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

Charlie Kirk shot dead.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/live-updates-shooting-charlie-kirk-event-utah-rcna230437

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

I’m told that I don’t understand art.

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

That Banksy (which just got painted over) of a judge beating a protester is a powerful piece of street art, but I can’t resist pointing out that British judges don’t use gavels.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
ScienceDesk@flipboard.social ("Flipboard Science Desk") wrote:

New research looked at 213 heat waves around the world from 2000 to 2023. No surprise: Heatwaves became more likely and more severe during that period, largely due to the burning of fossil fuels. Of those events, up to a quarter of them would have been impossible without pollution from 14 "carbon majors" — fossil fuel and cement producers including ExxonMobil, Chevron, and the former Soviet Union. @CNN reports on the possible legal implications of this. “Courts are indicating a willingness to hold carbon majors accountable, but at the same time asking for more scientific certainty, and our study helps to close a part of that gap,” said Corina Heri, a study coauthor and law professor at Tilburg Law School in Zurich.

https://flip.it/1I2j2P

#Science #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Law #Environment

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

Every Tuesday, I ask for your help to feed my family. We need $500 each week for my family of 6. Every single dollar makes a real difference If you’re unable to donate, please consider sharing — it might reach someone who can help. Thank you so much for your continued kindness and support. Here’s the donation link and our full story 👇
@palestine #gaza
154/500$

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

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

Someone I dislike and deeply disagree with was shot today, and that only reinforces my conviction that we need to something about gun violence in this country. Enough!

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

IMSI catchers, on the other hand, have to be set up in advance, often require a probable cause warrant, can disrupt legitimate service, and can (sometimes) be detected by targets. They're designed to be used (along with highly directional antennas) to identify and locate specific individuals as part of targeted surveillance, or for intelligence gathering without the cooperation of the local telco.

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

One reason IMSI catchers aren't often used in the US to ID people at protests and other mass events is that the government has other capabilities for doing this that are more powerful, less cumbersome, and that generally require lower legal hurdles to use. Cell site "tower dumps", in particular, can readily identify all phones within a small area retrospectively, without needing to set up special equipment, from existing carrier records.

https://mastodon.social/@eff/115181192598734504

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

Charlie Kirk needs your prayers.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/10/charlie-kirk-shot/

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

I just checked my bio in here, and noticed that I had "Linux guy" as one of the bullet points... which doesn't feel so right anymore. The "guy" part in particular.

It did feel right when I wrote the bio, even though at that point I also included "non-binary" in that list. But feelings on your own gender identity can evolve over time. So it's "Linux person" now.

I am not changing the "g(r)ay asexual" bit though 😁

#gender #nonbinary

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

The skyscrapers along Park Avenue in the 40's and lower 50's are all minor engineering marvels. They're built atop the rail yard for Grand Central Terminal (an early adopter of the modern real estate concept of "air rights"). Many of the newer buildings are much taller than was anticipated when the terminal was constructed more than a century ago. This heavily constrains their foundations and anchor points, leading to unusual load-bearing designs such as the steelwork shown in the photo.

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

Captured with the Phase One IQ4-150 Achromatic back and the Rodenstock 138mm/6.5 HR Digaron-SW lens, which, unusually for large format lenses, employs a floating element integrated into the focusing helical.

This view is literally a construction site (to become the new JP Morgan building), but abstract at the same time. We see the new skyscraper, and the buildings in the background, essentially as a Mondrian-esq deconstructed tangle of lines and rectangles.

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

270 Park Avenue (Under Construction), NYC, 2021.

All the pixels, but without any tax abatements or zoning variances, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51382836481

#photography

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
mahmoudoov@techhub.social ("Mahmoud Ahmad🍉") wrote:

@aral @joynewacc
From the depths of my heart, I would like to thank both Joy and Aral for the warm welcome on Mastodon.🌹🙏
I hope to live up to everyone’s expectations, and I will continue sharing the full picture from Gaza so that the world can see it.
Thank you all—I’m truly happy to be here on Mastodon and among such kind people.🙏🌹

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

Who needs a cat when you've got a swarm of spiderlings?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/10/blissfully-unaware/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Wilto@front-end.social ("Mat “Wilto” Marquis") wrote:

At last, the usual JavaScript for Everyone newsletter returns, and so too does the stream.

I’ve been thinking a lot about certifications—just as a whole concept—and I could use some outside perspectives. Join us at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDn6bFoF9lM or https://www.twitch.tv/wiltostreams in half an hour, yeah?

