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

Didn't know I needed this today, but turns out I did. Maybe you do too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fyufPkXLbs

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org ("Ulrike Hahn") wrote:

the end of online anonymity?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116154158706116862

I want us to remember all the celebrities and influencers who shilled for these glasses and helped normalize this type of surveillance.

Because that's what Meta is doing. They're throwing billions at the problem of us being creeped out by these things.

I know for a lot of us, no amount of celebrity advertising will change our minds, but historically, this strategy does work well enough to squeeze into the mainstream.

So fuck anyone who has anything to do with normalizing Meta Raybands.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
kibcol1049@mstdn.social ("Col") wrote:

Some doctors in the US are now “prescribing” storytelling to help adults feel less lonely. In New York, the nonprofit Life Story Club works with healthcare providers to host weekly group sessions where people swap memories, listen to one another and reflect together using simple prompts. The sessions are all about connection and participants say they leave feeling lighter and more supported. Honestly, that’s a prescription we could all use

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@dff/116154655197133345

I love this project!

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
dff@fosstodon.org ("Digital Freedom Foundation") wrote:

The #Consumer #Rights Wiki is looking for #volunteers to help document corporate overreach from anti-repair policies to forced subscriptions. Please see: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main%5FPage This sounds like a very worthwhile project for people concerned about #FreeSoftware and #OpenHardware. #RightToRepair #OpenSource

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

Take two

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
corbden@defcon.social ("Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116149689926467364

I'm reflecting on this, as I spent a few months on TikTok in 2021. I was mainly there for the exmormon community, which was also full of activists, but other things spilled into my feed. I haven't thought about that time much, but I'm realizing how many of those videos are still sitting inside me.

And remembering that it was watching just a few clips of native anti-DAPL activists (I'm sorry, I forgot the tribe — Lakota?) explaining colonialism to me that really turned on the lights. That really helped me understand.

It's different seeing someone say it. Their inflections and expressions. Their context, visually. A person, not just an imagined person behind written words.

I remember one man, who was speaking *to* white folks and pulled no punches, every time he addressed you he said, "colonizer!" and spat the word in contempt.... but... it wasn't hostile? Or aggressive? He was calm and deliberate. He was teaching, so I felt no hate behind it, and no other words he said carried that tone. But it did communicate that he was angry. That he was holding me accountable for the history and the dynamics he was describing. And that he expected me to listen, and then do something about it.

It made me sit up straight and pay attention in a whole new way.

And that has transformed into action. Into my anti-colonial deconstruction on here and my attempts to unpack the white unculture inside me and teach it to other white people. Into my support of land back. Into me trying to learn as much as I can about the Kootenai whose land I'm on. And about how to take better care of this land.

I was certainly deconstructing and learning long before Tiktok. But that medium added a whole other dimension to it.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
wim_v12e@tilde.zone ("Wim 🅾→Ⓣ") wrote:

A single flower has just opened on the dwarf cherry tree on the balcony. But the plum trees down the street are in bloom!
#photography
#bloomscrolling

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
bee@tusky.pink ("Bee") wrote:

Yassss #Greens!

I’ve been voting for them for almost 25 years, hoping one day there would be a breakthrough in the two party deadlock.

Fuck #ReformUK and the politics of division. Here’s to hope but here’s to organising and doing the work. And also here’s to the only trans inclusive party left standing having a fucking WIN. I feel safer this morning. I bet a lot of other people do too.

#GortonAndDenton #UKPol #LoveWins #HateLoses

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
TheZeldaZone ("Zelda 🎀") wrote:

"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"

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

In lieu of facing, y'know, everything that is happening and all, I'm working through some of my nostalgia for the Atkinson dither by playing around with raven photos

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
JoshuaACNewman@xeno.glyphpress.com ("Joshua A.C. Newman") wrote:

For me #retrocomputing is about the time when we dreamed that communication would make us wiser

When we could be free to play with ideas and share them with each other

To play until we uncovered new ways to think as a matter of course

I don’t want my Mac Plus and HyperCard back.

I want to build now what I wanted then.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
amoroso@oldbytes.space ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

Rupert Lane reconstructed the code of Joseph Weizenbaum's Online Programming Language (OPL).

