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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
grheavyroller ("gregg r") wrote:

You live long enough and everything comes back around.

#Epstein

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
br00t4c wrote:

"Woke" Superman Versus MAGA Whiners--Guess Who Won?

#Politics #OurLandNewsletter #BoxOfficeSuccess #MAGAWhiners #CultureWar

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/woke-superman-maga-fox-news-trump-james-gunn/

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

because it is fun

https://devwithzachary.com/home

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
devwithzachary@androiddev.social ("Zachary Powell 🥑:androidHead:") wrote:

🚀 I just launched my own PeerTube instance: https://devwithzachary.com
No ads. No tracking. Just my videos, self-hosted and fully independent.

⚙️ It’s now running on my Mac Pro "Trash Can" (2013):
🧠 24-core Xeon, 64GB RAM, 1TB NVMe — plenty of power to keep things streaming!

If you enjoy what I do and want to support it:
👉 https://patreon.com/DevWithZachary

📸 [Image: Mac Pro "Trash Can" server setup]

#PeerTube #SelfHosted #OpenSource #RetroTech #DevWithZachary

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
straphanger@urbanists.social ("𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇") wrote:

"Highways don't belong in cities. Period. Europe didn't do it. America did. And our cities have paid the price."

—John Norquist

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

This comic is about Stephen Meyer and every creationist on the planet.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/25/stephen-meyer-is-the-guy-in-the-red-sweater/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
glynmoody ("Glyn Moody") wrote:

Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data #sovereignty - https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/microsoft%5Fadmits%5Fit%5Fcannot%5Fguarantee/ "Under oath in French Senate, exec says it would be compelled – however unlikely – to pass local customer info to US admin" and there we have it... #trump

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

or you could just build clean code, without loading mostly useless & gigantoid libraries of cruft

https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/114913902652942334

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

How these round homes survive hurricanes
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/style/video/round-hurricane-proof-homes-explained-digvid?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Style @style-CNN

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

:crt_w_prompt:

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
jer@hachyderm.io ("jan-erik") wrote:

OH @aabh: Maybe CMake was sent back from the future John-Connor-style to prevent AGI.

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

Is there a market for pictures of a homely, flabby 68-year-old playing with spiders? Maybe this is a new opportunity for me.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/25/an-exciting-new-opportunity/

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

I should do what now

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I've been thinking about this statement a lot lately:

"Care doesn’t scale; cruelty does. You can’t automate your way around the infinite obligation to the other."

From "Artificial intentionality":

https://archive.is/t1te5

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
baleine@piaille.fr ("Noé Lopez") wrote:

After a few weeks of work: a #GNOME session running on the #shepherd!

This implementation in #guile is completely independent of systemd and can run on any init system!

Thanks to @AdrianVovk for their help :)

#Guix will need this for GNOME 49, since the original GNOME session dropped the non-systemd implementation. Source code at https://gitlab.gnome.org/noe/gnome-session-shepherd

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
hireillo@illo.social ("Hireillo - Hire an Illustrator") wrote:

We will never support the use of AI to produce images and do not allow AI images on our website. AI training = theft, and using AI damages people’s livelihoods. The Arts are an expression of human creativity and the human condition, with all its differences and nuances. Let’s keep it that way. #NoAI

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

Will we finally see some backlash against the use of debate to empower bad ideas?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/25/im-hoping-for-the-death-of-the-debate-bro/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4px0MUlTvBk

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jerzone@techhub.social ("Jer 🚵🏼") wrote:

From the little plastic wafer full of microscopic LEDs to “cooking" final reels and live testing them as they get constructed this is a lot more work than I expected for LED strips. This channel is the advanced Chinese future version of “How things are made”.
https://youtu.be/KcGzVRfu9s8

“I’m studying nuclear science, I love my classes, gotta crazy teacher that wears dark glasses, things are going great and they're only getting better”
https://youtu.be/lqkxd32dbwM

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

huh. and here I thought this story was well-known

“Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia” https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown-starlink-satellite-service-ukraine-retook-territory-russia-2025-07-25/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

This is fine -dot- gif

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/chatgpt-ai-self-mutilation-satanism/683649/?gift=30cSUw54%5Fkhs9cmN2DgCv6AtQbjoj3VzzbTQuFZ1YfE&utm%5Fsource=copy-link&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=share

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk ("the roamer") wrote:

Met my MSc dissertation students this week. All good natured people. But the genAI rot is spreading.

