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andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

The stock market can only hurt you if you believe in it.

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

Apparently a helicopter crash in the Hudson River near Houston Street.

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yetiinabox@todon.nl ("Will Tuladhar-Douglas") wrote:

#ttrpg
#scifi

Folks, I have a child who is looking for play testers for a _hard_ sci fi RPG system - real physics, optimistic and thoroughly decolonial politics. ("well, it's not optimistic if half the world gets nuked", they said.)

It is not another capitalist warmongers in space hard SciFi system.

If anyone's interested, please contact me by DM and I will put you in touch.

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

I want good tech to eat bad tech. Specifically, I'd like to see a green hydrogen powered cremation chamber that we can use to incinerate the words "innovation" and "agentic".

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ewie@social.lol ("evie") wrote:

hey yall! the site got a new update! it’s powered by @lume and i set up a whole new system to one-click post stuff to the site using @drafts, and i’ve been using it! i’m really going back to the cohost experience, and i gotta say: it’s kinda working.

https://ewie.online/posts/20250410-i-made-a-new-system-/

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anthracite@dragon.style ("Gracious Anthracite") wrote:

so four fucking Dem quislings in the House VOTED FOR THE 'SAVE' ACT, which will require you to present a birth certificate with your full, current name to vote. Transed your gender and changed your name? Won't work. Got married and changed your last name? No vote.

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/house-passes-save-act-voter-suppression-law/

Theoretically it doesn't have much of a chance in the Senate but that also requires a fillibuster and I do not trust the Dems to even bother with that. I'm filling out the form for a birth certificate amendment right now.

(Is one of these supposedly-Democrat motherfuckers your rep? Reps. Jared Golden (Maine), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Henry Cuellar (Texas) and Ed Case (Hawaii). Give 'em HELL.)

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gleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:

Good news if you're a super rich tax cheat!

In the rare cases when the IRS has enough resources to audit you and detect your fraud, there will still be no one to enforce the law. Trump's DoJ is shutting down the entire tax division.

"If you make more than, say, a million dollars a year, paying taxes is probably going to be voluntary going forward.

"It’s a new feature of billionairedom."

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-to-shutter-doj-tax-division/sharetoken/630d3e6c-3dde-40dc-8103-84d937693225

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alexcox ("Alex Cox") wrote:

I love Balatro. I don’t think I’ve loved a game this much in a decade. I’ve also never been so bad at a game I love this much (OK, Spelunky, but let’s agree that doesn’t count).

I really want to get better at this game, but even if I don’t it doesn’t take away the unbridled joy of the (at least…) hour a day I spend playing.

Please play Balatro and help me get better at it. It’s on every platform and OS.

https://www.playbalatro.com

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
anaisfae@mastodon.art ("Anaïs Faë") wrote:

Fairytale

#art #watercolor #birds

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
lattera@bsd.network ("Shawn Webb") wrote:

@mattblaze Volunteer election poll worker here: working the polls is an amazing experience!

Seeing the lengths people will go to in order to cast their vote is simultaneously humbling and inspiring.

I highly recommend anyone who is able to volunteer. You learn a lot about the behind-the-scenes of your elections while serving your neighbor.

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OffTheBooks@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Off The Books") wrote:

I’ve got a tariff work around, hear me out:

They can bring back #Nintendo Power magazine for just one year of quarterly issues. The subscription fee is $450 for the whole year, but it comes with a *FREE OF CHARGE* Switch 2.

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

I use the National Academies report as the main text for my election integrity and technology course. It's a really good, highly accessible overview. Definitely recommended.

Finally, if you're at DefCon in August, stop by the Voting Village.

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tylersticka@social.lol ("Tyler Sticka") wrote:

If a designer was interested in following more designer-developers / design engineers / folks who design in the browser for inspiration, whose work would you point them to?

