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claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

Every finance person I ask about what's happening lately:

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

Precisionism, a roughly century-old modernist American art movement related to cubism, is a strong influence here. Its practitioners included Joseph Stella, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Demuth. Paul Strand was probably the most prominent precisionist photographer.

Precisionism is concerned with structure and geometry as well as the relationship between humans, machines, and the industrial landscape.

I'm interested in how the precisionists might interpret the world as it's become today.

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

These (de-electrified) catenary wires were captured with a Sinar P camera and a 240mm lens on Polaroid 55 film (scanned) along the former Pennsylvania Railroad's "high line" in west Philadelphia near the university.

This abstract composition references a 1936 painting, "Electrification", by precisionist artist Ralston Crawford; see https://hirshhorn.si.edu//collection/artwork/?edanUrl=edanmdm:hmsg%5F72.75

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

De-Electrification, Philadelphia, PA, 2005.

All the pixels, none of the rust, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/2155416560

#photography

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
rafial@hackers.town ("Wilhelm Fitzpatrick") wrote:

Transformational technologies like microcomputers and smartphones were so obviously useful that rank and file workers were smuggling them into their workflows despite the best efforts of CEOs to stop them.

The "transformational" technology of LLMs is so obviously anti-useful that CEOs must resort to threats and coercion to get their rank and file workers to go anywhere near them.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
mei@donotsta.re wrote:

current status: clicked on a video about Japanese and got so impressed with the content that I'm now meta-watching it as a case study on how to teach things well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMRCLH%5FHfUU

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

The Acting Director of the SEC is looking to rescind or modify even more previous crypto guidance based on “recommendations from DOGE”.

And the agency has dropped even more investigations and lawsuits, including against Trump business partner Crypto​.com.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

Boosted by jwz:
hannu_ikonen@zeroes.ca ("Hannu Ikonen, MD") wrote:

"Roberts sides with Cronus, stays the order barring Cronus from the eating of his children.

Does not rule on merit of infanticide broadly.

Merely that the court of Publilius Syrus lacks standing.

Spokesperson for Cronus releases statement confirming that devouring of his youth will resume with haste."

Boosted by jwz:
dansinker@omfg.town ("Dan Sinker") wrote:

It’s OK I’m sure we didn’t need coffee, bananas, literally all electronics, or the rule of law anyway.

jwz wrote:

Least surprising replies to this post:

"Do you know of a shop that will provide this service?"

"My understanding is that most major cities have shops that will provide this service. I am smart and helpful."

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

if true, glad they had the integrity to resign

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/08/us/trump-news-tariffs?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

Hawt

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

Them: Can you explain this gap in your résumé?

Me: I spent six hours formatting it in Google Docs and you’ve opened it in Word.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

[IDIOT] Dr. Oz spends first meeting as head of Medicare Services promoting dumping humans and letting AI avatars replace frontline health care
workers

https://www.wired.com/story/dr-oz-ai-health-care-medicare-cms-town-hall/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

After the judge's order to the White House, which goes into effect Sunday, to lift restrictions on the Associated Press, an AP writer and photographer were denied access to this evening’s in-town pool coverage of President Trump's appearance at the NRCC dinner.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Pass the bong

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

The internet doesn't defend itself. Join the fight for a free and open web by becoming a member with EFF today. https://www.eff.org/join

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

People who reduce human motivations to pure economics will always be wrong about cultural and political trends.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social ("Meanwhile in Canada") wrote:

Headline in the Toronto Star.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:

Sidenote to previous boost: it's a bit criminal that @jgreig has less than 300 followers on here.

If you're in or around the Cybers, you should follow him.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
tsturm@famichiki.jp ("Thomas Sturm") wrote:

People who have assistants doing their email for them making all-encompassing optimistic pronouncements about how easy it is to manufacture a 21st-century electronic device should very much shut the fuck up.

So tired of having people that never in their life had been interested in anything but money think they know how anything works.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

The sky on the way home after a two-week book tour. It's nice to be back. And for the next couple of days, I'm gonna introvert like you would not believe.

Boosted by jwz:
stavvers@masto.ai ("Another Angry Woman") wrote:

Do I know any tattoo artists who wanna do cancer scar jobs because I've just figured out what I want around my scar and it's "this place is not a place of honour, no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here, nothing valued is here".

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jbhall56@infosec.exchange ("Jeff Hall - PCIGuru :verified:") wrote:

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workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:

#OtD 8 Apr 2013 former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died. Street parties spontaneously broke out across the country. Pictured: Thatcher being welcomed to hell by one of her good friends and supporters, serial paedophile Jimmy Savile https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10766/margaret-thatcher-dies

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

Band of feathers

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
tgpo@social.linux.pizza ("1hitsong") wrote:

Early, early, alpha preview of an upcoming #Roku on #Jellyfin feature.

This is the start of allowing users to select every color used in the channel.

Shhhhh! Don't tell anyone.

...or do, I don't care 🤘

Attachments:

• video: A user of Jellyfin on Roku changes the background color of the channel, a feature that currently isn't possible.

Boosted by jwz:
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

can the Twitter economists who earned their MBA in the comments section please explain how America is gonna conjure a billion-dollar iphone factory out of topsoil and masculine vibes. Is the plan to just yell “made in USA” at a cornfield until Tim Cook appears

jwz wrote:

Most predictable outcome ever of this post: The people telling me that the things I think are bad are Good Actually.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Just dropping this here for you all.

https://youtu.be/fnvke44Rps4