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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
drrimmer@aus.social ("Matthew Rimmer") wrote:

Optus to face $100 million penalty for unconscionable conduct selling products to vulnerable customers https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-18/accc-optus-admit-unconscionable-conduct-100m-penalty/105430714 #consumerlaw #auslaw #auspol

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Jgbird@mas.to ("Jerome G") wrote:

Raven with pink flowers guard my dreams

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
moonrabbit@sunny.garden ("laen") wrote:

part of me feels like it's trivial to post this right now, but another part knows that i have to. because these are the things that will get us all through. they are part of why we persist.

:blobrat_heart:

#BloomScrolling

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

Cool, the Severance Wiki was quoted in the Fictional Brands Archive! #severance

https://fictionalbrandsarchive.com/item.php?id=107

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
FrameToFrameNature wrote:

A neat find in our Toronto garden: a ball of hundreds of Cross Orbweaver spider babies sprinkled like gold on our Shasta daisy plants. #insects #nature #spider #spiders https://frametoframe.ca/a-ball-of-cross-orbweaver-spider-babies/

Boosted by jwz:
Dtraslerwriting ("DTrasler Writing") wrote:

When the AI techbros are finally hauled up on charges and asked if they are guilty, their only options for reply should be "yes" or "maybe later".

Boosted by jwz:
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

just checking in on the financial revolution that was meant to sidestep banks, tech giants, and the state

#crypto #cryptocurrency

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
madeingermany@mas.to ("Marco") wrote:

@thouters @pluralistic that right at the beginning cracked me up 🤣

1:13 In the last couple of years, I've managed to get a lot of normies to be more interested in tech policy by coining this word that lets them swear. And that word is enshittification. And it turns out that just a very minor license to profanity is a great way to get people to engage with what I flatter myself is a pretty nuanced technical political message about how we got here and what we should do about it.

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

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

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

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

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

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

relative approximate yearly worldwide death rates:

Lightning Strikes 24000
Hippos 500
Falling Coconuts 150
Bees/Wasps/Hornets 90
Vending Machines 13
Shark Attacks 7

🦈

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jnonfiction@social.coop ("Joshua Neds-Fox") wrote:

You should listen to Hurray For The Riff Raff - Precious Cargo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nKVA69YoR8Y

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
thouters@hsnl.social wrote:

https://spectra.video/w/7wEFKqfZSPWZyFtbBHRUCs Keynote by Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) at FediForum June 2025. - an interesting opinion on big tech and social media

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/