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

yessssssss

A Case of You by Joni Mitchell

https://pandora.app.link/uQlNTnVQrUb

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

Ol '55 by Tom Waits

https://pandora.app.link/gKLVZ5yQrUb

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
deborahelizabeth.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Deborah Elizabeth Finn") wrote:

In addition to protest marches and rallies, we have many other options for peaceful resistance to the authoritarian regime. These two web sites outline many nonviolent strategies. You can choose the ones that work best for your community.beautifultrouble.org commonslibrary.org

Beautiful Trouble

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

oh yah…

Someday (feat. Mark Knopfler) by Eric Clapton

https://pandora.app.link/lKShtDMPrUb

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

The rapid decline of local content on the mediumwave bands has considerably reduced the romantic mystery of tuning around and seeing what you find. It's mostly now a sterile mix of mass-produced, syndicated right wing talk, sports, and so on. But there are still a handful of stubbornly local stations producing their own programming.

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

AM broadcast is a technically interesting and somewhat endangered medium. The low frequencies mean that signals routinely travel well beyond their local coverage areas, especially overnight in winter. So there's a bit of mystery in tuning around the dial late at night; you never know what you might pick up.

Sadly, industry consolidation and the growth of higher bandwidth media (FM, satellite, podcasts) has greatly reduced the variety and local focus of programming. But it somehow hangs on.

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

Note, important safety tip: you can get closer to this tower without clearly trespassing or jumping fences than most other 50KW broadcast antennas I've encountered. I measured a field strength of over 80V/m a bit outside the tower fence, which is an incredibly strong signal (though still within OSHA limits at the frequency involved).

Resist any temptation to jump the fence and climb the (energized) tower. You'd be electrocuted as soon as you touch it.

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

The antenna field is in the final approach and takeoff flightpath for SFO airport's runways 28L/R (and 10L/R), and so the site has special markings to warn pilots of a collision hazard. In addition to the usual tower lights and red/white paint, 3-dimensional "HAZ" warnings were installed around the field. These are easily visible in areal photos; see, e.g., https://earth.google.com/web/@37.5471204,-122.23429544,0.73120256a,577.14725587d,35y,0.01179999h,0t,0r/data=CgRCAggBQgIIAEoNCP%5F%5F%5F%5F%5F%5F%5F%5F%5F%5F%5FwEQAA

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

This distinctive stacked dual antenna arrangement is used to lower the radiation angle of the antenna, concentrating transmitted power to the "ground wave" and reducing energy that would otherwise be sent upward into the sky.

The smaller (300 foot) freestanding mast in the background left is not in current use. It can be used as an emergency spare antenna for KNBR during maintenance of the taller main antenna.

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

Hello in There by John Prine on now

https://pandora.app.link/GwdmsDwPrUb

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

The taller tower (550 feet) at right is the main KNBR antenna, built in 1949. It employs an unusual "pseudo-Franklin" design; it's actually an array of two antennas stacked atop one another. The 400 foot lower section is insulated from the ground. The upper 150 foot section is insulated from the lower section. The large (50 foot) diameter "capacitance hat" at the top (reminiscent of the Parachute Jump at Coney Island) electrically lengthens the top section, saving 250 feet of additional height.

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

Mediumwave (AM) broadcast radio uses lower frequencies than other modern broadcasting and so requires much larger antennas (generally getting larger and larger as the frequency gets lower on the dial). This often entails highly customized antenna designs engineered for the particular site and station frequencies. For most radio stations (FM, TV, etc), the towers are there simply to get the relatively small antennas up high, but for AM stations like KNBR, the towers generally ARE the antennas.

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

KNBR is a 50KW "Class A" (formerly "clear channel") mediumwave (AM) rado station broadcasting on 680 KHz, serving the San Francisco Bay area (and, at night, most of the west coast of the US). Opened in 1922, It was originally known as KPO, (later KNBC, and still later KNBR), and soon became the flagship station for the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)'s new western radio network. It is currently owned by Cumulus Media and now broadcasts a sports format. It sits next to the former KGEI site.

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

Rodenstock 50mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 digital back, Cambo 1250 camera (vertically shifted -23mm).

This simple photo pushed the 50mm lens to the limits of its image circle with the large shift required to keep the tall antenna mast fully in the frame while maintaining its geometry. Hard vignetting of the upper corners was visible in the full sensor image, but fortunately the composition benefited from a narrower aspect ratio that cropped out the dark corners.

