the number might be, it's usually a scare tactic that's multiplied by the entire population. When you start breaking that number down per household or per capita, the number is actually not that big — and it's dwarfed by the overall costs of having to own and operate several vehicles per household, as well as all the infrastructure to go with it.

"We need to get some numbers out there that [show] why our municipalities are effectively broke, why the roads are so bad, and why we have to continually cut services and raise taxes just to tread water as a municipality," he continued.

Fuck Cars @lemmy.world

usa.streetsblog.org /2025/12/15/find-out-exactly-how-much-downtown-highways-cost-your-city

4w ago

Find Out Exactly How Much Downtown Highways Cost Your City

Fuck Cars @lemmy.world

4w ago

Car dependency ≠ Freedom

www.mcsweeneys.net /articles/being-a-luddite-is-cool-and-all-but-have-you-seen-the-hilarious-tapestries-these-new-looms-are-making

4w ago

Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making?

4w ago

The 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis

Also somewhat reassuring:

Higher margins increase retained earnings and investment capacity. If output rises and real GDP increases then by national income accounting identity something must be rising on the demand side: Consumption, investment, government spending, or net exports must be increasing (more here). A scenario in which productivity surges but aggregate demand collapses while measured output rises violates accounting identities.

Economics @lemmy.world

www.citadelsecurities.com /news-and-insights/2026-global-intelligence-crisis/

4w ago

The 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis

4w ago

The Macroeconomic Effects of Tariffs: Evidence From U.S. Historical Data

Unsurprising findings, but particularly frustrating given the pro-tariff crowd continues to cite increased manufacturing activity and output as a benefit of tariffs.

Economics @lemmy.world

www.nber.org /papers/w34852

4w ago

The Macroeconomic Effects of Tariffs: Evidence From U.S. Historical Data

4w ago

What do programmers and dentists have in common?

They both have to be careful about bites (bytes)?

4w ago

FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn