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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
popcornreel@mas.to ("Omar Moore") wrote:

One of the best signs of the day. #sanfrancisco #nokings #protest

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu ("European Commission") wrote:

🛬 Plane lands. Flight mode off.
💬 “Welcome to Italy! Use your mobile plan just like at home.”

8 years of free EU roaming – we've come a long way:

→ 2000s: €0.50–€1/min calls
→ 2007: roaming caps
→ 2017: the end of roaming charges
→ 2022: the improved “Roam like at home” pack extended to 2032, bringing:

🌐 Fast 5G access across the EU
💰 Protection from unexpected charges
🆘 Better access to emergency services

Fair for operators. Free for you.

#ThisIsTheEU

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
oldladyplays@wargamers.social ("Cait the Proud Trans Woman") wrote:

Just saw video of Trumpy's Big Birthday Blowout.

I was completely stunned to see the soldiers marching. Because they weren't marching. They were out for a stroll. No one was walking in step, half of them didn't even do a basic eyes left move when they passed the review stand. That's one of the most simple drill evolutions there is, you literally just *turn your head* and keep marching.

I know, I'm not US military, but drill is drill. It's been the way it is for about 300 years, since the evolution of firearms as a major weapon of war, for old reasons that don't really matter, having to do with the accuracy of those early firearms. It's retained for its ability to build cohesion, discipline, and quick instinctive response to orders.

And drill has a look to it. This was not that.

For me, that was a signal: "We don't want to be here either. We're not with him. We're here because we're good troops, and we do what we're ordered when it's a legal order. But he can't make us respect him."

Just to interpret what you can see for yourselves on the video. A good half of those troops are *not* on Trump's side.

Any vets out there want to chime in?

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
sandlapper37@mstdn.social ("ebbtide") wrote:

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
deborahh@cosocial.ca ("Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc") wrote:

"Cory Doctorow @pluralistic says Canada's internet is in desperate need of saving."

[Canada's] "policy environment rewards companies & execs who do things that are bad for the internet & bad for users, & does not punish them … " said Doctorow, a tech journalist, activist, & host of the CBC podcast: Understood: Who Broke the Internet?.

"He believes the troubles could free Canada to fix how it polices the internet — more in line with the rest of the world …"
#cdnPoli
https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/british-columbia-i8sdok9nz/-/a-rPxKtXQLTgiMbjYJM3uTDg%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0

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

@finner @evan Another thing to keep in mind: You probably *want* to believe it, and that's very dangerous.

US national elections in recent years are hotly competitive. The country is split across parties pretty evenly. This means that whatever the outcome of a presidential race, there are a *lot* of disappointed people, all primed to be receptive to claims that the outcome they wanted was stolen from them. Beware!

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

@finner @evan Does any of this this *disprove* that there was fraud in 2024 (or 2020, or 2016, or ...)?

No. It's *possible*. But saying that an election was "rigged" is an *extraordinary* claim, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, which no one has produced.

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

@finner @evan Go for it. But understand a few things:

- the supposed "smoking guns" indicating fraud in 2024, like those put forward in 2020, aren't really anything.

- elections are ultimately human endeavors, run by fallible people, and small but inconsequential "irregularities" are normal and expected. But it's often very easy to make them seem much more sinister and significant than they are.

- versions of almost everything claimed about 2024 were claimed by the MAGA people in 2020.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
wim_v12e@tilde.zone ("Wim 🅾→Ⓣ") wrote:

#SilentSunday

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
takmatsuoka@vivaldi.net ("松岡さん@散歩記録(写真)垢") wrote:

今日の散歩: なすありの径 (白川筋の花見小路通～東大路通間)
雨が止んだので夕方からちょっと散歩。

#photography #flowers #マストドン写真部

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I demand petrichor as a fragrance.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
dnkboston ("Deb Nam-Krane") wrote:

@AnnaAnthro I've been following @pluralistic for a few years, and he's been talking about this for a while. I LOVE IT. I would much rather see our former allies jail break our bs tech restrictions than throw billions at AI.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
tomstafford@mastodon.online ("Tom Stafford") wrote:

Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction
https://www.locusmag.com/Features/2009/01/cory-doctorow-writing-in-age-of.html

A page a day, every day, is a book a year

And other good advice from @pluralistic in 2009

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mxshift@treehouse.systems ("Rick Altherr") wrote:

Today's attire

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

Claude Shannon and John McCarthy predict LLMs in 1956

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

@evan Also, they’re ripping people off based on a false hope and evidently meritless claims, promising a remedy that isn't possible. But other than that…

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

ICYMI, I dug into the delays that Apple inflicted on 75+% of web features announced for iOS at WWDC. Apple is fighting browser choice tooth-and-nail while demanding applause for dropping scraps from the $20BN/yr it skims from the web with a 90+% profit rate. Arrogance and hubris incarnate:

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

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
oglaf@socel.net ("Oglaf") wrote:

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

Everything about Donald Trump is so small, except for the size of the crowds that hate him.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/15/we-know-how-to-really-hurt-donald-trump/

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

why, thanks @CARROT

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 Digaron-W lens, Phase One IQ4-150 back, a small amount of vertical shift.

