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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Mara@hachyderm.io wrote:

Some high tech engineering happening here.

Attachments:

• video: The fully automated EnterPresser™ 3000: A big red button on a messy desk full of wires activates a solenoid pressing the enter key of a laptop. The solenoid is held in a vice which is attached to the laptop. A lab power suply set to 12.00 volt in the background powers it. Someone is laughing in the backgound.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
tessa_murray@mastodon.au ("LittleBrownBird") wrote:

I haven't been out birding much recently. This lovely Red Winged Fairy Wren reminded me that I should do it more often. #birds #birdphotography

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
tessa_murray@mastodon.au ("LittleBrownBird") wrote:

There is no such thing as too many fairy wrens. #birds #birdphotography

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
alex@social.alexschroeder.ch ("Alex Schroeder") wrote:

I just deleted a reply to two different threads where I wanted say that the thing people were talking about seemed to me to be that pattern in capitalism where "not doing a thing" gives you less power over time, so people always end up doing something.

Like "buy this to save money" instead of "don't buy this to save money" or "buy this keyboard to fight the pain in your wrists" instead of "work less to fight the pain in your wrists".

If you advocate for not doing a thing, there's no money changing hands and therefore no ads to buy, no voice to gain, no political decisions going your way. Which is a slightly different explanation than greed and greenwashing for the failure of degrowth to take hold: If you sell flights and buy carbon offsets you'll always be growing unlike the competition that sells less flights to lower emissions. Even if the employees of the second company are feeling no need to grow, in the general population, their message will tend to get lost, their percentage of the market, even if enough for them, will continue to shrink, and eventually people will not have heard about them.

I don't know how to change that except by laws against doing all the things I think we need to stop doing. Because the entire market, the public speech, the commercial activity, it is all dominated by people who do the thing. Sure, it's greed, in a way, but it's also a ratchet, unstoppable, step by step, a selection process that is ongoing.

Do right and stop doing the thing and you leave that public sphere. Like Voltaire says, tend to your own garden. You'll be happy but the political storms raging around you will seem more and more alien. Because the people that didn't drop out will no longer hear you or see you. The next generation will not learn from you.

So one needs to stay in politics? Fight for the thing even though all the money goes to towards doing the things that we shouldn't be doing?

I don't know what to do.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I read the recent Rolling Stone interview with Naomi Klein. Two quotes about oligarchs stood out:

"...these people have everything. But what they want is beyond that. They want to not be accountable to anyone. Because what they want is absolutely everything."

"I believe they’re treasonous to this world and treasonous to creation."

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/naomi-klein-trump-musk-thiel-oligarchs-climate-science-1235330780/

Boosted by chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin"):
quinn@social.circl.lu ("Quinn Norton") wrote:

First they came for the transgender people, and I said nothing because I was not transgender.

Then they came for the furries, and no one knows what happened after that because the net went down and no one could fix it.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org ("Open Rights Group") wrote:

The UK Data Bill lets Ministers change how your data is used without proper scrutiny by Parliament.

Our open letter warned that a governing Party could use this to their advantage at the time of an election.

MPs must resist this power grab in today's debate.

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/democracy-groups-warn-of-threat-henry-viii-powers-pose-to-future-election-integrity/

#dataprotection #privacy #data #gdpr #DataBill #DUABill #ukpol #ukpolitics

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

Let's all aspire to ruin Donald Trump's birthday.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/07/i-may-be-in-fargo-for-flag-day/

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

No, we're not colonizing Mars before the USA collapses. No, you don't have to worry about the sun swallowing up the Earth within the lifetime of our species. Yes, Elon Musk is the biggest con artist of all time. Also, Jesse Watters is more creepy and repulsive than the mouth of Sauron.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/07/the-fundamental-fork-in-the-road-to-destiny/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Em4QyUuLUU

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

Jim Bakker isn't dead yet. Tammy Faye wants you to come home, you old fraud!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/07/tammy-faye-is-calling-you-home-jim/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMo2NJ5lFkg

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.

Attachments:

• 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
/3

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
/3

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?