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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jason@social.lol ("//Jason") wrote:

The little bot farm continues to grow! 😃 🤖

@initech 1884 gifs posted!

@zion 1504 gifs posted!

@lumon 1785 gifs posted!

@hacktheplanet 238 gifs posted!

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

Neatnik ID, the new authentication system that will handle access to omg.lol, rad.dad, Neato, and more, is ready for some expanded testing. There are still plenty of unfinished parts, and things are still a bit rough in a few areas, but I think it’s getting close.

If you have an omg.lol account, you can help with testing by visiting https://app.neatnik.net/id/ and trying any of the following:

1. Sign in, and ensure that you receive the verification code email. (Let me know if it winds up in your spam.)

2. Add some other authentication methods, and change the ones that are active on your account. (Neatnik ID lets you use as many or as few methods as you’d like.)

3. Poke around the session management stuff, and ensure that your IP(s) and browser(s) look correct there.

4. Access https://eph.emer.al, a little web toy that exists as a proof of concept for testing remote session management.

If you run into any issues, I would love to hear about them. And I really appreciate your help with testing!

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
shellsharks@malici.ous.computer wrote:

Hey everyone, Scrolls is back! Volume seventeen has just dropped. Where have I been? Why is it coming out in the middle of the week? Well go on and read and I try to explain 😄.

https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2025-06-24

As usual, it features some cool stuff from across the #IndieWeb, #Fediverse and #Cybersecurity worlds. I hope you enjoy!

I should also add, that there is ANOTHER special edition, catch-up issue that will likely come out this week ahead of the regularly scheduled Friday issue. Stay tuned.

Special shoutout to everyone below who's content was featured in this special mid-week, catch-up edition!

@KuJoe @readbeanicecream @helendawe @s0 @hadret @rsgbengi @arunkumargovinda @yomikoma @oyzk @ne7 @hyde @flamed @vitloksbjorn @golang @mho @trailofbits @rachsmith @quillmatiq @flamed @john_fisherman @fromjason @anubiarts

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mass_driver@typo.social ("Rutherford Craze") wrote:

MD Thermochrome v0.3 will be available tomorrow, and it’s a big one.

33 new styles. Four different italics. Very little regard for legibility.

https://www.future-fonts.com/mass-driver/thermochrome

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
adrian@discuss.systems ("Adrian Sampson") wrote:

Absurdly proud of @notypes for winning one of two SIGPLAN dissertation awards this year! Check out that award-winning thesis: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rachit/files/pubs/dissertation.pdf (photo credit @avanhatt)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

TODAY! My latest early reader graphic novel "Hide & Seek with Clyde & Monique" is out in the world! “This is a tale to build visual literacy and set readers on the path to becoming longtime comics fans...An irresistible playdate.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) #grickledoodle #comics #cartoon #cat #art #drawing #fun

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

When someone claims software to be revolution, consider who is saying it. And ask yourself if they will allow the spoils of that revolution be shared with you if you're not a white dude.

Because historically, inevitably, irrevocably, the answer is a resounding and unflinching ✨No✨

Then ask why is the language of revolution used so often in regards to new tech? Because it works.

#AI #OpenSocialWeb #NFT #BlockChain

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

Getting some vaccines today because fuck you, RFK Jr

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
dumpsterqueer@superseriousbusiness.org ("tobi is writing bugs :terminal_cursor:") wrote:

the "no politics in foss" ideology (and it is an ideology to say "no politics in foss" and therefore the statement is itself political!!) is a remarkable example of how capitalism is able to co-opt even explicitly political movements into itself and turn them into something that serves its own interests; in this case, foss as a political movement against closed-source, for-profit, proprietary software is turned into nothing more than a stockpile of free labor for shitbag capitalist vultures to get their claws into; and god forbid you should dare to speak up for yourself or to point out that this state of affairs only serves fashy capitalist wankers

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
underlap@fosstodon.org ("glyn") wrote:

Helpful counter to toxic masculinity: MASCULINITY - a case for courage
https://nonzerosum.games/masculinity.html

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

During “office hours” my Studio Display is connected to a ThinkPad, but the Mac is still there and connected to my desktop speakers. All this is to say: I kind of miss the old iTunes Remote app that would let me control it rather than merely AirPlay to it.

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

Obsolete secret infrastructure like CARTWHEEL tower, only revealed decades later, intrigues me not just for its scale and design, but also for the obvious question it gives rise to. If this stuff effectively managed to stay unnoticed for decades, what newer secrets are hiding under our noses today?

