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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

gosh, who the fuck could have seen this coming

(please do not bootlick itch.io in my replies, you are under no obligation whatsoever to do that)

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streetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

THE COMMENTS THOUGH

(And I totally get it, I know how much work I am for Krissy, and I actively work not to be. I didn't know why anyone would want to have two)

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DocPop@pixelfed.social ("Doctor P. Popular") wrote:

"Dogs be humpin" mural by Sapien on 19th and Mission in San Francisco. #SFGraffiti #Graffiti #murals #Sapien

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

I'll be there! But don't let my presence scare you away, there will be plenty of cool people, too.

https://mstdn.social/@plwt/114915105925470151

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

How not to design a mobile app for women's safety: first, make sure the database is so leaky the script kiddies at 4chan can bust into it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/25/nightmare-scenario/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

I think we should pick some core non-negotiable ideas and put money and time behind propagandizing those ideas.

1. The scientific method is VERY effective.
2. All people have a right to exist.
3. All living things have intrinsic value and beauty.
4. Bodily Autonomy

We could get into the weeds of the boundaries of these, but I'm not interested in that at the moment. I feel like the center is being lost.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
overholt@glammr.us ("John Overholt") wrote:

The ExLibris rare books listserv isn't a perfect place, but it is a place where someone can post "What are the weird splotches on my manuscript?" and someone else can post "Could be spider poop, here are some photos" and everyone is grateful to have these useful photos of spider poop.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
freedomofpress@freedom.press ("Freedom of the Press") wrote:

"The idea that the federal government even talked to social media platforms about their moderation was a major scandal … A bipartisan bill, however, would make it mandatory for social media companies to work with the federal government."

https://reason.com/2025/07/24/this-bill-would-fine-social-media-companies-5-million-every-day-for-not-fighting-terrorism/

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

some interesting numbers in NYC:

- [ ] Nearly 50% of voters filled out all five slots of their ballot
- [ ] No-Cuomo voters made up 70% of fully completed ballots
- [ ] Of the people who ranked Lander as their first choice, 40% made Mamdani their second choice

https://gothamist.com/news/how-did-new-yorkers-rank-their-mayoral-candidates-the-data-is-in

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/

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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