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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

The Women and Girls in Astronomy Program (WGAP) 2025 Call for proposals is open, for astronomy projects in Canada, the US, Mexico, the Carribbean, and Greenland that develop activities to promote, support, and uplift women and girls in the field

https://naroad.astro4dev.org/na-road-projects/women-and-girls-astronomy-program/

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

Pretty

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

Third weirdest tandem I've seen.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

Good on Signal! https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/

Not only are they doing the right thing, they’re publishing a clear, forceful, and occasionally amusing write-up on how and why:

For Example: “Take a screenshot every few seconds” legitimately sounds like a suggestion from a low-parameter LLM that was given a prompt like “How do I add an arbitrary AI feature to my operating system as quickly as possible in order to make investors happy?”

Boosted by jwz:
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

Engineers are supremely rational and value precision. That's why we use a unit called "decibels".

Well, it's not really a unit. It's a difference in magnitude for some other unit. We typically don't specify that other unit, but you can probably guess. We named decibels after Alexander Bell, but we misspelled that a bit.

Using decibels is just more intuitive than writing ×10 or ×1,000. That's why we define a decibel as an increase of ~1.2589. No, I mean, that's for power! If you're doing voltages, obviously use ~1.1220.

As for "0 dB", it probably refers to the other thing we talked about earlier in the text. But it could be one volt. Or a milliwatt, if you're doing radio stuff. Or maybe a threshold of human hearing. Or a really loud sound... I don't know, who's writing the spec?

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jvschrag@hachyderm.io ("John Schrag") wrote:

Listening to my husband calling out a play-by-play as he attempts to cancel our Microsoft Office subscription. (We’ve switched to free, open source LibreOffice). “They’re not making this easy!” he yells to me.

First, they tell him what a terrible mistake he’s making by listing all the services we’ll be losing. Like the AI we don’t want, and the OneDrive that we don’t use and have to actively fight Office to prevent it from storing stuff there.

Next, they beg by offering a lower price without the AI features — which means they are aware that those features are unpopular.

Finally, after much scrolling, there is the button that does the job. And we’re free!

Then it whines “but whyyyyy?”

It’s like breaking up with a toxic partner.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:

woo—last looks (and fixes) on the print proof before final printing! IT’S HAPPENING

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

Wow, some #omgdotlol folks have made some amazingly generous donations to local organizations today! Our matching program runs through the end of the month, or until we hit $10,000 in matches (wouldn’t that be wild). ❤️

https://home.omg.lol/giving

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eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

AI is an eldritch horror. it is an incomprehensibly vast being but without physical form, not truly alive or aware of anything, though it consumes human knowledge and spits out a perversion of it. those who get too close to it are driven mad, and worship it as a deity that will lead them to salvation, even though it is not even aware of them and will lead them to destruction instead

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celesteh@lgbt.io ("Charles ☭ says trans rights") wrote:

Look, I can "know my rights" in say, airports to opt out of body scanners that tend to cause problems for trans people.

But, being honest, this is not remotely a good experience. In fact, it has on occasion been dire enough that I exercised my right to wrote a complaint letter.

Yay my rights.

And, indeed, by the time one has to know their rights, a violation has already taken place. The rights are already contingent on whiteness, passability, the mood of the person exercising power over me. Knowing ones rights is a situation of fascism - the rights are at best under threat and at worst fully suspended.

As a middle aged white bloke, I get to do this on easy mode and its still just fucking awful.

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stevelieber ("Steve Lieber") wrote:

DC Comics cleared me to show our new cover for the Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen hardcover collection. "Labor of Love" doesn't begin to describe this. Ten days of work! I hope it's as fun to examine as it was to draw. And yes, the book will include a map key, identifying who is who.

It'll be in stores Jul 29, 2025
ISBN 9781799501879, and for collectors, I'll have some signed and sketched copies available on etsy.

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

They’re harassing new vaccines out of existence.
https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/114546084743016031

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workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:

#OtD 21 May 1979 the White Night riots took place in San Francisco. LGBT people rose up when the killer of Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials, was not convicted of murder. 500 people fought police and burned police cars https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9418/white-nights-riots

jwz wrote:

Incel Tortoise.

