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

I love a good ham and cheese sandwich.

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MLNow@sfba.social ("Mission Local") wrote:

Philz Coffee baristas to get $525 as ‘thank you’ payments

The bonuses come after the chain was acquired in private equity deal that made former employees’ stocks worthless

https://missionlocal.org/2025/08/philz-coffee-baristas-thank-you-payments/

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mcpinson@mas.to ("Michael ☕️") wrote:

@molly0xfff

A dialog card of the style used in silent films. An ornate frame surrounds text that reads simply: "Gasp!"

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

oops, i said “fuck” in the newsletter again

Two emails, with subject lines “Message Blocked” and (all caps) “[Message blocked due to policy]”

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
IPXFong@mastodon.sdf.org ("Rafael") wrote:

Joy! I just discovered that, at my kid's school, they've started using "clanker" to refer to automation and AI.

As in: You let a clanker write your paper? Gross...

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

The life of a showgirl IN SPACE

RE: https://www.threads.com/@torbooks/post/DNTyKSdSr8w

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

People may bring up Rush Hour when speaking quintessential Chris Tucker comedy— buddy cop action, improvisational quips, and high-pitched jokes, sure.

But it was Money Talks that paved the way. I watched this movie on DVD dozens of times until I could quote every line.

Rewatching today, I'm happy to report that Money Talks holds up. Chris Tucker is every bit as hilarious in 2025 as he was when he took over the buddy cop genre in the 90s.

#movies #MicroMovieReview

https://youtu.be/LbtVomR4mOs?si=kv55WU3c02ttJMEU

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
jmj@social.lol ("Joanna J. :prami_contented:") wrote:

@adam More things for me to add to status.log! Yay!

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:

@fromjason I’m at 5 now but one expires in a couple of weeks. 3 are email and sites, 1 just a site (it’s expiring….) and the other just email (although a site is up just not maintained)

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
rscottjones ("R Scott Jones") wrote:

@fromjason 33 registered domains, currently using 22 of them.

Will let 3 expire at the end of their term. One I’m holding for 16 more years for a “niece” until she’s 18. The remainder are specific projects I’m hoping to launch in the coming months. Added another one to that list just yesterday.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
sleepless@social.lol ("Courtney") wrote:

@fromjason I own three, two of which were acquired last year. Three seems too many to me.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
binarydigit@social.lol ("B 💾") wrote:

@fromjason 16, which is too many 🤣 I currently use 4 of them, but only need like, 2

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

@NfNitLoop definitely

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nclm ("nicolas ⁂") wrote:

@Transbian_Arsonists Or even…

All modern digital infrastructure AI is a scissor jack tool thingy lifting the tower off balance

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:") wrote:

My feeds have folks attending Worldcon and other folks attending USENIX Security, simultaneously, in the same hotel.

Folks at both events are saying, "Wow! For once we're not the weirdest people in the hotel!"

I love you all, but have bad news: you are all the weirdest, but differently weirdest.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TonyStark@progressivecafe.social ("Tony, Pretty Much") wrote:

Really running out of words to describe how dystopian things have gotten so quickly.

A known liar said he was going to “lower prices” and instead we’re getting full North Korea, in a matter of mere months.

White House reviewing Smithsonian exhibits to make sure they align with Trump's vision:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-reviewing-smithsonian-exhibits-make-sure-align-trumps-visi-rcna224588

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Crypto Council director Bo Hines has abruptly resigned, to be replaced by Patrick Witt. Like Hines, Witt’s qualifications seem to mostly involve playing college football and losing elections. Witt has also claimed in the past that he was passed over by the NFL because of a sexual assault accusation.

Bo Hines, former director of the President’s Council of Advisers on Digital Assets, abruptly announced his departure to return to the private sector. He will be replaced by his deputy, Patrick Witt. Like Hines, Witt’s qualifications also seem to involve playing college football and failing to be elected to Congress [I72] — though Witt spent time during the first Trump administration at the Office of Personnel Management, and then on Trump’s legal team fighting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.2728 Witt ran for office in 2022, with an aborted bid for the Republican nomination for Georgia’s 10th Congressional district and then an unsuccessful campaign to become the state’s Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner. He lost the Republican primary for the latter, despite a Trump endorsement and promises to “keep your insurance from going woke”.27
n 2012, Witt was the subject of a New York Times story after he claimed to have skipped a Rhodes scholarship interview to play in a football game against Harvard, drawing obsequious nationwide profiles for his “apparent choice of team fealty over individual honor”. According to the Times, he chose this story rather than admitting that the Rhodes Trust had rescinded his scholarship candidacy after learning he had been accused by an ex-girlfriend of sexual assault.29 In 2014, he penned an op-ed for the Boston Globe opposing a new sexual harassment policy at Harvard, where he was in his first year of law school. In the op-ed, he claimed the NFL passed him over because of the accusation, adding that he both did not know what the accusation was and that he was innocent of it.c Witt’s Globe op-ed was titled “A sexual harassment policy that nearly ruined my life”.30 I guess he couldn’t have known then that, a decade later, such an accusation would be practically a resume requirement for the Trump administration. c. Witt also claimed in the Globe op-ed that the Times had retracted their story; I could find no evidence of a retraction, and the story remains online. The Times’ public editor, Arthur S. Brisbane, did publish a secondary article questioning the use of anonymous sources in the original story, but wrote, “I’m not in a position to dispute The Times’s finding, although I think the story was handicapped by not having Mr. Witt’s version of the timeline.” (Brisbane also noted t

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

Honestly here is what I think about the idea that Gavin Newsome might redistrict California if Texas executes a gerrymandering power grab in the middle of an election cycle.

Do the nuclear option now. Don't wait. Do it now.

This kind of tit-for-tat threat doesn't work because there is no strategic downside for Republicans. Either they steal the five seats in Texas now and get away with it scott free, or they steal the five seats in Texas and California counters and then they can turn the conversation on how California is stealing seats instead. Both outcomes are good for them.

So take their threat of stealing seats seriously and just pull the pin now. Bullies only understand the language of violence. Hit them hard enough to hurt, and then keep hitting them. Do New York next. Then Illinois. Then Washington and Pennsylvania and New Jersey and Michigan and Ohio. There are four and a half MILLION PEOPLE living in Seattle alone. That's at least 8 new PURE BLUE seats in Congress, representing half a million people EACH if we wanted to. Keep hitting and hitting and hitting until they understand who holds the power here - WE DO.

There are more of us than there are of them. Their "majority" is a delusion. MAKE them understand that.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

A fourth Trump family-connected crypto treasury company is in the works. This one will establish a treasury for WLFI, and the deal has provided the first “price” for the token. At this price, President Trump’s holdings are valued (on paper) at $3.15 billion.

The explosion in crypto treasury companies is making experts in and outside of crypto nervous. A crypto CEO described the “huge” risk based on assets that have “almost nothing backing [them]”. Crypto analysts at Galaxy have compared them to the 1920s investment trust collapse.

