Mastodon Feed: Posts

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

The future is looking bleak.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/13/theyre-not-geniuses-theyre-pretentious-twits/

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

We have somehow created a forum where there's a 10% chance of being argued with if you post an edgy, controversial political opinion and a 50% chance of being scolded if you share artwork someone doesn't like.

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

Love rediscovering CHVRCHES every few years. Lauren Mayberry knows how to write a song.

https://youtu.be/uVAvlAYAvnU

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org wrote:

Big update: The Internet Archive has launched a new version of GifCities, the search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. It's now easier to explore the glitter, chaos, and charm of early web animation.

Search better. Share better. Blink more.

Learn more: https://blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/keep-on-gifin-a-new-version-of-gifcities-internet-archives-geocities-animated-gif-search-engine/

Attachments:

• video: Teaser video featuring a sample of animated gifs, starting with a finger beckoning to the user, then the famous dancing baby.

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

Relief is always just around the corner.

We don't need to treat drivers with dignity because soon, robots will do the job.

We don't need to regulate plastic bottles, because soon, plant based bottles will replace them.

Is it the media's job to keep track of these claims and inform the public that this is almost always PR bullshit? No! That's someone else's job! A robot, perhaps.

#Amazon

https://www.theverge.com/news/680258/amazon-training-package-delivery-humanoid-robots

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

Captured with a small full frame mirrorless camera and 21mm lens.

A six second exposure created a motion study; we can see how people move around the plaza. Or perhaps they're ghosts.

Compositionally, this is mostly a study of circles and rings, with an imaginary diagonal radiating from the fountain to the man with the camera in the lower right.

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

Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, NYC, 2013.

All the pixels, none of the carefully landscaped nature, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/10374715704

#photography

Boosted by Mastodon:
andypiper@macaw.social ("Andy Piper") wrote:

Good morning #PubConf2025

Boosted by jwz:
demofox@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

We did not punch enough nazis

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

shel silverstein on the LLM, 1981

Boosted by jwz:
violetblue ("Violet Blue") wrote:

New:

- OSINT on all new federal vax advisory members, including a former IDF official, James Pagano's awful novels, Heritage/Brownstone ties
- Global #Covid surge updates
- Vaccine updates; Metrix exits Amazon
- Pedro Pascal looking hot in a mask

https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-june-12-131293492 #LongCovid

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

The Washington Hilton, completed 1965, was designed by architect William Tabler. It's notable not only for its distinctive exterior, but also for the prominent events hosted there. The hotel is or has been home to the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, the National Prayer Breakfast, the Shmoocon conference, and the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, among many other things.

It has extensive back-of-house facilities and security features to accommodate high profile VIPs.

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

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