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jwz wrote:

I guess today is going to be all about:

"I, a person you have never spoken to before, have unsolicited advice for you, since you are obviously brand new to this whole 'running a web site' thing."

"I, a person you have never spoken to before, feel the need to point out that the way Facebook is fucking you over is perfectly sensible, actually."

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

for the grill later tonight: pig ribs (pre-cooked in the Instant Pot) & homemade BBQ sauce.

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

went to a train museum today, and there was a trans couple carrying around blahajs and plush trains, clearly having the absolutely time of their lives. made my happy just from proximity, lol. :8bitheart:

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Richard_Littler ("Richard Littler") wrote:

"AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry."

Win win.
I just registered my name & book details with the appropriate law firm.

Check if your book/article/paper is on the list here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/

If it is, go here:
https://www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/authors-celebrate-historic-settlement-coming-soon-in-anthropic-class-action/?utm%5Fsource=bluesky&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=aud-dev&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned

#authors #books #AI

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
mohshbair ("Mohammed from Gaza 🍉") wrote:

Does anyone know where to get a tent in Khan Yunis that’s not a GHF aid point? Are MSF/Doctors Without Borders or the Red Cross/Red Crescent or The Sameer Project or anyone else with us here with tents?
I need a tent for 8 people.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
b9AcE@todon.eu wrote:

"US denies visas to Palestinian Authority leaders for UN general assembly"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/29/us-denies-palestinian-authority-visa-general-assembly
Maybe USA is not the place to have the UN building anymore then.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

America and most of Europe pretend to support a two state solution while insisting on a peace process with impossible conditions in order to prevent such a thing from ever happening, and in the meantime, they allow and help Israel commit genocide so it will eventually be moot anyway.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Majden12@snowfan.masto.host ("Majden 🎨🕊👠") wrote:

Cuccioli 😍

Attachments:

• gifv: e20d63caec563cce.mp4

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

@intransitivelie If you can, help share the campaigns of the folks who are raising funds on the fediverse to afford food so they don’t starve. It’s one thing I’ve found I’m able to do that makes a difference. If I had an army, I’d be on Israel’s borders right now but without one, we do what we can.

Here are two families I’m trying to support who I’ve spoken with via video on Signal:

@Aseelsehwel
@NouranKhaledGh

And @divya has six families in a group fundraiser that she’s supporting.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
intransitivelie@beige.party ("Trivial Einstein") wrote:

I don't talk a lot about Palestine because I don't feel like I have anything useful to say, honestly. Israel is continuing to commit genocide, we all know it, and no one is doing anything about it. I guess I could keep saying that, but I'm not sure what purpose it serves.

I feel powerless about a lot of things, but Palestine in particular.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
adachika192@hcommons.social ("AK") wrote:

Anti-Israel protesters block Israeli cycling team in major Vuelta a España race | The Times of Israel (2025-08-27)

https://www.timesofisrael.com/pro-palestinian-protesters-block-israeli-cycling-team-in-major-vuelta-a-espana-race/
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>> Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters attempted to block riders from the Israel-Premier Tech team at the fifth stage of the Vuelta a España on Wednesday, forcing them to slow down in a race determined by differences of seconds.

>> The Israel-Premier Tech team was also targeted during the Tour de France.

>> On a video circulating on social media, three people can be seen holding a banner with the inscription “Neutrality is complicity. Boycott Israel” in Catalan, flanked by Palestinian flags, before being removed by race officials.

>> Although riders were forced to slow down, no accidents were reported. The team had been assigned police protection prior to the race, according to the Hebrew outlet Ynet...

#VueltaAEspaña
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

jwz wrote:

Welp. I now have proof that Facebook is using the same outbound IP addresses for both A) scraping web sites for "AI" training and B) fetching images from my site when I use the official API to post to Instagram.

This means that I can either defend myself from injuriously voracious AI scrapers, or have a functional business Instagram account, but not both.

Not just the same subnets. The same IPs.

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lafp@cornputer.org ("L. Pereira :blobbybara:") wrote:

Just blogged: bootstrapping a #Forth for art, a quick-and-dirty introduction to forth haikus and my implementation of it

https://tia.mat.br/posts/2025/08/30/forth-haiku.html

jwz wrote:

The only mask ban I support.