Based on a printout of source code found among Weizenbaum's papers archived by MIT Libraries, I have reconstructed the language so it can live again for the first time in nearly sixty years on a IBM 7094 emulator running CTSS.

https://timereshared.com/reconstructing-joseph-weizenbaums-opl

#eliza #ProgLang #retrocomputing

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
philpem@digipres.club ("Phil M0OFX") wrote:

There's an new book out on the history of Acorn and ARM - if you liked "Soul of a New Machine" you might like this. It's not a dry stuffy history book - it focuses on the people.

"Voices from a Future Passed: How the BBC, ARM and Acorn changed the world" by Rob Napier.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/VOICES-FUTURE-PASSED-Broadcasting-Corporation/dp/1764460804/
https://www.doitonce.net.au/

If you're local to Milton Keynes or visiting TNMOC, they had copies in their museum shop yesterday. I had a thumb through one yesterday and liked what I read :)
#retrocomputing

Mastodon wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116142521372597340

We're holding this workshop / masterclass in Mastodon features right now - feel free to drop in to learn with us.

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gerichteSH@social.schleswig-holstein.de ("Die Gerichte im echten Norden") wrote:

Wir nutzen den #DIDay heute, um auf unseren anderen Kanälen von Facebook bis LinkedIn fleißig die Werbetrommel für das Fediverse zu rühren. Und wer von euch auch noch was zum weiterempfehlen braucht: @Mastodon bietet heute um 14:00 Uhr einen Mastodon Onboarding Workshop an: https://termine.di.day/events/0416dee7-cc7f-4e2a-aa94-ff11322daaaa

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Being Left Behind Enjoyer") wrote:

It's interesting that our society, in order to "think of the children", isn't lifting a finger to go after the adults who harm the children, going as far as ignoring evidence that a lot of men in the highest echelons of society are child rapists.

Instead we are restricting the rights of children, and with it the rights of adults who aren't heinous criminals.

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

New blog post

Building your first smolweb page

A simple news article that takes ten seconds to load and eats 50 MB of data. You've seen that. We all have. Mountains of JavaScript, giant CSS frameworks, third-party trackers, custom fonts pulled from remote servers... all of that to display a few paragraphs of text.

The smolweb pushes back against that...

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/building-your-first-smolweb-page.md

#smolweb #smallweb #html #howto

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oglaf@socel.net ("Oglaf") wrote:

https://www.oglaf.com/pamphlets/

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ZackPolanski@mastox.eu ("Zack Polanski") wrote:

RT: @Malcolm1818 A masterclass by Zack Polanski in how to take the fight to Reform and remind the media of it’s responsibility to report the truth not fabrications

Attachments:

• video: 57e13f535058b917.mp4

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catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:") wrote:

Hingehenge

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netblocks ("NetBlocks") wrote:

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has now passed the 24-hour mark with national connectivity flatlining at 1% of ordinary levels.

The measure limits civic engagement at a key moment for the country's future after the killing of Ayatollah Khamenei in US and Israeli airstrikes.

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cinebox@masto.hackers.town ("Andrew") wrote:

@soatok call me paranoid but given Anthropic’s history of “all publicity is good publicity” stunts, I’m wondering if that was the goal here.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Context:

https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/116145705146085126

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soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

I don't have a horse in this LLM race, but it would be hilarious if everyone being forced to use AI at their place of employment refused to use or pay for anythimg but Anthropic's products after today's news.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Oh, heh

https://web.archive.org/web/20260301070836/https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-hits-number-one-app-store-openai-chatgpt-2026-2

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
sjolsen@tech.lgbt ("sjolsen (MP3 & JPEG compatible!)") wrote:

the greek god of subatomic physics, Particles

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gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

They’re all sitting around a hastily-assembled and wildly insecure war room at Mar-a-Lago, watching Twitter on the big screen, and someone wistfully says, “I wish Jeffery were here to see this.”

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BabblingGeek@infosec.exchange ("Que") wrote:

@soatok it’s a damn good write-up. I had a good laugh reading it.