About half of them do their work, and ask me questions about the problems they encounter. I advise on possible next steps. We meet again next week. All good.

But.

The other half, each of them perfectly well meaning, came back to me with questions that had nothing to do with their projects, and proposed solutions that are alien to the framework we are using. After some serious conversations, I found that in each case they had relied on chatGTP answers to their prompts. They had not read the actual papers I had given them.

Some had implemented equations that are patently false, not by error (this would be good for learning), but because chatGPT told them so.

A significant part our students can't read anymore. They need to interact with genAI, and they think this is research.

We are heading for trouble. In higher education, and in society at large.

#noAI #AcademicChatter

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

"On FedEx vehicle for delivery"

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• gifv: Heart Attack Close Call GIF by reactionseditor

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

But this is the "marketplace of ideas" fallacy. And maybe it wouldn't even be a fallacy if everyone participating in the conversation was just there to express what they sincerely believed and listen and learn.

But we aren't in a marketplace. Or a Quaker meeting hall.

If one side throws millions at "the earth is flat!" the natural weakness of this argument won't keep it from spreading.

We are bringing good faith and listening to a propaganda fight.

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

"Donald Trump’s MAGA allies are increasingly voicing concerns that Attorney General Pam Bondi has a blind spot for the damage caused by the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files ... Rising fury among House Republicans has guaranteed that the saga will outlast a sleepy August recess, with committees approving two bipartisan subpoenas":
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/24/pam-bondi-jeffrey-epstein-files-00475897
#EpsteinFiles #coverup copy: @renewedresistance

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

Your art history post for today: by Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875), Woman Sewing by Lamplight (1870-1872), oil on canvas, 39 5/8 x 32 1/4 in. (100.6 x 81.9 cm), The Frick Collection, New York. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting

From the museum: ‘It has been suggested that Millet’s many scenes of peasant women and their families working by lamplight were inspired by his fondness for Latin bucolic poetry, especially certain lines from Virgil’s Georgics. Similar treatments by Rembrandt and other Dutch painters may also have influenced his choice of themes, but ultimately this picture relates most closely to what the artist was witnessing in his own home, as he wrote to a friend the year the canvas was completed: “I write this, today, November 6th at 9 o’clock in the evening. Everyone is at work around me, sewing, and darning stockings. The table is covered with bits of cloth and balls of yarn. I watch from time to time the effects produced on all this by the light of the lamp. Those who work around me at the table are my wife and grown-up daughters.”’

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
DavidBFox@mastodon.gamedev.place ("David Fox 🌻🥸 🔜 Devcom") wrote:

Rescue on Fractalus! Helmet
42 years ago I got to be in an #ILM shoot for the box and manual of my soon to be released #LucasfilmGames Atari 800 game, #RescueOnFractalus On the cover I’m the running pilot about to be rescued, those are also my hands/knees in the cockpit. #retrogaming #spaceship

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :donor:") wrote:

There is no universe in which "productivity" is worth the harms this technology is causing.

Cold hard fuck your "Genie's out of the bottle." I will not accept this technology as a fact in our lives.

This is a pollutant. It's mercury. It's asbestos. It's uranium. It needs to be aggressively, forcefully resisted.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
trc@social.coop ("Tyng-Ruey Chuang") wrote:

PUBLIC ENEMY BLACK SKY OVER THE PROJECTS: APARTMENT 2025 – Visuals by WIZYWIG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLJoyuByONk&list=PL5CJrOPJZvxjkh7mstmFah82U9u9aGHpJ

Lyrics and tracks

https://publicenemy.bandcamp.com/album/black-sky-over-the-projects-apartment-2025

(I like them so much I registered on bandcamp and made a YouTube playlist.)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The second #Plushtodon prototype has arrived. They should be ready before December this year. I hope you're looking forward!

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• gifv: A small, carrot colored Mastodon stuffed toy enters the frame first, before being joined by its blue sibling.

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

surPRISE

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world/americas/us-venezuela-prisoner-swap-murderer-photo.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare