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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
vae@social.lol ("Vae Miséricorde") wrote:

a good timezone to you mastodongs!

i am beefing up my FreshRSS instance and am looking for blogs to read, write about in an attempt at a new column, casually become obsessed with and hang on their every word…

blogs about tech, music, data, artisan bread, religious deconstruction, elder millenialism, apple cultivars, cool rocks some guy found, could be anything! could be yours! the weirder and more niche features the better (but slice of life stuff is perfect too)

no algorithm means we gotta actually tell each other about the gems we find! what are your favourites?

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

I try, I try

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Boosted by jwz:
mu@ni.hil.ist ("無 Mu") wrote:

ICE has been systematically abducting sex workers too. For example, massage parlors, all year, but people are neither defending nor supporting these workers like the street vendor buyouts and "Adopt a Day Laborer" campaigns. From New York to Louisiana. https://truthout.org/articles/sex-workers-are-being-abducted-by-ice-and-abandoned-by-respectability-politics/

Over 90 days in January and February, nearly 1,000 arrests in Queens, New York, targeted immigrant sex workers and street vendors. In Arizona, over 200 arrests were made. In Texas, 11 parlors were closed in February and May under emergency powers that bypass criminal charges. Across 20+ cities this year, police collaborated with ICE in similar raids.

"DecrimSexWorkCA ... has organized ICE patrols, and distributed over $20,000 in emergency relief to undocumented and other sex workers since 2023. Their model is mutual aid, not charity." Other migrant sex worker support mainly comes from other sex workers in other underfunded grassroots groups like Red Canary Song and Trans Immigrant Project.

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

My six year old niece to her cousin: "that's all he (me) writes about- weirdos, nerds, and goofballs."

She has my number.

#blogging #blogger

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

But also, I think there's excessive love for the artifacts and not enough love for maintaining and transmitting the knowledge of how to build the artifacts and the motivations for the existence of the artifacts. But maybe that's just an old may yelling at a cloud thing.

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

This effort with Python packaging kinda feels like that... I can't put my finger on it. Kinda like what they really need is an OS dedicated to Python or something. 🤔

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

I've been in many software development situations where I suddenly realized I was accidentally reinventing something, like TCP/IP or an RTOS or a programming language.

I've also been in situations where I've been handed code where the people involved did the same thing, but they clearly didn't realize that's what they were doing as they kept pushing ahead ignoring available solutions or knowledge and making a horrible undifferentiated mess.

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

I read this article about efforts to... change Python packaging in various ways, and I can't help but feel the effort may be solving the wrong problems. Or mabye all their little problems are an aspect of a bigger one.

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1028299/46df057f821939bd/

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chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Far and away the best Painkiller I have had from a plastic cup

A plastic cup with an orange-cream colored drink in it, garnished with an orange wheel. The cup has a logo reading “‘The World Famous’ Tiki Docks.”

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
baskin@kafeneio.social ("baskin :kafeneio:🇵🇸") wrote:

#seems_legit

This four-panel comic uses simple cartoon illustrations to convey a powerful message about shared humanity. Panel 1: Shows three distinct cartoon figures – a boy with blue hair and glasses, a pink-haired boy, and a green-haired boy – all smiling. The text above reads “WE MAY LOOK DIFFERENT.” Panel 2: This panel features three thought bubbles above the characters. One has a square shape, another a raindrop, and the third a star. The text says "WE MAY THINK DIFFERENT." Panel 3: Three figures are holding hands in a circle, all smiling. The words “BUT INSIDE US, WE HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON” appear below them. Panel 4: Finally, there’s a small, simple cartoon figure – a pale blue blob – with the words "MICRO PLASTICS" written across its body. This represents a shared environmental concern. The comic uses visual differences to highlight that despite outward appearances and thoughts, everyone shares a fundamental connection, symbolized by the common threat of microplastics.

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

It's interesting how the "openness" religion in the hands of venture capitalists and corporations almost always means deeper centralization.

What I do know is this. As long as Facebook keeps expanding the power of my profile, there is no reason for me or anyone else to create another profile anywhere else, including any of the Google OpenSocial alliance members. If all the value of my Facebook profile remains stopped at the edge of the facebook domain, I might have to give Google OpenSocial a try.

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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I got used to 120Hz+ displays, and now 60Hz feels off. It's not visibly bad at all, but scrolling and mouse movement feel less like a physical motion, and more like pixels shifting on the screen. Hard to describe.

Which is annoying, because there are some nice 5K and 6K displays, but 60Hz. It wouldn't have bothered me at all if I didn't use 120Hz first!
Don't get high-refresh displays! ;)

#firstworldproblems

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

The Move Fast and Break Things mantra shows it's ugly head often in the history of the Internet. Particularly when corporations leverage Openness as a Strategy to gain market share and accumulate power.

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

November 2007— Mark Cuban pitches to #Facebook an API that extends past the Facebook domain. He describes what would eventually become Facebook's Open Graph and Graph API, the catalysts to the #CambridgeAnalytica scandal that would occur six years later.

#Meta #OpenSocialWeb #InternetHistory

Think "What is my search mood today: Information, entertainment, purchasing, bored !..." as a precursor to an actual search. The options that would enable smarter use of the web are endless. Not everyone would avail themselves of what I call Personal Database Publishing to enhance the internet experience, but I believe enough would. Of course any application can currently ask for this information and many do. But I dont want to have to publish and maintain a database for every application I want to use or happen to use. Nor do I want to have to maintain multiple social n work accounts to make this information available. I recognize that this is the exact problem that Google wants to solve with their OpenSocial. But they are too late ... If Facebook opens their API up further and allows for its use outside the Faccbook.com domaiz So back to Yahoo and the Facebook API. I thought that if you put the 2 together, enabling Yahoo to access the Facebook database of users within the current API constraints, Yahoo search and ad

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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/

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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/

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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.

Some examples of how open graph was used include President Obama’s campaign, which built an app that would connect known Obama supporters to potential supporters. The idea was that these two groups of users–demonstrated supporters and potential ones–had something in common, such as being friends on Facebook or that they both liked a particular sports team. In a non-political context, apps like Farmville would use the API so people could see which of their friends were also playing their game and how users might interact while in the app.

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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

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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.

“In a new paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Marketing, we uncovered a surprising pattern: The more knowledge people have about Al and how it works, the less likely they are to embrace it.”

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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

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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/

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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.

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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

Two stickers, both reading "DNS". One is a light yellow D, a light green N, and an orange S against a deep brown background. The other is a pink D, a blue N, and a green S against a sparkly background.

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

Ignorance + time = malice

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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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Boosted by jwz:
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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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
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