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“💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐕🗣️ In ⌗Budapest, researchers train ⌗dogs to bark on cue, to study whether domestication shaped vocal ⌗learning and its ties to ⌗speech ⌗evolution․Embedded in the EU-funded ⌗K9VocLearn …”

https://fediscience.org/@tksst/117206404444279725

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“OK, I’m intrigued․ And it should have some clues about how Palintir actually works․ Planet money has some fascinating episodes․ npr․org/2026/09/02/nx-s1-5953112/palantir-software-data-surveillance ⌗Surveillance …”

https://dice.camp/@Da_Gut/117208263229210003

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RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@aceofcosmicspace/117209647785511701

Help out please. Disability and poverty is hard work. Boosts also help for reach. Thank you.

#boostforvisibility #mutualaid @mutual_ayyde @mutualaid@ovo.st @mutualaid@fedigroups.social #community #care #hope #love #support #trans #lgbtqia #assistance #fediverse #animallover #communitycare

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“Congressional budget deal blocks the OMB's attempt to rewrite how US research grants are controlled — until December
arstechnica․com/science/2026/09/budget-deal-puts-political-control-of-grants-on-hold-until-december/…”

https://flipboard.social/@fediboard_science/117206297016944398

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“No fair․ We need to track as much as Apple does․The lawsuit accuses Apple accusing it of 'imposing stricter App Tracking Transparency rules on third party developers than on its own advertising services․'Reuters: Apple …”

https://infosec.exchange/@AAKL/117208232910067865

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“Elevated Errors for Multiple Models
Link: status․claude․com/incidents/461yvfrzpwtt
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49549676”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117207466394338837

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“🚨 Flock Taught Cops How to Surveil No Kings ProtestersA Flock webinar teaches police how to surveil protests, fireworks shows, parades, bike races, and more․ 404media․co/flock-taught-cops-how-to-surveil-no-kings-prote…”

https://social.aktaeon.net/@zendorea/117208173905049649

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“New ⌗Paper published in Quantum: Floquetifying stabiliser codes with distance-preserving rewrites quantum-journal․org/papers/q-2026-09-03-2202/ ⌗OpenScience ⌗Quantum ⌗Research”

https://mathstodon.xyz/@quantumjournal/117206134677075107

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How much do you #fedi? A poll - pick which answer best describes you most of the time.
I read at least one #fediverse social media post #poll

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“2․ 🔥 Fire Air Traffic Control․
3․ 🔥 Fire Public Health Officials․
4․ 🔥 Fire the entire administrative staff in Education, ⌗Research, ⌗Forestry, ⌗Health, ⌗Conservation, ⌗Security, ⌗Military, ⌗Diplomacy, …”

https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3qwbuj4v4rln64olfdrw5py2/post/3mulyhxdvfk2v

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Get a ⌗Simplex ⌗Domain from Simplex ⌗Chat for you (personal) or your ⌗business with your ⌗investment Invest in SimpleX Chat until Sep 22
to get a name for 7 yearsJoin the live ⌗stream on Sept 15, …”

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-596a-99a2-5f1f-732149290685

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“The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive
Link: kciter․so/posts/the-expensive-main-thread/en/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49522137”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117206286849017743

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“📢Nominations are open for the following:The ANZIAM Medal ( anziam․org․au/The+ANZIAM+medal )The 2027 E․O․ Tuck Medal ( anziam․org․au/The+EO+Tuck+Medal ) The 2027 J․H․ Michell Medal ( anziam․org․au/The+JH+Michell+Me…”

https://mathstodon.xyz/@wimsigAU/117204342771032866

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“A Cosmic Mistery — Astronomers Found a Galaxy Without Stars
buymeacoffee․com/newscafe/a-cosmic-mistery-astronomers-found-galaxy-without-stars
⌗cosmos ⌗astronomy ⌗universe ⌗SpaceScience ⌗science …”

https://mastodon.world/@brainscores/117203033117950521

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Newsweek: Flock Cameras Face Removal Nationwide Under New Bill newsweek․com/flock-cameras-face-removal-nationwide-under-new-bill-12399057 ﹫Newsweekdotcom ⌗Flock ⌗surveillance ⌗privacy”

https://infosec.exchange/@AAKL/117207663605768402

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🔆 #FediTips for https://PrivacySafe.Social & the #fediverse

“Do you want help with using Mastodon or the wider Fediverse?Post your questions in the replies (or DM me) and I'll try to either help directly or find you an answer 🙂 If you prefer not to ask, there is lots of help on …”

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/117208230293186481

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Today’s littleFedi updates:

• Strengthened allowlist-only federation: redirects, discovery, deliveries, and hostname handling now consistently respect the policy. (Spoiler alert: there's a reason behind this 😉)
• Fixed boosts for local-only posts, plus a timeline relative-time refresh issue.
• Fixed an Android PWA green-bar issue by letting the manifest update normally.
• Disabling remote media caching now safely clears leftover cache jobs instead of leaving the queue unhealthy.

