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

The American Diabetes Association is remarkably clueless and blinkered. They need to fire their leadership.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/08/being-apolitical-is-political/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

OpenClaw is for people who looked at "remote code execution" and thought:

"Sounds great, but the remote part seems unnecessarily restrictive. Can we make it local and proactive?"

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
LeslieBurns@esq.social ("Leslie Burns") wrote:

I love my neighborhood. I saw this a couple of blocks from a sort of diorama in a box mounted to another pole (didn’t take a photo). South Park ftw.

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

Seriously, look at this list. A bunch of it still proxies to the big three, but these companies _actually_ hold the foundation for what looks to be becoming the next generation of web search (with a, sigh, chatbot interface)

bing
bocha
brave
duckduckgo
exa
firecrawl
google_pse
jina
kagi
linkup
mojeek
perplexity
serpapi
serper
serply
serpstack
sougou
tavily
yandex
youcom

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Danpiker@mathstodon.xyz wrote:

This illusion was new to me. Does whichever dot you look at turn more purple?

Pretty neat how clearly this lets you see the reduced sensitivity to blue light in the very centre of your vision.

https://www.schulz-hildebrandt.com/9-purple-dots-illusion/

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11582

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

darth wader

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
rose_alibi@post.lurk.org ("a libi rose") wrote:

a thing i have found younger researchers of the late 90s internet don't really appreciate is the number of ephemeral websites made by literal children. i was 12/13/14 making websites on freehosts for fun and i knew easily a dozen other people my age doing the same. the person who hosted the forum i was part of in high school started it at 15 on a server under his bed. there was no concept of age verification. if you had an internet connection and lax parental supervision you were good to go.

(this post is not about the utterly inane age verification laws nor is it about porn. it is about the very often ignored contributions of young people to culture.)

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karb@bark.lgbt ("Clep Karb @ Home 🏡") wrote:

"Yes, clearly important discussions about style and fashion are being held here. Better don't interrupt."

📷: Leiter@Furtrack
🦊: @Polarie_Fox
📍: #NordicFuzzCon2026

#FursuitFriday

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CassetteBeasts@social.bytten-studio.com ("Cassette Beasts 2002") wrote:

We're thrilled to announce CASSETTE BEASTS 2002, the next adventure from the world of Cassette Beasts, coming soon to all major platforms!

We can't wait to tell you more - for now, check the announcement trailer & wishlist on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3802140/Cassette%5FBeasts%5F2002/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWmH8UgZ1As

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

Here's yet another reason to not give money to Proton:

https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1u052qp/proton%5Fis%5Ffunding%5Fthe%5Ffrench%5Ffar%5Fright%5Fon%5Fyoutube/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I have a playlist with a few movie soundtracks from Francis Lai, Vladimir Cosma, Goran Bregović, and François De Roubaix. What does #Tidal think I should also put on the playlist? The Benny Hill theme, Inspector Gadget, and Mission: Impossible.

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

Why isn't there a CSS unit like ch but for emoji?

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

The world is complex and always has been. But the narrative "the world today is just so much more complicated" often only serves as an argument to legitimize accepting injustice and violence.

By focusing on "how hard it is to find some EUR in the budget" we give ourselves permission to for example not house people, or have kids be hungry in school. Complexity gives us permission to accept cruelty. Because many things are simple: We have enough for every human being to be fed and clothes and housed and given a dignified life.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116713587055769588

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

it is 1981. your computer’s OS is unnecessarily unperformant, limited, and insecure.

it is 1995. your computer’s OS is unnecessarily unperformant, limited, and insecure.

it is 1999. your computer’s OS is unnecessarily unperformant, limited, and insecure.

it is 2007. your computer’s OS is unnecessarily unperformant, limited, and insecure.

it is 2012. your computer’s OS is unnecessarily unperformant, limited, and insecure.

it is 2026. your computer’s OS is unnecessarily unperformant, limited, and insecure.

microsoft operating systems have never been cheap. even the ones you didn’t pay for or think you got for free via a loophole have a cost post people wouldn’t pay if they were asked.

if you grew up in the 90s you should be very angry at Microsoft’s strategy of forcing unfit for service OSes into schools.

45 years of premium disappointment

(do not reply to this post about how you too use linux, I understand we’re on mastodon, thanks)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
shawnhooper@fosstodon.org ("Shawn Hooper (he/him) 🇨🇦") wrote:

Happy 31st Birthday to the #PHP programming language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP

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

big frog isn't trying to sell you more frog, it just wants to hop

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Willow@social.xenofem.me ("Willow at large") wrote:

@soatok

Attachments:

• gifv: Bateman saying: I'm into, uh well, murders and executions, mostly.

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

Latex furries would really kill it in mergers & acquisitions

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

It was also posted to Hacker News, and I made the mistake of reading some of the comments.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

@pzmyers You can follow @oglaf on here!

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

True: that is my favorite spider with tits.
False: No, you don't swallow spiders in your sleep.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/08/move-over-jessica-rabbit/

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

well now, this is getting interesting

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/us/nithya-raman-spencer-pratt-los-angeles-mayor-race.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.olA.-ugO.IUc0DyZntp91&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

“Grassware – Hi, I'm Heather Burns”

https://heatherburns.tech/2026/06/07/grassware/

> No, they are not; the point is that age verification providers now hold themselves to be delegated law enforcement and extensions of the judiciary

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

right, let's have a go at deriving a solution from first principles while trying to wake up.

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

SpaceX won’t be allowed early entry to the S&P 500 after all

oh no.

oh well 😂

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

Just 10 percent of Americans say they're thrilled about the future of AI

lest you think it's just our little fedi bubble, i can assure you ordinary people fucking hate it too.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
leighelse@mastodon.nz ("leighelse{}") wrote:

Research shows internet availability results in polarised political views, but the fault isn't with the technology. Platforms like Facebook and Xwitter push right wing talking points and suppress others.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aei2409

'There is now a solid body of evidence showing that internet availability is causing a variety of outcomes that adversely affect democracy ...

During the German federal election in 2025, an algorithmic audit of X, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube found that around half of all party-related content that was algorithmically recommended to young users across platforms involved an extreme-right party, doubling its audience share relative to the content’s original upload rate on TikTok. Center-left parties, by contrast, were suppressed.'

jwz wrote:

@glyph Sure. I mean, I'm just an unfrozen caveman, but I feel like the actual skill of photography happens in the seconds before the shot was taken, not in post. With a real camera (oops there's my bias) learning how to properly use a flash is probably the single most valuable skill.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jwz There's interesting technical stuff to know, and *some* of these photographers are taking truly breathtaking photographs so they seem to know what they're doing, but the "preset salesman" archetype is definitely not good at explaining why their "presets" have any value