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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭🕹️") wrote:

AI is amazing for coding they said https://xcancel.com/jasonlk/status/1946069562723897802

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cafechatnoir ("Play Ball and Fight Fascists") wrote:

Jorge is in mighty hunter mode!

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AnnaAnthro wrote:

Yikes 😳 That coming dangerous heat dome developing over the Upper #Ohio, #Chicago, Great Lakes region is going reach #Toronto, #Ottawa and #Montreal

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Lydie@tech.lgbt ("ℒӱḏɩę :blahaj:") wrote:

Life hack: If you run a humidifier and a dehumidifier in the same room you can wirelessly transfer water

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Truck@icosahedron.website ("Sir Garbagetruck") wrote:

#demosunday, back from Ed!son , and I just feel like posting Turtles all the Way Down from Brain Control.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBKmqkh9bb8

64k, 2013.

Boosted by jwz:
neilo@mastodon.online ("neil okamoto") wrote:

@MichalBryxi @davidho Thank you for your recent post objecting to a change intended to improve traffic safety.

Your objection is:
- [ ] It will make traffic worse
- [ ] It will reduce parking
- [ ] Businesses will suffer
- [ ] Drivers will ignore it
- [ ] It costs too much
- [ ] It inconveniences the disabled
- [ ] Slower traffic means longer commutes
- [ ] You can’t carry groceries/kids/tools without a car
- [ ] Bikes don't belong on roads
- [ ] No one walks/bikes/transits here anyway

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
thegibson@masto.hackers.town ("The Gibson 🅅") wrote:

Your Sunday Zen.

https://youtu.be/TbXnQUwy1-A

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LewisWorkshop@mastodon.online ("Andrew Lewis Workshop") wrote:

Look, I know computers are great and everything, but these lovely fuckers sink carbon, produce food and oxygen, stabilise the soil, help prevent flash floods, attract wildlife, self replicate, smell nice, and don't have an AI chatbot interface.

#garden #gardening #solarpunk #growyourown #GrowOwnFood

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JamesAkers@expressional.social ("James Akers") wrote:

I finished up teaching 2 week neon and STEM class at Urbanglass on Friday. The high schoolers were from all over NYC with varied backgrounds/ schooling and they all made such fun things!
Along with my two TAs (Caroline and MolMol) we taught them not only how to wire and bend neon tubes, but also how to solder (SMT and through hole) and the very basics on programming captive portal ESP32 chips for blinking neon with phones.
We played games, Including making a 30 foot mega straw for fruit punch, competing with three glass an food coloring "rollercoasters" as well as numerous "drop test" contests to test/ build bend/ weld strength.
Overall they learned about planning, perseverance and some the hard lessons of loss that glass can teach so well when the thing you make breaks.

One student quoted Don Quixote "Without hardships there can be no Adventure!" - couldn't have said it better myself :)

#neon #teaching #STEM #glass #nyc #electronics #highschool #summer #soldering #diy #education

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
fkamiah17@syzito.xyz ("MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸") wrote:

"Well have you argued, sir; and, for your pains,
of capital treason we arrest you here ... "

Richard II, Act 4 Scene I

#ShakespeareSunday #UKPolitics #WeAreAllPalestineAction #RightToProtest

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

a powerful community moment

https://www.reddit.com/r/ICE%5FRaids/s/KBHtIVNbsk

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

a powerful moment of community

https://www.reddit.com/r/ICE%5FRaids/s/zJnLc7LxkI

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

Adding "posting still life black and white photos of moderately exotic fruit" to the list of non-existent rules I've been called out for violating.

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

I gots my writing sandwich. I mean business.

#blog #blogging #writing

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

the tomatoes have gotten a bit out of control

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

new to the wonders of terminal use? here is a pretty good "cheat sheet" from someone who puts out a lot of useful material https://wizardzines.com/cheat-sheet-one-page.png

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

This capture made extensive use of view camera tilt movements. The depth of field is quite shallow here, so the lens was tilted forward to keep the stems and leaves in focus from the front to the back.

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

Captured with a Sinar P camera. a 240mm/5.6 APO Symmar lens, and a BetterLight scanning digital back.

This is a minimalist studio still life, so it's all about lighting and geometry.