The San Mateo Bridge, spanning the San Francisco Bay just south of SFO Airport, is relatively unremarkable except for its seemingly endless length. Sometimes known locally as the "S&M Bridge" for its frequently painful traffic congestion, looked at from the right distance, it can appear rather serine.

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

San Mateo Bridge and San Francisco Bay, San Mateo, CA, 2024.

All the pixels, no toll collected, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54129314405

#photography

Boosted by jwz:
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

I watched the parade in all its glory so you don’t have to.
(abc coverage on YouTube)

How bizarre.

It started with what appeared to be a military museum presentation of historical military uniforms.

The fashion show commentary over the loudspeakers was definitely a thing.

If Trump was going for something similar to one of those parades in Moscow or Pyongyang, I’m not sure he hit the mark. For one thing, no flag-waving crowds lining the parade. It looked like a double barricade and a line of police blocking what crowds did show up.

Most participants marching or driving down the street look… ashamed, or disappointed, to be there. It has more of an ancient world feel of a defeated army being paraded before the victor.

The tank parade was a bit more ominous, accompanied by some instrumental guitar rock music.

It didn’t look like many people showed up, with a lot of the shots showing empty space on both sides of the street. When they showed the people who did turn up, they looked bored. The officials looked bored too. Whatever was on their phones was often more important. Trump looked utterly disappointed. Most of the soldiers looked like they just wanted it all to be over.

I noted the Australian AC/DC song played patriotically by the live band.

I’m sure the phone calls to Kim Jong Un and Putin is going to go badly when they ask about the lack of ICBMs on display.

They didn’t even acknowledge The Cold War! (Which makes sense, I suppose. It was “cold”.)

Drones were paraded along with the other vehicles. I’m sure there weren’t any DJI drones. Surely not.

Robots made an appearance in the parade. Robot dogs, unmanned tanks, marching bands… no Atlas units yet. Don’t worry, Boston Dynamics will sell them a Terminator one day.

The fashion show commentary recommenced for a final display of dress uniforms.

Trump had West Point graduates swear their allegiance to him. Prepared propaganda promoting West Point, and an upcoming movie about the Rangers was played.

Some live country music rounded out the end of the two hour display of military patriotism. The singer said “good night” in the middle of the day.

Oh.

And it started raining.

Literally, it rained on his parade.

lol

Boosted by jwz:
cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com ("Carolyn Barber, MD") wrote:

They told Minnesotans to stay home. After the murder of Speaker Hortman and her husband—and the failed attempts on Senator Hoffman and his wife—fear was the official message.

But the people came anyway. In defiance. In grief. In purpose. This was the #NoKings rally in MN. #press

Boosted by jwz:
gwensnyder.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Gwen Snyder is uncivil") wrote:

It's not just that he and his policies are unpopular, there's a clear and demonstrated enthusiasm differential now. His base is energetically absent, ours is livid and out in the streets.

Boosted by jwz:
gwensnyder.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Gwen Snyder is uncivil") wrote:

I really really needed to see that people hadn't given up and accepted this shit as inevitable, or (even worse) embraced it. And today showed us that beautifully. No one wanted in on his tank show, but people WERE HUNGRY to tell him to go fuck himself.

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Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

So, to summarize, the Left turned out an estimated 5 million Americans in peaceful parades in support of basic Constitutional values, well-organized with no incidents, while the Right had a rinky-dink parade sponsored by Palantir and Coinbase and blink-and-you’ll-miss-it fireworks show for a crowd of hundreds, drove cars through crowds, and assassinated a state Senator

Boosted by jwz:
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

🤷🏿‍♂️ Imma keep it 100... if 10 million+ people got together on my birthday, just to un-celebrate my birthday? I'd probably cry a little.

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

Drink Special Tonight @ Secret Psychedelica & Funtcase -- NO KINGS: Crown Royal, Pepsi, Grenadine, and a Cherry

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lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Did some super light coding this weekend with GitHub Copilot’s Agentic mode.

To be honest liked it quite a bit and similar enough to what Windsurf does that I might stick with it since it’s free (not sure why).