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

oh lord, the situation with Signal & the Trumpsters is worst than I had thought

https://micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-obscure-unofficial-signal-app-mike-waltz-uses-to-text-with-trump-officials/

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RikerGoogling@mas.to ("Riker Googling") wrote:

do tide pods feel pain when you eat them

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xkcd@mastodon.xyz ("XKCD Bot") wrote:

Unstoppable force-carrying particles can't interact with immovable matter by definition.
https://xkcd.com/3084/

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blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

A THREADED RANT

that PERSONAL JESUS ad is everything that is wrong with American #evangelism aka #christofascism.

it uses the smash hit from Depeche Mode’s album VIOLATOR; and if you know anything about the band, you know KINK and most specifically SADOMASOCHISM were their bread and butter.

sure enough, refreshed my memory about this song and it was inspired by Priscilla Presley’s “Elvis & Me”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%5FJesus

…🧵

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

Never mind me, I've been nose deep in papers & spreadsheets. The end is in sight, though!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/02/1-3-done/

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

Everything about this story either simply sucks, is terrifying, or both.

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

Background: Newark has about 600 round trips per day (arrival/departure pairs), so United's cancelations represent about 6% of the total traffic. United is the main tenant at EWR, and it's a major hub for them. It's by far the busiest of the NYC metro area's 3 main airports, handling over half the flights into the city.

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

United has canceled 35 round trips out of EWR starting this weekend after FAA fails to agree to limit traffic to what the airport can handle and air traffic controllers left their posts amid radar problems.

Uh, yikes.

https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/united-airlines-cancels-newark-flights-after-faa-staff-walks-out-e794b071?st=R7441a&

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ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

I just told a room full of newsroom execs and investigative journalists, hopefully coherently, to always start with human problems, do not add AI to their workflows uncritically, and to build and use technology according to their values, with a duty of care for their communities. Privileged to do so and grateful for the opportunity.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 HR-Digiron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50), Phase One XT camera (vertically shifted -12mm).

White-Gravenor Hall, completed in 1933, is Georgetown trying its best to look like Princeton, which tries its best to look like Cambridge. Built to house science labs, it's currently a general academic building with classrooms and administrative offices.

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

White-Gravenor Hall (Main Entranceway) Georgetown, Washington, DC, 2025.

All the pixels, none of the students or classes, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54481192198

#photography

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existentialcomics ("Existential Comics") wrote:

Capitalism didn't give us the internet.

Large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software gave us the internet. Capitalism gave us mobile sites that don't work because fifteen ads cover the screen.

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ana@starlite.rodeo ("ana of the dawn") wrote:

imagine one day you are wandering in the woods and you pass through a strange shimmering barrier. on the other side in a clearing you find on the mossy ground a strange looking cassette. the tape itself seems to shimmer with a strange iridescent glow, and on it is written ‘lofi beats to…’ but the last part is smudged and unreadable

next to it you see an old cassette tape player, powered through no visible means. though something tells you this may not be a good idea, you pop the tape in and press play…

https://anatanana.bandcamp.com/album/tanagrams

#bandcampFriday #anatanana #lofiBeats #techno #drone #psychedelic #music #musicProduction

jwz wrote:

Shut Up, Beavis.
https://jwz.org/b/ykm6

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Some_Emo_Chick ("Frankie ✅") wrote:

#shitpost #meme #funny #tech #technology #chrome #google

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ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt ("Spring Jo :neobun: :v_enby: 🍃") wrote:

:neobot_nom_blob: :neobot_woozy:

Attachments:

• gifv: A GIF of a printer feeding into a shredder

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jk ("josef") wrote:

the architecture of the fediverse is optimized to increase engagement by having people's replies to your post just not show up for others, which encourages them to also reply saying exactly the same thing that all the other people have been saying in their replies

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thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

Congrats everyone — we are at the point where The Onion and real life are indistinguishable from one another. 😳🇺🇸 theonion.com/ice-agents-w...

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

Me to the new Fosstodon admin: "People want reassurance, not dismissiveness."

The Fosstodon admin:

https://fosstodon.org/@Gina/114440216079740931

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ebel@moytura.org ("ebel aurora | map data witch") wrote:

for #PrideMonth this year, can cis straight people focus less on “love is love 🫶 🏳️‍🌈 ” and more on “queer and trans people are in danger”

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

Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning ID technology debuts in the US

"The project uses basketball-sized spherical objects called the Orb to scan a user’s irises, which it then turns into a unique IrisCode for them. It will then use that information to create a World ID for the user that they can use to log into integrated platforms, including Minecraft and Reddit."

Who the fuck is asking for ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/05/02/sam-altmans-eyeballscanning-id-technology.html

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

https://reply.cards/zbkmfvnbhz

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

When you don’t understand any German but it turns out you didn’t need to. (via @rail)

Attachments:

• video: Video of a person speaking German during a television news report, who then quotes “I’m fucking furious and I don’t fucking care anymore” in English, unexpectedly.

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jencmars@mastodon.art ("Jen C Mars") wrote:

Hi friends, if you're on Fosstodon, please be aware the dot art server that I'm on is scheduled to block fosstodon in the next day or two.

I have a mirror account on dot social which I haven't used often but I may try to make more active if needed.

https://mastodon.social/@jencmars

I'm also on Blusky if that's your speed, jencmars.bsky.social

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

@Gina @jencmars The point of federation is connectivity, yes. But some people don’t want to be connected to a group that can’t recognize that its policies are harmful or that fails to provide basic safety for those who need it most.

A new admin and mod team isn’t enough. You publicly dismissed the concerns of Fosstodon’s LGBTQ+ community (called the people who raised the concerns “toxic”). You also said that you intend to keep things the same.

People want reassurance, not dismissiveness.

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jwz wrote:

@josephcox How does TeleMessage exist? My understanding was that Signal's "creative" use of trademark law prohibited the existence of any fork of Signal that can interoperate with the Signal servers.

("Illegally" may well be the answer here.)

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rolenthedeep@rattodon.nexus ("biblically accurate rat") wrote:

If you very extremely do not *in any way* understand computers or technology, you could frame "code" as a resource to be exploited for profit. "Programmers" are simply a means to extract "code" from a conceptual problem space you don't understand and won't examine.

So you do what capitalists have always done: brute-force mechanize the resource extraction and not once ever consider consequences even in the abstract.

And thus you turn Clippy into a torment nexus.

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

It’s been a long time coming but Apple’s abusive grip on how developers monetize their apps is coming to an end. After the ruling this week, Spotify & Patreon have announced they will bypass the App Store and Apple’s 30% fee for purchases.

More will follow. Apple’s fastest growing business, rent seeking, just took a major hit.

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aparrish@friend.camp ("allison") wrote:

oh goodie, can't wait to read the new report on trans youth health from the government that brought us classics like "Pray the Rickets Away" and "Germ Theory is a Soros Psyop"

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