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ianlivingston.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ian Livingston") wrote:

Outside Dupont north metro

jwz wrote:

@mattblaze White Collar Crime Risk Zones https://whitecollar.thenewinquiry.com/#9q8yyzf

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

R.I.P. Terence Stamp

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computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

many of you are too young to remember when computers were briefly kind of cool

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
gleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:

@mattblaze @noplasticshower Perhaps New York could send its National Guard to do some law enforcement in the West Wing.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
JenLucPiquant@universeodon.com ("Jennifer Ouellette") wrote:

MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI. After a review process, MIT stated that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.” https://gizmodo.com/mit-backs-away-from-paper-claiming-scientists-make-more-discoveries-with-ai-2000603790

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
samwho@hachyderm.io ("Sam Rose") wrote:

Email addresses are very simple, and you will score highly in this quiz.

https://e-mail.wtf

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

I'm sure there is a domain that you master. Because you've spent many years learning it, reading about it, thinking about it...

Maybe you don't know, but you are certainly an expert on this subject.

Why won't you share your knowledge with us? Don't you want to write some posts about that? You could open a simple blog, or a wiki? and share it here, on the Fediverse.

I'm sure that many Fedinauts would be happy to read your publications.

#indieweb #blogging #writing #shareknowledge

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Taweret@timeloop.cafe ("4 8 15 16 23 42") wrote:

but catscan

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

I wonder if the federal patrols descending on DC will be including white-collar crime in their crackdown. You know, like pulling over fancy cars and auditing their taxes.

That could have a real impact.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
dillo@fosstodon.org ("Dillo browser") wrote:

If you are familiar with #Ruby and want to help making #Mastodon web available in browsers without #JavaScript, consider implementing any of:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/34241

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/23153

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
PhoenixSerenity@beige.party ("Ms. Que Banh") wrote:

Good morning, fedizens / fedifriends / masto-mateys 🌅

A reminder on the real #luxuries in life 🙌💞

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
david_megginson@mstdn.ca ("David Megginson") wrote:

(This post is for non-Americans.) Folks, it's time to stop agonising over everything the Americans do, and focus instead on building a world that works without them. Let's accept that we can no longer rely on them for anything: trade, global security, aid, medical research, a model of democracy, tech innovation … anything.

Even if the U.S. somehow achieves peaceful democratic transfers of power in 2026 and 2028 — and there are many good Americans fighting hard for that — there''ll be years or decades of cleaning up and rebuilding shattered democratic institutions from the ground up. Write them out of the global script for now and move on.

#USpolitics #trade #war #science

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
jer@hachyderm.io ("jan-erik") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLD6vrt9rAQ

DIT IS DE SPACETREIN NAAR AMSTERDAM CENTRAAL🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

#trains
(via @denschub)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Bonus pic #Plushtodon

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bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot ("Bodhipaksa") wrote:

@benroyce So when United Health's CEO was assassinated, the lesson they learned was not "let's be less shitty and actually help people," but "Let's continue to be shitty but hide our identities."

It's time to burn the whole fucking thing down to the ground and start over.

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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

Breaking: RFK Jr. rules out 2028 presidential bid, satisfied with the number of people he can kill in his current role. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/15/rfk-trump-president-2028/

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CarveHerName@mstdn.social wrote:

#OnThisDay, 17 Aug 2012, Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and Yekaterina Samutsevich of Pussy Riot are sentenced to two years in a prison colony for an anti-Putin protest.

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jwz wrote:

@davidho I see Altman's press photos have been upgraded from "how did this ice dildo get in my ass?" to "what do you mean The Batman blew up my factory?"

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davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

Republicans are dicks

https://apnews.com/article/postal-service-electric-vehicles-trump-biden-reversal-03958ff70e8209ee2bf91c266c6d4b6f

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spaf@mstdn.social wrote:

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scopique@gamepad.club ("Scopique") wrote:

Always a banger

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
ElectronicIntifada@flipboard.social ("The Electronic Intifada") wrote:

Internal paper shows EU sought to shield Israel from sanctions

Brussels and Tel Aviv brainstorm on funding new weapons amid genocide.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/internal-paper-shows-eu-sought-shield-israel-sanctions

#EuropeanUnion #DrorBin #IsraelInnovationAuthority #BenjaminNetanyahu #IlianaIvanova #FriedrichMerz

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

AI: Infinite Monkey Theorem as a Service.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

He smol #Plushtodon

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

Anyone raising money to sue for a "recount" of the 2024 presidential election is trying to scam you. This is simply not a thing. The election is long over, and the time during which recounts can happen in every US jurisdiction is long past.

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

I did a new blog post about my new favourite static site generator called blop.
https://chriswere.wales/posts/a-blop-in-the-bucket/

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

By now many, though not all, of the structures from the island's military era have been demolished (including the bowling alley in the photo). Environmental remediation is proceeding slowly.

A small community of mostly low-income families live in the island's housing, and some of the larger buildings are used as sound stages for film production and related industries. Fancier redevelopment is starting to accelerate.

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

San Francisco's Treasure Island is a weird place. An artificial island built adjacent to Yerba Buena Island in the middle of the Bay Bridge, it initially hosted the 1939 World's fair, with plans to then use it for the city's main airport. At the start of WW II, the US government appropriated it for use as a Naval station. After the Cold War, the government returned the island to the city. It was extensively contaminated by radioactive waste from decontamination training conducted on the island.

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

This was captured with a BetterLight scanning digital back and Nikkor 90mm lens on a Sinar P 4x5 camera.

This now-demolished bowling alley was part of the Treasure Island Naval Station, closed about 15 years earlier and then just starting to be redeveloped (a process that's been slowed by serious environmental contamination).

The composition emphasizes the simple lines of the structure and the isolated, rather desolate setting.