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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wonderofscience ("Wonder of Science") wrote:

These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin.

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• gifv: Two wire frame cubes side-by-side, flashing white and black create the illusions of rotation, movement, expansion, or contraction, as indicated by arrows, but careful observation reveal they are not moving.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:

Trump is such a fool.
https://www.theindex.media/donald-trump-is-a-man-in-decline/
#trump #canada

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Bellingcat@mstdn.social wrote:

EXCLUSIVE: Bellingcat, in partnership with Tjekdet, Politiken and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepfakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. MrDeepFakes(.com) was visited millions of times every month and hosted almost 70,000 explicit videos which have collectively been viewed more than 2.2 billion times. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05/07/canadian-pharmacist-linked-to-worlds-most-notorious-deepfake-porn-site/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Hendrix, again, admits to deploying the racist epithet. Yet significant portions of MAGA media have championed her, arguing that they should do so as a matter of free speech and to fight the spread of 'anti-white' racism.

As of Tuesday morning, Hendrix has raised over $700,000 on crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo, with a campaign goal of $1 million."

~ Will Sommer

#ViceSignaling #racism
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/she-called-a-five-year-old-the-n-word-crowdfunding

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

As Josh Marshall reports, Trump is using a method adopted from his unethical business practices to strangle scientific research: he's having the government simply not pay for research underway or already done. He strings institutions along, offering no explanations, and,

#Trump #RFKJr #science #research #cancer
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/conspiracy-of-silence-how-trump-is-covertly-strangling-billions-in-disease-cure-research

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
hn50@social.lansky.name ("Hacker News 50") wrote:

WebMonkeys: parallel GPU programming in JavaScript

Link: https://github.com/VictorTaelin/WebMonkeys
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43887874

#javascript

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
mothcompute@vixen.zone ("genius osdev 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

just solved p = np. n = 1, or p = 0

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

It's pretty cool that a technique for rendering shadows in Path of Exile 2 found its way into scientific papers. I've also seen it in a paper about propagation of radio waves. https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@shamanix/114464095841698862

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :togedemaru:"):
1br0wn@eupolicy.social ("Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻") wrote:

#AI refuseniks of the world, unite! "I read a really great phrase recently that said something along the lines of 'why would I bother to read something someone couldn't be bothered to write' and that is such a powerful statement and one that aligns absolutely with my views." h/t @tforcworc https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15q5qzdjqxo

Boosted by jwz:
Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

“To lose one F18, Mr. Hegseth, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.”

Boosted by jwz:
Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

And why is the unfortunate aircraft carrier (three lost FA-18s and a collision at sea) Harry S Truman called a “she?” I thought they were supposed to go by their gender assigned at berth

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

It's only 2025, but I've seen enough to call it: 2015's JS community was wrong; the compilers were never going to save us.

jwz wrote:

Y2232 bug?

Debian 12.9:

# date
Tue 6 May 19:05:57 PDT 2025

# sudo systemctl stop systemd-timesyncd.service
# sudo date -s '2232-04-18 16:47:16'
date: cannot set date: Invalid argument
Wed 18 Apr 16:47:16 PDT 2232
Exit 1

# date
Tue 6 May 19:06:14 PDT 2025

# sudo date -s '2232-04-18 16:47:15'
Wed 18 Apr 16:47:15 PDT 2232

# sleep 30 ; date
Wed 18 Apr 16:47:45 PDT 2232

The cutoff is 0x1ED5D7403.

https://jwz.org/b/yknS

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :togedemaru:"):
xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:

i've sat on this #fosstodon take long enough. (narrator: it wasn't that long.)

for real, though—if curating a community space to be safe for all of its members is a burden to you, don't do it to begin with.

i made six points that community managers or moderators can learn from the mistakes of some #fediverse communities. let me know what you think:

https://library.xandra.cc/moderation/

#smallweb #community #opensource #blog #blogging #socialmedia

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

Out of solidarity with our friends to the north, I changed the default frequency for my KiwiSDR from WWV (10) to CHU (7850). Just my little bit to restore the international balance of time signals.

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

A reminder that Jimmy Carter felt he needed to sell his peanut farm when he became president, in order to avoid even the appearance of any conflicts of interest.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
camille@praxis.nyc ("Camille lives at Praxis Now") wrote:

https://protocol.ecologies.info/

The Protocol Oral History Project is an effort to honor and share the stories of protocol artists—the skilled builders and stewards of the rules, standards, and norms that shape our lives in often invisible ways, ranging from technical standards and diplomatic practices to Indigenous traditions and radical subcultures.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mc@masto.hackers.town ("MC") wrote:

OMGoddess! The entire book "Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Design" by Gordon Bell from 1978 scanned:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/CGB%20Files/Computer%20Engineering%207809%20c.pdf

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Another federal district court has ruled unlawful Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) designating as alien enemies Venezuelan immigrants purportedly belonging to TdA gang. 1/ https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.640153/gov.uscourts.nysd.640153.84.0.pdf

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

Jeffery Goldberg had the most secure device in the chat...do I have that right?

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
rednikki@toot.boston wrote:

Today I learned there is a vaccine for the cancer that killed my mom in development. In a stage 1 trial, it cured the cancer for people with Stage III and IV cancer. That made me tear up for what might have been.

Then I learned that legislators in some states are trying to ban RNA vaccines (which this possible cure is) and I really cried.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08507-5

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

I KNEW IT

RE: https://www.threads.com/@theonion/post/DJUyKG6iYfW

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

Still have a couple weeks of sponsorship for Foofaraw available through the end of the year if anyone is interested... https://foofaraw.press/sponsorship/

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

These are now my favorite release notes

Boosted by jwz:
simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

However, this man needs to be stimulated to re-orient his thinking in the direction of destruction.

Boosted by jwz:
workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:

#OtD 6 May 1933 Nazis raided the Institute of Sex Research in Berlin. It was a pioneering org which supported LGBT rights, and equality for women. It employed numerous trans workers and pioneered gender affirmation surgery. Its library was then burned https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10648/nazis-raid-sex-institute

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Tomorrow [Weds, 5/07] VENJENT comes to DNA Lounge! With DJ? Acucrack
and DJ W4X! Don't miss this insane lineup!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/05-07.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #venjent #talmientertainment #drumnbass #sanfrancisco

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• video: adbdd553337562d2.mp4

jwz wrote:

Rewrites and error logs.

Dear Lazyweb, How do I do an Apache rewrite but also have it show up in error_log? E.g. the following has the side effect that it is not logged, making it unavailable to fail2ban: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f....
https://jwz.org/b/yknN

jwz wrote:

User agent blocking.

Dear Lazyweb, What is your strategy for blocking user agents that are attempting to impersonate browsers? There are many, many botnets out there sending implausibly old user-agent strings. Now, I'm just an unfrozen caveman, your...
https://jwz.org/b/yknL

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
lianna@micro.webgarden.click wrote:

Just spotted a "Fuck Antifa" sticker on a streetlight. Wanted to put an antifa sticker over it, but there was a young family behind me on the pavement so I wanted to let them pass first.

Just as they passed me and the pole, the dad stopped and pulled off the sticker himself. He taught his daughter how to safely remove nazi stickers.

I laughed and told them that I was just waiting for them to pass to put my own on top. Small funny moment of solidarity.

#Antifa #FuckNazis #FCKNZS #DePol