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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
coolhand.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("luke") wrote:

Some badass early Pulitzer contenders out of Turkey

Alt for four images: 1. A person in a black robe and a tall brown felt hat stands facing a line of riot police holding shields labeled “Polis.” The person is being sprayed with pepper spray, and the air is filled with mist and debris. The person wears a gas mask and stands with a composed posture amid the chaos. 2. The same person in black robes and a tall brown felt hat stands calmly with arms folded while being sprayed with pepper spray by riot police. The individual wears a gas mask and stands on a wet street littered with water bottles. A line of police in helmets and shields labeled “Polis” stands in the background. 3. A person wearing a black robe, gas mask, and tall brown felt hat stands with arms outstretched in front of a row of riot police. The police hold transparent shields marked “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet.” Smoke fills the air, and the scene is illuminated by strong overhead lights. 4. A similar scene shows the same person in a dramatic pose with arms wide open and head tilted back, wearing the same attire. Smoke surrounds the area, and the line of riot police with shields labeled “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet” remains in the background. Debris is scattered on the ground.
Alt for four images: 1. A person in a black robe and a tall brown felt hat stands facing a line of riot police holding shields labeled “Polis.” The person is being sprayed with pepper spray, and the air is filled with mist and debris. The person wears a gas mask and stands with a composed posture amid the chaos. 2. The same person in black robes and a tall brown felt hat stands calmly with arms folded while being sprayed with pepper spray by riot police. The individual wears a gas mask and stands on a wet street littered with water bottles. A line of police in helmets and shields labeled “Polis” stands in the background. 3. A person wearing a black robe, gas mask, and tall brown felt hat stands with arms outstretched in front of a row of riot police. The police hold transparent shields marked “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet.” Smoke fills the air, and the scene is illuminated by strong overhead lights. 4. A similar scene shows the same person in a dramatic pose with arms wide open and head tilted back, wearing the same attire. Smoke surrounds the area, and the line of riot police with shields labeled “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet” remains in the background. Debris is scattered on the ground.
Alt for four images: 1. A person in a black robe and a tall brown felt hat stands facing a line of riot police holding shields labeled “Polis.” The person is being sprayed with pepper spray, and the air is filled with mist and debris. The person wears a gas mask and stands with a composed posture amid the chaos. 2. The same person in black robes and a tall brown felt hat stands calmly with arms folded while being sprayed with pepper spray by riot police. The individual wears a gas mask and stands on a wet street littered with water bottles. A line of police in helmets and shields labeled “Polis” stands in the background. 3. A person wearing a black robe, gas mask, and tall brown felt hat stands with arms outstretched in front of a row of riot police. The police hold transparent shields marked “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet.” Smoke fills the air, and the scene is illuminated by strong overhead lights. 4. A similar scene shows the same person in a dramatic pose with arms wide open and head tilted back, wearing the same attire. Smoke surrounds the area, and the line of riot police with shields labeled “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet” remains in the background. Debris is scattered on the ground.
Alt for four images: 1. A person in a black robe and a tall brown felt hat stands facing a line of riot police holding shields labeled “Polis.” The person is being sprayed with pepper spray, and the air is filled with mist and debris. The person wears a gas mask and stands with a composed posture amid the chaos. 2. The same person in black robes and a tall brown felt hat stands calmly with arms folded while being sprayed with pepper spray by riot police. The individual wears a gas mask and stands on a wet street littered with water bottles. A line of police in helmets and shields labeled “Polis” stands in the background. 3. A person wearing a black robe, gas mask, and tall brown felt hat stands with arms outstretched in front of a row of riot police. The police hold transparent shields marked “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet.” Smoke fills the air, and the scene is illuminated by strong overhead lights. 4. A similar scene shows the same person in a dramatic pose with arms wide open and head tilted back, wearing the same attire. Smoke surrounds the area, and the line of riot police with shields labeled “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet” remains in the background. Debris is scattered on the ground.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
dx@social.ridetrans.it ("🚲") wrote:

ngl this Wobblies song book has a title that goes harder than most rock albums “Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent”

Song booklet that says SIXTH EDITION AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL LABOR IS ENTITLED TO ALL IT PRODUCES UNIVERSAL THE WOR LABEL SONGS TO FAN THE FLAMES OF DISCONTENT 939 Published by The Industrial Worker г. 0. Box 2129 Spokane, Washington PRICE TEN CENTS

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Boosted by jwz:
deanpreston@sfba.social ("Dean Preston") wrote:

Jacobin reports on the billionaire backlash we got for taxing the rich as San Francisco’s democratic socialist legislator.
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https://jacobin.com/2025/03/silicon-valley-vs-san-francisco-socialists


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

Urbit announced its summer acceleration program. Being made of smarmy edgelords, they called it "u/acc".

I mentioned this and someone asked wtf is an Urbit. So!!

Urbit is the OS founded by Curtis Yarvin, aka the creator of neoreaction Mencius Moldbug.

Urbit is a new paradigm for computation that combines functional programming with what happens when libertarian anarcho-capitalism goes so right-wing reactionary that it openly turns into Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s vision of neo-feudalism. And that sentence needs a Wikipedia article per jargon word.

Think "what if networked Lisp machines, but for Nazis."

Urbit isn’t useful for anything. The apps don’t work, and the ones that do work bypass the language that the functional programming vision of the system is supposedly based on.

I would call Urbit "TempleOS on the blockchain", but that makes it sound too interesting.

Urbit outdoes bitcoin for the degree to which it combines "interesting" in the sense of "what the hell even is this" and "I'm not even mad, that's amazing" with utter unfeasibility and utter uselessness.

This is what gives Urbit what little life it has: it's technically technically-interesting, but utterly unusable. Other functional programmers think it's trash. The only FPs who take it seriously are also techfash.

So Urbit has no technical merits to succeed on, and only its political cult. So it leans *hard* into that cult. Urbit's only function is as an identifier to fellow fash. Which it's serving admirably.

Only one kind of person has an Urbit. If you see a string of the format "~abcdef-ghijkl" in someone's bio (tilde, six letters, hyphen, six letters), they're that kind of person.

If you really want to understand "yes, but *why* Urbit?" "why the *fuck* Urbit?" then the answer is still Elizabeth Sandifer's book Neoreaction a Basilisk. I believe the approved method is to libgen it and *also* buy the paperback.

As we all know, the use case for social media is to get laid. So I wonder if there's pent-up neoreactionary passion just waiting to be unleashed on Urbit. I expect the incel forums there are a delight.

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EDIT: "e/acc" is short for "effective accelerationism", a condensed version of Nick Land's bad "Dark Enlightenment" ideas.

This became trendy with neoreactionaries, who tagged themselves with "e/acc". It's a reasonably reliable way of spotting incredibly blockable little shits.

It's dumb enough there's a KnowYourMeme on it:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/eacc-effective-accelerationism

so Urbit is riffing on the meme.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
nonehitwonder@tenforward.social ("None Hitwonder") wrote:

I would rather see your shittiest most half-assed napkin doodle than a single frame of your finest AI slop.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
summerfallwinter@tech.lgbt ("autumn") wrote:

@nonehitwonder

In various colored markers and in a mix of print, caps, and faux calligraphy, the text has been written on a half paper towel: "I would rather see your shittiest most half-assed napkin doodle than a single frame of your finest AI slop." There is a goo drawn dripping from the word "slop" and all the letters are a bit blurred and spread (as markers on paper towels are wont to do). The background is a wooden desk with some of the markers visible in the upper corners.

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Boosted by jwz:
MikePgh@pixelfed.social ("Michael") wrote:

Sic Semper Tyrannis. Thus Always to Tyrants.

The allegorical figure of Justice stands on a supine Trump. His red MAGA cap lies next to him.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Why I decided to go on 60 Minutes. https://open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/p/why-i-decided-to-go-on-60-minutes?r=1g77q&utm%5Fcampaign=post&utm%5Fmedium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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

[ it's about this point in most discussions about web components like this that an Over Reactor pops in and says something like "but that won't scale!", which is hilarious because the component is 5K (12 unzipped), and they're paying ~10x that for *just* a framework that *might* let them add a component...someday ]

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

This approach ends up being so small that I can inline the font definition into the component source. On my personal blog, I go further and then just inline the component definition into pages too.

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

This isn't a particularly interesting web component, and there are bugs aplenty, but the thing that might be helpful for others is the approach to using fonts for icon glyphs. This can be significantly faster than a diarrhea of SVG documents, and this system uses font subsetting to get a tiny (1.8K, 2.3 unzipped) base64 of *just* the fontawesome glyphs needed to for sharing:

https://github.com/slightlyoff/share-button/blob/main/subset.sh#L16

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

Updated my component to support Bsky and LI:

https://github.com/slightlyoff/share-button

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@slightlyoff/share-button

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

I'm a vibe coder, it's just that my vibe is

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Looks like #TheDearHunter is coming back to Europe this year at #BeProgMyFriend in Spain and #Euroblast in Germany, both in September. Alongside #TesseracT!

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jwz wrote:

"An off switch? She'll get years for that."

Vizio: "Please enjoy falling asleep to these calming nature scenes, occasionally punctuated with unhinged fascist rants. As a treat." I left the tv idle while I went to the other room to play with my dog....
https://jwz.org/b/yklh

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jwz wrote:

While trying to harass trans people, Idaho accidentally bans truck nuts.

