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

idiocy, wasteful idiocy

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/trump-halts-work-on-orsted-off-J99k40B8TPKea%5FzqIIMZlg

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StefanEJones@dice.camp ("Stefan Edward Jones") wrote:

@jameshowell @glyph

1997. I-Con SF convention on the SUNY Stony Brook campus.

We put Vernor Vinge and grey eminence of SF Frederik Pohl on a panel about the Singularity.

Before it started, Pohl asked "What is hell is the Singularity?"

I filled him in.

Right there, in front of Vinge:

"What a load of crap. Here's what's going to happen. We're going to burn through our resources, ruin the environment, civilization will collapse, and the survivors will despise us."

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

♬️ STAR CRASH: CHROMA SEA + HOST BODIES at DNA Lounge tonight: Sat Aug 23, 8:30pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/08-23d.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #starcrash #chromasea #hostbodies #nolashade #indieelectronic #downtempo #chillwave #technopop #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

Attachments:

• gifv: 67234205d7a6fba9.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@criffer @jwz The reality of that outcome is a billionaire looking into their magic mirror, saying “mirror mirror on the wall, should I oppress and murder the poor” the mirror says “yes absolutely boss. You are so smart” and then they collapse onto a nearby fainting couch and say “oh no! Woe is me! My consciousness has been commandeered by a malevolent overmind!” before getting up and saying “oh well, nothing for it” before pulling the lever on their orphan-crushing machine

jwz wrote:

Huh, why is my / disk full?

Oh:
-rw-------. 1 root root 1104886787 Aug 23 12:29 /var/log/php-fpm/error.log

That's just 6 days worth of AI-scraping bots.

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

This photo was particularly influenced by two O'Keeffe paintings from her time in NYC, almost a century ago (during her Precisionist period). She lived (with Alfred Stieglitz) in the building at the left edge (the former Shelton Hotel).

See
https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/manhattan-34289

and also
https://collections.artsmia.org/art/2725/city-night-georgia-okeeffe

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

This image plays with the boundaries between realism and more abstract schools like Precisionism and Cubism. While it's a realistic image in the strict sense that it's a straight, basically unaltered photograph of buildings, it deliberately omits elements that might distract from the abstract lines and and shapes that make them up. The black sky (aided by the IR exposure) and harsh, almost threatening diagonal shadows add to the unreal feeling.

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

This was captured early afternoon on a clear day with a Rodenstock HR Digaron-W 50mm/4.0 (@ f/7.1) lens, Phase One IQ4 150 Achromatic Back (@ ISO 200) and Phase One XT camera (10mm vertical shift). 760nm IR filter, which effectively blackened the sky.

This is an abstract view of modern midtown skyscrapers, as perhaps Georgia O'Keeffe might have seen them. The composition is a nod to the Precisionist school of a century earlier, emphasizing the lines and essential geometry of the buildings.

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

Midtown, NYC, 2022.

Wastefully many pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51893928686

#photography

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

Webdevs crying about Google unilaterally deciding what to do with the Web platform is full of irony. You've been writing exclusively for Chrome, and using exclusively Chrome for more than a decade, ignoring all the "weird" browsers that would force you to code to actual standards, and now when a monoculture expectedly bites you in the ass, you're all like, "oh no, Google should listen to us!"

#webdev

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

He is maxwellposing.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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

for my train nerds: n-Wagen alert!

Attachments:

• video: BR146 carrying a whole bunch of n-Wagens into the train station

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

I had mostly talked myself into waiting for the M5 before buying a MacBook Pro, but then checked the Apple refurbished store and found the exact configuration I wanted. Still haven’t bought it, but… 😬

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lennby@laconic.social ("Lentil :fmb:") wrote:

@jepyang
always love that meme

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
PoliceStateUK@mastodon.me.uk ("Police State UK") wrote:

"#Starmer has created this crisis through systematic betrayal of every principle that brought him to power. He won #Labour leadership by promising unity, then purged the left. He pledged to maintain popular policies, then abandoned them for corporate-friendly alternatives. He claimed to represent change, then delivered more sophisticated management of decline."

#UKPol #YourParty

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
killyourfm@layer8.space ("Seasons of Jason 🎒") wrote:

There's a really disturbing #Paypal #phishing scam happening right now. Obviously this reads like a typical phishing attempt (bad grammar, a malformed phone number to call, etc), but the official Paypal email wasn't spoofed. It came from PayPal's email infrastructure.

Examining the headers shows that SPF, DKIM, and DMARC all pass. If you have a Paypal account, please exercise caution. Don't click links in these emails. Forward them to phishing@paypal.com.

Please boost for visibility.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

@ErikJonker @geopolitics Russia has been at war with us all in Europe for quite some time, it's what those sad fucks do...

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

I did a new blog post listing the FOSS software I use on the desktop.

https://chriswere.wales/posts/desktop-apps-i-use/

#FOSS #Linux

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
leahmcelrath.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Leah McElrath") wrote:

AIPAC is attacking MTG for speaking out about Gaza—which she says is a genocide—by implying she’s leftist and not white:

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

Begging the Newsom fans to understand that the enemy of your enemy can in fact be your enemy too. He has not hidden that from you.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
theintercept@journa.host ("The Intercept") wrote:

Yasin Elsamak, 22, and Ali Elsamak, 15, both U.S. citizens, were protesting the Egyptian government’s role in blockading the Rafah crossing into Gaza. We spoke to their parents. https://theintercept.com/2025/08/22/gaza-egypt-protest-nyc-un/

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

Keep 'em coming

Marc Elias:

I promised Texas would be sued.

And I don't bluff.

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/advocates-file-immediate-legal-challenge-to-texas-gerrymander/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

Apparently a little known regulation regarding storage of classified information says that it must be stored in a properly certified secure facility or in any handy residential bathroom.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Trump having the FBI raid Bolton's home should have us all worried. Not because Bolton is like, a great guy, he's a horrible person, one of the worst. But this is Trump flexing his powers to punish anyone he sees as having acted against him. And it's not an isolated incident. https://newrepublic.com/article/199465/trump-fbi-raid-john-bolton-home

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
caitp@mstdn.social wrote:

"why are conservatives so popular these days they're the worst" -- its not that everyone is super racist, misogynistic, and quuerphobic -- although many are, but mostly it's that they're primarily concerned with themselves, their experiences. The job market is pretty shit, access to education isn't great, even entertainment is pretty mid these days. people are getting sick, struggling with heat, even water is more expensive. they're irate. you give them people to blame, they oblige

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
dillo@fosstodon.org ("Dillo browser") wrote:

Go to the kichen and take a scale if you have one. Place under your mouse and turn the scale on, so it starts at 0.

Slowly press the wheel button and see what weight it reaches before it clicks. Same for the left and right buttons. You'll need to repeat it a few times to make sure.

For me, 200 g (!) for wheel and 60 g for the left and right buttons.

This big difference is why in #Dillo the _default_ button to close tabs is set to the right button, rather than the middle one.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
adhd_coffee ("Coffeedate with ADHD") wrote:

The hyperfocus dilemma

#adhd #adhdmeme #meme #adhs

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

a good piece on an interesting person

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/style/hope-walz-tim-2024-election.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Angela@tacobelllabs.net ("Angela Quinton") wrote:

Ah yes, the three genders

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jwz wrote:

@glyph So I appreciate this notion that the paperclip optimizer cannot exist without coopting human fingers into bending paperclips, but OTOH there are a lot of people in this world who will be "reverse centaurs" and bend those fucking paperclips because they need to eat.

I also am not worried about a "singularity", but about something much more stupid.