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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

What catnip? 🐈‍⬛

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thecontinent@mas.to ("The Continent") wrote:

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
otaviocc@social.lol ("Otávio :prami:") wrote:

👨‍💻 I’ve updated two @Iconfactory connectors I created: @prami’s some.pics and @glass.

some.pics:

- Added option to show/hide the photo description.
- Fixed the aspect ratio of photos.

Glass:

- Checks if the user exists before saving the feed.
- Changed the default connector color from gray to gold.

Thanks, @adam, for making the changes on some.pics side to include the photo data I needed to display images with the correct aspect ratio.

https://github.com/otaviocc/tapestry-connectors

Boosted by jwz:
davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

More plane crashes will make people more afraid of flying, thereby helping us achieve our climate obligations. 🙃

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/16/politics/faa-employees-fired-trump-administration

Boosted by jwz:
spaf@mstdn.social wrote:

When life imitates fiction

Boosted by jwz:
davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

Cycling helps fight climate change and makes cities more livable. More profoundly, people who cycle regularly are more oriented toward the common good.

Cars turn people into sociopaths; bikes reverse that.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494423001731

jwz wrote:

Bezos is, as always, 100% in the bag for Musk and Trump.

Common Cause: The Washington Post doesn't want you to see this Fire Elon Musk ad: Our ad was all set to run tomorrow morning, with a signed contract and all. But at the last minute, Jeff Bezos's...
https://jwz.org/b/ykiS

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
LyleDAL@universeodon.com wrote:

In case you're unaware, the #AMA has a YouTube page; they are doing daily updates on #BirdFlu and other outbreaks since the #CDC can not.

https://www.youtube.com/user/AmerMedicalAssn

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
KJ7OFH@mastodon.hams.social ("Lionel - KJ7OFH") wrote:

@jsonstein @w7voa I agree, but I also do not think that history is going to deal kindly with the United States either. This is all going to be really, really bad for a long time.

Boosted by jwz:
mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matthew Haughey") wrote:

Opening a new Google account, you get blasted with Gemini AI bullshit upsells at every click. I've had a Gmail account since 2004, so I had no idea what the first day experience was like, but it's "let AI write your emails" and "shouldn't you be using AI to finish this sentence?" all the time.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
netopwibby@social.coop ("netop://ウィビ") wrote:

#2 on Hacker News is crazy WTF

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

Sharing some feeds that I’ve added to my reader recently: https://notes.neatnik.net/2025/02/new-feeds-february-17-2025

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
clayton@social.coop ("Clayton Dewey") wrote:

There's a nonprofit whose website I support that monitors the far right. They want to set up a mirror site in Iceland (or other country with strong data sovereignty laws) in case the Trump administration takes down their website.

Does anyone have Icelandic hosting companies they recommend? The website is in #Drupal

:boosts_appreciated: boosts appreciated :boosts_appreciated:

#OpenWeb #DigitalRights #DataSovereignty #AskMastodon

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
thomholwerda@exquisite.social ("Thom, HP-UX™ evangelist") wrote:

Dutch pension fund ABP - which manages €544 billion as of December 2024 - is ditching Tesla, Facebook, and Google. Why? You know why.

Again, Americans have no idea what's begun here. The Netherlands alone is one of the largest investors in the US, and as public sentiment here against president Musk and figurehead Trump deteriorates even further, those investments will shrink. The long-term effects will be crippling.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/17/caliper-ai/

#Pluralistic

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

today in Tallahassee

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

today in Boston

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

today in Denver

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

today in NYC

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

Today in Buffalo

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

today in DC

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

today in Lansing, Michigan

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mattiem ("Matt Massicotte") wrote:

This was a hard one. But we, as developers for Apple platforms and as humans, have a responsibility to respond.

https://www.massicotte.org/leverage

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

today in Chicago

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

today in Ohio

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
Some_Emo_Chick ("Frankie ✅") wrote:

X is blocking links to #Signal

Users attempting to add their https://Signal.me URL to posts, DMs, and bio descriptions are being met with error messages.

https://www.theverge.com/news/613997/x-blocks-signal-me-links-errors

#news #technology #tech #Internet #socialmedia #Twitter

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

Paddington in Peru has received the Arachnophile Seal of Approval.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/17/the-only-thing-you-need-to-know-about-paddington-in-peru/

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

As much as I love Obsidian in theory, in practice I don't use any of its automation/plugin architecture, so I don't get much benefit over just keeping everything in Ulysses. Unless I moved everything to Obsidian. But.

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

really liking the results from using https://www.levelframes.com/?ref=0433af3346 to get some of my snaps up on the wall. decent UX, reasonable prices, and good quality printing/mounting/framing.

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

Firing some people will cost lives in the short term. Does Elon Musk care?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/17/maybe-ill-stay-home-for-a-few-years/