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

I'm working on an essay about something that happened 20 years ago. While Google's front page is sparse, digging into the blogosphere with a little help from #InternetArchive, the full story is preserved. A story that perhaps some would prefer be lost in history.

A scene from The Social Network in a bar featuring two characters engaged in a serious conversation. One character, a woman, speaks to a man, emphasizing the permanence of information on the internet. Glasses of beer are on the table, and the background is filled with people. "The internet isn't written in pencil, Mark, it's written in ink.

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

Shoutout to the archivists and aggregators—the people who have the foresight to know when tech history is happening, so they round up all the relevant blog posts, news articles, and socials.

Y'all are the unsung heroes of the web. Understanding tech history means not making the same mistakes. Without our archivists and aggregators so much of that history would be lost to dead links and buried under #Google's SERP. Thank you.

#bloggers #OpenWeb #Fediverse #internetHistory #InternetArchive

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jwz wrote:

Lead! It's what lungs crave!

One of the disposable e-cigarettes studied released more lead during a day's use than nearly 20 packs of traditional cigarettes: "When I first saw the lead concentrations, they were so high I thought our instrument was...
https://jwz.org/b/ykqt

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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I just shipped a new release of xword-dl, my command line tool for scraping online crossword solving interfaces into local .puz files. Upgrade to fix WaPo, LA Times, Der Standard, and Puzzmo downloaders https://github.com/thisisparker/xword-dl/releases/tag/v2025.7.5

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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

Golden age Wonder Woman has her hands bound behind her back with her magic lasso. An attractive blonde woman in a red dress stands to the side of Wonder Woman resting her right hand on Wonder Woman’s left shoulder and says, “Now that you’ve had your medicine, don’t you feel HAPPY?“ Dreamily, Wonder Woman replies, “I – I feel silly – I want to PLAY!“

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mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

When state legislatures consider whether to bail out rural hospitals, remember that the tax money you send to the feds didn’t decrease, it just got stolen from hospitals and sent to billionaires and ICE agents. If your state then bails out the hospitals, your state tax money is now going to something your federal tax money was supposed to cover, so basically your state taxes are bailing out the Republican hand out to billionaires.

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interfluidity@zirk.us ("Steve Randy Waldman") wrote:

“Positive-sum solutions to multi-period stag hunts select for time consistency more than cost effectiveness.” @akhilrao https://akhilrao.org/blog/2025/07/03/selecting-for-time-consistency/

remarkable insights into what leadership and coordination actually entail, in the dry language of game theory. except with space stuff and death cults. 1/

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mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:") wrote:

My country

a box of Hostess Star Spangled Ding Dongs

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Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
caitp@mstdn.social wrote:

I guess you can never expect the powerful to act in our best interest if we aren't participating -- it can't only be natives fighting demanding treaties are honoured. it can't only be lgbtq+ people demanding your uncle gets to visit his partner in the hospital, or your nephew gets to use the name he wants and be treated with dignity and respect, it can't only be the poor pissed about not being able to get childcare or housing or food or dental care or *long list* -- we all need to step up

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

How kind of Dr Phil to fail before I even knew he was trying.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/05/may-all-these-anti-woke-crusaders-sink-without-a-trace/

Dr Phil

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
neuralreckoning@neuromatch.social ("Dan Goodman") wrote:

What does everyone think of this idea for grading in the age of LLMs? Give coursework questions in advance, allow the students to prepare as much as they like in any way they like, but then for the final work they hand in they're given a controlled environment with no LLM access.

The nice thing is that it doesn't deny the potential value of LLMs as a research tool but requires you to be able to actually do the work on your own too.

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jessie ("Jess Rose") wrote:

Staying at my partner's just now, with an established birdfeeder hosting tiny green parrots and large soft pigeons.

Infrequent, muted impact sounds mark my orange cat repeatedly reviewing his understanding of window glass and physics.

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

opening this morning in a yard near you

image of a red flower opening

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

and once again, that perpetual question comes to the fore: how is it that the cat is wet again?

