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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:

Turns out some old (and new) friends were feeling the same way, so we got a crew together from the Old Days and we spun up a collective, got fiscal hosting with Raft Foundation (badasses!), and spent a couple of months building processes and testing ways to work and things to make, and now we're up:

https://unbreaking.org

We started with three pages we've been using to test and build our collaborative processes:

Equality at Work (part one): https://unbreaking.org/issues/equality-at-work-decimating-the-federal-workforce/

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

Maybe we should stop making eletronic parts with symmetry. :thonking:

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

It's amazing the confusion and troubleshooting headaches that occur when relays or switches are installed 180 degrees rotated. 😆

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

Jony Ive and Sam Altman: I Beg You Not to Make a Voice Device - Business Insider:

"The idea of saying, “Hey Meta, take a picture” to activate my Ray-Bans while at a Benson Boone concert makes me want to bite my cyanide capsule. If I ever start using Siri out loud at my desk in the office, I fully accept that HR can fire me on the spot."

Lol https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-jony-ive-openai-voice-device-2025-5

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

These two stories were published days from one another.

Klarna lays off a bunch of people, then divides its revenue by *less* employees than it had. Finally, it publishes what is essentially a marketing piece, claiming it's making more money per employee thanks to AI.

@TechCrunch, without a shred of critical thinking, or apparently the ability to do basic math, publishes the claim as is. LOL

The media are so complicit I honestly don't know how these editors sleep at night.

Mastodon wrote:

The next release of Mastodon will have features to better support communities in different jurisdictions around the world - multi-lingual rules translations, terms of service, and optional minimum age requirements for sign-up. You can learn more in our latest blog post. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/legal-features-updates/

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

I am just plain doomed

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
simonbp@social.linux.pizza wrote:

I'm glad this is finally out, and the most important part is not that it's a very distant dwarf planet (though that is very cool), but rather that its existence in that orbit completely blows a hole in the Batygin & Brown "Planet 9" hypothesis. So, there almost certainly isn't a hidden distant giant planet in our Solar System.

(Which quite a few of us, including @sundogplanets and myself, have argued was the case for years, but this rather confirms it)
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-extreme-cousin-pluto-dwarf-planet.amp

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cathos@merveilles.town wrote:

Maintenance is art, is meditation, is the foundation of life.
We rebuild what is stripped away.
We reshape what is broken.
We can carry with or leave behind the things that no longer help us.
And we can do without, for awhile.
But to live is to resist. For awhile.

I enjoy taking care of the objects that keep me afloat.
I enjoy taking care of my spirit, too.
I enjoy taking care of my friends.

I struggle, though, to take care of my body and mind.
And without those, the others fall away.
Uneven legs of the stool on which I sit.
The table on which I work.
Uneven lines, snarled and caught and snapping when the breeze comes.
That is illness. Rot. Rust. Decay.

And I resist. By maintaining, as early and well as I can.
First, the body.
Then the spirit.
But don't forget the mind.

Then my tools. My friends, when they are more ill than I. And all the rest of the world.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
clayton@social.coop ("Clayton Dewey") wrote:

TGIFFFS

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

Toxic masculinity is many things, and in this case it's just... silly.

https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/congressman-tells-fox-news-i-dont-drink-out-of-a-straw-brother-thats-what-the-women-in-my-house-do/

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

surprisingly annoying: programmatically getting the formatted text out of a Google Sheet. i ended up having to do a silly workaround with an export-to-HTML-table (which is of course itself all kinds of quirky)

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)") wrote:

At the weekend, a group of trans women protested topless at the Scottish Parliament about the recent Supreme Court ruling that the Equality Act defines women as "biological women". The police couldn't arrest them, because to arrest them for showing their breasts would be to define them as women (it's not illegal for men to be topless). And, of course, the right-wing press that reported on it censored their breasts, thereby making their point for them.

