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

Never gets old

https://youtu.be/3WfoccRna6I

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

Firefox now supports Web Serial on desktop 🦊

This means web apps can connect to compatible hardware devices such as microcontrollers, development boards, 3D printers, power meters, and other serial-connected hardware.

Allowing the Web to do even more!

📖Read more:
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-web-serial-adafruit/

🧵👇️ (1/11)

Boosted by jwz:
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Jeff Bezos went on TV to whine about Zohran Mamdani to stop demonizing billionaires and the very next day Mayor Mamdani responded by forcing Amazon to pay $9M in fines accrued by Amazon delivery trucks for illegally idling and blocking NYC traffic.

This is what happens when you elect a mayor for the people, not the corporations. We need more of this.

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

So I finally did it. I bought two phone numbers. One for personal use, the other for the internet. Both were landlines so no SMS spam (hopefully). I bought a cheap phone plan ($10/m) on my old iPhone that I will use exclusively for platforms.

I also ditched my old company domain and with my new domain I created a small collection of addresses. My personal work address not associated with any platforms. And a few for specific platforms, plus one generic address for everything else.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bourgwick@heads.social ("jesse jarnow") wrote:

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in #LosAngeles, their final gig before the dead resume properly, at the santa monica civic auditorium, site of the t.a.m.i. show, the dead’s summit with tim leary, & other events. audience tape: https://archive.org/details/jg76-05-23.143280.jgb.sony.tarzwell-martin.flyingm.t-flac16 [1/2]

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

“You are cat sitter now”

Attachments:

• gifv: A mom cat brings her litter to her human so she can take a nap

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

All bang bang, no kiss kiss

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
duarte@hachyderm.io ("Duarte Nunes") wrote:

@aredridel Thanks! :D Search engines come to mind. With ads, they create these 3-way markets. If labs were to build proper data markets, paying creators for inclusion of their outputs in the training set, then the extraction problem goes away.

Social media is maybe another such form of mediation, where companies want to claim ownership when it comes to profits and IP, but want to treat platforms/models as autonomous when it comes to liabilities (e.g., leading users to self-harm).

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

If you're still using the penis, you're going to get left behind

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

Was 9/11 an inside job?

Boosted by jwz:
loosenut@genart.social ("sɹɐʎA xɘlA 💻➡🗑") wrote:

#KaleidoSaturday

Attachments:

• gifv: an organic-looking kaleidoscopic tiled texture

Boosted by jwz:
joachim@boitam.eu ("Joachim") wrote:

RE: https://chaos.social/@rixx/116624808071439887

Having to do a wanking motion in order to do something AI-related feels a bit on the nose.

#environmentalStorytelling

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
piper@pdx.social ("Piper") wrote:

🚨 Let's try some activism on fedi! The Tigard Public Library needs your help! CoT slashed the library budget, including cutting vital social services. But voters killed the new new Police / Public Works building they wanted to build, so now there are unallocated funds. There's community organizing and a petition to demand that CoT restore library services with that money. Many more specifics in the link 👇

♻️ Please spread the word! 💜💜💜

https://www.fightforthefirst.org/petitions/tell-council-save-tigard-public-library-staff

#pdx #portland #tigard #tualatin

Boosted by jwz:
existentialcomics ("Existential Comics") wrote:

It's unfair to call the Marvel movies "kid's movies", they also have serious political messages, such as:
- America is good
- the military is good
- military contractors are good
- billionaires are good
- heroes protect the existing power structure, villains try to change society

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@ifin/116622369159743355

Gonna go back to sending software by mail until we can figure this out.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
rmondello@hachyderm.io ("Ricky Mondello") wrote:

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you right-click the “Ask Gemini” button in Google Chrome you can remove it from the toolbar.

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

Me when

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

tabs to the wrong tab, it's a random paper i found earlier

blah blah novel blah blah vectorized blah blah avx-512 blah blah

oh yes this is definitely sinking in

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

had a stressy yesterday
spending today doing light cleaning and playing Cataclysm DDA

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

(this is real copy btw)

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

You have been logged out. Log back in to your account to continue your Oral-B brushing experience.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty@thecanadian.social wrote:

After a couple of weeks of negative feedback in the media and pushback by tech companies, the government is now open to making changes to #BillC22. Let's hope the Liberal government is serious about hearing criticism and adjusting the legislation.

#GovernmentOvereach
https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/2026/05/20/ottawa-bill-c22-misinformation/

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

I'm getting a little bit more comfortable with saturated colours in my photographs. #iceland #nature #photography

sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert") wrote:

It's the weekend, and I hope you have some time to hear me out on a VERY important PSA...

meow~

Okay, now please continue your day. Take some time away from the computer. Thank you for your attention.

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

british airline dan air

well i never heard of them, so i guess things went really well for them before i was born

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AssociatedPress@flipboard.com ("Associated Press") wrote:

Trump's Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants
https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-capitol-riot-news-releases-purged-29c580044a9ed27b643c99feac9e2964?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-AssociatedPress

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
farbel@mas.to ("David Scott Moyer") wrote:

Do character limits on posts (toots) make you a better writer? Please boost. I vote yes.

#mastodon #characterlimits #poll #writing

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
everton137@vivaldi.net wrote:

The author of @allaboutberlin on how Google AI Overviews are killing independent web publishing, citing a 70% drop in traffic after seven years of steady growth. His work trains the model. The model is replacing his site. There is no credit, clicks, or revenue. This is what the "enshittification" of the open web looks like in practice.

Hard to imagine moving to Berlin without stumbling upon his guides at some point.

https://allaboutberlin.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nicolasbouliane%5Fai-is-killing-all-about-berlin-when-you-share-7463188284924616705-I3Mn

#AI #OpenKnowledge #Berlin #Google #Enshittification #OpenWeb #IndieWeb

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

It's OK, they intended to explode.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/23/they-meant-to-do-that/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAA5vmlntkw

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
BrideOfLinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu ("Christine Hall") wrote:

Firefox's built-in PDF viewer has been adding useful features for a while now. You can annotate, fill out forms, draw, insert images, and sign documents without leaving the browser. The recent Firefox 151 release adds merging documents to that list: Firefox Just Saved Us All from Spammy Online PDF Tools https://itsfoss.com/firefox-pdf-merge/