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jwz wrote:

Me looking at the Google Fiber ad on my desk right now.
https://jwz.org/b/ykrw

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

As a child, I was taken from my home and imprisoned without cause. Today, in Florida, it’s happening again. People are being held in cruel conditions, denied dignity and due process. We can’t look away. We can’t wait for things to get better on their own.

Please join me in calling for the immediate closure of Alligator Alcatraz by signing the petition below. Your voice could help bring this injustice to an end.

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/983/564/587/?TAP=2430&source%5Fid=AlligatorAlcatraz

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
croyle@wandering.shop ("David Croyle") wrote:

@jsonstein To this day, whenever someone mentions him "Feels So Good" starts playing in my head. I suspect it will remain so until it's my turn to go.

RIP Chuck.

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

RIP Charles Frank Mangione, American genius, flugelhorn player, trumpeter and composer. November 29, 1940 – July 22, 2025. born & died in Rochester NY.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%5FMangione

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

This piece from @mmasnick does a magnificent job of explaining this. The longstanding US strength in technology and innovation is coming to a rapid and catastrophic end right before our eyes. It’s self-inflected, it’s immoral, it’s horrifying, it’s stupid, and it’s utterly preventable.

2/2

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/17/fascism-for-first-time-founders/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org ("Daniel Lakeland") wrote:

Look, let's not talk about the racist asshole wrestler, let's talk about Chuck Mangione, who played the frikin Flugelhorn, wrote a major banger in the late 70's, and could make fun of himself on animated TV shows. Also died today at age 84.

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

🛰️ #CurtinUni and #ICRAR 's survey of low frequency satellite radio emissions has found #Starlink satellites are significantly interfering with radio astronomy observations, potentially impacting space discovery and research

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/interference-to-astronomy-the-unintended-consequence-of-faster-internet

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

¡Sí, se puede! https://www.flickr.com/photos/jef/54676705073/

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

"A single footprint at Praia do Telheiro site, dated to 82 ± 5 ka, sustains the presence of Neanderthals in the dune ecosystem"

between 77,000 and 87,000 years ago, an ancestor left a single footprint in the Portuguese mud. JFC, the thought of that leaves me in awe.

https://mastodon.social/@jens2go/114909029009676472

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r_flash@mastodon.r-flash.eu ("Adam P") wrote:

#TilingTuesday

Attachments:

• gifv: A rainbow-colored triangular grid. The triangles periodically become circles by rounding their corners and rotate in six-tuples while smoothly changing their color to warm yellow. This dance happens in waves going from the center outwards.

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

An ideal snack food

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/24/snack-time/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:

Polish born artist Małgorzata Chodakowska unites sculptures and water in spectacular ways, IMHO (In My Humble Opinion). The Three Ballerinas and Angel are just two examples.

https://www.skulptur-chodakowska.de/en/fountains/

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"Class War"
Spotted in Sydney

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

Frog sticker spotted in Tempe, Arizona

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
danmcquillan@kolektiva.social wrote:

I posted the text of my talk on 'Decomputing as Resistance' https://danmcquillan.org/decomputing%5Fas%5Fresistance.html
It's a work-in-progress: comments welcome!

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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.⁠
⁠
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