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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
ploum@mamot.fr wrote:

Did you know that there’s a premium version of Whatsapp which :

- Has no advertising
- Has no mandatory AI integration
- Has no tracking and does not gather your personnal data
- Has increased privacy and stronger encryption
- Is exclusive and allows you to chat with other premium members

Best of all ? It is currently free to join!

Go now to your app store and install it before it is too late!

It is called "Signal"

https://ploum.net/2025-05-23-chats-digital-clutter.html

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

In 1960, the station was sold to the "Far East Broadcasting Company", which changed the format to chiefly Christian religious programming. The station ceased operation in 1994, and its antenna field was razed soon afterward.

Fortunately, the transmitter house survives and remains in excellent condition. It currently belongs to a wastewater treatment plant located adjacent to the site. I believe the building is now leased out as office space.

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

KGEI was a 250KW commercial shortwave international radio broadcast station. Originally constructed, owned and operated by General Electric, the station opened in 1939 on San Francisco's Treasure Island. In 1941, it moved to a permanent site in Redwood City. This building housed the transmitter and control facilities; the exterior walls are three feet thick, to better resist any WW II enemy bombings. At the time, KGEI was the only US broadcast station capable of reaching across the Pacific.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 50mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 digital back, Cambo 1250 camera (vertically shifted -5mm).

This modest but handsome, art-deco-accented building was built in 1941 to house the transmitter for "KGEI", a commercial shortwave radio broadcast station whose programming could be heard across the Pacific. It shut down for good in 1994.

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

KGEI Transmitter Building, Redwood City, CA, 2024.

All the pixels, no radio required, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54131707918

#photography

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

(And yes, the Font Awesome Power-Up offers a configurable default size value that is passed to the inline SVG as a width or height value, so your SVGs won’t be hilariously massive on CSS Naked Day. Neato will help you celebrate web dev holidays without looking like an animal. 😄)

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

Dialing in the #Neato tagging syntax as part of the Power-Up architecture. Power-Ups can register one or more tag prefixes to define functions.

For instance, want to use a Font Awesome icon? You can just do:

{fa:solid/ice-cream}

To display this icon:

https://fontawesome.com/icons/ice-cream?f=classic&s=solid

And it’ll displayed as an actual embedded inline SVG, which is way better than using the Font Awesome icon font or their JS-based display methods. (Why? Because your icons will still show up on CSS Naked Day, lol.)

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
gabrielesvelto@mas.to ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:

Hey, look, another manufactured crisis to distract us from the destruction of the environment, the exploitation of labor and the corruption of the rich and powerful. Who would have guessed they'd do it again?

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

What do you do with a zombie infected with the rage virus?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/22/america-is-a-zombie-nation-infected-with-the-rage-virus/

Boosted by jwz:
minego@pdx.social ("Micah") wrote:

You don't have to prefix things with "doom" anymore, that's just the default now. You can just say scrolling.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange ("Lesley Carhart :unverified:") wrote:

Oh my godddssss

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_benui@mastodon.gamedev.place ("ben🌱ui") wrote:

✨ new tech bingo ✨

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

Someone needs to make a bot that reposts GYWO in order, with the same cadence as the first time around. I nominate @jef

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

Drink Special @ Latin Night: Spicy Autocomplete -- 21 Seeds Cucumber Jalapeño tequila, Starry soda, lime

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• gifv: 13b800ba233e7ea7.mp4

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Played around with Veo3 #AiVideoGeneration . Made something I thought my kid would like. It's hard with the current limits , but the results are impressive (esp. with music too...)

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• video: Superhero corgi

Boosted by jwz:
cryptadamist@universeodon.com ("⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯") wrote:

i believe a thank you is in order for the sponsors of today's military action

#iran #israel #coinbase #trump #crypto #uspol #uspolitics

Boosted by jwz:
wraith@phantasmal.work wrote:

@jef #19, sigh

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

Drink special @ Nu Metal World: Elon Musk Memorial, Ketamine-Dick Awareness Cocktail -- Casamigos blanco, sour, grenadine, lime

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• gifv: 77e1388e33ebab3f.mp4

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

So yeah. That’s all. I just want to acknowledge this and openly commit to being better. I think there’s so much awesome stuff that we can do as a community, so much more of a positive difference we can make, and so much more fun that we can have together. But not if I’m dragging us down. Only if I’m lifting us up.

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

Earlier someone mentioned that they opened their timeline and something I had posted was the only negative thing there. What a thing to be: the only negative thing on someone’s timeline. Can you imagine? This person was in a happy mood and was like “hey I’m gonna see what’s happening online” and there I was, doing my thing, messing things up.

I *want* to say that’s not who I am. But, let’s be real: that’s who I’ve been for 13 months now.

So: no more. That has to change.

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

The thing is, I made this bad mood my entire personality. I didn’t set out to do that, but I let it happen. I prioritized my own anger in a stupid and unfair way. It was lazy. I didn’t manage my feelings correctly, and others had to deal with it.

I might have said some harsh things to you. Or about you. Or about your friends. Or about your community. I don’t regret my views, or anything that I said, to be clear. But in some cases I regret how I said those things. And how often.

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

Hi, my name is Adam and I’ve spent the past 13 months in a really bad mood. You might have noticed. Maybe you wanted to say something about it but thought I might get mad at you. I wouldn’t blame you for that. Maybe you became quietly upset with me and walked away. Wouldn’t blame you for that, either. Maybe you’ve just been hoping I’d snap out of it. If so, I’ve been disappointing you for while now.

I’m working on it. Really. You deserve better from me. I’m sorry.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
abc@flipboard.com ("ABC News") wrote:

Video FBI: Minnesota suspect was a doomsday ‘prepper’
https://abcnews.go.com/world-news-tonight-with-david-muirT/video/fbi-minnesota-suspect-doomsday-prepper-123078237?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News @news-abc

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
manton@manton.org ("Manton Reece") wrote:

Some of the problems Trump has created are fixable. They are painful for many people, and clearly so morally wrong, illegal, or just plain dumb that they will have to be reversed, with time. And then there are the disastrous, long-term mistakes like bombing Iran that we’ll be stuck with for decades.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

I hope Hegseth can stay sober for the next few days. Things might get busy.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rooster@beige.party ("Jessica") wrote:

In the next weeks I anticipate we will hear a lot about Iran's ~400 kg of 60% enriched uranium, which they will probably refer to using the more scary phrase "Highly Enriched Uranium" or HEU.

They will talk about how it is "out of control," which means the IAEA doesn't have tracking of it.

This COULD be enriched to weapons-grade, and used for a bomb, IF they have an enrichment facility to do it in. That's a very very VERY big if. There's a very high chance their only three facilities were just destroyed.

I think the odds of having a secret facility outside the knowledge of the international community is low. Not only are they hard to hide, but they're almost impossible to build without raising flags. As it turns out, a lot of centrifuges require very specialized equipment and parts. You can't build a nuclear facility in secret very easily.

This is RIPE for fear mongering. I'm not a non-proliferation expert but I'll do my best to keep folks informed, as well as boost any voices or sources I find on the matter. As always happy to field questions.

Boosted by jwz:
drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:

Evergreen

#fuckTrump #war #kakistocracy

Boosted by jwz:
patrickworld@mastodon.online ("Patrick 🌎") wrote:

‘So yeah, he’s even dumber than you’

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virtualbri@mastodon.online ("Brian Tatosky") wrote:

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QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Today in particular I’m just so glad Merrick Garland prioritized “norms” over the U.S. constitution, our republic, and any hope of saving our democracy. Otherwise we might have run the risk of a functioning government.

I hope Garland knows that—along with Mitch—cowardice will always be his legacy.