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bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

A decade ago, early stage investor @ganeumann wrote a piece reflecting on Carlota Perez's work on technological revolutions:

https://reactionwheel.net/2015/10/the-deployment-age.html

On the next Oxide and Frienfs, Jerry joins @ahl and me to reflect back on the piece (and its coming-decade predictions) -- as well as take a look at the current technological frenzies and what they may (or may not!) portend. Join us, 5p Pacific on Monday:

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1414332272622047332

Recorded and syndicated as always:

https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/

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mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matthew Haughey") wrote:

I loaded up the CVS app to find their only store with an updated Covid-19 vaccine is 60 miles away in Vancouver, Washington four days from now.

RFK Jr. is a fucking murderer.

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

I post this mostly as a reminder to myself that it wasn't that long ago that the rule of law and the constitution prevailed. I hope it will again soon.

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

This was captured with the Rodenstock 90mm/5.6 HR-Digaron lens (@ f/6.3) and about 10mm of vertical shift to maintain geometry.

Four and a half years ago, a group of insurrectionist losers sacked this building in an attempt to overthrow the US Government and prevent the transfer of power to a newly elected president. They got frighteningly close to succeeding.

This photo was made about six months later; some of the physical damage from the attack remains visible here.

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

US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, 2021.

A quorum of pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51221569646

#photography

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

Just updated Gaza Verified to reflect that @joynewacc and I are running it together now :)

https://gaza-verified.org/

Thank you, Joy, for doing this with me in the middle of everything you have to deal with. You’re amazing!

💕

#GazaVerified #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine #fediverse #mastodon

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

North Korea’s elites banded together to kiss the knee of Kim Jong Un this week.

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• video: 30a3262fcdda6e52.mp4

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

Remember: He's not even qualified enough to be a quack

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/05/robert-f-kennedys-nephew-calls-resign

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

“Humanitarian zone” my ass.

Israel has forfeited the right to claim any moral position related to humanity given they lack it entirely. Oops, it”s kinda what happens when you commit genocide. (You know Israel is committing genocide, right? Do you live under a rock? Are you a genocide apologist and thus complicit in genocide? No. OK, so you know that Israel is committing genocide.) https://todon.eu/@b9AcE/115048764598296632

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
JdeB@climatejustice.social ("JdeB [216.91 ppm]") wrote:

#Gaza #WreckedSleep

Imagine being so tired, you sleep through bomb blasts in the very relative safety of an already blasted car.

'Exhausted Palestinian girl sleeps in destroyed car" [ ± 1-3 min]
by trtworld

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hYxVzwwuh7w

Quote by trtw:
"Aug 30, 2025
Amid the ceaseless sound of Israeli drones overhead and the lack of safe shelters in Palestine’s Gaza, a young girl finds a fleeting moment of refuge in a destroyed, overturned car and falls asleep."

#NeverAgain #STOPtheGenocide
#JUSTICEforHindRajab #JUSTICEforRifaatRadwan
#LIFEfor#Netanyahu#Gallant#Gvir#Smotrich

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
stephie_hamburg@norden.social ("stephie :betterpride_flag:") wrote:

»The Hind Rajab Foundation announcesit has formally submitted a criminal complaint before the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Greece, against Major Yair Ohana, an officer of the Israeli armed forces. Ohana served as a company commander and logistics officer in the Givati Brigade’s 432nd Infantry Battalion “Tzabar”, one of the core units deployed in the genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people in Gaza. Mr. Ohana is now visiting Greece as a tourist.«
https://www.hindrajabfoundation.org/perpetrators/no-safe-haven-hrf-seeks-prosecution-of-israeli-war-criminal-yair-ohana-in-greece

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
prolrage@todon.nl ("Proletarian Rage") wrote:

At least 19,424 children have been killed in Israeli attacks over 700 days of genocide in Gaza, the equivalent of one child every 52 minutes.
Among the victims are 1,000 infants under the age of one.
As relentless Israeli bombardment, forced displacement, and #starvation continue, warnings grow louder: nowhere in the enclave is safe for children.

“Gaza is becoming a graveyard for children,” said #UN Secretary-General António Guterres as early as November 6, 2023.

According to the latest death toll update by the Palestinian Health Ministry, children in Gaza account for more than 30 percent of the deaths as Israel’s #genocide entered its 700th day on Friday.

