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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Cornellbox@a2mi.social ("Philip Proefrock, architect") wrote:

@cstanhope
@willhopkins
@CarrieB
as well as anyone else who would be interested in reading Ursula Franklin's The Real World of Technology, and/or listening to her Massey lectures from which the book was taken.

Some initial (more than toot length) suggestions here:
https://www.psproefrock.com/2025/08/14/ursula-franklin-book-club-2025/

Ideas on CBC just put the show I heard earlier in the podcast queue, and I recommend it as a starting point and introduction about her.
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16163229-massey-60-how-physicist-ursula-franklins-prescient-ideas

Check it out and maybe you'll want to join in.

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

strongly agree with this sobering piece

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/opinion/trump-democrats-resistance-reform.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
continuation@mas.to ("Mx Arjuna") wrote:

When the US Department of War made this film in 1945 to warn about the threat of fascism, they included this scene of a teacher in Germany debunking 'race science,' the same racist myths and lies being promoted and normalized by fascists in the US today. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/24376

Video with captions: https://youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4?feature=shared&t=897

Attachments:

• video: a588fa59baaec6cb.mp4

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

Has the #Threads interpolation deal made the #Fediverse better or worse?

#Meta #SocialWebFoundation #MetaWebFoundation #SocialMetaFoundation #SocialWebMeta #MetaMetaFoundation #MetaMetaMeta #fedipact

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot ("Lilly Hunter") wrote:

@andrewducker Scotland really needs independence ASAP as England sinks deeper and deeper into fascism.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
andrewducker@mastodon.scot ("Andrew Ducker") wrote:

Link Post: Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England https://news.sky.com/story/facial-recognition-vans-to-be-rolled-out-across-police-forces-in-england-13410613

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

@ttiurani Always has been:

“When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”

– Golda Meir, A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/664790-when-peace-comes-we-will-perhaps-in-time-be-able

#zionism #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #GoldaMeir #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
ttiurani@fosstodon.org ("Timo Tiuraniemi") wrote:

@aral If you boil it down it's just the age-old "look at what you made me do" excuse for abuse.

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Here’s your definition, asshole:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

Now fuck off.

https://indieweb.social/@louis/115029146501580827

#israel #zionism #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #FuckIsrael #FuckZionism #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

According to Zionists, people who don’t want children killed are antisemitic. People who don’t want civilians killed are antisemitic.

Think what they’re saying:

If you don’t want children killed, you hate all Jews. Ergo, all Jews want children killed.

News flash: Implying that all Jews want children killed is antisemitic.

If you don’t want civilians killed, you hate all Jews. Ergo, all Jews want civilians killed.

News flash: Implying that all Jews want civilians killed is antisemitic.

Repeat after me: Zionists are antisemites.

https://bird.makeup/users/academic%5Fla/statuses/1955804699619418366

#zionism #zionists #antisemitism #israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #UEFA #protest #StopIsrael #FreePalestine

Boosted by jwz:
ansuz@social.cryptography.dog ("ansuz / ऐरन") wrote:

chrome developers: we are thinking of dropping support for rendering RSS feeds as something other than garbage code. does anyone have any reasons not to do this?

developers from many different backgrounds: yes, I rely on normal people being able to understand RSS for my business. dropping support will be disastrous for me because I can't rely on people to have some random extension installed.

chrome devs: OK well we're probably going to do it anyway because we can't be bothered to support web standards. uwu google is only a teensy wee company uwu

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523

#xslt #standards #openWeb

Boosted by jwz:
MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!") wrote:

The Good Liars are putting up honest #ICE recruitment posters in #NYC

Boosted by jwz:
jeffowski@mastodon.world ("Church of Jeff") wrote:

#FuckICE #ShitIFind #Project2025 #Trump #MAGA #MassDeporation #AlligatorAuschwitz #Immigration #14thAmendment #DueProcess #StopICE #EndICE #ThisIsWhatYouVotedFor #ElectionsHaveConsequences #WelcomeToGilead

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
craignicol@glasgow.social wrote:

Israel is making NGO access in Gaza conditional on their silence over its genocide
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/08/14/israel-ngo-gaza/

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Fuck you, you genocidal zionist piece of shit.

https://mastodon.social/@KaBKaBKa/115029108720062039

#israel #zionism #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FuckZionism #FuckIsrael #FreePalestine

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

The authoritarians want us to accept the fear they deploy and the illogic they spout to damp inquiry. This is why science is their enemy, and why they're doing more than anyone dreamed to destroy it.

