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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

If there's anything that illustrated the hollowness of the Democratic Party as an effective opposition for me, it's this.

Yesterday, I watched a video of a sitting US Senator being thrown to the ground and cuffed by fed goons for asking questions of the fed official he has direct oversight authority over.

Within minutes, I'd gotten DOZENS of texts from Dems and Dem orgs asking for $5-$50 to "fight fascism."

That's it. "Are you terrified that your country is slipping into fascism? Pay me."

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

For We the People to halt Trump’s autocratic breakthrough, millions of Americans need to feel like we’re part of something bigger. We need to understand that we’re part of a movement. We need to feel like we will win.

That’s where tomorrow’s #NoKings Day comes in. https://indivisibleteam.medium.com/the-strategic-logic-of-the-no-kings-protests-e92e9dd27465

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nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

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

New photo galleries up now: OBSCURA, HUBBA HUBBA REVUE, LORDS OF ACID, SORRY FOR PARTY ROCKING, DARK SPARKLE, AFTER LIFE, BIG COUNTRY, MONDAY NIGHT HUBBA
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#dnalounge #obscura #atheist #origin #decrepitbirth #fractaluniverse #metal #technicaldeathmetal #progmetal #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco #hubbahubbarevue #burlesque #lordsofacid #littlemissnasty #acidhouse #industrial #sorryforpartyrocking #pauz #bigroom #darksparkle #gothic #glam # ...

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
emma@orbital.horse ("Emma Loves ☕️") wrote:

@GoodNewsGreyShoes @fromjason that clown's never been on our side. He made his fortune by fucking over independent internet radio back at the turn of the century.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
GoodNewsGreyShoes@mastodon.art ("GoodNewsGreyShoes🔞") wrote:

@fromjason "I'm sick of being called a Nazi, here, so I'm gonna move to the platform of the dude who gave two Nazi salutes at a commencement speech."

Why, I can't think of a better way to prove those accusers r̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ wrong!🤗🙄

#X #USPol #Fascism

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("Joe Groff") wrote:

copy on wrong

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

"I can't even talk about the thing that wants to take your jobs, or how I am very good at wage theft, or how I'll definitely find a new way to profit off sick Americans, anymore.

Anyway, I'm going back to the white supremacist guy who wants to overthrow our government.

Why doesn't anyone like me?"

#Bluesky

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:

Any time anyone tells you that they have a method for doing something that doesn't require learners to make assumptions or learn a theory

It means they don't want you to look at the assumptions or theories they're smuggling in for some reason

jwz wrote:

Further HLS antics.

I think maybe I have gotten the DNA Lounge webcast behaving better, but not entirely, and I could use some help understanding what's going wrong. I think one of the things that did help was increasing the segment size from 2s to...
https://jwz.org/b/ykpW

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
alissaazar@kolektiva.social ("Alissa Azar") wrote:

There are rumors being spread nationwide about proud boys and Trump supporters infiltrating protests against ICE and that they plan on instigating and escalating to make protesters “look bad” etc. I thought this was really obvious cointelpro to defend peace policing and encourage distrust to anyone in bloc or any direct action, especially ahead of the weekend, but I’m seeing more and more people spread this.

Please please pleaseeeee spread calm and not panic. Rumors like this happen frequently when stuff is popping off and it can cause chaos very quickly.

If there is an active threat or cause for concern from the far right I promise you there are so many Antifascist researchers all over the country paying close attention and you will hear it from them before any random liberal account or org making these claims with no evidence.

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein I direct your attention to the calendar
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2025/06/13.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

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.

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

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
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/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
RiversideBryan@pixelfed.social ("Bryan 🏳️‍🌈 Pixelfed") wrote:

🐣🐥🐥🐣 #Ducklings fluffy-butt-friday

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