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Boosted by jwz:
ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

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

the "nazi mod on fosstodon" has a defender who says

> he feels he's being unfairly characterized as a nazi for expressing certain political views

which warrants a goose chasing him going "WHAT CERTAIN POLITICAL VIEWS MOTHERFUCKER"

anyway. if you were wondering about that question, here is the thread of receipts about the fellow, Carrotcypher:

https://mastodon.social/@fedilore/114297512429411423

he's not a nazi!! he's just a MAGA anti-immigrant anti-queer anti-DEI (which is somehow different to "white supremacist misogynist") extreme conservative who hates the original Luddites for destroying the factory owners' property. and loves ChatGPT

but he doesn't technically have a swastika tattoo, or that we've seen

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
sleepless@social.lol ("Courtney") wrote:

@adam "If I do, I might just start an anonymous account somewhere and get back to talking about things I used to enjoy."

Boo freaking hoo. These guys are reprehensible for twisting this inside out and making it about how the bad people detracted from their fun. If you manage a community, it's not asking too much for accountability.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

Nobody gets more upset than a cis white dude in tech when someone calls them out on their bullshit

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

They’d rather burn it to the ground than provide a supporting environment for marginalized people. I guess that tracks.

https://mikestone.me/2025-04-28-do-what-you-love

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
SpindleyQ@gamemaking.social ("Spindley Q Frog") wrote:

When Mandrills Ruled the Heavens (Peter Watterberg, SIGGRAPH 1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33tHKY90S3M

_love_ the idea of creating clean high-quality exports of early graphics demos!

Boosted by jwz:
darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:

Just as "web log" became the even more awkward "blog", I suggest we change "newsletter" into "slet"

Then we can talk about the sletosphere, have startups like sletspot and sletlines, etc. It'll be terrible, as nature intended

Boosted by jwz:
ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

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

Scarlet tanager friend in the woods this morning. My favorite neotropical migrant. This fellow leaves no doubt that spring migration is in full swing in eastern PA. Also heard oriole, great crested flycatcher, wood thrush, veery, ovenbird and the Merlin app heard more.

It's go time!

#bird #birds #nature #BirdsOfMastodon #ScarletTanager #SpringMigration #Pennsylvania

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

If you want to sign on, there's a link here to add your name: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-leads-prominent-security-experts-urging-trump-administration-leave-chris-krebs

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

Our friends at EFF have coordinated a letter signed (thus far) by 41 cybersecurity professionals (including me) condemning the administration's unwarranted and dangerous attacks against Chris Krebs.

https://www.eff.org/document/chris-krebs-support-letter-april-28-2025

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
eniko@peoplemaking.games ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

Nobody likes a centrist. Except fascists. Fascists love centrists

Boosted by jwz:
ianb@well.com ("Ian Betteridge") wrote:

That’s a lot of cum

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
vantablack@cyberpunk.lol ("🌈 vanta rainbow black 🌈") wrote:

if you're angrier about the people raising a stink about fosstodon

than the transphobic fascist moderator they willingly harbored

you're a piece of shit who doesn't care about trans people

#fosstodon

Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

If you are having trouble understanding how dire this threat is, I urge you, urge you, to read even a few words about how IBM helped Hitler in the 30s and 40s

(NB: an early step was building a national database!)

and then imagine the computer-powered Holocaust but at the scale of 2025 technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%5Fand%5Fthe%5FHolocaust

jwz wrote:

XScreenSaver 6.10 is out now, including iOS and Android.

Four new hacks this time, just one by me: Dumpster Fire, Hopf Fibration, Platonic Folding and Klondike.

Dumpster Fire is, obviously, why I was asking for fire sim code last week, for which The Lazyweb was singularly unhelpful. But I worked it out...
https://jwz.org/b/ykm0

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:

the communities and systems you build and grow today are what comes next. don’t let anyone convince you otherwise.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

just one more nudge to the right bro. If we give up one more ideal the moderates will vote for us bro. This time'll be different bro. Just one more marginalized identity into the volcano bro. I promise bro. Please ignore one more atrocity bro. We put out fires by jumping in the flames bro.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

Of course, if personalities and circumstances were sufficiently similar these processes could be merged. The question is what this might feel like for these agents. Assuming such changes would happen when the people were sleeping it might not be noticeable.

But I’m in that controversial camp that regards breaks in consciousnesses as instantiating a new individual. Strictly speaking you exist until you sleep or lose focus. Then when you gain focus you are a new individual.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jer@hachyderm.io ("jan-erik") wrote:

THE SIGBOVIK PROCEEDINGS ARE OUT! https://sigbovik.org/2025/proceedings.pdf

/cc @skade (he was complaining)

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

@arbres I’m so sorry that happened to you. Victim-blaming is the ultimate gut punch, the lowest blow to those who are already suffering. It’s also the entire first chapter in the playbook on deflecting focus and dodging accountability. When someone blames a victim, it’s because they know they’re holding the wrong belief and they need someone *else* to feel bad about that, so they don’t have to deal with it themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
hollie@social.coop ("Hollie") wrote:

@adam Great post! If Manton had responded this way at micro.blog, I'd still be a customer.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR-Digiron-W (@ f/6.3) lens. Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50), Cambo WRS-5005 Camera (shifted vertically -22mm, pushing the limits of the lens). 16x9 crop.

This fire escape stairwell, retrofitted onto the back of Georgetown's Healy Hall, reminded me a bit of a Piet Mondrian painting. Hard afternoon shadows added to the abstract view.

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

Efficiency -- you keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/28/so-youre-telling-me-i-shouldnt-expect-my-tax-refund-check-any-time-soon/

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

Fire Escape, Georgetown, Washington, DC, 2025.

All the pixels, none of the ironwork, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54481107849

#photography

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

Isn't she pretty?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/28/long-legged-pointy-venomousmy-kind-of-girl/

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
codegouvfr@social.numerique.gouv.fr ("code.gouv.fr") wrote:

DINUM is a proud sponsor of the #Debian 2025 conference, which will take place in Brest in July.

👉 https://debconf25.debconf.org/sponsors

Not only because Debian is a GNU/Linux distribution that many French administrations use, not only because many civil servants contribute to it, and not only because the Debian project is such an amazing social achievement: it's also because we still have so much to learn from it!

📅 Btw, the CFP is still open: https://debconf25.debconf.org/cfp/

#DebConf #FreeSoftware #BlueHats

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

I’m waiting for the criticism that I’ll receive for writing this. I suspect most of it will be lumped into opinions about me as a person, or dismissive comments about “attacks”, and not so much about the actual problems at the heart of the matter.

I’m OK with being called names, but please take note of who out there will choose to make a fuss over my passion instead of what it is that I have passion *for*.

(People who criticize my ending a sentence with a preposition are all good, though.)

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

One person’s “drama” is another person’s entire life struggle. Pay close attention to the language that people use to minimize and otherize.

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

💥 Crisis Communications 101: A Crash Course for Privileged Guys in Tech

“If you don’t know what to say, then just say this: ‘Thanks for bringing this to my attention. This is a very serious concern, and it deserves to be treated seriously. I’m going to look into this, and I will respond soon.’ There, was that so hard? You didn’t admit to anything, and you didn’t have to sell your soul to the woke mob.”

https://notes.neatnik.net/2025/04/crisis-communications-101-a-crash-course-for-privileged-guys-in-tech