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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ancient_catbus@jorts.horse ("Catbus") wrote:

the Illuminati Hotline

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
dinosaurgerms@furries.club ("dino! 🌈") wrote:

there's an entire chapter on the C64 demoscene (of which the author was a participant) but honestly, my favorite demo? no, not the ones with mind-boggling warping effects or whatever. no. my favorite is the one below, with the PETSCII-animated cats 🐈
[ https://youtu.be/cFxQhaIwVDc ]

Attachments:

• gifv: Gif of a Commodore 64 demo featuring four cats playing, respectively, a piano, a guitar, a saxophone, and a drum. The demo is animated using the C64's PETSCII character set, so it has a delightful "chunkiness" to its animation.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Motorod ("Rod Mesa") wrote:

Crush ICE

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

How am I seeing this post? I don't follow this account, it's not using hashtags I follow, no one I follow reposted it.

Am I missing something?

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

Shaming and outrage work, in rare and specific cases

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-03/bakersfield-girl-who-faced-deportation-loss-of-lifesaving-medical-care-granted-humanitarian-parole

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
helen_bell@makertube.net ("Helen Bell") wrote:

Goose and Common

https://makertube.net/w/f4GR9veH279QGhYVFLwEck

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:

@fromjason @molly0xfff

Step 1. "Create a new wallet by first deleting your old one."

Step 2. Be free!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

It's hard to celebrate when someone like Elon Musk waltzes into the federal government, wrecks the place, and walks away seemingly with everything he wanted. But did he though? In the end, Musk left defeated, humiliated, and widely despised. That’s no small thing. We should take the win. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/elon-musk-doge-black-eye

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

ActivityPub uses ActivityStreams, which uses JSON-LD, which combines the best of both worlds

And by that I mean it makes json people angry and it makes linked data people angry

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

oh kay, I do not thunk the Gawdz of the Æther will smile upon our weekly local voice net on 50.250MHz tonight… the Sun Gawd in particular is off their meds, and thus the troposphere is roiling

📡 #HamRadio

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:

A new study, based on data from Hubble and ESA’s Gaia space telescope, has re-examined the long-held prediction of a collision and merger between the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy in ~5 billion years.

By accounting for uncertainties in existing measurements and including the gravitational influence of other nearby galaxies (the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Triangulum Galaxy), researchers found the probability of a merger in the next 10 billion years is ~50%.
🥳
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/apocalypse-when-hubble-casts-doubt-on-certainty-of-galactic-collision/
1/n

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ia@mastodon.online ("iA") wrote:

iA Writer is a finalist for the Apple Design Awards 2025! https://developer.apple.com/design/awards/

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

Mind your signals, friends. Both what you broadcast and receive.

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

@fabio I should also note that I *like* academia. Teaching and even (much of) the committee and grant work have great value. But those aren’t things a PhD trains you for, and for the most part, not what researchers are evaluated on or incentivized to excel at.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Yesterday Israeli tanks shot at Palestinians getting food from a food distribution site *the Israelis established* and killed at least 32 Palestinians.

Israel has repeatedly claimed "Hamas is stealing aid" but offered zero evidence. Now, Israel uses *TANKS* to shoot at starving Palestinians getting aid from where the Israelis told them to go to get aid.

If you still don't think this is intentional genocide, then you really are complicit & history should remember you as such.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
colo_lee@mstdn.social ("Lee from Colorado") wrote:

#ThickTrunkTuesday

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

@fabio I think I was in the last generation where it was possible to have a career like this, and it gave me a huge advantage. There's no job I've held since then that has been as nurturing and protective of my time and energy.

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

@fabio Your point about the relative brutality of academia, especially for junior researchers, is very important.

I spent my early career (the most productive, high-energy years) at Bell Labs. The most important thing, aside from great colleagues and resources, that the Labs gave me was *freedom*. I spent my time actually doing research instead of writing grant proposals, teaching classes, serving on committees, and all the other distractions that eat the majority of a junior professor's time.

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

Meanwhile, on the asshole front

(Hegseth, obviously, not Milk)

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/03/hegseth-orders-navy-strip-name-of-gay-rights-icon-harvey-milk-ship.html

Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

Last week, our colleague (and frequent Oxide and Friends guest) @steveklabnik.com made some new friends on the Internet with a blog entry on AI discourse. @bcantrill and I were joined by Steve to try to de-polarize the discussion a little.

https://youtu.be/Rpan3XUT3AE

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

"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.

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

Officially the "Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge" but more generally simply the "59th Street Bridge", the view from Sutton Place at 58th Street on the Manhattan side is probably as flattering and uncluttered a perspective as you'll find for this piece of NYC infrastructure.

Immortalized in song by Simon and Garfunkel, in literature by Fitzgerald, and in cinema by Woody Allen, something about this bridge exemplifies the glamor and bustle of 20th century New York in a way that still holds up.

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

This was captured with the Phase One IQ3-100 back, Phase One XF DSLR camera, and the Schneider 80mm/2.8 "Blue Ring" lens. I had planned to use a technical camera and the Rodenstock 70mm, providing movements, but a cable was missing from the kit I had with me in the city that night. Fortunately, the 80mm SLR lens was just wide enough to not require movements, though the Schneider lens renders highlights (as prominent starbursts) a bit idiosyncratically for my taste.

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

Queensborough (59th Street) Bridge, NYC, 2019.

Pixels to slow you down if you move too fast at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/48418025131

#photography

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

Updating talk slides so you all get to be horrified along with me at the current Starlink numbers.

There are now 7,652 Starlink satellites in orbit (>500 more than there were in February, when I last updated these particular slides).

2-3 Starlinks per day are burning up in the atmosphere. That's a lot of weird metal in the atmosphere (and undoubtedly lots of random bits getting to the ground too).

Starlink is a stupidly wasteful and dangerous way to use orbit.

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

I'm not familiar with Kate Nash or her work, but this new single "GERM" is a pretty strong statement.

(GERM is her(?) alternative to TERF in case you'd like a clue as to where the track will be going.)

https://katenashmusic.bandcamp.com/album/germ

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

We can tell when Canada is on fire.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/03/thanks-canada/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Beurkeek@peoplemaking.games ("Nina Kiel") wrote:

Wonderful news: The #StarTrek "Deep Space Nine" documentary "What We Left Behind" is now available for free on YouTube!

This is the first time European fans can watch it legally (outside of the few public screenings that happened back in 2018 when the movie was released).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u3WwFMgy5A

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

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

Dramatic portrait of a butthead cat who disappeared for five days and made all of the humans worry, and then just waltzed back through the door like nothing had happened