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

Anyway, we definitely need to destroy the monopoly on web searching and deploy some things not incentivized to capture all traffic in a mental tarpit of imaginary intelligence.

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

You know, web directories would probably work just fine at a local geographic level. Just have to make sure they are curated by actual human beings doing some basic fact checking. 🤔

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Viss wrote:

xkcd this morning has illustrated a concept i find myself in from time to time - "perhaps i made it a bit more complicated than it needed to be"

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

Shout out to #Google, who waits for your muscle memory to kick in then swaps the dismiss button so you accidentally click on the download app button.

They must be down bad, or Safari is really sticking it to them, if they're doing junk mobile game in-app ad tricks. What's next? Hide the close [x] button?

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Union Square West between 16th and 17th Streets in Manhattan is home to five distinctive and variously historically significant narrow mid-rise buildings.

The quirky Decker Building (2nd from left, at 33 Union Square West) is now chiefly residential with a retail ground floor storefront. From 1967-1973 the building housed Andy Warhol's "Factory" studio, where, in 1968, he was famously and nearly fatally shot by an irate Valarie Solanas. The neighborhood was more colorful back then.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Captured with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One XT IQ4-150 camera. 12mm vertical shift to maintain geometry.

This is a straightforward head-on single point perspective view of the facades of the varied buildings on this block just after sunrise. It took some time to line up the camera to be parallel to the faces of the buildings, once again making architectural photography be something of an exercise in surveying.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

31-41 Union Square West, NYC 2024.

All the pixels, each famous for fifteen minutes, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53731622110/

#photography

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
codepo8@toot.cafe ("Chris Heilmann") wrote:

"I am in this image and I don't like it"
via @twonkcomics

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
jimray wrote:

This photo series of China’s solar build out looks like background scenes from a near future series on Apple TV you’ve heard is good but aren’t going to watch

https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/archive/2025/07/photos-china-solar-power-energy/683488/?gift=xw1ABCFnadCHxRLYMsWCk1Vp7-o5ewxKpp4Cl53FnK0

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

🔥Now 9to5Mac quotes OWA:

"Apple claimed it didn’t know why no browser vendor has ported their engine to iOS over the past 15 months. But the reality is Apple knows exactly what the barriers are, and has chosen not to remove them."

👉https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/14/apple-profits-means-iphone-users-still-get-no-real-browser-choice-says-group/

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medieval_illuminations ("Medieval Illumination") wrote:

Orange Beast of the #Apocalypse. Somme le Roi, Britanny 1464. BnF, Français 958, fol. 6v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Quels transports il doit exciter!

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

worth a read https://theintercept.com/2025/07/10/mamdani-globalize-intifada-democrats/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:

Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms:

https://www.404media.co/the-medias-pivot-to-ai-is-not-real-and-not-going-to-work/

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

That whole experience was nuts. It was 95 degrees outside. They were checking bags at the front for unsanctioned water bottles. They sold five dollar bottles of water. lol

Though, overall, good weekend with family. Im writing about it. May post later today if I feel good about this next draft. #blogger #blogging #writeup

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
fixatedpersonsunit@aus.social ("Tingo") wrote:

Banned from Meta.

#uspol

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
gothdactyl@zoner.work ("local djentdactyl girl 🦖:fire_trans:") wrote:

y'all, pls,

please please please,

remove your source identifiers from your YouTube URLs ​:blobhajmelty:​

pls? ​:blobhajhearttrans:​

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

I mean it's great they're enjoying my atom feed, but there really is no reason to request my "all posts" feed 1432 times in the last 24 hours, I'm not blogging THAT much

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

oh automattic now runs their own crawler bot, too? wp.com feedbot/1.0 (+https://wp.com) is a new one to me

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

"There's been a new breakthrough on flying cars! Soon, the-"

"It won't happen."

"This time, they fixed the-"

"Doesn't matter."

"Why not?"

"Dragons."

"What?"

"Flying cars get popular, dragons appear and eat them all, and make us forget it."

"What?"

"Happens every time."

"What?"

"Yup."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #SmallStories

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

Was at a pool this weekend that intentionally restricted shade so that it could rent to us umbrellas.

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

There’s an entire rant buried in here but, in short, I absolutely agree.

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

Woodford County, Kentucky.

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

eating cherries right now (you should too #stonefruitsummer), and i want to take a moment to share that Bing cherries, the most popular variety today, is named after Ah Bing, the Manchu Chinese American foreman who helped cultivate it.

for 35 years he worked at the orchard in Milwaukie, OR. he left and was never able to return due to the Chinese Exclusion Act. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bing-cherry

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

A weekend with the family.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/14/recovery-time/

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🌹") wrote:

@NfNitLoop
I really like pimutils with vdirsyncer and ikhal. I can manage my contacts and my calendar and store data on a caldav/carddav server.

aerc, my tui email client, can access my synced contacts, too.

https://pimutils.org/
https://aerc-mail.org/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
NoFood4u@wetdry.world wrote:

Torrent client but you can chat with your peers

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
stavvers@masto.ai ("Another Angry Woman") wrote:

extra virgin

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

Do not be confused, because Apple sure isn't.

Cupertino knows the web is both *massively* profitable for them today (~$19-20BN/yr free and clear, or a 90-95% profit margin by my estimates) and also a threat to the App Store, which is why they're doing everything possible to stall, delay, and deflect attention from their responsibilities to fairness under the law.

@owa has an update on the latest shenanigans here:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma/

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

this whole conflict wherein multinational corporations demand unpaid labor from hobbyists is only happening because the free software movement has built stuff that capital is not capable of building for itself

just so we're clear