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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

For those in the UK puzzled why we Americans are so distraught over the passing of Dolly Parton: try to remember how you felt when you heard Queen Elizabeth had died. Then imagine how much worse it would have been if Queen Elizabeth had ever helped anyone

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

Someone accused me of "clout farming on this platform," which is amusing. How much do you think clout on Mastodon is worth? Tell the maître d' you're a big deal on Mastodon and see if it gets you a better table

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 2w ago

Boosted by @jwz@mastodon.social

“Responding to a user who wrote that ‘every year I’m sad to learn that next season won’t be the book where he kills his way through a white supremacist militia camp,’ Ritchson explained that the novel (titled ‘Die Trying’) is his ‘favorite book.’ ‘Fun fact: I had it approved until someone got re-elected.’” https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/alan-ritchson-jack-reacher-novel-die-trying-1236870453/

Alan Ritchson Says ‘Reacher’ Planned to Adapt ‘Die Trying’ Book for a Future Season Before ‘Someone Got Re-Elected’

Variety

Alan Ritchson Says ‘Reacher’ Planned to Adapt ‘Die Trying’ Book for a Future Season Before ‘Someone Got Re-Elected’

“Reacher” star Alan Ritchson had planned to adapt the second book in the popular “Jack Reacher” series for the Prime Video show.

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 3w ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

"In the ’90s, you had a lot of people entering the [tech] scene who came from other places—by which I mean they’d actually read a novel that wasn’t Tolkien, they’d actually been to a museum and not just seen really bad CGI art, they had truly diverse backgrounds. I see much less of that now. You see people who started coding when they were in fifth grade, that’s all they’ve ever done, and they have no context or background to frame the other things they hear." https://slate.com/technology/2026/09/cyberselfish-come-back-paulina-borsook-silicon-valley.html

Slate Magazine

Was Silicon Valley Always Like This?

“It’s a kind of intellectual and emotional stillness I see these people having.”

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 2w ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

Welp. Time to update the ol’ will https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/the-faas-875-million-plan-to-use-ai-to-ease-air-traffic-woes-13107920

wsj.com

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 3w ago

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It is exhausting to work in an industry where it is considered normal to throw out your entire toolset every six years and do everything the opposite way https://shopify.engineering/back-to-native

Shopify

Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify (2026) - Shopify

Coding agents changed what it costs to build mobile apps twice. Here’s why Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin.

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

AOC doesn't get as much credit for her political communication skill as she should, because she makes it look so damn easy https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3mufzhyjgx22i #USPol

Bluesky Social

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social)

PabloReports: What do you make of Trump saying Americans who oppose data centers are backwards and poor? AOC: I mean, how about we put one in Mar-a-Lago? I love that. Let’s put a data center at Mar-a-Lago, and we’ll see how backwards and poor he is in response to that.

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 2w ago

Boosted by @jwz@mastodon.social

Noticed in my local pharmacy today that they were having an absolute wall-to-wall, full-court press to get people to take the new flu vaccine. Signage everywhere; the point-of-sale system asked me if I wanted to schedule a flu shot; so did the pharmacist. When I said I’d prefer to get one later, the pharmacist set up a text message reminder for me. Just a real effort from everyone to make sure I knew there’s an updated flu vaccine and convince me to get it. I was impressed. There’s also an updated COVID vaccine. Absolutely none of the points and people urging me to get the flu vaccine even mentioned it

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

If only the developers of any software package I use were half as interested in writing documentation for humans as they are in writing documentation for LLMs

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 3w ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

I love this. "Our pricing is simple and transparent! No we can't tell you what it is"

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

Tech job listings you should run from at all costs

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 2w ago

“There is one particularly notorious war game from 1979, the Campaign for North Africa, a board game so detailed, complex and cumbersome to play that it is thought that no one has ever actually finished it (including its creator). “Now two guys from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, are trying. James Purcell and Andrew Taeger have spent nearly two years just mastering the rules and practicing, and they are ready to start playing the game for real. Finishing it could take decades, if it doesn’t drive them mad first.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/world/europe/campaign-for-north-africa-game.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CFE.OsuI.j6G_EtUemOoA&smid=url-share

