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

Such a pretty little guy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/12/like-finding-candy-on-a-leaf/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
SciPunk@pixelfed.social wrote:

In the movie Hackers (1995), a group of nerds hack into computer networks to outsmart corrupt authorities and uncover a conspiracy.

The film features a mix of retro computing aesthetics, cyberpunk themes, and real-life cybersecurity concepts like sudo and root access.

#hackers #retro #computing #cybersecurity #cyberpunk #movies #sudo #root #god #cyberspace #datasecurity #hacking #computers #network #blackhat #whitehat #cyberpunkaesthetic #computers #filesystem #fisherstevens #pennjillette

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

https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/cambridge-analytica-controversy/

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

Re: #CambridgeAnalytica

Looking back at that 2016 campaign, it's clear that Trump's team copied Obama's playbook to a tee. In fact it's fair to say that we don't have a Trump presidency without Obama revolutionizing campaigning in the internet era. Not that Obama is to *blame* but surely there's a causation.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
nsmsn@social.lol ("Nick Simson") wrote:

wow hard to believe it’s only been a year since we stopped buying stickers from one dude in upstate new york

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭🕹️") wrote:

A very “surprising pattern” that people don’t want to use fucking shit that doesn’t fucking work and depends on stealing people’s work and fucking lighting the mother-fucking planet on fire while feeding their fucking money into the greedy throats of billionaires.

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

Where in the description for "overly-moneyed tech dingleberry" is the requirement for being an openly racist fuckwaffle, because I have to tell you these days the correlation is pretty damn high, oh right, when you switch from "blandly libertarian" to "full-flavor fascist" the openly racist fuckwaffle module gets bolted on automatically

https://wapo.st/4eVNahl

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

May 7, 2010—“Facebook changes its privacy policy every month in an effort to build social graphs, connect the Web and grab data that may or may not be monetized. Zynga's model is much cleaner---and proven.”

#Facebook #Meta #Zynga

https://www.zdnet.com/article/could-facebook-go-farmville-mafia-war-free-without-a-user-revolt/

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

Who, me? A conspiracy theorist? Can't be.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/12/i-never-thought-id-be-a-conspiracy-theorist/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZUg5E8ctaM

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gimulnautti@mastodon.green ("Toni Aittoniemi") wrote:

Scratch the surface of any anti-vaxx, anti-masking or anti-lockdown organisation, and you’ll find weird cults of christians, climate change deniers, neo-nazis and eugenics buffs thinking they’re hippies. Keep digging and you’ll find Koch brothers, fossil fuel lobby and eventually Peter Thiel. But most of all you’ll find anti-liberalism, which is the irony of it all. It’s like an Ouroboros chasing it’s tail.

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

DNS Stickers! Arriving from Sweden near the end of the month. They measure 3" × 1.1" / 76mm × 28mm. One uses colors that were popular around the time that DNS was created, and the other is a sparkly delight.

You get both for just $6, postage included (no tracking at that price, sorry). You can pre-order now if you’re patient, or wait until I have them in hand in a couple of weeks.

https://buy.stripe.com/9B64gzfm44mGgyx6YB3AY0b

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

Ignorance + time = malice

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

My Windows 11 computer updated itself last night. Today, I was using Git (via JJ-VCS) and it launched notepad to edit a commit message.

AND MICROSOFT HAS ADDED AI TO NODEPAD. It has logged me into my Microsoft account and put AI into Notepad. It briefly popped up something about AI blah blah data access blah blah… I tried to get a screenshot but it disappeared before I'd read everything.

SteamOS for Desktop when?

