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

I think the MOVE bombing isn't as well remembered as it should be partly because it's so over-the-top crazy that people brush it off as something where "there must be more to it than that". But no. The police department literally used a helicopter to drop an incendiary bomb on a row house in order to evict the occupants, burning down two city blocks in the process. That's what happened.

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

MOVE was, without doubt, guilty of being annoying. They had occasional confrontations with police. There were unsanitary conditions. Their neighbors complained about them. But the response was a case study in wildly disproportionate overreaction that should never be forgotten as a cautionary tale of where militarization of local police leads.

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romy@mastodon.berlin ("Romy Ilano") wrote:

Deathguild: delete your Instagram ! Join mastodon seize the means of production 😂😂😂 I love that DNA lounge is by nerds for nerds @dnalounge and they have great pizza

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

40 years ago today, the Philadelphia Police Department used a helicopter to firebomb the headquarters of MOVE, a radical collective that was being evicted for what amounted to building code violations. Eleven people died (including five children). The fire eventually spread and completely burned down two city blocks.

Then the remains of those killed, were, for unclear reasons, turned over to the U. Penn Museum, where they sat for decades. https://share.inquirer.com/m7vjmf

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

Liberals who declared the Defund the Police movement as "political poison," do so as if they're not the ones who got to decided if defunding police brutality was a worthy pursuit.

So often, Liberals will play the role of political saboteur, then swap hats to become the political pundit observing their own undermining.

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

This framing has completely flown over liberals' heads because, apparently, the only lessons we're capable of learning are the ones that reaffirm "we're smart, they're dumb." That's it. That's every thread, every think piece, every infographic.

We've refused to look at anything that might suggest we fucked up. Look at Defund the Police-

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

Democrats, as a whole, are not against these fascist systems. They are against Trump's access to them. Those politics fall short of anything approaching real resistance.

We would not be where we are now if democrats took a stand against the corporatization of our government and the militarization of our police.

To be clear, I'm not saying they tried and failed. Dems are largely pro-police state, pro-surveillance state and surveillance capitalism, pro-ICE, pro-plutocracy. That is a fact.

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

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to stomach any Trump-is-a-fascist discourse that doesn't first acknowledge that he inherited a dictator's war chest. Trump inherited a police and surveillance state. He inherited militarized police forces. He inherited a plutocracy.

Imagine how much more difficult it would be for Trump if he didn't already have everything he needs to turn this country into a fascist state. This is being completely ignored on the left.

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

Okay, something I don’t get about Windows 11, maybe just this enterprise setup: after having me create a username/password like a normal OS, it also had me create a much lower-security PIN and has me use that, nothing else, to log in, even after power on. Whose idea was this?

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

okay, that finally worked right... I have to remind myself that "context is king" over and over again.

mongod and firewall now properly configured, and I am reminded to pay attention to where it is exactly that I am when I run mongosh #HeadDesk

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fraser@m.universetoday.com ("Fraser Cain") wrote:

When spacecraft are constructed, they're assembled in special cleanrooms that are engineered to have extremely low levels of dust and microbes. Now, researchers have found that specific types of extremophiles have evolved to thrive in environments designed to remove all their competitors. They examined space agency cleanrooms and found 26 novel bacterial species, with specific features that let them handle decontamination and radiation.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1083406

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

https://alex.party/posts/2025-05-05-the-future-of-web-development-is-ai-get-on-or-get-left-behind/

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

Me: [climbing around on the roof precariously trying to clear a gutter downspout]

🧠: 🎶 Up on the roof 🎶

Me: [hands in the gutter grabbing gunk] I don't think this is what they meant...

🧠: 🎶 I get away from the hustling crowd. And all that rat-race noise down in the street (up on the roof).
On the roof, the only place I know Where you just have to wish to make it so. Let's go up on the roof (up on the roof). 🎶

Me: *sigh* Okay fine...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b%5FksNvivbEI

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

I should also mention that @futurefonts is such an amazing website. You can find and buy some really cool stuff there! Some fonts are unique one-off experiments, while others are more serious efforts that improve over time. You can buy a font for super cheap early on in its development, and you’ll get free updates through its final version. Prices increase as fonts become more mature, so you get a break for supporting designers earlrier on. I love it. :prami_contented:

https://www.futurefonts.xyz/

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

This Devanagari pixel font is really cool! I can’t read Devanagari, so I’m not sure how legible it is given its extreme height constraint (just a few pixels!), but it sure looks nice.

https://www.future-fonts.com/lipi/ikat-devanagari

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jcrabapple@dmv.community ("Jcrabapple") wrote:

Cool blog.

fromjason.xyz

https://www.fromjason.xyz/

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

I wrote this back in November and I regret not publishing it. But don't worry I have a really good reason for why I didn't— I forgot I wrote it so

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stavvers@masto.ai ("Another Angry Woman") wrote:

climbing up this incline again alone

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deadparrot ("Stefan Baumgartner") wrote:

The movie buff in me and the Rust developer in me approve. #rustweek

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zimoun@sciences.re ("Simon Tournier") wrote:

« The Library of Alexandria was available, until it was not »

Thanks @swheritage for organizing the community workshop. Thanks @olasd and all the participants for the great session: I’ve learned a lot during the discussion.

Summary of the workshop: https://www.softwareheritage.org/2025/04/28/2025-community-workshop-posters/

Poster: https://zenodo.org/records/15230091

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ltratt ("Laurence Tratt") wrote:

Perhaps we now have our first realistic hint that there might be something better. No, I don't expect this to lead to a new product next year, perhaps never, but it's still fun to make further guesses in an area I barely understand! https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/china-just-made-the-worlds-fastest-transistor-and-it-is-not-made-of-silicon/

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MattHatton@aus.social ("Matt H") wrote:

The last paragraph of this week's Crux, from @daedalus ...

Yes.

Fuck yes.

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ice@merveilles.town ("lectronice") wrote:

There was some Nujabes in my timeline, so here's even more Nujabes for your timeline.

I absolutely love this video, I've been watching it once a year or so for many years, like some kind of pilgrimage. Now it's that time again, because why not?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAxgpHWtLC0

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requiem@masto.hackers.town ("requiem 🦫") wrote:

So it looks like at least part of this is going to happen. I’m going to setup a new fedi node for indie filmmakers and @grassfox86 is going to help 😇

Supporting indie filmmakers is actually in-line with the goals of my film company so I guess this isn’t such a crazy idea.

If you or someone you know would be interested in something like this let us know and we’ll add you to the guest list.

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

It's not blasphemy, it's the Sacred Word of Capitalism and its prophet, Adam Smith. Anything is true if you can make a profit off of it, even silly exploitation of young people (who probably all see right through it anyway).

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/13/i-cant-take-accusations-of-blasphemy-seriously/

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

We’re just shy of $8,000 raised for causes that matter to the omg.lol community. Amazing! We’re nearly halfway through the month, and there are still plenty of matching funds left to double the difference for an organization that you’d like to support. https://home.omg.lol/giving

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lespreuh ("Lëspreüh") wrote:

Mornin'

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requiem@masto.hackers.town ("requiem 🦫") wrote:

My timeline runith over with non-cw'd political posts.

It's like using facebook but instead of ads it's ...well it's kinda like ads.

Perhaps some of this is actionable information, but the vast majority of it is simply providing free labor to the fascists who seek to emotionally deplete us into submission.

If you don't like fascism, think twice before helping them demoralize the antifascists.

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

a worrisome trend