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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
benbrown@masto.hackers.town ("benbrown (new server edition)") wrote:

The "new" Ministry record is on bandcamp now. I have to say, I've enjoyed these re-recordings from their early days.

https://ministryband.bandcamp.com/album/the-squirrely-years-revisited

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Tesla sales fall by 62% in the UK, 46% in Germany
Last month, Tesla sold just 512 cars in the UK and 885 cars in Germany.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/05/tesla-sales-fall-by-62-in-the-uk-46-in-germany/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

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mellifluousbox ("Felix Hlatky") wrote:

Just finished my panel at #GSS2025 in #berlin with @PaulNemitz @displayeurope @udbhav @signalapp @sheila

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renchap@oisaur.com ("Renaud Chaput") wrote:

Our team is growing, and I am very excited that there are now 2 developers focused on the Mastodon web interface, with a designer joining in a few weeks.

Brace yourselves for a lot of interface improvements in Mastodon this year 💅
https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/114460783162498046

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Finally the truth emerges

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jewelstaite/post/DJUX6yjJ-a9

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

The Rodenstock 32 is probably my most used architectural lens. The large image circle leaves plenty of room for shifts, and it's sharp on the IQ4-150 back all the way to the edges. It's big, heavy, and expensive, though.

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

I made four images with the 32mm Rodenstock to create this, each shifted up, down, left, and right to incorporate the entire image circle and then stitched them into a 500MP image. Then I found a pleasing crop that gave me the composition I wanted, in a 16:9 aspect ratio. The full image is here. You can see the edges of the image circle in the corners. There are also a couple of weird stitching artifacts at the far edges.

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

It’s always DNS.

The age-old internet maxim has been upgraded to a full-fledged jingle. 🎶

You can grab the MP3 here: https://dns.kitchen/jingle

#dnskitchen

Attachments:

• video: 385955375c258241.mp4

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

The long-ish exposure (1/4 second) gives us a sense of motion; some people in the station are waiting around, while others are going places. Stitching multiple shifted exposures with the Rodenstock 32 gives us a very wide horizontal angle of view - here roughly equal to that of a 13mm lens in 35mm format, with excellent edge-to-edge sharpness. There are a few artifacts (a fellow visible on the rear balcony moved between exposures and appears twice, for example).

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

Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3) lens, Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50, 1/4 sec), Cambo WRS-5005 camera (Shifted vertically +/- 15mm, horizontally +/- 23mm). Stitched composite of 4 images), cropped to 16:9 and 240MP.

This is a revisit, four years later, of a photo made from the same vantage point after the station just opened. See https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51205135362 for an emptier, more pristine station.

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

Moynihan Train Hall (Four Years Later), Pennsylvania Station, NYC. 2025.

All the pixels, and then some, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54499376593/

#photography

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I am on vacation but I noticed this change finally went live on mastodon.social so I'll post about it anyway: the audio player on the web app now has a new and improved look! I hope you like it.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
meg@fediscience.org ("Megan ⚘") wrote:

This new documentary about Sally Ride looks good.

#Film #STEM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C67rl6MNGe0

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

I feel like every tech story has become either “ten new ways in which generative AI is even worse than you think” or “AI-powered garden hose startup raises $450M on a $5B valuation”

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
skade@hachyderm.io ("Florian Gilcher") wrote:

Distributed Databases Democracies
🤝
Leader Election is hard

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

Today in History: EDSAC (the 2nd full-size stored-program computer, developed by Maurice Wilkes at Uni Cambridge) demonstrated, 1949 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDSAC

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

Following up on the original question... Concise Products in Japan seems to still be producing circular slide rules https://www.sliderule.tokyo/products/detail.php?product%5Fid=7

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MastodonEngineering ("Mastodon Engineering") wrote:

Very happy to welcome our second front-end developer to the core team - hey there @diondiondion 🥳

We've got plenty of improvements in the pipeline, and we're glad to have Dion onboard to help to make Mastodon better for everyone!

