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purplepadma@beige.party ("Charlotte Walker") wrote:

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
newyorktimes@flipboard.com ("The New York Times") wrote:

Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/pilots-signal-leak.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into U.S. @u-s-newyorktimes

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

Imagine creating a device that makes statements with no attachment to truth, no capability to tell the difference between truth and lies, no ability to have intent to the truth or to take accountability for what it has said, and then imagine selling that device to the public as a useful source of information or helpful assistant.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
Star12Mt@masto.nyc wrote:

I have walked by this building and admired the architecture many times, just found out that it was the original flagship Lord & Taylor. Learned something new today, along with the fact that it was New York's first iron framed building #nyc #photography #BlackAndWhite #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #EastCoastKin #architecture

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
MrLovenstein ("J. L. Westover") wrote:

Secret Panel HERE 😌 https://tapas.io/episode/3483461

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 HR-Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50), Cambo 1250 Camera.

This humble, somewhat dilapidated shelter, a few miles south of SFO airport, once housed a medium wave aviation beacon (NDB). It currently hosts a variety of aviation surveillance sensors. Its location is also waypoint on the way to SFO runway 28R.

This kind of infrastructure, integral to so much in the modern world, is often nearly invisible, yet also heroic.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

FAA "BRIJJ" Station, Foster City, CA, 2024

All the pixels, none of the flight delays, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54128020212

#photography

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
maique@social.lol ("maique :prami_pride:") wrote:

#stickerSpotter #stickerArt #streetArt

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

🎥 Tickets for Princess Mononoke acquired!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Thousands protest after Tufts grad student arrested by ICE, transferred out of state https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/03/26/thousands-protest-after-tufts-grad-student-arrested-by-ice-transferred-out-of-state/

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

What matters is whether you own up to your mistakes.

This also means others need to be willing to let people apologize and make amends. And of course, those that don't apologize and try to make amends (or are clearly repeat offenders), well we know what they are.

To close the circle: While I don't think it matters whether you intend to lie for your statements to be lies, I do think it matters whether you intend to speak the truth. And that will be clear by your behavior.

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

People get twisted up in knots about intent when it comes to lying. I don't believe intent is necessary for someone to lie. I believe we are responsible for the things we say or repeat. If you communicate a falsehood (knowingly or not) you are participating in a lie. While you make false statements, you are a liar.

What matters is whether you are careful with your words and will go out of your way to clear up misinformation you may have spread.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
TechConnectify@mas.to ("Technology Connections") wrote:

Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJpZjg8GuA

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Time to do the spring planting.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/27/most-people-would-decorate-with-a-few-garden-gnomes/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
CosmicRami@aus.social wrote:

Whooooaaaa! The new #JWST image is so good! So much physics going on — physics Einstein himself thought about!

This is called an Einstein Ring. When a massive foreground galaxy (in this case, an elliptical galaxy) warps the space-time around it, light from behind it bends in our direction.

The JWST caught this fantastic example, where the background spiral galaxy is getting warped into our view. It appears as a ring, but we can see its structures like its spiral arms, gas features and star clusters.

Incredible science happening here!

📸 ESA/Webb/NASA/CSA/G. Mahler

I added the annotations in the second image.

#astronomy #astrophysics #generalrelativity #galaxies #science #gravitationallens #Astrodon

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
amoroso@fosstodon.org ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

When I bought the XEphem ephemeris and planetarium program in the 1990s it was the first astronomy software I used on Linux.

Now available as open source, it is still as advanced as back in the day with features few similar programs have. With its Motif user interface frozen in time and now turned retro, here is XEphem on my Linux Mint box where it still builds and runs fine. Almost permacomputing.

https://xephem.github.io/XEphem/Site/xephem.html

#astronomy #planetarium #linux

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
markmccaughrean ("Mark McCaughrean") wrote:

Wow – didn’t think I’d be in tears today, but this message sent home from Gaia as it was shut down forever today hits hard 😭

What you’re seeing is a map of the 106 CCD detectors that Gaia used to measure the positions of billions of stars in the Milky Way for the past 11 years 🛰️✨

They were turned off in a special sequence … 😕

#SpaceScience #Astronomy #Science

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
liw@toot.liw.fi ("Lars Wirzenius") wrote:

Overall, I think it'd be awesome if there were roving bands wandering around the Internet and helping under-funded open source projects improve their security in a constructive way.

