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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ancientjames ("James Brown") wrote:

I made a new mouth mechanism. I'm calling it Selectramatronics.

Attachments:

• video: A sphere of mouths. It's like an IBM Selectric golfball, but with mouths instead of letters. When it's running it spins and tilts quickly enough that different mouth shapes are presented like a flipbook, lip syncing to the audio. In the background, a Kit Cat Clock ticks away, its pendulum and eyes appearing to slow to a crawl when the video enters a slow motion segment. In slow motion, the mouth ball moves slowly enough to see the transitions, and wobbles and rings as it moves.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Eatsbluecrayon@rollenspiel.social wrote:

That's 5D-educational chess.

#FuckGenAI #ChatGPT #GenAIsucksCamelDong

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
FinalGirl@blackqueer.life ("More boobs than brains") wrote:

Okay #BlackMastodon, I want to find Black artists. Where they at? Individuals, collectives, whatever. Help a girl out. 💕

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

begone, Satan!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCaRMHKyTlk/?igsh=MXhwMDV4YTd3ZWc4MA==

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Gotterdammerung@glitch.social ("🇪🇷Götterdämmerung") wrote:

@jsonstein Elle Cordova on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/ellecordova?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

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

Marc Andreesen is the worst, most misinformed, delusional pontificator on academic power structures there is.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/24/conservative-pundits-have-no-clue-about-academia/

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Me: Do it, lady!
Husband: Huh?
Me: … on your birthday?
Husband: What?

(success!)

Happy birthday to my husband. 🍰 🎈 😊

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
archaeology@mstdn.social ("Archaeology News :verified:") wrote:

Neanderthals turned cave lion bones into multifunctional tools 130,000 years ago, study reveals

A recent discovery in Belgium’s Scladina Cave has unveiled the oldest known multi-purpose tools made from the bones of a cave lion, offering evidence of Neanderthal resourcefulness and intelligence...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/neanderthals-turned-lion-bones-into-multifunctional-tools/

Follow @archaeology

#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #neanderthal #anthropology #caveLion #zooarchaeology #Neanderthals

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dawngreeter@dice.camp ("Marko Vujnovic") wrote:

We needed a monthly database query, so we put a script behind a cron trigger. What I am saying is, I now have an agentic data intelligence solution.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
N4JAW@mastodon.radio ("Jim "Ham on a Bike"") wrote:

#amateurradio #hamradio #pota #parksontheair activation on the #lewisandclarknationalhistorictrail along the Ohio River at Louisville,Ky started great with #buddipole #dipole then with downhill quickly. Didn't help switching to #vertical but managed 12 CW #morsecode #QSOs

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dkmackinnon@mstdn.ca ("D.K. MacKinnon 🇨🇦📸🍁") wrote:

A majority of Canadians polled in a new survey said they're actively supporting the Buy Canadian movement and support stores removing U.S. products. Plus, Canadian travel to the U.S. has steadily declined since Trump took office in January.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/boycott-u-s-trump-1.7580885

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

WASM and Rust make a pretty cool combo

https://people.well.com/user/jeffs/demos/rust/slint.html

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

huh, and I had forgotten all about this one too:
https://people.well.com/user/jeffs/demos/dice/diceTest.html

(runs on 29 lines of JavaScript in 2 functions)

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

City in a Bottle (256 byte raytracing engine) https://people.well.com/user/jeffs/demos/cityInABottle.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
minouette@spore.social ("Ele Willoughby, PhD") wrote:

Happy birthday to pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for #leprosy. Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both women & Black scientists.⁠
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Ball studied #chemistry at UW earning a BSc & 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later. She published “Benzoylations in Ether

🧵
#printmaking #sciart #BlackInSTEM #womenInSTEM #histsci

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

Do you suffer from Epstein-itis?

Symptoms may include:

• Fear of flight logs
• Aversion to consistency
• Involuntary sweating
• Selective amnesia

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Gotterdammerung@glitch.social ("🇪🇷Götterdämmerung") wrote:

Mako lives on the edge of a city screaming with data. When she uncovers an abandoned piece of sign language tech, the lines between liberation & control become smudged. Liminal Hands is what happen when your voice is a product, your body a platform & resistance is just another feature.

