Mastodon Feed: Posts

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I'm delighted to report that the stuffed Mastodon toys have arrived at the German warehouse at @ravioli. The ones going to the US warehouse are still in customs. I imagine we'll open the store once both have arrived, unless US customs takes unreasonably long...

#Plushtodon #Merchtodon

Attachments:

• Two stuffed Mastodon toys on a wooden table. One is being pat on the head to demonstrate the squishiness.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Funny thing is #Meta can't stop being a cartoon villain character long enough for the #socialweb guys to defend themselves.

They're like, "#Threads isn't so bad you guys, they actually--" BREAKING NEWS ZUCKERBERG CAUGHT FUELING AI SUPER COMPUTER WITH BABY ORANGUTANS

#ActivityPub #IndieWeb

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

kellylepo@astrodon.social ("Kelly Lepo") wrote:

New results out of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Astronomers found a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the second closest star system to the Earth. The planet Barnard b orbits its star every 3.15 days and has a mass about 0.37 times that of Earth.

There are also hints of planets with 2.34, 4.12, and 6.74 day-orbits, although more observations are needed to confirm the existence of those planets.

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2414/

Attachments:

• The image is an artist’s representation of the nearest stars to the Sun. In the lower part of the image is the Sun, surrounded by four semicircles that increase in size. Each semicircle indicates a certain distance from the Sun. The closest one coincides with a series of tiny white spots that represent the objects of the Oort cloud, located one light-year away. The second semicircle indicates two light-years away. The third semicircle indicates four light years away, and coincides approximately with two adjacent large spots that represent stars. These spots are yellow and red, the former being twice the size of the red one. These are labelled Alpha Centauri A&B and Proxima Centauri, respectively. The fourth semicircle indicates six light-years away and coincides with an orange spot the size of the Sun. This represents Barnard’s star. Around the same semicircle there are two smaller red stars, unlabelled, with a third one positioned a bit further away. (remote)

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt ("Dmitry Borodaenko") wrote:

@willoremus An entire article about #Threads without mentioning #Fedipact or quoting someone prominent, e.g. @jdp23, on it? That unresolved "and some wariness [that we are not going to talk about]" sticks out like a sore thumb.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

alice_i_cecile@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Alice I. Cecile") wrote:

A really delightful video taking a deep dive into the #rendering technology and #techart choices of #tinyglade! I learned a lot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvswAg5Lrtw

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

Since JD Vance seems so opposed to fact checking, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone he definitely fucks couches.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:

@willoremus thanks for the gift link! The article makes some good points -- and I really like your phrasing of Meta's "gesturing" at interoperability.

On the other hand, when you talk about Meta's strategy, it's worth highlighting how much benefit they're getting just from from gesturing. As @laurenshof of @fediversereport points out, they've mastered the art of using tiny incremental improvements in fediverse-related functionality to get positive press. Including this article!

So at least in the short term, while I agree with @Gargron that so far Threads is only dipping their toe in, what's their real incentive to do more? After all, Mastodon has less than a million users -- not that many more than before the Apartheid Clyde acquired Twitter two years ago. And while many white male fediverse influencers are very gung-ho about Meta, there are also a lot of people who don't want them here. So they're very wise to tread carefully. And while I'm rarely one to praise Meta on many fronts, I think their decision to make federation opt-in for Threads users was a great one. It's pretty funny, but also sad, that some of their supporters here have criticized that decision.

Still, Meta's clearly keeping their options open to do more than just gesturing. In Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the Fediverse I talked about how they could try to use the Fediverse to help shape regulation and as a platform for decentralized surveillance capitalism ... time will tell.

In any case @Sarahp reported that Meta's one of the funders for the new @swf, so that's more evidence that they see it as useful to keep gesturing -- and I saw one of SWF's founders say that they'd make sure some of that money goes to Mastodon, so Meta still sees Mastodon as useful as well. It'll be interesting to see how things work out!

#fediverse #threads #fedipact @fediversenews

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

When the rest of the team asks why you're still working on a 2-point story after three weeks

Attachments:

• The JD Vance "The rules were you guys weren't going to fact check" meme (remote)

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

Attachments:

• (Luke) You told me Vader betrayed and murdered my father (Obi Wan) The rules were you guys weren't going to fact check (remote)

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

Two college students paired Meta’s Ray Ban smart glasses with facial recognition tech and were able to pull up info on strangers (name, home address, phone number, and family members) in seconds just by looking at them. https://www.404media.co/someone-put-facial-recognition-tech-onto-metas-smart-glasses-to-instantly-dox-strangers/

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

Rihilism@toot.community ("🦅 RKeller Photography 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Red-bellied woodpecker.
(01/02/24)

#birds #birding #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #MastoArt #photography #AltText

Attachments:

• Image of a red-bellied woodpecker perched on a large, bark-less tree branch with out of focus branches and a grey, overcast sky in the background. The woodpecker is facing left with one eye visible. Red-bellied woodpeckers have off-white belly, chest, and neck feathers with a slight red blush on the lower belly, black and white back, wing, and tail feathers with a checkerboard pattern on the wings, a red-cap that extends from the beak to the shoulders, an off-white cheek with an orange patch below the dark eyes, black beaks, and dark grey legs and feet that are designed to grasp the sides of trees. (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

shadowsminder@mas.to ("A.L. Blacklyn") wrote:

Monarch butterflies continue to exist.

