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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
RaymondPierreL3@aus.social wrote:

#Amy at her best:
"I am going to hold your hand while I say this – and billionaires are not your friend and cannot be trusted to work for the collective good. In fact, it is a failure of regulation that has created billionaires in the first place. They shouldn’t exist. That they do is proof of market failure."

As govts get sucked into #TechBros ponzie schemes, I am hoping the adults in the room will somehow avert the coming bust.

Read more
https://news.thenewdaily.com.au/c/1H8IAou6Z2yfTVf7dfq948scg7Kf

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

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn02pn2znkgo

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

Parties on the left(ish) and right in Britain have had a consistent hostility to civil liberties. As Alan Moore wrote, "England prevails!"

"As of now, if you live in Britain, support Palestine Action, and don’t want to get charged with a terrorism offence, you have two choices: Pretend you experienced a dramatic epiphany just as the clock struck midnight on July 5 and realized that nothing, not even genocide, excuses damaging the property of an Israeli arms firm, or choose your words very carefully. It’s been quite surreal to receive texts from friends asking questions like, Do you think I can get away with sharing this photo of an elderly woman being arrested at a protest and describing her as “brave”? The law is so ambiguous that these questions can rarely be answered with any certainty, and different lawyers will often tell you different things. "

https://defector.com/sally-rooney-dares-the-british-government-to-follow-through

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

Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it // Sally Rooney – The Irish Times

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2025/08/16/sally-rooney-i-support-palestine-action-if-this-makes-me-a-supporter-of-terror-under-uk-law-so-be-it/

#UK #TerrorismAct2000 #PalestineAction #RightToProtest #FreedomOfSpeech #Palestine #GazaGenocide

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

Report: Francesca Albanese outlines urgent steps to stop Israel’s genocide:

* A full arms embargo;

* Navies carrying aid to break Israel’s blockade;

* A UN General Assembly protection presence in Gaza.

The last is a Uniting for Peace resolution allowing the UNGA to step in when the Security Council fails to act, eg, because of US veto.

https://aje.io/d2xel6?update=3904682

#GazaFamine #GazaGenocide #WesternEnablement #USPol #Europol #UN #UnitingForPeace .

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

I can't describe how heavy the last night was!

We hate the nigh, the fear we live through at night and we hate the sounds of the explosions.

We are human beings and we deserve a life without fear.

#gaza #palestine

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

You might get tired of my posts.

So please forgive me!

I just wanted to to mention once again that our fundraiser is the only hope for us to survive. Life is very hard here, but this fundraiser helps us to secure our basic life requirements.

Please donate and share with your friends

Thank you my friends :underheart:

https://chuffed.org/project/121561-urgent-help-for-ahmads-family

#gaza #palestine

Boosted by jwz:
Strandjunker@mstdn.social ("Andrea Junker :verified:") wrote:

Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein could not have sold women and girls for sex without wealthy men buying women and girls for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.

Boosted by jwz:
donni ("donni saphire") wrote:

Can’t remember when my phone changed from a helpful friend to a portal directly to hell

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

Drink special for Star Crash: PRESIDENT BIFF TANNEN -- RANCH WATER - HERRADURA SILVER TEQUILA, RHUBARB BITTERS, FRESH LIME JUICE & SODA WATER
$14

Attachments:

• gifv: 0fe138c21d4795d0.mp4

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

Drink Special @ Golden (K-Pop Demon Hunters Party): "SIDESHOW BOB" KENNEDY: Peach Soju, Strawberry Milkis, Starry, Cherry on top.

Attachments:

• gifv: 71306d99ef7f659a.mp4

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

"This is from our new album, available at the merch booth on VHS and cassette."

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
bradlarsen@infosec.exchange ("Brad Larsen") wrote:

This is a really neat attack: craft an image that, when downscaled by a multimodal AI system, contains embedded text not visible to a human in the original image, which is used for prompt injection

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/21/weaponizing-image-scaling-against-production-ai-systems/

Boosted by jwz:
mediumboi.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ryan") wrote:

Newsom’s Press Office is on a roll.😂💀

Boosted by jwz:
volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy ("David Roberts") wrote:

If we'd made DC a state we could have avoided all this but conservative Dem senators love the filibuster, so 🤷‍♂️

How Moderate Senate Democrats ...

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
impactology ("Raghav Agrawal") wrote:

"Delft Students on Software Architecture (DESOSA) is a collection of technical essays in which students explore the software architecture of 28 different open source systems"

https://desosa.nl/about

https://se.ewi.tudelft.nl/delftswa/books/desosa2020.pdf

h/t @RuthMalan for sharing

They explored architecture of Ansible, Blender, Bokeh, Docker Compose, ESlint, Gatsby, Gitlab, Meteor, Material UI, Next.js, Open edX, Scikit-learn, Sentry, Signal for Android, spaCy, TensorFlow, NumPy

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
sam@social.coop ("Sam Whited") wrote:

So a day or two ago I discovered that Dolly Parton had done a version of "House of the Rising Sun". And, as you'd expect, it's fucking fantastic. No idea how I've never heard this before.

Here it is on the Internet Archive, you should go listen to it:

https://archive.org/details/9-to-5-and-odd-jobs%5Fdolly-parton/03+-+The+House+of+the+Rising+Sun.flac

jwz wrote:

Don't Let His Based Tweets Make You Forget That Pick-Me Presidential Hopeful Gavin Newsom Actually Sucks.

Newsom can successfully ape the worst politicians in America because he's not so different from them. Newsom is at his most cartoon-evil-villain...
https://jwz.org/b/ykt7

jwz wrote:

ICE Is Using So Much Tear Gas in Portland, a School Abandoned Its Campus.

ICE! It's got what lungs crave: An ICE facility in South Portland has resurfaced as a hotbed where activists have been clashing with federal enforcement officers for months....
https://jwz.org/b/ykt5

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

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

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

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

Midtown, NYC, 2022.

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

#photography

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

USA Today: Army base used for WWII Japanese internment now nation's largest ICE detention center

"...But stewards of Japanese American history, including the children and grandchildren of those who were held in detention, are criticizing the use of Fort Bliss and the plans to expand immigrant detention on American military bases...."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/23/texas-army-base-japanese-internment-ice-detention/85767850007/

#ice #fascism

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

// in D:
auto tenYearsAgo = SysTime.currTime.add!("years", -10);

https://urbanists.social/@sunshine/115081056040494838

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

I seem to be getting out there tonight using JS8 #AmateurRadio 📡

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

Zoran is doing a scavenger hunt (all public transit) tomorrow at 2pm based on "NYC History" I can't go but is anyone going to be posting about it here I'm curious what the clues are.

Also dude has found a great way to find more volunteers with this. People who know how to get around the city are what you need. It's pretty smart.

Boosted by jwz:
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

@mmasnick.bsky.social Okay. Please help me understand:

- Who owns bsky.app and the apps named "Bluesky" in the app stores?
- Who owns the app view the above connect to?
- Who owns the relay the above app view uses?
- Where are the parties that own the above domiciled?

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

This is definitely one of those cases where if you'd call security to have them removed from your office, you definitely want to use the block button.

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

Wow. I blocked someone the other day who was haranguing me for being part of an an evil election conspiracy (or something). Today they emailed me to inform me that they have "uncovered" the fact that I blocked them and that they will be "making my cowardice public in due time".

Fortunately, my email client also has a block function.