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

Really wish this news cycle is soon over. Seeing Putin's face plastered everywhere is pretty disgusting.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
sleepless@social.lol ("Courtney") wrote:

I think more people should give Lex Luthor a chance. Sure, he’s a billionaire who’s tried to take over the world a few times—but that just means he’s precocious, self-motivated, and a true visionary. Leadership isn’t always pretty; sometimes it involves a giant death ray. Be cautious if you must, but try a little optimism. After all, I trust Luthor—just like you trust all the other billionaires who keep trying to “disrupt” society.

For the billionaire-boosters out there: your king awaits.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
FediTips@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Tips") wrote:

⚠️ Important headsup if you are on the server mastodon.cloud:

Mastodon.cloud no longer seems to be moderated. Its admin account hasn't posted since Feb 2023, its code of conduct is blank and there are vile racists posting from there. The racists have been reported many times but their accounts are still active.

Because of this, other server admins are starting to block mastodon.cloud completely.

If you're on mastodon.cloud you might want to move to another server ASAP: https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@lianna mastodon is also not just activitypub, but extends it with its own types and conventions. I was considering implementing activitypub compatibility with my own social network protocol, but decided against it for that & other reasons. Along the way I found this great write up from the authors of Diaspora, which I summarize (and link to) here:

https://github.com/diskuto/diskuto-api/issues/42#issuecomment-1356999994

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

Anxiety is such a weird thing… I'm a grown-ass man, with life and family, having worked with many very different people in different countries. And yet, needed to call an unfamiliar business to discuss an appointment — it took me weeks to work myself up to do it, and after 4 minutes I'm all sweaty and have to walk back and forth to calm down!

Boosted by jwz:
sillygwailo ("Richard Eriksson") wrote:

I’m thinking that maybe this app is getting a name change in the future.

Boosted by jwz:
prahou@merveilles.town ("Tomáš") wrote:

the myth of the good tech giant

#clippy #unix_surrealism #microsoft #ai

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Saltssaltgirl@mas.to ("SaltyGirl") wrote:

My classroom needs your help. School begins in 2 weeks. Please boost if you can. As always, thank you!!

If you have any questions about my class, please do not hesitate to ask. If you don’t like Amazon, there are other ways to help listed in my profile. 💜
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/PRZBAFA50CYE?ref%5F=wl%5Fshare

Boosted by jwz:
stevenrosenthal@mastodon.online ("Steven Rosenthal") wrote:

Know your rights, DC.

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stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:

Mafia meetings used to be much more discreet

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de wrote:

We apologize for a period of extreme slowness today. The army of AI crawlers just leveled up and hit us very badly.

The good news: We're keeping up with the additional load of new users moving to Codeberg. Welcome aboard, we're happy to have you here. After adjusting the AI crawler protections, performance significantly improved again.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
muhkayoh ("Matt Jordan") wrote:

@StillIRise1963 Yeah, more like a piece summit, as in hoping to divvy up the pieces. Where is a tsunami when you need one?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mmasnick.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Mike Masnick") wrote:

Some good news. Judge calls out that senior FTC staffers (who double as shitposters) had tweeted about how much they hated Media Matters, which undermined the claims that this was just an ordinary investigation, and not punishment for speech.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7r477jd7q7p2mzmyqfm7jmp7/post/3lwhs2jyvnc23

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
virtualbri@mastodon.online ("Brian Tatosky") wrote:

@StillIRise1963 Yeah the aggressor and a 3rd party helping the aggressor is not a peace summit. Another media failure by calling it anything else.

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

#MNWX

Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
450 PM CDT Fri Aug 15 2025

The National Weather Service in the Twin Cities has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Northeastern Dakota County in east central Minnesota... Southern Washington County in east central Minnesota... Northwestern Pierce County in west central Wisconsin...

* Until 545 PM CDT.

HAZARD...Half dollar sized hail.

