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

Eugenicists like to dehumanize people -- people of different ethnicities, autistic people, anyone who doesn't belong to their category of privilege. It helps that they don't know the people they want to throw in the dumpster.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/17/this-is-how-eugenicists-talk/

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

I have just posted a social media FAQ, detailing how I use social media, how I interact with folks, when I choose to block/mute people, where I am on social media, and other such stuff.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/

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WiteWulf@cyberplace.social ("Gary Parker :party_porg:") wrote:

Oh, this is interesting (and a little scary)

tl;dr don’t use SSDs for long term, offline storage. The data degrades after as little as two years without the drives being powered up

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/unpowered-ssd-endurance-investigation-finds-severe-data-loss-and-performance-issues-reminds-us-of-the-importance-of-refreshing-backups

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

AS THEY SHOULD

https://spacenews.com/bipartisan-caucus-criticizes-proposed-nasa-science-budget-cuts/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Anyone else's YouTube home page suddenly full of giant thumbnails and channels you've never heard of before? It suddenly became almost completely unusable.

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

Announcing the schedule for Real World Cryptography Paris Meetup 4!

Talks on ZK! Advanced testing for cryptographic primitives! Encrypted semantic search! And killer cryptographic audits!

All happening at Ledger's Paris HQ on April 29! Register today! https://cryptography.paris

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#Mastodon has had a nice little uptick in sign-ups and activity from #Taiwan after a facebook post recommending it as an alternative to facebook and Instagram for Taiwanese users went viral on facebook, bringing in about 20K new users over the span of two days to mastodon.social, g0v.social, m.cmx.im and a few more.

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kvuzet@kolektiva.social ("revolutionary girl erin") wrote:

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Did not know he had a middle name

jwz wrote:

Saint Acutis of Halo.

He was a kid, and now his body is coated in wax and dressed in a red track jacket, jeans, and Nikes and lies in a church in a tiny Italian hill town where people arrive on tour buses to kiss their fingers and touch the glass next...
https://jwz.org/b/ykmo

jwz wrote:

The numbers are mysterious and important.

ExponenTile:
https://jwz.org/b/ykmm

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
adamshostack@infosec.exchange ("Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:") wrote:

The most important part of CVE is not the unique number, but the funding and expertise to run a credible program that assigns a unique number. The unique number was the center of what Dave Mann called a “concordance,” and I believe this is subtle but crucial: The value of CVE is not as a database, but as a stable way to cross-reference between databases and other tools. Dave and I have had many conversations about books having an ISBN, a UPC code, a Dewey number and a Library of Congress number. They serve different goals, and are managed by different groups.

I mention the books because assigning unique numbers in a stable way is harder than you'd expect.

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

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

Harvard (with which I’ve had relatively little affiliation) has occasionally institutionally disappointed me in various ways over the years, but their strong stance against the administration’s unconscionable, fascistic bullying deserves our unqualified support and appreciation.

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

BlueSky isn’t just censoring posts in Turkey to match government demands, already happening in other countries too.

I really wish the media would stop calling it decentralised. It isn’t. It’s like calling Shell oil nature lovers, because they claim they love nature.

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kimzetter@infosec.exchange ("Kim Zetter") wrote:

Chris Krebs has quit his job at SentinalOne to launch a legal and public relations fight against Trump and the presidential memo Trump he signed against Krebs last week. "Krebs said he understood why some have kept a low profile and tried not to further anger the president. But he said he disagreed with that approach. "I don’t think this lay-low-and-hope-this-blows-over approach is the right one for the moment we’re in."

Miles Taylor who was also targeted by Trump said "the memos targeting him and Krebs were 'punishment for dissent' and that he too planned to fight back.... 'How we respond will set the tone inevitably for how others targeted by these EOs decide to respond.”

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/chris-krebs-trump-cybersecurity-executive-action-31cb99cb

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
somafm@sfba.social ("SomaFM") wrote:

Things you won't find on SomaFM:
"branded experiences"
"influencer activations"
"experiential marketing"

Things you will find:
"good music"
"no advertising"

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

Bluesky has a lot of really nice features, and there are many compelling reasons to use it. But if a government can kick you off of it, it’s not at all resilient, and it’s definitely not decentralized.

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pdbowman@social.coop wrote:

Bring Him Home artwork by Mayday Trippe
free to use noncommercially for advocacy and organizing
https://www.patreon.com/posts/126772503

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

No problem! Because Blueksy is decentralized, these users can just connect through a different relay.

Oh, wait—

#bluesky #centralized #sarcasm

https://mastodon.social/@docpop/114349307904657316

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

I would instead propose:

“Elect clowns, expect a circus.”

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

“Hire clowns, expect a circus.”

- T. Friedman

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

elections have consequences

https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/s/oUl6GCoxgl

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

something i thought would be easy but turns out to be hard: programmatically downloading images from a now-offline site through the wayback machine

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Jgbird@mas.to ("Jerome G") wrote:

Allen’s hummingbird

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

Absolute madness, middle-aged edition

RE: https://www.threads.net/@authorshaylingandhi/post/DIgwBPvNprY

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

I mean, I certainly hold this administration in contempt

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c045qg9xr30o

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

So this was mostly a play on the concept of "street photography". The street is the literal subject, but everything about it - the absence of people or any depiction of street life, the use of a heavy, tripod-laden camera, the compositional formality - defies the conventions of that genre.

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

This is a high resolution stitch of three captures with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR Digaron lens, yielding a 230 MP image with roughly the angle of view of a 14mm "full frame" rectilinear lens. The high resolution invites you to look closely for signs of life, but they remain elusive.

While this is literally a photo of the street, it's not a "street photo" at all. The empty nocturnal streetscape is completely devoid of life and human activity, though it hints at sometimes being a bustling place.

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

2AM, Adams-Morgan, Washington, DC, 2023.

All the pixels, but none of the sidewalk dining, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/52991590112

#photography