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

Battersea Power Station, London, UK, 2024.

All the pixels, but no shops or restaurants, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54079042655

#photography

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RYStorm@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Robin-Yann Storm") wrote:

Remember how ridiculously hard it was to convince so many companies to quit using ozone destroying material?

Remember how ridiculously unpopular it was to ban smoking by law in every bar, train, event arena, and even planes?

You can just do things. It requires actual leadership though!

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

TWENTY YEARS AGO I posted about how easy it is to get around any sort of flag-burning law/amendment/executive order/whatever, and here we are today, having it have some relevance. Also our current president is a feculent spoon.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/06/23/cracking-the-flag-burning-amendment/

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

The bill for scientific research is but a speck on the cost of maintaining Trump's anti-immigrant crusade.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/25/we-traded-cancer-research-for-a-fancy-new-paint-job/

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

We're seeing more Monarchs!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/25/monarchs-like-our-house/

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mikeolson ("Mike Olson") wrote:

Bob Swan doesn’t even get *mentioned*. Imagine being that irrelevant.

He’s the Millard Fillmore of Intel.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/technology/intel-computer-chips-tech-ai-trump.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.gk8.jq%5F5.nplj231eOpMy&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

This week's Oxide and Friends is going to be at a special day and time: on Wednesday at 3p Pacific @ahl and I will be joined by our operations team to talk about the myriad challenges the team has surmounted in scaling manufacturing. Join us on Wednesday!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1409561378452279427

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

:neocat_flop_sleep:

Attachments:

• video: Video of a cat sound asleep with a warbling style microphone next to it amplifying the kitty's snores. That's one tired kitty!

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

If you can't make heads or tails of biology class, don't bother asking AI for help.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/25/sure-go-ask-google/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ancientjames ("James Brown") wrote:

Amazing what these Arm processors can do.

Attachments:

• gifv: A remake of the Lander demo from the Acorn Archimedes, running in volumetric 3D inside my home made orb.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
noelle@noelle.dev ("Noelle") wrote:

Martha Wells DRM-free ePUB bundle! Murderbot and more!

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/martha-wells-murderbot-and-more-tor-books

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

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, and don't think you can talk someone out of it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/25/complacency-will-not-defeat-stupidity/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
stavvers@masto.ai ("Another Angry Woman") wrote:

Annoying grammar sticklers, now is your moment to shine. Be more like Ian.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

"Imagine the plausibilities!"

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

"Enjoy the plausible!" will be the trademark of my hot new "AI" startup.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Huckster: Our device can generate plausible answers faster than ever!

Potential Sucker: Can it generate correct answers?

Huckster: Who needs correct when you have speed?

PS: Hmmm.... I dunno. I've always had to strive for correct in my work.

Huckster: You can go faster if you don't check, and if you don't check you won't know if it's wrong, which is like being right. Right?

PS: Uh...

Huckster: Your boss has already ordered one for each of you that he hasn't laid off. Enjoy the plausible!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:

Ukraine–Hungary relations continue to deteriorate after Zelensky implied today that Kyiv will keep attacking Druzhba oil pipeline infrastructure if Hungary doesn't lift its objections to Ukrainian EU membership. Ukraine's foreign minister doubled down after his Hungarian counterpart complained.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
famousringo@mstdn.ca wrote:

@SwiftOnSecurity I remember how stupid the idea of a ‘political officer’ seemed, and now they’re being installed at TV stations.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
adapalmer@wandering.shop ("Ada Palmer") wrote:

We can now restore memory by recharging the brain’s batteries. French and Canadian researchers have shown that faulty mitochondria directly drive memory loss in dementia. Using a new tool to boost mitochondrial activity in mice, they restored memory performance, proving cause and effect for the first time. The work points to mitochondria as a powerful target for therapies that could slow, or even prevent, neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250811104227.htm?utm%5Fsource=substack&utm%5Fmedium=email
#ShareGoodNewsToo

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

@catsalad now put "AI" on the rotating thing and "me" on the cat and welcome to my daily experience on the web.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:

China is carrying out the solar revolution at scale. Here panels float on a reservoir in northwest China. This is just one of many massive solar power plants. The photos look like something out of science fiction:

https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/archive/2025/07/photos-china-solar-power-energy/683488/

Meanwhile Trump is fighting solar and pushing coal. The Chinese call him 建国同志, "Comrade Jianguo". Literally this means "Comrade Building the Nation". It's a joke about "Make America Great Again". It hints that Trump is actually helping China.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

latest hilarity:

Perplexity, the AI search engine, have a new AI-Agent web browser, Comet!

It can do things for you!

like get prompt-injected by *any web page comment*

I am annoyed this was found by Brave, who can fuck off, but due credit: https://web.archive.org/web/20250820140623/https://brave.com/blog/comet-prompt-injection/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
sarajw@front-end.social ("Sara Joy :happy_pepper:") wrote:

Does anyone have a handy article that says with some authority why you can't and shouldn't expect your disabled users to do your testing and accessibility educating for you or your developers?

Something along the lines of people who are discriminated against not having to be polite and teach you history and why they should not be discriminated against.

Otherwise I guess I'll be writing one...

#accessibility

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
rwg@aoir.social ("Robert W. Gehl") wrote:

"Mark Zuckerberg called the people who trusted him with their data when he set up Thefacebook at Harvard “dumb fucks.” His extractive business of building intimate profiles of people to exploit for profit has made Facebook a trillion-dollar corporation and Mark a billionaire. So should you trust Threads and federate with it? Sure...." -- Aral Balkan

https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com

#MoveSlowlyAndBuildBridges #bot

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

i've got yer 80s nostalgia right here

courtesy renowned pop muse Ron Reagan

if your 80s nostalgia doesn't include continuous daily existential doom that you could die any time at four minutes' notice then it's fake

this record hit No. 1 so hard it dragged the single before it back up to No. 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWLHK2h8EBQ

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

I just don’t know what to write anymore. Israel is committing genocide with the full support of our countries in the West.

What do I say to my friends in Palestine who don’t know if they’re going to survive the night? That we are morally vacuous? That we are horrible human beings? That we’ve lost any semblance of humanity we might have had? That we deserve their eternal wrath?

What do you say about societies that, far from failing to prevent genocide, support and profit from it?

Zionists love to ask you if their genocidal project deserves to exist. They’re not asking a broad enough question. Does a system that cannot even prevent genocide deserve to exist? What is the purpose of us if we are to exist shackled to the bloody whims of the worst of humanity?

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

Israel bombed Nasir hospital twice to murder four journalists:
Mohammed Salameh
Husam Al-Masri
Mariam Abu Daqqa
Moaz Abu Taha

A rescue worker was confirmed dead along with 10 other civilians & patients. Dozens more wounded, many in critical condition
@palestine #gaza

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Heliograph@mastodon.au wrote:

#wix #websites

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QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Today on CNN Jeffries Again refused to endorse Mamdani. Meanwhile Mamdani’s popularity keeps growing & he’s further exemplified that his messaging and policies are wanted & real.

The Dem establishment has missed its chance to step up. They’ve squandered a golden opportunity to brand itself as a working family focused party that welcomes new young voices. They’ve failed the bare minimum—reminding us again why Dems remain at 26% approval smh.

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sogo7 ("Pascal Wicht 👾") wrote:

Super smart visual tension and analogy.