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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vivi 💫") wrote:

You are working on schematics for the CADR lisp machine. It is 1979. The Web doesn't exist. You're free.

Boosted by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
tedmielczarek ("Ted Mielczarek") wrote:

My favorite part about the Christopher Nolan-directed _Odyssey_ movie is finding out that Homer has an IMDB page: https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0392955/

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

timeline cleanser

Attachments:

• video: 1f631f3b6ad14562.mp4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
LifeTimeCooking@mastodon.au ("Ganga") wrote:

I have two signs on my desk. One large framed one that says "Do more of what makes you happy." A good reminder. I'll often look up, see it, and take a break, or 10 mins in the garden, or just breathe some fresh air. Take a lunch break. Read a poem. Ring a friend.

And a smaller one that says "Seek first to understand, then to be understood." It's from a different era, but do you know where that comes from?

There are other small maxims of mine that I try to live by too. Not always perfectly, but they are good guidelines.

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

I spent hours and hours trawling through the sites of some of the world's best web developers, and despite the horrors I regularly experience in my daily work in Big JavaScript Territory, what I saw left me hopeful:

https://infrequently.org/2025/07/links/

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

The sentence "you can take two cross-origin windows and make them same-origin" has to be the most alarming sounding thing that then turns out to not be such a huge deal.

I mean, it's not like it's not a big deal; it's in the process of being deprecated for a reason! But it's by no means the huge security vulnerability it might seem when you first hear that out of context.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/domain

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

join us tomorrow #50501 #ROC

https://www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-actions/event/807088/

Boosted by jwz:
MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social ("Meanwhile in Canada") wrote:

Enjoy this satisfying clip of Canadian actor Christopher Plummer tearing up a MAGA flag.

Attachments:

• video: Scene from The Sound of Music when Captain Van Trapp tears up a Nazi flag.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
olivvybee@anarres.family ("Liv 🐝") wrote:

Apparently I’m a matrix user now, so if you want to— *** Unable to decrypt message ***

jwz wrote:

The Scale of China's Solar-Power Projects.

These photos are from the future. A future somewhere between Don Davis and Simon Stålenhag.
https://jwz.org/b/ykrS

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Viss wrote:

and what you can take away from this log is that the reason they are blasting the entire internet, every webserver with these requests - most of which are 'im gonna hit myself in the face with a brick now' level of bad from a config/dev/admin perspective - is squarely because it has worked for them enough times that they feel spraying the internet will nab them more.

look.
just look at the shit they're collecting and how easily theyre doing it.

this is because docker
this is because k8s

Boosted by jwz:
Viss wrote:

if you put a webserver up on the internet. anywhere, hosting anything, you will see "the background radiation of the internet", and it looks like this:

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nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

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

Today is trying very hard to be a Monday here.

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

f you like this stuff, there's a sadly out of print book, "New York's Forgotten Substations", with some excellent photos.

https://www.chrispaynephoto.com/books-1-2-1

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

NYC's IRT subway, opened in 1904, is powered by a 600 volt DC third rail running alongside the tracks. Power is fed to the system via a number of substations throughout the city, where high voltage AC is converted to the lower voltage DC used by trains.

Until recently, this was done with electromechanical rotary converters (essentially a combination AC motor and DC generator). They are now supplanted by solid state rectifiers, but a few of the original rotary converters remain operational.

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

Rotary Converter, IRT Subway, Substation 13, Midtown Manhattan, NYC, 2017.

All the pixels, none of the voltage, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/32992380451

#photography

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
zicklepop@nyan.lol ("🌸 melanie kat 🌸") wrote:

Introducing Blue Rose, an 11ty starter kit.

Blue Rose is a lightweight, responsive, and highly performant gallery for photos and videos.

Template: https://melkat.dev/melanie/blue-rose
Demo: https://melkat.pics

jwz wrote:

Secret Police need Secret Lawyers.

Law and Order ICE: "In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups. The secret police who throw suspects into unmarked vans, and the secret attorneys who deport them to third world concentration camps. These are their stories."

ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court:
https://jwz.org/b/ykrQ

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🌹"):
rresoli@mastodon.opencloud.lu ("Roberto Resoli") wrote:

Wonderful summary of @valhalla 's talk at #DebConf25 about #xmpp

https://blog.trueelena.org/blog/2025/07/15-federated-instant-messaging-100-debianized/index.html

It's a perfect summary of my own toughts about it as well! Waiting for the video ...

Italian translation: https://www.resolutions.it/nextcloud/s/DWMXoA42ZDyYKKW

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

Both Athena (my daughter) and I went to go see the new Superman movie; one of us liked it better than the other. We decided to write our two takes of the film into a single post. Check it out. Heads up: There are spoilers!

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/07/16/two-takes-on-superman/

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erininthemorning.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Erin Reed") wrote:

From a French Revolution museum exhibit in Paris… they wore jewelry with guillotines… ahahaha This is a pair of guillotine earrings with the heads of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI.

Boosted by jwz:
pivic@kolektiva.social ("Niklas Pivic") wrote:

@pluralistic This part of the article is very enlightening from a worker perspective, especially when Google upper management have relatively recently fired around 10,000 workers:

'Once Google stops growing, it becomes a "mature" company and its PE ratio will fall from 20:1 to something more like 4:1, meaning an 80% collapse in the company's share price. This would be very bad news for Googlers (whose personal wealth is disproportionately tied up in Google stock) and for Google itself (because many of its key personnel will depart when the shares they've banked for retirement collapse, and new hires will expect to be paid in scarce dollars, not abundant stock). For a company like Google, "maturity" is unlikely to be a steady state – rather, it's likely to be a prelude to collapse.

Which is why Google is so desperately sweaty to maintain the narrative about its growth.'

#google #layoffs

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
esoastronomy ("ESO") wrote:

🚨 Astronomers have witnessed the dawn of a new solar system!

Using ALMA and JWST they observed the first specks of planet-forming material — hot minerals beginning to solidify around HOPS-315, a baby star 1300 light-years away.

This marks the first time a planetary system has been identified at such an early stage in its formation – a window to the past of our own Solar System.

https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2512a/

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

📷 ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/M. McClure et al

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MarvClowder@mstdn.jp ("Marv Clowder") wrote:

@CindyWeinstein

"Economist Paul Krugman points out that “two first-rate economists, David Cutler and Ed Glaeser, have made a stab at estimating the impact of cuts at NIH. Their analysis suggests that these cuts might save $500 billion in federal spending over the next 25 years — while imposing more than $8 trillion in losses.”

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

that this is America in 2025 just plain breaks my heart

#ICE #50501

please
get in ‘Good Trouble’

https://youtu.be/ejLDQ32UvyQ?feature=shared

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

What was the person who invented square toilets trying to achieve? Corners in my thighs!? Fuck you, squoilet!

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

It's a plague of stupidity. Can we get a vaccine against ignorance?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/16/creationists-still-exist/

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

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

Superman was OK, but it would have been truly great if he actually punched Donald Trump.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/16/superman-has-always-been-wokeand-goofy/

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

Finally Github #Copilot includes the definitive model were are all waiting for! #SciFi