Deaf-topia with teeth.

https://open.substack.com/pub/oroboros/p/liminal-hands

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

wandering around in the filesystem of a server I have not played with in a while is a great way to rediscover old gems and flubs.

https://people.well.com/user/jeffs/demos/rvpDemo.html

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

I love Elle Cordova...
and here is a "TED Talk"

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T%5F8AJnMqY1U

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
sophie@social.lol ("Sophie") wrote:

Having your own website is not going to fix democracy, or topple the online pillars of capitalism - but it's making a political statement nonetheless. It says "I want to carve my own space on the web, away from the corporations". I think this is a radical act. It was when I originally said this in 2022, and I mean it even more today.

https://localghost.dev/blog/this-page-is-under-construction/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
aram@aoir.social ("Aram Sinnreich") wrote:

If you search "Trump" on Duck Duck Go the first auto suggestion is "Trump Epstein"

If you search "Trump" or even "Trump E" on Google, there's no mention of Epstein whatsoever.

One of these platforms is juicing its results.

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

OMG I do love FUSE ("Filesystem in Userspace)

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
frontenddogma@mas.to ("Frontend Dogma") wrote:

Am I Becoming Irrelevant?, by @jordivillar.com:

https://jordivillar.com/blog/becoming-irrelevant

#career

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ansate@social.coop ("Melissa Santos") wrote:

so everyone's excited about HTML Day, right? https://html.energy/html-day/2025/index.html (it's August 2. there might be an event near you!)

#pdx, there is indeed an event for us! https://the-sudo.net/pages/events/html-day 1p, Saturday August 2nd, Virtua Gallery inside Lloyd Center

Let's hand code some pages! We own the web! Make a part of it your own.

I am not positive I will be there, but I'm going to try.

#HTMLDay

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:

New post: The 'Accessibility' link is a Lie: My Adventures in Weaponizing Corporate Virtue Signaling https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250724/

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

What natural property of ape brains turns them into sex predators when given a surplus of resources? Are all rich people rapists?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/24/am-i-a-conspiracy-theorist-now/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

i wish i lived in a society with too much sex and not enough violence instead of living in society with too much violence and not enough sex

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

consequences can be a p*sser

https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/s/ac9L22L09L

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

consequences

https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/s/EK1pFtiLGP

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

@sysadmin1138 @kaasbaas @cstross

"This is an iPhone moment" was mentioned A LOT in the early throes of this, with the implication of not getting in on the LLM craze meant you'd be a candy-bar phone seller in an era of smartphones

I really can't understate how much FOMO dominates in big tech leadership. The history of information technology is full of disruptive technologies.

The PC made IBM a niche player and established Microsoft's dominance.

Microsoft missed out on the web (Gates famously called the Internet a passing fad) and let Google become one of the largest tech companies.

Smartphones made Apple from a distant second place in the PC race and a company worth a fraction of Microsoft to one of the largest companies in the world.

Each one of these (and a few others, such as virtualisation / cloud) caused a big company to lose market share to a new player. Sometime catastrophically, sometimes they recovered.

The thing that absolutely terrifies the senior leadership at these companies is that there will be a new thing that will cause a big shift in the industry and they will be in the position Microsoft was on the web or smartphones, or that IBM was on commodity desktops.

These people are typically the living embodiment of the Peter Principle.
Normally, they can do a completely mediocre job and watch the line go up a bit. As long as they don't do too many really stupid things, they're fine. They're in charge of a money fountain and they just need to not spill too much. But occasionally, once or twice a decade, something comes along where they need to actually do something or the money fountain might stop working.

The problem is that they're really bad at identifying these moments. And so they leap on everything that looks as if it plausibly might be such a thing. Normally they only waste a billion or so, and wasting a billion every few years is not a problem for a company making tens of billions in profit every year.

This time, they got into an exciting echo chamber where everyone else was jumping on the same bandwagon and so the personal risk if they were the one who didn't jump and was wrong was very high. The risk (again, to the individuals, not the company) of being wrong in the same way as everyone else is much lower (who could possibly predict that pissing away all of your money on a buggy bullshit generator is a bad idea? Everyone else is doing it! It wasn't my poor management that tanked the value of the company, it was an 'industry downturn', you can tell because all of our major competitors also lost 50% of their share price overnight. Oh, and actually it isn't really a tech industry problem, it's a global recession [caused by a liquidity crunch caused by wiping out $2T in the stock market overnight]).

The last few things that were not actually disruptive technologies (mixed reality / AR / metaverse, Web 3) were similar. One company jumped so all of the others did. No one looked bad when it turned out to be mostly nonsense because no one was the outlier, they were just tracking industry trends.

The weird thing this time is quite how much people are willing to throw money at it without any revenue. It's like a massive game of chicken, except it's the economy not a car that they're going to crash.