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

KNBR (AM 680) Antennas, Redwood City, CA, 2024

All the pixels, less risk of electrocution or falling, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54131419266

#photography

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foxyoreos ("normy foxyoreos") wrote:

@pluralistic

"If you take this marshmallow, it will hurt everyone, *including you* for the rest of your life. You understand? But since you already have so many marshmallows, surely you can wait and -"

Billionares: (already eating the marshmallow) "Sorry, I wasn't listening. Give me another marshmallow or I'll burn down this entire fucking building and everyone inside of it."

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

Lucinda by Joe Cocker on LOUD

https://pandora.app.link/u1NL7tQOrUb

jwz wrote:

A shocking discovery... this works, kinda:

swayidle -w timeout 60 "/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/xscreensaver-gfx &" resume "killall xscreensaver-gfx" &

That will give you a minimally-functional screen saver under Wayland + XWayland...

https://jwz.org/b/ykpz

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

Inside you there are two wolves, and they are always fighting one another. One is hate and ignorance, and the other is love and acceptance.

Which wolf wins? The one whose blog you read, whose podcast you listen to, and whose software you run.

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

Imagine how much good someone like David Heinemeier Hansson could do if he only believed in things like inclusion and compassion. Imagine the kind of positive influence he could have across various spaces, online and off, and how very different things might be across large swaths of developer-centric communities.

I won‘t link to it, but just three days into Pride Month he wrote a disgusting transphobic piece. I only just now saw it when someone shared it with me (he’s not in my feed reader, because I generally avoid reading garbage).

DHH is the reason that I’m never surprised when I encounter a transphobic Rails dev. He models this behavior intentionally, and his followers readily emulate it. He’s made hate trendy for an entire subset of web developers. What a pathetic disappointment of a person he is.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

HE'S FUCKING WELSH?

I mean, "Evans," yes, fine, stupid me, I guess

Anyway, happy Official Irishness to you, Edge

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/23/u2-guitarist-the-edge-becomes-irish-citizen-after-62-years-in-the-country

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stevegis_ssg@mas.to ("Steve Gisselbrecht") wrote:

I want to share a fun tidbit about insects and metamorphosis. I'm a biologist and I think this is really cool, but I do also recognize that a lot of regular people would find this pretty gross, so I'm gonna put all the subsequent posts in this thread behind a content warning.

So, as a kid I learned about insect metamorphosis. You see a caterpillar and a cocoon or chrysalis and then a butterfly. (e.g.) And a butterfly's body sort of looks like a caterpillar, if you don't look too close. (…)

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gemlog@tilde.zone ("Kermode") wrote:

Thousands of asteroids and millions of galaxies shine in first images from the largest camera ever built
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/science/vera-rubin-observatory-first-images

@Maya @evilscientistca @sundogplanets

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

I have an app that helps me gamify my daily tasks and today I had what I consider a "perfect game"—A no-hitter. A triple double. A hundred yard game.

Big news for an asshole-of-a-brain that is the most executive of all executive dysfunction.

Might fuck around and eat some salad today.

#ADHD

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

GO! GO GOOMBA!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/07-05.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #supermariobros93 #cyberdelia #8bitsf #crashfaster #chiptunes #videogamemusic #electrorock #burlesque #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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jwz wrote:

The ICE List: Crowdsourced database of individuals involved in deportations, ICE operations, and associated abuses. The ICE List is a public, open-source effort to document the people responsible for enforcing deportation, separating families, and...
https://jwz.org/b/ykpx

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Second-order things to learn:

- the way browsers work isn't static, but it also isn't changing that fast. Learn as much as you can and update every few years; particularly about networking and the rendering loop.
- JS is the slowest way to do *anything* on the web. Never let it become the way you do everything.
- a11y isn't nice-to-have, it's the job
- shipping fast almost never matters as much as quality, & there are simple heuristics you can use to understand the difference

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Things I would like every young web engineer to learn:

- anything you can do in CSS + HTML, you *should* do in CSS + HTML
- *framework du jour* is not a platform, it's a high-interest loan against your future capacity. The platform is the platform
- understanding the memory hierarchy *always* matters
- client-side isn't easier than the server, and "generalists" usually suck at client-side. Mind the (packet) gap
- managers who are not technical are not useful
- put users first, always

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

get in Good Trouble:

https://mobilize.us/s/IQqtdv

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glasspusher@beige.party ("glasspshr") wrote:

fellow wonkeratti hvdv sends this report from Oakland:

#ChunderRoad #ice