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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
emptty ("Martin Quinson ⏚") wrote:

New blog post about the #SmolPhone (our take on #FrugalComputing): I gave a short talk about it, and decided to write the things I usually say. It's here: https://people.irisa.fr/Martin.Quinson/blog/250528/Smolphone-Magellan/

I think that the result is a nice introduction to the project. Please comment and tell us what you think of it!

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

With all the horrible news coming from Palestine, Iran, and Israel, it is easy to forget the context.

And the context is that Netanyahu is on trial for bribery in Israel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial%5Fof%5FBenjamin%5FNetanyahu

But I'm sure this in no way influences his decisions that accidentally create a gigantic distraction and provide massive political cover for him.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:

You want to talk about government efficiency? Every $1 spent on childhood immunizations in the US returns a savings of $11, thanks to preventing illnesses, and saving millions of lives.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
colossal@mastodon.art ("Colossal") wrote:

Alice Austen’s body of work is considered among the earliest and most prolific by a female photographer.

Now recognized for her significant contributions to the canon of American photography and her heretofore ignored yet influential role in LGBTQ+ history, the pioneering photographer's archive returns to her ancestral home in New York.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/alice-austen-photographs-repatriated/

#history #photography #identity #lgbtq #nyc #portraits

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

Environment #Canada has an ad campaign using unmade and made poutine to help citizens understand the difference between a Weather Watch and a Warning!

#Montreal #meteorology #weather

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
themarkup@mastodon.themarkup.org ("The Markup") wrote:

State healthcare sites have been quietly sending sensitive user data to Google and LinkedIn.

We scanned the websites of states that independently operate their own online health exchange, and found four states — Nevada, Maine, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts — exposed users’ sensitive health info. Our findings: https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/06/17/we-caught-4-more-states-sharing-personal-health-data-with-big-tech

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
gottalaff.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("@GottaLaff") wrote:

“👉🏼Miller👈🏼 is not just the architect of Trump’s gulag. He’s the guy with a stack of pieces of paper, sometimes blank pages, for Trump to sign, on all manner of policy topic.”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/post/3lrslkyrv3c26

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
christineburns@mastodon.green ("Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖") wrote:

Good Law Project forces EHRC to backtrack…

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
terrymatz@wandering.shop ("Terry Matz") wrote:

Happy Birthday to M. C. Escher born on June 17, 1898. Also commemorated as World Tessellation Day in honor of Escher's iconic tiling and morphing art.

Celebrate with knitting patterns inspired by Escher's artwork. These patterns and more on my Escher knitting pattern post
https://intheloopknitting.com/escher-knitting-patterns.php

#Escher #knitting

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

if you see a kidnapped person escaping from ICE, NO YOU DIDN’T
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/new-jersey/feds-double-reward-for-2-escaped-nj-ice-detainees-as-national-raids-intensify/6305525/?utm%5Fsource=flipboard&utm%5Fmedium=activitypub

#fascism #slavery #USpol

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
danmccullough@ecoevo.social ("Dan McCullough") wrote:

Contrary to first glance, this was not created by AI.

No, this was created by gardening. 😁

Sempervivum aka Hens & Chicks

#Gardens #Plants #Succulents

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
stellarsarah@mastodon.world ("~* Sarah 🇨🇦") wrote:

Telling people to gather for food, then firing at the crowd with a tank. Appalling.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-aid-trucks-1.7563117

#Gaza #genocide

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social wrote:

It turns out that the Trumpist terrorist who assassinated Melissa Hortman and her husband in Minnesota first attacked John Hoffman and his wife at their home, and then went to a second home, where he fortunately failed to attack anyone but did encounter a cop who did not interfere with him in anyway.

He then went to Hortman’s home, where cops again encountered him and watched him murder Hortman and her husband before he escaped out the back door.

This isn’t quite “Uvalde cops arresting parents trying to save their kids while cops cower outside the classroom” helplessness, but I would dearly love to be able to finally put to bed the “cops protect us from bad guys” trope. They watched him commit the killings through the window! He escaped because they waited for a drone to enter the fucking house!

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