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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Adobe Photoshop pricing got so wild I had to cancel Netflix, Spotify, and my hopes and dreams.

At this point I just doodle on paper, whispering "layers" to myself.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
akjcv@types.pl ("All the Flowers of the Mountain") wrote:

there is actually not, in general, a moral character to whose posts you do or do not read, on a platform where subscribing to someone doesn't give them an advantage in the algorithm or whatever

it's okay not to follow people who are right about things

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

If you're on #Mastodon for a while (or any non-corporate social media) and you jump on #Threads or #Twitter, the posts there are jarring.

Posts read like tv commercials. Everyone's trying to game the algorithm so the writing feels like advertisements— "what happened next will shock you," "90% of people don't do this one thing," etc.

Communities and Markets.

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

She's right you know

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/were-light-years-away-from-true-artificial-intelligence-says-murderbot/

Boosted by jwz:
randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

"Is this 911? Yes, hello officer, I would like to report a murder."

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

#Bluesky 2024: we're decentralized. Basically we're a search engine for blogs.

Bluesky 2025: we need to verify your identity please hand your driver's license over to Epic Games.

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

Anyone know the difference/connection between #XFN and #miroformats?

Reading up on some internet history and learned that Google supported XFN in its short-lived Social Graph API. rel=me and all that.

https://gmpg.org/xfn/1

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

AT LEAST

RE: https://www.threads.com/@latimes/post/DL-tkKds1a9

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Meet our new backend developer.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
Vivaldi@vivaldi.net wrote:

The modern web is built to overwhelm with ragebait, clickbait, and chaos. So we made something soothing.

It’s called OnlyFjords. And yes, it’s only fjords.

💦 https://onlyfjords.com

#Fjord #OF #SocialMedia #Nature #Norway #Oslo #Water

Attachments:

• video: Forest walk transitions to scenes of digital overwhelm - buzzing phones, cluttered screens. Then: peaceful Norwegian fjords with still water. Person floats calmly as OnlyFjords.com appears on screen.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

"geometry glitch in the map data, or just the Dutch again?"

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:

SOME NEWS! the folks at Anthology Editions / Mexican Summer decided to print another 1500 copies of #othernetworks (out in Oct.) because it sold out so quickly! THANK YOU to all of you for ordering a copy & helping to make this reprint possible. the distributor is still Ingram and you can pre-order once again through your favorite local bookseller. You can also sign up for the publisher's newsletter at the bottom of this page to find out with the reprint is actually out. They will continue to exist for another year or so I guess for the sake of a few reprints. https://anthology.net/about/ #othernetworks 📷 Brica Wilcox https://loriemerson.net/books/other-networks/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
mholiv@fosstodon.org ("Caitlin") wrote:

A little nervous to do this but I don’t see too much #bevy content so I thought I would shoot my shot.

I’ve been working on a factory game written in #rust with #bevy and I recently hit a big milestone (aka now on steam)

If anyone’s interested in #indiedev dev logs I have a rss/atom feed. This weeks is mostly about art, but I normally talk about ECS woes and the pain of programmatic terrain generation. This is my first “large scale” game so it’s a mixed bag.

https://exofactory.net/blog/2025-07-06/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
lydiaconwell@todon.nl ("Lydia Conwell :mastodon:") wrote:

I think I ended up using #Linux because I'm impressionable and bow down easily to peer pressure from the #Fediverse

In fact, Fedi has taught me lots of bad habits, like caring about data privacy and hating AI all the time.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
igd_news@kolektiva.social ("It's Going Down") wrote:

New statement posted to legal fundraiser for those arrested in #Texas at anti-ICE rally:

"We do not know what happened at the Prairieland Detention Center on July 4th, but we do know that 11 people were arrested and still sit in jail without legal representation. The framing of the case by the federal government should be concerning to all of us. The glaring inconsistencies in the official narrative and the alarmist accusations are a clear attempt to bolster the Trump administration’s claims that the United States is on the verge of chaos, warranting a dramatic increase in militarized police action. This, in turn, will almost certainly be used as a justification for broader expansion of repression not only of popular movements but all political activity in opposition to Trump and his regime. As such, what is happening to the 11 people connected to the Prairieland Detention Center protest should be a concern for anyone who does not want to see this country descend further into authoritarianism.