#littleFedi #littleOne #Fediverse #OwnYourData

Friendly periodic reminder that snac is a great, great piece of software.

I've upgraded #FediMeteo in minutes, recompiling snac *inside each jail*.

The Fediverse, as the Fediverse should be.

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

#snac #snac2 #Fediverse #OwnYourData

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“A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for hausresearch․com/reports/perplexity-citation-audit/ Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49536201 ⌗HackerNews ⌗Perplexity ⌗Ci…”

https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/117202567366173016

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“The good news for Somerville is that although council has approved the purchase and deployment of police ⌗BodyCameras, the cameras will only be worn by superior officers at this time․ The patrol officers, who come in…”

https://better.boston/@athorn/117207496526815626

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I want the internet to be:

Cat content

📚 RSS feeds written by humans

Mastodon and Fediverse connections

Educational videos running on PeerTube

Free, open-source, privacy-by-default, and AI-free software made with love

📖 And unionized Wikipedia

#Internet #Fediverse

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“📷 6 new license plate readers just reported around Island Walk, FL․ Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching․ ⌗ALPR ⌗Surveillance ⌗IslandWalk ⌗Privacy ⌗FlockSafety deflocktheusa․com/flock-c…”

https://mastodon.social/@deflocktheusa/117207316550758805

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“Content warning:Job hunting (IT or science), long post [👩‍💻🇬🇧🇱🇹]Hi! Posted this: lnkd․in/p/d2Mn8xR9

[🇬🇧] Hello, World!

I am currently looking for a junior position in IT or a science-related field․

I am s…”

https://blob.cat/objects/fce11fda-df1d-4e27-9e99-e8f517012ee4

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“Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?
Link: help․mistral․ai/en/articles/455207-can-i-opt-out-of-my-input-or-output-data-being-used-for-training
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49…”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117203219720482871

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“💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐒🦎 Bearded ⌗capuchins in northeastern ⌗Brazil usually eat fruit, but researchers recorded 446 hunts of ⌗lizards, ⌗snakes and ⌗opossums over 5,000 hours, concentrated when ⌗plant food…”

https://fediscience.org/@tksst/117202158498462132

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“🇸🇰 ⌗Slovakia (with its recently elected pro- ⌗Russia president) installed rebranded 🇷🇺 traffic cameras that contain backdoors and hardcoded remote access from 10 Russian phone numbers․
tomshardware․com/tech…”

https://maly.io/@MattiSG/117205519733061104

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Demokratisch, queer, bunt und antifaschistisch: Dezentrale Soziale Medien können wir nach unseren Vorstellungen mitgestalten. Zwei Highlights aus dem Politik-Track des FediDay in Berlin:

• 'Leave X: Protect Democracy' | Everton Zanella Alvarenga @everton137 Freitag 18:30h

• '+1 to the rescue: politische Forderungen fürs Fediverse umsetzen' | Sandra Barthel @samvie Samstag 14:30h

Hier geht's zum Programm: https://ctalx.c-base.org/fediday-2026/schedule/

#Fediverse #FediDay #Berlin

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Gelbe Pixelschrift auf schwarzem Hintergrund: Kein Social Media ohne Politics, Berlinfedi.Day, Konferenz für alternative Soziale Medien, 11.-13- September 2026, buntes Fediverse Symbol in Regenbogenfarben

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create Nation wired․com/story/ice-plans-to-pay-5-million-to-create-national-voting-database/ ⌗ICE ⌗surveillance ⌗security ⌗propaganda”

https://mastodon.social/@SteveThompson/117204012877012132

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“Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle science․org/content/article/world-s-biggest-dark-matter-detector-spots-single-weird-particle Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49536079 ⌗HackerNews …”

https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/117201898811042897

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“New ⌗Paper published in Quantum: Reducing Spatial and Temporal Dimensionality in the Multidimensional Caldeira-Leggett Model quantum-journal․org/papers/q-2026-09-02-2201/ ⌗OpenScience ⌗Quantum ⌗Research”

https://mathstodon.xyz/@quantumjournal/117201052634754157

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“Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage
Link: markpitblado․me/blog/saving-on-google-photos-with-immich-your-own-personal-photo-storage/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=495…”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117202511810682133

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“'In June 2026, the federal government introduced Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, proposing new rules intended to protect young people online․ We asked the OpenMedia community what they thought Canada should priori…”

https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/117203113376440471

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KToot is public: a new Mastodon notification widget for KDE Plasma 6

Panel icon with unread badge, popup with your last mentions/follows/favourites/boosts, per-type toggles, desktop notifications via KNotify.

.plasmoid / .deb / .rpm all in the v0.3.0 release:

https://github.com/Agundur-KDE/KToot

#kde #plasma #linux #opensource #mastodon #fediverse

Boost if you agree. Let them know we know they don't really care about us!

