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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

You could be forgiven for thinking I’m an AI though, since I am both extremely confident and frequently wrong

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
noellemitchell@mstdn.social ("Noelle :verified:") wrote:

Uhhhhh so I just went on a really long rant on my blog about why I don't like Meta platforms. 😆

It's called "8 reasons why I think Meta platforms are pointless".

#Meta #SocialMedia #blog #writing

https://bookswithnoelle.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/8-reasons-why-meta-platforms-are-pointless-imho/

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

Scott's a friend of mine and I'm so excited to see this

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hollywoodreporter/post/DL25bsXuNtu

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hannah@posts.rat.pictures ("a beautiful bitch") wrote:

The TESCREAL Housewives of Palo Alto

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:

What I learned from Prince and Muhammad Ali was that it’s possible to love yourself so much that everybody else does, too.

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

Spice isn't mad at you. She's just disappointed.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

The REST that can be implemented is not the true REST.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
threedaymonk@sonomu.club ("Paul") wrote:

Looking at a development ticket that calls for the exact same CSS class to be applied to every single on the page, and wondering where exactly everything went so wrong with modern front end development.

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

Climate change doesn't care whether you believe in it or not

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/texas-deadly-floods-could-be-new-normal

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

#Sinners is out on Max. Recommend watching it if you haven't seen it yet.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
parismarx@mastodon.online ("Paris Marx") wrote:

Canada needs to reduce its dependence on US tech companies — and cloud infrastructure is a perfect place to start.

For the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, I explain the threat posed by our dependence on US-owned data centres and why we need a public cloud that isn’t shaped by the pressure for shareholder profits.

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/canada-should-build-public-cloud-infrastructure-rather-than-relying-on-u-s-tech-giants/

#tech #cloud #datacenters #cdnpoli #cdntech #canada #markcarney

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eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

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theicarian ("The Icarian") wrote:

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Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

Introverted Pyramid: n. The journalistic technique of sounding certain in the headline and adding more and more qualifiers as the article goes on, leaving a non story by the end.

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.

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

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• video: f5f1a4b403302f5e.mp4