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

Drink Special @ Death Guild: SQUEAKY TANK: Ketel Cucumber Mint, Sour, Starry, and a Decorative Cherry!

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Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
scottwilson@infosec.exchange ("Scott Wilson") wrote:

@jerry

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

Drink Special @ Hubba Hubba: Nobody Came To My BIRTHDAY PARADE -- Bulleit rye, Fernet, sugar, bitters

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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
tusk81 ("Gabe Ortíz") wrote:

“I think I speak for the entire class when I say, ‘Christ, what a colossal dick.’” https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a65079775/utah-senator-mike-lee-minnesota-shootings/

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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
karlauerbach@sfba.social ("Karl Auerbach") wrote:

Vance Boelter has shown us the true face of the R-party: murderous, violent, gun-addicted, rampaging, and deceptive.

His act of disguising himself as a police officer in order to deceive his victims makes it beyond necessary for police and other law enforcement to have clear, readable, and accurate identity tags, front and back, that can be read at a distance. And such officers must not hide their identity by wearing face covering masks.

It is critical to both know that a law enforcement officer is actually that, and we must be able to identify each officer.

Otherwise we are being attacked by mobs of secret goons and secret police.

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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
andytiedye@sfba.social ("𝓐𝓷𝓭𝔂𝓣𝓲𝓮𝓭𝔂𝓮 𓀤") wrote:

The Resistance in WW2 operated in great secrecy by people who appeared to be collaborating fully with the Nazis.

Citroen made trucks for the Nazis.
They didn't have much choice about that.
So they made the dipsticks a little too long, so they would read "plenty of oil" when they should have read "add lots of oil right now".
Needless to say, these trucks broke down a lot.

https://www.jalopnik.com/citroen-sabotaged-wartime-nazi-truck-production-in-a-si-1836670685/

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @grumble209 @Lana

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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

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dave_andersen@hachyderm.io ("David Andersen") wrote:

The pentagon pizza index is going nuts again tonight. (This is one of the two domino's close to pentagon city).

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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
SafeStreetRebel@sfba.social ("Safe Street Rebel") wrote:

Waymos, like all drivers, treat the bike lane as buffer zone. it was only a matter of time before somebody got hurt https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/06/10/san-francisco-bicyclist-crash-waymo/

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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

In 2016 MN Police killed a Black man named Philando Castile despite him calmly disclosing he had a legal & registered firearm.

Yesterday MN Police released a white woman named Jenny Boelter despite her car full of cash, firearms, & passports hours after her husband mass murdered people & was on the run from police.

This injustice is what systemic white supremacy enables.

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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
hunterw.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Hunter Walker") wrote:

New York Times Editorial Board August 2024: We will not be making any more local endorsements. This specifically includes the coming mayor's race. New York Times Editorial Board June 2025: Do not vote for Zohran Mamdani, we prefer Andrew Cuomo and Brad Lander.

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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
charliejane@wandering.shop ("Yoko's Asterisk 🏳️‍⚧") wrote:

Hey hey HEY!

I just updated the official Writers With Drinks site with info on *two* upcoming shows:

http://www.writerswithdrinks.com

Yes, it looks like a site I hand-coded in 2003. Shut up!

But please come to these shows and tell all yr friends! <3

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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
ridetheory ("Ride Theory") wrote:

California proposal to make it a misdemeanor for officers to cover their faces prompts federal criticism

https://lite.cnn.com/2025/06/16/us/california-no-secret-police-act-proposal

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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org ("tom jennings") wrote:

I admit we are watching, and somewhat enjoying, the movie TITAN about the billionaire nitwit who underwater thunder clapped/imploded five people at 12000 feet down.

It's of course not very good, but a billionaire removed himself from the surface of the earth so that's cool.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

How about a *hot* accounting date just the two of us and the *dual display* calculator?

(God I love odd gadgets ... look at it!)

A dual display calculator that's probably made for doing check out. It has a "money detector" (no idea how it works) and basic functions like multiplication, division etc. The brand is "Dexin"

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Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Y Combinator Presents: Get In On This Year's Grift

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

#TACO

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

With a few exceptions (mostly towers atop downtown switching offices in populated areas), no one was trying to make any of this utilitarian communications infrastructure *beautiful*. It was form strictly following function, built to be reliable and rugged.

But there was, I think, quite a bit of beauty to find in it. I wonder if we'll look at our current neighborhood cellular towers, now often regarded as a visual blight, the same way decades after they're (inevitably) also gone.

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

The San Jose Oak Hill Tower is unique in a number of ways. This particular concrete brutalist design appears not to have been used anywhere else; it seems to have been site-specific. It sits atop an underground switching center (that was partly used for a military contract), which explains the relatively hardened design.

Today the underground switch is still there, owned by AT&T, but the tower space is leased to land mobile and cellular providers. The old horn antennas at top are disconnected.

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

For much of the 20th century, the backbone of the AT&T "Long Lines" long distance telephone network consisted primarily of terrestrial microwave links (rather than copper or fiber cables). Towers with distinctive KS-15676 "horn" antennas could be seen on hilltops and atop switching center buildings across the US; they were simply part of the American landscape.

Most of the relay towers were simple steel structures. This brutalist concrete platform in San Jose was, I believe, of a unique design.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 50mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/4.5) on a Cambo WRS-1600 camera (with about 15mm of vertical shift to preserve the geometry), the Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50) in dual exposure mode (which preserves a couple stops of additional dynamic range into the shadows).

The tower's shape is irregular; it tapers slightly.

The wide angle and panoramic orientation give a bit of context, alone on a hill (which is being rapidly encroached by adjacent residential development).

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

AT&T Long Lines "Oak Hill" Tower, San Jose, CA, 2021.

All the pixels, none of the microwave energy, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51261791084/

#photography

A heavy-duty Brutalist-style concrete tower, with multiple levels of platforms supporting various microwave antennas, including "horn" antennas, on a hilltop behind a fence.

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bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Over the weekend, I wrote about the surprising parallels between my son's experience as a college baseball player and my own experience raising venture capital:
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/06/15/college-baseball-venture-capital-and-the-long-maybe/

Today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I are going to be joined by software engineer, entrepreneur, and NCAA champion swimmer Robert Bogart to talk about the parallels between these two (very different!) worlds. Join us live, starting in just ten minutes:

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1384314510608957501

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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
carloshr@lile.cl ("Carl O.S. ©") wrote:

@ChrisMayLA6 @Em0nM4stodon @pluralistic what you say is not accurate. Ads will be shown in status tab and also in channels, but not in your conversations, according to the information that was published.

https://www.theverge.com/news/687519/whatsapp-launch-advertising-status-updates

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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
geekysteven@beige.party wrote:

"No society is more than three meals away from revolution"

Governments: so 2.5 missed meals is the sweet spot then

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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
mondoweiss@social.mondoweiss.net ("Mondoweiss 🇵🇸") wrote:

After 23 years of service, I was fired from my position as a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, for being critical of Israel’s violence in Gaza and speaking out against the racism that leads to genocide.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/06/uc-san-francisco-fired-me-for-speaking-out-against-genocide-but-as-a-physician-i-could-not-remain-silent/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
clive@saturation.social ("Clive Thompson") wrote:

I always find this chart by Hannah Ritchie -- of Our World In Data -- deeply informative of how disjointed is our sense of personal risk

https://x.com/%5FHannahRitchie/status/1133703638432526337

A stacked bar chart titled "Causes of death in the US: What Americans die from, what they search on Google, and what the media reports on". It compares what people actually die from versus what people search for on Google, and what the NYT and Guardian report on. It neatly illustrates that while people are most likely to die from cancer and heart disease, they search very little for heart disease, and focus too much on diabetes, suicide, and terrorism. Meanwhile, the media sources focus a wildly disproportionate amount on terrorism, homicide and suicide, while virtually ignoring heart disease. Some number: In reality, people die mostly from heart disease (30.2%) and cancer 29.5%. There are much smaller shares for road incidents (7.6%), lower respiratory disease (7.4%), Alzheimer’s (5.6%), stroke (4.9%), diabetes (3.8%),. Suicide is only 1.8%, homicide only 0.7%, and terrorism is barely 0.01%. The media are even more out of whack with reality: The NYT and Guardian devote 35.6% of their death-related coverage to terrorism and 22.8% to homicide, while devoting only 13.5% to cancer and barely 2.3% to heart disease. The media sources devote roughly 13% of their death-related coverage to cancer, about half as much as it occurs in reality. Basically, the chart shows that while people and media perceive the role of cancer somewhat accurately in causing, people overstate the role of terrorism, homicide and suicide -- and media wildly overstate terrorism and homicide.

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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

Listen up Mastodonians, because this is important:

Right now we have a unique chance to rise up and hit back against Zuckerberg and Musk. Because italian filmmaker @_elena and her friends have made an OUTSTANDING short film, which explains why people should quit the fascist social networks and come join us in the fediverse.

Hit the fascists where it hurts — make this go viral by watching it and liking it on YouTube, then hit the share button and share it everywhere!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRJHIJy5Nno

Still from the short film showing @_elena in a sofa opening a laptop.

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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
AltAfterDark@masto.thefword.club ("ALT After Dark") wrote:

Hey unsighted fedi-folx! When it comes to good alt-text...

Please select all that apply.

#Poll #Accessibility #AltText

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Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
webhackfest@floss.social ("Web Engines Hackfest") wrote:

Andreu Botella & Luca Casonato talk about the new WinterTC and their plans related to standards for server-side runtimes @andreu @lcasdev https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elGNcCv57ZE