I don't mean people who have opinions and ranting at open source developers and maintainers. I also don't mean well-funded foundations that create hoops for unpaid hobbyists to jump through.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

The secret police are thriving in American society.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/27/the-secret-police-are-here/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuFIs7OkzYY

jwz wrote:

BTW, since I assume I'm getting sent to the camps regardless, I'm going to spend my remaining time calling stochastic terrorist christofascist piece-of-shit motherfuckers what they are. Oh, did I swear? Was it indecorous? I'm so fuckin' sorry.

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

comedy is when this screenshot was posted to Mastodon and a pile of Effective Altruism dweebs promptly responded repeatedly to defend EA's honour

(i checked, original post appears no longer to be up)

jwz wrote:

Since I'm sure this is going to get linked to by HN-loving ignoramuses asking, "Why is jwz so mean to HN?"

It's a VC fan club, your go-to spot to simp for billionaires. Bad enough! But there's also Y Combinator's stochastic terrorist, cryptofascist, christofascist CEO Garry Tan.

This — that attitude, and that piece-of-shit motherfucker in particular — is what you're supporting every time you click on or share a "Hacker" "News" link.

Stop hanging out at the Nazi Bar.

https://jwz.org/b/yklG

jwz wrote:

Having read Gruber's lament about being blacklisted (take the win, man), I was disappointed to learn that I am still number 80 on the highest-ranking personal blogs of "Hacker" "News".

But that's a lifetime number. My ranking per year, 2009 through now are: 32, 47, 10, 7, 197, 351, 2034, 2127, -, -, -, -, -, 3255, 2605 and -.

"Let's keep this conversation going!"

https://jwz.org/b/yklG

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

Spring sprang with daffs from the allotment.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
yosh@toot.yosh.is wrote:

New new new on the Microsoft OSS blog: We’ve released a Wasm Component guest based on Wasmtime for the Hyperlight hypervisor!

We talk a little about what this means and how it works on the blog. But tldr: we’ve made it possible to start new VM partitions, load a Wasm runtime, and start executing a Wasm Component binary in about ~1ms. No guest OS. No virtual devices.

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/03/26/hyperlight-wasm-fast-secure-and-os-free/

Boosted by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
aparrish@friend.camp ("allison") wrote:

here's the reason I was thinking about all of this. now that I can send values back and forth between game boy software and the microcontroller on my custom game boy cart, i did what anyone in my situation would do: i made a game boy photoresistor theremin

Attachments:

• video: overhead recording of a violet gameboy (though it looks more blue here), wired up to a breadboard with a photoresistor plugged into it. as i move my hand over the photoresistor, the frequency of the audio changes. the screen fills up with black pixels vertically in response to the movement as well, and there's a hexidecimal number in the corner (which also changes in response to the movement)

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

What do you *mean*, an ePrint archive dedicated to cryptography research isn’t the right place to publish my hummus recipe?!

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

In the US, some people have been advocating for making wearing masks illegal, mostly to further the desires of a surveillance state.

Then you find that federal officers now wear masks while abducting people:

"Videos released online purportedly showed plainclothes DHS officials wearing masks that partially covered their faces while detaining Ozturk in the street and taking her to one of several unmarked cars"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/ice-agents-detain-tufts-university-graduate-student

I wonder why they wear masks. :thonking:

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay 🇪🇺") wrote:

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know (The Onion)

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

Wow, this is it all it takes to be rounded up by ICE nowadays.

Tufts Daily: Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions

https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj

#Politics #USpol #ICE