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

I need more bluets for healing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/08/escaped-briefly/

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jollyorc@social.5f9.de ("JollyOrc") wrote:

@tante

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JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange ("Jess👾") wrote:

@amalia22

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

OH: "the Whatnot Working Group"

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

If I were bitter about how a certain "decentralized" social media initiative played out, and I wanted to contrast that effort with something truly decentralized, I might build a mesh-network messaging app.

At any rate I'm fascinated by #Bitchat. Especially since #Firechat sort of just disappeared during Covid.

#Bluesky #JackDorsey

https://cointelegraph.com/news/jack-dorsey-launches-bluetooth-relayed-decentralized-messaging-app-bitchat

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

social.lol will upgrade to Mastodon 4.4.0 tonight at 11 PM EDT (3:00 AM UTC on 9 July). There will be some brief downtime during the upgrade. Status updates will be shared on https://status.neatnik.net.

You can read more about what’s new in 4.4.0 here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases

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

Reminder: when Ted Cruz goes on vacation, people die.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/08/worth-reiterating/

Mastodon wrote:

We hope you’ll enjoy the enhancements in Mastodon 4.4, and we’re grateful for your support and feedback. We’re a small team, and we depend on your donations to continue making Mastodon better with features and updates. Please contribute to support our mission if you can.

https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors#donate

Mastodon wrote:

Mastodon 4.4 also contains the first part of our Quote Post implementation - display of incoming Quote Posts. Full support (including creation) will be part of the next version: Mastodon 4.5, coming later this year. We’re already hard at work on the next set of updates for that release.

Mastodon wrote:

We’re excited to announce that Mastodon 4.4 is now generally available as an upgrade for all Mastodon servers. The update brings improvements to profiles, navigation, list management, media controls, server moderation notes, and more.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/mastodon-4.4

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

Never put your life, or your children's lives, in the hands of Texas good ol' boys. I doubt any one will learn this lesson.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/08/bigotry-and-ignorance-kill/

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

It's wild how some tech folks are comfortable co-opting the language of revolution to peddle their ideas and technologies but will clutch their pearls when others use the same language to describe actual oppression.

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ariadne@treehouse.systems ("Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:") wrote:

Two weeks of wayback: https://ariadne.space/2025/07/07/two-weeks-of-wayback.html

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
trc@social.coop ("Tyng-Ruey Chuang") wrote:

https://www.internetarchive.eu/protecting-the-past-to-power-the-future-internet-archive-europe-launches-the-our-future-memory-campaign/

> The shift from owning physical materials to licensing digital content has created an unprecedented crisis. License agreements routinely prohibit preservation activities that were once standard practice. Materials that exist only in digital formats often remain locked behind commercial platforms...

> This is not merely a technical problem, it is a fundamental threat to the democratic principle that knowledge should be accessible to all...

More: https://ourfuturememory.org/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
adhdeanasl@beige.party ("ADHDean") wrote:

Buddy: I watched a woman in a bar morally and intellectually destroy some dude using nothing but Shakespearean insults

Me: Whoa, that’s bardcore

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

There was a brief power outage at my home a few days ago. Usually this would be a nuisance, but I'd been waiting months for this moment.

Here is a recording of the actual mains waveform during the outage, captured by a logging recorder I've been running.

(watch your volume!)

Attachments:

• video: f5f1a4b403302f5e.mp4

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gabrielesvelto@mas.to ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:

If you have an Intel Raptor Lake system and you're in the northern hemisphere, chances are that your machine is crashing more often because of the summer heat. I know because I can literally see which EU countries have been affected by heat waves by looking at the locales of Firefox crash reports coming from Raptor Lake systems.

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admin@fediscience.org ("FediScience Support") wrote:

Want to talk about your science in your own podcast but don't not know how to start? Or aren't sure what's involved logistically?

FediScience e.V. is planning a "podcasting for scientists 101" workshop and we would like to see how many people might be interested and what specifically you would expect to be covered.

This will be a free online event happening around late September or early October and would be conducted by an expert in science communication.

If you are interested, please either respond to this post or send me a DM. Please include any concrete topics or questions you would like to see covered in your message.

Boosts appreciated.

(edit: fixed hashtag :/)

#podcast #scicomm #wisskomm

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

looking around for breakfast

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esoastronomy ("ESO") wrote:

💥💥 Double detonation!

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by blasting twice.

This was done by studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 with our Very Large Telescope. Led by the Univ. of South Wales, this shows some of the most important explosions in the Universe in a new light.

What happened exactly? Keep reading.

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

📷 ESO/P. Das et al. Backgr. stars (HST): K. Noll et al.

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wingo ("Andy Wingo") wrote:

acm queue issue out on webassembly, with articles by dan ehrenberg, conrad watt, ben titzer, & yours truly: https://queue.acm.org/issuedetail.cfm?issue=3747201

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

It's never too late to leave the site run by the dude who flings Nazi salutes

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/threads-is-nearing-xs-daily-app-users-new-data-shows/

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ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.

(Published April)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-noaa-budget-cuts-climate-change-modeling-princeton-gfdl?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#News #Climate #NOAA #Research #Science #Data #Weather #Trump

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NewsDesk@flipboard.social ("Flipboard News Desk") wrote:

Back in February, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News that Jeffrey Epstein's "client list" was sitting on her desk. Now, a Justice Department and FBI review says there was no "client list" or evidence of blackmail, and that the disgraced financier died by suicide while in custody in Manhattan. Here's more from @CBSNews.

https://flip.it/2NZ8rq

#JeffreyEpstein #USNews #USPolitics #TrumpAdministration #PamBondi

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ned@beige.party ("Ned Yeung") wrote:

Please.

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lyna@wetdry.world ("Lyna") wrote:

Call me Linux the way it takes me several attempts to wake up from sleep properly

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gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz ("Greg Egan") wrote:

Just when I thought my digital experience couldn’t possibly get any more exciting!

jwz wrote:

Can someone explain to me what it means when "wlr-output-power-management-unstable-v1" reports a wl_output as being "failed" rather than "on" or "off"? Restarting XScreenSaver does not change it, so this bit is server-side not client-side. The screens are functioning properly with windows and such, but they just stop reporting their power state, forevermore.

jwz wrote:

Gotta say, since I switched my Testing Pi to Wayland, it sure does freeze solid and require a power-cycle a lot more often.

Like: Wayland: twice a day.
X11: every 4 months.

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

Drink Special @ Death Guild: ICE CAN END: House Tequila, Yellow Red Bull, Dash of Sour Mix.

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• gifv: bde294cbd9b8f5f9.mp4