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

The crazy thing about this kind of capitulation is that it's happening in August 2026. The last time we went around this particular bend was in February 2025, with the "Gulf of America" stupidity. I didn't like the way the mapping companies fell in line with that, but I could understand it. Trump had just won re-election, he was swinging his power around wildly, and it was unclear that anything could stop him. Who wants to be the first one to walk into a buzzsaw? But that was then and this is now. Today Trump and his agenda are as unpopular as any president in modern times has ever been, and we have a long list of times when people have challenged his agenda in the courts and won. Both law and politics are pushing against Trump, not with him. So in August 2026 if you get a threat from Trump and just immediately roll over, that's not something you can claim is just you being pragmatic. There are plenty of tools you could use to defend yourself lying around in plain sight; you're just choosing not to use any of them. https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/6059553-google-maps-renames-lake-america/ #USPol

thehill.com

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 2w ago

My kingdom for one bright color

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 2w ago

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We’ve officially reached the stage where random newswire photos look like scenes cut out of a Roland Emmerich movie

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

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If I was Canadian I would want this on a t-shirt

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

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"Note: "On 24 August 2026, cease and desist letters were sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project's repository. "UPDATE: Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. More details will be announced soon." https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

github.com

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 4w ago

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Wishing Microsoft would spend 0.0001% of what it’s spending on Copilot to figure out why applying routine Windows updates requires Windows to reboot the machine four times

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 3w ago

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‼️ https://www.404media.co/wordpress-automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-put-on-leave-of-absence/

404 Media

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence'

Mullenweg, co-founder of Wordpress, wrote in a company-wide Slack channel on Wednesday that board members "conspired" behind his back to vote to put him on leave.

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 2w ago

"Why is Donald Trump so hot and bothered for the Fed to lower interest rates?" Donald Trump is at heart a real estate con man. Real estate con men take their marks for sums of money large enough that the marks usually have to borrow it. Low interest rates mean money is cheap to borrow, which makes life easier for real estate con men. To a real estate con man, low interest rates mean good times. (For them, anyway. The mark gets busted out, but the con man doesn't care about that.) There are probably other reasons too, but I'm not sure you really need any more to explain things #USPol

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

God forbid women have hobbies

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 3w ago

Replying to

Speaking as someone who got his first followers on Mastodon by writing long threads, you may notice that I do not do that anymore. That's because the experience of posting long threads on Mastodon sucks

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 2w ago

I’m not sure why anyone ever bothered making another movie trailer after they made this one for BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1970). Because how on earth do you top this https://youtu.be/cif6XNH5sKM

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) Trailer

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 3w ago

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You don’t say https://abcnews.com/Politics/blanche-investigation-russian-oligarchs-wedding-gift-trump-jr/story?id=136462728 #USPol

Blanche says investigation into Russian oligarch's wedding gift to Trump Jr. is unlikely

ABC News

Blanche says investigation into Russian oligarch's wedding gift to Trump Jr. is unlikely

Trump's family members say have no connection to Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev.

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

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Boost if whatever the hell this was still haunts your nightmares https://youtu.be/4xRv9ZQOCPo

I Hanker for a Hunka Cheese

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 2w ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@256/117293066689441617 The toolbone is cooler

Quoting

HotDog 1.1 (1996)

never obsolete: "HotDog 1.1 (1996)" - Mastodon

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

So it turns out the fridges and freezers in military base commissaries across the U.S. are connected to the Internet, and some hacker has been putting them into defrost mode and letting the food spoil https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/08/28/dod-confirms-refrigeration-disruption-at-military-commissaries/

DoD confirms ‘refrigeration disruption’ at military commissaries

Military Times

DoD confirms ‘refrigeration disruption’ at military commissaries

More than a half-dozen commissaries on military bases in the continental U.S. reported refrigeration outages this week.