Trump business interests Trump’s World Liberty Financial has announced it will be jumping aboard the crypto treasury bandwagon — because apparently the Trumps need to be involved with a fourth.d Using the Nasdaq-listed ALT5 Sigma Corporation, they will set up a crypto treasury with World Liberty’s own WLFI token. ALT5 plans to sell 200,000 new shares to fund the purchase of $1.5 billion worth of WLFI tokens, and add Eric Trump and World Liberty Financial executives Zach Witkoff and Zak Folkman to its board. All three have a financial interest in World Liberty Financial, presenting a blatant conflict of interest in their roles on the ALT5 board. The deal provides the first valuation for the WLFI token, which cannot yet be resold, though the project just voted to allow secondary trading [I88]. Trump personally holds 15.75 billion WLFI tokens, suggesting a paper valuation of $3.15 billion.34 Eric and Donald Trump Jr. are part owners of the American Bitcoin mining and treasury company, and Eric is a co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer; the Trump majority-owned Trump Media & Technology Group just acquired a $2 billion bitcoin treasury; Eric Trump is on the board of the Metaplanet treasury company. Donald Trump Jr. also owned a large stake in the Thumzup Media treasury company, though he seems to have recently sold it.52 ↩
The glut of crypto treasury companies is continuing to draw concern [I86, 84]. Eric Benoist of the investment bank Natixis CIB told the Financial Times, “My main problem with this strategy is that I don’t really understand where it ends. The company is in a loop where it has to continually feed that loop with additional purchases, go back to the market to purchase more — this cycle has to continue to justify the premium.” Hmm, why is that description ringing a bell? And why is that bell a klaxon? Even crypto executives are getting uneasy. The FT quotes a crypto market maker CEO who told them, “You’re injecting a huge amount of risk into a system that, in the end, has almost nothing backing it except the continued appreciation of the asset.” Screenshot of I Think You Should Leave episode, where the focus group man states “Oh my God, he admit it!”
A report by blockchain firm Galaxy Digital warns of structural risks from the proliferation of such companies: “When hundreds of firms adopt the same one-directional trade (raise equity, buy crypto, repeat), it can become structurally fragile. A downturn in any of these three variables (investor sentiment, crypto prices, and capital markets liquidity) can start to unravel the rest.” Though the report describes the risk as “largely theoretical” (“for now”), it compares the potential spiral to the 1920s investment trust crash:35 Trusts traded at premiums to NAV, issued shares, and used the proceeds to buy more assets. When sentiment turned, those same mechanics amplified the downside. Collapsing premiums choked off access to capital while leverage magnified losses on falling assets. These cascading failures were an accelerant of the 1929 crash and subsequent Great Depression. [Digital Asset Treasury Companies] may be more transparent and better regulated than 1920s trusts, but the mechanics of mNAV-driven capital formation are eerily similar.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay") wrote:

No I don't know what's happening in this video either ... I feel there is a drama or story yet to unfold 📽️

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

“Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.”

G.K. Chesterton (1909)

modernized version:

“Fairy tales don’t teach children that monsters exist. Children already know that monsters exist. Fairy tales teach children that monsters can be killed.”

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
phooky@hexa.club wrote:

How much does an 8-bit microcontroller cost nowadays? If you're willing to skimp on features, a bit under two cents.
https://zeptobars.com/en/read/Nyquest-Technology-NY8A051H-8051-smallest-microcontroller

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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
benzogaga33@mamot.fr ("benzogaga33 :verified:") wrote:

Lettre d'information XMPP de juin 2025 https://linuxfr.org/news/lettre-d-information-xmpp-de-juin-2025 #XMPP #xmpp

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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@fromjason Hopefully from a different registrar? 😬

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

our dear departed friend LittleGuy, ten years ago

a tuxedo colored cat sitting on a table and staring directly at the camera

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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
peach@phpc.social ("David Peach 🍑") wrote:

@adele hi there. I'd really love to contribute to #smolweb where I can.

I have a static site generator I'm building in bash: https://github.com/davidpeach/lupo. I think it would qualify. 🙂

I'm moving all my stuff off of GitHub in the coming weeks when I get time.

I'm a PHP dev also.

Love smolweb and love Gemini too.

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hadon ("NoBorg") wrote:

#science #health

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

Yet again, an Onion headline could be entirely true

https://theonion.com/frito-lay-ceo-gifts-trump-gold-funyun/

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sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

Continuing the rant: I got a talk accepted at an upcoming conference in the US. I specifically requested a remote talk, for SO MANY REASONS. They sent me an email yesterday saying I'm accepted for an in-person talk, but they might possibly accept a few remote talks if it's well-justified.

"My university and most Canadian universities say not to travel to the US. Is that good enough justification?"

Do most Americans really not realize how dangerous a border crossing is now?