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

The result here is about 170MP in 16x9 format, which is sufficient for very large prints that retain a great deal of detail (I've printed this at 6 feet wide).

Mid-Century Modernist architecture, and Brutalism in particular, is easy to dismiss as being superficially lifeless and uninteresting, but at its best (and with the right eye) these buildings can be seen as sculptures in the landscape. I don't always appreciate them, but they're often more interesting than they first seem.

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

This is a fairly conventional architectural composition, emphasizing the curved facade. To get a high resolution capture of the wide structure, this was made as a stitched composite of two captures with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens. The Phase One back was shifted left and right by about 12mm.

By using shift movements at a fixed perspective, the two captures can be stitched directly together into a panorama without needing to transform the frame geometry (as you would with panning).

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

Washington ("Hinckley") Hilton, Washington, DC, 2023.

All the pixels, but no room service available, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53007102796

#photography

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

"Hey, Bibi, wanna do a distraction for me?"

RE: https://www.threads.com/@griffinkyle/post/DK0me8evgdB

Boosted by jwz:
jimniels ("Jim Nielsen") wrote:

@zachleat new captchas just dropped

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

Ilhan Omar Wants to Hold Police Accountable for Protest Abuses:

"While the bill praising ICE got 75 votes from Democrats and 205 Republicans, with seven co-sponsors, Omar’s bill has only garnered three co-sponsors. Another resolution Omar introduced late last month that condemns police brutality, especially in response to protests, has no cosponsors."

Why pass a bill when corralling the base just takes a little ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/06/12/ilhan-omar-wants-to-hold.html

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
milo@masto.ai ("Milo Dide") wrote:

As 75 #Democrats #Vote to Praise ICE, Ilhan Omar Wants to Hold Police Accountable for #Protest #Abuses by @akela_lacy https://theintercept.com/2025/06/11/protests-ilhan-omar-police-accountability/?utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fsource=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

I’ve long been a fan of the Check My Ads people. Now they’re launching a really ambitious-looking “Policy Platform” aimed at cleaning up the online-advertising business. My belief is that anyone who’s had much exposure to that business or to “AdTech” probably agrees that cleanup is called for. Check it out: https://checkmyads.org/policy/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
securitymb@infosec.exchange ("Michał Bentkowski (@SecurityMB) 🦻") wrote:

Today we published two blog posts about an HTML specification change that makes mutation XSS harder to exploit! Long story short: `<` and `>` are now escaped in attributes.

* Blog post about security rationale behind this change: https://bughunters.google.com/blog/5038742869770240/escaping-and-in-attributes-how-it-helps-protect-against-mutation-xss
* Blog post about how it affects web developers: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/escape-attributes?hl=en

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
gerowen ("Marcus Adams") wrote:

Headline: Mark #Zuckerberg's Meta #AI Is One of the Most Depressing Places Online

Points of Interest:
- Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI is a stand-alone chatbot app.

- It has a public feed of people's chats — and it can be really depressing to read.

- It seems like some people are confused and don't know they're sharing their thoughts publicly.

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai-chatbot-discover-feed-depressing-why-2025-6

#Meta #Privacy

jwz wrote:

New password manager just dropped.
https://jwz.org/b/ykpO

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

The biggest scandal in AI energy usage right now deserves to be the xAI data center running on 35 methane gas turbines that don't need air permits because they are "temporary" and don't have catalytic reduction pollution controls installed because... they just didn't bother?
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/12/xai-data-center/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
annie@social.lol wrote:

cloudflare breaking half the internet again https://downdetector.com

Boosted by jwz:
guardingpearsoftware ("GuardingPearSoftware") wrote:

#cybersecurity

Boosted by jwz:
Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al wrote:

Back in '21, after we had the vaccine, there was a subreddit with a very simple premise: find social media posts of people who were anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti-lockdown, then find the social media posts from when those exact same people caught COVID and died.

Even as they were dying, most of those people couldn't admit where they'd gone wrong. Even death wasn't enough to open their eyes.

In case you were wondering if we'll ever be able to reach some of the people who got us into this shit.

