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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
alwirtes@indieweb.social ("Al Wirtes") wrote:

Best lede ever from Anthony Lane in the current issues of The New Yorker. He’s writing about Elmore Leonard.

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

the Big Bad Bill as a wordcloud (ignoring stopwords: SECTION, subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, year)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
louis@ingenthron.social ("Louis Ingenthron") wrote:

This is not the way. Violence only begets more violence.

The goal is to defeat fascism *without* starting a civil war.

Please don't be like these wannabe-rambo jackasses.

The "just following orders" crowd deserve justice, not death.

#uspol

https://apnews.com/article/texas-immigration-detention-center-shooting-officer-ambush-f3782b689659270b10bd9b33bb48169b

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TomSullivan@mstdn.social ("Tom Sullivan") wrote:

Our Dunning-Kruger president, friends. God bless America.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/africa/trump-praises-liberian-president-latam-intl

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CindyWeinstein@zirk.us ("(((Cindy Weinstein)))") wrote:

@samlitzinger

"As CNN has previously reported, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — whose department oversees FEMA — recently enacted a sweeping rule aimed at cutting spending: Every contract and grant over $100,000 now requires her personal sign-off before any funds can be released."

I wonder if any of the families who lost loved ones can sue for something. Negligence? $100K requires a personal sign-off? That is insanity.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Corporate media is more outraged at the possibility of a Democratic socialist entering the NY Mayors office than at the certainty that a white supremacist has reentered the White House.

Corporate politicians are more outraged that Mamdani won't condemn something he didn't say than they are at Trump repeating racist things he definitely said.

Silicon Valley is more accepting of a racist who dehumanizes Muslims than they are of a Muslim who defies billionaires.

Sigh...Are we great yet?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

TOMORROW: Our co-founders will jump online to answer your questions. RSVP now to be part of a free-flowing, interactive chat about what’s next in our fight for democracy. Leah and Ezra answer your top-ranked questions every Thursday afternoon. https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/773746/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Remember when Republicans used to blame everything on the Affordable Care Act? That’s what we need to do with Trump’s Tax Scam.

Attachments:

• video: 81a7a17e629a5a7b.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org ("Daniel Lakeland") wrote:

My wife and I are watching Love's Labors Lost at indieshakes.org Griffith Park Shakespeare.

Come watch, and donate, they do this every year.

https://givebutter.com/GPFSF2025

So far I haven't seen any Sheiks Indie or not.

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

tapdancing through my memory banks, and what do I find in a dusty archive full of bit-rot? Ye Olde IBM Java Word Cloud. here is "Hamlet"

Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

It would be laughable that people of supposed integrity are still debating whether to leave XTwitter, but it's merely pathetic.

jwz wrote:

Help me fix a a GTK bug.

In xscreensaver-settings, any time I select a different item in the list, I get a crash with: GLib: g_ptr_array_unref: assertion 'array' failed. This assertion fires late, with none of my code on the stack, so I have no idea...
https://jwz.org/b/ykrC

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
peron@mastodon.sdf.org ("Ubuntu Peronista") wrote:

Get the marvelous MicroPro #Wordstar hand and touch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC8J3CD5JuE
#retrocomputing

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
zackwhittaker ("Zack Whittaker") wrote:

NEW by @lorenzofb: Jack Dorsey launched his new "secure" peer-to-peer messaging app Bitchat this week. But now Dorsey says the app wasn't tested for security issues before its launch... and researchers are already finding bugs.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/jack-dorsey-says-his-secure-new-bitchat-app-has-not-been-tested-for-security/

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

Gonna watch The Matrix and make my first #11ty template 🤌🎉

A very exciting Wednesday night

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
russss@chaos.social ("Russ Garrett") wrote:

I call this the "reverse Itanium"

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
russss@chaos.social ("Russ Garrett") wrote:

An update on how well the International Energy Agency is doing at predicting solar generation growth.

(source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032125000449)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
dinosaurgerms@furries.club ("dino! 🌈") wrote:

what if we kissed
in the Zaxxon BURN IN room

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

another case of spontaneous human combustion

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

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
fen@zoner.work ("Fennel") wrote:

i always giggle a little at the gnome users who are like "why on earth would you ever need or want to minimize a window!?" and wonder to myself what their homes must look like

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

At this point I treat the news like improv comedy. Yes, and? Sure, why not? Bring in the murder hornets again!

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
mjtsai ("Michael Tsai") wrote:

Downloading Xcode With a Passkey
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/07/09/downloading-xcode-with-a-passkey/ #mjtsaiblog

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
cabel@panic.com ("Cabel Sasser") wrote:

Quick Look in Tahoe wants to preview your image in a very significant round rect — and so, when you preview a tiny little 32 × 32 square icon, it becomes round! 🫥

Boosted by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
Avitus@ioc.exchange ("👊🇺🇸🔥") wrote:

@evacide I've already removed Gemini via adb once. I'll do it again if it comes back after this forced opt-in.

I am not going to tell anyone that the Gemini app package is actually called com.google.android.apps.bard. I am also not advising anyone to follow these instructions:

1. Download and install ADB on your computer from the Android SDK Platform-Tools package

2. Enable Developer Options on your Android device:

3. Go to Settings > About phone > Software information

4. Tap "Build Number" seven times

5. Go to Settings > Developer options > USB debugging

6. Connect your Android device to your computer using a USB cable

7. Open Command Prompt or Terminal in the folder where ADB is installed

8. Verify the connection via command prompt or terminal by running the command: adb devices

9. Then run one of the two following commands:

adb uninstall com.google.android.apps.bard

Or

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.apps.bard

10. Then verify the package has been removed by running: adb shell pm list packages | grep bard

jwz wrote:

I wonder what Blockchain Rasputin has been up to lately:

Jack Dorsey says his 'secure' new Bitchat app has not been tested for security. Security researcher Alex Radocea found that it's possible to impersonate someone else and trick a person's...
https://jwz.org/b/ykrA

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
checkervest@laserdisc.party ("a peculiarly ferocious shark") wrote:

Happy Wednesday from one of the little guys living on my patio!

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

Type of nipples I was thinking about at the moment I blurted that out:

https://www.mcmaster.com/products/pipe-nipples/standard-wall-stainless-steel-threaded-pipe-nipples-and-pipe-10/

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

Me: [getting a new idea while walking around the hardware store and blurting aloud] "I don't think I'll be needing those nipples after all!"

Fellow customer: [moving away while keeping an eye on me]

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
kkremitzki ("Kurt Kremitzki") wrote:

Just announced! Guixotic: a worker #Cooperative specializing in #GNU #Guix and #Guile #Scheme https://guixotic.coop/