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

Learning to appreciate the privilege of simple mobility and basic health, since I've lost some of both.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/30/my-self-critique/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

apropos of nothing, this book cover

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rolle@mementomori.social ("Roni Laukkarinen") wrote:

It's sad.

Artist: daniel.mokkies on Meta platforms.

#AI #Art #AIArt

Boosted by jwz:
zbyte64@awful.systems wrote:

I had applied to a job and it screened me verbally with an AI bot. I find it strange talking to an AI bot that gives no indication of whether it is following what I am saying like a real human does with “uh huh” or what not. It asked me if I ever did Docker and I answered I transitioned a system to Docker. But I had done an awkward pause after the word transition so the AI bot congratulated me on my gender transition and it was on to the next question.

Boosted by jwz:
Pikestreet@ohai.social ("Trickpaw") wrote:

There should be more obituaries like this, not less. No wonder they won't call out the scumbags actually walking around. #StarTribune #Strib

Boosted by jwz:
streetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:

Brickhenge! <3 Genius Art (10 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2025/06/30/genius-art-8-photos/

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
tarakiyee@mastodon.online wrote:

75% of web traffic flows through Google's Chromium. Apple controls Safari. American companies control how billions access the web.

Building a competitive browser alternative: ~€50-70M annually, 3-4 years. @servo proves it's technically possible with a small team.

The challenge isn't technical, it's institutional: can democratic societies coordinate long-term tech projects?

Read more: https://tarakiyee.com/digital-sovereignty-in-practice-web-browsers-as-a-reality-check/
#DigitalSovereignty

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
abbiistabbii@blahaj.zone ("abbiistabbii :nya:") wrote:

OH SHIT IT'S THE LAST DAY OF PRIDE MONTH, QUICK BE AS GAY AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE!

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

Such a cool card. #pokemon

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

Have you heard!? Word on the Mastodon streets is that social.lol is a “toxic” place. :prami_distressed:

Don’t worry about the fact that the only people saying this are a bunch of techbros. (They have assured me that *they* know best.)

Anyway, I actually do agree: we definitely are toxic... to fascists! And to various other assholes.

But, you can be the judge. Anyone can spend some time on our local timeline (https://social.lol/public/local), if they dare, and see what they think. :prami_contented:

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

Precisionism, a roughly century-old modernist American art movement related to cubism, is a strong influence here. Its practitioners included Joseph Stella, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Demuth. Paul Strand was probably the most prominent precisionist photographer.

Precisionism is concerned with structure and geometry as well as the relationship between humans, machines, and the industrial landscape.

I'm interested in how the precisionists might interpret the world as it's become today.

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

These (de-electrified) catenary wires were captured with a Sinar P camera and a 240mm lens on Polaroid 55 film (scanned) along the former Pennsylvania Railroad's "high line" in west Philadelphia near the university.

This abstract composition references a 1936 painting, "Electrification", by precisionist artist Ralston Crawford; see https://hirshhorn.si.edu//collection/artwork/?edanUrl=edanmdm:hmsg%5F72.75

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

De-electrification, Philadelphia, PA, 2005.

All the pixels, each with a tiny "high voltage" sign, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/2155416560/

#photography

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
matlfb@mastodon.design ("Mathieu Lefebvre :cursor_move:") wrote:

After more than 2 years on mastodon.design, I’ve decided to move my account to social.lol.

One of the main reasons was the defederation of some instances, which cut me off from a lot of creators and designers I wanted to stay connected with.

Huge thanks to the mastodon.design team for hosting my account over the past two and a half years 🙏

This account will now redirect to @matlfb@social.lol— see you there 👋

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

This is an excellent podcast!

https://social.lol/@keenan/114768322787005273

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
hiro@social.lol ("Hiro") wrote:

You guys and gals aren't going to believe this—

A NEW HIRO REPORT⚡ DROPS TONIGHT!

A beautiful pencil, smart running shoes, a single use camera app, great indie apps, and more, all headed to an inbox near you!

Tell your friends (and nemeses) to sign up at:

https://subscribe.hiro.report

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
iBlame@kolektiva.social ("Duchess of Umbrage") wrote:

Apparently some gun-nut is snipering at firefighters responding to a fire in Idaho. What the actual fuck is wrong with people? For lack of a better term, I can’t even. https://apnews.com/article/coeur-dalene-idaho-shooting-57e4143642c5a0e98d134051a7147a89

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

Had a very enjoyable Pokémon GO Fest this weekend!

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
Strandjunker@mstdn.social ("Andrea Junker :verified:") wrote:

In a world of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, be like Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

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

My programming skills have gotten exceedingly rusty. I confess I kind of like Xcode 16's over-enthusiastic function completion, though. "Yeah? You hit tab to accept that line? How about a dozen more? Not bad, right? Hit tab again, I dare you!”

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

You know, “this” used to be a perfectly innocent word. Nothing special, but a solid citizen of the grammar ecosystem. Who could have predicted it would turn into a major clickbait villain, meaning “We’re not going to tell you what this article is about until you click on it.”

FWIW I think I’m not alone in consciously avoiding clicking on such links.

#enshittification

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
johnallsopp@indieweb.social ("John Allsopp") wrote:

maybe CERN should start demanding a 30% cut of all the revenue of businesses that run on the Web since they enabled it all.

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

If you liked the embedded WebPageTest.org traces in my latest blog[1], I cleaned up the code and wrote some docs for it:

https://github.com/slightlyoff/wpt-embed

You can grab it via NPM:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@slightlyoff/wpt-embed

[1]: https://infrequently.org/2025/06/conferences-clarity-and-smokescreens/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tarheel@mstdn.io ("John Lusk") wrote:

@oli
@jsonstein

[Tired sarcasm about multiple boxes, recursion, halting problem, and AI here]

Wait, that's tired, too. Dammit. Is there nothing new under the sun, Horatio?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

Three hams working on making contacts on a Get On The Air (GOTA) station. The two girls are licensed ham radio operators! #hamradio

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info ("Michael K Johnson") wrote:

@housepanther @bolderbekah @catsalad @ai6yr I failed to learn Morse forty years or so ago, and gave up my dream of ham radio.

I became a ham at all (and a "no-code Extra" at that) only because the requirement was dropped.

Now I'm loving learning Morse, just because. I would absolutely never have done that with the stick approach, only the carrot would ever have worked. And I have heard that the numbers back that experience up — that CW is getting a lot more actual use on the air now that it is optional.

This isn't pressure to learn it. This hobby is full of rabbit holes and there are lots of right ways to do it. If this were pressure that anyone reading this should learn code after all, that would miss the point completely. Instead, I can celebrate learning morse for fun, and others can celebrate their favorite modes, and this is awesome.

The haters are wrong, and probably just jealous and angry.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

Frontline report: Colombian fighters join Ukraine to dig Russians out of trenches in a brutal forest fight

Colombian vets stormed a Russian trench network near Ukraine’s border, clearing bunkers with drone support, grenades, and close-quarters combat.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/29/colombian-fighters-ukraine-russian-trenches-kursk/

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

omg.lol is entirely self-sustaining, whether we have 5 members or 5,000. It’s not a numbers game here. This is about maintaining a community that always stands up for what it believes in. That is always the priority here.

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

If you know that vertebrate embryos share deep similarities, wait until you get a load of insect embryos.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/29/a-conserved-genetic-signal-for-building-neuronal-pathways/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyk9uq0WJF4

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

My focus on building a community (vs. growing a company) is that I can live my values, intentionally, and speak my mind accordingly. People who hold opposing views can (and do!) leave, and when they do, it’s a net positive for everyone.

I don’t have to equivocate or remain silent on important issues. I can (and do!) openly talk about what I believe in. I can say black lives matter, protect trans kids, and fuck fascists. And the people who don’t like that can just… go away.