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denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

oops, I purchased another domain

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jake4480@c.im ("Jake in the desert") wrote:

Don't make Poliwhirl do the dishes. Help Poliwhirl with the dishes.

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bodil@treehouse.systems ("Bodil") wrote:

With Andor s2 about to drop, it's good to keep in mind that in spite of popular assumptions, the Galactic Empire isn't based on the Nazis. George Lucas was very explicit that it's in fact supposed to represent the United States.

https://www.cbr.com/george-lucas-vietnam-war-star-wars-inspiration/

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

Attachments:

• gifv: looping animation of woven sphere using inverse mercator

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

look, moore's law clearly states that AI line goes up and to the right forever and also i get a hot robot girlfriend who really loves me

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timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

I'm a big fan of 404, both the quality of the writing and reporting and of their business structure, as exemplified in this piece. Check 'em out if you haven't already.

How 404 Media Is Navigating 'Economic Headwinds' https://www.404media.co/how-404-media-is-navigating-economic-headwinds/

jwz wrote:

You will be shocked to learn that the password was 1234. "We take this matter seriously and are working as fast as we can to respond to the situation." https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/19/us%5Fcrosswalk%5Fbutton%5Fhacking/

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slowcraft@pagan.plus ("grey") wrote:

we got back from our trip on sunday night and i imagine that i will be recovering for awhile. i’m slowly sorting through my experiences and photos to share. those 4 days felt like 2 weeks.

in the meantime, here’s a banana slug doing its thing

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clayton@social.coop ("Clayton Dewey") wrote:

First butterfly of the season, a Sagebrush White (Pontia beckerii).

There was a whole group of them feeding on Western Tansymustards.

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nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

Mom: "It costs nothing to be polite."

Billionaire Techbro: "Actually..."

Me: boo 😒 hoo. The environmental impact of this mess is unbelievable and sad

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

https://medium.com/@kaiqueperezz/is-styled-components-reaching-the-end-of-the-road-e58084486667

Unbelievable! #React #CssInJs

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brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

Here’s a poem for Earth Day. It’s called ‘Birdsong’.

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

Adding the Moynihan Hall was a welcome improvement to Penn Station, but didn't address the main problem, which is insufficient capacity for the number of trains that run through it. There aren't enough tracks, the platforms are too narrow, and the tunnels entering and leaving the station have too limited capacity. These more fundamental constraints will be much harder to solve, because the underground area around the station is already heavily crowded.

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mothninja@mastodon.world ("Anna") wrote:

"A huge 89% majority of the world’s people want stronger action to fight the climate crisis but feel they are trapped in a self-fulfilling “spiral of silence” because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority, research suggests.

Making people aware that their pro-climate view is, in fact, by far the majority could unlock a social tipping point and push leaders into the climate action so urgently needed, experts say."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/22/activate-climate-silent-majority-support-supercharge-action

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

Moynihan Hall occupies part of what had been New York's main post office building, a block west of the original Penn Station. It was situated over the tracks, with access to platforms, to facilitate Railway Post Office mail delivery, which was common into the 1970's. After the post office moved its sorting operations elsewhere, it was relatively straightforward to repurpose it as an extension of the adjacent railroad station, which is why it only took the better part of 50 years.

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

Many of the design elements of the new hall pay deliberate homage to the original, befittingly grand, Penn Station, including especially the prominently exposed steel beams.

There are no seats in the main hall, though there are smaller ticketed waiting areas to the side, as well as a substantial food court. The lack of a "big board" is deliberate, to discourage crowding in any particular area (there is instead a collection of smaller train status monitors spread throughout the hall).

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 23mm/5.6 HR-Digaron lens and the Phase One IQ4-150 XT camera. The 23mm Digaron is a sharp wide lens, but doesn't really have a large enough image circle to support extensive movements (which weren't required here). Captured from the balcony on the south side of the station.

The Moynihan Train Hall is a recently-opened annex (repurposed from the Post Office) to the otherwise dungeon-like remnants of the old Penn Station, buried under Madison Square Garden since 1963.

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

Moynihan Train Hall, Pennsylvania Station, NYC, 2021.

Too many pixels, not enough platform space, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51205135362/

#photography

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m2m@sonomu.club ("Simone S") wrote:

80 years ago today, #Sachsenhausen was liberated. Unbeknownst to my family, my grandfather had been there for 4 years (they thought he was dead after fascists deported him), but luckily managed to escape a few days before the Marches of Death.

When he arrived in my hometown, people struggled to recognise him. He spoke about his ordeal only in 1986, forty years later.

My point of view around the search for his story:

https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/after-1989-full-story/

#WWII

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nedbat@hachyderm.io ("Ned Batchelder") wrote:

@dabeaz @neoluddite @brandon_rhodes The most misunderstood aspect of the GoF book is it was meant to be descriptive, not prescriptive.

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

Apple’s “1984” commercial, but the guy on the screen is proselytizing the next generation of AI, the audience are people who don’t know how to function without AI, and the woman hurling the sledgehammer is fucking tired of everything.

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

Watch the CEO of Cluely use his product to assist with such challenging tasks as *checks notes* saying how old he is and what he does for a living.

Then watch him read verbatim from an LLM-generated script, passing off someone else’s words as his own. On a first date.

The video ends with the tagline: “Cluely: Invisible AI to Cheat on Exams”.

So, yeah. Fun times ahead, I guess.

https://xcancel.com/im%5Froy%5Flee/status/1914061483149001132

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

Moving between Windows and Mac daily—between ⌘S and ^S, Home/End and ⌘←/⌘→, etc.—is going to kill me. I'm going back to CP/M and WordStar.

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

Let's play "find the bird!"

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/22/earth-day-or-is-it-air-day/

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amit@social.lol ("Amit Gawande :verified_coffee:") wrote:

Introducing Square 101 : https://amitgawande.com/blog/2025/introducing-square-101

TL;DR: I'm starting a newsletter called "Square 101," where each issue is a short (500 words), sharp introduction to terms you hear often but no one ever explains. You can subscribe to the newsletter or follow it here on the blog. I will send the first issue on May 1st and post a new one o...

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annie@social.lol wrote:

@adam 🤮

“Finally a team of lady colleagues who never get tired of listening to my bullshit and let me hit on them.”

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bendaubney@social.lol ("Ben Daubney :prami:") wrote:

It is @rtfm's birthday today.

I sent him this card.

Please congratulate him and feel just as old as I am.

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

Some people look for flowers or birds, but my sign of spring is a few strands of silk on a random bar of metal.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/22/spidersign/

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Hey_Beth@sfba.social ("Hey Beth") wrote:

OMG.

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Shrigglepuss@godforsaken.website ("Shrig 🐌") wrote:

White supremacy gave us the classics like the gender binary and heteronormativity. Understanding and dismantling the whiteness in our communities is *crucial* towards liberation for all