“Consider that for a moment. A whole classroom of children was killed, every day for nearly two years,” #UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell told the UN Security Council. https://qudsnen.co/?p=64342

#Gazagenocide #Palestine #IsraelWarCrimes #ethnicCleansing #IsraelTerroristState #warcrimes #MassExtermination #IndustrialExtermination
@israel @palestine

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Quantensalat@scicomm.xyz ("Alexander Knochel") wrote:

My ugly clone is.taking shape

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CindyWeinstein@zirk.us ("(((Cindy Weinstein)))") wrote:

Today is my #memoir's 4th birthday. It wasn't until I wrote the preface that I realized writing the #book was my way of sitting #kaddish for my father who died of early-onset #Alzheimer's. Dr. Bruce Miller, #neurologist at #UCSF, sat kaddish w/me. I will be eternally grateful.

Acknowledging that I will never recover from how my father died has strangely liberated me to remember him (with and w/o the disease -- I had forgotten the latter) & help others.

https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12605/finding-right-words

#EndAlz

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

the apparently unacknowledged homoerotic content in these images, both past and present, made me larf out loud. https://syzito.xyz/@selzero/115162143737788641

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

I’m not gonna lie I fell for the honey pot one year and voted Jill Stein. It’s easy to get frustrated and want to try *anything else*. Being a responsible voter can be difficult. It takes time and energy to actually research and understand and make good choices. But she ain’t it
https://mastodon.world/@curiousgawker/115147403163287907

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

truth

https://mastodon.social/@augieray/115163014592919570

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

Two years apart. We were warned. Half of us didn't listen.

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

Sometimes, Mary comes running into the house to show me the cool creatures she finds around the yard. Sometimes I wish she wouldn't.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/07/i-want-to-hug-it-and-squeeze-it-and-name-it-george/

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phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
chu@climatejustice.social ("Chu 朱") wrote:

When I was a kid, my parents warned us not to buy food from China. Food safety regulations were non existent and you never know if it's toxic.

As a parent, I'm warning my kids not to buy food from the United States. Food safety regulations are non existent and you never know if it's toxic.

It's come full circle

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
vextaur@blog.taursnd.haus ("🌴 Seph 💭 👾") wrote:

#uspol #trump

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
N01100010@zeroes.ca ("Neil") wrote:

Interesting tech #privacy initiative - create a "pack" (or at least see alternatives) of privacy focused apps to replace the ones you're using that are controlled by the fash.

https://privacypack.org/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

Moscow offers $21,000 signing bonuses and uses propaganda to maintain steady troop flow, Ukraine's military intelligence says

The 35,000-soldier monthly intake lets Russia replace battlefield losses while maintaining pressure on Ukraine's smaller forces

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/07/russia-recruits-soldiers-in-2025-through-financial-incentives-propaganda/

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

"Since returning to the White House in January, President Trump has dismantled the American government’s efforts to combat foreign disinformation. The problem is that Russia has not stopped spreading it.

How much that matters can now be seen in Moldova, a small but strategic European nation that has since the end of the Cold War looked to Europe and the United States to extract itself from Moscow’s shadow." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/business/russia-disinformation-trump.html

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

'President Trump, speaking to reporters before he departed the White House for the U.S. Open on Sunday, addressed his alarming social media post Saturday that invoked his newly rebranded Department of War and included helicopters, billowing flames and the Chicago skyline. Asked whether he was “threatening to go to war with Chicago,” Trump said: “We’re not going to war. We’re going to clean up our cities.”' https://www.nytimes.com/by/erica-l-green

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georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

Very interesting. https://www.comicsands.com/incels-confess-regrets-former-behavior?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=infeed&utm%5Fcampaign=linkprogram

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

"This rail project in Seattle was financed by the 2021 infrastructure bill that Mr. Trump vehemently opposed"

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/09/07/multimedia/07NAT-Trump-signs-04-wzqp/07NAT-Trump-signs-04-wzqp-jumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp

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

Soon, the babies will all fly away.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/07/weve-got-lots-of-monarch-caterpillars-but-not-for-long/

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

me backtracking through early game Silksong areas

(before getting absolutely murked by a single bug)

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• gifv: Christian Bale (as Patrick Bateman) wearing headphones and walking with confidence