Boosted by jwz:
r_flash@mastodon.r-flash.eu ("Adam P") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: A mosaic with thick black and white stripes distorted into two merged logarithmic spirals. The stripes elongate and shrink, resulting in the morphing of the overall pattern.

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

As a citizen of the rural US who nevertheless frequently goes to large cities - and was indeed in DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES FOR A WHOLE WEEK a few weeks ago, if you're one of those people who thinks cities are somehow a festering pit of whatever, you really need to pull your head out, the worst thing that happened to me in DTLA is that a bunch of cute mini-sized bananas I bought for $5 from a street vendor there got overripe super fast

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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

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

MERE ANARCHY IS LOOSED UPON THE WORLD

RE: https://www.threads.com/@veronicaroth/post/DKzvylUpHMg

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

Tried several ways to get Emacs to use proportional fonts for Markdown and Org, and fixed-width fonts for everything else (and Markdown/Org code blocks and tables). I haven’t loved the results from any attempt so far, but I’m close. Maybe. :)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social ("Bread and Circuses") wrote:

All is not lost.

We do still have options, good choices we can make that will lead to a better – or at least less disastrous – future.
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Imagine being surrounded by lush natural landscapes, buildings covered with verdant plants and vegetation complete with rooftop gardens, and cities that are completely powered by clean energy. Imagine having our technologies built in harmony with nature and shared equally with everyone on the planet. This is what our world should look like as envisioned by the solarpunk movement.
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🧵1/4

In this thread I will post several excerpts from an inspiring article at Earth.org, together with uplifting images that might raise our spirits as we seek to build a happier and more just world for our children and their children.

LEARN MORE ➡️ https://earth.org/solarpunk/

#Economics #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Degrowth #SolarPunk

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

"In the days before #Trump suddenly paused most of the punishing #tariffs on foreign countries he had revealed in early April, more than a dozen congressional lawmakers were tied to 1000s of $worth of stock transactions, incl significant purchases as stock market tumbled"

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/politics/congress-stock-market-trading-trump?cid=ios%5Fapp

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
buermann ("josh buermann") wrote:

"South Carolina Rep. RJ May, a founding member of the state’s ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, faces 10 counts of distributing child sexual abuse material... May was arrested Wednesday... according to jail records that quickly disappeared from public view... The last legislator suspended while facing federal charges was Rep. Rick Martin in 2021 [for] giving alcohol to a 15-year-old girl..."

https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/sc-representative-charged-distributing-child-sexual-abuse-material

#pedocons

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
carrideen@c18.masto.host ("Carrie Shanafelt") wrote:

NYC-area cat people! One of my best friends is going through an incredibly stressful time caretaking for a severely ill parent and is hoping to re-home her two lovely hilarious tabby cat brothers, Sal and Pablo. They're neutered, nine years old, perfectly healthy, handsome, active, and kittenish. They love to play and cuddle and greet guests eagerly. My friend, in upper Manhattan, is rarely able to be home with them and knows they need cuddles and company.

Attachments:

• video: A 7-second video of Sal and Pablo, two short-haired grey-nosed twin tabby cats purring heavily while sitting up on a pretty floral rug

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

not just ‘yes’, ‘hell yes’

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7338165541917855745?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A7338165541917855745%2C7338939947355168769%29&dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd%5Fcomment%3A%287338939947355168769%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7338165541917855745%29

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

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
matcha06 ("MatchaMakes") wrote:

i wanna know how much #meta paid for this ad in my taskbar

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

They know what their mission is and that this ain't it

RE: https://www.threads.com/@keithboykin/post/DKzLHwYxhzW

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

When a weed pokes up from within your lovely garden, you have a choice to make: you can pull it out, or you can leave it and let it grow.

If you pull it, you keep your garden lovely.

If you leave it, it’s only a matter of time before your garden is overrun with weeds. But it’s your garden, and it’s your choice.

But if you opt to leave your weeds, don’t look back on your garden later and wonder why it’s in such rough shape. You know why.

This is an online social space moderation metaphor.

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

Further evidence that the Right is oblivious to how repulsive their ideas are.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/12/dont-use-these-posters/