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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
peertube@framapiaf.org ("PeerTube") wrote:

🕟 It's the final rush!

There are only 12h left to reach the final goal of our crowdfunding campaign for the #PeerTube mobile app!

Will we make it? We hope so… but it's up to you! 🥰

https://support.joinpeertube.org

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

“Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”

https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/

Boosted by lloydmeta ("Lloyd"):
folkertdev@hachyderm.io ("Folkert de Vries") wrote:

Today we're making the pure rust libbz2-rs-sys the default for the bzip2 crate

https://trifectatech.org/blog/bzip2-crate-switches-from-c-to-rust/

Additional details for upgrading are in the release post

https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/bzip2-rs/releases/tag/v0.6.0

#rustlang

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

in case you missed it, someone has been porting mario64 to the gameboy advance

in what i can only describe as incredible hackery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kueoO3b4B-M

technically speaking, it isn't the first 3d game on the gba, there's games like "asterix and obelix xxl"

technically speaking though, porting an n64 game to the gba is even more ridiculous

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
anton@icosahedron.website ("Anton") wrote:

@acid @pluralistic "protagonists don't use violence to solve their problems" is such a powerful move! But also, the hardest for an author to pull off.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
jwcph@helvede.net ("JWcph, Radicalized By Decency") wrote:

This is another of those scenarios @pluralistic is fond of reminding us of, where those responsible were warned, loudly, before the damage & forged ahead anyway.

It's bad enough that we, modern humanity, collectively, can't stop pissing where we sleep, but rewarding the biggest bed pissers with billionaire status might be just a little over the top in terms of bad idea'ness...

https://toot.cafe/@baldur/114698466390235330 #tech #business #AI

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

New mastodon.social TOS are weird.

"You are prohibited to use, launch, develop, or distribute any automated system, including without limitation, any spider, robot, cheat utility, scraper, offline reader, or any data mining or similar data gathering extraction tools to access the Instance..."

Nice!

But then:

"You are prohibited to use or launch any unauthorized script or other software"

Uhm, this is problematic. Where is this list of "authorized" software to access this instance?

jwz wrote:

Every Nazi realizing you can buy a police uniform on Amazon:

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cks ("Chris Siebenmann") wrote:

Thanks to the Fediverse, I will never forget that sharks are older than the north star (which is to say the brightest star that makes up Polaris), and horseshoe crabs are not crabs and are older than horseshoes, horses, and crabs. And sharks.

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

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

Attachments:

• gifv: 9c3ea02fa79b6076.mp4

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

@jerry

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

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

Attachments:

• gifv: 85c7ee6211c030da.mp4

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/

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.

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

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

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
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).

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/

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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!)

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

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

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

#TACO

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.

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.

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

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).