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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Water on the stairs. Croatia.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 160
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Croatia

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

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Is Pivoting to Defense Contracting:

"Meta isn’t quietly accumulating cloud contracts through defense subcontractors or merely relaxing its policies to allow the military to build on its open-source AI models. It’s unapologetic about working with the U.S. military and wants everyone — but especially the still-skeptical leadership of the current administration — to know it."

They’re pivoting ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/05/31/mark-zuckerbergs-meta-is-pivoting.html

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nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

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dhry ("The Peter Pan of Nerdery™ 🇦🇺🏜️") wrote:

#lego #homer #bushes

Edit: we is fedi-trending, folks! 🎉

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• video: b4eeb95d93743415.mp4

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tyiart@mastodon.art wrote:

so yeah after a week hiatus, this is the first thing i drew.

#art #mastoart #artistsonmastodon #digitalart #funnyart #sillyart #sillymemes #funnymemes #frog #frogart

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I am writing an article about Emacs, but because I want to write it on the iPad, I am writing it in Obsidian. The irony is not lost on me.

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

"Who designed this?" you might ask.

Small NYC brownstones such as the one shown here were generally either built from the start as multi-family tenements, or were built as single-family homes and later subdivided into apartments. In the former case, the layout into individual units was part of the original design and generally fairly sane. In the latter case, landlords often tried to squeeze every square inch of rentable space out of the existing layout, at the expense of things like hallways.

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

Captured with a small mirrorless camera and 50mm lens.

This hallway reminded me of a sight gag in the Coens' "Inside Llewyn Davis". I like that the two neighbors have to share a doormat.

The starkly bare hallway and contrasting tones between the walls and the doors and floor make this as much a study in abstract shapes as it is about urban living.

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

Hallway, NYC, 2014.

All the pixels, complete with cozy pre-war charm, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/13337114073

#photography

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

I’m going to wave my hands in the air and declare those pig ribs “done”

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

I read a thing that depressed me, was going to whine about it, and then decided to think about what I could do that’s positive and productive instead.

https://notes.neatnik.net/2025/05/come-make-some-candles-with-me

I’m offering a web development apprenticeship (focused on PHP, HTML, and CSS) to one person during July. Details and application info in the link above. I think it’ll be a lot of fun!

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

o hi

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

What does meta want with 25,000 miles of deep sea cable 😭

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sophie@catgirl.cloud ("⛧-440729 [sophie]") wrote:

hey france if you don't stop calling our stations frankfurt gare centrale we'll start calling yours paris ostbahnhof

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

In the center of this blurry photo is an out-of-focus dead mosquito that was lowered to me on a strand of spider silk.
You're welcome!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/31/i-feel-a-bit-cthulhu-esque/

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

oh, now I think I see why propagation suxs so bad today #HamRadio https://universeodon.com/@g7izu/114603207868735463

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

OpenAI is featuring a "Looksmaxxing GPT" that provides "PSL ratings" for photos. It will rate people as "subhuman", and advise men to get invasive procedures like jaw surgery to "increase their sexual market value" among women, who it describes as "hypergamous by nature".

"PSL" is short for "PUAhate Sluthate Lookism", a group of three manosphere/incel communities. PUAHate came to public attention after Elliot Rodger's 2014 mass shooting in Isla Vista, California, when it came out that he frequented the platform to talk about his "incel" status.

After uploading a photo, this GPT gives ratings like "Subhuman", "Low Normie / High Subhuman Borderline (White)", or "high-tier normie, borderline Chadlite".

It proactively offers to provide "hardmaxxing" (medical interventions like plastic surgery) or "softmaxxing" advice (grooming, fitness training, etc).

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g7izu@universeodon.com ("G7IZU RRD") wrote:

Space Weather

A polar cap absorption event is in progress thanks to an increase in solar electrons and protons following the M8.2 flare.

A strong G3 geomagnetic storm watch has been predicted by NOAA for 01 June, and a "G4 or Greater" storm is predicted for 02 June.

#spaceweather

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

I love this change to The Great Highway, used to walk there a lot

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/san-francisco-highway-park.html?smid=url-share

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

defending Medicaid cuts, Senator (R-Iowa) Joni Ernst says: ‘We all are going to die’

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

"Evan’s life was in our hands, and for five years America kept him alive with antiretroviral medicines costing less than 12 cents a day"

5-year-old Evan is dead now

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/opinion/rubio-usaid-africa.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.LU8.Kd13.sTmNRVd92tEz&smid=url-share

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

I keep wondering why ppl are not going to jail for lying to the Courts...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/politics/trump-deportation-el-salvador.html?rsrc=flt&smid=url-share

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devopscats@toot.cat wrote:

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

well, I can get this endfed to tune up no longer than 80m... maybe I'll see if the local repeater network is working okay in this rain

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

nah duh

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

trying a CQ on 80m JS8 now

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

okay, lots of automated HB responses but nobody really home for CQ responses

boo hoo hoo #HamRadio JS8

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

trying a CQ on 40m JS8 now 📡

#HamRadio

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

@N4JAW meant to say: you have inspired me... I ordered one of these so I can go bike-portable if not also bike-mobile ;^}

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

2nd & 3rd HB contacts on 40m JS8 #HamRadio 📡

rain rain go away, goddddammit