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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

Kzerplt extruded a querysome appendage.

"Professor, why is my report marked as Fail?"

"Clearly, you have just made things up."

"I did not! I found and studied an uncontacted world, and reported truthly!"

"Absurd! A technological yet irrational society? This 'Earth' you dreamed up is nonsense!"

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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

My copy of #goodinternet arrived! 🤩

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
angusm ("Angus McIntyre") wrote:

@gooba42 @steve @billclawson @pluralistic

Doctors: Death occurs when respiration and blood circulation ceases.

Hemingway: Every man has two deaths; when he is buried in the ground, and the last time someone says his name.

Philosophers: A man is not truly dead until the last telemarketer stops trying to reach him about his car’s extended warranty.

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

“journalism and wokeness” — I’m sorry, what?

https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2025/06/17/holdYourNoseAndVoteForCuomo.html

If you’re going to advocate for “working together” maybe you should begin by taking a moment to educate yourself about the origins of the word “woke” and what it really means.

No decent person uses the word pejoratively. The only people using it like that are out-of-touch centrists or alt-right bigots.

I don’t care if you invented blogging or RSS or whatever. Be better.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications

🔗 https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governments-data-on-thousands-of-push-notifications/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
peemee@aus.social ("Not with Stupid; I AM Stupid.") wrote:

There once was a girl from Purdue
Who kept a young cat in a pew
She taught it to speak
Alphabetical Greek
But it never got farther than μ.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
raven@fedi.raventhemaker.com ("Carl C") wrote:

Are there any examples of an internet company that enshittified, realized they made a huge mistake, and then turned things around?

How about non-internet companies?

(Barnes & Noble feels like it might be that with their brick and mortar stores.)

Mastodon wrote:

We shared a short update on the main (non-technical) priorities for our team this year.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/06/mastodon-2025/

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

This week's #fediverse news:

- @activitypub.blog talks about how they plan to make WordPress sites a full member of the fediverse, with replies, follows, and your own feed
- @fediforum videos now available, with some thoughts on the ones that stood out to me
- server admins can now opt-in to @fed.brid.gy on a per-server basis
- @swf releases draft for E2EE messaging over #activitypub with MLS

https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-121/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
sarahjamielewis ("Sarah Jamie Lewis") wrote:

And as a general response to "this has always been our policy, and we are just putting it into words" because that is a favourite of 2025.

Words mean things, when the words you write on legal agreements are overly broad, they assert overly broad rights and restrictions.

Also...you're missing "transform" and "modify" in the rights you actually do need to assert. When I publish content to a mastodon service via another instance you necessarily transform it...

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

RE: #Mastodon's TOS update

So I use raindrop io and iOS Reading List, two bookmarking services that offer off-line reader ability.

Am I to believe I can no longer bookmark mastodon dot social posts without the threat of being banned?

Also, is #InternetArchive now banned from archiving mastodon dot social posts?

#Fediverse

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
alexglow@chaos.social ("merlin / alex glow") wrote:

Had a blast interviewing showrunner @helenleigh about #Teardown2025 for this week's #HacksterCafe !! SO MUCH cool #hardware stuff in store – talks, workshops, panels – in Portland, OR this weekend. 🤩

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gFuNtPMC9KA

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

A meme I saw earlier about the complexity of modern air conditioning vs the simplicity of fire and warm clothes reminded me of a cool (pun intended, I guess) technology that people have been using for a long time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l#Ice%5Fpools

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jedda@social.lol ("JCProbably :prami_pride:") wrote:

75 days ago, I put together a set of rules to follow to put me one step closer to a fitter + healthier me.

TLDR: I now drink more water than I used to (also in part due to my new, favorite water bottle) AND I lost ~10+ lbs.

https://notes.jeddacp.com/75myway-recap/

Boosted by jwz:
simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

Act stupid.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

Starting to feel like you should have to have a permit to work with or store user data.