Senate Democratic Leader Melissa Wintrow said that clause applies to replicas of scrotums hanging from people's trailer hitches. "They're gross, they're offensive and kids on the...
https://jwz.org/b/yklf

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 50mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/5.6) and the Phase One back, shifted vertically a bit to maintain geometry.

This is a straightforward composition showing the front of the Smithsonian Castle, which is not actually a castle, and, despite being part of the Smithsonian, not actually a museum, either (it houses mostly offices and a small visitor center). It sits on the National Mall, which, despite the name, is not a shopping center. Lies and deceit everywhere in DC!

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

Smithsonian "Castle", National Mall, Washington, DC, 2021.

All the pixels, even the ideologically impure ones, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51221570481/

#photography

A medium-sized castle-like building, with turrets, flags, and a clock, across a plaza.

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Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
joannalamblooby@federate.social ("Joanna Lamb Looby") wrote:

The blusters of “5D chess,” from the cognitive dissonance set, wear thinner every day.

It feels to me like we are in a very large Jenga game.

I’m getting, “I wonder what this button does?”

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

Okay, 'nuff of that.

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

Petition to change "Hello, world" examples to "It's hell world!".

Or just:

s/Hello, world/It's hell world/

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Boosted by jwz:
drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:

One of the most impactful things that non-US people can do to protest what the US is doing is to NOT TRAVEL TO THE US. Have family meet you elsewhere. Change your vacation destination. Don’t attend conferences and conventions here (go virtual instead). Vote with your wallet and your feet: don’t bring your Euros, Yens, or Pesos here.

Passenger tallies don’t lie. Hotel occupancy numbers don’t lie. Conference attendee totals don’t lie. YOUR ABSENCE WILL BE COUNTED and you will be missed.

Your withholding of your presence and your money will motivate business owners to pressure the administration to change their tune.

https://onemileatatime.com/news/airline-demand-canada-united-states-collapses/

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
uep@timeloop.cafe ("Daniel Carosone") wrote:

@mhoye like the Huygens probe sonification as it descended through the atmosphere of Titan..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4ukDbPi%5F0Gw

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

"In February, the White House announced that the WHCA would no longer be allowed to decide which journalists were assigned to cover the president on a given day. The White House itself now assigns reporters to the pool, which has raised concerns about the opportunity for the press to cover the administration without fear of retribution."

just ask the @AP

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
hannah@posts.rat.pictures ("freddi futch") wrote:

This, too, is game design

Katsura is especially outstanding for its subtle, clever placement of stepping stones, which are used as a device for controlling movement and forcing views. Certain paths, for instance, were designed so as to make walking in kimono and clogs quite difficult, forcing the visitor to look down constantly to watch his step. By coercing the eye to the ground, the designer was cleverly preparing the visitor for a special vista, to be unveiled when he looked up.

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

[insert large yellow chicken icon ]

“As a first step, I wanted to share that the WHCA board has unanimously decided we are no longer featuring a comedic performance this year,” wrote Daniels, who is also a political correspondent for MSNBC. “At this consequential moment for journalism, I want to ensure the focus is not on the politics of division but entirely on awarding our colleagues for their outstanding work and providing scholarship and mentorship to the next generation of journalists.”

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kbeninato@mstdn.party ("Karen Dalton-Beninato ☑️") wrote:

Trump getting the White House Correspondents Association to fire Amber Ruffin should end NerdProm.

They told her to target both sides, but she told the Daily Beast podcast that the administration is “kind of a bunch of murderers” and both sidesing “makes them feel like human beings, but they shouldn’t get to feel that way, cause they’re not." And that got her fired from the gig.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/wh-correspondents-fire-comedian-after-insult-on-beast-podcast/

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

"The Snarky Cat Adventure"
[ courtesy https://arghstudios.com ]

https://arghstudios.com/support/ZiggiAgain.pdf

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
SafeguardingResearch@fedihum.org ("Safeguarding Research/Culture") wrote:

The first (of many) safeguarded material from the #Smithsonian:
All 217 episodes of the Sidedoor podcast
https://sciop.net/datasets/smithsonian-pod-sidedoor

https://www.si.edu/sidedoor/

#SafeguardingResearch

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Boosted by jwz:
kate@fosstodon.org ("Kate Morley") wrote:

The beauty industry: Are you happy with your skin? Really? Have you thought about what it looks like to insects?

A photo of a woman’s face. The left side of the image is under visible light and her skin looks fine. The right side of the image is under ultraviolet light, with some darker patches on her skin, captioned “Hidden dark spots”.