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

Despite CARTWHEEL being located in the middle of a residential neighborhood in a busy city and staffed by military personnel, officials went to great lengths to conceal the true purpose of these towers. They hid in plain sight, appearing to be silos or water towers (they even used civilian water trucks to send crews to some of the towers).

It was only after the cold war ended that the details of the network were declassified.

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

The upper white section of the tower is actually a plexiglass radome, concealing various microwave and UHF radio antennas.

CARTWHEEL and its cousins were decommissioned around 1990. Most of the towers, mainly atop mountains in remote areas, were demolished or left to rot. However, CARTWHEEL and CORKSCREW (on a mountain near the Appalachian trail in central Maryland) have been maintained in good condition, now repurposed by the FAA.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 23mm/5.6 HR Digaron-S lens (@ f/6,3), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50), Phase One XT camera (1/25 sec exposure).

This unassuming cylindrical tower, at first glance perhaps a grain silo or water tower, was part of a secret "continuity of government" microwave communications network. Built in the early 1960's, a network of similar towers located around the capital region linked the White House with critical sites such as Camp David, Raven Rock, and Mount Weather.

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

"CARTWHEEL" Tower, Fort Reno, Washington, DC, 2020.

All the pixels, with a secret bunker buried under each one, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/49576247768

#photography

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

How do you become the whitehouse press secretary for the worst president in history? There should be an SNL skit of soulless people competing to tell bigger and bigger lies without flinching.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Day 1: "Yesss sun!"
Day 3: "My thighs have fused together."
Day 5: "I miss clouds. I miss grey. I miss who I was."

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

Today we learn that you cannot engineer peace while sitting on a toilet, and that Truth Social is not a good source of information.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/24/truth-social-is-nothing-but-self-serving-lies/

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

Ahhhh, I see the ceasefire is going as well as anything that fumbling nitwit has ever announced

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

EndBOX: Boot straight to a BASIC environment running on top of NetBSD:

https://www.endbasic.dev/2025/06/unveiling-the-endbox.html

An interesting alternative to a BASIC running on the metal. Get the advantages of NetBSD's features with the constraints and focus of a BASIC environment.

(Based on my... less than happy experiences building embedded Linux systems, I've also been pondering how well a BSD system might work instead for things like this.)

Boosted by jwz:
ANARCORAXA@todon.eu ("☆ ANARCORAXA ☆") wrote:

Good morning / afternoon / evening / night dear birds of a feather! 🏴

Attachments:

• video: Another funny version of the scene in which Richard Spencer is punched in the face, repeated several times and accompanied by music. There are a lot of houses and people in the background, journalists walk past.

Boosted by jwz:
agiletortoise ("Greg Pierce") wrote:

Let that be your battlefield.

Boosted by jwz:
jmcrookston ("Jonathan") wrote:

I can't get over this sentence no matter how often I read it.

"Women showed no effects when told they were masculine; however, men given feedback suggesting they were feminine expressed more support for war, homophobic attitudes, and interest in purchasing an SUV."

Boosted by jwz:
lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E08
🎥 Episode: Rumors
🎬 Directed by: Shigeru Ueda
📅 Release Date: August 24, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0212

Boosted by jwz:
loosenut@genart.social ("sɹɐʎA xɘlA 💻➡🗑") wrote:

#TilingTuesday

Attachments:

• gifv: an animation with 6-way symmetry

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

My to-do list is now a historical document of things I once thought I had the energy for.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Just hurt my neck yawning. Not skydiving. Not wrestling a bear. Yawning.

This is how I find out I'm old 😭💀

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

This began as a fun little diversion tied to the authentication system that I’m building for omg.lol, Neato, and other stuff. Now it’s become its own entire grown-up side project. 😅

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• gifv: A gray plastic device with an LCD display that takes up most of the front surface. In the top left corner, a stylized "NeatPet" logo appears, followed by some decorative lines. In the top right, the text "PIXEL ENTITY TERMINAL" appears. Below the display, on the left, there are three buttons labeled INTERACT, A, and B. On the right is one additional button labeled ON / OFF. The LCD screen has a digital version of the same stylized neatpet logotype, with a circular rotating loading animation below, the word "Booting..." to the left, and "Press B" to the right.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Modern video games are less "interactive entertainment" and more "unpaid internships".

You boot up a new title and suddenly you're harvesting digital turnips, micromanaging a medieval tax system, and crafting 37 different types of leather boots just to unlock the privilege of being mildly entertained for 15 minutes.