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Boosted by jwz:
technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

google had to level up by killing RSS and XMPP before they could gain enough XP to kill email.

once they're done with that they will move on to the final boss of killing the web.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Rimuru@s.cafe ("Rimuru Tempest") wrote:

Donald Trump is heavily promoting his $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund," which legal experts and police officers warn is just a glorified, taxpayer-funded piggy bank meant to reward the January 6th rioters he pardoned. He really looked at the federal budget and said, "Let's start a loyalty rewards program for federal crimes."

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

CEO of Standard Chartered: I'm sorry for 'lower value human capital' comments

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/ceo-standard-chartered-says-hes-085816289.html

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

you are not supposed to say that part out loud sir

https://novaramedia.com/2026/05/21/bank-ceo-calls-workers-lower-value-human-capital-and-plans-to-replace-them-with-ai/

( h/t https://infosec.exchange/@krypt3ia/116619233276064565 )

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

Re LB:[1] Dang, the story about the extinction of the Sacramento Mountains Checkerspot Butterfly happened in the "backyard" of where I grew up. I probably saw some of those insects at various points in my youth. 😔

[1] https://todon.eu/@CrimethInc/116617487368287293

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Today I learned about "Malus" and parody is genuinely impossible now.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
CrimethInc@todon.eu ("CrimethInc. Ex-Workers") wrote:

The last known caterpillar that could have become a Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly has died.

The term for an animal that is the sole survivor of a species is endling. In a sense, we are all endlings—each the last of our kind.

The loss of a species is not simply the loss of a biological category—it is the loss of countless unique individuals and their collective potential.

Each of us is the bearer of a singular and unrepeatable world. This is a memento mori, a reminder to honor what is fragile and irreducible in all beings.

http://crimethinc.com/endlings

Toughie, the last of the Rabbs’ Fringe-Limbed Treefrogs, taught us the word endling. He passed away on September 26, 2016. May all of us still living fight to defend each other and the beauty of the world.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
croyle@wandering.shop ("David Croyle") wrote:

#PhotoOfTheDay is a 2-for-1 of framed, signed t-shirts on the wall at Bubba's Burgers in Kauai.

#photo #photography #kauai #hawaii #SouthPark #FamilyGuy

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

wait... that strange little man has a *merch website*???

#KillMeNow

https://infosec.exchange/@lorenzofb/116619219974652186

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
nedbat@hachyderm.io ("Ned Batchelder") wrote:

I'm getting emails from Michael Foord's email address asking me to update my voidspace.org.uk links to voidspace.uk. They are not answering my questions. The site does seem to have moved. Anyone have any information about this?

The emails say "Michael", but use weird language. The subject is "Continuation of partnership and change of URL"

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
AweThatSparkle@mstdn.social ("AIITheSparkIeS.") wrote:

:blob_derpy:

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

I mean, fair

RE: https://www.threads.com/@imkyleclark/post/DYpVOpCjvMm

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

lol i've just remembered that at my first primary school, we had to take a briefcase rather than a backpack.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
hollie@social.coop ("Hollie") wrote:

This is my first rose, and also the first time I did a pencil outline and then watercolored it in (versus my usual pen and ink sketches filled in with watercolor). I’m happy with it; I sketched it standing in my neighbor’s garden. They’re total sweethearts and gave me previous permission to draw their flowers. Hollie Happily Haunts Your Flowerbeds. Greg sat on our porch across the street. We’d just had a great talk about some of my chronic illness issues (which are still unfun, but the painting helps a lot). Art journaling is my forever jam.

#watercolor #watercolour #ArtJournal

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

for those who are wondering wtf pimms is btw, it's approximately as strong as a wine except you traditionally drink it diluted with lemonade, with chunks of fruit in it.

i have no idea what it's made or even what it's made of tbh, but it's rather nice.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i am such a lightweight since i stopped drinking. i've had ~150ml of "weak" pimms and lemonade and i'm a bit tipsy

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mathew@universeodon.com wrote:

On this World Goth Day, I'm remembering when we traveled to Hamburg and I went looking for Xmal Deutschland CDs, and when we got back I wrote about it on my web site — and Anja Huwe of Xmal Deutschland somehow found the page and sent me an e-mail. Which was nice.

Searching today, turns out she released a solo album a couple of years ago, and it's pretty awesome:
https://xmaldeutschland.bandcamp.com/album/codes
#WorldGothDay

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
falcennial ("millennial fulcrum") wrote:

please vote anonymously and boost this poll for transparency and participation:

How frequently do you chat with LLM?

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

I got a new synth (an Orchid from Telepathic Instruments) and put it through its paces on this cover. I also do a passable Ben Gibbard voice. Jenny Lewis, not so much.

https://youtu.be/qGihOdjiyas

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

can't make this shit up. i investigate a linux api on the internet just now and find out it was the subject of a linux vuln this week https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/linux-kernel-ptrace-flaw-ssh-keys/

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

I'd love to get an actual IP lawyer's read on this Fender thing; it feels like when Paramount yanked "It's a Wonderful Life" out of the public domain by asserting copyright over the musical score. I haven't seen a single guitar commentator who thinks this is anything but a PR black eye for Fender, but then the bulk of the people Fender sells guitars to probably don't exactly follow guitar influencers.

https://youtu.be/BOv8HD4LklY

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld") wrote:

A books cartoon for @theguardian.com@bsky.brid.gy from a while back

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io ("Jeff Miller (orange hatband)") wrote:

@aredridel Indeed, and there's some obvious non-peer relationships in the scaling technologies for reproduction and distribution.

Scott McCloud's nod to the distributor as an actor potentially at odds with the creator and the reader of comics is one foray into alternative dynamics; the group around Creative Commons, making "some rights reserved" legible to contract law is another.

The indie game and webcomic world might look closer to a commons for creatives? But I don't know it well enough to say anything clearly.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io ("Jeff Miller (orange hatband)") wrote:

@aredridel Peer visibility of commons uses, arbitration that's close to the participants. Ostrom found enough examples of managed productive common resources that clear patterns of success emerged. Really very contrary results to the Just So stories of pollution and overgrazing that classical economists present.

I recall that one of the irrigation commons examples crossed ethnic boundaries for groups ordinarily in mutual friction and suspicion.

The inshore fisheries examples of low-overhead coordination were interesting -- whose lobster float marker is this? Don't recognize it, cut it loose.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
Binder@petrous.vislae.town ("Shannon Prickett") wrote:

This isn’t rental software, it’s privately owned.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116615024161488238

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@aredridel/116614280060230177

Okay I wrote this as snark but there is a body of economics research on this, Elinor Ostrom's Nobel-prize-winning work in fact.

Commons _can_ be managed, but it requires some interesting framework pieces to really work. I think actually trying to apply her ideas to the information commons is extremely prudent.

It's also a little uncharted because the commons isn't just a resource. It's people's creative output.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

as it transpires, it may be a little warm outside. i am sweaty now.

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

you would download a pizza