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

My political alignment has a name!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/31/i-am-so-happy-to-have-a-label-for-my-political-alignment/

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

This painting really needs a heldentenor singing "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" in the background.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/31/the-nazis-loved-kitsch-too/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
davidho.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("David Ho") wrote:

Motherfucking wind farms…

Attachments:

• video: Samuel L. Jackson standing at the shore, eating seaweed, and looking at a wind farm

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
helenczerski@fediscience.org ("Helen Czerski") wrote:

For the next three years I'll have the (additional) post of Frank Jackson Professor of the Environment at Gresham College, giving a series of free public lectures on Earth and how it works. All will be freely available online. You can see their whole programme here:

https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on?see-all

Attachments:

• video: b3b59c7227261858.mp4

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

“I have been working on multiple deals where I have people inside the White House telling me what I can and can’t do,” a top dealmaker involved in mergers and acquisitions unrelated to the government recently told the Financial Times. “It’s a level of intrusion I have never experienced before.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/this-is-what-fascist-control-looks?r=49qi9&utm%5Fcampaign=post&utm%5Fmedium=email

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

An extremely cool ping/pong of ideas teasing out what good browsers can do with almost no code in these posts:

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/1kb-js-numbers-station/

https://dbushell.com/2025/07/26/text-to-speech-synthesis/

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

Just finished up ThunderScope Rev 5.1:

https://github.com/EEVengers/ThunderScope/tree/Rev5.1/Hardware/KiCad/Thunderscope%5FRev5.1

Before I send it out, I'd like to open it up for a community review.

Since I'm out of the industry now, I don't often get to talk to EEs about these things anymore, so I'd absolutely love to learn any new tips tricks and gotchas from my fellow hardware nerds!

I've started an issue for review notes here:

https://github.com/EEVengers/ThunderScope/issues/348

If anyone wants to throw significant time at this, I'd be happy to send you a PVT unit in return :)

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
xssfox@cloudisland.nz ("1.3.6.1.4.1.61513") wrote:

I was using mastodon before it was cool.

Narrator: that's currently.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
eco-g@stroud.social ("Cllr Gareth Kitchen") wrote:

The fact that police facial recognition technology has been put on our streets and expanded repeatedly over nearly ten years - by two Governments - without a single piece of specific legislation being voted on by MPs is utterly outrageous and sinister. - Sian Berry MP - Green Party

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/31/met-police-to-more-than-double-use-of-live-facial-recognition

#ukpol #GreenParty #police

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Me and @uoou chat about some of the stuff we're working on, and window managers.

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/uX6pBUPeJs1UVV4p4pAN4L

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org ("Open Rights Group") wrote:

I'm your (not so) private dancer 🔞

Spotify users in the UK have to verify their age to listen to Parental Advisory music due to the Online Safety Act.

We're being infantalised for something that's already manageable by parental controls.

It could even end up in accounts being deactivated 🤯

Bad law makes for bad, incoherent outcomes. That's the #OSA for you.

https://www.404media.co/spotify-uk-age-check-verification-yoti/

#OnlineSafetyAct #ageverification #agegate #ukpol #ukpolitics #spotify #privacy #onlinesafety #censorship

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org ("Open Rights Group") wrote:

The UK Online Safety Act has erected an age wall through the Internet.

UK users are forced to accept censorship or hand over sensitive data to unregulated providers.

The government’s response? You’re a predator 🤨

Enough. Tell your MP to fix it now ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working

#OnlineSafetyAct #OnlineSafety #privacy #OSA #ageverification #agegate #ukpolitics #ukpol #censorship #spotify #reddit

Boosted by jwz:
schwa ("Jonathan Wight") wrote:

My new favourite metal shader…

Attachments:

• gifv: 59cab6cfddc27d4b.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
brianvastag@mas.to ("Brian Vastag") wrote:

BitTorrent never asks for age verification.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
jwz wrote:

Motherfucking Wind Farms.

