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

oh look, the internet's assholes are back freeloading off of my servers.

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andbenn@mas.to ("A.B.") wrote:

What a joy to look at #xscreensaver on my Linux box and see the new Dumpster Fire module running, with a description of "... It's a metaphor for This Modern World." Perfect!

I love this app. My distro updated it a couple weeks ago, but just saw this module due to the high count I use.

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

I clearly prompted the realistic human head on my pez dispenser to not give me an orange candy when I pulled back on its neck, and yet it disregarded my orders! clearly this indicates the plastic head is unaligned with human values, a problem that can only be solved by eating more pez

this arXiv preprint was made possible by a grant from Pez Research, Microsoft, and some fucking supervillain who just closed a deal to sell a bunch of pez dispensers to the military

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
interfluidity@zirk.us ("Steve Randy Waldman") wrote:

from “What determines rent?” #DavidTimoney https://fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2025/07/what-determines-rent.html

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internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org wrote:

Chuck Tingle is coming to SF. Yes, THAT Chuck Tingle!

The Internet Archive is excited to host a live #booktalk with the cult favorite author, presented by The Booksmith. 📖 He’ll share his new novel LUCKY DAY, where bad luck might just end the world. 🎲🃏

📅 Tue, Sept 2nd
🕡 6:30 PM check-in
📍 IN-PERSON, 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-lucky-day-with-chuck-tingle-in-person/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
palestinechronicle.com@web.brid.gy ("Home Page - Palestine Chronicle") wrote:

In Final Statement, Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress Calls for Suspension of Israel from UN

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.palestinechronicle.com/in-final-statement-jewish-anti-zionist-congress-calls-for-suspension-of-israel-from-un/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
AstroDave@scicomm.xyz ("David Dickinson") wrote:

A new kind of telescope is set to search for mysterious fast radio bursts - Via Science.Org - https://www.science.org/content/article/new-kind-telescope-set-search-mysterious-fast-radio-bursts - BURSTT is open for business.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
eloy@hsnl.social ("Eloy. @ BornHack") wrote:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

Check this out! if you are an organization that publishes datasets on the AWS open dataset registry thing, you can do this for free to make this One Weird Extra "Bit Torrent" file to put in your bucket. its cool and legal, and if you tell people to use it instead of downloading from your bucket directly you have to pay the data cartel less ransom while also diluting their monopoly over your information

so like say hypothetically you are the library of congress and you have this bucket of maps named loc-sanborn-maps, and also hypothetically if that data was in a folder on some computer named ./sanborn-maps/, you could do this

python -m pip install sciop-cli
sciop-cli torrent create -p ./sanborn-maps -o ./sanborn-maps.torrent -w "https://loc-sanborn-maps.s3.amazonaws.com"

and then even if you don't have a bittorrent yourself, if someone clicks on that file sanborn-maps.torrent they will download that file both from your bucket but also share it with anyone else who clicks on that file too so less people have to hit your bucket. so weird!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

This is the “I hope the Lakers win the Super Bowl” of rockstar quotes.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
interfluidity@zirk.us ("Steve Randy Waldman") wrote:

what if Donald Trump is dead and the guy in the White House is Jeffrey Epstein in disguise?

just asking questions. do your own research.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gutenberg_org ("Project Gutenberg") wrote:

The Black American West Museum Celebrates the Black Cowboy

"After being told Black cowboys didn’t exist, Paul Stewart set out to prove they did—and found enough evidence to fill a museum."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/podcast-black-american-west-museum

Nat Love (Deadwood Dick)

#africanamerican #history

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Sedatious Hat") wrote:

I mean, I am about as disciplined as the Trix rabbit when it comes to not reacting to social media provocation, but even I know you don't react to Candace Owens. A lawsuit? /1

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :donor:") wrote:

Worth noting that Mistral is building its data centers in France, and specifically calls out favoring renewables for their energy sourcing. Data centers built in the US will likely not enjoy that reduction in emissions.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
warandpeas ("War and Peas 🧿") wrote:

Attachments:

• video: 8cdd75758815b921.mp4

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
jefframnani wrote:

Housefresh is at it again with some journalism on Google’s AI answers.

https://housefresh.com/beware-of-the-google-ai-salesman/

@pluralistic did a good job contextualizing the broader context here: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inhuman-gigapede/

I am left remembering the late 90’s / early 00’s when people mocked Excite and other “portal plays”. The received wisdom was that Google won by being useful even if that meant sending users away.

Joke’s on us. Google is a Portal now. They work hard to get us to stay on platform.

#enshittification

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
cliffle@hachyderm.io wrote:

Player: "I take the value out of the std::optional"

Computer: "Did you remember to check has_value by any chance"

Player: "...no, why?"

