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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It’s #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

#HandsOff #FrankChu #Retrojenicul

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
iFixit wrote:

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#iFixit #FixWithForce #AprilFools

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
scottwillsey@social.lol ("Scott Willsey") wrote:

Boy, I don’t know, John. I think it’s ok to call Microsoft on their bullshit on this one.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/04/05/microsoft-50-employee-protests

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

You'll notice that each site operated on multiple frequency pairs across the HF spectrum. This was for two reasons. First, each channel could only handle one call at a time, and so this allowed for more simultaneous traffic. Second, not all frequency bands were usable (due to atmospheric and geomagnetic conditions) at any given time. So in practice, at most half a dozen or so ships PER OCEAN could use the system at any moment.

Multiple transmitters shared the antennas using tuned combiners.

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

By the way, here's what I believe was the final published frequency list and schedule for the AT&T high seas service, (a souvenir of one of my visits to the station before it went off the air).

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

I should note that while the site (and its cousins) had a number of large discone antennas like this one, they were mostly there as backups in case the main antennas (which included truly massive wire rhombics oriented toward various oceanic regions) or transmitter combiners failed.

The old Bell System did not mess around.

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

Ships on the high seas still occasionally make some use of shortwave radio, but its importance has greatly diminished over the last few decades. The Coast Guard still maintains a "watch" on emergency shortwave frequencies, listening for distress calls, but most transoceanic ships are now equipped with more modern, higher-bandwidth satellite communications systems.

Places like this are what the Internet looked like a century ago. Infrastructure is often heroic, and occasionally looks the part.

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

There were three AT&T radiotelephone sites in the continental US, each with its own transmit and receive antenna farms: Ocean Gate, NJ (shown here, serving the North Atlantic), Miami (serving the Caribbean and the Gulf), and Point Reyes, CA (serving the Pacific).

All the sites have by now been razed, either for redevelopment or as nature preserves. The antennas (including this one) are mostly gone now.

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

Captured with a DSLR and a 24mm shifting lens.

During the 20th century, AT&T operated a shortwave "radiotelephone" service for vessels on the high seas. Ships could contact an operator, who could connect them with any landline telephone number they wished.

The North Atlantic station, callsign WOO, occupied expansive transmit and receive "antenna farms" in marshlands near the shore in central New Jersey.

Rendered obsolete by satellites, the service ceased operation on November 9, 1999.

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

Shortwave "Discone" Antenna, Former AT&T High Seas Transmitter Site, Ocean Gate, NJ, 20009.

All the pixels, none of the static, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4141766569

#photography

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
Rasp@raru.re ("💜 AdoraBeryl 🩷") wrote:

boost this cat when they least expect it

Boosted by jwz:
sfpodge@famichiki.jp ("patrick m.") wrote:

By far, the best protest sign I’ve seen from the #HandsOff protest —

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
deliaturner@mindly.social ("howrawhowrue :verified:") wrote:

In other news, two 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo produced four living hatchlings, and I for one am thrilled. #zoo #tortoise

https://www.philadelphiazoo.org/news/four-critically-endangered-galapagos-tortoises-hatch-at-philadelphia-zoo/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
StaceyCornelius@zeroes.ca ("Stacey Cornelius 🇨🇦") wrote:

"Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change."

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

#HandsOff

Boosted by jwz:
CosmicTraveler ("The Flight Attendant") wrote:

My favorite #protest sign in Las Vegas today. #indivisible #50501movement #handsOff #impeachTrump

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

oh, the light! the light!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nazgul@infosec.exchange ("Kee Hinckley") wrote:

When old Soviet Union jokes are applicable to the US, you know something has gone terribly wrong.

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

#Detroit Invests #Opioid Settlement Funds in Expanding Recovery #Housing: A Step Toward Stabilizing Lives, Not Just Managing Addiction. Democrats govern. https://michiganchronicle.com/detroit-invests-opioid-settlement-funds-in-expanding-recovery-housing-a-step-toward-stabilizing-lives-not-just-managing-addiction/ #Michigan

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

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff%5Fof%5FAbominations for more on 1828

https://federated.press/@The%5FIcarian/114282460094256528

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

“The airport at Winton, Australia’s dinosaur capital, recorded 158mm on 26 March, 56mm higher than the previous daily rainfall record for March. A day later, 177mm fell at Dillalah station, off the Mitchell Highway about 700km west of Brisbane, breaking its record by 31mm. The pastoral lease received so much rain throughout March – 417mm in total – it nearly doubled its monthly rain record.”

https://mastodon.social/@jockr/114287345340939841

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jockr ("Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴") wrote:

How historic is what we’re seeing in the Queensland floods? It’s hard to grasp the full magnitude | Queensland | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/06/how-historic-is-what-were-seeing-in-the-queensland-floods-its-hard-to-grasp-the-full-magnitude

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
micahflee@infosec.exchange ("Micah Lee") wrote:

Made a new sign!

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

“The American government dwarfs other nations’ rescue capacity in experience, capacity and heavy machinery able to pull people alive from rubble. But in Myanmar after the most recent quake, the U.S. has distinguished itself for having no known presence on the ground beyond a three-member assessment team sent days after the quake.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/myanmar-earthquake-us-rescuers-absent-usaid-rcna199823

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
KimPerales@toad.social ("Kim Perales") wrote:

“So #Rubio did send 3 #USAID team members to assess the terrible earthquake in Burma, & then fired them while they were there.

Whether you think America should or shouldn't help ppl in need around the world, there’s no justification for such stupidity.”
-Rep Malinowski

“US team in quake zone told they’re fired.

The disaster assess team sent to Myanmar for the US received term notices while staying/sleeping outside -USAID WKRs were told on an all hands call today.”
-L Desjardins
#USPol #Sadism

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

I believe the technical term is “banana whackos”

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

I believe the technical term is “banana whacko”

https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/NulUNjKAKe

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

wait, wut?

‘The Department of Agriculture is no longer allowed to use the phrase “safe drinking water.”’

https://newrepublic.com/post/193395/agriculture-department-ban-words-safe-drinking-water

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
MidniteMikeWrites@zirk.us wrote:

@CassandraVert @alberto_cottica @pluralistic

Yes. People like Hayek were right about markets being information engines, but wrong about the contents of that information. Because market capitalism serves to maximize profits companies function by creating ignorance about costs & products so premiums can be charged. Rather than explicitly solve distribution problems, markets under capitalism “solve” for exploiting (and creating) information asymmetry.

https://misaligned.markets/corponomics-lethal-econ-kung-fu/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
Mrfunkedude ("Mr. Funk E. Dude") wrote:

Don't. Make. Me.