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

truth

https://mastodon.social/@Lazarou/114944746102509432

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

Any country that thinks a deal with Trump will last is a country that's going to be ripped off.

But they still do it, don't they? Bend the knee to a Child Rapist....

#Trump #Tariffs #SouthKorea

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
apophis@kill-corporations.enterprises ("antimagic heart-sickness") wrote:

> This particular video was difficult to discern as AI in part because security camera footage is also famously the blurriest type of footage. The aesthetics of this particular video make it very difficult to tell that it’s AI at first glance, because we are used to looking at surveillance camera footage as being blurry and dark, which can hide some of the standard signs people look at when trying to determine if a video is AI generated. The background of the image is also static; newer AI video generators are getting pretty good at creating the foreground subject of a video, but the background often remains very surreal. In this video, that’s not the case because of the static nature of the background. Pretending to be nighttime security footage also helps to disguise the things AI is often bad at—accurate movement, correct blur and lighting, and fine details. Tagging “@Ring” was also pretty smart by the uploader, because it gives a plausible place for the video to come from.

https://www.404media.c...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

There's an incredible amount of cope in my replies from people who claim that Google, Microsoft and Meta posting record revenues and profits due to AI is some kind of mirage and AI is actually losing them money.

This is some form of AI derangement syndrome. Wild to observe.

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ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🍑") wrote:

The Onion wins again

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SouthDakota ("South Dakota Dep. Propaganda") wrote:

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The Waldorf-Astoria is perhaps New York's most prominent monument to jazz age luxury and glamor. It's been the traditional residence for US presidents and foreign heads of state when in town (the "presidential suite" was meant rather literally there).

Built over the below-grade railyard of Grand Central Terminal, the hotel was equipped with a private rail siding and platform where guests could park their personal railcars(!). (Andy Warhol once threw a party on the platform.)

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

This was captured with a DSLR and a 19mm shifting lens, from a balcony of another building.

It's mostly an exercise in angles and symmetry. The vaguely wedge-shaped dark cloud that appeared overhead, following the lines of the buildings, created a fortuitous moment.

The Waldorf was closed for an extensive renovation shortly after this was made and just recently re-opened. Many of the rooms have been converted into condo apartments.

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (and Neighbors), NYC, 2017.

All the pixels, breakfast not included in room rate, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/32609074081

#photography

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
nova@social.lol ("cmdr ░ nova ⸸ :~$") wrote:

Hello! I thought the omg.lol project looked extraordinarily cool, and had to have a domain/profile

Plus, doesn't hurt to have multiple points of contact, just in case

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

Folks, they finally did it. They straight up wrote The Onion headline.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

I have just discovered that one of my important admin tasks will have to be totally re-done because apparently I only did it in a dream and not in reality.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

If you've had cancer and it's in remission, avoid another #COVID infection.

STUDY: "Based on the 128 cancer-related deaths as an outcome, we estimated a nearly twofold increase in cancer mortality in those who tested positive compared with those who tested negative (odds ratio, 1.85; 95% CI: 1.14–3.02)."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09332-0

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

Hey if you are seeing the news about radioactive wasp nests, let me give you some professionally informed context, @Rooster -style.

The site is called The Savannah River Site. It is a large facility where many different technologies were manufactured, both manufacture scale and experimental. The bomb-making they talk about ranges from traditional ordinance to nuclear weapons. There’s also a nuclear reactor there.

I was trained as a “contaminant fate and transport hydrogeologist,” which is a fancy way of saying I study how chemicals (contaminants) change (fate) as they move (transport) through groundwater (hydro-) and unsaturated soils (-geologist).

