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Boosted by jwz:
MEActNOW wrote:

That's right, London!

👇🏼 London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🎯🔥

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
paulisci@mstdn.ca ("Paul Fairie") wrote:

How to write about fascism (1939)

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

Mural, Portland neighborhood, Louisville, KY

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Get in the pachinko machine, Shinji.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
bicipoiesis@layer8.space wrote:

@adam "People will come [...] to adore the technologies that undo their capacity to think." Aldous Huxley

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

this is not how US campuses are supposed to operate, students should not live in fear and should feel welcomed. this has been our strength for centuries.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rit/s/YjK4Ja7yl1

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
azonenberg@ioc.exchange ("Andrew Zonenberg") wrote:

Finally had time during some flights and family travel to work on a short SF story I've been trying to write for a while.

First time attempting something like this so hopefully it turned out decently :)

"Holding The Bag"

https://serd.es/2025/04/17/Holding-the-Bag.html

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
sarajw@front-end.social ("Sara Joy :happy_pepper:") wrote:

Gave it a little more 'zhush'

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jerry@infosec.exchange ("Wary Jerry") wrote:

@rl_dane Chris Krebs was the head of CISA, appointed by Trump back in his first term. CISA is/was responsible for election security. After the 2020 election debacle, Krebs stated, in stark contradiction of Trump’s assertions, that the election was the most secure ever and there was no evidence of fraud or hacking. Krebs since resigned and went to work for a private company.

Trump recently signed an executive order stripping Krebs of his security clearance, along with any “associates” of his, including his employer, and also directed the Dept of Justice to open an investigation into Krebs’ activities.

There’s been a lot of unmet expectations that the infosec industry would rally around Krebs and his employer who are being very unfairly targeted, and that hasn’t happened.

Most people in the infosec community individually, at least those that aren’t raging Trumpers, are well behind Krebs but that hasn’t made any difference in the situation.

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

I'm thinking my next photography project should be images of boring federal agency headquarters buildings while they still exist.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
UweHalfHand@norcal.social ("Uwe Hollerbach 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽") wrote:

@adam That’s what I see. These writing/coding assist bots do one thing and only one thing reliably: make the user’s mental muscles flabby and over time atrophy. Everything else is unreliable… but once those mental crutches are in place, it’s really hard to remove them.

taral ("JP Sugarbroad") wrote:

So I finally got set up with Bridgy Fed. Any particular Bluesky accounts I should follow?

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

Maybe if we think someone is a terrorist we should, you know, actually investigate that, and if there's something to it, put them on trial for terrorism.

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ STAR CRASH: LAU + VICE REINE at DNA Lounge tonight: Fri Apr 18, 8:30pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/04-18d.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #starcrash #vicereine #rootingforyou #fetzav #synthpop #electropop #newwave #synthwave #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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

Union Square West between 16th and 17th Streets in Manhattan is home to five distinctive and variously historically significant narrow mid-rise buildings.

The quirky Decker Building (2nd from left, at 33 Union Square West) is now chiefly residential with a retail ground floor storefront. From 1967-1973 the building housed Andy Warhol's "Factory" studio, where, in 1968, he was famously and nearly fatally shot by an irate Valarie Solanas. The neighborhood was more colorful back then.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One XT IQ4-150 camera. 12mm vertical shift to maintain geometry.

This is a straightforward head-on single point perspective view of the facades of the varied buildings on this block just after sunrise. It took some time to line up the camera to be parallel to the faces of the buildings, once again making architectural photography be something of an exercise in surveying.

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

31-41 Union Square West, NYC, 2024

All the pixels, but without the farmer's market 3 days a week, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53731622110

#photography

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
blair_fix@mastodon.online ("Blair Fix") wrote:

Speaking of fascism, I recently took a look at the frequency of fascist jargon in the Google Books corpus. What I found is startling: the rise of neo-fascist thought dates to the 1980s.

#fasicsm

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/04/15/the-deep-roots-of-fascist-thought/

Boosted by jwz:
ingridglomp@literatur.social ("Ingrid Glomp") wrote:

"The government is attempting to prove that Zuck bought Instagram and Whatsapp in order to extinguish competitors ...Zuck's CFO – one of the adults in the room, attempting to keep the boy king from tripping over his own dick – wrote to Zuck warning him that it was illegal to buy Insta in order to "neutralize a potential competitor."
Zuck replied that he was, indeed, solely contemplating buying Insta in order to neutralize a potential competitor."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/18/chatty-zucky/#is-you-taking-notes-on-a-criminal-fucking-conspiracy
by @pluralistic

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange ("Lesley Carhart :unverified:") wrote:

Just a reminder for con organizers, even outside immigration risks, this is genuinely all that is still relatively safe for gnc attendees in America, 2025.

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

Yesterday's CFPB layoffs and shutdown have been stayed, for now.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-65c7953b6d79043fc2ac58b660c3847d

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

Back when I was in college, it was the credit card companies that were predatory toward students. Now it’s the AI companies. Get them young and get them hooked. Make an entire generation of students dependent on this tech, unable to think and create for themselves, and then you’ll have customers for life. Not out of loyalty, but out of necessity.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

It does work beautifully with the Apple Studio Display, though. (Not that I would recommend it for most PC users, but I already have it right here.) But the laptop’s power consumption is too high for the “mere” 96W the display can deliver over Thunderbolt.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I’m surprised at how loud modern PC business laptops still are. This ThinkPad whirs audibly when it’s basically idle, and its CPU benchmarks almost identically to my Mac Studio’s M1 Max. Yes, better GPU, but man, it’s a relative power hog.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Richard_Littler ("Richard Littler") wrote:

"'[Autistic people] will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date,' Kennedy said"
1. I pay taxes.
2. I ran 5km this morning.
3. My poetry has been published.
4. I've been on dates; I'm married.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/04/17/rfk-jr-autism-children/?utm%5Fcampaign=wp%5Fmain&utm%5Fsource=threads,twitter&utm%5Fmedium=social

#ASD #Autism @actuallyautistic

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

I say it is tribbles

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
rmondello@hachyderm.io ("Ricky Mondello") wrote:

Mitchflowerpower got the first sub 50 minute time in SMB3 any% warpless in a legendary speedrun. If you have any history with this game, it is so worth a watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6BibwdX%5F%5Fo

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
aram@aoir.social ("Aram Sinnreich") wrote:

If you're angry, or scared, or hurting, or morally revolted by the wanton cruelty and reckless destruction of Trump and Musk, get back out on streets tomorrow and show it.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/04/17/50501-protests-on-april-19-target-trump-stock-market-tariffs-jobs-elon-musk-doge-protests-trump/83138977007/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ian@mastodon.radio ("Ian") wrote:

Largely thanks to the efforts of Steve M1SDH, Field Spotter now has support for Bunkers on the Air! One person is out braving the weather already by the looks of it. Enable Bunkers from the Filter menu to see the spots. https://fieldspotter.radio/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
g7izu@universeodon.com ("G7IZU RRD") wrote:

Space Weather

Aurora Alert: Mid-latitude aurora is being reported by amateur radio operators down to ~49°N over Europe.

Caveat: I'm not currently seeing this activity reflected in actual geomagnetic data.

Follow live: https://www.tvcomm.co.uk/g7izu/radio-propagation-maps/auroral-propagation/

#spaceweather
#aurora
#amateurradio