Notices by FinchHaven sfba (finchhaven@sfba.social)

Then, if you want something to give you nightmares, how about this:

Jon Ostrower reposted:

Will Guisbond -- @willguisbond

SCOOP: The FAA is quietly developing a new AI-powered software tool for air traffic management that could fundamentally change how the U.S. airspace system operates. Palantir, Thales, Airspace Intelligence all bidding.

via @theaircurrent

The FAA

AI-powered software tool

Air traffic management

mhmm...

@MagentaRocks

"My one request is to keep my profile out of a collection - full stop. I do not want anyone to be able to add me."

I second this

Will there be a clear and immediate way to opt out of this new Mastodon "Feature"?

The Mastodon obsession with onboarding massive numbers of newcomers as quickly as possible is pretty...

...undignified

Exactly how fast and how large does @Mastodon dot Social -- currently at some 288,028 Active Users -- need to grow?

And no, please stop

This is about Masto Social growth

The official party line that this is for all Mastodon instances anywhere is put to lie by following the comments / discussions at Mastodon Github -- particularly those discussions that are silenced as violations of the Github TOA by the official Hall Monitor

Where does it all end?

Anywhere?

Who decided Mastodon needs to conquer the entire "Fediverse"?

cc @Mastodon @imanijoy

@twrling

I'm just...

I'm just speechless

How *anyone* could not see this coming ten thousand miles away, I simply do not know

I lay it at the feet of the "Oh! Look! There's a app for that!!!" generation and that mindset

Damn it people, be suspicious of *everything* on the Internet...

@aral

Oh, be daring

Go on

Branch out

cc @mondoweiss

@rubixhelix

Yeah I doubt he'll retire

That's just a cover story to get attention off him for a while

These are *all* pathological liars

cc @inthehands

@inthehands

"This is a fashion trend. It’s not just functional; camo serves no purpose of disguising whatsoever on Minneapolis streets. Militaries are dressing the part — and ICE is playing dress-up."

#ICE is 99% #LARP #Cosplay by over-weight men who can't even do (by all reports) one situp

More real than Call of Duty on their PCs any day

LARP cosplay, live-fire, live ammunition, shoot-to-kill whenever

What could go wrong?

@Nonilex

"#Federal officials released images of a handgun they said #AlexPretti was carrying."

There were several credible posts showing that exact handgun in social media posts going back years

It apparently was found via a Google Images reverse image search

(No links; this was yesterday afternoon and the posts are buried in the general monsoon)

#StateSponsoredTerrorism #Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #tyranny #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung

@inthehands

"He (Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey) also does not appear to have Minneapolis Police under his thumb: despite being legally forbidden from assisting ICE,

they’ve been clearing a wide path for them while giving them fist bumps (literally)."

And herein lies the problem

LEO are a closed fraternity

Even though by any reasonable measure ICE are a rabble of bottom-of-the-barrel street thugs, they're closer to MPD than to any other grouping in the city

All brothers-in-arms, bottom line

I wouldn't trust the Minneapolis Police to do much more than turn away and not actively join ICE

And, supposedly Noem is already bringing up ICE reinforcements from Texas, is it?

Time will tell, but I am very, very fearful

@ai6yr

hmm…

Butter both sides, into a frying pan, brown lightly, crack an egg into that hole, fry until it goes opaque, flip over, fry the other side, add a slice of cheese, cover, lower heat and fry until cheese melts

Plate with salt, pepper, salsa…?

== One Eyed Egyptian

Ancient family recipe

@CorioPsicologia

Your post is in a language I neither speak nor read, and you offer no means to translate

Why do I give up my very finite screen space to posts I will not be able to read?

cc @jmglov

@CorioPsicologia

Translation neither offered nor allowed, strike one...

cc @jmglov

This... seems very interesting

#Bluesky is "...standardizing parts of #ATProtocol in an effort to establish long-term governance for the protocol."

"to establish long-term governance for the protocol"

Here: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/taking-at-to-ietf

Also see at #Github:

"Add patent pledge link to README (# 4246)"

"Bluesky Social PBC has committed to a software patent non-aggression pledge. For details see [the original announcement] (https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-01-2025-patent-pledge)."

Here: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/commit/d239f0bcf5e7ed391c8ced32e13aaa4c1324a757

All that said, not sure exactly what it *means* long-term, but it is... interesting

#AT #IETF #Patents

@GottaLaff

More good news, possibly

At the most recent update from the National Weather Service / National Forecast Chart, the "Heavy Rain - Flash Flooding Possible" warning area expanded northward farther across DC

Here: https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/#page=ovw

@jerome

Yeah

See that quote (heh...) I pulled down from the Release notes:

""Quoting other people is not implemented yet, and it is currently not possible to mark your own posts as allowing quotes. However, a new “Who can quote” setting has been added to the “Posting defaults” section of the user settings. This setting allows you to set a default that will be used for new posts made on Mastodon 4.5 and newer, when quote posts will be fully implemented.""

Here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases

cc @andypiper @individual8 @MastodonEngineering

@jerome

Yeah there have been specific apps that have implemented #QuotePosts for some time now -- and used that as a "marketing" feature

But of course there's a difference between the user-space "app" level and the overall-global instance distribution level

This will become Yet Another(tm) #Mastodon Advanced Feature(tm) that newcomers and the experienced alike will have to find in some Preferences --> Whatever location and turn on or off as they see fit

Who says Mastodon is hard to use? /snark

And what are "Carousel Slides" and when do we get to see them?

Are these for Pinned Posts, or nah?

cc @andypiper @individual8 @MastodonEngineering

@andypiper

If I may, let me ask this question again, over here:

"- "experimental support for verifying and displaying remote quote posts""

I've watched as this very specific Issue worked its way through the #Mastodon #Github

"remote quote posts"

I've seen no mention (perhaps I missed it) of who exactly gets to --> create <-- these "remote quote posts"

"remote" implies no one on my local instance

cc @individual8 @MastodonEngineering

@Nonilex

Let's take a deep, cleansing breath and call this #LuxuryJet from #Qatar exactly what it is:

#Baksheesh

"Baksheesh (from Persian: بخشش bakhshesh[1]) ... and certain forms of political corruption and bribery in the Middle East and South Asia. "

These are Arabians

They know exactly who #Trump is

They know exactly what they are doing

They know exactly what they're going to get -- for starters

Trump does not

Trump gets played for the fool he is -- once again

Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baksheesh

#AirForceOne #Law #Corruption #EmolumentsClause #USConstitution #Boeing747

@heidilifeldman

" I understand Roberts as attempting to simultaneously reassure Trump about that while also seeming to stand firm on behalf of federal judges."

I'm seeing it as a pure PR play on #JohnRoberts part to buff the cred of #SCOTUS

Anyone who is paying any attention knows that #LeonardLeo's implementation of the #SupremeCourt is designed for one purpose only:

To enshrine the #UnitaryExecutive as #UnitedStates #Constitutional fact

@GottaLaff

Telegraphing Trump's intent to declare martial law at some time, due to "Cases of Rebellion or Invasion"

@killyourfm

"It’s a shame Mastodon struggles with short video clips..."

#Mastodon is *not* intended to be a video content platform

#Pixelfed is, however

"OK fine! I’ll just create a series on YouTube about it..."

So you'd choose #Youtube --> over <-- anything on the #Fediverse?

Is that what you're saying?

Out of what? Spite?

Hard pass on that

I don't do Youtube

cc @mschfr @lps