Natasha Jay: Carson Hill: I found video, June 2024: "The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping." There is no...
https://jwz.org/b/ykoR

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raganwald@social.bau-ha.us ("Reg Braithwaite 🍓") wrote:

“I fight for the Right to Repair. Which is why the system wants to torture me to death. It’s about control, kid, and if we can fix what they break, the whole system collapses.”

—Harry Tuttle, rogue heating engineer

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mcc wrote:

Encountering a new reason this morning to be infuriated by Bluesky's combination of "overthinking everything" and "underthinking everything": the at:// URIs used by Bluesky https://atproto.com/specs/at-uri-scheme are literally not URIs, as they violate section 3.2 of RFC 3986 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-3.2 through their reimagining of "authority" as a generic colon-separated list rather than a host which if followed by a colon is followed by a number. The Rust "URL" package, which RFC conforms, is unable to parse one.

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

Spice, up close and personal.

Boosted by jwz:
phooky@hexa.club wrote:

Omg how did I miss @jwz 's amazing Nakagin Capsule Tower memorial screensaver
https://youtu.be/JRXglvnKb6A?si=jzxsmWPzJsyZxLSy

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

The power station has long been an iconic landmark on the south bank of the Thames, distinctive for its four prominent smokestacks (two for each of its two separate generating facilities) and industrial art deco architecture. Perhaps most famously, it featured in the cover art for Pink Floyd's 1977 “Animals” album, with one of London's (sadly now extinct) giant flying pigs captured hovering near the smokestacks.

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

London's Battersea Power Station, built as two nearly-identical halves completed in 1935 and 1955, respectively, was originally a coal-fired electrical generating plant. It was decommissioned in 1983. After being idle for nearly 40 years, the plant has been re-developed as retail space and commercial offices, opened in 2022. Along with the Tate Modern, it gives London a second striking example of large-scale adaptive reuse of an obsolete, but still handsome, power station.

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

Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 Digaron-W (@ f/8), Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50), Cambo WRS 1200 camera (right shifted 20mm, vertically shifted 8mm).

This composition fully exploited the image circle and edge sharpness of the lens. We're to the right of the power station, but to preserve the geometry of the river side facade, the camera was pointed straight ahead, parallel with that side of the building. The camera back was then shifted 20mm to move the building back into the composition.

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

Battersea Power Station, London, UK, 2024.

All the pixels, but no food court, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54079042655

#photography

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

I love blogging. I love bloggers.

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

I have no respect for Bret Weinstein, his communication abilities, or his understanding of biology.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/21/bret-weinstein-is-an-ignorant-clown/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om2f5ISt-X8

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
sarahtaber@mastodon.online ("Sarah Taber") wrote:

Everyone thinks we grow a lot of corn & soybeans in the US "because of subsidies," & that's just... not accurate?

So I made a video about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlSRyPcc-so

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
smalldog@social.smalldog.club ("smalldog club ☑️") wrote:

Me: I'll have a Pepsi

Waiter: We have Coke.

Me: Alright, I'll take 2 grams and a Pepsi, but SHHHH!

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Green door. Croatia.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Croatia

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jasonwise ("Jason") wrote:

Just started my #freelancing journey and would love some shares of my company. If you or someone you know needs any #digital #web work done share this with them please! #indieweb
#WebDevelopment

https://www.kingdompathdigital.com

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:

@adam Although… counter point to my skepticism, omg.lol is kind of proof of this at work. The analogy being corporate social media platforms are to AI generated content as omg.lol is to homemade content. If there are people willing to escape big corporate social media and even pay for it, then maybe there's hope to believe people will pay for human content in a world full of AI.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
via@myf.one ("Sophia :AAAAAA:") wrote:

INCREDIBLY excited to announce this: I collaborated with the Internet Archive to make a new 24/7 lofi livestream!

By day, you can see scanners scanning and what they're scanning, and when they're not scanning, you will see public domain silent movies and pictures. Sorta like an Internet Archive TV

Watch it LIVE here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPg2V5RVh7U