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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dougmadory@infosec.exchange ("Doug Madory") wrote:

The Starlink outage is now in excess of two hours in duration, making this incident Starlink's longest outage since becoming a major service provider. #starlinkdown

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

oops

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Mandrake@chitter.xyz ("Mandrake 🐎") wrote:

2005: Never, ever share personal information about yourself online
2025: Please send a copy of your actual ID to this random sketchy US-based startup before you can look at tity

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

FCC approves Skydance merger with Paramount, ending a yearlong saga of uncertainty
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/24/media/fcc-skydance-paramount-merger-approved?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business and Tech @business-and-tech-CNN

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

Oh this is delightful writing: "Musk has a powerful reality-distortion field, but the fact that physics hates satellite broadband cannot be overcome by shitposting, cosmetic surgery, buying elections, or wanting it really badly."

"Even space travel is useful as a scientific enterprise, while space colonization is unbelievably stupid and impractical, and has dogshit unit-economics that put even AI in the shade"

https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/24/geometry-hates-cars/#dogshit-unit-economics

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Sixteen years ago today—July 24, 2009—Congress raised the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour. Since then, corporate profits have skyrocketed, executive pay has exploded, and the cost of living has soared.

But the minimum wage is still $7.25.

This is economic violence. Here are 6 truths every American should know about our corrupt wage system.

https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-criminal-poverty-wage16-years

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
yeehaw505 ("Yeehaw505") wrote:

ABQ Retro Computers Event
Quelab Makerspace
Sat July 26 @ 11:00 am

https://yeehaw505.com/event/abq-retro-computers-event

#event #Albuquerque #yeehaw505 #newmexico #main

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
bleuje@mathstodon.xyz ("Etienne Jacob") wrote:

A little webpage thing: shader animation with sliders to play with
https://bleuje.com/js%5Fsketches/impossible-split-scan/

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

The HTTP and SMTP stickers appear to be stuck at a FedEx facility in Memphis. Hoping they show up soon (or that I can get a replacement order shipped soon). I’m staying on top of it, no worries!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
JohannaForster@mastodon.art ("Johanna Forster") wrote:

Little island I still like 🌱 digital in #procreate :) I tried a brush setting here for the first time, which slightly changes its color while drawing - and I still love to use this, it has some magic of the unexpected to it that I also like in ink and watercolor ✨

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:

feels so bad :(

Chuck Mangione was one of the nicest musicians I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting and briefly playing with, and I was a dang kid at the time, which made it all the more outstanding in my mind, because if a cat as famous as Chuck could take the time to be kind and attentive to a bunch of high school students leading up to a halftime show at a college football game in honor of National Trumpet Day or some such, then by golly, I would take the time to be kind and attentive to younger musicians, too.

he was an absolute giant and the reason I own a flugelhorn today.

rest easy, Chuck, and thank you so very much.

Boosted by jwz:
mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

Which side are you on? Which side are you onnnnn?

Because Nazis aren’t punk.

Dropkick pulls out of Punk in the Park after learning of the organizer’s support for Trump.

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/dropkick-murphys-exit-punk-park-festival-founders-trump-campaign-donat-rcna220729

Boosted by jwz:
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

"Why Black people don't call the police."

And

"Why cops make the murder rate go up."

Part 1000.

Award winning musician GloRilla's house was burglarized by home invaders who knew she would be performing at a concert.

Police showed up and... searched her house for drugs...🤔

And charged her.🤡

The burglars knew that she wouldn't be home because her public performance schedule was well known. But they weren't expecting one of her relatives to be home, and heavily armed.😬 That relative wasn't going for the home invasion. He bucked back.

The would-be home invaders ran off. No one was shot.

The cops showed up and immediately started doing what cops do: not preventing any crimes, not solving any burglaries or home invasions, not investigating, but doing what they do best: putting drug charges on Black people.🤷🏿‍♂️

They searched her closet with drug dogs and found a stash of weed.

Boosted by jwz:
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

I've shared on here (many times) before, how Black communities making the intelligent and well informed decision to not trust the police, makes solving homicides almost impossible.

Because without the community's help, you can't catch murderers, and murderers are the ones doing all the murdering.🤷🏿‍♂️

You can make the murder rate go down, just by showing Black communities that cops are not here to prey on them and extract wealth from them.

You can make the murder rate go up, just by reminding Black communities that no, cops are absolutely here to prey on them and extract wealth from them.

🙂🙃

You all know full well that there is no world in which Taylor Swift's house is broken into by home invaders while she's performing at the Grammys, and Travis Kelce empties a clip at them, and the cops bring drug dogs to the house to find Taylor's edibles and send her to jail.

After emptying his clip, Travis Kelce would have no concern dialing 911. He would fully expect the police to show up and be helpful.

He wouldn't even remove a bong from a coffee table before opening the door🤷🏿‍♂️

Because the experience that white folk and Black folk can expect from cops is different

Let's talk ICE.

ICE is now arresting women that seek help at shelters. This discourages women from seeking help.

ICE arrests women at hospital emergency rooms. This discourages injured women from getting life saving care.

ICE is using local cops to make arrests. This discourages calling 911.

If you've understood this thread so far, you will see that the rate of calls to 911 from undocumented people is going to go down.

Then the murder rate amongst undocumented people, is going to go up.

By their actions, cops have *increased* the murder rate amongst a population.🤦🏿‍♂️

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

Maybe Candace Owens should finally shut up?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/24/transvestigators-are-nuts/

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

Boosted by jwz:
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

Boosted by jwz:
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/

Boosted by jwz:
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!