Mayor Brandon Johnson signs orders amid federal incursion threat: The mayor's executive order "urges" all federal law enforcement to follow Chicago police directives banning them from wearing masks on duty and requiring...
https://jwz.org/b/ykuf

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spaf@mstdn.social wrote:

DJT is clearly very ill -- teetering on the edge. I know we are all fervently hoping he listens to the medical advice of RFK, Jr., because that should quickly pull him over the line.

jwz wrote:

Cube (1997) is far more relevant to our 2025 shitshow than it has any right to be.

"This may be hard for you to understand, but there is no conspiracy. Nobody is in charge. It's a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan." ...
https://jwz.org/b/ykua

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

What I'm saying is, us fixing this country has nothing to do with Trump suddenly dying. We need progressive leadership and government working for the people to overcome the reasons for electing "strongmen" in the first place.

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

So it looks like Americans are now getting acquainted with another aspect of living in authoritarian countries: constant rumors of the untimely demise of the dear leader.

About 10 years ago, whenever Putin wasn't seen on TV for little more than a week, it immediately produced speculations of him having died. Those hopes were then crashed by him appearing a few days later radiating health and very knowingly grinning. After a few times it became obvious this was done on purpose.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jimfl@hachyderm.io ("Jim Flanagan") wrote:

I love this software license

https://smallandnearlysilent.com/baba-yaga/LICENSE.txt

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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

JD Vance: “If God forbid someone has suffocated the President while he slept and made it appear like he died of natural causes, I can't think of better on-the-job training than what I've gotten over the last 200 days.”

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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

Breaking: White smoke above the White House indicates that a new fascist has been selected.

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jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

Exactly 50 years ago: The first issue of BYTE, the dawn of a revolution: "Computers -- the World's Greatest Toy!" And more....

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Ooze@wirejunkie.net ("Ooze 𓁟") wrote:

Day four of the Imgur user rebellion. More media have noticed https://imgur.com/gallery/todays-episode-of-wtaf-is-going-on-404-media-has-summarized-fiasco-4tv2TXa

Users are flooding the front page with "The gif" as it is known on Imgur. A pornographic Marvell gif which has previously been a guarantee of an instant ban and instant removal of the post. Many copies of the gif have been showing on the front page all day without being removed.

Sorry these posts are out of order. I was unable to post for a couple of days and am filling in the blanks.

#UserRebellion #Imgur

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
the_moep@mastodon.de ("Max Lee :blobcatverified:​") wrote:

My blog finally has an RSS feed: https://blog.phoenix616.dev/feed.rss

#RSS #feed #blog #selfhosting #indieweb

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The Web Does Not Need Gatekeepers - Positiveblue’s Substack

"Yes, identity for agents is a real problem. But Cloudflare is solving it like a border checkpoint. Get on their list or get treated like a trespasser. That’s vendor approval not an internet protocol. An allowlist run by ONE company?"

Cloudflare is not our friend. https://positiveblue.substack.com/p/the-web-does-not-need-gatekeepers

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

Military is about to be ordered to occupy another US city.

I wonder if the four years between the first and second Trump administrations will be remembered as our Prague Spring, a brief respite from authoritarianism before the hammer fell again.

https://journa.host/@w7voa/115118884062220533

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stavvers@masto.ai ("Another Angry Woman") wrote:

So anyway I had to hastily adapt the cunt sourdough story into something educational and child friendly because a ton of kids turned up unexpectedly.

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

@davidcelis Thank you.

My response (including screenshot in case they nuke it / me):
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/171322#discussioncomment-14263534

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

What caught my eye here was the line of people at the door. Something about the way they were dressed felt timeless, like the photo could have been made at any point in the last 50 or 60 years.

I'm not particularly a street photographer, but this scene seemed worth a try. Fortunately, everything moved slowly enough to allow me time to set up my clunky tripod and gear.

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

Captured with a Pentax 645Z (a medium format DSLR) and a 75mm lens. I had no shifting lens for the 645Z, so I shot a bit wide and cropped to maintain the geometry.

The main challenge was the red neon, which was so bright it washed out the red channel and would have required overly darkening the interior in order to expose properly. This was a rare case where contrast filtration couldn't be done in post. So I used a blue optical filter to darken the red, allowing reasonable exposure and tone.