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jwz wrote:

Just heard a solar panel repeatedly screaming at an empty parking lot, "You are trespassing!! Please leave the area immediately!!"

It had ED-209 voice, in case you were wondering what phase of dystopia we're in.
https://jwz.org/b/ykvQ

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪡"):
jimniels ("Jim Nielsen") wrote:

📝 There are so many ChatGPT lookalikes in the App Store, it’s comical.

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/mac-app-flea-market/

Boosted by rust@mas.to ("Rust tips"):
ericseppanen@hachyderm.io ("Eric Seppanen") wrote:

A #rustlang Cargo workspace trick that I find makes my projects a tiny bit easier:

If you have a workspace with unpublished libraries (e.g. as part of a larger application), and you use "path" dependencies (i.e. `mylib = { path = "../mylib" }`:

You can instead place that in your workspace Cargo.toml:

[workspace.dependencies]
mylib.path = "./mylib"

and then use it from crates in the workspace just like any other workspace dependency.

The reason this is nice is that you can move the crate directories around and only have to fix it one time, instead of once for each crate. If you move `mylib`, you only need to change the path in the workspace Cargo.toml. If you move other crates that were consumers of `mylib`, everything still works with no changes at all!

Boosted by jwz:
are0h@polychrom.ing ("Ro") wrote:

As the person that founded the most high profile Black instance in the fedi and still develops safety tools for this environment, there is still a lot of resistance in the fedi in accepting how massively it failed Black and Brown internet folks.

I don’t mind the technical discussions between ATProtocol and Activity Pub because they both have stuff to learn from each other, but the fedi damaged reputation isn’t due to technical concerns.

The fedi has a *terrible* reputation to the point people are choosing a corporate option they know is bad over a free one.

Folks really need to think about what that means.

I regularly talk to folks who left the fedi and they *consistently* say the bigoted harassment they faced on the fedi is the *worst they’ve experienced* online. These aren’t people that are unfamiliar with how digital communities work. These are veteran digital citizens that are accustomed to bad faith engagement on the web.

Fortunately, the rise of Blacksky and other independent installs are rendering Bluesky irrelevant as it continues to enshitify, but the fedi needs to accept its utter failure in regards to safety and moderation is a central reason why we are talking about Bluesky at all.

I do believe it’s possible for the fedi to still be a major player in social media.

But it has to be real about why many people believe Bluesky is the lesser evil.

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

Captured with a small full frame mirrorless camera and 21mm lens.

A six second exposure created a motion study; we can see how people move around the plaza. Or perhaps they're ghosts.

Compositionally, this is mostly a study of circles and rings, with an imaginary diagonal radiating from the fountain to the man with the camera in the lower right.

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

Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, NYC, 2013.

All the pixels, no risk of exposure to water or fresh air, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/10374715704

#photography

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

“One should never mistake pattern… for meaning.”

from ‘The Hydrogen Sonata’ by Iain M Banks

Boosted by jwz:
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

"THE SHOOTER WAS TRANS"

(turns out he wasn't)

"THE GUN AND BULLETS HAD TRANS IDEOLOGY"

(turns out it didn't)

"HIS ROOMMATE WAS TRANS"

(turns out he wasn't)

This - this right here, this is Charlie Kirk's legacy. Even in death, everything he dislikes and fears is always somehow the fault of trans people. And the speed at which these Nazi ghouls immediately took up that cause and ran with it right up to Brian Kilmeade floating the notion on live national TV of mass killings of "mentally ill homeless people" is terrifyingly similar to 1933 Nazi Germany. If trans people survive the next few years it will be because we as a nation found a solution to Naziism that the Weimar Republic did not.

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Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

I'd like to congratulate Charlie Kirk on 4 days without saying something fascist, racist, or transphobic

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

New video tomorrow.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/14/i-made-a-video/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3QjDoUKlkU

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speterdavis.com@bsky.brid.gy ("S Peter Davis") wrote:

Locked box with a scribbled note inside: 1. anita sarkisanisn 2. ex wife 3. karl (guy at gym) (eat shit karl) 4. trans (all) 5. hilary clinton 5. guy in apartment above (suspect jew?) 5. rest of jews 5. femininsm

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mcc wrote:

I would like to give an update on "federation" on Bluesky.

My expectation was it was unlikely we'd ever see this happen because "federation" on ATProto means basically reproducing the entirety of the Bluesky software stack. In old Big Data terms, on ActivityPub your instance is a "horizontal shard" of the network; ATProto forces full DB replicas only.

