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bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Last week, the USENIX association announced that they are discontinuing their flagship conference, USENIX ATC:

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/05/11/rip-usenix-atc/

Today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I are going to talk about the demise of ATC. Come for the discussion on the intersection of academia with the practitioner; stay for the retelling of awkward encounters with Unix pioneers.

Join us today ,and bring your own memories of ATC! 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1371556074796220426

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein Death Guild gets some love
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2025/05/12.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

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

that sound you hear: Benjamin Franklin and his French snuffbox, both spinning

https://flipboard.com/@axiosnews/axios-1ijujvslz/-/a-zMo25ApCTnupGGxU4RA7Pg%3Aa%3A2150299410-%2F0

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wchr ("Wolfie Christl") wrote:

Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), a firm owned by 9 airlines from US, Canada, Germany, France that acts as an aviation industry clearinghouse and processes data on 12 billion passenger flights per year ("54 percent of all flights taken globally"), is selling to ICE:
https://www.levernews.com/airlines-are-collecting-your-data-and-selling-it-to-ice/

Put differently, a firm co-owned by EU airlines like Lufthansa and Air France is selling massive personal data to US government agencies.

Article republished without paywall here:
https://jacobin.com/2025/05/airlines-data-ice-trump-immigration

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

The CFTC has dropped its appeal, ending a case against the Kalshi (non-crypto-based) prediction markets platform over its election betting markets. Donald Trump Jr. joined Kalshi as an adviser in January.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org ("Chris Trottier") wrote:

Weightlifting has taught me a lot about life.

The biggest lesson is that the biggest achievements are from small but consistent incremental improvements.

No one gets strong from lifting the biggest weight possible just once then calling it a day.

You want improvement? Build a habit. Repetition is key. When you’re ready, increase your allowable weight.

Eventually you’ll do what you thought wasn’t possible.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mookie@wantstoruletheworld.com ("steve mookie kong") wrote:

Some maybe too young to understand this one.

#cassette #tape #medical

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

“The Episcopal Church … is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Donald Trump’s administration.”

https://religionnews.com/2025/05/12/episcopal-church-ends-refugee-resettlement-citing-moral-opposition-to-resettling-white-afrikaners/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
KimPerales@toad.social ("Kim Perales") wrote:

"Spare a thought for the small bus owners who'd to beg & borrow to pay a $145,000 tax on that $100K shp of product that happened to arrive while the most extreme CN tariff was in place, only to see their pres back down with 0 Chinese concessions.

Could have been worse -it's good Trump is caving again. Now?🚨Aggregate #tariffs on CN stay ~55%. CN could repkg some promises on fentanyl to get that down a bit more but not by much. We seem stuck with a 10% tariff/tax on all foreign imports."

#USPol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Newsletter: Three major crypto schemes in a single week underscore how aggressively Trump is leveraging the presidency for illegal personal gain. This blatant corruption has sparked Democratic outcry, blockage of a crypto bill, and a Senate PSI inquiry.

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-83/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

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

White South Africans have arrived at Dulles as *#refugees* under #Trump order

A group of nearly 50 #White #SouthAfricans landed at Dulles International Airport on Monday as refugees, coming to the US under a humanitarian designation meant for people fleeing war or persecution that the Trump admin has suspended for all other groups worldwide.
#immigration #law #racism #Afrikaners

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
brunojnavarro.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Bruno J. Navarro") wrote:

Newark city officials were back in front of Delaney Hall on Monday morning to serve the owners of the immigrant detention center with violation notices, a few days after Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested outside the facility in a dramatic scene with federal officials.

ICE detention facility served ...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
JoshuaHolland ("Joshua Holland") wrote:

#elonmusk spent $290 million to elect a fascist crackpot and will be spared around $2 billion in potential liability.

#Corruption brings in a helluva roi.

#trump #tesla
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/elon-musks-regulatory-issues-begun-melt-away-trumps-second-term-rcna202848

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
eamon@social.coop ("Eamon") wrote:

Almost a year ago @shinypb (who isn't active on Fedi these days) made a joke about "FORTH of July" and I thought it sounded genuinely awesome.

Since then, I have not actually learned Forth proper (I did write more Postscript though), but I have become aware that there is a whole #catlang community who might have done something like this before.

So: who would be interested in participating in an extremely casual programming thing called "FORTH of July"?

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

By now many, though not all, of the structures from the island's military era have been demolished (including the bowling alley in the photo). Environmental remediation is proceeding slowly.

A small community of mostly low-income families live in the island's housing, and some of the larger buildings are used as sound stages for film production and related industries. Fancier redevelopment is starting to accelerate.

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

San Francisco's Treasure Island is a weird place. An artificial island built adjacent to Yerba Buena Island in the middle of the Bay Bridge, it initially hosted the 1939 World's fair, with plans to then use it for the city's main airport. At the start of WW II, the US government appropriated it for use as a Naval station. After the Cold War, the government returned the island to the city. It was extensively contaminated by radioactive waste from decontamination training conducted on the island.

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

This was captured with a BetterLight scanning digital back and Nikkor 90mm lens on a Sinar P 4x5 camera.

This now-demolished bowling alley was part of the Treasure Island Naval Station, closed about 15 years earlier and then just starting to be redeveloped (a process that's been slowed by serious environmental contamination).

The composition emphasizes the simple lines of the structure and the isolated, rather desolate setting.

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

"Bowl For Health", Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA, 2007

All the pixels, none of the rental shoes, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/2123765265/

#photography

Boosted by rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language"):
terts@mastodon.online ("Terts Diepraam") wrote:

#rustweek is on the horizon...

@rustnl #rustlang

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
root42@chaos.social wrote:

While I disagree with his business ethics and his stance on software, I must say that Bill Gates is pretty reflected on his own life and how he got where he is.

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

this book blew my young mind away when it came out, Varley is an incredible writer

https://wandering.shop/@nwhyte/114495444477429557

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

At least 10 people sickened in US listeria outbreak linked to prepared foods
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/12/health/listeria-outbreak-ready-to-eat-foods?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Health and Wellness @health-and-wellness-CNN

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

well, that attempt at reconfiguring mongod was a spectacular failure. ugh.

time to take a few steps back and think some more about the problem.

Boosted by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
eirias@mefi.social wrote:

My mother, a history major and rules nerd, has lately been reminiscing about the “handbook for women” from her college, her copy of which perished on a feminist bonfire during the sexual revolution. She now wishes that instead of burning it she’d saved it for laughing at in her old age. So for Mother’s Day I reached out to an archivist at her college, who this past Wednesday sent me a scanned PDF. Probably the best gift I’ve managed. Sometimes the internet is grand (and libraries and archives are grander).

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

Today in History: Pink Floyd performs first quadrophonic concert, 1977

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

Today in History: Tunisia becomes French protectorate, 1881

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

Today in History: Berdrich Smetana (CZ composer) dies, 1884

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

Today in History: Jules Emile Frederic Massenet (FR composer) is born, 1842

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

Today in History: Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy, 1820

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

Leonardo DiCaprio when his gf turns 26.

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