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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
UndisScot@mastodon.scot ("Undiscovered Scotland") wrote:

Engineering at its most magnificent. The unique and uniquely beautiful Falkirk Wheel rotary boat lift opened in 2002. It fulfils a role originally accomplished by a flight of 11 locks when the Union Canal opened in 1822. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/falkirk/falkirkwheel/index.html

#Scotland #Falkirk

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
adrian@discuss.systems ("Adrian Sampson") wrote:

☕️ For the sixth time (!), we’re running our little ASPLOS workshop on hardware design languages/compilers/etc. Papers are just two pages! So easy! Please submit! #latte26 https://capra.cs.cornell.edu/latte26/

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

He looks like a creep, and he thinks like one, too.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/15/if-were-going-to-hang-any-member-of-the-loser-generation-start-with/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
icm@mastodon.sdf.org ("ICM") wrote:

Artist and former Thinking Machines Product Designer Tamiko Thiel visited https://icm.museum to see the new Large Systems gallery which features the Connection Machine. Tamiko demonstrates the CM-2's "friend height" a suggestion that Danny Hillis wanted to realize.

#supercomputing #hpc #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

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

Definitely for a US audience of people who may have barely heard the term "cooperative", but it is nice to see positive examples of cooperatives being shown (and seeing people work in solidarity with each other to start one). More Perfect Union talks about cooperatives in Italy's Emilia-Romagna administrative region:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQMZR64G%5FeM

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
kzodasnowman@spore.social ("K-ZO da Snowman") wrote:

#Seattle is looking for #Comics artists in #Oregon and #WashingtonState to do stories about transit! $54,000 each!!!

A cohort of six artists will be commissioned to create two original short-form graphic novels each, illustrating stories from communities along Metro’s twelve existing and planned RapidRide bus lines (A–K and R).

https://www.4culture.org/grants/moving-stories/

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Næstsíðasta bókin í þessu myndbandi hjá Emblu 🙂

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRFsM9WE/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Glastomichelle@c.im wrote:

I don't think I have ever seen such an intense flash of colour appear so quickly and disappear again as quickly. I really didn't see it coming as it was raining and grey on my walk so this was the best I could get. Photo taken this morning at the base of Glastonbury Tor.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CatsOfYore ("Cats of Yore") wrote:

Just ten days until Christmas! I hope you will consider donating to my holiday fundraiser for our local animal shelter if you can? 🥰 https://givebutter.com/n5l31M

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
coreysnipes@hachyderm.io ("Corey Snipes 🕯️❄️") wrote:

If any #FreeSoftwareAdvent people are daily-driving a FOSS SSO auth solution they like, I'd appreciate hearing about it. (e.g., LDAP, but whatever is working for you). Endpoints are all linux, in my case.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:

A friendly reminder that the #Fediverse is run by volenteers, if you like to support the server you are on check in with your admin or check the /about page that could have some more info❤️

If you would like to support the services I host you can do so via:

https://paypal.me/stuxOS
https://patreon.com/mstdn
https://ko-fi.com/mstdn
https://bunq.me/stuxhost
https://stux.me/donate
https://liberapay.com/mstdn

It means the world :fediverse: :blobcathearts:

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

Add: I'm acting morally superior to white supremacy

Boosted by jwz:
parismarx@mastodon.online ("Paris Marx") wrote:

🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨

Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!

Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.

🗳️ Cast your ballot: https://twsu.forms.app/worst-person-tech-2025-round-one

jwz wrote:

Roomba doom.

Let's have a slow clap for the corporate tools who still have to show up at work and try to spin their bankruptcy fire-sale as Line Goes Up:

"Today's announcement marks a pivotal milestone in securing iRobot's long-term future," said Gary Cohen, iRobot's CEO. "The transaction will strengthen our financial position and will help deliver continuity for our consumers, customers and partners."

I guess their pivot to being an arms dealer didn't work out, huh.

https://jwz.org/b/yk0f

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

Add to the list, dunk toot:

- I'm a tool of fascism
- I must first seek to understand

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

Slightly longer thoughts on the passing of Rob Reiner, and what a remarkable storyteller he turned out to be.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/15/rob-reiner-rip/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
greengaybles@sunny.garden ("Daisy 🪺🔪📚") wrote:

@fromjason The responses you've gotten to these posts are wild, and terrible, and also utterly unsurprising. I legitimately don't understand what the resistance is to someone saying this place has a racism problem, unless you feel like you're part of that problem and don't like being called out. Loving Mastodon and acknowledging its many faults don't need to be mutually exclusive things.