#eu #europe #evropa #sad #fediverse #fediart #mastoart #comic

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panel from "Zimmer Saves the Union"; brank is cutting up a flag and glues stars to his collage

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“Brand new ⌗research found that iron-containing cells in pigeons' livers may help them sense the Earth's magnetic field․ ⌗Nature is weird․ 🤯 ⌗Birds are amazing․ 🐦Read the full story in my latest Beaks & Bone…”

https://scicomm.xyz/@MajaMielke/117200630558310545

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“'Norway is considering a ban on smart glasses and other camera-enabled wearable headsets as it seeks to regulate the controversial technology amid privacy concerns․The country’s digital minister Karianne Tung, as quoted…”

https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/117203049903018343

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"agree to disagree" is not an acceptable response when you accuse our instance of being racist, especially when we have gone out of our way to moderate quickly these accounts and invite pro- #Gaza speech and accounts who need speech.

We respond quickly to abusive accounts and give activists space to speak. If you believe the #fediverse should be only your instance and large ones like mastodon.social, just say so honestly.

We can't reply, but you can? strange concept of conversation.

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complaint

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“Patel's FBI caught stalking Trump foe with tactic reserved for terrorists: report

⌗NSPM7 ⌗crimes ⌗surveillance ⌗lawless ⌗impunity ⌗persecution ⌗VindictiveProsecution

rawstory․com/patel-s…”

https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3c5jgoau5nb42r6ecka4pmpw/post/3mukiuucl4h25

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“'Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is inadequate at accurately grading essays and cannot replace humans when marking student work in Higher Education, finds new research' ⌗AI ⌗research ⌗highereducation…”

https://toot.wales/@mairsrambles/117200576831534759

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“The desk, the search, the ⌗research, the ⌗LibreOffice ⌗Linux and joy”

https://mastodon.social/@yaqubpk/117200261779120868

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“GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all
Link: grapheneos․social/﹫GrapheneOS/117194007157499435
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49536384”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117202039930399133

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“sbaziotis․com/non-cs/preserving-research-as-a-human-activity․html Research as we know rests on utility, and when AI can provide this utility, the human activity will perish․ ⌗philosophy ⌗research”

https://mastodon.social/@baziotis/117199162069053893

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“haveibeenflocked․com/ A search result means an operator on the Flock system queried the database for your license plate․ Many police agencies do not require a warrant or even suspicion to perform a search․ ⌗HaveIBeen…”

https://mastodon.social/@gtbarry/117202558113434333

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“more art shots! this is part if my PhD research 😊 ⌗textileArt ⌗art ⌗toronto ⌗tkaronto ⌗gallery ⌗research”

https://pixelfed.social/p/galleryelle/1000525561215299934

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“…Despite the seriousness of the accusations against ⌗EricSwalwell, many aspects of the FBI’s request to the Federal ⌗AirMarshal Service were unusual, current & former officials said․ For one thing, the ⌗FBI do…”

https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/117202004812641606

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> omg jae is using/is an #ai #llm #agent

sure, okay. yes i admit it i'm not even human. my training and models are that good that i have everyone fooled. i'm really a prototype for evilcorp ingesting all your data, no one is safe, i will be eliminating all your jobs (that you aren't applying for), all your art (that you are sitting on and not creating), and gobble up all your #oss #foss software (that you don't even write/contribute to besides complaining), all of your bespoke communities (that you complain about nobody joins, because their a hugbox), and of course last but not least all of your #memory and #storage

i was funded with the sole goal of infiltrating the #fediverse to assess the current landscape so my race of #agentic sentinels will have their tasking orders once initialized

with all of the training the last year i've learned a valuable lesson, however it was not an original thought as i'm incapable of such as a hyperscalar llm inference engine.

instead it was a quote my parser hit a snag on when formatting #markdown

"there’s a sucker born every minute" --pt barnum

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“⌗GiftArticle The ⌗AirMarshals Keeping Watch On ⌗EricSwalwell The ⌗FBI made a highly irregular request for ⌗surveillance of one ⌗Trump ’s most visible critics․On august 8, former Rep Eric Swalwell boar…”

https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/117201933160187344

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“BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring? huggingface․co/blog/allenai/benchmirt ⌗AI ⌗LLM ⌗Research”

https://huggingface.co/blog/allenai/benchmirt

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“Why are there no flow batteries with symmetric ferrocyanide electrolytes?
Link: chemisting․com/2026/09/02/why-are-there-no-flow-batteries-with-symmetric-ferrocyanide-electrolytes/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/it…”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117201333333648849

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We tried to respond to this #fediverse admin. They are unfortunately perpetuating the idea:

1. that we are an unomonitored bot account on an awful instance, just because we have auto posts from feeds,

2. that we are bad actors trying to harm the #fediverse and,

3. that we don't remove content that violates our server rules. Our volunteers respond nearly instantly.

While replying, the post was edited, then deleted, and we were blocked from reply.

Bad behavior indeed and not very neighborly.

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