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

Also, if you lead with a suggestion that I perform a sexual act on myself that involves improbably difficult contortions, I'm not likely to read much further.

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

If you think I'm wrong about something, I totally welcome discussion about that. But "don't post about X (totally normal) thing; I don't like that" is a YOU problem, not a me problem.

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

Note: If you dislike what I post, whether it be about election security, photographs, technology, public policy, stupid jokes, or whatever, you can unfollow or block me. That works much more reliably than asking me to alter my posts to suit your taste.

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

Someone described the election security conference I just ran as "boring people talking about exciting things in too much detail" and I think they nailed our brand.

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

This is an image that works best at the highest resolution. The Rodenstock 138mm lens has extraordinary edge-to-edge sharpness and a general lack of distortion that makes it especially well suited to wide stitched panoramas like this one.

The effect is sort like Where's Waldo; the whole is shown mainly to invite you into the details.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 138mm/6.5 HR Digaron-SW lens (@ f/7.1), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50, 1/125 sec), Cambo WRS 1250 camera. Stitched panorama of two images, shifted left and right +/- about 18mm.

This view reminded me of Malvina Reynolds's famous 1962 song (though she was inspired by nearby Daly City). If you look closely, the houses don't quite "all look just the same", but somehow, viewed on the hillside, there's more uniformity than there is up close.

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

Little Boxes, University Mound, San Francisco, CA, 2024.

All the pixels, none of which look the just the same, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54062971395

#photography

Boosted by jwz:
michelestrider ("Michele Feltman Strider") wrote:

No, I don't want to read a transcript of your podcast.

I want to read a four-to-six paragraph article written by a journalist and edited by an editor.

Boosted by jwz:
nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

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CowboyWho@libranigans.com ("Cowboy Who?") wrote:

@wendynather @pluralistic from @existentialcomics https://existentialcomics.com/comic/19

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jarulf@mstdn.social ("Jarulf") wrote:

#Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #Google #Amazon #Apple

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

Videos of the talks at #VotingVillage 2025 (held at @defcon 33) are now up on our YouTube channel! Here's a full playlist of all 20 talks:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLltrHIXltfGLotq79TBgIK9QK4O29Z2FF

I think I'm supposed to tell you to "like and subscribe", but really, just enjoy.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
masukomi@connectified.com wrote:

TIL They Might Be Giants believes "Gender affirming healthcare 🏳️‍⚧️ saves lives"

This is a screencap from a video that just got posted of them.

#transgender

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
FediThing@chinwag.org ("FediThing 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@hamishtpb @Eeveecraft

One thing I'd say is that PeerTube now is MUCH better than PeerTube in 2020 for example.

Back then if you wanted high quality videos on PeerTube there was pretty much nothing except Linux tutorials and some good vloggers like @ChrisWere

Finding reliable well-run instances was hard and hosting your own required technical skill.

Now there is a much wider range of topics (https://social.growyourown.services/@FediVideo/114506411010977913 for hand-picked examples), good well-run instances to join, and non-technical managed hosting at entry-level prices.

PeerTube still has a very long way to go, but it's made good progress recently.

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

We're fostering some kittens and it's really important to make sure they have enrichment activities, for them, and because it's just really darn cute

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

Yay, @Curator just dropped a new Silly Art Prompt!

"Dream House"

#DreamHouse #SillyCuratorPrompts

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

I was able to get to the lab this morning, with my wife's indispensable assistance!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/22/an-exciting-friday-morning/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
helenmclaughlin@makertube.net ("Helen McLaughlin") wrote:

"Buttercups" digital painting time lapse

https://makertube.net/w/fbJ4cMvGB68srJ1EQK5pYv

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

After giving up on several slow, buggy LanguageTool extensions for Emacs, I gave in and tried Harper, and it is so much better, at least compared to LT's free version—much more like Ulysses' "revision mode," but considerably faster.

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

Today I learned that regular expressions have a size limit and you get a “regular expression too large” error if you go over it.

Still trying to find some definitive documentation on what that size limit is in v8/latest Node.js.

#web #dev #JavaScript #regularExpressions

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

I have built an online version of the #smolweb validator

https://smolweb.org/validator/

(it does not check all the things I would like... always under improvement).

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

How does Jillian Michaels get ANY airtime? She has no qualifications in anything.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/22/slimy-underbelly-2-jillian-michaels/

Mastodon wrote:

We were delighted that @andypiper from the Mastodon team was the featured keynote speaker on day 2 of #FrOSCon this year.

Andy spoke about the importance of the #Fediverse and of decentralisation in order to preserve digital freedom and sovereignty.

https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2025-3408-decentralising%5Ffreedom%5Fopen%5Fsource%5Ffor%5Fsovereignty

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
fixatedpersonsunit@aus.social ("Tingo") wrote:

Keep this extension on Chrome as a reminder to never use Chrome.

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

Joke's on you website, as a Lynx user, I am shown 100% less advertising when reading articles.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

Interviewer: What would you say is your greatest weakness?

Me: My honesty.

Interviewer: I don’t think honesty is a weakness.

Me: I don’t give a fuck what you think.

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

Christian Zionist ICJ judge, Julia Sebutinde says she is "standing with the Lord " in the genocide case brought by South Africa against Israel.

She says she is under a religious duty to stand with Israel in the case.

Her position breaches the ICJ's duty of impartiality.

The ICJ can use special reasons to prevent a judge from sitting in a particular case. This ought to be one such special reason.

https://zeteo.com/p/the-lord-is-counting-on-me-to-stand

#JuliaSebutinde #ICJ #EuroPol #USPol #ChristianZionism #GazaGenocide .

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
buercher@tooting.ch ("Matthias Bürcher") wrote:

Famine set to be officially declared in Gaza for first time by UN-backed group
A famine is set to be declared in Gaza by the international body responsible for monitoring world hunger.

The Guardian understands that the report will declare that the threshold for famine has been reached in Gaza City, in parts of the south and central areas of the territory but not in the north, where data is insufficient.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/aug/22/famine-benjamin-netanyahu-palestine-gaza-israel-war-latest-updates?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

jwz wrote:

Gonna need all nerds of conscience to declare a complete moratorium on using 0xDEADBEEF in favor of 0xACAB8647, which has identical endianness and visual-repetition properties.

2896922183 is, while not greater than, superior to 3735928559.
https://jwz.org/b/yktu

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

Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says
Australia’s biggest bank regrets messy rush to replace staff with chatbots.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/bank-forced-to-rehire-workers-after-lying-about-chatbot-productivity-union-says/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social