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siderea@universeodon.com ("Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis") wrote:

@nyhan So, I have been slowly and reluctantly coming to the conclusion that LLMs are the One Ring:

• They are seductive by appealing to a person's best nature

• By convincing the user that what they most ardently desire is almost within their grasp and they are right and good to want it and deserving of having it, they slowly turn the user into Gollum

• They are probably feeding everything the user whispers to it right on to the evil guy on the back end of a Palantir

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jbz@indieweb.social wrote:

An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too) • Rob Norris

https://despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2025-07-10-an-openzfs-bug-and-the-humans-that-made-it/

#openzfs #rust #opensource

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anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:

man, the entire Clipse tiny desk took me back to why we all fell for them right at the start, they are just such STARS, but I legit got emotional when they put the *desk* in Tiny Desk at the end of the set. This entire album rollout has been the coronation they've long deserved. https://youtu.be/f7gIBB7jKc0

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Deglassco ("Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco") wrote:

They did not land as strangers. They were returning to a continent that had already been stolen from them. The streets were named for Clay and Ashmun. The flag had stripes and a single white star. The capital was called Monrovia. This was Liberia—built from memory, stitched in exile. A mirror held to the American republic.
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#History #Photography #BlackMastodon
Image: Ad for Firestone's factory and exhibition building at the World's Fair. Source: The Newberry Collection, ca. 1930-1939.

jwz wrote:

I have glitchpegged the AI bots.

Just a little fuzz testing for them. Absolutely free of charge.
https://jwz.org/b/ykrG

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

Milkweed longhorn beetles up to mischief.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/11/milkweed-longhorny-beetles-am-i-right/

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FediTips@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Tips") wrote:

⚠️ If you see a post or DM saying "your account is currently suspended for verification purposes", do NOT click on the link. It is a scam.

Fediverse servers do not ask people to verify their identity. There is an optional self-verification system, but that's just for those who want to use it. No one is ever asked to do it.

If you are in ANY doubt about ANY official-looking message, contact your own server's admin directly using their public email address on your server's website's "About" page.

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

2007—

#OpenWeb #OpenSocialWeb #Meta

https://themeat.org/2007/12/

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

His platform, and it is a good one

https://youtu.be/wlJgD4GuDVs

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hollywoodreporter/post/DL%5FCC7Hur9L

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jiska@chaos.social ("jiska 🦄:fairydust:") wrote:

The Apple Watch has a closed down ecosystem, only compatible with the iPhone. @trusted_device reverse engineered its interfaces and opened it up for compatibility with Android! ✨ WatchWitch ✨ allows you using your Apple Watch ⌚ on Android devices, interpreting your health data, answering messages on the Watch and more.

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHz8NHMhtLY
Read the full paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07210

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
so_treu@scholar.social ("RI DaSēr K") wrote:

Damn this article is still so good and has only gotten more relevant over time, me and @ArtistMarciaX really cooked with grease on this one if I do say so myself!!!!!!!

https://logicmag.io/policy/blackness-in-the-fediverse-a-conversation-with-marcia-x/

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

Oooh! I've experienced this!

vellichor: The pensive nostalgia and temporality of used bookstores; the feeling evoked by the scent of old books or paper.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vellichor

This sets the stage a little better:

https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/57250260260/vellichor

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

there's all these USG departments and executive areas which haven't patched CitrixBleed2 as of today... and they're all DOGE victims.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

*** Online shopping in 2010 ***

Me: I'd like to buy underpants.

Underpants Emporium: Certainly! Your underpants should arrive on Monday.

Me: Sweet.

*** Online shopping in 2025 ***

Me: I'd like to buy underpants.

MyFriendo.biz: Yay! Your package is on the way!

Me: wait, who are you?

MyFriendo.biz: we're the store's shipping partner! We're here to keep you in the loop!

SMS: Your package is on the way! Reply STOP to stop.

Me: yeah, I...

UPS MyChoice: Your package is on the way!

Underpants Emporium: Be sure to review your purchase!

UPS MyChoice: Your package is out for delivery.

SMS: Your package is out for delivery.

MyFriendo.biz: Your package it out for delivery!

Logistics Conglomerated: you don't know us, but we couldn't help and notice that your package is out for delivery.

Underpants Emporium: did you know that customers who bought underpants also bought the following

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Adobe: "We increased the price, but now you get free monthly AI tokens!"

STFU, I just want to move a fucking pixel...

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

If you show up in American towns dressed up as an enemy combatant, masked and armed, and try to occupy those towns by force, DO NOT BE SURPRISED when the citizens of those towns treat you as the enemy combatants you are.

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

I can see why Google hides this data in Android Studio instead of on a publicly available web page (like they used to). Android fragmentation is a scandal: