Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TonyStark@progressivecafe.social ("Tony Stark") wrote:

Food stamps are one of the most cost effective programs ever devised. Not only do you feed people who need it, which is the most pro-life thing I can think of, but the money goes to stores, truck drivers and delivery personnel, and farmers.

For every dollar spent on food stamps, $1.50 to $1.79 in stimulus to the economy is generated.

This is both stupid and cruel.

Republicans Outdo Themselves in Food Stamp Cuts - The American Prospect
https://prospect.org/health/2025-05-15-republicans-outdo-themselves-food-stamp-cuts/

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

added "send SMS upon failure" functionality

I do not like not knowing the sucker is down

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

Drink Special @ Vazum: Bribe Jet - Aviation Gin, Soda, Splash of Licor 43, Orange Garnish.

Attachments:

• gifv: 9734be79c2cb2825.mp4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Deglassco ("Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco") wrote:

The Book of Negroes is more than a ledger—it is a story pressed into parchment, a testament to the brutal arithmetic of freedom. It begins in the final days of the American Revolution, a conflict that promised liberty but delivered it unevenly.
1/17
#History #BlackMastodon #Education #Histodons #Politics

Image: Rose Fortune came to Nova Scotia after the Revolutionary War, about June 1784. She earned a living as a "trucker," carrying baggage with a wheelbarrow.

NOVA SCOTIA ARCHIVES

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

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

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

everything this fucker touches goes to shit, by the way: #FIFA #golf #F1 #tennis and can't find the article i read recently that says he's set his eyes on the #NBA as well.

"Mohammed bin Salman says he will ‘continue doing sport washing’ for Saudi Arabia | Sport | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/21/mohammed-bin-salman-says-he-will-continue-doing-sport-washing-for-saudi-arabia

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SKleefeld ("Sean Kleefeld") wrote:

"For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a 'minimal quality of life' is out of reach, according to the group, a research organization focused on improving lower earners' economic well-being."

Six Zero. Sixty percent. When I've been telling people for the past however many years that The American Dream™ is long dead and buried, this is what I'm talking about. Everyone born since 1980 is statistically more likely than not to be worse off than their parents.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of-living-income-quality-of-life/

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

wrote a simple remote-site monitor
----- snip -----
jeffs@Ultron % cat isitup.cfg

targetUri=http://arghstudios.com/

# interval in seconds
checkInterval=900

jeffs@Ultron % ./isitup
[2025-May-15 22:02:45.838858] Starting server monitoring for http://arghstudios.com/
Checking every 15 minutes
[2025-May-15 22:02:45.838897] Checking server at http://arghstudios.com/
[2025-May-15 22:02:46.197559] Server is responding.

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

Live your life in a way that if you’re murdered, people don’t make a musical about your murderer (which is currently sold out). https://www.luigithemusical.info/

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geekysteven@beige.party wrote:

jwz wrote:

Today in ACAB:

CBP Seizes Shipment of T-Shirts Featuring Swarm of Bees Attacking a Cop: Customs and Border Protection seized a shipment of t-shirts from a streetwear brand that sells an "Eliminate ICE" t-shirt and multiple shirts critical of police...
https://jwz.org/b/yknt

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

This was the first coherent string of words in my head as I woke up this morning:

"You know where you are?! You're in the library baby! You're gonna SHHHHHHH"

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

♬️ VAZUM at DNA Lounge tonight: Thu May 15, 8pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/05-15d.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #vazum #octavianwinters #blackleatherbats #gothic #postpunk #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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somafm@sfba.social ("SomaFM") wrote:

There is still a little freight train action in San Francisco. Down by Pier 70-92 there are some industrial train users, and while it's rare to see trains on the old railroad tracks, they usually come through once or twice a week.

Apparently earlier today, though, a driver wasn't paying attention and either crashed into a train or was parked partially on the tracks... not exactly sure, we came upon this a bit after the fact around noon today.

No idea how it happened, any ideas @burritojustice @TelstarLogistics

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

Pope Leo XIV out here spitting fire for sure

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

I took some old pixel fonts, turned them into vector fonts, but normalized their cap height… so the original pixel size is now serving as this new strange property – kind of like “pixel resolution.”

It’s kind of interesting to play with! I made a little playground and you can also download all the fonts I made there: https://aresluna.org/pixel-fonts/

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

1. There are enough genocides currently going on around this globe that we don't need to invent one

2. Grok was at least honest enough to inform users it was told to accept this crap as real, revealing how easy it is to feed "AI" absolute bullshit

3. The "AI" has now been "fixed" not to spout off about a fake genocide at every available opportunity, but I'll bet you a shiny nickel that bullshit's still in there

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/14/elon-musk-grok-white-genocide

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
KuJoe@mindly.social ("KuJoe 💞") wrote:

If any Mastodon instances are having trouble with their costs growing out of control, ping me and see if I can help lower your bill.

Apparently a recently closed instance was paying $300/month for hosting which is insane to read considering how small of an instance it was. When we had 40k monthly users I was paying about $120/month so an instance with less than 400 total users (not MAU) should be super cheap to run even with a few TB of storage and bandwidth.

It hurts my heart to read instances closing down over costs and finding out they’re paying more than instances 10x their size. 😢

https://newsie.social/@jeff/114513118997692099

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
raganwald@social.bau-ha.us ("Reg Braithwaite 🍓") wrote:

”Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.“

—Frank Herbert, ”Dune“

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

okay, this rose bush is just outta control

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

This was a rather opportunistic capture with a Leica M240 camera, a 35mm lens, and a tabletop tripod on a windowsill, just before a late afternoon thunderstorm.

The light always does most of the work in photography. Sometimes it works especially hard.

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

Upper West Side, NYC, 2014.

All the pixels, but not enough that you'll find a decent rent-stabilized apartment, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/14422880057

#photography

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
umbraroze@pixelfed.social ("Yesterday's Rose") wrote:

October 28, 2014. Oulu, Finland. Samsung Galaxy Trend Plus.

In the University of Oulu library "Tellus". They had bunch of fascinating books on computer science. Including books that I *thought* were obsolete. I was less amused when I recently refound this image, because nowadays, 99% of current AI hype is running on #Python, which is just less flawed iteration of #BASIC. (...also please don't lob rocks at me, I love Python. Also have fond memories of BASIC.)

#programming #softwaredevelopment #ai #programmerhumour

Boosted by jwz:
mrbadger42@mastodon.world ("MrBadger42") wrote:

You think?

Boosted by jwz:
davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

Also known as walking.

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

New #omgdotlol profile page icons for Crucial Tracks and Glass are now live!

Boosted by jwz:
mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

Good heavy rain today if you're RFK Jr. and want to go swimming in a combined sewage overflow.

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

Just... no.

https://xcancel.com/joshm/status/1922639517858623684#m

#web #humans #noai

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

I don’t want AI helping me to make web pages.
I don’t want AI helping me to enjoy web pages.
I don’t want AI anywhere near my browser.

I want to keep the web human. I want to create it with my own hands and consume it with my own mind. I want to surround myself with other people who want the same. That’s *my* web.

If you want to go full-blown Borg and ruin your experience via someone else’s bias-laden stolen-content neural network, you do you. But I find it repulsive.

#web #humans #noai