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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

You may have heard that globalchange.gov and all the national reports on climate change have gone down.

We got em all on #sciop, a webrip and all the PDFs extracted: https://sciop.net/datasets/globalchange-gov-webrip

Edit: context - https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-national-assessment-nasa-white-house-057cec699caef90832d8b10f21a6ffe8

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

We ditched CGI in the late 1990s because of the overhead of starting, executing and stopping a process for every incoming request... turns out modern servers (plus languages like Go or Rust with a fast startup time) mean CGI isn't such a bad idea any more! https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/5/cgi-bin-performance/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

Genuinely nothing more sad than those people who hover on social media ready to reply to posts featuring trans folks JUST to misgender them - like not even engaging in discourse, just caps-lock-yelling genders...

Like take a break, people. Have a wank. Drink some water and stop being a massive asshole

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
jerry@infosec.exchange ("Very Hairy Jerry") wrote:

I really don’t understand the push to for a computer replicate what goes on in the human brain. I mean, I know what goes on in mine and it just seems ill advised for a computer to be thinking those thoughts.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ScottEdelman@wandering.shop ("Scott Edelman") wrote:

I'd never encountered this Turkish proverb before today, but whoa, it sure explains why Donald Trump is being allowed to destroy America.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
RikerGoogling@mas.to ("Riker Googling") wrote:

starship main viewer unblock porn

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

One of the challenges of very long lenses is that they tempt you to compose images of subjects that are very far away. But the farther away something is, the more the atmosphere can distort the image. The effects of heat distortion, pollution, humidity, and weather are amplified across longer distances, no matter how sharp the lens is or how high resolution the sensor.

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

Very long lenses like the 400mm, with their narrow field of view, are essential for some compositions (such as this one), but I find I only rarely actually use them. In fact, the longest lens I have for my main medium format camera system is 180mm (which yields the 35mm equivalent view of about a 120mm), and I hardly ever use even that for the most of the photography I do.

For wildlife photographers, on the other hand, 400mm is practically a wide angle.

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

This was captured with a DSLR and a 400mm lens, which contributed to the compressed perspective. The conductor boarding the leftmost train is essential to the composition, I think.

Ewing, NJ ("West Trenton") is the last stop on SEPTA's commuter trains from Philadelphia on the former Reading Railroad's line to northern NJ. CSX freight trains still use the tracks north of the station, beyond the end of the overhead electrified wiring used for passenger service.

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

Commuter Trains, Ewing (West Trenton), NJ, 2010.

All the pixels, no ticket required, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4377309058

#photography

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

My friend Rob made this and was so generous to gift it to me. #StarWars #DarthVader

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

I just had a nostalgia rush.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/06/they-dont-make-em-like-this-anymore/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858). New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Oji, No. 118 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 9th month of 1857. Woodblock print, sheet: 14 3/16 x 9 1/4 in. (36.0 x 23.5 cm); image: 13 3/8 x 8 3/4 in. (34.0 x 22.2 cm), this impression in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. #arthistory #asianart #woodblock #woodblockprint #printmaking

From the museum: “In the late 1850s, while Japanese color prints were dominated by themes of the fantastic, Hiroshige emphasized the realities of the observed world in his work. However, here he has ventured into the world of spirits. It was believed that on New Year's Eve all the foxes of the surrounding provinces would gather at a particular tree near Oji Inari Shrine, the headquarters of the regional cult of the god Inari. There the foxes would change their dress for a visit to the shrine, where they would be given orders for the coming year. On the way, the animals would emit distinctive flames by which local farmers were able to predict the crops of the coming year.”

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

Are you arachnophobic? Take the quiz!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/06/im-arachnophobic/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
torgo.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Daniel Appelquist") wrote:

Elon Musk does not get a redemption arc. He's done.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
black_intellect@mstdn.social ("@blk_intellect") wrote:

Revealed: the far-right, antisemitic men’s club network spreading across US | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/05/far-right-mens-clubs-old-glory

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Adrenochrome ("Claudia Zahn") wrote:

💗😽Every year, in #Minneapolis, cat people tour their neighbourhood to see each other's cats!

#Cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Caturday #EveryDayIsCaturday

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

Every Mad Engineer (it’s like Mad Science, only it works) knows that her next project should always justify a new tool purchase. I always wanted a set of hydrospanners, so—surprise!—i’ve fitted a repulsorlift drive to your wheelchair. Lift control on the left, throttle on the right. Keep it under a hundred for the first five hours runtime. Happy birthday, darling.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been stripped down so much it can barely respond to emergencies, yet it’s funding detention centers such as 'Alligator Alcatraz' in the Florida Everglades."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #DOGE #NWS #NOAA #Texas #FEMA
/9

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-a-national-reckoning

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rooktallon@dragonscave.space ("Rook") wrote:

Anyone out there who plays doom using the Brutal Doom mod can guide me on how to get it to work with the Steam version of Doom?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
anji@metalhead.club ("Matthijs De Smedt") wrote:

Beautiful composition and performance. And I’ve never seen this kind of “hurdy-gurdy acoustic guitar”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT88vv28jdQ&feature=youtu.be

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

But also... in a better world there would be a community around computer "normies". There'd be support instead of relentless economic pressure. Instead we just let Microsoft or Apple bully us around in the name of shareholder value and executive bonuses. And society praises these "geniuses" for boiling the oceans to give us wrong answers to known questions.

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

My PC at home is a refurbished computer I bought for $200 back in 2019, so it was already "outdated" when I got it. Nobody is pressuring me to upgrade.

My mother-in-law bought a brand new computer a year after that, and now Microsoft tells her it won't run Windows 11.

I know I'm coasting on the dregs of our consumerist, throw away society, but it's just so striking how much you can save with a little knowledge and a little time.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange ("Matthew Green") wrote:

This battle will keep playing out over and over again until they achieve something that their own citizens have made it clear they don’t want. https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/the-eu-wants-to-decrypt-your-private-data-by-2030

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bert_hubert@eupolicy.social ("bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦") wrote:

The attempts by law enforcement & governments to subvert end-to-end encryption are ongoing. The European Commission is going to spend a year thinking about their new "Roadmap for law enforcement access to data", and they are (genuinely) asking for people to join their expert group to help. Here I urge you to join that group (also because I can't): https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/possible-end-to-end-to-end-come-help/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
fifonetworks@infosec.exchange ("Bob Young") wrote:

Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.

THE PROBLEM
I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.

I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.

#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONetworks

#cybersecurity

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:") wrote:

"'The fewer the number of weapons that are delivered to Ukraine, the closer the end of the special military operation,' the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. To be clear, by 'the end of the special military operation,' he means the defeat of Ukraine."

Trump, who now controls all 3 branches of the U.S. Govt through both intimidation & threats and complicity, and is rapidly turning the U.S. into a Putin-style police state, has always curried his master Putin's favor. He's a traitor, doing favors for our worst enemy while Putin laughs at him. Supplying Ukraine with everything it needs to be victorious in defending its territory against the Russian invasion would be in the U.S. national interest because Putin won't stop there. But we have a traitor in the White House.
#Ukraine #Russia #Trump
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/putin-trump-russia-ukraine/683414/?gift=3%5FisfPUpVHwKI0co1coCrM4q%5FjJ%5FLi6rSpACRc9ByIQ

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
AverageDog ("Nils M Holm") wrote:

A few weeks ago I wondered what it takes to turn a small LISP-1 into a LISP-2. Turns out it takes just a few hours to get most things right, then some days to iron out a few subtleties, and then a couple of weeks to polish it into a piece of art.
MICRO COMMON LISP is a tiny, purely symbolic, microscopic subset of #CommonLISP. It runs in less than 64K bytes of memory, even on #DOS (tiny model) or CP/M. Here it is:
http://t3x.org/mcl/
#CPM #LISP

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

Tell me you're about to go mask off fascist without telling me you're about to go mask off fascist

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/04/openai-altman-july-4-zohran-mamdani.html

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

“The second lesson is that while ideas matter, expert ideas do not necessarily matter. Past fiscal debates have divided economists and policy wonks… This time around there was almost no debate: Wonks from across the political spectrum opposed the legislation. ... Even some of the authors of Mr. Trump’s first-term tax cuts were critics of the budget number gimmicks that went into this new law. None of them changed the outcome…”