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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange wrote:

Normie cyber people it brings me no pleasure to announce the aerospace cyber people absolutely cooked us

Attachments:

• video: Badge that tracks planes

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

Our orchid is blooming again. It's been at it for 11 years!
This time I decided to play with focus stacking to get all the flowers in sharp focus, while keeping the background uniformly blurred. It came out a little *too well*, almost unnatural. But it was a nice experiment.

Thanks again to @patdavid for the instructions https://patdavid.net/2013/01/focus-stacking-macro-photos-enfuse/

#photography #FocusStack #flowers

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
jackofalltrades@mas.to ("Jack of all trades") wrote:

Norway, the most environmentally superior country on Earth.

https://youtu.be/zYjooTz%5F1lA

#Norway #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #EVs #oil

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
relay@acties.todon.nl ("Todon Acties") wrote:

🍉 Together across borders: Netherlands joins Brussels

Noordstation, Brussel, zondag 7 september om 14:00 CEST

Will you join us in Brussels? 🇵🇸

In cooperation with the Belgian and German delegations, the Global Movement to Gaza NL is organizing a protest at Brussels Noord Station from across Europe for a powerful demonstration on 7 September, and we want every city in the Netherlands to join!

Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Zwolle, Helmond, Enschede and Den Bosch are already on board, who’s next? ✊

See you in Brussels! 🇵🇸

[note: This a part of a larger national demonstration with de title 'Red card genocide']

👥 Global Movement to Gaza NL and others (source)

https://acties.todon.nl/event/together-across-borders-netherlands-joins-brussels-1

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
nolan@toot.cafe ("Nolan Lawson") wrote:

Ubuntu and LineageOS have terrible built-in emoji pickers, so I made the emoji-picker-element docs site just copy to clipboard. Gonna make this my go-to instead of searching the web every time I want an emoji: https://nolanlawson.github.io/emoji-picker-element/

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

@mattblaze

Around here, they're banning books, even in high school. So, our plan is to build tiny libraries around the school. We have a resource who will keep us as supplied as possible with the books being banned, and we're going to stock the tiny libraries with age appropriate banned books. We're talking to land owners now, to find folks who will let us put one in their yard. (Which, given that we are in the dead center of Yeehawdist territory, is a delicate conversation.)

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële") wrote:

some writings are already waiting to be published at next 6 UTC. That's cool ^^

Don't hesitate to publish anonymously on https://writes.casa/

The theme is "The mathematics of longing"

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

Trump and his team are doing many terrible things, some of which (the mass deportations and street abductions, etc) are immediately dangerous. Those are emergencies. But the relentless attacks on culture, art, and to our ability to express dissent or simply not conform to increasingly regressive norms, are equally pernicious and corrosive.

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

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

"One time," my neighbour said, "my dog escaped and chased a car down the road."

"Did he catch it?"

"No, he didn't." My neighbour scratched his chin. "What are you gonna do?"

We looked from my proud dog to the chicken-legged hut he'd somehow corralled into the yard.

"Dunno. Leave the country?"

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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

The White House has a "rapid response team" calling out "woke" art in Smithsonian museums.

https://wapo.st/45VqGJe [gift link]

After they took power, the Nazis infamously did almost exactly the same thing with what they called "degenerate" art, putting it on mocking display in Berlin. (Naturally, it included works by some of Germany's greatest contemporary artists, because fascists have terrible taste and limited capacity for imagination).

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

The largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group in the United States
is calling on U.S. lawmakers to follow in the footsteps of Sens. Jeff Merkley and Chris Van Hollen,
who on Saturday shared a video about their unsuccessful attempts to visit — or even just fly over — the Gaza Strip during Israel’s ongoing assault.

“Sens. Van Hollen and Merkley have taken a bold and necessary step
by confronting the Israeli-manufactured and U.S.-backed humanitarian calamity in Gaza head-on,”
the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said in a statement late Saturday.
“Their mission must not stand alone.”
“Israel’s barring them entry to Gaza underscores the urgency of taking decisive steps to end its rampage of death, violence, and destruction,”
CAIR continued.
“Members of Congress must utilize every tool — diplomatic, legal, and legislative — to ensure that our nation’s values and laws demand an end to civilian suffering.
The crisis in Gaza is not abstract — it is a matter of life and death.
We call on our representatives to act urgently and courageously.”
https://truthout.org/articles/cair-presses-congress-to-confront-gaza-catastrophe-after-senators-blocked-from-entry/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

The paper by @maswan and myself

"Life Cycle Analysis for Emissions of Scientific Computing Centres"

has been published!

We develop a detailed model for the LCA of (HPC) data centres, including embodied carbon, server replacement and expansion. It is also applicable to other data centres. We also share the source code.

It shows how important embodied carbon becomes when the grid has more renewables.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14650-8

#FrugalComputing

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

I don't think I'll be hanging this certificate on my wall.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/01/i-have-validation-from-prageru/

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële") wrote:

Je suis toute excitée d'annoncer

https://writes.casa/

Il s'agit d'une plateforme d'écriture anonyme et minimaliste !

Avec :

• Des thèmes hebdomadaires pour inspirer des textes courts de 300 à 1000 caractères.
• Des publications quotidiennes des écrits de la veille qui créent des moments littéraires collectifs à 6h UTC.
• Pas de création de compte nécessaire, juste des signatures facultatives.
• Un contenu multilingue (sous-domaines EN/FR, et d'autres à venir).
• Flux RSS pour une lecture plus "slow"
• Compatible SmolWeb !!!

#SmolWeb #Ecriture #Fediverse #Litterature #Anonyme #Privacy #ViePrivée

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
twipped@twipped.social ("Jocelynephiliac :reclaimer:") wrote:

Fuck yeah!

> A wave of unions have formed at Blizzard in the last year, including the World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Story and Franchise Development teams. Elsewhere at Microsoft, Bethesda, ZeniMax Online Studios and ZeniMax QA testers have also unionized.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/fed-up-with-living-in-fear-of-mass-layoffs-diablo-designers-take-action-against-microsoft-we-are-ready-to-begin-fighting-for-real-change/

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 23mm/5.6 HR-Digaron-S (@ f/8) lens, Phase One IQ4-150 (@ ISO 50) back, Phase One XT camera. 6 second exposure.

The strip by day is at its most depressing, like a failed mega-mall and theme park that you might find off a forgotten exit near an interstate highway. At night, the strip is at its best, such as it is, with the lights and excess at least hinting at some sense of glamor and excitement. During a thunderstorm it's merely absurd.

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

Las Vegas Strip (with Thunderstorm), Paradise, NV, 2024.

An unlimited buffet* of pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53680516362

* restrictions apply

#photography

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

I, uh, may have accidentally gotten a new kitten

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/09/01/kitten-update-all-hail-the-fuzz-butt/

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

Please share my last post so more people can see and help— your support could help save my family’s life.🙏
@palestine @mutualaid #gaza

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

St. Jude fundraiser update! 📰 I've just updated the page at https://omglol.news/st-jude-2025 but the quick summary is that I’ve cracked open the vault on lifetime address upgrades for omg.lol. You can click a couple of buttons to upgrade your favorite omg.lol address to lifetime status!

As with everything omg.lol earns this month, half of all lifetime upgrade net proceeds will be donated to St. Jude. I’m only doing this to support St. Jude (but it’s the *best* reason to offer it!). ❤️

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

We know these are our last days in Gaza City.

We say goodbye to what is left of our homes and cry over the streets we love even though they are destroyed.

In a few days, the world will see live the biggest displacement in years. One million hungry people left alone, abandoned by everyone in a silence we cannot understand.

Please help my family via the link in the bio :underheart:

#gaza #palestine

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

Thanks to everyone who's taken the time today to point how how completely unqualified I must be for my job, given what a dumbass I am. Fortunately, I have tenure, so they're stuck with me!

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

On this labor day, proud to be a life member of the AAUP and AFT.

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

I just had a video call over Signal with @aral

A strange feeling it is, to witness how ppl across the world perceive u. I never arranged my words to be the finest, nor my thoughts to be perfectly ordered. All I truly did was to describe, what I am living—even when words & expressions fell short.

I am deeply happy each time I see how the world stands with us, how it stands with #Palestine, & w every instance my sense of pride grows stronger at being part of this world—❤️❤️❤️
#Gaza #palestine

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

noted: adventures in SMTP and ACME https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-09-01T15:58Z/

side project is out of control!

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

Y-yep!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orQKfIXMiA8

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

okay I normally don't give an audience to companies who feel the need to spam the diaspora* Discourse, but... what in the ungodly hell is this?!

https://archive.is/NtRk9

(I refuse to link to their original medium post, hence the archive.is link)

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
danderson@hachyderm.io ("Dave Anderson") wrote:

@filippo My litmus test these days for a healthy community is seeing a moderation action along the lines of "I see the game you're playing, and it's not welcome here, goodbye". Conversely, communities where moderation is effectively an algorithm that must hit an exact match on a long list of detailed rules is a smell, because that rulebook tends to be the result of trolls repeatedly walking up to the line, and demanding that moderators write down in detail where the line is located.

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

Step 1: Create a desolation.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Call it a great ally.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/01/oh-what-a-lovely-graveyard/