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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
sylvia_ritter ("Sylvia Ritter") wrote:

✨ Summer nights ✨.
#art #mastoart #fediart #krita

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
von@social.lol ("𝕰𝖗𝖎𝖈 𝖛𝖔𝖓 𝕱𝖔𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗") wrote:

Omg 🤣 go here and watch their animated logo! Ha!

https://eatthevlasvegas.com/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
evilchili@linernotes.club wrote:

I'll see your Living Color on Tiny Desk and raise you Bab L'Bluz on #KEXP

https://youtu.be/8IMiWgP5618?si=0NHJR64IWeNdeBZM

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

Sadly, I’m grateful to no longer be affiliated with Penn these days. This sort of capitulation never ends well. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/penn-title-ix-transgender-swimmer-trump.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.TU8.DqRM.EyGRucg0D4v9&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

Best $80 I’ve spent in a while. Wish I had started using it sooner; I’ve been missing out!

Boosted by jwz:
jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

Does anyone know the concrete technical reason(s) that LLM website scrapers have been so much nastier to deal with than the ones used by major search engines? Like do these people just not know how to write a scraper that won't DDOS (or equivalent effect) a server? Are they trying to get the data faster or more thoroughly than other scrapers? Do they just not care? Like obviously they don't care but I can't tell if that's the main reason they're so horrible or some more technical point.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
thegibson@masto.hackers.town ("The Gibson 🅅") wrote:

Another band back just in time...

https://youtu.be/bzAI4F%5Fks5s

jwz wrote:

XScreenSaver 6.11 is out now. This is a Unix-only release -- this version contains preliminary support for Wayland.

This is maybe not entirely ready for prime time, but I figured I'd get it out there so that some people who actually understand Wayland can poke at it...

https://jwz.org/b/ykqg

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

NetNewsWire: 🗑️

Tapestry: 🥰

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

Often, when I cut out a paragraph or two from an essay, I'll paste it into a new text doc just in case I need it again. Sometimes I just want to see how something reads without a passage.

Would be cool if my writing app had a sort of "editor's drawer" where I can throw passages in while I'm editing a blog post without creating a new doc.

CC: @ia 🙂 #writing #writer

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
kayserifserif@sunny.garden ("katherine") wrote:

i made a web site just for fun!! it is about the cute cars i see everyday!! WOO https://cutecars.neocities.org/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Molly White @molly0xfff) is the best journalist (by a considerable margin) covering the endlessly corrupt cryptocurrency "industry" and its metastasizing spread into the endlessly corrupt Trump world and -- this should scare the hell out of you -- now into our banking system.

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-87/

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

I've been trying to organically work into my writing the word "jejune" for a year now

#succession

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

BTW, when the Big Tech bros wax poetic about eliminating passwords by requiring passkeys, you can bet they probably don't deal with anyone who doesn't have a phone and whose only access to the Internet is public computers like in libraries. And please don't suggest that someone who may have all their possessions in a shopping cart carry and use a Yubikey (even if USB ports weren't blocked on public computers, as they often are). The Bros often don't have a clue about the real world.

Boosted by jwz:
Frank@normal.style ("the japing jester") wrote:

LLMs are actually great at business-speak because everybody already talked like that. “This sounds like an LLM” wrong it sounds like a senior business development manager named brad.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt ("Nina Kalinina") wrote:

Today I was reminded that old online chats offered context awareness for the people online: you knew you won't be a bother to a friend who has a smiley flower as a status; and you knew you might not be getting a quick reply from someone who's Away.

Today I don't even know if my friends are online or not. The messenger apps make the assumption that everyone is online, and if not, they will receive a push notification, and will reply to you as soon as possible. But this assumption is barely true. I bet it makes lives harder, especially for ND people

(Edited for a pixel-perfect screenshot)

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
ZhiZhu@newsie.social ("Zhi Zhu 🕸️") wrote:

from @rubenbolling

Know your ICE agent:
Being able to discern between a federally authorized ICE agent and a criminal kidnapper within seconds of first interaction is absolutely essential.

If your abductor is an ICE agent, you must obey, comply and submit. If your abductor is a criminal kidnapper, you are free to fight for your life.

#Cartoon #Comics #Humor #Politics #ICE #Trump #GOP #USPol #Immigration #US #USA

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

If there's one area where tech has shown a consistent aptitude for innovation, it's in accounting tricks that make money-losing companies appear wildly profitable. And AI is the greatest innovator of all (when it comes to accounting gimmicks).

--

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/30/accounting-gaffs/#artificial-income

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

I wrote about the new dynamics of online harassment and why "don't feed the trolls" might be outdated advice: https://diegoe.be/2025/07/01/the-new-troll-diet/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:") wrote:

It's release day!

There's a risk that the Galactic Concordium will declare humans to be people. If that happens, the Swordian Society for Responsible Human Ranching is gonna go, as they say, ape.

https://mwl.link/laserblasted.html

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

No doubt. #grickledoodle #chameleon #pets #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ujiFNg3rLA

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

As a general rule I only open up DMs to mutual follows and never do actual business in the DM space (that's what email is for, it's much easier to archive and search and otherwise keep track of). I've found the sort of person who does the "hey I have a question for you, can you follow me so I can DM you about it" thing is mostly up to no good.

https://www.theverge.com/news/695743/threads-dms-direct-messaging-launch

Boosted by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
recursecenter ("Recurse Center") wrote:

⭐️ We're hiring a Career Facilitator!

This is a full-time, onsite role in Brooklyn with meaningful work, good benefits, great colleagues, clear goals, and a healthy culture.

Please share with kind, extroverted, and curious colleagues who have a background and interest in recruiting!

https://bit.ly/4nku9ZI

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
eric@social.ericwbailey.website ("Eric") wrote:

I've referenced it enough that now it's all I can hear when I read it. Now you have to hear it too 🙉 https://ericwbailey.website/published/you-must-listen-to-rfc-2119/

Boosted by jwz:
flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:

Senator Murkowski just saved the Big Beautiful Bill

She switched her vote to yes giving republicans the 50 - 50 split which allows JD Vance to tiebreak

She immediately told reporters she hopes congress will vote it down.

Up to 18.5 MILLION Americans could lose Medicaid coverage because of this

Republicans are cowards

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

Another nearby lightning strike. Happy I recently re-inspected my ground system.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
requiem@masto.hackers.town ("requiem 🦫") wrote:

Software should work.

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

A disability can be a challenge, but it definitely doesn’t have to be a “problem”. And in many cases, it can be a superpower. Most people don’t realize that the predecessor to Braille, a similar system of raised bumps called “night writing” developed by an officer in Napoleon’s army, originally had strategic military applications. Being able to read critical messages on the battlefield in complete darkness is a pretty badass skill to have.

Boosted by jwz:
claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

Corporate Democrats fighting leftists/ Corporate Democrats fighting Republicans