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 2w ago

Replying to

At least this isn’t software I’m paying them for. Oh, wait

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 3w ago

Try to live your life so that when you are fired, the prevailing reaction is not “why did it take them so long”

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

I ❤️ Software, Volume whatever Web-based software product sends me a VERY STERN EMAIL telling me my email domain authentication settings are wrong and need updating I spend two hours going over them with a microscope. Everything looks fine per the vendor's specification I file a support ticket with the vendor asking "hey, can you tell me what is actually wrong here" Vendor replies saying "We looked over your setup and everything looks correct" Days later, vendor sends me the exact same VERY STERN EMAIL again I file another support ticket asking "hey, why did I get this email again, can you confirm everything is really correct" Vendor replies saying "oh yeah, we couldn't figure out how to only send that email to people with invalid configs so we just send it to everyone"

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

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Oh hell yes https://youtu.be/1TaWGqgxmSU

Dracula | 4K Restoration | Official Trailer

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

Weren’t they supposed to liberate us from this stuff https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-agents-startup-work-culture-fa10494d?st=XMAWNT&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

wsj.com

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 3w ago

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As with most such things, part of what prompted people to take improv too seriously was the discovery that there was money in it

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 2w ago

Incredibly depressing that the people who write headlines for PC Gamer these days assume their readers wouldn't know who Raph Koster is https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/game-development/industry-vet-who-worked-on-ultima-online-says-the-next-big-thing-needs-to-have-sh-tty-graphics-to-escape-the-doom-of-rising-development-costs/

pcgamer.com

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

Remembering the days when everyone just assumed that if the US president had to announce the end of the world, it would at least not be because of some dumb thing he personally did https://youtu.be/S_gfPSIOlMQ

US President annouces the end of the world | Deep Impact | CLIP

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

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Why did I check my RSS reader before going to bed. Why https://www.twz.com/news-features/claims-swirl-around-cia-directors-reason-for-secret-moscow-visit-nearly-all-of-them-are-terrifying

Claims Swirl Around CIA Director's Reason For Secret Moscow Visit, Nearly All Of Them Are Terrifying

TWZ

Claims Swirl Around CIA Director's Reason For Secret Moscow Visit, Nearly All Of Them Are Terrifying

John Ratcliffe's surprise trip to Moscow may have marked a darker phase in the NATO-Russia standoff.

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

🎵 Sweet dreams are made of bees Who am I to disagree I travel the world and the seven seas It’s all worse than a faceful of bees 🎵

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

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I guess the good news here is that a Donald Trump appointee went to Russia to warn them against picking a fight with NATO, rather than to ask them how much of Eastern Europe they would like to help themselves to

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

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Singer Chris Isaak turns up as a clown working a drive-through burger window. Look, I don't know either

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 2w ago

“You, my friend, have got rizz. Financial rizz.” https://youtube.com/shorts/iLOiWRI8TWo

Get comfortable with your finances and start bankmaxxing with @usbank. Member FDIC. #ad #BankSmartly

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

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... and Mercedes Ruehl gets to blow Dean Stockwell's dick off with a short-barrel shotgun

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

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Did I mention that Michelle Pfeiffer is absolutely adorable in this

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

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In summary: MARRIED TO THE MOB (1988), directed by Jonathan Demme, written by Barry Strugatz and Mark R. Burns. Four stars, would watch again. It's streaming on the Criterion Channel now, but if you don't get that you can stream it from lots of other places too. Consult your local listings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utU7opft6F4

MARRIED TO THE MOB (1988) | Official Trailer | MGM

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 2w ago

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@chrisod@social.lol @mathowie@xoxo.zone @256@mastodon.social I'm wishing I could have been in the room when they came up with it! "Hear me out, everyone. The tool... BONE." (entire room loses its fuckin mind)

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Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

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Matthew Modine even gets a couple minutes of being an action hero in between all the usual Matthew Modine business

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