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

5 Thurloe Square ("The Thin House"), London, UK, 2024

All the pixels, bigger on the inside than outside, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54192985864

#photography

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
torproject ("The Tor Project") wrote:

🚨Double your impact!
Donate today and your gift will be matched 1:1 up to $15,000. Thanks to @wseltzer and Thomas Roessler, @mattblaze,
@aspirationtech, Sarah Gran, and other Tor contributors.

That means if you donate $25 now, the Friends of Tor will match your gift by donating $25, doubling your impact to a total of $50.
https://torproject.org/donate/donate-md-sc2025

Boosted by jwz:
mayintoronto@beige.party ("May Likes Toronto") wrote:

Happy May Day! If you own 2 properties or fewer, you're among the worker class.

Go take an extra long poop on company time or something. Or talk to people about unionizing.

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

Despite what some stupid ass just said to my instance administrator, Democrats are not “pushing” Gavin Newsom for 2028. He might be but not Democrats.

I keep telling y’all. Black folks, the actual Dem party faithful base, will be deciding who the 2028 nominee is and it won’t be him. Deal with it.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
EmilySchnall@mastodon.art ("Emily Schnall✨Commissions Open") wrote:

The National Parks Oracle Deck is live on Backerkit!!✨🎉

If you like National Parks, tarot, or just the natural world please check this out! I got to draw so many gosh darn critters for this and I seriously think you will love it as much as I do 🌿 🐸

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/honey-scamps/national-parks-oracle-deck?ref=bk%5Flaunch%5Fparty

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

There's a side to physics that is more like speculative theology than real science.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/01/i-wish-i-could-make-stuff-up-and-call-it-science/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
parismarx@mastodon.online ("Paris Marx") wrote:

AI slop is proliferating across social media platforms, but how do the people behind it actually make money?

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @jasonkoebler to discuss the economy of AI slop and how it’s changing social media platforms.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/274%5Fhow%5Fbrainrot%5Fai%5Fis%5Fupending%5Fthe%5Finternet%5Fw%5Fjason%5Fkoebler

#tech #ai #artificialintelligence #generativeai #aislop #facebook #socialmedia

Attachments:

• video: 51ada15e3f84c098.mp4

Boosted by Mastodon:
haubles@hachyderm.io ("hannah aubry") wrote:

I’m proud to be joining @Mastodon’s Board of Directors to guide and support this important platform.

I believe that #Mastodon and the #Fediverse represent some of the most important advancements in social networking design and technology. They have the potential to reverse the harms wrought by the monolithic social media platforms of yesterday.

But even more than that, Mastodon and the Fediverse can be so much more than what we are against. We have so much potential. I believe in all of our power to build and change the world. We start by building and convening in healthier online communities because our strength together is far more than the sum of our differences. I believe in building technologies that help bring out the best in humanity; I believe in the amazing things we can do and be when we work together.

I love Mastodon. I love what we are and what we will be. Now let’s build a better world together 💞

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
todb@infosec.exchange ("Tod Beardsley") wrote:

If you have a lunchtime gap in your #RSAC schedule today (like me), Lawyers for Good Government and the Bar Association of San Francisco are gathering at the Phillip Burton Federal Building Plaza just down the road from Moscone. It's a pretty easy walk/MUNI ride, and it's not just for #lawyers. Starts at noon.

https://lawdayofaction.org

SF Specific for #RSAC peeps:

https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v5/event/law-day-of-action-rally-san-francisco

Austin Specific for @AustinHackers back home:

https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v5/event/austin-stands-for-the-rule-of-law

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

Environmental factors have induced a trans-fating event that has turned me into a different species of being.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/01/oh-no-im-an-accountant/

Mastodon wrote:

You can also expect to see us sharing more about the project outside of the Fediverse (in places like LinkedIn or YouTube) - this is so that more people can hear about a better, decentralised and more user-oriented alternative to legacy platforms.