#WebDesign

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
bixfrankonis@social.lol ("Bix") wrote:

#StLouis! You’re up tonight. Will you get #SoulCoughing to play #Wichita4Slowdog?

https://play.wichita.for.slow.dog

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
playdate@panic.com ("Playdate") wrote:

A quick little note on how Playdate Catalog has done in the last two years: we're happy and proud to say we've paid out $1,043,186.85 to our amazing game developers. It delights and inspires us whenever we see someone make their first game for Playdate 💛

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

- My top suggestion: Become an election day poll worker! It's an important service and you'll learn a ton!

- This National Academies report is the best overall summary of election security which I'm aware, and despite being published in 2018 is still current: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25120/securing-the-vote-protecting-american-democracy

- Here's a paper outlining the technical issues and solutions: https://georgetownlawtechreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/4.2-p505-522-Blaze.pdf

- I gave a talk at Columbia last year on the state of election security: https://www.cs.columbia.edu/distinguished-lectures/2024-Fall/Matt%5FBlaze.mp4

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

Election security is back in the news, and it's easy to be taken in by confident but specious claims of "hacked elections". There *are* technical vulnerabilities in US election infrastructure, but fortunately so far there's no credible evidence they've been exploited to alter an election outcome. I know that's frustrating, but it's the reality we live in.

Want to learn more? Read on.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible") wrote:

Why did they vote to eliminate online and mail-in voter registration? Why did they choose to restrict access to the ballot instead of protecting it?

H.R. 22 would disproportionately impact married women who have changed their last names, naturalized citizens, military members, and tribal citizens. Similar laws in Kansas and Arizona have blocked thousands of eligible voters from registering. No Democrat should support this dangerous legislation.

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

This was an opportunistic capture from a hotel balcony, made with a small camera and 90mm lens. I made several exposures, waiting for good light, which came out briefly for this one.

The wrong gear is definitely better than nothing, but still not as good as the right gear. This is a perfectly acceptable image, but I can't look at it without wishing I had used a view camera, a higher resolution sensor, and a slightly longer lens. But if I had insisted on that, I'd have no image at all.

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

Marina, San Diego, CA, 2012.

All the pixels, none of the docking fees, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/8270972060

#photography

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JenMsft ("Jen Gentleman") wrote:

Gonna tell kids these were ketchup and mustard dispensers

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

https://archive.is/TFiKP At a recent SF show Jello Biafra performed "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" after name-dropping Trump and Musk, then after getting back on stage from a crowd dive, said "and fuck [new SF mayor] Daniel Lurie too". The SF Chronicle's writeup of this initially quoted that, then pulled it, and appears to have made multiple tweaks to the wording and headline since. Not atypical for papers to do this just funny and sad that the mayor is getting such careful treatment here.

jwz wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jyTD6L6z7w

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bleuje@mathstodon.xyz ("Etienne Jacob") wrote:

I combined voronoi cells with a loop idea from Yugemaku

Attachments:

• gifv: looping animation with pushed voronoi cells in circular movement

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Ttubretep@mstdn.social ("Ziggy Sawdust") wrote:

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invalidname ("Chris Adamson") wrote:

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

Attachments:

• video: Ambassador Spock responding to a demand under duress that he read a false statement written for him by Commander Sela. SPOCK: I will not read this or any other statement. SELA: If you do not, you will die. All of you will die. SPOCK: Since it is logical to conclude that you will kill us in any event, I choose not to cooperate. SELA: I hate Vulcans.

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jwz wrote:

Just one more centralized service bro, just one more single-source unmodifiable app bro, just one more monolithic server farm operated in secret by a single corporation bro, this time we'll get it right bro...

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

The hype has reached crisis levels -- now government stewards of the environment are claiming that we don't need to protect species, because Colossal will just bring them back, despite the fact that Colossal has never resurrected an extinct species.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/10/oh-godno-dire-wolves-have-not-been-brought-back-from-extinction/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
tammy@webperf.social ("Tammy Everts") wrote:

This month's performance hero is a person after my own heart – someone who is passionate about building a secure, accessible, performant web for EVERYONE, and who always leads with a deep compassion for users. Let's all join in celebrating Alex Russell (@slightlyoff)!

https://www.speedcurve.com/blog/performance-hero-alex-russell/

#webperf #ux #javascript #js

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

Ah, looks like the markets remembered today who was still in the White House