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

the Russians were unable to break NATO despite trying hard over decades, but Herr Trump has succeeded in doing so in just a few months.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15nped8znko

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Hard to believe I was there just a few weeks ago. It feels like forever ago now. Croatia.

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

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Croatia

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

There are all sorts of inconveniences I put up with. I wait in lines. I take out the trash. I pay my taxes and bills. I wait at red lights. All that stuff “wastes” valuable time, money, and energy, yet most of us still do them.

Putting on a mask is a drop in the bucket by comparison.

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resuna@ohai.social ("Resuna") wrote:

@isagalaev @jamey

1991 - Maxtor 8760E 5.25" ESDI drive 760MB storage, was the largest Winchester ever at the time.

Just under $2000 each

We got them installed in all our development servers and finally could fit an entire build of our product in a single file system.

We were still backing up to 60MB tape cartridges.

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

When people say "scientists (or experts generally) are untrustworthy because they change their opinions all the time", they're actually describing an important reason science is *more* trustworthy.

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

(So absurd we can register inefficient, oversized SUVs that are a danger to everyone that's not a passenger, but not an efficient little utility vehicle.)

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

I can't register a kei truck in Oregon "because they were not manufactured for U.S. highways."

https://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/DMV/Pages/vehicle/vehicletypes.aspx

But I can register some sort of "Assembled Vehicle" with who knows what sort of manufacturing quality. It makes me want to "assemble" something like a kei truck and get it registered. 😆

(I wish I had the ability and orneriness to do this.)

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

HHS Secretary RFK Jr is proposing banning NIH-funded researchers from publishing in top-tier journals, including JAMA and Lancet.

This is bonkers for all sorts of reasons, but let me just mention one. He points out that Lancet has retracted articles. This is factually correct, but it's a reason these journals are *more* trustworthy, not less.

Journals and peer review don't guarantee that what's published is "correct". It's merely the best process we have to get closer to finding the truth.

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

I once heard a joke that the highest level programming language was "graduate student". This was back in the day before all this "AI" hype, and I think it still expresses something that our society seems to desperately want to ignore.

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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Harvard Crimson- A federal judge ordered the release of Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard Medical School researcher who has been fighting deportation proceedings for nearly three months, from ICE custody. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/29/judge-petrova-ice-release/

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mervelous ("Merve Kayikci") wrote:

„You must begin by unlearning what you have learned.“ – Yoda

Und es wird Zeit, dass ich Mastodon lerne, wenn ich mit Pia Lexa und @mellifluousbox auf der #rp25 das spannende Fedivers-Fellowship „Reinvent Social Plattforms“ vorstelle, bei dem @infodesignerin @annaneifer @lxplm @M3phist0 @praxeology und Yasmina Al-Gannabi daran arbeiten, bestehende soziale Plattformen für den SWR und die ARD neu zu denken.

Danke, dass so viele da waren. Danke für euer Interesse und euer Vertrauen!

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

The COVID virus doesn't care who you voted for. I'm not masking up and getting vaccinated to make a political statement. I'm doing it to protect my health.

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

With new COVID-19 variants looming and renewed attacks on vaccines, masks, and other basic preventative measures, I just want to mention that:

- I still routinely mask up in crowded or poorly ventilated spaces. I mask on planes and trains. I teach with my mask on.

- I test any time I'm feeling under the weather.

- I plan to get the updated vaccine.

I'd *prefer* not to do any of this, but at worst, it's in the "mild inconvenience" category, and far preferable to long-term disability.

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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

jwz wrote:

The "Expore" tab just boosted "27 Forgotten Ground Beef Recipes That'll Make Your Family Beg For..."

Yeah, it's time to just block the instance flipboard dot com.

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

About Good Internet:

"Good Internet is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit print and digital quarterly magazine for personal website owners and those interested in using the internet as a means of self-expression, art, and recreation."

This is fun. I love it. https://goodinternetmagazine.com/about/

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vmaderna@mastodon.art ("Victoria Maderna") wrote:

Still needs some refining and priming and painting but I made this little guy for Federico.

I hadn't done any sculpting for a long time but I really really love it - I definitely need to make more time for it 😊

#claysculpting #shrew #MastoArt

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

My question for the "Golden Dome" system is the same as my question for all other defense contracting proposals: "is this more cost-effective than firing shrink-wrapped pallets of $100 bills at the target"

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tygerkrash@mastodon.ie ("TygerKrash") wrote:

Waiter: Good Evening sir, would you like to hear the specials?

Customer: Yes , please .

Waiter: THIS TOWN (tow-own) IS COMING LIKE A GHOST TOWN.

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

Last month, The Whitest Kids You Know re-uploaded their It’s Illegal to Say video. https://youtube.com/watch?v=KivCRqfFcqY

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WorfEmail@mas.to ("Worf Email") wrote:

Mother,

I have been thinking about life and mortality today. I would rather die gloriously in battle than from a virus. In a way it does not matter. But in a way it does.

Worf

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catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Reading the news deals 1d6 psychic damage per article.

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catandgirl@socel.net ("Cat and Girl") wrote:

For whomst the bell tolls.

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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

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neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

My business model of selling tours of people's homes doesn't work if I have to get their consent.

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

Captured with a small mirrorless camera and 18mm lens, on a small tripod. I had no shifting lens, so this was shot head on with a wide lens and then cropped.

Harsh midday sun is normally not ideal for architectural photos, but the hard shadows nicely brought out the clapboard siding of this rather dilapidated old former antique shop (which was demolished and cleared a few years later).

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

Skin Deep Antiques, Alviso, CA, 2013.

All the pixels, good as new, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/10268102744

#photography

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edsu@social.coop ("Ed Summers") wrote:

University of Chicago's Library teamed up with the university's Data Science Institute to start mirroring and making accessible US federal data, including what looks like a verbatim copy of `ftp://ftp.census.gov/geo/tiger`

https://datamirror.lib.uchicago.edu/

This is no small feat! There's a bit more info is available at https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/uchicago-data-mirror-website-launched-to-protect-access-to-public-datasets/