It almost seems like these users don't want people of color to be here, the way they're reacting to the suggestion that there could be more work to do to make it welcoming for them. But of course I'm sure that's not the case since we're all good white people here.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
welshpixie@mastodon.art ("Calligrafae") wrote:

@fromjason You: 'there are too many white people on fedi and that's not a representation of the real world'

them: 'good, the real world is messy'

?? Sounds a lot like 'if there were more non-white people here it would be messy and I don't want to see that so let's keep it how it is

Do people hear themselves

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
inquiline@assemblag.es ("tools for commensality 🧿") wrote:

@fromjason

you could shorthand this with #whitestodon, HT @blogdiva for that coinage a couple or few years back

(thanks for these posts)

Boosted by jwz:
spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon.ie ("Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives") wrote:

Back in 2005 I tried to legitimately put up this billboard. When The Sun found out they contacted the billboard owner & got it cancelled. And then they made sure no one would ever see my sick propaganda by printing it full colour and half a page of a national newspaper

I eventually put it up a few months later.

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

Oh, I see, yet another reminder today that our president is a pig.

This is, alas, an evergreen post.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Test Double used to be a source of interesting and pragmatic observations about reliable and sustainable software development. This used to be one of the better outlets to follow if you were in the field of software dev. This is what has happened to the entire field: sensible commentary has all but disappeared replaced with useless tripe

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115715924904647373

If you’re a white person on the Fediverse who really cares about inclusion and representation, you owe it to yourself to read what @fromjason has been posting here over the past few days. As well as the shit he’s having to put up with just for trying to do the work of pointing out a very real problem.

This is a complex problem. There are no quick fixes to be found here. But the very first critical step toward addressing it is to recognize it. Not to deny it, not to rail against it, not to harass those who want to point it out or talk about it.

The worst thing you can do when someone points out a problem is tell them that it isn’t a problem.

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

If we fixed the diversity problem on #Mastodon, why aren't we incorporating these folks in the concentrations of power that exist in the #fediverse? Or do these power structures not exist either?

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

This combines “AI” boosterism with one of the worst misreadings of a Pixar movie I’ve ever seen

Reading it annoyed me so much I just had to share the misery

This is what my feed reader is full of these days

https://testdouble.com/insights/anyone-can-code-software-is-having-its-ratatouille-moment

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

@fromjason Naw man. Fuck that. These guys are so bound up by their own fragility that they refuse to see what’s right in front of them. They won’t permit themselves to experience a discomforting thought or face an awkward reality. They reject anything that might make them even slightly uncomfortable.

Fuck every possible version of that. Because you are 100% correct, objectively, period. The Fediverse is abundantly white, overflowing with the clueless privilege of that skin tone, and it is *bad*.

Anyone who says otherwise has all of the credibility of a flat-earther. Anyone who points to the four accounts they follow run by Black people and says “but! but! see?” is missing the point. Anyone who opts to fight the recognition of the problem perpetuates it.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
grammasaurus ("Yvonne ‘looks undocumented’") wrote:

@fromjason “gaslighting, the derailing conversations, being pedantic on irrelevant specifics, making it about yourself, placing the blame squarely on the messenger—this is how white supremacy is upheld”

OMG, yes. Also patriarchy. You perfectly described almost every conversation I’ve ever had with my father.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
FinalGirl@blackqueer.life ("Tyla: The Unhinged Kestrel") wrote:

@fromjason Okay “diverse but you don’t see it” is peak whiteness because those two concepts literally can’t travel together except in a white thought process. WTAF are they talking about?!

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

Add to the list:

- I'm spreading disinformation

What's next I wonder

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Jesus fucking Christ, I'd forgotten how genuinely awful open source graphics and design apps are at, well everything, but specifically text design. Undo, redo, copy, and paste regularly broken.

Then when you decide to do things manually you get this shit