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

Wild running into a checker at WinCo, in their early 20s, talking to me about how they picked up an '84 Macintosh and realizing they needed to get some floppies in order to boot it.

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Saw this read body suit and felt the need to draw this cutie wearing it. :3

#MastoArt #sketchbook #sketch #doodle #penDrawing #CatEars #CatGirl

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

The skyscrapers along Park Avenue in the 40's and lower 50's are all minor engineering marvels. They're built atop the rail yard for Grand Central Terminal (an early adopter of the modern real estate concept of "air rights"). Many of the newer buildings are much taller than was anticipated when the terminal was constructed more than a century ago. This heavily constrains their foundations and anchor points, leading to unusual load-bearing designs such as the steelwork shown in the photo.

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

Captured with the Phase One IQ4-150 Achromatic back and the Rodenstock 138mm/6.5 HR Digaron-SW lens, which, unusually for large format lenses, employs a floating element integrated into the focusing helical.

This view is literally a construction site (to become the new JP Morgan building), but abstract at the same time. We see the new skyscraper, and the buildings in the background, essentially as a Mondrian-esq deconstructed tangle of lines and rectangles.

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

Skyscraper Under Construction, 270 Park Avenue, NYC, 2021.

All the pixels, no hardhat required, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51382836481

#photography

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

"Even though Google is fundamentally a spyware advertising company (some 80% of its revenue is advertising; the proportion was even higher back then), we Engineers were kept carefully away from that reality, as much as meat eaters are kept away from videos of the meat industry: don't think about it, just enjoy your steak."

https://wordsmith.social/elilla/deep-in-mordor-where-the-shadows-lie-dystopian-stories-of-my-time-as-a-googler

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

https://youtu.be/nqrG9N-cmds?si=KvpkYTNeEb4DW5Rx

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jdacee@growers.social wrote:

#liberatedmemes #memes #degrowth

Remember when the Internet was awesome and your phone wasn't a tracking device?

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

these folks operate as a Russian asset

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/07/the-base-neo-nazi-group-paramilitary-training

“Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event” - The Guardian

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bullivant@mastodon.ie ("iamBullivant") wrote:

Alan Turing died by suicide on 7 June 1954. Turing was convicted of gross indecency in 1952 and given a choice between imprisonment and probation. His probation would be conditional on his agreement to undergo hormonal physical changes designed to reduce his libido. Turing's conviction led to the removal of his security clearance and barred him from continuing with his consultancy for GCHQ. He was denied entry into the United States after his conviction.

#AlanTuring #GayRights #OnThisDay

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Drink Special @ Sorry For Party Rocking (2010-2015 Pop & EDM): Ukrainian Aircraft Carrier - Tito's Vodka, Ginger Ale, Splash of Grenadine, Lime.

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• gifv: d3591a6778833956.mp4

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Drink Special for Dark Sparkle: FEMA the Carpathian -- empress gin, honey, lemon and soda!

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jwz wrote:

I am informed that tomorrow's headlining DJ requires 6 CDJs. I assume he has 12 arms to wave in the air like he just don't care.

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mimarek@universeodon.com ("Michael Marek") wrote:

Not what we had in mind for our birdfeeder.

#Photography #Birds #Turkeys

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mast0d0nphan ("mastodonphan") wrote:

@gwagner

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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

@Lazarou now this is much better than standing around and chanting "shame on you".

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Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

LA is NOT fucking around.

"ICE agents are chased and forced to leave their neighborhood by LA residents"

https://bsky.app/profile/iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social/post/3lqy3swhz4c24

#California #LA # #ICE #USPOL #Fascism #AntiFascism #Resistance

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• video: In the hot blue LA sky two black SUVs are chased out of an LA neighbourhood, a man throws a cardbox box at the trailing vehicle and a collection of electric personal vehicles and human camera phone operators give chase

jwz wrote:

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

jwz wrote:

I 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

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

Look it has a gold star on it what more do you want

https://www.wsfa.com/2025/06/06/tsa-urges-people-stop-trying-use-costco-card-sufficient-real-id/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwKv-hBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHtnKpB0NyhY0SScC1XDnqL3gnAMfLujOIHVlpzABFU4A-%5FObGZEyH2o1RPQo%5Faem%5Fwxofdeem1cdxqhkYGn-lVQ#jws1au56yepvkb57za6d23t2eoolh67

https://www.wsfa.com/2025/06/06/tsa-urges-people-stop-trying-use-costco-card-sufficient-real-id/#jws1au56yepvkb57za6d23t2eoolh67

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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

#photography

fromjason ("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/

jsonstein@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