Still, we're seeing movement on this front, which I'd split into two categories:

1. Your fault (you reading this)
2. Aaron Rodericks's fault

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mattiaswirf@mastodon.art ("Mattias Wirf") wrote:

A Saturday portrait drawing in the sketchbook.

#portrait #drawing #fountainpen #artist

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

@Cornellbox I had a little trouble making time for this chapter, but I persevered! 😀

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

But who knows? Maybe they were sharing tapes of an audio book? My mother and I used to read some novels "together", but we'd have to take turns with the book. With cassettes, we could've overlapped a little more with our progress. 😀

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Oh, I guess there was one other thing that stood out (bonus!). The description of the mother and daughter walking to the bus while they're both absorbed in whatever is playing on their Walkmen. Having the ability to buffer or isolate ourselves from one another is a little bit older than the invention of the cell phone.

(Not that it's always bad to have the comfort of a walkman or cellphone when out in the world.)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Apple vs. Facebook was always kayfabe.

https://mastodon.social/@mysk/115204751834613658

https://infrequently.org/2025/08/apple-vs-fb-kayfabe/

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

The second thing that stood out to me was the description of the scientific method, as practiced in "the west", as a set of practices that separate knowledge from experience, which sets the stage for giving priority to "scientific knowledge" over direct experience.

Of course, it doesn't have to be that way, and I think there is evidence that people have been working to make a shift to allow "vernacular experience" to direct scientific investigations. So that's good.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mysk ("Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪") wrote:

We detailed this last year and we checked again today. Meta collects everything it needs to track users across apps, a practice strictly prohibited by Apple.

Stop using the native app. Use the web app.

#privacy #fingerprinting #iOS #PWA
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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mysk ("Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪") wrote:

🤯 Instagram is testing new iOS push notifications that include a profile photo. Each time the notification is shown on your screen, it triggers a GET request to fetch that image, letting Meta track every on-screen impression.

The app still misuses push notifications to send detailed device analytics about the device (uptime, battery, volume, locale, timezone, memory, CPU, etc.)

#privacy #infosec #privacymatters #Apple #iOS #meta
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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Anyway, I think it's an interesting way to look at the design decisions behind technology, and I think it would be interesting to be able to refuse technology if it eliminates a desired reciprocity.

All, this talk of reciprocity also made me wonder what Franklin would've made of all this modern social media.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

As Franklin highlights, in some situations this is fine, while in others this interferes with the way people would normally relate to each other. I've thought about this topic a little, but not quite in this way.

I'm not convinced this lack of reciprocity is always bad (and I don't think that's Franklin's argument), but I think eliminating it should always be done with awareness.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I found Franklin's four types of reality to be useful rubrics when used to describe how technology impacts our reality.

Many of the things discussed were not entirely new thoughts to me, but two things stood out to me in this chapter. The first is the idea of how technology can get in the way reciprocity.

#UrsulaFranklin2025

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

You can’t possibly imagine how tough the times are. But I’m very grateful for you all, my dear friends from overseas. It’s a true blessing knowing you, and knowing you stand by us. Please never give up on me.

🤍🌹

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

• Going to protests works :blobcatyes:
• Contacting your representatives works 📬
• Building alternative platforms works :mastodon:
• Creating supportive networks works :neocat_hug:
• Advocating on social media works 🗣️

Stop telling people their action doesn't work, and pick one that works for you.

We need all of this and more to win.
Learn to fight together 💚

#HumanRights #Democracy #Protest #NoKings #USpol #UKpol #EUpol #CanPoli

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

@fanta Y seguirá!
Un amigo me acaba de mandar esto desde Montreal.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
susurros@kolektiva.social ("Scott Campbell") wrote:

"Thousands of Palestinians are being displaced each day by Israel’s indiscriminate carpet bombing of Gaza City, which is killing dozens of civilians daily, with families fleeing south towards an uncertain fate in the repeatedly attacked and overcrowded al-Mawasi."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/14/palestinians-flee-israeli-bombing-of-gaza-city-to-unknown-in-al-mawasi

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza

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

Sharing a reminder that it’s always OK to mute any accounts or keywords that you wish, any time, for any reason. You don’t have to tell anyone you’ve done it. No one will even know. Muting is private online self-care.

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

/2 I sincerely apologize for my intemperate statement, which was clearly incorrect. Many people named Brian Kilmeade are entitled to our compassion and respect and not all Brian Kilmeades should be euthanized.

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

Some account private messaged me and told me they require a follow before I boost their post.

Lol no