The Trump administration has consistently shown that it lies and distorts facts to advance its political narratives. In particular, they created news and propaganda that seem to confirm the far-right conspiracy theories that have fed Trump’s rise to power. Time and again these narratives have been proven false and dangerous.

These 11 people are some of the first arrested under this unbelievable narrative, but we should expect this sort of repression to spread further and wider. Trump does not distinguish between these defendants, Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialists of America, 50501, or anyone else standing against him. They are coming for undocumented migrants, they are coming for supporters of Palestine, they are coming for those protesting ICE’s violence.

The first months of this administration have been a disaster. People have been kidnapped in broad daylight by masked agents and sent to hellish prison camps in other countries, with detention centers like Prarieland as stopping points along the way. Natural disasters have killed hundreds with little warning or care from the government, and even now we’re still trying to count the losses from flooding in North Texas. Decades of advancement in public health have being eviscerated: measles killed more children in Texas in the last month than in the last 30 years. Transgender people are being erased from our society. US-made bombs are slaughtering millions around the world. The list goes on. People see the nightmare that is unfolding, and the state is furiously looking for ways to distract, confuse, immobilize, and terrify. In this context, it should be clear that these recent criminal charges in Alvarado, Texas, are a dangerous and unconscionable stunt in service of this goal."

Read full statement here: https://www.givesendgo.com/supportdfwprotestors

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Mossop@fosstodon.org ("Dave Townsend") wrote:

The operating temperature of the network switch in my loft is 0-40°, my loft is currently 45° and rising 😬

Boosted by jwz:
dansinker@omfg.town ("Dan Sinker") wrote:

there was a point not that long ago where “people sitting in their cars yelling about shit” was not a normal content type and honestly I think we should go back to that

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

#KWS privacy policy: "we super duper promise to delete your personal info and not use it to enrich ourselves. And that will never change and it will always be the same. Pinky swear."

#Bluesky

https://www.kidswebservices.com/en-US/privacy-policy

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

I would think #Bluesky would have a more robust first response to its forced identity verification than a 500-word blog post.

For questions about your personal info and data, Bluesky refers you to Epic Games, who will also now have your verified identity via the Kids Web Services software.

Epic Games and #Meta are pretty chummy these days so no surprise that Meta also uses #KWS to identify people.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/07-10-2025-age-assurance

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
aluhrs@toot.cafe ("Andy Luhrs") wrote:

Top vibe-coding prompt - “This should be possible without JS when using modern CSS features right?”

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
phillip@social.lol ("Phillip :usa_distress:") wrote:

@vae

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

Has Mike Masnic commented on #Bluesky's age verification roll out yet? I haven't found anything.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Lockdownyourlife@infosec.exchange wrote:

If anyone is able to help out with a $250 medical bill mutual aid, this one needs to be paid today. Please RT for reach. Thanks!🙂
C: $Lockdownyourlife
V: lockdownyourlife
ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/lockdownyourlife

#tech #infosec #MutualAid #medical #MutualAidRequest

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK (in response to new laws) https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act

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

Pusha-T once revealed that he watched Joker on repeat while he was writing Its Almost Dry.

I love that. Listening to the new Clipse album feels like reading a book you can't put down.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@fromjason What'd you expect?

It's a site run by a Nazi robot.

Two, if you count Grok!

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

This is what a human hand looks like under a microscope.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
eco-g@stroud.social ("Cllr Gareth Kitchen") wrote:

I was the Gloucestershire Police & Crime Panel today up at Shire Hall, representing Stroud District Council.

On questioning it seems that these 23 shiny new neighbourhood police officers are only funded for 12 months.

The CC forgot to turn her mic off, so I’m speaking off camera.

https://urbanists.video/w/sntycE1rniNEGyXNFDDZ8s

#Glos #Police #ukpol

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

Today, the world woke up to the headline "Cyber attack makes everyone's bookmarks, on every platform, public."

#onesentencehorrorstory

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

Me: Siri text dad do you want to get lunch

Siri: texting Amy "do you want to get --"

Me: PLEASE NO STOP