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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
vidar@galaxybound.com ("Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound") wrote:

Right outside my house this afternoon.

#photography #birds

Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:

Manet's famous painting Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère never appealed to me. But now I realize its genius, and my spine tingles every time I see it.

The perspective looks all wrong. You're staring straight at this barmaid, but her reflection in the mirror is way off to right. Even worse, her reflection is facing a guy who doesn't appear in the main view!

But in 2000, a researcher showed this perspective is actually possible!!! To prove it, he did a photographic reconstruction of this scene. Check it out in my next post.

This blows my mind.

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

Omg do y’all remember when Grimes posted a video as a “proposition for the communists” around 2021?

She tried to make the argument that AI is the fastest route to communism because it would weed out all the corruption, and other complete nonsense 🥀

I don’t wanna post it here and risk it spreading earnestly. But looking back, it’s obvious she was shilling for Elon Musk’s yet-to-be-released AI chatbot Grok.

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

I would love to develop a space on my blog for all my old videos. But of course the HTML spec for videos is a hot mess and I'm guessing Google/YouTube had nothing to do with that I'm sure.

Like just have a space where you could click on one video and flick through them all. This should be easier than it is maybe I'll take on the project anyway. I have a lot of fun videos.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
Sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net ("Shar(yna)Tran/Shark(aeopteryx)") wrote:

@fromjason this is so cute omfggg 😂

norah took you to the CLEANERS lmaoooo

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

Oh look, the exact thing everyone but Google said would happen has happened.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-media

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Over the past month, I have invited a bunch of open source projects into the @ratatui_rs organization 🐁

For a stronger TUI ecosystem, shared maintenance & closer collaboration!

Now all the rats have joined forces 🧀

https://github.com/ratatui

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #opensource

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

Omg I can't believe I found this! Here's a TikTok of me trying to get my family at The Muffin Man game and failing miserably. This was in 2021. It feels so long ago. 😭😭

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• video: A supercut of me trying to get my family at the Muffin Man game.

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

My first serious test of the MacBook Pro’s nanotexture display, and it’s passing with flying colors—basically reflection-free at a outside picnic table, where the (glossy) phone display is all but unreadable. Also, it is 86°F with a 64° dew point and I have hot coffee because I am an idiot.

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dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

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

You can see my brother in the middle is the one who got got lol. His face says it all

Boosted by jwz:
pikesley@mastodon.me.uk ("Home of the WOPR") wrote:

They're threatening us with a good time again

Boosted by jwz:
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Slurs spoke themselves unto the mouths of young GOP members again! I just hope that they're all OK!🤡

Slurs emitted themselves fully formed, from the fingertips of innocent far-right people! That must have been terrifying for them! 🤡

Pray for those that survived spontaneous chat room devolution! 🤡

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

https://www.eurogamer.net/call-of-duty-co-founder-claims-activision-put-very-awkward-pressure-on-infinity-ward-to-make-a-game-about-iran-invading-israel it's pathetic how this war profiteer, who essentially built a career off the US death machine, finds his most viable defense is to push back on only the most overt propaganda. building an entire multi billion $$ franchise around making war and mass murder look awesome and normal? totally fine. having to pull the mask all the way off and propagandize for the most openly and prolifically genocidal nation of the 21st century? whoa, that's too far.

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

@davidgerard building a grift around a product that will tell you literally anything you want to hear is inevitably going to be way more broadly persuasive than crypto's "get rich doing nothing (actually you have to work a shitty and obviously evil telemarketing job)" pitch. so it's not too surprising that the crypto venn circle is mostly nesting inside the llm circle.

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reverseics@infosec.exchange ("K. Reid Wightman :verified: 🌻 :donor: :clippy:") wrote:

#directorytraversalmemes

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• gifv: two scary looking monsters labeled Cisco and Fortinet cringe as the cute moopsie stands in front of their enclosure and says "../"

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vitalis@dirtyknight.life wrote:

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• video: 791a1f2dd44c9640.mp4

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
joelpomales ("Joel Pomales") wrote:

La cosa más mona que verás hoy. Peluches de pasteles. Uno de yuca y el otro de masa. 😅

#PuertoRico #MastodonPR

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nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

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scottsantens.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Scott Santens") wrote:

I will never get over how the result of going through a global pandemic that killed over 7 million people, including 1.2 million Americans—and where we swiftly created an effective vaccine for it—was massive growth in anti-vax sentiment, the rise of RFK Jr., and the return of fucking measles.

Patients say measles 'worse th...

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

This is a photo of my family playing something called The Muffin Man Game. It’s a long lasting tradition of inflicting shame on anyone who falls for it.

How it works—You ask an innocuous question about an unnamed person. “Did you see her come in?”

If someone asks “who?” Or inquires who “her” is, you reply with “THE MUFFIN MAN”

Everyone in the room then loses their shit and shames the person for falling for it.

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

Just unpinned #python from my Mastodon app view. Realized I hasn't been really paying attention to the pinned column for quite a while. It was my last pinned programming language tag, following the fate of #rust and #clojure before it.

I'd say my recovering from software industry is going well :-)

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

I made a little basement with (labeled) storage under my house. #pokemon #pokopia

Attachments:

• video: A brief tour of the basement that I build under my house in Pokémon Pokopia, showing the storage and labeled frames above each unit.

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

Here's a fun game. If you're ever feeling too superior over others based on your consumer habits, go to a search engine and type the name of a thing you love, any noun, anything that can be purchased or consumed, then add the word "exploitation"

That shit will humble you real quick.

Everyone makes concessions. And no, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to be conscious consumers. Just that no one is so pure that they get to judge others. Put that energy towards corporations and governments.

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

And to be clear, I have FOSS/privacy mutuals who don't have hall monitor energy, and they're great.

How so many cop-loving folks found their way into this type of advocacy, I'll never know. All I can think of is the excuse to police people's tech is appealing to them. It's definitely not for a love of people, that's for sure.

Aahhhhhhhhhhggggggg. This shit frazzles me so fucking much lol. I need a root beer float.

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

This is the other thing—"..and for that person to go unpunished?"

Some folks get such a hard-on for punishment. These are the people who watch cops arresting poor people on YouTube for hours.

You read history and wonder—what types of people would show up to a public lynching? It's the ones who blindly cheer for law and order while never questioning if the law is just. It's the ones who think protests should be illegal. But will defend a corporation until they're blue in the face. Hall monitors

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

I honestly don't know what "privacy advocacy" means anymore.

It's like some people decided Proton was one of the good ones, and they don't want to concede that Proton screwed up because so much of their "advocacy" is just shaming people for the tech they use, and they don't want to be hypocrites

This is why shaming people as a strategy is a bad idea. Your goal then becomes to shield your ability to shame others, and not taking an honest look at power structures and adjusting based on new info

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
webhackfest@floss.social ("Web Engines Hackfest") wrote:

We have opened the CFP for the Web Engines Hackfest 2026, you can send your talk proposals at https://forms.gle/pNz4FqxziBTsh48W9

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
webhackfest@floss.social ("Web Engines Hackfest") wrote:

A little over 3 months to go until Web Engines Hackfest 2026, happening June 15–17 in A Coruña!
If you plan to attend onsite, please register here: https://forms.gle/7gSwfFebFW7sX6Px6
We already have more than 50 people registered: https://webengineshackfest.org/#attendees

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

I want to start writing comedy sketches again. Maybe even write an entire sketch show and put it on at a local theatre.