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

spritely@social.coop ("The Spritely Institute") wrote:

Hello! We're the Spritely Institute and we're building Spritely, next-generation decentralized network tech! https://spritely.institute

We're building off experience from standardizing ActivityPub (two of our co-founders worked on it!) and researching techniques to build the future of secure collaboration!

(We just moved here from @spritelyinst, hello!)

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

"... an inside-out way of talking about context collapse. Context collapse—communication tuned for one socially distinct group but encountered by another, with uncomfortable and mind-bending sometimes life-ruining results—emerges from Erving Goffman’s work in the 1950s, as expanded by Joshua Meyrowitz in his No Sense of Place in the 1980s, and which danah boyd began resuscitating and applying to the internet in the early 2000s."

https://www.wrecka.ge/against-the-dark-forest/

h/t jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io

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

jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

@kissane
"Because yes, the existence of dipshits is indeed unfixable, but building arrays of Dipshit Accelerators that allow a small number of bad actors to build destructive empires defended by Dipshit Armies is a choice. The refusal to genuinely remodel that machinery when its harms first appear is another choice."

https://www.wrecka.ge/against-the-dark-forest/

Or, as I've said: culture is reciprocal with affordances, and everything is downstream from culture.

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

if true, that would mean one can buy a State Attorney General for $27,500... I had no idea they were that cheap.

to rephrase Simon Cameron: "An honest politician is one who, when bought, will stay bought."

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

"No one in elective office shielded Jeffrey Epstein more than Pam Bondi."

Read more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/115571163.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

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

every bag of gunpowder produced by the DPRK for their Russian allies is a bag of fertilizer their farmers will not have next growing season.

DPRK munitions production for the Russian war against Ukraine this Fall and Winter seems likely to produce further starvation in DPRK next Spring.

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

tailscale@hachyderm.io ("Tailscale") wrote:

How do we get by with such a small infra team? Our tech lead explains how we use Tailscale while building Tailscale, which keeps her attention off finicky networking problems https://tailscale.com/blog/infra-team-stays-small

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

peachfront@toot.community wrote:

No flash used here but this rare species turned out to be surprisingly cooperative on its gathering grounds so handheld photography worked out just fine... have some flying photos I can develop & post later but this is minimally processed to hurry up & show you my brag

"I'm a Marvelous Spatuletail and you're not"

#bird #birds #birding #hummingbird #hummingbirds #EndangeredSpecies #Rare #Nature #Outdoors #BirdPhotography #Wildlife #NikonZ8

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• A fancy hummingbird with a vividly fluorescent turquoise & green gorget (throat) and a snazzy purple crown sits in profile on a skinny vine to show off the length of its very long tail flowing and fluttering behind it. The two central tail feathers are just long straight ribbons but the two outer flowing tail feathers are much longer and curvier ribbons capped with broad oval pancake-flat feathers that flutter around like a pair of butterfly wings to draw attention away from the main hummingbird. This is the male Marvelous Spatuletail. Photo by Peachfront. Nov. 13, 2024. (remote)

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

jencmars@mastodon.art ("Jen C Mars") wrote:

Fluff

#art #drawing #moth

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• Photo of a sketchbook with a drawing of a cute, fluffy stylized cecropia moth in blue pencil. A blue pencil in a pencil holder is also visilble. (remote)

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

I'm still plugging away, although getting time to draw has been a struggle recently. I'm sharing two that, like many things in life, aren't the best but also not the worst.

The Santa wannabe was not planned. I started with what became the top of the bag, and the rest followed from that.

I included a bonus snail, because snail shells are fun to draw and look at.

#doodle #yaombaaa

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• A wannabe Santa figure struggles to drag a large sack of something (hopefully toys) across the ground. He's pulling with the sack over his left shoulder and furrowing his brow and squinting his eyes with the strain. Large, wet flakes of snow are falling, and there's a thin layer of snow on the ground. Just in front of the wannabe Santa, there's a small dog leading the way. (remote)
• 3/4 view of a cartoon snail with a look of shock or horror. The caption above the snail reads, "In his haste, Gary had unknowingly stumbled into a salt field." Don't worry. Gary eventually figures a way out of his predicament. He's like a snail MacGyver. (remote)

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

“Linda McMahon, who ran World Wrestling Entertainment for decades, was accused in the lawsuit of not preventing one of the organization’s employees from victimizing children who helped set up wrestling rings.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/linda-mcmahon-sexual-abuse-lawsuit-trump-education-secretary.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

money doesn’t talk, it screams…

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/us/politics/rockbridge-trump-vance-wiles.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

“In 2013, Ms. Bondi’s office received nearly two dozen complaints about Mr. Trump’s short-lived for-profit university, and her aides said she was considering joining a multistate lawsuit… Four days later, Ms. Bondi’s political action committee received a $25,000 contribution from a nonprofit funded by Mr. Trump. She never joined the lawsuit.