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

Hey everyone, I want to welcome @mahmoudoov to Gaza Verified.

https://gaza-verified.org

@joynewacc and I spoke to him over video in Signal yesterday and we verify that he is who he says he is.

You might already have seen similar accounts to his on different servers and might even have been contacted directly by some of them. You might even have reported them. I might even have reported them. Needless to say, Mahmoud has had a bumpy introduction to Mastodon and the fediverse and I hope we can start again on the right foot now.

Let me explain what happened:

Mahmoud is a computer engineer and he and his three children are trying to survive genocide and famine. Being a programmer, he figured that the easiest way to reach as many people as possible was to code a bot to do it. Of course this started getting flagged as spam and his account was closed. Which is when he tried again on a different server. And, well, you can see where this is going…

Anyway, while this is a fediverse no-no, when someone is screaming for help, there’s only so much you can criticise their diction before it becomes obscene.

So I’ve explained everything to Mahmoud and he’s shut down all the accounts apart from this one – the one we’ve verified – and he won’t be using his bot any more.

Which means that we have to give him a hearty welcome to the fediverse and hopefully boost his posts and his campaign so that we can help him and his three children survive the terrible ordeal they have been facing for over 700 days.

Welcome to Gaza Verified and to the fediverse, Mahmoud, and please give my love to your adorable little ones.

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #fediAid

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ckoerner@xoxo.zone ("Chris Koerner") wrote:

I had the great honor of sitting down with George Pendergast, a spry 100-year-old who regularly edits Wikipedia. We talked about George's life, how he started editing, and his thoughts on Wikipedia and the future. #wikipedia #wikimedian

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/09/10/what-one-centenarian-contributor-can-teach-us-about-25-years-of-wikipedia/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I miss the times when you could pause a video and let it buffer to full so you can play it without interruptions.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
deliberately_me@blackqueer.life ("good judy theyfriend :blep:") wrote:

mornin', y'all! 🎶 🥞 #Music #Prince #MinneapolisSound #BlackMastodon #GoodMorning #GoodMorningFedi #MyPannycakesWeighATon

happy 45th anniversary to this single! 💜prince, "uptown"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiuSRQHLv88

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI)

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

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

The biology department perspective is that there's nothing half as horrifying about what's inside biology as there is in the human world around us.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/10/this-has-got-to-go-on-my-office-door/

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MastodonEngineering ("Mastodon Engineering") wrote:

In August, we made a lot of progress on backend code updates... and, we also had some holidays 🏖️

Here's the more in-depth version of what the team worked on, in our regular engineering update.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/trunk-tidbits-august-2025/

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

🎉 new release: fill harmonics is a weird music machine thing made from the bones of crossword puzzles. put it together with my pal natan

read more: https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/09/fill-harmonics-crossword-music-machine/

and play around with it: https://fillharmonics.com

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

AI may have its place on the internet, but it sure as hell isn’t “first”.

The internet is for *people* first and foremost. I hate to think what things will be like if we lose sight of that.

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

I wrote a paper that I am proud of:

"Modelling Scenarios for Carbon-aware Geographic Load Shifting of Compute Workloads"

It evaluates the scope for emission reductions of moving work between data centres in high-emission regions and low-emission regions.

tl;dr: the potential emission savings are no more than a few percent.

I have submitted it to a journal, it's under review but you can read the preprint here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07043

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#FrugalComputing

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
camille@praxis.nyc ("Camille Winds Down") wrote:

My friend Bobby is getting out of prison (after 12 years!) in just under a month. Please toss him a few bucks to restart his life - https://www.gofundme.com/f/j3khzk-help-for-a-new-start

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
rolenthedeep@rattodon.nexus ("cannot resolve symbol "rat"") wrote:

Saying that mastodon is "losing" to twitter or has "failed" to break into the mainstream is like saying that kids playing basketball in the street are "losing" to pro hockey teams, or that a 5th grade chess club in Japan has "failed" to break into American pro baseball.

Buddy, these things are not remotely the same. Mastodon exists in an entirely separate universe from Twitter. Mastodon is an *explicit rejection* of mainstream social media. We can't lose because we were never playing.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

It's only called JSON if it comes from the Jéson region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling structured data.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
richpuchalsky ("Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝") wrote:

Since someone reminded me of how it was 20 years ago, I might as well write about the continued failure of people to understand why they shouldn't stay on places like Twitter or Substack -- with reference to a place called "Tech Central Station" (I think, my memory may have failed) which existed from 2000-2005.

TCS paid bloggers and indie writers for stories. About very varied informative subjects. Why did they do this?

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