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

"1. Retroactive invalidation of absentee ballots cast by overseas military and civilian voters violates those voters’ substantive due process rights; 2. The cure process violates the equal protection rights of overseas military and civilian voters; and 3. The lack of any notice or opportunity for eligible voters to contest their mistaken designation as Never Residents violates procedural due process and represents an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote” https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/5/2320748/-BREAKING-Federal-Court-orders-certification-of-election-of-NC-Justice-Allison-Riggs

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

BREAKING: Federal Court orders certification of election of #NorthCarolina Justice Allison Riggs https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/5/2320748/-BREAKING-Federal-Court-orders-certification-of-election-of-NC-Justice-Allison-Riggs?pm%5Fcampaign=trending&pm%5Fsource=sidebar&pm%5Fmedium=web

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:

#OtD 6 May 1968 major street clashes in Paris in the early days of the May uprising took place. 10,000 students and young people battled police, leaving 600 students injured and 422 arrested, and 300 police injured. Books and reproduction artwork here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/may-68

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

Today in History: Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1937

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
maybe_zubat@graffitiwall.net ("slice of life for life") wrote:

an L for miss huang 😔

RE: https://noord.zeehond.city/objects/b83f6bc0-99d7-45df-ba05-ab593d68e1dd

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
trashguts@goblin.camp (":party_wurmple:") wrote:

hello! i have a large collection of pokemon fan buttons i've made available on my website for your profile/website decoration use or whathaveyou. enjoy!

https://trashguts.com/pokefan/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
sam@social.coop ("Sam Whited") wrote:

Weird request: anyone know any labor or union songs in waltz time?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

It's so frustrating to see tech CEOs be like "wow omg interacting with a chatbot is amazing, it's basically sapient" but like, if it was sapient, then we would need to both give it rights and hold it accountable

But a slave workforce which the company can simultaneously use to deny accountability is, of course, exactly the appeal

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Professor_Stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

I have the windows open today. I remember, when I was 15 years old, running a long wire antenna out the open window of my bedroom in the warm weather. At night, you couldn't see the far end. I would tune in stations from all over the Earth on my shortwave radio. It gave me a sense of connection to the world. The world didn't know I was listening, but I did. The magnitude of that was majestic, but imposing.

It was just a long wire, stretched out into the darkness, listening to the world.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

Your art history post for today: Girl in Pink Dress, ca. 1927, by African-American artist Laura Wheeler Waring (1887-1948), oil on canvas, 36 ¼ x 26 ¼ x 2 ¼ in, private collection. #arthistory #blackart #blackartists #womenartists #womanartist #womensart

From Elizabeth Lovsin in School Library Journal, Feb 01, 2020, her a review of the book “Beautiful Shades of Brown: The Art of Laura Wheeler Waring,” by Nancy Churnin, illustrated by Felicia Marshall: “Laura Wheeler Waring (1887–1948) combined colors to create the exact shades of brown that depicted the skin tones of the loved ones she painted. Artistic representation during the time period Waring came of age was far from inclusive. Portraits of African Americans and artwork created by black artists were not welcomed into museums. Waring pursued her passion and was eventually commissioned to paint important African American people for a traveling exhibit that displayed her art in the Smithsonian and other museums. This biography succeeds by keeping its focus on Waring’s artistic journey. When discussing her portrait of singer Marian Anderson, Churnin forms an emotional link between these two women and spotlights the potential for their work to break barriers. The straightforward narrative allows young readers to connect with Waring as a person, recognize her dedication to her craft, and appreciate her accomplishments. The recurring theme of brown as a complex and beautiful color is an effective metaphor for the celebration of African American people and culture central to Waring’s work. Marshall’s painted illustrations are an artistic tribute rendered in the style of Waring’s paintings.”

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

There is a trade-off to exposing skin in Minnesota in the summer, but at least the cops have to leave you alone now.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/06/just-in-time-for-summer/

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

This is what you get when you use the Bible to get your paleontological information.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/06/missionary-lizards/