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

These egg sacs are ALMOST ready to pop and release a swarm of spiderlings. I eagerly await the sudden appearance of a hundred babies.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/03/an-almost-day/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:

i’m not a mastermind from the future. i’m a confused bureaucrat from the future. where’s the public commissaries? why is the public catalog called “amazon” and owned by wormfood? what’s wrong with these park benches and why are toilets a privilege? you ask me, how *should* it work? honey, i manage spreadsheets when i’m not working land or relaxing to my heart’s content, so no, i don’t have a just-add-water readymade civilization for you. i only ask, why waste so much being so cruel?

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thibaultamartin@mamot.fr ("Thib") wrote:

At the individual scale, self-hosting is not a good way to “be in control of my data.”

It’s like saying I do a vegetable garden to be in control of my food. I need much more than I can grow, it’s an inefficient use of my time, and I’m one bad season away from losing it all.

Resilience and transparency are key to be in control of my data and I can’t achieve this alone. This is a social problem, we need to bring solutions as a society.

#sovereignty #selfHosting #gardening

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lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E09
🎥 Episode: Protocol
🎬 Directed by: Akihiko Nishiyama
📅 Release Date: August 31, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0347

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computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

are you too busy using the latest image models to insert minions into historical scenes to notice the boots in the hall

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binarydigit@social.lol ("BinaryDigit 💾") wrote:

🧑‍🎤 Be punk, make your own website.

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

Pink: The official color of debugging #CSS

iykyk

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considermycat@eldritch.cafe ("Jae") wrote:

How do you think the New York Times reported Kristallnacht? Go on, have a guess. If your answer was “a shitty, mealy-mouthed sidebar item which centred the Nazi regime’s framing of the event”, then congratulations! You speak fluent NYT!

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Debugging: the art of slowly realizing you're the problem.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

Jonathan Capehart explains why he has now left Jeff Bezos' Washington Post, siphoning yet more brilliance and truth from that cesspool of a journalistic enterprise:

"We’re supposed to ignore [what's happening to the country under Trump]? Leave it to others to wrestle with on their news pages and websites? No, no, no, no, no, said in 'Get Out.'”

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #JonathanCapehart

https://substack.com/home/post/p-169777799

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social ("Democracy Matters :verified:") wrote:

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

— Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

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

Matt Zeller, an #Army veteran whose #Afghan interpreter saved his life in a 2008 firefight, co-founded the nonprofit No One Left Behind to help resettle #Afghans. He said he fears the #immigration crackdown will unwind that effort.
“The #Trump administration knows what’s going to happen to these folks. They’re not stupid. They understand that the #Taliban is going to kill them when they get back to #Afghanistan,” Zeller said. “They just don’t care.”

#law #USmilitary #betrayal

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
scottsantens.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Scott Santens") wrote:

In Canada's Dauphin pilot where poverty was practically eliminated for an entire town for 4 years, overall crime dropped by 15% and violent crime dropped by 37% (most of it domestic violence). In the Namibia UBI pilot where an entire village of 1,000 people got it, overall crime dropped by 43%.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dccartoonist.bsky.social )

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

@David @cheeaun

Fundamentally, you appear to be asking, "Why don't you like the things I like, the way I like them?"

The answer, of course, is because I like different things from you.

Moreover, I go to enormous, daily, extremely time-consuming lengths to give you a *ton* of ways to get the things I write without following me here.

Surely that's the right compromise: "Use social media the way you like, and if you choose, help others use it the way they like?"

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
NaraMoore@sakurajima.moe ("NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi") wrote:

New scam is surfacing on Bluesky, which means it will arrive here soon.

It works by telling you they have information about someone impersonating you, but for thin bogus reasons, you need to contact them on Discord. This is a scam.

#FediTips #FediAdim #mastoadmin #Scam

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
teslatakedown.com@bsky.brid.gy ("#TeslaTakedown") wrote:

"In short, Musk and Tesla are talking a big game to investors and its wide-eyed fans about how amazing its Robotaxis will be — but its private groveling with regulators suggests that it's fibbing to at least one of those groups." #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall futurism.com/emails-tesla...

These Behind-the-Scenes Emails...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

Wake up and smell the #TrumpTax

‪Reuters‬:

China welcomes 183 Brazil coffee sellers in wake of US tariffs reut.rs/4mp1Ise

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dan613@ottawa.place ("Dan Neuman 🇨🇦") wrote:

George is working on his cutemaxxing

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

Go on my website, click anywhere that's not a link (to be sure the website is "selected"), and then type "amiga"

https://mkultra.monster

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
cemk ("Cem K.") wrote:

@adam What a two-faced hypocrite of a person...

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jay_peper@chaos.social ("Sarah Peper 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

"You're not building protected bike lanes for the people who are biking today, You're building it for the people who aren't biking today because it's not safe" @notjustbikes

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

Your art history post for today: by Demetre Chiparus (Romanian, 1886-1947), three views of “Thaïs,” ca. 1925, parcel-silvered, parcel-gilt and cold-painted bronze and ivory, on onyx base, height 22in (56cm), length 24in (61cm), photo: Christie’s London, 26 Oct 2016. #arthistory #artdeco #artnouveau #sculpture

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tedyapo@fosstodon.org ("teddy") wrote:

the main drawback of FPGAs is having to go outside to program them

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

Although it seems to be missing a couple of tracks, if you're curious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNe%5FmtjIwec&list=PL6C783356E3A0AAAD

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

Just remembered that "Six-String Samurai" ranks pretty high in the soundtrack-to-movie ratio.

(Idea of soundtrack-to-movie ratio brought to me by the following toot:

https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/114962510636179280)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
remixtures@tldr.nettime.org ("Miguel Afonso Caetano") wrote:

"When I was leaving the community, I thought that my answer in the future to that question would be yes — but it’s not. I thought that I would think it’s a tragedy that I no longer have the same sense of purpose in life, the sense of meaning, the hope for the longer term future of humanity. Also the promise of immortality, the possibility I could live forever. But I really don’t.

I feel like having left the transhumanist and longtermist communities, I have been able to develop and foster a new appreciation and connectedness with life on this planet. I mean, Mars is a toxic wasteland. It is a horrific place. There is no planet B. You go to Mars, you step outside and open your mouth, your saliva will boil off your tongue. Earth is incredible.

What transhumanists are really all about is how shitty being human is. You know, ‘It sucks to have this meat sack. We’re so dumb. We can only move so fast. We can only process information so quickly. We only live so long. It’s just an awful situation. We need to transcend that through technology and then we’ll get to something that’s really worthwhile.’ I just reject that. I like the way things are. I want to preserve this. I care about this."

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2025/07/the-curious-sci-fi-beliefs-of-the-ai-tech-elite

#SiliconValley #AI #LongTermism #Transhumanism

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

New data on disabilities in the workforce has been released by the Federal Reserve, and we're at a record level of disabilities that are still rising. Disabilities in the US started rapidly rising right about the time we got tired of masks and decided repeated reinfections with #COVID19 was no big deal. Despite thousands of studies that find COVID can affect chronic health, we continue to pretend that this abrupt and continuing 40% increase in disabilities is a mystery.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

XML watching everyone hate on it for 15 years, then suddenly becoming the main character in every AI prompt:

'well well well how the turntables'

*aggressively angle brackets at you*

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DGI@graeber.social ("David Graeber Institute") wrote:

Instead of the daily stock market - we could have an indicator for the number of homeless people?