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Murderbot surveillancebots.
Check out this dystopian shit: I see this almost every night. After a hard day of spending 16+ hours deadheading around the city with no passengers, clogging roads, endangering pedestrians and surveilling everybody, the...
https://jwz.org/b/yko1
Mastodon FeedI am really enjoying this series W0rldtr33, which takes the positions that A) the Internet is very literally evil, and B) the Internet is a physical thing that can be blown up with bombs...
https://jwz.org/b/ykoy
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Look it has a gold star on it what more do you want
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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
I have mixed feelings about Le Corbusier's architecture (to say nothing of his urban planning philosophy - he clearly influenced Robert Moses), but I think the UN Secretariat building was one of his successes.
An aside: If you look at the full resolution version (downloadable on flickr), you can see the HF amateur radio antenna on the roof. Nerds are everywhere, even/especially at the UN. There's also a family taking a group picture on the street in front.
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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
The UN Secretariat building was designed by an international team of architects (most notably Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer) and completed in 1950. It was the first important "International Style" modernist skyscraper in New York - exemplified here here by a simple, unadorned rectangle with reflective glass curtain walls on either side.
Glass box office buildings became almost cliche in mid-century NYC, but the UN remains unusual in being set apart in the skyline, uncrowded by neighbors.
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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
Love them or hate them, mid-century rectangular glass curtain buildings like this are easy to dismiss as being "boring", but I think that misses something.
Reflections of the surroundings become part of the facade, which changes at different angles and throughout the day. I visited several times and made dozens of photos, all quite different, before I settled on this one, and there are infinitely many photos others could make, all unique. (Similar to the new World Trade Center in this regard).
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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
Captured with the Phase One Achromatic back and the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR-Digaron lens, with the back shifted down 8.5mm to maintain the building's geometry. I brought out contrast in the sky with a polarizer, but otherwise used no color contrast filtration. The camera was positioned across the avenue about 10 meters up from the plaza level (at the bottom of the "canyon" of the skyline reflected in the bottom center of the building).
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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
United Nations General Assembly Building, NYC, 2021.
All the pixels, none of the simultaneous translation, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51381729335
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Does #bonfiresocial have an instance you can signup for?
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404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:
Meta previously lost its shit at 404 Media when we reported that someone had paired facial recognition tech with the company's smart glasses. Now Meta is building the invasive technology itself.
🔗https://www.404media.co/well-well-well-meta-to-add-facial-recognition-to-glasses-after-all/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
from a friend
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QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:
Today is the 10 year anniversary of the death of Kalief Browder—a Black teen falsely accused of stealing a backpack. For more than 700 days, Browder was held in solitary confinement for more than 23 hours a day. The mental trauma and torture he suffered was fatal, and on June 6, 2015 he died by suicide.
We must end this torture in the United States, once and for all.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/ending-legalized-torture-in-the-us
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Emily@mastodon.de ("Emily ✨") wrote:
Frech aber auch
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mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:
Just made my third update to my #junited2025 post (https://krrd.ing/blog/junited2025) with @fromjason 's ode to his moka pot (https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/the-bliss-of-good-enough-an-ode-to-my-moka-pot). It's got coffee. What gets lost in a mostly digital world. The simple things. All of that and more I'd say. Go and read it!
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Trying to get an invite code for Channel.org, and I noticed there’s a box for “High Profile Individual” which I am so I let them know. Think I’ll get a code? https://home.channel.org/
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
I'm certainly sympathetic to talent people who want to come here. But if I don't actually know you and your work, I'm not going to sign my name to something that says I do.
Mastodon Feeddenschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:
German "Internet" experts in a nutshell: InterNetX, one of the biggest domain registrars, part of United Internet (the enterprise also owning 1und1) has now introduced their latest "security enhancement":
Automatically expiring passwords.
Almost a decade after the internet world agreed that those are an impressively stupid idea.
I'm so incredibly tired.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
In the last week, I've gotten at least three emails from strangers (from different countries) asking me (actually, generically addressed to "Dear Professor") to sign a (conveniently attached) letter of support attesting to their exceptional talent for US immigration purposes.
This is essentially soliciting what could plausibly be portrayed as visa fraud even under normal circumstances. In the current environment, it's pure insanity.,
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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:
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markwyner@mas.to ("Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:") wrote:
This is Giant Fruit Bat, known as a “flying fox.” Their wingspan can extend to four feet.
Photographer Hardik Shelat captured the beautiful animal in a rare daytime appearance. It came out of its nocturnal slumber to cool off in the intense Indian heat.
#Photography #Animals #Nature #Bats #GiantFruitBat #FlyingFox #HardikShelat
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cory@follow.coryd.dev ("Cory Dransfeldt :demi:") wrote:
@fromjason Is he talking to an empty chair because nobody could bear to listen to him?
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SrRochardBunson@universeodon.com ("Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson") wrote:
If there is no habeas corpus, it's time to have us corpses, right?
:blobcatthink:
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
I wrote up some thoughts about how this site came together and what we get out of different data visualizations. For a long time I've been resistant to building web stuff, and I think that might have finally broken https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/06/new-website-for-malaika/
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
my friend malaika is an incredibly talented and prolific crossword constructor—AND she keeps great records of her publications. I made her a very cool website that shows everything she's made https://malaikahanda.com
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lespreuh ("Lëspreüh") wrote:
Baby one more time 🎵
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Apple’s continued obsession with Bono is so weird. Who asked for this documentary? We’re all still recovering from the U2 album iTunes incident lol.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The democrats would bring in Trump himself if the opportunity presented itself. Spineless, selfish, feckless assholes.
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kangaroo5383 ("J Lam 👩🏻💻👩🏻🎨") wrote:
The current timeline 🥲
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JonBaker ("Jon Baker") wrote:
Gonna tell my kid this is the White House
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
When are we going to finally admit that Democrats, and their core sycophantic base, are the new conservatives?
They don't care about protecting marginalized people. They don't care about equity and equality. They damn sure don't care about dismantling systems of oppression.
All they care about is holding onto enough power so that they're in the room when a stock-portfolio decision is being made.
We are so incredibly fucked. There's no one in our government fighting for us.