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

Radio nerditry: at least two HF pirates on the air right now audible in DC: 6930 kHz and 6950 kHz, both USB, both playing classic rock.

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ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

This is rough. @mattl is one of the best people. https://github.com/foocorp/hacienda/discussions/117

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

I hope the study was carried out by eight paediatricians
https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar/114598856078750128

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

this AI slop can harm children:

“the errors in the report were characteristic of the use of generative artificial intelligence”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/well/maha-report-citations.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.LE8.6rb6.cs%5FwAhku23Ou&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:

this is it -- GOOD INTERNET magazine is LIVE, BABY~ 🥂 🎊 🥳

https://goodinternetmagazine.com/
https://goodinternetmagazine.com/
https://goodinternetmagazine.com/

i present the spring 2025 issue of GOOD INTERNET, featuring stories by @binarydigit, @internetarchive, @Leilukin, @greg, @surprisetalk, and SO MUCH MORE!

with only 6.5 hours to go before my surgery, the website is now launched! you can order physical or digital copies of the magazine! :) there are some initial stories on the website now, but more are coming over the next week, so keep an eye on your RSS feeds!!

‼️quick note: pre-ordered print editions will begin shipping out this week (!!!) and digital editions will go out this week as well to emails!

🙏 THANK YOU SO MUCH to EVERYONE who helped with this. thank you to the contributors (like @robb/ @echofeed, & @adam/ @omgdotlol). thank you to the writers, thank you to everyone who thought about this project, shared it with others, and got the word out. i am so so so stoked to bring y'all this.

🕛 issue 2 is in the fall! :) get your submission ideas in!!

#html #css #web #indieweb #smallweb #socialmedia #internet #enshittification #website #webdev #webdesign #neocities #indie #zine #coding #code #personalweb #blog #blogging

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

Saw this beautiful Pac-Man fractal in Graz, Austria.
#PacMan #Fractal #StreetArt

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

Controversial ‘lost’ Jerry Lewis film discovered in Sweden after 53 years | The National:

"The actor also revealed that his initial copy was missing the opening six-minute sequence of the film shot in Paris, which was mailed to him anonymously in 1990, along with a note saying that the sender knew he possessed a copy of the rest of the film."

Cool as hell. https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/film-tv/2025/05/29/jerry-lewis-day-the-clown-cried-discovered/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:

I might actually like this write up my uni just published on #othernetworks and the @mediaarchaeologylab go figure https://www.colorado.edu/cmcinow/roads-net-taken

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gedankenstuecke@scholar.social ("Bastian Greshake Tzovaras") wrote:

«AI systems are an attack on workers, climate goals, our information environment, and civil liberties. Rather than enhancing our human qualities, these systems degrade our social relations, and undermine our capacity for empathy and care.»

Nice writing by @patatas!

https://thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/ai-is-dehumanization-technology.html

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

Wow, I'm sure there are a lot of people who wish they'd been lucky enough to punch Musk in the face.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/30/the-children-are-squabbling/

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

Spartan Mosquito Pro is a garbage company selling a garbage product and suing people who complain about it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/30/spartan-mosquito-pro-save-your-money/

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MisterMadge@universeodon.com ("Alex 🔧🔮🌎🪿:honk:") wrote:

@maxleibman

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sjvn wrote:

Yes, please.

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SordidAmok ("Sordid Amok!") wrote:

The antidote to materialism isn't minimalism; it's maintenance. Keep things. Fix them. Mend them. Grow old with possessions you know well because you've cared for them.

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

This is part of a set of two similarly framed images of Vegas. This one, made during the day, shows the strip at its most depressing, looking like a failed mega-mall and theme park that you might find off a forgotten exit near an interstate highway. The other one, at night, shows the strip at its best, such as it is, with the lights and excess at least hinting at some sense of glamor and excitement

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

This is a composite of two captures with the Rodenstock 70mm HR-Digaron-W lens, each made with the back shifted up 15mm, and then with the individual captures shifted 18mm left and right, respectively. The result is two "side-by-side" 4x3 vertical images, with just enough overlap to allow them to be stitched together into a single 5x7 horizontal frame, yielding a total of about 270 megapixels.

The equivalent field of view on a "full frame" 35mm camera would be roughly that of a 26mm lens.

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

Las Vegas Strip (Daylight), Paradice, NV, 2023.

Place your bets for additional pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53029077258/

#photography

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jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.

What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.

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

What's the past tense of smile? Smelt?

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

I specifically had it added into my contracts that my covers had to be done by actual human artists, and any stock art non-AI generated. Also that my editing and translations have to be done by humans. So, uhhh, yeah.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@spawn%5Fof%5Fechidna/post/DKP9O1STmiM

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

well, suck eggs:

“…recent macroeconomic factors are contributing to today’s sell-off in tech stocks. Key drivers include persistent inflation, interest rate uncertainty, concerns about tariffs and trade policy, slowing manufacturing, and weakening consumer and business sentiment. These factors have raised fears of slower economic growth and pressured earnings forecasts for major technology firms, prompting investors to reduce exposure to the sector”

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

Governance by ChatGPT coming along swimmingly I see

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdj98vrzpyvo

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

Kanopy - Stream Classic Cinema, Indie Film and Top Documentaries

Just signed up. The library is cool, man. https://www.kanopy.com/en

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janelith@hol.ogra.ph ("Janet") wrote:

I'm very impressed by the lengths people will go to mentally to imply that their specific vision of something is the only one that can possibly exist and that your specific vision causes harm but without explaining why.

Especially funny because I was only speaking about interest in federated git forges, which I joined from Mastodon, and they implied federation enforces mini dictatorships. Which was very funny to hear... on their discord server.

To be clear, you can run a federated forge host exactly like codeberg, and it can operate with all the same rules, membership, voting, federating/defederating, and that still allows users that codeberg doesn't protect to create their own home.

It's crazy because i've seen how all over the world major countries are just ignoring horrific atrocities right now, and communities dont protect those they dont care about.

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Viss wrote:

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heydon@front-end.social ("Large Heydon Collider") wrote:

I designed @Amy_Hupe a new logo and site! https://amyhupe.co.uk

Amy is one of my vary favorite writers, so I look forward to all the posts she’s been saving up.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

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

Mastodon is blogging culture (non-derogatory)

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

This is a fantastic write up. Inspiring. Makes me want to be a better writer which is always good.

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

The kiddo participated in their school's spring concert, and one of the songs was "Duct Tape (Materia Potens et Adhaesiva)" by Mark Burrows, but it took me a bit to track that down since there's many more songs that pop up when you search for "duct tape song". Like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCrPIPpBG-g

Which I have to admit I might've preferred to hear last night. 😆