Illuminated by a single hard light placed at the left of the frame, yielding well defined shadows. The background was a white sweep table, creating the illusion of an infinite background. The fruit looks evenly spaced, but actually the rear one had to be much farther back than the center one to create that effect.

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

Three Persimmons, 2008.

All the pixels, none of the flavor, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/2207576183

#photography

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

Okay, holding myself accountable again today too. I have an essay I've been working on. I will publish it by 6pm EST today. 😅😅

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

some turd registered in .za tried to use a temporary server facility (translation: "rent a spam machine") from google to use my little server to relay spam through yahoo and at targets

some days I just hate everyone

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johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:

I'm struggling to become more like myself. So I was happy to read that Agatha Christie wrote:

"As life goes on, however, it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself every day. This is sometimes disconcerting for those around you, but a great relief to the person concerned."

Thanks to @grimalkinUSA for pointing this out:

https://mathstodon.xyz/@grimalkinUSA@sfba.social/114881102342022998

For more on Jean Edmonds Kortum:

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Jean-Kortum-Key-figure-in-S-F-freeway-revolt-2498516.php

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brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

Here’s a new poem called ‘Wild Weekend’.

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johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:

Thanks to Noether, we now know that in classical mechanics, conserved quantities come from symmetries. For a planet orbiting the Sun, conservation of energy comes from time translation symmetry. Conservation of the angular momentum comes from rotation symmetry. But there's another, more mysterious conserved quantity: the eccentricity vector, which points along the long axis of the planet's elliptical orbit.

What symmetry gives *this* conserved quantity?

Symmetry under rotations in 4-dimensional space! These include the obvious rotations in 3-dimensional space which give angular momentum. The other 4-dimensional rotations act in a much less obvious way, and give the eccentricity vector.

But how does the 4th dimension get into the game?

In this article, I explain how a planet orbiting the Sun is secretly isomorphic to a particle moving around on a sphere in 4-dimensional space. This is a nice explanation of the 4-dimensional rotation symmetry.

But the planet is also isomorphic to a *massless* particle moving at the speed of light on a sphere in 4-dimensional space! This brings relativity into the story, and sets the stage for still more shocking developments.

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2025/07/20/the-kepler-problem-part-4/

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

It's a good thing cars nowadays have engines rather than foot power.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/20/stir-crazy-2/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Rachel_Thorn@queer.party ("Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I don’t want a self-driving deathmobile. I don’t want plagiarizing autocomplete. I don’t want AI slop. I just want Rosie the Robot from the Jetsons to hang my laundry on a blistering hot day like today. Is that too much to ask?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Bowie Knives Tarr") wrote:

One of the most realistic parts of Lord of the Rings is that almost no one wanted to get involved, until it was very nearly too late.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
f1sls@mastodon.radio ("STAN/F1SLS") wrote:

#AST plans to launch 243 more #satellites that will transmit continuously all over the 70 cm amateur band.

The whole #amateurradio #radioamateur community is concerned all over the world!

PLEASE SEND A COMMENT TO THE #FCC before tomorrow! Tell them to forbid this madness on the #70cm #hamradio band!

https://amsat-uk.org/2025/06/26/use-of-430-440-mhz-by-ast-spacemobile-constellation/

The comment link is here: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express?proceeding[name]=25-201

Details on what is going on, here: https://community.libre.space/t/asts-bluebird-1-5/12255/27

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
VE6LK@mastodon.hams.social wrote:

Watch for spots on www.pota.app! I'll be out around 1330z/0930ET on 40 and 20m from backcountry Alberta in Kananaskis Country, running CW and SSB QRP if weather permits and 100W if it doesn't :)
https://www.albertaparks.ca/parks/kananaskis/sentinel-pra/information-facilities/day-use/sentinel/
https://www.google.ca/maps/@50.3905301,-114.5863332,186m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g%5Fep=EgoyMDI1MDcxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
I hope to catch you for Support Your Parks Weekend!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stevefenton ("Steve Fenton ➜") wrote:

There's a vibe coding thread where developers are having an epiphany: maybe they should keep old versions of their code around, just in case their latest inspired hack turns everything into digital spaghetti.

Congratulations—they've just discovered their first professional software delivery practice: Version control. That's from 1972.

Next week, they'll revolutionize development by inventing "testing" after their app crashes in production. Again.