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

Margie's Candies, Chicago, IL, 2015.

All the pixels, no line to wait on, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/21135096034

#photography

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
ctt@social.lol ("David Johnson :prami_pride:") wrote:

How still it is this morning. Not a breath of wind and only the birds singing. It’s as though the world knows that it is the weekend.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
idzie@kolektiva.social ("Idzie") wrote:

Clicky-clacky beak.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jhpot ("Justin Pot") wrote:

Shocking news: Microsoft is doing user hostile stuff and branding it as a huge positive for everyone. https://lifehacker.com/tech/word-automatic-cloud-save-setting

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
groso@norden.social wrote:

#caturday

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

wow, sent as an email blast to everybody at SSAdministration

“I am put the intolerable situation of not having visibility or oversight into activities that potentially violate statues and regulations which I, as the CDO, may legally or otherwise be held accountable for should I continue in this position. Additionally, I cannot verify that agency data is being used in accordance with legal agreements or in compliance with federal requirements.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/DzSQKqBzar

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

Quakers usually seem to do the right thing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/30/i-kinda-like-quakersbut-not-all-of-them/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
soop@wetdry.world (":spinny_cat_trans: HyperSoop :spinny_fox_trans:") wrote:

"sideloading" is digital "jaywalking". you're still just crossing the street but the corpos have made up a word to make you look bad for it

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Olivia5k@tech.lgbt ("Olivia Rising 🌙") wrote:

Fantastic read about the history of our favorite key on the keyboard.

https://aresluna.org/the-day-return-became-enter/

#retrocomputing #keyboards

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

The Tale Of Two Social Media Networks

One puts up a fight...

Mastodon says it doesn’t ‘have the means’ to comply with age verification laws: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/mastodon-says-it-doesnt-have-the-means-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws/

The other cuts and runs at the first sign of trouble...

Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/24/bluesky-blocks-service-in-mississippi-over-age-assurance-law/

Which one should you trust? 🤔

Boosted by jwz:
siderea@universeodon.com ("Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis") wrote:

"Boston Municipal Court Judge Elijah Adlow held an inquest into the explosion. His report blamed the blast on a leak from a gas main and found no one criminally responsible for the disaster." - W

Gas mains: they just leak sometimes. Blow up buildings. You know how it is. Whaddya gonna do?

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AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

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

yeah, ffmpeg gets like that

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jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:

Sometimes you have to call something out, loud and clear, for what it is. When Trump sends his officials to compile a list of “objectionable” art in museums — that approach has a name and a history. Degenerate Art, or “entartete Kunst” as we call it in Germany. And yes, it’s a thing the Nazis did. And yes, this is absolutely comparable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate%5Fart

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

Microsoft did this? I’m shocked. I thought they were too busy helping Israel commit genocide in Palestine. How do they even find the time? https://xoxo.zone/@davidcelis/115114482372317211

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
LukaszOlejnik ("Lukasz Olejnik") wrote:

🚨AI propaganda factories🏭 are now operational. My study shows how small, open-weight models can run as fully automatic generators in influence campaigns. mechanising personas, engagement, cadence. Possible for State, non-state, and micro-actors, including and bedroom ones. This is a wake-up call. This has implications for AI Safety. Alignment in frontier, closed-source models won't save you. 💥 Next generation information warfare.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20186

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

In the tent you are always scared of being burnt. Yes! If you are targeted, you'll be burnt because you live in a tent!

In the tent you'll cry all the time due to heat, cold, fear.

The tent is worser than I described.

The evacuation is very near 😢

That's why we are afraid of displacement.

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

No words in the world can describe how tough the tent life is.

In the tent, you wake up in the early morning because you'll not bear the heat once the sun rises.

In the tent, you'll see all kind of insects all the time. The worse? You might find a snake beside you and it happened many times with us and with our neighbours.

In the tent there is no privacy. You don't have even a space to cry with yourself!

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

What living in a tent looks like?

In December 2023, we were ordered to evacuate under fire. We went to Shuhdaa Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir alBalah because it was night and we had nowhere to go.

In that night, we slept on the land. It was a very cold night.

Two days later, we managed to move to Rafah. We set up a tent there and the very tough life began.

In May 2024, we were ordered to evacuate from Rafah. We went to Mawwasi Khanyounis and we spent 9 months there.

+(The rest in the comments)

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

Thank you, everyone. I just heard from Aseel that we’ve reached her goal for this week.

Your contributions are literally helping keep a family of six alive despite Israel’s best efforts to destroy all life in Gaza.

💕 https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115095609666982728

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

Humanity is against the Bluesky Social Terms of Service.

#BlueSky #SiliconValley #BigTech #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine https://mastodon.social/@joynewacc/115113184762671559

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

Although it may seem like a common thing to persecute the right party, it really hurt me when the BlueSky community closed all my accounts, and when I sent them an email telling them that they made a mistake in closing my accounts and that it is the only platform on which I share my poetry and they ignored it, but it really affected me, I became very frustrated because I am fighting two wars inside Palestine and on social media
#palestine @palestine @aral
#genocide

jwz wrote:

Sometimes my drink specials are just for me.

SMITHSONIAN NEPHILIM - MAKE AMERICA GIANT AGAIN

https://sfba.social/@dnalounge/115116392138446165

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

Drink special for Indie sleaze please: Smithsonian nephilim -- tall mezcal soda with a splash of grapefruit! Make America giant again!

Attachments:

• gifv: 0df9ff00f425fed2.mp4

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

I am very busy in the last few days to get a scholarship in Ireland, Canada or even France, the last chance for me, my mother and my 4 siblings to survive the #genocide, because the evacuations that are taking place are only for students, but the road ahead is difficult!!

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

Drink Special @ Why 2K: BOBBY BRAINWORMS: Bulleit Bourbon, Ginger Ale, Splash of Bitters, Lime.

Attachments:

• gifv: 16c157b3d2fd8979.mp4

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

Hello everyone! I am Joy, a Palestinian writer and poet, I have just migrated from Blue Sky platform, after they deleted my accounts after I received a lot of interest, followers and fans for my writings and poems that I published on my personal page. Blue Sky platform decided that they will fight all Palestinian writers, and the only accusation is their nationality and their voice that they chose to silence and bury alive, but I am here now to complete my journey 💗

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

From an excellent article by @aral , incredibly dating back to 2014:

"If we want to live in a world where privacy is the default and where we enjoy civil liberties and human rights, we must stop supporting the companies at the heart of corporate surveillance."

This is all still painfully relevant to our time. I highly recommend everyone to read it: https://ar.al/notes/rightscon-or-a-right-con/

#Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #MassSurveillance

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🥐") wrote:

reading: Sloppy
https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2025/242/a1/sloppy/

social etiquette must catch up, people out there shamelessly exposing their LLM in public

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
mcornick@social.lol ("M Cornick") wrote:

Attention clilol users: I'm moving all development off of Github to @Codeberg starting tonight. You'll find the code and associated bits like the Homebrew tap at https://codeberg.org/mcornick

I moved it off Github to self-hosted Git once before, but moved back considering it a necessary evil to allow more people to contribute. Well, more people didn't contribute, and Github became more evil than necessary. Codeberg seems to be on the right side of things, and presents no greater barrier to contribution than Github does, so Codeberg it is.

The existing repos on Github have been archived, and I'll leave them that way at least for the time being. Any AI scraping has likely already been done, so pulling them down won't change anything. But they won't get any more updates.

Thanks, as always, for your attention.