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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Hey, if you're looking for signed books from me right now, I signed a genuinely large number of several popular titles at the Big Ohio Book Con the other weekend, and now you can get them here:
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bweller@mstdn.social ("Becca") wrote:
"Palantir corporation’s software will be used to combine data gleaned from the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Social Security Administration, and the Internal Revenue Service. Meanwhile, the administration wants access to citizens’ and others’ bank account numbers and medical claims.
The regime will not limit the purpose of its growing internal police apparatus to deporting undocumented people. "
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catileptic@chaos.social ("Alex Ștefănescu") wrote:
I want to expand my connections in The Netherlands. I'm looking for communities collectives, affinity groups that center human rights, digital rights, queerness. Maybe political hacking, since hacking is political. ^^
I'm based nearby the Hague.
My dream is to join or start or nurture a co-working / co-thinking space.
Feel free to DM me or reply publicly if you're in the area and would like to chat. Or if you have any recommendations.
Boosting for outreach is also appreciated.
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continuation@mas.to ("M. Arjuna") wrote:
🚨 This is literally textbook Aryanization
- State violence causes economic distress
- The targeted group forced to sell assets
- Non-targeted people get a 'deal'
- Economic incentives align with persecutionWe have seen this before.
It is happening NOW in the United States.
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GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:
And tragically predictable.
#ProLifeMyAss, Trump, Vought, Musk
Joyce White Vance:
Even if #Trump is forced to renew funding & restaff Natl Weather Service & NOAA as a result of the Texas floods (a big if) we now live in a world with #Musk’s irrational #Project2025-based cuts in place. People will have to die before cuts are restored. Blue states may be out of luck.
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adaofgreengables@eldritch.cafe ("✨ justada :polish_cow:") wrote:
It is done. I finished making the CNC machine. It draws circuits on a copper plate, just how i wanted. It is rare for me to finish a project. I'm so incredibly happy about it :blob_melt_sob_love:
The machine is still in kind of a rough shape. I will make proper power circuit and maybe a bluetooth for serial. Other then that, it is ready to be used :bowsette_blonde:(Part 7: Finished)
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kate@aus.social ("Kate Bowles") wrote:
Fundraiser for librarian LaVonnia Moore who has lost her job for supporting her community’s inclusive choice, in the madness of what the US has become. It will take so many acts of courage like this one.
“Libraries are one of the very few public spaces left for everybody. We empower voices. We make room for the whole community.”
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lavonnia-moore-seek-justice-and-equality
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wilkowskidom ("Dominik Wilkowski") wrote:
I’ve written up a tutorial I’ve given to a couple friends and colleges #teaching them #Rust and it’s been a lot of fun.
It’s 4 parts and starts here:
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
We already live in a world filled with wonderful natural intelligences that we denigrate and disrespect. We shouldn't aspire to add artificial ones to that.
We have work to do, but not in making new classes of subjugated beings (or new classes of venerated ones for that matter).
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Do not work to create a mind for others if that is possibly their motivation.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Do not try to create a mind if your motivation is to enslave it or worship it.
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
The Jonas Brothers for sure
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DS90210 ("Deep Space 90210") wrote:
Ezri: All pleasures are guilty pleasures if you’re anxious.
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db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🐝") wrote:
try this power exit in your next meeting
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paulschoe@mastodon.world ("Paul Schoe") wrote:
From this article about how bad life was before vaccines:
'Out of the nearly 2 million children who received the vaccine in 1955, only one died. Every corner of the U.S. had victims before the vaccine.
Even my tiny grade school of 100 children in 1950s Nebraska had two polio victims, one of them known as “Skippy” for his gait with braces, and both dragged themselves around while the rest of us screamed and chased each other on the playground.'
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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:
“Joni Mitchell, who didn’t have a choice whether to take the vaccine because it didn’t exist when she was exposed, contracted polio at age 9. She writes: ‘If [polio] eats the muscles of the heart, it kills you; if it eats the muscles that control the flexing of your lungs, you end up in an iron lung; if it eats the muscle of your leg, it withers.’ She began to sing and write songs while in the hospital for polio in her spine. Mitchell has had post-polio syndrome for the past 30 years. That’s a long time to suffer for a decision somebody else made for you.”
https://slate.com/life/2025/07/rfk-jr-cdc-vaccine-autism-hhs.html
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gnome@floss.social ("GNOME") wrote:
The Oregon State University Open Source Lab (@osuosl) has supported major open source projects for over 20 years. 🖥️🌍
Now they need your help to keep going.
Learn more and consider donating: https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/
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appleinsider ("AppleInsider") wrote:
Even when used as a monitor for your Mac, an LG or Samsung smart TV will periodically capture what's on screen and send it to company servers. Here's how to stop that terrible behavior.
https://appleinsider.com/inside/mac/tips/how-to-stop-your-lg-or-samsung-smart-tv-from-tracking-you?utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon
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ArRo@troet.cafe ("Armin Rohde") wrote:
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NationCymru@toot.wales ("Nation.Cymru") wrote:
Welsh university researchers develop biodegradable batteries to power the future of medical implants
#News
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lukito@gamedev.lgbt ("Lukito") wrote:
A timely reminder that we on this small island have some clinically batshit place names :neofox_googly:
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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay") wrote:
A piechart, but for Hotel California 🌴
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mxshift@treehouse.systems ("Rick Altherr") wrote:
That person the reverse engineer the Microchip CLB? He did a whole project using the CLBs to create a time-to-digital converter: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQA89V9lAonxGPTtCKu4LObzSHyTk-gakk%5Flph7WlV8y94fRNXltXDVaNxafzX%5FsYIuslnAerhjTfH0/pub
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Every “log in with Facebook” button and every “Sign in with Google” pop-up you encounter is Big Tech trying to better connect our social graphs. We all know that.
But it's also the #OpenAI eye scanner straight from a Black Mirror episode. Can you imagine if the Orb gained mass adoption coupled with a chat bot that people confide in?
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
I'm not waiting for the judgement of history, I'm judging these motherfuckers harshly right now
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Before I continue, let me say that I am for the #OpenWeb. The World Wide Web is a gift. It's a miracle that it exists, truly.
But I'm am vehemently, staunchly, against the unification of our social graphs under a single power. Is that a controversial take in the open web religion? Is it blasphemy? I don't know.
Anyway,
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
But right now, our #SocialGraph is fractured. Always has been. No one corporation or entity can connect all the data points we leave scattered across the web. It would take an unprecedented amount of coordination and relinquishing of power.
Over the years many have tried to unify our social graphs with protocols and APIs. Many have failed.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
It's everything about us because everything about us is logged, analyzed, and distributed for cash all across the World Wide Web. Our lives are so deeply embedded into devices that there isn't much the Internet doesn't know about us.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The social graph is our lives reduced to data.
It's our relationships, our friends, our enemies, our lovers.
It's our likes, dislikes, and indifferences.
The social graph is the food we eat, and the drinks we drink. It's the medicines we take. The drugs we use.
It's our strengths and our weaknesses. Our neuroses, our reactions, and avoidances.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Our Social Graphs, from the viewpoint of capitalism, is the last bit of gold in the mountains of data centers we call the Internet.
A single, unified social layer over the web has proven elusive. Our identities remain plural and scattered.
What is the social graph? I can speak from a marketing perspective. 1/🤷