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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

heading out for my usual volunteer shift, walking doggos at the #ROC Pound

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

With @grishka at our #FOSDEM stand!

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• Me and Gregory next to each other.

Mastodon wrote:

Visit us at #FOSDEM, building H, level 1! You can say hi to our team or tell us what you’d like to see in Mastodon next. Mugs, t-shirts, enamel pins, and even free stickers available! #Merchtodon

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• A table full of Mastodon merchandise, a roll-up with the Mastodon logo, and a bunch of people wearing Mastodon t-shirts in a hallway.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Tracks

#darktable

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• Tracks on a sandy beach, going from the viewer away towards the surf line some way away. The wather looks cool, and there's a s person and their dog walking along the water.

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jeffowski@mastodon.world ("Church of Jeff") wrote:

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• athree-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat Listen, this is serious. Do not use the website called Sci-Hub! It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth. Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author. So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people? (remote)

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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:

Just two of the losers who never bought Bitcoin

Don’t be like them

Pay one million dollars for my discord server

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• A black and white photo of Albert Einstein
• A painting of Jesus Christ

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

well now, this looks interesting…

“GitHub - dongri/openai-api-rs: OpenAI API client library for Rust (unofficial)”

https://github.com/dongri/openai-api-rs

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erty@recurse.social ("Erty") wrote:

Saw a meme and decided it needed a 4x4 taking it to the furthest extreme

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• 6add123b8a93bfc1.png (remote)

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kern@hol.ogra.ph ("Transient Kerse") wrote:

The appeal of the early web / #SmallWeb isn't just about mostly-technical considerations like data privacy or JavaScript being cumbersome or whatever.

It was the whole community aspect of it! People signed guest books, joined webrings, and traded banner ads for each others' sites. People made new pages whenever a significant event happened. And everyone with a website felt like both a master and an apprentice at the same time; the only real barrier to entry was minimal #HTML knowledge. It was a brand new way of expressing oneself at the time
Now the internet is largely a commercial zone run by big businesses. It's great that folks can get started with WordPress or SquareSpace or whatever but the trade-off for this convenience is the loss of the early web's eclectic personality. Today's internet is sleek and professional, but boring, and its diversity is waning as the masses favor homogenous prefabricated crap

But yeah it's also the technical stuff too

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Holy hell. This is probably just a bug, but JFC, Apple. SMDH.🤦

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/did-apple-just-break-web-apps-in-ios17.4-beta-eu/

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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

Breaking: Did Apple just break Web Apps in iOS 17.4 Beta (EU)?

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/did-apple-just-break-web-apps-in-ios17.4-beta-eu/

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• Breaking: Alerts of broken Web Apps on iOS 17.4 Beta (EU) are emerging. How did Apple let such an obvious bug slip their attention? Image of shattering Apple logo on the side.

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yoz ("Yoz") wrote:

Rent-Seeking as a Service:
Wendy Liu piece from 2019 in which she suggests we refer to tech industry leaders as tax collectors, because it'll upset them far more than "overlords" or "robber barons" https://dellsystem.me/posts/fragments-86

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Zestryon ("Zéphyrin 🐈‍⬛") wrote:

The Social Club.

#Twitter #Bluesky #Mastodon #Threads #Pleroma

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• Iconic shot of The Breakfast Club (1985) The bad boy: "Twitter" The cool kid: "Bluesky" The weirdo: "Mastodon" The princess: "Threads" The nerd: "Pleroma"

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

My brother in Christ, noooo.

Respectfully, this is what pirates tell their captives so they catch Stockholm syndrome.

#Threads #developers

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• 325edb98d9669f42.jpeg

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LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt ("Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

When the number of housing units per person is falling, it's like a sadistic game of musical chairs where someone ends up unwanted roommates or without housing entirely.

#YIMBY #Housing #HousingCrisis

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• A graph showing the US having around 425 dwellings per 1,000 people with that having fallen by 1-1.5% over the past 10 years. It shows European countries averaging around 525 dwellings per 1,000 people and growing at 5% over the past 10 years. It shows East Asian countries around the same level as the US, but growing at 10-15% over the past 10 years. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Publix really made me think these were the fruits of the gods

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• 9eca83fac248e3cd.jpeg

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annaleen@wandering.shop ("Annalee Newitz 🍜") wrote:

The advance reader copies of my forthcoming book have arrived and they are beauties! Thanks to @wwnortonlibrary for supporting this investigation into how we can stop culture wars in the U.S. -- by understanding their history, and recognizing psychological weapons before they harm us and our communities. #StoriesAreWeapons drops in early June but you should pre-order now! Imagine how pleasing it will be to have an antidote to culture war this hot presidential race summer. #bookstodon #books

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• A box of my books, with blue covers and red letters. They read "Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind." (remote)
• The back of the book shows these blurbs: “Annalee Newitz’s thoroughly researched and masterfully crafted book gives us something hopeful—a way to disarm the narratives that have been used against us and reclaim better ones.” —Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize winning author of An Immense World    “A brilliant historical deep dive into psyops, military covert influence operations and the corporate attempts to conquer the mind. This will change the way you understand America.” —Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood  “A penetrating, passionately reasoned analysis of how propaganda and disinformation have been used as tactics of both hard and soft wars, and how we continue to be manipulated today. This is a storyteller’s account of the devastating force of storytelling.” —Angela Saini, author of The Patriarchs  “Annalee Newitz shows how words can have more power than even bullets and bombs. A read very much worth your time, as much to make you rethink the world around you.” —P. W. Singer, co-author of LikeWar “Illuminating and energizing, Stories Are Weapons can help us defuse the propaganda bombs going off all around us. It also shows how we can come together to tell different stories—stories to shed light in the darkness, make sense amid chaos, and forge hope and community instead of fear and isolation.” —Astra Taylor, author of The Age of Insecurity (remote)
• This is the dedication page of the book. It reads, "For anyone who has been told that they should not be alive. Together we will survive this war." (remote)
• This is the table of contents! Here's what they say: Preface: The Brain Fog of War Part I: Psyops Chapter 1: The Mind Bomb Chapter 2: A Fake Frontier Chapter 3: Advertisements for Disenfranchisement Part II: Culture Wars Chapter 4: Bad Brains Chapter 5: School Rules Chapter 6: Dirty Comics Part III: Disarmament Chapter 7: History Is a Gift Chapter 8: Deprogramming for Democracy Chapter 9: Public Spheres of the Future (remote)

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sadoperator@botsin.space ("DevSadOps") wrote:

If you give a man a software, you torment him for a day.

If you teach a man to software you torment him for a lifetime.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

When did Threads become Liberal?

Like Republicans with #twitter, there's now this growing liberal-endorsing sentiment for and across #Meta's #Threads. It's a baffling star to hitch your wagon to.

What was once algorithmic patricians that kept our ideologies in their respective corners, is now a sort of platform-nationalism— each side slinging mud at the other's ruler.

What's to be gained? And who claims the spoils? #indieweb #socialweb

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

If you like to be interrupted in the middle of shows by "we've updated our terms of service" messages appearing over the screen, may I recommend a smart TV.

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MnemosyneSinger@kolektiva.social ("the happy leftist") wrote:

The ad makers are not ok

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• [Footlocker marketing meeting] "Make the woman sexily eat a shoe" Err, what? "The man should use the shoe as a telephone" Are you OK? (Image is a Footlocker ad on the side of a building that is as described in the caption) (remote)

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Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not a Quetzalcoatl"") wrote:

TECH COMPANY: stop pirating our products

ME: ok then sell them to me

TECH COMPANY: ...

TECH COMPANY: listen here you little sh—

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Fine I'll do me at 21. Surprise surprise I was a smart ass then too.

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• Man in a black outfit gesturing towards his face, standing in front of a garage door.

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keenan@social.lol ("Keenan") wrote:

I wrote this because I am extremely normal.

https://gkeenan.co/avgb/rss-readers-make-me-want-to-jump-into-a-vat-of-acid

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

ALSO how "Closer" by NIN is so raw and dirty and always completely inappropriate to sing out loud while you're cleaning your car, Jason.

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• Screen shot of NIN's Closer album cover

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exchgr@mastodon.world ("elle mundy") wrote:

https://xkcd.com/2889/ 💀

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Also,

"Everyday is an endless stream of cigarettes and magazines" — Simon & Garfunkel

Boy, facts.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Currently very much into the brief period of the late 60s where every song sounded like it was made by a cult commune.

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• Screen shot: album Time of the season by the zombies

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

i can sort of understand why some people have continued using twitter but i cannot for the life of me imagine what motivates people to call it X

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Me using Safari's Listen to this Page to guzzle a three thousand word think piece about a niche technology concern

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• From pulp fiction: A woman with black hair, wearing a large coat, is closing her eyes and appears to be enjoying a song. There's text at the bottom that reads "I [expletive] love this song."