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

To be consistent, they're going to have to demand that men cover up their chests, too.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/17/womens-bodies-must-be-hidden/

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

#Threads TOS for interpolated third parties I.e #Fediverse

https://help.instagram.com/515230437301944

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:

Good morning fediverse. :cofe_pats:

Our magnolia tree says hello.

:blobpats:

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

"System design from provably correct constructs", it's written by James Martin but it's presenting the work of Margaret Hamilton. She developed the ideas while working on Apollo 11

https://archive.org/details/systemdesignfrom00mart

In modern terms it works by allowing the user to edit a kind of abstract syntax tree (without the syntax) using only operations that preserve correctness (essentially type checking) so you literally can't make a bug. (You can still make a program that does the wrong thing correctly.)

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

Wait a minute. Mastodon dot social's new TOS prohibits AI training on our data.

But any post originating on Mastodon that ends up on Threads is likely subject to *Meta's* TOS.

So effectively, Mastodon dot social just gave Meta exclusive rights to train on our data? Lol

#Threads #Meta #Fediverse

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/mastodon-updates-its-terms-to-prohibit-ai-model-training/

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

Terms of Service - Mastodon:

"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, except in each case as may be the result of standard search engine or Internet browser and local caching or for human review and interaction with Content on ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/06/17/terms-of-service-mastodon-use.html

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

We've published our new terms of service for mastodon.social and mastodon.online today, effective July 1. The same template will be available as an option to other servers in the upcoming #Mastodon 4.4 update. There are no changes to our policies or operations, just clarifications, e.g. if you upload content to be displayed to other users, you give us permission to display it to other users, but you keep all rights to it. We also explicitly prohibit scraping, even though it was never allowed.

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

OpenAI weighs “nuclear option” of antitrust complaint against Microsoft:

"The potential antitrust complaint would likely argue that Microsoft is using its dominant position in cloud services and contractual leverage to suppress competition, according to insiders who described it as a “nuclear option,” the WSJ reports."

I’ve long suspected that Sam Altman deeply regrets the deal he made with #Microsoft. #OpenAI ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/06/17/openai-weighs-nuclear-option-of.html

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

This blog post from the Vaccine Integrity Project regarding RFK's recent firing of the entire ACIP board and the document he presented to congress to support his rescinding COVID-19 vaccination recommendations for children and pregnant women:

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/viewpoint-rfks-reckless-firing-cdc-vaccine-advisors-not-supported-evidence

Reminded me of this video essay from Innuendo Studios (narrated by Abigail Thorn):

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

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

It's hard for me to wrap my head around the idea that there are people who still believe Mark Zuckerberg is acting in good faith.

Or, that interpolation on Zuck's very opaque terms will somehow cause the toppling of power structures that will spark revolution.

#Threads

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jgarber@indieweb.social ("Jason Garber") wrote:

@adam rgb(255, 255, 255)

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

#Threads is adding fediverse content and search to its feeds:

"You still have to opt-in to sharing your posts, you still have to have a separate account to connect to, and you’ll still have to go to the dedicated feed to see what’s new. (If you post something and get fediverse replies, those are still separate too.)"

Embarrassing. https://www.theverge.com/news/688267/threads-fediverse-feed-search

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

social.lol absolutely is a “tribal” social network.

In this tribe, we believe:

- Pronouns are just as important as a name.
- Independent creators are far more interesting than big tech.
- Human creativity will always outclass an algorithm.
- Diversity is a strength.
- Equity is a right.

When someone on the outside looks in and frowns at the “tribal” nature of any of that, I can’t help but wonder how *their* preferred tribe looks.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
Elliptickiwi@ioc.exchange ("Steven Galbraith") wrote:

Celebrating 40 years of Elliptic Curves in Cryptography (ECC), August 11, online

The event is to commemorate and celebrate the founding of elliptic curve cryptography 40 years ago by Victor Miller and Neal Koblitz. Victor and Neal will give some personal reflections on their work and its legacy.

https://eccworkshop.org/2025/index.html