Mastodon Feed: Posts

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

There is no such thing as "sex with underaged girl", CNBC. The words you're looking for are MATT GAETZ RAPED A CHILD.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Track 13 - Watch Your Step, Grand Central Terminal, NYC, 2013.

All the pixels, off peak tickets accepted, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/10101066135

#photography

Boosted by jwz:
praxeology@post.lurk.org ("Hart of the Wud") wrote:

Imagine that it's 1925 and I am a clever, experienced mechanical engineer. I look around at the "tech" world of the time and notice some disturbing things:

- the rising power of literally fascist CEOs like Henry Ford
- What began as an inefficient, quirky novelty toy for rich people, the automobile, has become "normal" and started to dominate public space
- rising levels of fossil pollution
- the rising monopoly power of Oil companies
- dangerous levels of stock-market speculation
- brutal exploitation of people and environmental destruction in mining and rubber producing (mostly colonial) regions
- the use of debt to get less wealthy consumers to buy cars
- scores of innocent pedestrians injured or killed by automobiles
- urban planning that increasingly favors more expensive cars over other users of the streets
- declining sense of importance of shared forms of transportation like trolleys and trains

As an engineer, I look at all those rising issues and then I say:

"What we need is an Open Source Model-T Ford with some slightly better safety features."

In retrospect, that would seem like a pretty inadequate response.

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

Today in History: First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940

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

[BEGIN TODAY IN HISTORY RUN]

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

I really wish everyone would stop making fun of the people they don't like based on their physical appearance.

We really need to collectively grow up from this high-school bully mindset.

When you use appearance instead of ideas and behaviors to criticize someone, even someone deserving mockery, you are also shooting at everyone who might look like them, even the ones that might be incredibly good people.

There is more than enough content to talk against when it comes to the tyrants that currently surround us. Talk against their ideas, their words, and their actions. Be relentless for that. But their physical appearance is irrelevant to their moral deficiencies.

Mock their words, but not their looks.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

RE: https://dair-community.social/@Meron/115790600643812539

Below is an excerpt from what I wrote before. Just think about where these monsters are sending these poor young people to.

"Eritrea boasts the longest detained journalist in the world, and with over 360 detention facilities (many underground) in a country of 45 kmi², the regime has disappeared all dissidents (even imprisoning them in shipping containers in temperatures that induce one’s skin to be stuck to the walls), with no due process or trial.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people.

Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
https://projects.propublica.org/supreme-connections/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#Journalism #SCOTUS #Law #Ethics #Transparency #Research #Data

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

Boosted by jwz:
adafruit@fosstodon.org wrote:

NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives -
https://adafruit.com/pi-ban

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
krapp@krapp.masto.host ("Kenneth Rapp") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjWkNZ0SXfo

I haven't touched Javascript in ages (like, not since the JQuery days) and 3D graphics are dark wizardry to me but I'm trying out this thing by @tsoding because I currently hate everything else I'm working on.

When did JS get const? It feels *wrong.*

#programming

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

warming up for weekly local USB voice net on 50.250MHz... with CW. my my my, my fist is so very not great

#HamRadio

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
mediopocillo@boriken.social ("medio pocillo ☕:borified:") wrote:

@fromjason
Bylines and chyrons. Media folk and organizations should display their Mastodon (or Fediverse, open social, open web,...) links in their bylines and chyrons, same as they did with Facebook and Twitter when that was the "it" thing to do. That's how I became aware of Twitter. The media using and promoting them *for free* built them up.