Samuel L. Jackson is a treasure. And every copy of this video hosted elsewhere bleeps it, because we live in a world of cowards.
https://jwz.org/b/yksB

jwz wrote:

Atomic Keyboard.

Someone's doing a Kickstarter to replicate the Macrodata Refinement Keyboard: Looks like it will start at $600.
https://jwz.org/b/yksL

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

I don'y know which title I like better: Gravy SEALs, or Meal Team 6

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange ("Lesley Carhart :unverified:") wrote:

Dragos just opened 21 positions in Australia, UK, and US/Canada. Not my team, not the hiring manager, but there is an array of roles https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/dragos

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SethRudy@c18.masto.host ("Saethelred the Unsteady") wrote:

The Gravy SEALs are now the Waffle-SS

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Yasha Tarr") wrote:

You are moving some things around in your house, you find a small door that is screwed shut. You unscrew it, and there is a small winding staircase that goes up, but you can't see where. It doesn't go to your attic, as far as you can tell. Do you go up the stairs or do you screw that door back closed?

jwz wrote:

ICE Arrests Carpenter Named Jesus, Church Community Fights for His Release.

Not The Onion: Jesus Teran, a Venezuelan immigrant and civil engineer working as a carpenter in Imperial, Pennsylvania, was reportedly detained by ICE on July 8 after a...
https://jwz.org/b/yksI

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

This article may upset some of my readers on the left, but remember, as a human rights lawyer my standard is not political convenience, but absolute justice.

In America today, Islamophobia isn’t just a Republican disease—it’s a bipartisan epidemic. And if we are serious about justice, we must be serious about calling out both the open bigotry and the insidious hypocrisy—no matter its source.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/islamophobia-is-a-bipartisan-scourgeand

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

Trump’s ‘censorship and control’ campaign threatens press freedom, FCC commissioner says
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trumps-censorship-and-control-campaign-threatens-press-freedom-fcc-commissioner-says?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-PBSNewsHour

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

We’re very grateful for the tens of thousands of you who joined tonight’s One Million Rising training. This is the organized people power that can slow down, stop, and ultimately defeat Trump’s authoritarian takeover. If you missed it, check out the replay: https://youtube.com/live/yqhFZjHIz-o

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
accentedcinema@masto.ai ("Accented Cinema") wrote:

In our last video, I said navigating Chongqing is like being trapped inside a dream. This video shows exactly what I meant.

(Sources is hughchonqing from TikTok, I think)

Attachments:

• video: 933632489efba0c5.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
weirdestate@eigenmagic.net ("Weird Estate") wrote:

Here is a user submission!
This is one of those listings that is so wild it was nearly impossible for me to pick only 3 images to share. I don't even have appropriate snark for this. I don't know where to begin.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/911-New-York-Ave-Lynn-Haven-FL-32444/42759272%5Fzpid/

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

No, Goddamnit, #BrokenTimes, he just *raised* the 2023 tariff on your phone, car, and washing machine from South Korea from 2.5% to 15%. That is a 500% TAX INCREASE. #TrumpTax #Trumpflation

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de ("Codeberg.org") wrote:

Due to ongoing issues with SSH (many parallel connections resulting in useless timeouts during authentication prevented legitimate users from pushing), we have decided to enable rate-limiting on the SSH endpoint.

The likely response is "Connection reset by peer". If you are a heavy user of SSH, please adjust your usage accordingly or reach out in case you need more generous limits.

Thank you for understanding this step seems necessary currently.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:

Seems to me that if the GOP Senate approved a neo nazi on a party-line vote for director of the National Counterterrorism Center, they must be neo nazis themselves. Duh.

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

It is a good reminder that a single person is enough to bring AI company Anthropic to its knees by using almost all GPUs? 🤣 I can’t imagine how much resources they are burning for glorified machines that spitting nonsense.