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

Jocelyn Bell Burnell Changed Astronomy Forever; Her Ph.D. Advisor Won the Nobel Prize for It

https://www.openculture.com/2021/08/jocelyn-bell-burnell-changed-astronomy-forever-her-ph-d-advisor-won-the-nobel-prize-for-it.html

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

“For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.” Liddell Hart

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
gnome@floss.social ("GNOME") wrote:

On August 15, 1997, @Migueldeicaza announced the start of GNOME on the GTK mailing list¹. Twenty-eight years later a lot has changed, but we continue to develop and iterate on “a free and complete set of user friendly applications and desktop tools… based entirely on free software.”

To help us continue this work far into the future, we hope you join us in celebrating our birthday by becoming a Friend of GNOME today! 🎂

https://donate.gnome.org

¹https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/1997-August/msg00123.html

#GNOME #OpenSource #Linux

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

The occupation army announces the start of the 99th Division's military operation in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City.

If no one stops them, the northern Gaza Strip will be completely taken over and destroyed.
@palestine #gaza #gazaunderattack #StopGenocide

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

I apologize for all the uneasiness my friends and long-time followers will now feel because I changed my profile picture, but @Iconfactory pixelated me and it's way too good not to use, so y'all just have to deal with that.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
kel@mastodon.online wrote:

Oh my heart 😭

Look at this little baby 😍

I can't believe I got this 😭

Waaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!! 😭

#Birds #Photography

jwz wrote:

Great moments in the internet service industry.

Nobody will sell fiber internet to DNA Lounge. But it turns out that the condo building next-door-plus-one has Google Fiber. So I got our neighbor who lives there to put us in touch with their service...
https://jwz.org/b/yktW

jwz wrote:

We live in a fascist nation, what now?

Chris Armitage: The statistics are brutal. Fascist takeovers prevented after winning power democratically: zero. Average length of fascist rule once established: 31 years. Fascist regimes removed by voting: zero....
https://jwz.org/b/yktU

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
lianna@micro.webgarden.click wrote:

Dumb question that I was always too afraid to ask:

I know how the #Fediverse and its federation works. It's intuitive and familiar to me; I mean, I even host my own instance.

But I never understood how interaction cross-software is supposed to work. In theory, I can use whatever #ActivityPub software I want and still interact with everyone else. But in practice that just... isn't the case, right?

I mean, for text it's quite simple: I write a short post on #Mastodon and people on #GoToSocial or #Misskey or whatever can see and read that same post and interact with it. They can see my profile and it appears on their instance in their style and with their features.

Even outside of microblogging I still get it. A super-long post on #Friendica or #Diaspora appears on my timeline, too. Their profiles might have more fields than I can see here, but that's fine.

But what's up beyond that?

I can see #Pixelfed posts here, converted into image galleries. But what about the other way 'round? If someone on Pixelfed follows my Mastodon account, they can't see any of my non-image posts, right?

What about #PeerTube and such niche software? I guess I could follow a PeerTube account as a microblogger and see their videos and descriptions in my timeline. Video comments are replies.

But the other way 'round? How are they supposed to interact with Friendica or Pixelfed users? PeerTube doesn't even have a "timeline".

Doesn't that feature disparity undermine the whole idea of the #Fediverse or am I missing something?

#AskFedi #FediAdmin

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

I've tried to explain the difference between #smolweb and #smallweb in this blog post:

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/smolweb%5Fvs%5Fsmallweb.md

So, how do you see things?

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

31 years ago today at DNA Lounge: MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE, SURGERY, BLOOD OF ABRAHAM
https://www.dnalounge.com/flyers/1985-1999/1994-08-15.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

Boosted by jwz:
spaf@mstdn.social wrote:

I really wish the news media would stop editing their coverage to keep us from getting a more complete view.

For instance, they keep cutting the end of every news briefing by Noem, Hegseth, Homan, Leavitt, and others, when they stare blankly into the camera and shout "Hail, Hydra!"

Boosted by jwz:
estherschindler@hachyderm.io ("Esther Schindler") wrote:

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QueenOfTheCroneAge@beige.party ("Kim") wrote:

Oh my god 😂

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
richpuchalsky ("Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝") wrote:

The reasons to oppose #AI are not really personal preference reasons. #LLM s actively destroy human knowledge. They drown out human texts in a wave of very similar but statistically generated texts, making finding and categorizing texts (a basic activity of librarianship) much more difficult. They make getting accurate answers (another basic activity of librarianship) impossible.

They are against civilization.