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jwz wrote:

The amount of "?utm_source=chatgpt.com" in the @dnalounge access_log is truly disheartening. I weep for the future.

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impermanen_@zirk.us ("impermanen_ 🕊️") wrote:

So ICE raided a construction site in our neighborhood and two of the workers tried to get away. They got in their truck, hit one of the ICE vehicles and drove off. The ICE officers *opened fire* on them. They abandoned their vehicle in the neighborhood to try to escape on foot. So now we’re all ordered to “shelter in place” and “stay away from windows” so the swarming gestapo can shoot up the place with a free hand.

How’s your day going?

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ylegall@genart.social ("Yann Le Gall") wrote:

various experiments with bouncing neon rays

Attachments:

• gifv: ece3cc25dce32b03.mp4

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

"Why are you doing things you enjoy instead of squandering your professional reputation by making yourself look like an idiot on my behalf" is not the biting rhetorical play you seem to think it is.

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

An election conspiracy theorist on another social media platform is complaining that I waste time posting photos here instead of amplifying their pet election conspiracy theory.

Guilty as charged!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ancientjames ("James Brown") wrote:

I think I'm ready to call this piece finished.

Attachments:

• video: A plastic doll's head - a jowly little gentleman in a bowler hat. The mouth switches rapidly between different lip shapes in sync with the audio, behind a sharp cutout in the face, and the eyebrows shift slightly from time to time.

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

Spoiler: he's neither fit nor fit to be president

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/politics/trump-order-presidential-fitness-test-athletes

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mattl@social.coop ("Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)") wrote:

Made a single HTML file URL shortener. No database needed.

Let me know what you think!

https://mat.tl/s/

#indieweb #opensource #html
https://social.coop/@mattl/114950875119564602

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I did some googlin' for #smallweb chats (IRC/Discord/whatever) and didn't find any, so I made one. Come hang out and say hi if that's your kind of thing!

#smolweb #indieweb

https://discord.gg/GAqQDp5ZkH

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

well, there is that benefit

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• video: e91073f4d7cede8b.mp4

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crenquis@mstdn.io ("Cary") wrote:

@AnarchoNinaWrites My brain is already pretty good at replacing "influencer" with "huckster", but, I really need one of those browser plugins that automagically replaces words...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
black_intellect@mstdn.social ("Black Intellect") wrote:

MAGA Man Who Said Trump Would Arrest Child Predators Is Arrested for Being a Child Predator https://lukebeasley.substack.com/p/maga-man-who-said-trump-would-arrest

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winderful@mstdn.social ("Winderful") wrote:

Right now #wind is meeting 28% of the National Grid's electricity demand. https://winderful.uk

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distractal@hachyderm.io ("Erik Johnson") wrote:

"Life imitates art"

Cool can it maybe not imitate Gibson's Sprawl trilogy

Great books, horrible reality

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MatWright ("Mat Wright") wrote:

the orange dickwad south of us is slapping a 35% tariff on Canada - ramp it up folks, boycott every US product, don't travel there, let's show them we won't get pushed around

#CDNpoli #USpol #USpolitics #Tariffs

https://nationalnewswatch.com/2025/07/31/trump-signs-executive-order-pushing-tariffs-on-canada-to-35-per-cent

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

to restate Mencken:

Every normal person must be tempted at times to spit upon their hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
karen@floss.social ("Karen Sandler") wrote:

The main livestream link for #FOSSY is here:

https://restreamer.opensignalpdx.org/

I'm sad that I can't be at #FOSSY2025 as I recover from a cardiac procedure but I gotta say it feels pretty cool to be able to jump from room to room to check out all of the talks going on at the same time!

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violetblue ("Violet Blue") wrote:

Get caught up: Good #Covid vaccine updates, US slams into its summer surge (rising fast nationwide), study: Covid “wakes up” cancer cells, Aotearoa #LongCovid studies now recruiting, UV light trial shows reduced infections, freaky new variant worries trackers, more:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-july-31-135367980

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Brown is the latest elite university to cave to Trump. This is a line-in-the-sand moment for higher education. Every university in the country is watching. Every student, faculty member, and alumni network should be watching, too. We cannot let this become the new normal: https://indivisible.org/resource/elite-universities-are-caving-trumps-authoritarian-demands-what-you-can-do-next

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macmanx@social.lol ("James Huff :prami_pride:") wrote:

looking forward to sticking these somewhere

https://some.pics/688bc9957aea2

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
tripflag@layer8.space ("ed") wrote:

I made a video about #copyparty, the open source file server I've been making for the past 5 years: https://youtube.com/watch?v=15%5F-hgsX2V0

also available as a webm on the demo server: https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Black Mesa is a great example how much difference better textures and lighting can make, now RTX edition:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=waoNTFtPRhw

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Pulling an all-nighter to get a project done. 😭 Send memes. Send nudes. Send movies I should watch while I code.

#coding #memes #html

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@aral 👋 I was reading https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/end-to-end-encrypted-peer-to-peer-small-web-apps/ today and saw mention of the "Small Web Protocol".

So I visited https://small-web.org, but … its SSL cert just expired. ⚠️

I'm interested to read more about this "Small Web Protocol", and key exchange. Is it mostly this?
https://kitten.small-web.org/reference/#reserved-small-web-protocol-routes

Kitten looks pretty nice!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
CursedSilicon@restless.systems ("Cursed Silicon") wrote:

HEY, #RetroComputing folks in #Seattle (or the PNW in general)

Interim Computer Festival is coming up! October 4th and 5th in Seattle!

It's FREE to attend (though donations to SDF are appreciated!)

I'll be there demoing Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net (CGHMN) on FOUR different machines! Come say hello and check out our lovely retro internet project. Or just say hello! (I'll also be handing out stickers to folks that want them)

https://sdf.org/icf/

(Signal boosts appreciated also!)

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

I realize I should clarify, I *live* in the middle of nowhere, so I am not stranded, just highly agitated. (Hence me not doing a good job of choosing my words…)

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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store
Google's failed appeal could open up the market for Android apps.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/07/google-loses-app-store-antitrust-appeal-must-make-sweeping-changes-to-play-store/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

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

Oh good, my car won't start, in a kind of dramatic "almost nothing turns on but it's stuck in accessory mode and won't even technically shut off all the way" fashion. And it is out of warranty, so no break on the towing charge. Which is a lot. Because I am in the middle of nowhere.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It seems like all the negatives from my Croatia trip got lost in the mail on the way back from the lab. My best work to date. I'm very sad.

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loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:

and here's Joseph Weizenbaum, the creator of the early chatbot ELIZA, in 1976: "we, all of us, have made the world too much into a computer , and that this remaking of the world in the image of the computer started long before there were any electronic computers. Now that we have computers, it becomes somewhat easier to see this imaginative transformation we have worked on the world. Now we can use the computer itself--that is the idea of the computer--as a metaphor to help us understand what we have done and are doing." #ai