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   James Scholes (jscholes@dragonscave.space)'s status on Sunday, 16-Aug-2026 02:06:42 JST James Scholes

   I'm looking for tools for cleaning up and reformatting #HTML, preferably within or callable from the #Python ecosystem.

   I'm not talking about sanitisation for security purposes; I already use NH3 for that. Rather, I want something that can perform tasks like converting manual line breaks to proper paragraph usage, removing empty nodes and superfluous styling, reliably stripping out certain tags while leaving their text content intact, that sort of thing.

   It specifically needs to work on markup fragments without requiring an entire document.

   No LLMs but machine learning is fine.

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   Mr Penguin (mr_penguin@social.freetalklive.com)'s status on Saturday, 15-Aug-2026 17:29:28 JST Mr Penguin

   Finally someone with some sense steps in to stop the atrocity that is restricting youth communication, a fundamental human right:

   "France's Constitutional Council has struck down a law that would have banned children under 15 from social media, ruling that it disproportionately restricted freedom of expression and lacked adequate privacy safeguards around age verification."

   And then this:

   "President Emmanuel Macron has asked the government to rewrite the measure, with the goal of putting a revised version in place before spring 2027. Reuters reports: "

   Yikes- it's scary how tyrannical minds work. On the plus side a non-retarded ~11 year old that isn't absurdly babied should be able to figure out means around this crap.

   Helicopter parenting is fucked up. It started in the early 90s... and somehow has gotten worse ever since.

   However I blame the progressives of the early 1900s and late 1890s for this. They pushed labor reforms that started the restrictions on minors working.

   I'm not against prohibiting IDK actual abuse and enslavement of young people. But, umm like employment is actually the one means of a young person freeing themselves from parents and government tyranny. At least with employment you can always try another path.

   If an employer is FORCING you to work for them they're NOT an employer, but a slave master and that's criminal regardless of a persons age.

   The drivers license should be done away with too. It's literally a scheme to imprison society at large. It didn't start as a "safety" thing.It was because of societal bigotry toward car owners. Basically they were 'uncool' and an elite wanted to keep them off the road or at least subjugated to second class citizenry. Until the late 1960s not all states even required testing.

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   Nathan Lowell (he/him) 📎 (nlowell@zirk.us)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jul-2026 20:40:53 JST Nathan Lowell (he/him) 📎

   A new day. A new chance to succeed.

   Bread baking already this morning. It spent the night in the fridge so I could bake first thing.

   It's become something of a ritual with me now. Baking every few days grounds me in the world. Forces the ADHD to slow down. To be present in the moment.

   Not sure why I find it satisfying, this ancient skill. Working to perfect the crust and crumb.

   But it tastes great, if I do say so myself.

   May you find something good in your day #today

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   Partisan Night Slut :pns: (pns@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jun-2026 00:50:53 JST Partisan Night Slut :pns:

   This nigger acts like welfare has always been a thing.

   It is apparent to anyone with a brain that their complaining ushered in their welfare age.

   On top of being terminally useless douchebags, they're beyond ungrateful.

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   Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jun-2026 12:43:43 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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   @me no, you're absolutely right. Once the content is delivered to a remote server, it's hard to force it to do the right thing.

   It's one of the reasons we're doing e2ee messaging.

   https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-e2ee/

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@mastodon.futurist.info)'s status on Thursday, 14-May-2026 19:15:59 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   "Curiosity is your most important asset." - Futurist Jim Carroll

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   Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
   --

   Be like Curious George.

   I'll often share that quizzical observation on stage to an audience of serious business executives - and the fact is, I mean it.

   Here's why: curiosity is not a personality trait that allows you to accelerate innovation, spot trends before others do, or think differently in a world in which everyone is thinking the same thing.

   It is an economic asset. And in 2026, with the acceleration of AI, it could very well be the single most valuable thing you can own.

   Why? In an AI economy, almost everything you can know has been commoditized. Information is free. Expertise is downloadable. Knowledge has lost most of its scarcity. Everyone is pumping out the same stuff as everyone else. Heck, I'm feeling it with what I write and speak about.

   In that context, what remains scarce, and therefore valuable, is a mindset of exploration, the ability to explore new ideas, and a willingness to let go of the norms and find new ones. That's curiosity - the actual human drive to follow things down a rabbit hole, to spend an evening reading about something you have no business reading about, or to tinker with something simply because it seems interesting. That drive to explore cannot be outsourced. It cannot be downloaded. It cannot be faked. It is intrinsic to your value.

   In the era of AI, curiosity is the one asset that does not lose value.

   And it's powerful. I learned this almost by accident. In the early 1980s, I spent thousands of hours on obscure BBS boards, clunky early communication software programs, and bizarre online communities most of my coworkers had never heard of, via. 300-baud and 1200-baud modems. I didn't know what was going on, but I wanted to know more. To a casual observer and to my co-workers, I was wasting my time sitting up till 2 am or 3 am exploring online worlds. They often told me so in blunt terms. I was throwing away my career. I should be doing more important things.

   I didn't care. I just wanted to know what this strange new "thing" was. That apparently frivolous curiosity became the foundation of my entire career as an Internet author, a futurist, and eventually whatever it is I am now.

   I wasn't lucky. I was curious.

   So here is the practical version. Weaponize your curiosity. Schedule it. Defend it. Block thirty minutes a week to chase something you have no business chasing. Read the article outside your industry. Try the tool you don't yet need. Ask the question that makes you sound naive in the meeting.

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   Futurist Jim Carroll is looking forward to reading the entire Curious George series to his new grandson.

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-35-curiosity-is-your-most-important-asset/