They understand that if science stands, they fall.

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

Here's our official policy on law enforcement contact. It's a useful reminder that as a faculty member, you're not authorized to give protected information to outside officials, or to evaluate whether a warrant, subpoena, or other request is lawful. https://counsel.georgetown.edu/student%5Finformation%5Fguidance/

In other words, "I want to talk with a lawyer" isn't just for when you're being arrested.

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

My university sent email to all faculty and staff today reminding us that if federal or local law enforcement approaches us seeking information or records about students, we're to refer them to the general counsel (as is often required under FERPA), which will generally demand a warrant or other legal process.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

My trusted #running headphones shed the silicon earpad from one side after my last run. I've had them for a few years, so by modern standards they were due for replacement. But I didn't give up and glued it back, by its very thin edge. It seemingly stuck just fine, but when I was wiping the whole thing off with alcohol, the part attaching the earpiece to the headband just cracked and stopped being functional. So yeah, I'm getting a new pair… (Shokz OpenMove)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
davebauerart ("Dave bauer") wrote:

If you're a programmer and also do some creative work on the side for fun or profit, and would like to have a chat on my podcast about the intersection of curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving, let me know!

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
Lunaphied@provably.online wrote:

"Stop outsourcing the discomfort of thinking" is such a simple and strong statement against so much of what's going on in the world right now

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

got a teenage kid? do they use a computer to write, make art or music, code, or anything else creative?

is that computer included in your backup solution?

if not, please back it up.

when I was a teenager, long before cloud backups existed (we're talking the IDE HDD era here), I had a drive failure. I lost 5 years of programming projects. I don't know that anything in there would be useful today, but it was a record of my entry into the subject and two decades later I'm still sad about it.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
makeworld@merveilles.town wrote:

Good no-nonsense icon pack

https://remixicon.com/

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

I witnessed a creationist debate. I was appalled at how bad their arguments are.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/14/minnesota-has-creationists/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDUDWzOJCkMhttps://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/14/minnesota-has-creationists/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
infosecdj@infosec.exchange ("DJ🌞:donor:") wrote:

Yo all, it is Friday now where I am, so might as well get the #nakeddiefriday thing going.

Today's guest is the famous NES PPU chip, RP2C07A by Ricoh. What's interesting about this particular sample is that it's very very dead. Many thanks to @root42 for supplying it!

As always, a short thread follows. Why not give this one a boost while you're here? :D

SiPron page for those hi-res maps we all love: https://siliconpr0n.org/archive/doku.php?id=infosecdj:ricoh:rp2c07a

Note the die is oriented the same way Visual 2C02 has it: https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/Visual%5F2C02

#electronics #reverseengineering #icre #failureanalysis

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

Pretty trans sky #photography

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
libreleah@mas.to ("Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot") wrote:

https://lgbtqia.space/

This is a mastodon instance. I have every respect for it, but I don't use it. It's one of several to recently start blocking British users.

I can still interact with its users through mas.to.

This is because of the UK's new Online Safety Act of 2023. It requires site owners to moderate content "considered harmful" to minors; meaning, anything the government doesn't like.

Extremely orwellian law and I have mad respect for lgbtqia's banner they now serve to UK visitors:

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

@bgainor yes! An excellent place to start is this National Academies report, “Securing the Vote”. It’s the main text for my election security course. https://www.carnegie.org/publications/securing-vote-protecting-american-democracy/

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

Election security just doesn’t have a clean narrative. There are real problems, and there’s been real progress. Both stories are partly true, but neither is the whole story.

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

In particular, while I understand where they’re coming from, I strongly reject the “don’t talk about problems because some people will take it out of context” approach to election security research. That’s not how science - or democracy - works.