#easternUSA #photograph

Attachments:

• Two female Monarch butterflies are drinking from a persimmon fruit that had fallen into mowed grass. (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

KE2AEQ@mastodon.radio ("Todd") wrote:

Hey U.S. people: thinking about getting your ham license? Free training, testing, and a radio.

"The Make Operating Radio Easier (MORE) Project is an initiative to reduce both gender and age imbalances in Amateur (Ham) Radio, through education and hands-on activities."

https://n2re.org/m-o-r-e-project

#HamRadio #AmateurRadio

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

jangray ("Jan Gray") wrote:

Soft RISC-V Systems Workshop:
https://sites.google.com/view/srvs-workshop

Thu Nov. 7 & Fri Nov. 8, 8am-12pm PDT, the RISC-V Int'l Soft CPU Special Interest Group is presenting a free online (Zoom) workshop and celebration of the vibrant RISC-V soft processor community. Please spread the word and join us as attendee or presenter.

This workshop aims to be a technically focused, inclusive celebration of the world of RISC-V FPGA Soft Processor Systems, and the great diversity of designs, designers, and applications.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

One cool thing about having a kiddo around is that you can put together a playlist to listen to while you're making them breakfast, and they get super stoked because they've never heard any of these songs before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_HoMkkRHv8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSVPjFLN_Oo

https://twrp.bandcamp.com/track/phantom-racer-feat-the-protomen

(There may be a theme.)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

redsad@strangeobject.space ("captain aaaaaaaacab 👻") wrote:

Yeah I read theory...

"It's a rich man's game no matter what they call it, and you spend your life puttin' money in his wallet."

Attachments:

• A very long flashlight with a relatively weak beam, next to a tiny flashlight with a much more powerful beam. The long flashlight is labeled Karl Marx's Das Kapital. The short flashlight is labeled Dolly Parton's 9 to 5. (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I'm not worried about this at all, why do you ask?

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

TFW your inner monologue starts to sound like Wolfman Jack...

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

My niece took a dollar from me, and returned two pennies and a Canadian dime.

Attachments:

• Picture of two pennies and a Canadian dime on a glass table.

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

It's worth sharing this because 1) everyone should know JD Vance's whole intended playbook is shitty racist lies.

But 2) this is the archetypal abuser response: call out the person calling *you* out, as though *their* *response* to your lie is what matters. Make the offense everyone's taking about *their ordinary response*, not your original offense that prompted it in the first place.

Classic DARVO.

Attachments:

• 7d9765bc5642082c.jpg (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

We’re at War With Iran - Ken Klippenstein:

"One can stand on the parapet with binoculars searching for Iranian tanks to come rolling across the desert to signal what everyone is insisting is something more to come. But reality should have set in today. Only the American people seem unaware because of secrecy and because of the lockstep narrative of the mainstream media, which is not to accept this fundamental reality. " https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/were-at-war-with-iran

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Landlords are drooling at the possibilities here.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/02/i-didnt-watch-the-vice-pres-debate-last-night/

Attachments:

• CBS News presenting ethnic cleansing as a housing policy to be compared with home construction tax incentives. (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Jonathan Wells is no longer poisoning the discourse about evolutionary biology.

He's dead, but I'm trying to look on the bright side.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/02/jonathan-wells-is-dead/

Attachments:

• Jonathan Wells, dishonest, ignorant pseudoscientist (remote)

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

birdcubed@queer.party ("bird³") wrote:

All flying objects are UFOs if you're bad at identifying things

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

9 out of 10 developers enjoy code reviews.

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

I would like to, in my free time, start working on an iOS app that people might find useful. What is a privacy-focused use case that you’d like to see an app for and where you think I can meaningfully contribute? Let me know!

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

phil@wears.tigerpajamas.com ("Phil Giammattei") wrote:

I beg you to toggle light mode on this web site
https://mastodon.online/@latte/113233330240863053

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

Hoo boy it's been a day in the Matt Mullenweg/WP Engine debacle. Here's a direct link to my updates on today's news:

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/fire-matt#unblock

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The fact that he doesn't like Taylor Lorenz makes me like her more.

Attachments:

• Well-regarded by whom? Lorenz is a hack—a self-proclaimed social media expert done in by her own "private" Instagram post describing President Joe Biden as a "war criminal" that she subsequently lied about having posted. She didn't "exit" the Post. She was obviously and rightfully fired.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

cjust@infosec.exchange ("Tim Hergert") wrote:

Updated for the new millennium.

Attachments:

• A COMPUTER CAN NEVER FIND OUT THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER FUCK AROUND (remote)