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

The black widow spiderlings are peeking out!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/26/baby-black-widows/

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

There are also ventilation structures for the various railroad and subway tunnels that cross the NYC rivers, but their smaller size makes them less prominent. (The electric trains that use these tunnels don't produce exhaust that has to be as aggressively vented as in an automotive tunnel).

Let me just mention that photographing buildings from across the major avenues during the day in midtown Manhattan is like playing a video game in "extreme hardcore" mode.

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

Hey everyone, every Tuesday, my friend @Aseelsehwel asks for your help to feed her family. She can’t do it today (they’re trying to stay alive during a genocide) so she asked if I could do it on her behalf.
They need $500 each week for their family of 6.
Every single dollar makes a real difference If you’re unable to donate, please consider sharing – it might reach someone who can help.
Thank you so much for your continued kindness and support.
Here’s the donation link and their full story 👇
0/$500

💕

https://chuffed.org/project/138285-help-sehwel-family-with-their-medical-treatment

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
amoroso@oldbytes.space ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

A crippling and subtle timing bug in the onboard software of the Jupiter bound JUICE spacecraft. It takes the right stuff to troubleshoot such an issue with the running system 200 million km away.

https://www.esa.int/Enabling%5FSupport/Operations/Juice%5Fteam%5Fresolves%5Fanomaly%5Fon%5Fapproach%5Fto%5FVenus

#JUICE #space #debugging

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

Learning SwiftUI is a strange mix of “it’s magical how little work I need to put in to get so much” and "why are simple things virtually impossible”. (Today's apparent impossibility: setting a minimum width for a TabView's sidebar big enough to keep it from truncating the tab labels.)

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

Manhattan boasts six large ventilation towers serving the four automobile tunnels that cross the Hudson and East Rivers: two each for the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, and one each for the Queens-Midtown and Brooklyn Battery Tunnels.

All sport an industrial art deco design reflecting their early/mid 20th century construction. Their large scale and lack of windows lends them an air of mystery; the exterior of the Battery Tunnel building was used as the secret HQ in the Men in Black films.

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

The Lincoln Tunnel, opened in 1937, is a multi-tube automobile tunnel that connects midtown Manhattan with Weehawken, NJ under the Hudson (North) river. To provide fresh air and remove dangerous car exhaust, three ventilation towers (two in Manhattan and one in NJ) exchange the air in the tunnels approximately every 90 seconds.

Infrastructure is heroic.

I didn't notice the "Camera Use Prohibited" sign until it was too late. I guess their secret is out now.

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

Rodenstock HR Digaron-W 32mm/4.0 lens (@ f/7.1), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 64), Cambo WRS 1250 camera, shifted vertically -5mm, horizontally -15mm. Cropped a bit.

This humble and functional, yet handsome, art deco structure is the easternmost of three ventilation towers for the Lincoln Tunnel and was completed with its first tube in 1937. The facade was refurbished about ten years ago. It also hosts a large array of cellular telephone base station antennas.

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

Lincoln Tunnel Ventilation Tower, 491 11th Avenue, NYC, 2025.

All the pixels, none of the tolls, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54365775629

#photography

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

‘“I have determined the business need is higher than the security risk associated with this implementation and I accept all risks,” wrote Aram Moghaddassi, who worked at two of Mr. Musk’s companies, X and Neuralink, before becoming Social Security’s chief information officer, in a July 15 memo.

Mr. Moghaddassi did not immediately respond to a request for comment.’

yup, you do

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

why am I not surprised that “DoGE” screwed up so badly?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/politics/doge-social-security-data.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.hE8.xAep.LHrg%5Fv7l9at1&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:

The Web Application Security Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Device Bound Session Credentials.

Device Bound Sessions Credentials (DBSC) aims to prevent hijacking via cookie theft by building a protocol and infrastructure that allows a user agent to assert possession of a securely-stored private key. DBSC is a Web API and a protocol between user agents and servers to achieve this binding.
https://www.w3.org/news/2025/first-public-working-draft-device-bound-session-credentials/

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

I could never be a lawyer or an accountant. Too frustrating.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/26/its-never-going-to-end-2/

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I have to use #Gitlab CI at $work, and I'm surprised how clunky it is.

CI Components are not real components, they just dump YAML into a global namespace, needing hacks to customize them.

There's no reusability at the granularity of Github Actions (other than concatenation of bash scripts).

I keep running into dead ends. I check Gitlab's own bug tracker to see if anybody had the same problem: created 5 years ago, 200+ thumbs up, no official response.

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

A billionaire can never be held accountable therefore a billionaire must never exist.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
therightarticle@mas.to ("Michael") wrote:

Despicable and deliberate

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-western-media-helped-turn-israels-genocide-fake-news

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

an interesting interview

https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-big-interview-alexis-ohanian/

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

We are tired and lost. For 22 months we haven’t lived a normal life. We spend our time looking for basic things like food and clean water. At night, we are scared. The sad thing is that we don’t even have time to think. Every day we feel less hope to stay alive.

Please help my family in the link in the bio ❤️🇵🇸

#gaza #palestine

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

Good morning dear world

We survived once again. I don't know how! Nights are getting heavier by time. Explosions all the time.

Please keep us in your thoughts and keep supporting us 😢

#gaza #palestine

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

Sharing this post might help my family to survive . Please share if possible!

All what we are looking for is to survive. When I found this platform, It saw it a great opportunity to help my family. In the previous weeks, we managed to secure our basic life requirements thanks to your constant help.

Please keep helping my family via the link. It's our only hope and your donation makes a big difference for us.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart :underheart: .

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

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

They are now bringing hundreds of thousands of soldiers and vehicles for Gaza city invasion.

When you see the number, you think they are going to invade a country with great power.

But the reailty is that they'll face hungry people living in tents for 22 months.

#gaza #palestine

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

Look, if you’re going to “both sides” the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people, I’ll tell you the exact same thing I would if you tried to “both sides” The Holocaust: Fuck right off, you sorry, genocide-denying excuse for a human being.

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

🥳 All tests passing!

(And real-world projects seem to be rendering perfectly – and faster than before to boot.) :)

If further testing doesn’t bring out any issues, expect a new Kitten release this week with the new (and far improved) Markdown parser.

:kitten:💕

#Kitten #SmallWeb #web #dev #Markdown

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

Here’s a no-context fact:

I personally reviewed every single death at my hospital in 2021. Using a very conservative means of attributing cause, 45% of the deaths were clearly a direct result of infection with SARS-CoV-2. The spreadsheet is still on the hospital’s cloud servers.

jwz wrote:

I'll take "The invention of Sideloading", "The invention of Jaywalking" and "People who have not seen Chinatown" for $100!

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115093185284473606

Attachments:

• gifv: e7161bf79c096f2a.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
bethpdx@mas.to ("BethPDX") wrote:

Trump close to batting 1000 at speed-running very abuses of power that led to Founders to write Declaration of Independence in first place. Does any of this sound familiar:
He has refused his Assent to Laws, most wholesome & necess for the public good.
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-tips-into-fascism-f51000e08e03254d

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Founding Fathers: In the Declaration of Independence we made a list of things that a government should not do.

Republicans: At long last we have created the government envisioned in the Declaration of Independence's list of things a government should not do.

Boosted by jwz:
alice@lgbtqia.space ("🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)") wrote:

15000 meat stickers...for reasons.

jwz wrote:

@Gargron Hills I will die on!

jwz wrote:

Apparently some of you think I'm pranking you with this recommendation but I thoroughly enjoyed it. If you are following me you have probably read at least some of my movie reviews so that should provide calibration.