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

Some devs cloned the Gmail app where you’re signed in as Jeffery Epstein. You can search through all his emails. It’s surprisingly well done. https://www.jmail.world/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

DNS Kitchen is nearing launch! Just cleaned up the site quite a bit, and the API documentation is 90% complete. https://dns.kitchen/api

If you’re looking for fun, dirt-cheap programmable DNS built that’s built just for the small web, keep Chef in mind! :chef:

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

Unrelated: it's a tragedy that William H. Macy wasn't the father in The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (2000)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Abandoned in a field.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #naturephotography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #rust #sky #tractor

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

If you want to start taking steps to enhance your digital security, it can be hard to know where to start. Here are some simple concepts and tips. https://ssd.eff.org/playlist/want-security-starter-pack

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

I got the The Oracle archetype!

https://mastodon.social/@isagalaev/wrapstodon/2025/4eb9d21f316576d9

#Wrapstodon2025

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
access42@social.a11y.fr ("Access42") wrote:

Astuce UX 💡

Ces racines de numéros de téléphone fictives, réservées pour le cinéma en France, peuvent être utilisées comme exemples de saisie dans vos formulaires :

01 99 00
02 61 91
03 53 01
04 65 71
05 36 49
06 39 98

Source : https://a42.fr/numeros-fictifs (article 2.5.12)

#a11y #accessibilité #formulaire #UX

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
noelreports@mstdn.social ("NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦") wrote:

US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker doubts Russia’s claim of a Ukrainian drone strike on Putin’s residence, telling Fox Business, “It’s unclear if it even happened.” He stressed the need to review intel and noted such actions would be strange amid real progress toward peace talks.

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

Let's talk markets.

A markets is a vessel for extracting value for a small syndicate of beneficiaries (ie venture capitalists). How a company brands their tech stack is less relevant. If an extractive force exists, it's a market.

You can simply call it "ad-tech" and you'd be correct. But that term lacks all the fun analogies of spaces where people dwell.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

Today, Wednesday 31 December, is obviously New Year’s Eve. By complete coincidence I’m sure, it’s also (Inter?)National Champagne Day. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/champagne-day/

And it’s happy 48th birthday to Park Jae-sang aka Psy. Gangnam Style! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psy

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dailyheathcliff/115803937415845953

I am so glad someone boosted the bootleg heathcliff bot into my TL. Talk about someone who seems to be happy to just create a series of whatever the hell is going on in their head as expressed by this Dada cat-centric neighborbood as a medium

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
www.thebeaverton.com@rss-parrot.net ("🦜 The Beaverton") wrote:

Canada names Mark Carney ‘2025 Man Of The Year Unless Anyone Better Comes Along’

www.thebeaverton.com/2025/12/canada-names-mark-carney-2025-man-of-the-year-unless-anyone-better-comes-along-podcast

“I know we’ve had many pictures of Mark Carney on our website… but I’m not entirely sure I could pick him out of a lineup.” Hit the bricks, you stupid year! Ian and the Panel (Clare Blackwood, and in the guest chair for the first time, Luke Gordon Field)…

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CelloMomOnCars ("CelloMom On Cars") wrote:

Offshore wind parks are marine sanctuaries

"Not only do the rough surfaces of turbine monopiles and submarine cables provide new habitats for sponges, corals, anemones and other sessile organisms, but that extra food source allows other creatures to thrive as well.

Fat greenling fish were estimated to be twice as big in the offshore wind zone as out of it; the Korean rockfish was more than three times bigger, as is the predatory Asian rapa whelk."

https://reneweconomy.com.au/offshore-wind-turbines-create-all-you-can-eat-havens-where-some-fish-can-double-in-size/

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
yosh@toot.yosh.is wrote:

When people say: "billionaires shouldn't exist" that isn't a call to violence. "Being a billionaire" isn't some inherent property in the way that say, skin color is.

Wealth taxation is a perfectly acceptable way of eliminating all billionaires. That doesn't mean billionaires stop being people, they just stop being billionaires.

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

well, despite the wind draping my "random wire" endfed antenna across a tree branch I still seem to be getting out... at least as far as the southeastern US on 40m JS8

📡 #HamRadio

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
phire@phire.place ("jenny (phire)") wrote:

27 notes on growing older resonated more than I would like to admit https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/27-notes-on-growing-older

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

That said, if you are interested in a deep dive into the concepts of decentralization and whether or not Bluesky meets its definition, Christine Lemmer-Webber has two fantastic and compelling essays on the subject.

Not to out myself as a nerd but I've read both twice and they're really good, imo.

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/