Both Mr. Trump and Ms. Bondi have denied a quid pro quo. But Mr. Trump had to pay a $2,500 fine…”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/politics/pam-bondi-trump-attorney-general.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

"… she tried unsuccessfully to overturn and weaken the Affordable Care Act, opposed expanding legal protections for the L.G.B.T.Q. community and cultivated a national reputation by supporting anti-human-trafficking efforts.

She also drew fire for her fund-raising practices — and for persuading the governor at the time, Rick Scott, to postpone an execution in 2013 because it conflicted with a fund-raiser for her re-election campaign."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/politics/pam-bondi-trump-attorney-general.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

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

ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

#RussVought, a #Project2025 architect, is reportedly set to repeat as head of Office of Management and Budget after serving in the position for Trump's first term.

We recently unearthed private videos of Vought's plans for "traumatically" razing the civil service, siccing military on protestors, defunding environmental protections, and generally helping #Trump accumulate more executive power than any president before him.

#News #USPolitics #Politics #Government

https://www.propublica.org/article/video-donald-trump-russ-vought-center-renewing-america-maga

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

CBSNews@flipboard.com ("CBS News") wrote:

Surge of guns and ammunition flowing from U.S. to Latin America and Caribbean, fueling conflict
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/guns-ammunition-seized-us-latin-america-caribbean/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Crime @crime-CBSNews

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

CBSNews@flipboard.com ("CBS News") wrote:

Jan. 6 Capitol rioter from Tennessee convicted of creating "kill list" in plot to murder FBI agents who investigated him
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/capitol-rioter-edward-kelley-convicted-plan-kill-fbi-agents/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-CBSNews

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

axios ("Axios") wrote:

Left-leaning media ecosystem grows after Trump win https://t.co/xuoX8IjnFf

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

pinskal@sfba.social ("Jon Pinter") wrote:

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• Two panel comic by amii.illustrates. In the first panel a man in a suit and tie says "stop immigration so we can take care of our own". In the second panel a small man not wearing a suit has walked up and says "I'm starving" and the much larger man in a suit puts his hands on his hips and tells the small man to "fuck off". (remote)

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

Today in History: Barnardo Pasquini dies in Rome, 1710

("Italian composer of operas, oratorios, cantatas and keyboard music. A renowned virtuoso keyboard player, he was one of the most important Italian composers for harpsichord")

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

Today in History: Benjamin Britten born, 1913

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

Today in History: John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas, 1963

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

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Streamiverse is written in Kitten and you can follow the “htmx, the htmx WebSocket extension, and socket routes” tutorial to create a Kitten app that consumes the API:

https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/htmx-the-htmx-web-socket-extension-and-socket-routes/

To get started with Kitten, see:

https://kitten.small-web.org

(Could be a fun little thing to play with this weekend.)

:kitten:💕

#Kitten #SmallWeb #htmx #WebSocket #streaming #fediverse #Mastodon #API #SmallTech #web #dev

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

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Introducing Streamiverse… a simple Mastodon-compatible streaming API of curated posts from the fediverse.

https://streamiverse.small-web.org

Consume the public API curated/hosted by Small Technology Foundation (for non-commercial and educational use) or host your own.

Mastodon had a public streaming API but it was locked down this year. This gives you back that useful feature (for demos, teaching, etc.) plus you know exactly what you’re getting.

#streamiverse #mastodon #fediverse #API #SmallWeb #Kitten

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• Screenshot: two browser windows, side-by-side. On the left is the Streamiverse index page showing a number of curated posts. On the right is the Settings screen with areas to add to stream and a place where you can enter your fediverse account for removal requests. The Settings page also contains the curated tweets with the ability to remove them. (remote)

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

ahmetasabanci ("Ahmet Alphan Sabancı") wrote:

One side effect of this blog post is it made me realize I really like the “just put whatever is in your mind and hit publish” kind of writing and actually missed doing it.

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

Beautiful lunchtime walk today

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• a7345d11999cd0e8.jpeg (remote)
• 6566ad4ddaf511bf.jpeg (remote)
• 6ab08e84812ad84c.jpeg (remote)
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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The social media shakeout is happening, and I fear Mastodon isn't looking great…although that's from my narrow perspective on one dying instance.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/22/mastodon-flaws/

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• Mastodon mascot (remote)

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

winter is here

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• c07d9e1beaa6258f.jpeg (remote)

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

johnmorton ("John Morton") wrote:

Reading through the Tailwind CSS v4 pre-release page. I like the idea of moving from a tailwind.config.js file to defining the base in CSS. #webdev https://tailwindcss.com/docs/v4-beta

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

takmatsuoka@vivaldi.net ("松岡さん@散歩記録(写真)垢【仮】") wrote:

ネリネ
#photography #flowers #ビバ丼写真部 #マストドン写真部

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• 2024.10.27 姉小路通から濃いめのピンクのネリネ (remote)
• 2024.11.03 京都府立植物園の植物園開館前から真っ赤なネリネと、それに隠れて部分的にしか見えていない白いネリネ。 (remote)
• 2024.11.03 京都府立植物園の植物園開館前から淡いピンクのネリネ。一枚目のネリネの写真よりも淡い色。 (remote)