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Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

CBS, soon to be owned by Larry Ellison and family, is wasting no time turning into just another right-wing media company.

Paying Trump's extortion, trial-ballooning a "Free Press" buyout, canceling Colbert (and soon Stewart?) -- there's nothing mysterious in this pattern.

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/17/nx-s1-5471581/cbs-stephen-colbert-late-show

Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Mega-billionaire Musk's sleaze and hypocrisy are boundless. One of his companies claimed to be a ‘disadvantaged business’ to get special federal treatment while he was wrecking agency after agency.

Destroying Tesla, his primary piggy bank, has never bee more important.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/17/elon-musks-neuralink-says-owned-by-disadvantaged-persons-in-filing.html

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
pomaranc ("Pomaranč") wrote:

Moon melting into water in Yosemite National Park, California 🔥

📸 C O S M O S

#travel #photography

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

New, from me:

Poor Passwords Tattle on AI Hiring Bot Maker Paradox.ai

Security researchers recently revealed that the personal information of millions of people who applied for jobs at McDonald’s was exposed after they guessed the password (“123456”) for the fast food chain’s account at Paradox.ai, a company that makes artificial intelligence based hiring chatbots used by many Fortune 500 companies. Paradox.ai said the security oversight was an isolated incident that did not affect its other customers, but recent security breaches involving its employees in Vietnam tell a more nuanced story.

.....Those purloined credentials show the developer in question at one point used the same seven-digit password to log in to Paradox.ai accounts for a number of Fortune 500 firms listed as customers on the company’s website, including Aramark, Lockheed Martin, Lowes, and Pepsi.

Paradox maintains that few of the exposed passwords were still valid, and that a majority of them were present on the employee’s personal device only because he had migrated the contents of a password manager from an old computer.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/poor-passwords-tattle-on-ai-hiring-bot-maker-paradox-ai/

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

Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' canceled by CBS after he speaks out against settling with Trump

https://apnews.com/article/stephen-colbert-late-show-cbs-end-8bad9f16f076df62c0ffc50e9c8adbab

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

If you want to join me in supporting this important work, feel free to make a donation yourself and send an email to help@omg.lol with your donation receipt. If you include your mailing address, I’ll send one of these sweet DEI stickers I just submitted for production tonight. :prami:

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

Today, the U.S. government shut down the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s support option for LGBTQ+ youth.

It’s now up to private organizations to step up and offer the empathy and compassion that our government once provided.

For the rest of the month, I’m donating 50% of everything omg.lol earns to The Trevor Project’s Emergency Lifeline Campaign.

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/emergencycampaign/

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

Wouldn't it be cool if the ipad generation grew up to kill the tech industry like millennials killed everything

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

What a good boy 😭

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

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

It turns out that social.lol’s FETCH_REPLIES_ENABLED setting wasn’t enabled correctly, but it is now! Hopefully this new feature will help with syncing remote replies on federated messages and matching favorite/boost counts too.

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

Mural in France

Boosted by jwz:
davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

The Royal Society suggested to Elon Musk that maybe he could consider resigning the fellowship they awarded him if he felt like it pretty please with sugar on top.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/17/royal-society-elon-musk-resign-science-fellowship-tesla

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🌹"):
bonpoteofficiel@mamot.fr ("Bon Pote") wrote:

100 000 signatures contre la loi Duplomb, c'est fait !
Désormais, l'objectif est d'obtenir 500 000 signatures pour obtenir un débat à l'Assemblée nationale. Lien vers la pétition et les explications ici : https://bonpote.com/une-petition-en-ligne-obtient-100000-signatures-contre-la-loi-duplomb/

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

Just watched #Superman. It was good. I'm certain James Gunn's goal was to make a sequel superhero movie as the first movie. Like forget the origins and being coy with the audience. Throw the kitchen sink at it from the opening scene of the first movie.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

"Listen. We don't really talk about immigration. Or when we do it's one of two things: hate (no good) or platitudes about oh how they came to the rocky shore. Whatever. I'm not going to do either I want to talk about two things: good jobs and good neighborhoods.

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

Great chat with Caitlin of Ms. Caitlin's School of Blacksmithing, mostly about learning and teaching, then learning by teaching! https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/making-problems/episodes/Ms--Caitlins-School-of-Blacksmithing-e35l9dh

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
grigs@front-end.social ("Jason Grigsby") wrote:

Follow up question about iOS App Clips. Do you have any installed on your phone right now? They are listed at the bottom of your App Library and have dotted lines around the icon.

https://appletoolbox.com/how-to-find-and-remove-app-clips-from-your-iphone-on-ios-15/

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I keep thinking about my conclusions in the above post: If you want a nice #smallweb experience, the client (browser) is what can help guarantee that.

Are there open-source GUI browsers that are minimalist these days? Think, `lynx` but with nicer rendering.

Preferably, by default: rejects cookies, javascript, and automatic loading of inline resources.

Something opinionated enough to be OK with "breaking" web sites that rely on JS/tracking/bloat to function.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Cliftographer@mindly.social ("Teach Honest History") wrote:

Here's that same green #heron that I posted earlier, but here it's untucked and putting the brakes on for a landing. You can see more of the body shape and range of colors in this pose. Reston, Virginia, USA 17-July-2025. #birds #birdphotography #naturephotography

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
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:

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

@zachleat Frameworkism is a hell of a drug:

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ RANDOM ACCESS: RNDM-AXS_0717 at DNA Lounge tonight: Thu Jul 17, 9pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/07-17d.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #randomaccess #psybercorpindustries #synthwave #darksynth #bass #industrial #breaks #gothic #sanfrancisco

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

Whee! Governments are happily building autonomous killer drones, a technology we don't really need.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/17/scary-tech/

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
joshuajfriedman.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Joshua J. Friedman") wrote:

Did you know that Christo and Jeanne Claude wrapped a Snoopy doghouse for the Charles M. Schulz Museum? Thread!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wpppem622cnjpem3shqzyihb/post/3lu6m6bjm3c26

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

Man, it's *almost* like all the excuses for why it's fine, akshually, to lard up your site with JS because "DX" and unexamined assertions about how the compilers and RSC will save us were just hype recycling:

https://etch.co/blog/we-migrated-our-site-to-eleventy-and-increased-performance-by-24-percent/

/via @zachleat

Boosted by jwz:
rubenbolling ("Ruben Bolling 🪲") wrote:

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic
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THE HEROIC TECH BILLIONAIRE LEX LUTHOR VS. THE EVIL "WOKE" ALIEN SUPERMAN!
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Brought to you by the super members of the Inner Hive, including long-time member RobbÜry415 and new member Bill Schaffner.
( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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Read it right here👇

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

2/2

give a note on the design of

https://adele.pages.casa/md/

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

What about the design of my #smolweb site ?

https://adele.pages.casa/md/

poll on the thread

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

For industrial subjects especially, I usually end up preferring the most straightforward and boring perspective I can find that just lets the subject speak for itself. The masters of this approach were Bernd and Hilla Becher, whose "Basic Forms" work richly repays your attention if you like this kind of stuff. https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Bernd%5Fand%5FHilla%5FBecher/

(They would have undoubtedly gone for an overcast day to capture Big Allis, but I liked the clouds.)

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

Known locally as "Big Allis" (after Allis-Chalmers, the manufacturer of the largest of the four generators in the plant), Ravenswood is fired by both natural gas (now the primary fuel) and oil, and also has the capability (rarely used, as far as I know) to burn coal.

Ravenswood has been linked to a spike in asthma and other respiratory disorders among local residents. There is pressure to decommission the generators and replace them with battery banks to store renewable energy from upstate.