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
webhackfest@floss.social ("Web Engines Hackfest") wrote:

We're making the final preparations for the 2025 Web Engines Hackfest. This year is the biggest by far, with 150 people attending to discuss the web platform over 3 days.
Big thanks to our sponsors @igalia, @mullvadnet, Huawei & Arm who have made this event possible! 🙏
https://webengineshackfest.org/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I miss the sound of the waves.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Croatia

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
gutenberg_org ("Project Gutenberg") wrote:

Your Brain on Books: Scientists Reveal What Happens in Our Heads When We Read

By Livia Pereira

https://mymodernmet.com/research-brain-reading/

Original paper:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763425001666?via%3Dihub

#books #neuroscience

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ivy@social.lol ("ivy turner") wrote:

reminder: all transphobes are lonely

Boosted by Mastodon:
Mastodon wrote:

The Mastodon team will be at re:publica #rp25 in Berlin next week, taking part in a couple of panel discussions.

We're also hosting a side event! If you'd like to join, register via https://lu.ma/7h454kcp

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
aluhrs@toot.cafe ("Andy Luhrs") wrote:

Our team is taking a look at a long-standing gap in CSS to style browser tooltips! We aren’t sure when we’ll be able to do the work to implement this yet, but I’m going to be iterating on open issues and gaps in this explainer soon. Would love any feedback!

https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/CSSTooltipPseudo/explainer.md

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This is truly wild, unhinged shit:

https://x.com/AdamRackis/status/1925646909345058818

Imagine, if you can, spending a decade past the sell-by date of a technology stanning for it this hard because of tribal affiliation and against all evidence other than popularity!

That sounds like engineering purgatory (if not hell) to me, but I guess those tormented domains are well-populated these days. Not sure that's going to raise the TripAdvisor ratings.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:

penultimate update: the print magazines are confirmed to arrive on may 27th, so pre-orders will begin going out THAT DAY! 🩷

the website will launch on may 26th! further updates after that date will be on the website :)

be sure to sign up for the mailing list to get notified when the website and orders go live!

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
marcioaleks ("Marcio Aleksandravicius") wrote:

Firefly taking flight

Attachments:

• video: 5955007688c8747b.mp4

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

There are also ventilation structures for the various railroad and subway tunnels that cross the NYC rivers, but their smaller size makes them less prominent. (The electric trains that use these tunnels don't produce exhaust that has to be as aggressively vented as in an automotive tunnel).

Let me just mention that photographing buildings from across the major avenues during the day in midtown Manhattan is like playing a video game in "extreme hardcore" mode.

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

Manhattan boasts six large ventilation towers serving the four automobile tunnels that cross the Hudson and East Rivers: two each for the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, and one each for the Queens-Midtown and Brooklyn Battery Tunnels.

All sport an industrial art deco design reflecting their early/mid 20th century construction. Their large scale and lack of windows lends them an air of mystery; the exterior of the Battery Tunnel building was used as the secret HQ in the Men in Black films.

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

The Lincoln Tunnel, opened in 1937, is a multi-tube automobile tunnel that connects midtown Manhattan with Weehawken, NJ under the Hudson (North) river. To provide fresh air and remove dangerous car exhaust, three ventilation towers (two in Manhattan and one in NJ) exchange the air in the tunnels approximately every 90 seconds.

Infrastructure is heroic.

I didn't notice the "Camera Use Prohibited" sign until it was too late. I guess their secret is out now.

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

Rodenstock HR Digaron-W 32mm/4.0 lens (@ f/7.1), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 64), Cambo WRS 1250 camera, shifted vertically -5mm, horizontally -15mm. Cropped a bit.

This humble and functional, yet handsome, art deco structure is the easternmost of three ventilation towers for the Lincoln Tunnel and was completed with its first tube in 1937. The facade was refurbished about ten years ago. It also hosts a large array of cellular telephone base station antennas.

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

Lincoln Tunnel Ventilation Tower, 491 11th Ave, NYC, 2025.

All the pixels, none of the carbon monoxide, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54365775629

#photography

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

WHY THE FUCK WERE THEY NOT DOING THAT BEFORE

(yes, I know, systemic sexism, but also WHAT THE FUCK TO THAT TOO)

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5403880/iud-insertion-pain-treatment-acog

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

RIP my favorite shirt. Too many holes after this last wash. You will be missed.

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

@adam I voted yes, because I’m all about building community online. I also want my answer to reflect that there is already infrastructure *and* expertise for evaluating and compiling online resources: Libraries! Libraries of all types are staffed with trained information professionals who do and share this work every day. Many of us have master’s degrees and do so much more than recommend books (although we do that too) — we are out here fighting misinformation and disinformation.