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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay 🇪🇺") wrote:

I can't remember where I saw this but it's such an analogy for the UK these days ...

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social ("Bread and Circuses") wrote:

Don't blame people. Don't blame the whole world. Blame those who actually deserve it.

Blame the leaders of business and government in the world's richest nations. They are the ones actively destroying our climate and environment.
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Four wealthy nations — the United States, Canada, Norway, and Australia — account for the majority of planned oil and gas expansion over the next decade, according to new data published by Oil Change International.

The analysis, titled 'Planet Wreckers', notes that if those four Global North nations stopped their planned oil and gas extraction, 32 billion tons of carbon pollution would stay in the ground instead of being burned and released into the atmosphere where they fuel planetary heating. That's the equivalent of three times the annual global emissions created by burning coal.

"A handful of the world's richest nations remain intent on leading us into disaster. This is not just hypocrisy. It is a death sentence for communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis," Oil Change International's Romain Ioualalen said in a statement.

"It is sickening that countries with the highest incomes and outsized historical responsibility for causing the climate crisis are planning massive oil and gas expansion with no regard for the lives and livelihoods at stake," Ioualalen added.
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➡️ https://www.commondreams.org/news/oil-change-report-planet-wreckers

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

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

Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/mastodon-updates-its-terms-to-prohibit-ai-model-training/?utm%5Fsource=dlvr.it&utm%5Fmedium=mastodon

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

Arguably, given the health and environmental effects of things like power plants, perhaps they *should* be ugly. But ugliness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

In any case, if you like this kind of stuff, let me strongly recommend the work of Hilla and Bernd Becher. https://fraenkelgallery.com/artists/bernd-and-hilla-becher

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

Power plants are often regarded as utilitarian eyesores, and are rarely (generally under public pressure) built to look beautiful or interesting, (London's Battersea Power Station was an exception). Generally, like here, any beauty to be found is accidental, a direct consequence of interesting form happening to follow from function.

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

I shot several versions of this, with exposures that kept the moving train sharp or blurred it to varying degrees. I think this was the most successful attempt, with the train blurred enough to suggest motion, but not so much that it's unrecognizable.

Motion is sometimes a central part of a still photograph.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

Observation: the Fediverse was built in direct opposition to big tech and the billionaires who fund and abuse it.

So maybe when all of your federated posts lick the boots of those billionaires, you’re going to get a certain kind of response.

People aren’t “careless”, and pointing out how your takes aren’t at all consistent with your self-proclaimed IndieWeb values isn’t an “attack”. Grow up.

https://www.manton.org/2025/06/17/glad-i-stopped-sending-my.html

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

This was captured with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR Digaron-W lens and the Phase One IQ3-100 back. A bit of vertical shift was used to keep everything straight. A 1/2 sec exposure provided just the right amount of motion blur for the passing train.

The power plant generates electricity (now oil fired, converted from coal) as well as steam for Philly's Center City steam loop. The rail bridge extends the former Pennsylvania Railroad's "High Line" into south Philly's Greenwich rail yard.

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

Schuylkill Co-Generation Plant and Arsenal Bridge, Philadelphia, PA, 2018

All the pixels, slightly rusted, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/42660696454

#photography

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org ("Open Rights Group") wrote:

ORG turns 20 this year! 🎈 🎉 🎂

To celebrate two decades of fighting for digital rights, join us for a special event with Cory Doctorow @pluralistic in conversation Maria Farrell.

Register now to hear about Cory's writing, surveillance capitalism, the ‘enshittification’ of digital platforms and how to fight Big Tech ✊

It's not one to miss!

🗓️ Wed 16 July, 6pm BST
💻 Zoom

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/org-at-20-cory-doctorow-in-conversation-with-maria-farrell/

#ORG20 #digitalrights #bigtech #corydoctorow #enshittification #privacy #capitalism #surveillance

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

The reason why #Threads and #Mastodon are incompatible is that Mastodon is a community, and Threads is a market. That's it.

It's not big Fed vs small Fedi. It's not platforms vs protocols.

It's communities vs markets.

Communities are supportive and markets are extractive. Communities answer to those who must live with decisions made. Markets answer to money.

And wouldn't you know it, those contrasting forces influence people's behaviors, goals, and motivations for engaging with others.

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

Uncle Sam is going down! And there was much rejoicing!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/17/i-recognize-that-specific-racist-uncle-sam/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF89BF-2GjY

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

"Somewhere between the death of our favorite aggregator websites and the world surviving a pandemic, the modern internet was reduced to four companies in a trench coat."

https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/?ck%5Fsubscriber%5Fid=1450579038

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
cogdog@cosocial.ca ("Alan is @cogdog") wrote:

“What they'll never admit to, though, is that the digital spaces we spend our time in are rarely communities. They're markets.” https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/bluesky-may-have-the-juice-but-we-don-t-have-to-drink-the-kool-aid/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
clarity@xoxo.zone ("clarity flowers") wrote:

if we rebranded communism as “prosperity economics” and “seizing the means of production” as “supply-side democracy” I think we could make some serious inroads with working-class liberals. words don’t mean anything so why not weaponize that.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
abnv@fantastic.earth ("Abhinav 🌏") wrote:

For my next #compiler project, I want to write the optimization passes myself, but I don't want to deal with generating machine code for multiple platforms. So tell me #programminglanguages #plt #pldev #compilers fedi, what is an IR that I can target that has a non-optimizing compiler to machine code and supports multiple platforms? This rules out most popular IR like LLVM, C, QBE, Cranelift etc.

In short, I want something that does only instruction selection, register allocation and codegen for multiple platforms. I don't need optimization, so I expect this thing to be really small and lightweight, unlike LLVM, GCC etc.

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

This man is in charge of the produce coming out of Texas. You might want to avoid that.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/17/you-may-want-to-avoid-produce-from-texas/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Sz3nDPTl0

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
libreoffice@fosstodon.org ("LibreOffice") wrote:

Who uses Open Document Format, the native format of #LibreOffice? Well, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK and Uruguay for starters: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/06/14/odf-analysis-of-adoption/ #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware #openstandards

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
ayoub@spore.social ("Elia Ayoub (he/him)") wrote:

We're now at nearly 100 Palestinians killed in 2 days by the Israelis while waiting at food centers / for food trucks.

34 on Monday https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-gaza-food-2db06796a4721b5696e1279532dede42

45 on Tuesday https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/dozens-killed-in-gaza-waiting-for-food-trucks-says-health-ministry

They're just opening fire on people queuing for food. It's like they're hunting

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

I didn’t expect that 🤣

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

Sure - return to office policies may make us less healthy and less happy, but at least they also make us less productive.
https://farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/scientists-have-been-studying-remote-work-for-four-years-and-have-reached-a-very-clear-conclusion-working-from-home-makes-us-happier/

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

You can't do anything these days. Bloody woke brigade.

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: