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

More monarchs.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/09/multiple-monarchs-munching-on-milkweed/

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

y'know, sometimes, having a little bit less reach on social media wouldn't be bad, either.

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

Nicolas Cage plays a good ol' boy from Alabama with just the absolute worst southern accent you ever did hear.

John Malkovich plays the white genius psychopath. Everyone else plays up to their stereotype.

ConAir is a pure copaganda, product of the 1990s, action film that aged like yogurt in a hot car.

But I can't help but love it and watch it like once a year.

🤌🤌🤌 1/2 #MovieReview

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
rjkwon ("Kwon") wrote:

@fromjason there is a really good essay on this that @j3s wrote! https://j3s.sh/thought/.io-domains-considered-harmful.html

Boosted by jwz:
mav@masto.hackers.town ("mav :happy_blob:") wrote:

Was just told by an nfo goon at @defcon that my Nazi Hackers Fuck Off stickers are unwelcome so I will no longer be distributing ANY stickers at Defcon unless asked directly. Apparently suggesting Nazis are bad and should be ostracized is a bridge too far.

Nazis do not deserve free speech.

Edit: apparently this was done in error, but frankly since I'm pretty pissed off about this entirely, I am leaving some of my stickers on the tables in hackers.town community (C102.)

#Defcon

Boosted by jwz:
SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

GOP dysfunction in a nutshell: This week, Donald Trump is not appointing horribly unqualified people to federal jobs because Mike Johnson insists on protecting Jeffrey Epstein.

jwz wrote:

Important update about your internet service:

AOL Dial-up Internet to be discontinued: AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet. This service will no longer be available in AOL plans. As a...
https://jwz.org/b/yksw

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

My company domain has used the .io TLD for ten years, and now I must swap domains because there's some political (and maybe moral?) issues with using .io. There's a chance the TLD becomes inaccessible as I understand it.

That's a decade worth of log-ins, emails, contacts, website all associated with io. 😭

Secretly I love this project because I get to create a whole new system for my emails.

#weekendproject #freelancer

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I don't finish tasks for the sense of accomplishment. I do it for the post-project tab purge high.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The most satisfying sound isn't a gentle rain or a crackling fire. It's the rapid-fire click-click-click-click of closing 100+ browser tabs.

That's my kind of ASMR.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Really missing Casio’s design style from the 90s.

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

A couple of interesting videos discussing the history of cameras used in the film industry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPOLxZfVB-o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRg%5FqjXMZjE

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
randomgeek@masto.hackers.town ("Random Geek") wrote:

Just. You know. Take the chance. Help people with what they’re already doing today. Learn what they’re doing. Move slow and fix things.

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

how disappointing

Attachments:

• video: 61a0888192c75eba.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bobkmertz@techhub.social ("Bob K Mertz :distressedUS:") wrote:

With AOL killing Dial Up Internet I was curious what still exists. I've found that there is over an estimated 160,000 people still using dial up in the US as their only connection (there are others using dial up as a fallback)

https://data.census.gov/table?q=internet+subscription

Earthlink quietly shut off dial up access in early 2024 (best I can tell).

Incredibly Juno and NetZero both still offer 10 free hours of dial up a month (and unlimited subscriptions).

#dialup #internet #aol #EarthLink #netzero

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

BREAKING: Police officer killed, shooter dead at CDC Atlanta HQ; shooter reportedly anti-COVID vaccines

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kim_harding@mastodon.scot ("kim_harding ✅") wrote:

Japan commemorates 80 years since Nagasaki nuclear bomb attack https://www.africanews.com/2025/08/09/japan-commemorates-80-years-since-nagasaki-nuclear-bomb-attack/

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

me, mornings

https://suya.place/objects/0ca733b7-cc85-44d4-bb9b-2cc641cf42bd

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
brianleroux@indieweb.social ("Brian LeRoux 💚") wrote:

Which, not really ..but sure. Because if that is the case, the code "does not matter", idk why we'd generate garbage transpiler undebuggable code when we can just as easily generate well tested, dependency free, web native semantically correct code that performs better and is accessible.

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

All the archive work to support trixie and preparations for development of forky is now done; image testing continues, and once the images team signs off, everything can be published to the mirror network. #debian #debian13 #trixie #forky #ReleasingDebianTrixie

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

Baltic leaders slam 'land-for-peace' deal for Ukraine amid Trump-Putin talks plan

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/baltic-leaders-reject-land-for-peace-deal-1754745292.html

#WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #Baltic #Latvian #army #Estonian #war #Russia #WarCriminal #drones #occupiers #defenders
#перемогаYкраїни

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
niedermeyer.online@bsky.brid.gy ("e.w. niedermeyer") wrote:

In the week since Tesla was hit with a $329 million judgement for a wrongful death involving Autopilot, the stock is up roughly 10%. Yesterday Tesla canceled "Dojo" training hardware worth $500b in market cap per Morgan Stanley, and this morning the stock is up. Something is rotten on Wall Street.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

@davidgerard

Jobs-level successes for Cook? Let's see:

Airpods—the entire range.
Apple Watch. (Not huge, just the world's highest-grossing luxury watch brand.)
Apple's migration to M-series CPUs (a post-Jobs move).

These are all smaller-scale than Jobs' successes, but each gross in the billions of dollars/year—comparable to Jobs' huge successes from the late 90s to late 2000s.

Apple is so vast these days it's impossible to debut a new product that increases their revenue by 100%/year.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
oli@olifant.social ("D. Olifant") wrote:

Reading this blog post and I'm just nodding along like, "Yep."

Why Even Consider Switching?

After months of running a self-hosted Mastodon instance in my homelab, I was getting increasingly frustrated. Not with the Fediverse concept - that's brilliant - but with Mastodon's resource appetite.

https://blog.klein.ruhr/gotosocial-ready-for-prime-time/

And I explain many of the reasons I switched from running Mastodon to GoToSocial here, too:

https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/taking-your-posts-with-you-upon-the-closing-of-oliphant-social

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

"Murray’s supervisor… counseled him that Murray should be informing all new Black security personnel that the use of the ‘N-word’ was simply engrained [sic] in the culture at Tesla and, so, Murray should only be bringing aboard tht are willing to accept and acquiesce to the prevalence of that word in the workplace.”

"According to the complaint, the coworker, who was white, 'responded by angrily yelling back, ‘Do you want to hang by a tree?’”

TESLA IS NOT A CAR COMPANY.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/tesla-lawsuit-elon-musk-california-b2804549.html

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

Lucian K. Truscott features the photo below in a posting this morning.

My commentary:

"I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live."

#Trump #WhiteHouse #GildedAge
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/1600-las-vegas-avenue

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

https://substack.com/@lucianktruscottiv/note/c-142577029?utm%5Fsource=notes-share-action&r=4qey6

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Who's going to #ArcTanGent next week?

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

Somehow, our world is the type that allows the worst to rise to the top.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/09/does-this-sound-familiar/

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

"Putin generally cannot travel outside Russia because he has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, including the theft of Ukrainian children. And yet Trump is welcoming him to the United States of America."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Putin #Trump #Ukraine #PutinsPoodle
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-8-2025-friday