Mastodon wrote:

In the coming weeks, we'll be using this account to share a wider range of posts about what we're working on - events we're attending, updates from team members, and so on. You can also follow the core engineering team @MastodonEngineering and if you have an account on mastodon.social or mastodon.online (the two instances we operate) you can follow @staff

Mastodon wrote:

Hello! We're the team that builds and supports Mastodon, alongside the community. Today, we wanted to share an update on our organisation. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jepyang@wandering.shop ("jnpegay") wrote:

I’m at the pagan festival

I’m at the labor uprising

I’m at the combination pagan festival and labor uprising

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

After declining COBRA coverage earlier this week (because I now have other coverage), my monthly payment was deducted anyway today, because merely declining coverage does not cancel an autopayment. Good times.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:

"Third Party Cookies Must Be Removed" has been published as a W3C Draft finding by @tag

"Third-party (AKA cross-site) cookies are harmful to the web, and must be removed from the web platform. This finding explains why they must be removed, and examines the challenges in removing them. We highlight some use cases that depend on third-party cookies and offer some examples of designed-for-purpose technologies that can replace them."
https://w3ctag.github.io/web-without-3p-cookies/

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

Reading about all the businesses and associations in the UK now feeling empowered to come out with these transphobic exclusion policies is deeply depressing and anger-provoking. What a hate filled little island we are.

Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

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

Just registered for PHPverse – a free virtual event to celebrate 30 years of PHP happening on Tuesday, 17 June.

https://lp.jetbrains.com/phpverse-2025/

#PHP #PHPverse

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
macrumors ("MacRumors.com") wrote:

Apple VP Referred for Criminal Contempt After 'Outright Lies' in Epic Games Ruling https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/01/apple-vp-criminal-contempt-outright-lies-epic-case/?utm%5Fsource=dlvr.it&utm%5Fmedium=mastodon

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
scy@chaos.social wrote:

TIL: The European Union Public License.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%5FUnion%5FPublic%5FLicence

Looks pretty decent actually!

• OSI and FSF approved
• copyleft
• SaaS clause (like the AGPL)
• explicitly compatible with several copyleft licenses to allow EUPL code to be integrated into GPL, AGPL, LGPL, OSL, MPL etc. projects
• based on European law
• available in 23 languages, all with the same validity

#EUPL #EuropeanUnion #software #license #FLOSS #OpenSource #licensing

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
vagina_museum@masto.ai ("Vagina Museum") wrote:

There are in fact lots of parts in lots of animals which are given various names, but *could* all meaningfully be called a vagina. Rachel M. Keeffe and vagina research rockstar Patricia Brennan have compiled this helpful table on various names given to these organs.

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

🤓

https://toutesdesfemmes.fr/nileane-dorffer-elue-presidente/

Boosted by jwz:
stevenrosenthal@mastodon.online ("Steven Rosenthal") wrote:

Totally not Photoshopped

Boosted by jwz:
Xenofact@www.xenofact.com wrote:

The Map Isn’t The Territory But It Is Art

https://www.xenofact.com/2025/05/01/the-map-isnt-the-territory-but-it-is-art/

Boosted by jwz:
hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange ("Lesley Carhart :unverified:") wrote:

The most millennial post ever

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
tofugolem ("Tofu Golem") wrote:

It's such a mystery.

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

The most exciting thing about making good software now is that nobody does, but they all could, and so you can treat reviews like they fell off a Cisco truck.

(pun intended)

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

🗞️ News from #omgdotlol: Make a difference in May https://omglol.news/2025/05/01/make-a-difference-in-may

This month we’re doing something very different with how we support charities, made possible with the incredible generosity of one of our members. :prami_happy:

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

The U.S. economy shrank -0.3% in Q1 and tariffs didn’t even start until March. To every Trump fan who tells you they didn’t sign up for this, never forget…

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

Just sayin, QTs provide attribution, and where are we, really, without attribution?

https://www.theverge.com/news/658932/google-play-store-lost-half-apps