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

Remember a couple years back when all those #fediverse folks had NDA meetings with #meta? And few of them "reported" on what happened in the meeting.

It always stuck with me how bad they wanted us to know that the meta team is oblivious to the Fediverse and need them to explain it.

...okay.

• On some subjects that are "obvious" to those of use who have hung around open federated systems long enough like myself, many attendees seemed strangely underinformed. I didn't get the impression that they don't want to know, but simply that integrating with the "there-is-nobody-in-charge" Fediverse is so different from other types of projects they have done in the past, they are still finding their bearings. I heard several: "A year ago, I did not know what the Fediverse was."

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

accelerating pattern

https://www.arcticwwf.org/threats/climate-change/?utm%5Fsource=perplexity

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

smart

https://english.news.cn/20250728/c4ca5f817ce34f0ca993eaa2d756f361/c.html?utm%5Fsource=perplexity

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

this is going to completely change the infantry assault

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/china-deploys-armed-robot-wolv-18lMPjcHRaW0rfafjjmzIw

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
shauna@social.coop ("Shauna GM") wrote:

I also added this gorgeous poster from Sam Wallman "You Don’t Have To Hate Your Job To Want A Union"

https://justseeds.org/graphic/you-dont-have-to-hate-your-job-to-want-a-union/

Gorgeous, detailed poster that says "You don't have to hate your job to want a union. It's about democracy. Sometimes people's care for their workplace gets weaponized and used against them.  Trying to make your workplace a bit more fair is an act of love and care, not reckless opposition"

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

When it comes down to it, it's not going to be that difficult for the rest of the world not to buy American, and when that happens, there will be just one jackass to blame

https://robbreport.com/food-drink/wine/canadians-stopped-buying-american-wine-1236961236/

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay") wrote:

This is the most incredible headstone I have ever seen. Sad to have not known him with this kind of memorial!

Note the border inscription.

Gravestone inscribed: Alistair Stephen Fabian Mitchell. 13-6-1957, 10-2-2019. Barrister of the Middle Temple. My brain, socialist. My heart, anarchist. My eyes, pacifist. My blood, revolutionary.  Around the edge, the legend: The only man in British legal history to be convicted of biting a policeman with someone else’s teeth.

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

this is very well timed. https://xkcd.com/3126/

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petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

Richard Nixon resigned August 9, 1974... An era when there were consequences for presidents being corrupt criminals.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
openculture@toot.community ("Open Culture (Official)") wrote:

Behold a Surreal 1933 Animation of Snow White, Featuring Cab Calloway & Betty Boop: It’s Ranked as the 19th Greatest Cartoon of All Time

https://www.openculture.com/2024/02/behold-a-surreal-1933-animation-of-snow-white.html

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

Debian 13 "trixie" has been released, thanks to everyone involved! "trixie" images are available for download at https://www.debian.org/distrib/ or you can run apt full-upgrade as always ;-) #debian #debian13 #trixie #ReleasingDebianTrixie

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

I always thought it was odd that everything the #IndieWeb org and #IndieWebSocial guys seemed to advocate for had to do with making it easier for bots to identify you.

Then when they celebrated #Threads adopting rel=me links I knew what their game was.

#Meta #SocialWebFoundation

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

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

The biggest difference between these pages is the inlining of JSON data for the `` component, but it's great to see fewer JS files being requested regardless:

https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=250708%5FYiDcHQ%5F59%2C250809%5FYiDc5K%5F6VJ&thumbSize=200&ival=16.67&end=full

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

Had to work through a small bug in the @11ty@11ty.dev bundler[1]*, *but have it working, and even cajoled it into allowing programmatic additions from other short codes, which means shortcodes can both output markup as well as pulling in dependencies *only on the pages that need them*.

[1]: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-plugin-bundle/issues/37

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

This is pretty sweet:

A small shortcode for my blog that outputs the <!-- raw HTML omitted --> component configuration inline, while also triggering an import of the JS component via a bundle called "js".
Because the 11ty bundler plugin adds shortcodes for each bundle you specify, it's possible to simply call them later by pulling them back out of the eleventyConfig scope.

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jwz wrote:

A brief history of the FBI.

It took a hundred years to create the Bureau as we knew it. And it took one dinner at the White House to destroy it. The purge comes on the heels of a "strategy session" about how to deal with the Epstein fallout that took...
https://jwz.org/b/yks0

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
FediPact@cyberpunk.lol (":pona_plush: #FediPact :pona_plush:") wrote:

**LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI (Including Many Fediverse Instances!!!)

"The tech giant is sidestepping guardrails that websites use to prevent being scraped, data show, in a move whistleblowers say is unethical and potentially illegal."

ARTICLE: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

FULL PDF: https://www.dropsitenews.com/api/v1/file/b3555944-e204-4f5e-9a64-e44281b19a82.pdf

#FediPact #meta #threads #AI

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
n_dimension@infosec.exchange ("Wulfy") wrote:

@barning @FediPact

Tagging @Linux an alleged meta employee who said exactly this weeks ago and was urged to whistleblow.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BLRemJr ("BL Remaley Jr") wrote:

lol 11...892025...

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
abraxas3d@mastodon.radio ("Abraxas3d W5NYV") wrote:

Right before doors open at #defcon in RF Village. Open source digital radio demonstrations from Open Research Institute.

@OpenResearchIns

Opulent Voice demo including Conference Server. Human-radio interface implementation on Raspberry Pi and MacBook airs.
Locutus demo, which is the HDL modem design for Opulent Voice. This is a spectrum display of the signal produced by a Pluto SDR, and the transmit and receive statistics from the pseudo random binary sequence being transmitted.
View of the entire Opulent Voice demo. Locutus on left, Interlocutor on right.
RFBitBanger demo and Regulatory poster.

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

More monarchs.

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

Monarch caterpillar

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

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

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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

The image is a movie poster for "Con Air." It features prominent actors Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, and John Malkovich, along with an action scene involving an airplane and a central muscular figure with his arms raised against a fiery background.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

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

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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.