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Boosted by jwz:
kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Stand With Chicago Hat") wrote:

"He reviled, belittled, and demeaned large numbers of my fellow Americans, but he was quite cordial to me" sets my teeth on edge.

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

Based on the style and period, you might guess this was a minor work of Eero Saarinen's (it shares many design elements with his arirport terminals of the same era). But, in fact, the architect was the less well known William Tabler, who had many commissions from Hilton. This was one of his most distinctive, I think.

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

The Washington Hilton, completed 1965, was designed by architect William Tabler. It's notable not only for its distinctive exterior, but also for the prominent events hosted there. The hotel is or has been home to the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, the National Prayer Breakfast, the Shmoocon conference, and the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, among many other things.

It has extensive back-of-house facilities and security features to accommodate high profile VIPs.

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

The result here is about 170MP in 16x9 format, which is sufficient for very large prints that retain a great deal of detail (I've printed this at 6 feet wide).

Mid-Century Modernist architecture, and Brutalism in particular, is easy to dismiss as being superficially lifeless and uninteresting, but at its best (and with the right eye) these buildings can be seen as sculptures in the landscape. I don't always appreciate them, but they're often more interesting than they first seem.

Boosted by jwz:
ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:

“You shouldn’t celebrate his death.”
He celebrated the deaths of Black and Brown people daily. He is a nazi. You are a nazi sympathizer.

No celebration. Just watching chickens coming home to roost, like Malcolm said.

Fake virtue signaling and demanding empathy for a man who said “empathy is for the weak” and whose actual last words were violent anti-black and anti-trans dogwhistles is absolutely delusional.

Having pity for a man who would gladly try to kill you for not being white is insane.

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

This is a fairly conventional architectural composition, emphasizing the curved facade. To get a high resolution capture of the wide structure, this was made as a stitched composite of two captures with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens. The Phase One back was shifted left and right by about 12mm.

By using shift movements at a fixed perspective, the two captures can be stitched directly together into a panorama without needing to transform the frame geometry (as you would with panning).

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

Washington ("Hinckley") Hilton, Washington, DC, 2023.

More pixels than required at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53007102796

#photography

Boosted by jwz:
fedilore ("The Fedilore Otter 🦦") wrote:

I trust one of these two women to run a social media site.

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CedarTea@social.coop wrote:

I think everyone needs a reminder that fascists don't need "an excuse" to do fascist violence. Fascists do fascist violence when given opportunity, not when given pretext.

This is not some "start" to political violence. The fascists are already doing fascist violence, and have been for quite some time.

They will likely claim it as their reason for new violence, yes, but you shouldn't take fascists at their word. That would be a gravely dangerous misunderstanding of fascist behaviour.

Mastodon wrote:

There’s documentation available today, along with an FAQ. If you’re a developer, draft documentation is available as well.

Quote posting will be available on mastodon.online and mastodon.social next week! We will be listening to your feedback on our new feature.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/quote-posts/

Mastodon wrote:

We’ve thought carefully about building this feature, and we hope it broadens your use of Mastodon!

However, you're in control: if you don’t want your content to be quoted, you can find the setting to prevent future quotes of your content under Settings -> Preferences -> Other (in Mastodon 4.4).

Boosted by jwz:
gericci@indieweb.social ("Angela "Ge" Ricci") wrote:

"If Elon Musk OD'ed on ketamine tomorrow, there'd be ten Big Balls who'd tear each others' throats out in the ensuing succession fight, and the next guy would be just as stupid, racist, and authoritarian. Musk, Cook, Zuck, Pichai, Nadella, Larry Ellison – they're just filling the monster-shaped holes that policy-makers installed in our society." @pluralistic

Hell yeah

Mastodon wrote:

Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/introducing-quote-posts/

Boosted by jwz:
jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

A lot of people who are on TV are uniting in fear and anger because one of their own, a guy who was on TV, got shot. We have been filling the streets to get these people to acknowledge the basic humanity and rights of people who are not on TV. To them, being on TV makes your life worth more. They want you to accept this premise. You must not.

jwz wrote:

The Bone Farmer.

Evergreen: Pay Your Respects, Mattie Lubchansky:
https://jwz.org/b/ykvD

Boosted by jwz:
silberfuchs@social.edist.ro wrote:

@BigTittyBimbo

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FinalGirl@blackqueer.life ("Sex-Craved Tragedy Princess") wrote:

Just a reminder that having no empathy for a notoriously dangerous person who has caused demonstrable damage to marginalized people is not the same as promoting violence towards that person.

This is a false equivalency. This is a tool.

Boosted by jwz:
Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

A fitting eulogy for Kirk is that he tirelessly fought for two ideals: that 70% of the American public was undeserving of the protections of the Constitution, and that tools of violence should be freely available.

Boosted by jwz:
tuckeresque ("Malcolm Tucker 🇺🇦") wrote:

Yeah. That sums it up.

#Politics #USPOL #USPolitics #CharlieKirk

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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

All those lauding Kirk for exercising his 1st Amendment right to free speech better be equally laudatory of those of us exercising ours to say he was a fascist who nobody should be honoring in any way at all.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

Big fat lies about mobile-cam lenses (not just Apple):
https://www.dpreview.com/opinion/9528220638/apple-optical-zoom-advertising-smartphones

#photography

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
html5test@front-end.social ("Niels Leenheer") wrote:

@slightlyoff @brucelawson @owa

That is certainly a “creative” take from Apple lawyers:

Please do not regulate our monopoly, because there is competition: PWA’s. Also our monopoly allows us to control all web browsers on our platform and they have to use our engine. So we get to dictate what browsers support. Oh and only our browser is allowed to install PWA’s. And don’t make us support PWA’s for all browsers, we’ll just completely remove PWA support.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
harrysintonen@infosec.exchange ("Harry Sintonen") wrote:

Many moons ago, a friend ran an SSH honeypot that had a unique feature: when the attacker gained "access" to the system, he could then send responses to the interactive commands the attackers executed over an IRC channel.

One day, some attacker popped in, and he started to taunt them live. Often, the attackers were just throwing in some copypasta and weren't actually checking the responses. This one time, the attacker realised what was going on and was quite amused, and started to chat back, sending fake commands to see if he would get obvious human responses back (Note: that this was well before generative AI). This went on for some time, and some kind of a connection was formed. The attacker would come back to chat with my friend, logging in over SSH to this honeypot.

Eventually, the attacker divulged other means to communicate with him. He told my friend he was a bored Romanian guy who ran a kind of academy for young hacking talent. They'd gain access to some box, install their SSH bruteforcer (random IPv4 addresses and fixed password lists), and rinse and repeat.

Eventually, the attackers seemed to stop and disappear. My friend contacted them and asked what had happened: maybe they had been caught by authorities?

No such luck. Apparently, they had discovered some addictive online game that was more interesting.

Threat actor group defeated by Candy Crush.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bramus@front-end.social ("Bramus") wrote:

If you thought we were done with View Transitions, guess again!

A feature Chrome is working on, is “Scoped View Transitions”, which allow you to scope a VT to a subtree of the DOM.

This unlocks things like concurrent transitions and prevents layering issues.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/scoped-view-transitions-feedback?hl=en

Attachments:

• gifv: Recording of how document-scoped and element-scoped transitions behave. When using the latter, the blue dot remains clipped by the scope; the popover remains visible on top of the scope; and the rest of the DOM remains interactive.

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

For a new episode of Hacklab, our hands-on hacking video series, we tested safecracking methods that can open Securam ProLogic locks on 8 brands of high security safes used in stores and pharmacies nationwide.

Morale of the story: Backdoors leave people vulnerable.

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

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

love that Stu wrote this custom script for combining CSS
https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/UnSassing-my-CSS-CSS-imports

meanwhile I got sidetracked on a edge case that is never gonna be a real issue 😅
https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-08-18T07:11Z/

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

And “a few hours” doesn’t sound like much, but they were sometimes more productive than an eight-hour day in the office (or working at home from 2020 on: yes, I kept up the tradition once I was able to safely resume it).

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I’m acutely missing my old “remote work Thursdays” lately, wherein I worked from home until a short standup meeting at 10:30am then hightailed it out to somewhere for lunch and working on the office laptop for a few hours, then hitting a brewery for working on my own stuff.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
continuation@mas.to ("Mx Arjuna") wrote:

"Pay Your Respects" by Mattie Lubchansky
https://thenib.com/pay-your-respects/

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

Today in "not surprising at all but nice to have the data"

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/11/nx-s1-5534484/oil-companies-heat-waves-climate