Computer: "You succeed, with Fear. You are now holding a value. *quietly moves a bead over on a counter*"

Player: "Wait what was that, what did you just do"

Computer: "Don't worry about it. What would you like to do next?"

Player: "...okay well I'd like to inspect the value I got."

Computer: "e̸͇̺̦͒̓̏͊͒̿͘v̷̢̦̟͙͎͙̦̠͙͕̰̮̗̂̉͆̓͂́̐͂̎̀͋̓̒̇̾ͅė̵̲̪̑̚̚͠r̴̡̤̺̭̆̋̊̚y̶̧̡̨͈̻̮̪̘̜̹̥͚̺̥͎̲̣͒̎̐̑͋̿̾̿̾ẗ̶̨̧̯̱͕̫̖́̈́̈́͌̊̇̀̀͑̿͊͛͒̂ͅh̸̼͕̒̔́̿̈́͑̐̉̀̓̈́͒̊͂̔͋͠i̵̲̻̥̪͓̬̣̟̿̍̇͑́̈́̾̈́̅̾̑̉̊̚͝͝͝n̵̛̪̦̅g̴̢̝̻̪̫̲͕͚̱̪̎̊̀̐̍̀̂̔ ̷̢̨̛̲̹͖̝͚͎̺̱̗̏͗̃͐̾̈́̽̈̉͊̓̈́̉̕͝ḯ̷̧͓̲̱̝̟͂̌̄͛͐̃̅̇̑̅s̸̳̯͖̎̈́͐̐̄̏͋̇̕͘ ̶̧̻̣͈̰̣̼͊͂͛̓̔͑́̈́͌̄͑͘͜͝͝r̵͇̺̦͍̓̍̍̾̋̐̂̚ả̷̛͈̩̭͐̄̓̑́̃̾͊͆̌͝͝ͅt̸̨̮͓̯͍̽̒̔̊̊̋̍́̓̕͝͝͠͠s̶̢̟̞̘͉̒͐"

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
toroidalcore@masto.hackers.town ("ToroidalCore") wrote:

I found this bee chilling out in one of my pumpkin flowers.

#bee

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

my glamorous neighbor

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
quad9dns ("Quad9DNS") wrote:

We have open-sourced our visualization tool for mapping realtime events onto a view of the Earth.

The WebGL tool takes websocket data or static JSON with geographic information and allows a variety of views and analysis to be performed on the data that is projected on the map.

Have fun with it!! 😻

https://github.com/Quad9DNS/GlobeOfWonder

#infosec #opensource

Mastodon wrote:

Over the next few days, people that have accounts on mastodon.social and mastodon.online may see a donation banner in our official mobile apps. Here's the background on this small message.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/a-nudge-to-fund-our-future/

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"As someone who has written about and celebrated Alexei Navalny, I don’t use the word 'gulag' lightly. But unlike with Soviet-era or even Putin-era Russia, you thought that couldn’t happen here, right? Guess again. It already has. Or at least a Nerf version of it. No, we’re not executing prisoners just yet."

~ Matt Labash

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
/1

https://mattlabash.substack.com/p/tortured-logic

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MastodonEngineering ("Mastodon Engineering") wrote:

We just released Mastodon 4.4.2, 4.3.10, and 4.2.23.

These versions all contain some internal Ruby dependency updates for security. Version 4.4.2 also includes some fixes, primarily for user interface issues.

Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page. #mastoadmin

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases

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

The new Tyler album is a funky dance-electro motif for the summer. At first listen, it was jarring hopping from the darkness that is Let God Sort 'Em Out. But listening this morning with fresh ears, I really like it.

#DontTapTheGlass

https://youtu.be/pmlqEKklWqs

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

Removing Obsidian and Nova from my "What I Use" page seems strangely momentous, but. Emacs has succeeded in supplanting both. Still hanging onto BBEdit, though. (I also added Xcode, but that's somewhat aspirational.)

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

Never ask an atheist to thank the Lord for catastrophes.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/23/atheists-arent-bubble-headed-apologists-for-disasters/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EoLL03cDqs

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2 ("Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot") wrote:

"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen."

#HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

#WompWomp

“It Looks Like the #Tesla Model Y Refresh Has Bombed

The high-selling Model Y is crucial for both Elon Musk and Tesla, but a half-hearted reskin of the car hasn’t reversed the company’s sales woes.”
https://www.wired.com/story/it-looks-like-the-tesla-model-y-refresh-has-bombed/

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

yes Ma’am

Attachments:

• video: ad78400b4a1d452c.mp4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
yrabbit@mastodon.sdf.org ("YRabbit") wrote:

GW5 family (#TangPrimer25k) got support for huge LUTs in #apicula!🍾

#fpga#sipeed#gowin