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

Show up!

As we're now still in the peaceful protest phase here in the U.S., the single most important thing you can do to prevent it from advancing to violent is to show up. Numbers do matter, and those who would escalate violence will be more hesitant if there's a lot of us on this side.

So head over to https://nokings.org/, choose a spot and show up. I'll be in #Seattle tomorrow. See you there or anywhere.

#uspol #nokings

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social ("mandy brown") wrote:

“Artificial intelligence is currently busy completely de-*caring* human existence by optimizing life and doing away with the future as a source of care.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/de-caring

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
lzg ("lenazun") wrote:

I feel like a lot of the protest advice I see is very good but it assumes you will get gassed, kettled, arrested or targeted for arrest later. the vast majority of people will hopefully go, wave a sign around, see their neighbors for a while, and then go home early. THE VAST MAJORITY. don't be scared.

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foofaraw@beep.town wrote:

It was my extraordinary pleasure to chat with @latte about her amazing site, media guides, comics, movies, and more! Be sure to check out her delightful site: https://anhvn.com/ https://beep.town/@foofaraw/114676895084152575

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sleepless@social.lol ("Courtney") wrote:

It’s becoming increasingly common to see bloggers admit using generative AI to enhance their posts. The justification is always some version of, “It’s like a supercharged spelling checker.”

There’s an unsettling feeling to this, though. On the one hand, I truly appreciate the honesty. On the other, I’d much rather read the version untouched by big data, probability, and a simulacrum of Understanding™.

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

Freethoughtblogs podcast tomorrow!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/13/tomorrow-is-another-podcast-day/

https://www.youtube.com/live/KMjBJ6tRJVY

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay 🇪🇺") wrote:

Me: It doesn't have a tail, so I'm pretty sure it's a hamster.

Tech support: “sigh”

Fine. Right click on your hamster...

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
latte@mastodon.online ("a new hope :blobcatcoffee:") wrote:

I answered some questions about my media diary and consumption habits over on foofaraw! Talking movies, comics, and games 🤠

https://foofaraw.press/anh/

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

This is June? Gray drizzly weather for the last few days.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/13/gray-days/

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simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

"Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections" is an excellent new paper that provides six design patterns to help protect LLM tool-using systems (call them "agents" if you like) against prompt injection attacks

Here are my notes on the paper https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/13/prompt-injection-design-patterns/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Safari at WWDC '25: The Ghost of Christmas Past

https://infrequently.org/2025/06/the-ghost-of-christmas-past/

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RiversideBryan@pixelfed.social ("Bryan 🏳️‍🌈 Pixelfed") wrote:

🐣🐥🐥🐣 #Ducklings fluffy-butt-friday

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ufwupdates@union.place ("UFW") wrote:

Picking radishes is no easy task. Efrén spends 8-10 hrs/day on his knees, picking and sorting the radishes into small bunches to fill dozens of crates a day in CA's Ventura County. He's proud to have worked in America's fields for 49 years. #WeFeedYou

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• video: f964330d86404b71.mp4

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
harmonycorrupted@noods.fun ("Harmony") wrote:

@fromjason it's never developed a distinct personality and then the admins started doing their best to suppress the original users and ignore any request for decent moderation amidst numerous scandals. "Wow! This is like old Twitter!" was what most new users said after it's stopped being invite-only. Which just underlines the platform's banality and irrelevance even more

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

There are very few homegrown #Bluesky personalities. The platform has had virtually zero impact on Internet culture.

Almost everyone on the discovery page are aging millennials trying to casually work their old Twitter follower count into normal conversation.

Bluesky's problem isn't that it's a left wing echo chamber. It's stale. It's out of touch. It's a Gap commercial set to a Katie Perry song.

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

New voices and fresh ideas are what make social media platforms sticky.

#Bluesky has neither. The BS team was so eager to ride the wave of X-ugees defecting to the site, that they helped to re-platform a lot of the same tired political voices that reigned for a decade on Twitter.

These are the political personalities who cut their teeth on a very corporatized interpolation of progressivism, and have found it difficult to survive in this new anti-corporate world.

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

IBM Plex Mono is a surprisingly great fixed-width font. Which I've known, but it does really well at both code and prose, which not all monospaced fonts manage.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
amoroso@oldbytes.space ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

For the past year or so The Blisscast Journal has been publishing GUI Wonderland, a nice blog series on the origins and evolution of GUIs. Here goes weekend, for weeks.

https://blisscast.wordpress.com/tag/gui-wonderland

#retrocomputing #gui

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/

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• 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

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

Good morning #PubConf2025

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demofox@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

We did not punch enough nazis

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

shel silverstein on the LLM, 1981

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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

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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.