Much of my early study and training was done on the Savannah River Site, partly because one of my advisors happened to be a bigwig in the federal remediation of the site. So I know more about the site that, well probably most people. I say that all as a way to provide context and give you a full and detailed story to help you appreciate it when I say if radioactive wasps are the only thing we find there, then we dodged a bullet that, trust me, was not traditional ordinance.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

What they need to do, and as any follower of Monsterdon knows, is to stage a local social event hosting an abnormal amount of blonde children and that should draw out any radioactive animal mutants...

https://apnews.com/article/radioactive-wasp-nest-savannah-river-site-701e791404f73f1ba7720ac3637977d6

#Monsterdon #Wasps #Radiation

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HollyCo26588808@universeodon.com wrote:

Lost kitten who boarded a NYC subway has gotten herself adopted

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/viral-video-lost-kitten-nyc-subway/6350348/?utm%5Fsource=fark&utm%5Fmedium=website&utm%5Fcontent=link&ICID=ref%5Ffark

#animals #cat #kitten #kindness #compassion #adoption #spiffy #NYC

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

awwwwwww

https://universeodon.com/@HollyCo26588808/114944698664788612

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

"The ICE database did not include any record of Teran" https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/114944620384634049

"No record currently exists for Almanza within the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) database." https://www.newsweek.com/immigration-green-card-migrant-alligator-alcatraz-2105665

what is wrong with this picture?

jwz wrote:

I'm pleased to report the continuing staggering popularity of my five WordPress plugins: the plugin directory reports "fewer than 10" active installations for all but one... and that one has cracked the aspirational "10+" barrier. (Which one it is...
https://jwz.org/b/yksG

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
5t3ph@front-end.social ("Stephanie Eckles") wrote:

Always feels good to help someone remove JS by pointing them to a modern #CSS solution 🥰

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bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:

Found this website which is similar to the HTML for People vibe. Love it! https://www.htmlhobbyist.com/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

We could not agree more. Democrats must stand up to this wannabe king and his rubber-stamp Republicans.

Attachments:

• video: 9e76b9a837a93390.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
snap30Pix ("Rowan Blake") wrote:

Rushing up rain-soaked steps shadows and reflections tell a story of anticipation beneath the cityjoin me in this months urban rhythm theme. #StreetPhotography, #BlackAndWhite, #UrbanLife, #Leica, #FilmPhotography

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

Today’s nostalgia fix, asking my mom for some quarters¹ . . . but for her grandkids.

¹ I didn’t have any cash. :/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

A federal judge is ordering Kari Lake and USAGM, by Aug. 13, to provide the court with a detailed plan for the Voice of America’s restructuring, the current employee count and how much VOA programming is actually being produced and what steps they've taken to inform Congress of their activities.

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maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

“Won’t Unknown Senders filtering in Apple’s Messages hurt even legitimate fundraising text campaigns?”

There’s no such thing as a legitimate fundraising text from a stranger. My having a phone number does not entitle you to my attention.

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xssfox@cloudisland.nz ("1.3.6.1.4.1.61513") wrote:

I was using mastodon before it was cool.

Narrator: that's currently.

jwz wrote:

Radioactive Wasps.

Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs have found a radioactive wasp nest. Employees who routinely check radiation levels at the Savannah River Site near Aiken found a wasp nest on July 3 on a...
https://jwz.org/b/yksD

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org ("tom jennings") wrote:

I find myself increasingly unwilling to cooperate with anything on the Internet requiring unnecessary logins, and lately, onerous (subjective) cookies requirements.

It seems like, from reading here on the fedi, that lots of people go along with this shit.

I've been active on the Internet since 1993, but def remember life before it. I hate to lose it, but honestly, the shit required to use many websites is way beyond anything reasonable.

So I find myself withdrawing from it.

If "age verification" becomes common here (US) I'm unlikely to cooperate.

I do many of the few things we can "do" online, and I give money to EFF and many orgs monthly and for years, but things are not good.

I've done work on separating electronic and physical (and phone) contacts and even printed out some on paper.

I'm trying to assume nothing.

The Internet is not the world.

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

huh, this looks *really* interesting:

https://github.com/gtnoble/mcp-d