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

Why can't spiders be the charismatic face of environmentalism? It's always those flashy birds or cute mammals.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/05/birds-are-ok-i-guess/

Jumping spider eating a mosquito

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
barrettaltonh ("Alton Barrett") wrote:

_Concentration Camp Labor Cannot Become Normal |

TIMOTHY SNYDER

JUL 04, 2025:
https://snyder.substack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor

#BlackEarth'lectures

#OnTyranny #Sadopopulism

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
qrper@mastodon.radio ("Thomas (K4SWL)") wrote:

A Tragic Reminder: Safety Must Come First in the Field

https://qrper.com/2025/07/a-tragic-reminder-safety-must-come-first-in-the-field/

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

cats need restraints

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jwz wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfhU7aNk2GA

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qurlyjoe@mstdn.social wrote:

1000 words.

A jet labeled Trump is flying toward twin towers labeled Rule of Law, and Constitution.

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crk5@layer8.space ("crkⓋ") wrote:

Philomena Cunk in front of a dilapidated railroad track. Top panel: "With its cowboys and guns and steam train rides, America became known as the land of the free. Bottom panel: "which must have come as a surprise to all the slaves."

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tyiart@mastodon.art wrote:

stronk skeletons now available in my kofi shop 💪✨

⚙️ stickers: https://ko-fi.com/s/e6b0b004ed
🔩 prints: https://ko-fi.com/s/4383f994c4

#artshop #mastoart #handmade #silly #relatable #relatableAsfuck #relatablememes #meme #skeletons #chronicillness #autism #art

Hand holding up two stickers of a skeleton lifting a heavy weight, titled "my body is a machine that turns ice cream into diarrhea" and "my body is a machine that doesn't work"

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patriksvensson@mstdn.social ("Patrik Svensson") wrote:

An altered cover of "The Adventures of Tintin" by Hergé. The title reads "Tintin and the Vibe Coders."

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lkngrrr@hachyderm.io ("lkngrrr 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️") wrote:

#Chicago knows what it’s about.

#graffiti #streetart #fuckICE

vibrant comic-book-style graffiti of Superman (with tag "the mouse") slugging an ICE agent (with tag Viril) in the face. Spray painted caption reads "Meanwhile in Chicago"

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glen_malley@mstdn.ca ("Glen Malley") wrote:

Alright, this took way longer to make than I am willing to admit. But the fact it didn't exist bugged me.
#shitpost #meme #EatTheRich #NoBillionaires #NoKings

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jwz wrote:

Wayland registries.

Dear Lazyweb, how do you iterate the wl_registry more than once? I have two modules that have nothing to do with each other, but need to find their respective protocols, and apparently you can't call wl_registry_add_listener more than once. The second one is ignored.

Is there any actual *API documentation* for this shit? I have found only the two extremes of "hex dumps of socket protocol" and "language-agnostic XML file fetishism".
https://jwz.org/b/ykqq

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wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social ("Wesley Moore") wrote:

We have a new resident Tawny Frogmouth! We've seen it a number of times now, and it was on the fence opposite our house when I took my walk after work tonight.

I got the new big lens and tripod out and got some photos. Fortunately they stay still, so this 7.5s exposure worked ok.

#BirdsOfMastodon #WildOz #Photography #WildlifePhotography

Photo of a squat, scruffy bird sitting on a fence with its head turned to the side. The texture and colours of its feathers look almost exactly like tree bark.

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:

when i heard about @anniegreens’s passing, i knew i wanted to not just have a reminder of the person who was so encouraging of me to garden more, i wanted to incorporate her memory into the permanence of our home & land. this is important to me as a druid to be able to have these physical reminders of people who have touched our lives even if only digitally.

while it’s not much yet, our anne sturdivant memorial garden will bloom for years to come. rest easy, anne. 🩷🕊️

A small green bonsai is planted in a blue pot, positioned next to a wooden wall that features a plaque reading "ANNIE'S GREENS, Anne Stridivant Memorial Garden." There are green plants with long leaves in the foreground.

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

♬️ PROJECT X: DEV at DNA Lounge tonight: Fri Jul 4, 9:30pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/07-04.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #projectx #trap #hiphop #throwbacks #indie #house #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Andrew Plotkin") wrote:

I’ve been working on a bot to let people group-play IF games in a Discord channel.

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2025/07/discord-if-bot

It’s currently running on the IFTF Discord (see invite link at https://narrascope.org/contact/ ).

Supports Inform/ZIL, Ink, and YarnSpinner game files at present. There’s rough edges but it handles most games.