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

We have many reasons to be proud to be from Minnesota.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/19/minnesota-pride/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H31bBU4EL44

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

If you need to teach #smolweb to your AI tools such as #claude or #mistral #vibe I share a Smolweb skill definition you can install directly.

I know that many smolweb enthusiasts refuse to use this sort of tool, but if it helps to ensure there are more smolweb sites, I think it’s a good idea to share this.

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

Juneteenth represents the possibility of us all freeing ourselves from this ugly beginning:

‘The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, “all slaves are free”. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor.

The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes, and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.

By order of Major General Granger.

F.W. Emery, [signed]’

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ufwupdates@union.place ("UFW") wrote:

Happy #Juneteenth! On this day we celebrate freedom and our commitment to the fight against racism. Our struggles were born from the same roots. Our struggles are one. Su lucha es mi lucha. Together we are more powerful.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I saw a new open source software tool yesterday that addressed an interesting problem that I care about, and I boosted it. Then I clicked through to read more and saw it was solving this problem primarily because it was a bottleneck to their manic slop-mongering and the whole website was about the "agentic era". Sorry if you saw that, I hope the deletion went through quickly enough.

I feel like I already hate how cagey this collective nightmare is making me, but apparently I'm not cagey enough

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
phillmv@hachyderm.io ("filipa mv") wrote:

just called my local Liberal MP to complain about bill c-22. i was less informed about the surveillance but i gave him a earful about how age verification is going to harm queer communities & make kids less safe.

staffer told me this was the first phone call they've gotten.

y'all pick up the phone!

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:

The ActivityPub Trust & Safety Task Force is looking for a new Co-Lead (I'm stepping down because I'm leading the Social Web Working Group now).

Specifically we'd like someone with trust and safety experience! Doesn't have to be paid/professional experience (volunteer moderation workers welcome). If you're interested, please leave a comment on the Github issue here:

https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/issues/135

For more on what the TF does, check out: https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety#scope-of-work

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
rnd@toot.cat ("/dev/urandom") wrote:

RIP bobby prince, composer for doom, duke3d and lots of other games of the 1990s :-(

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

progress

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

@cwebber 🤣 There is even on the GUI an icon to like and share the skeleton.
The skeleton social network!

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

Yeah NIH this is exactly what it's like when I talk to my doctor

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
kbeninato@mstdn.party ("Karen Dalton-Beninato ☑️") wrote:

The pool was the color of television, tuned to a dead democracy. h/t
@GreatDismal

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

C-22, the anti-digital-privacy bill, passed the Canadian House https://globalnews.ca/news/11911957/lawful-access-bill-passes-privacy-liberals-tinfoil-hat/

This is bad. I don't even know what to say.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
pojntfx ("Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅") wrote:

A storm of spy bills, wrapped in everything from "saving the children" to "securing digital ID systems" to "verifying real humans" unlike anything we've seen before is brewing in every remaining democracy on earth and nothing seems to be able to stop it

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
researchfairy@scholar.social ("Unnamed TNG skant beefcake") wrote:

Big fuck-you to the Toronto police who are turning "encrypted messaging" into the villain of the shooters-for-hire story

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
scubbo@fosstodon.org ("Jack Jackson") wrote:

@glyph Agreed!

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

You know why I can read Classical Chinese? Because I have spent the last year slowly but surely making a complete handwritten copy of my favorite textbook. Every explanation. Every example sentence. With my own original translations and margin notes. On nice sturdy paper with a pen I find comfortable to use. I’m at 183 handwritten pages so far.

(Gonna repeat again that a lot of people who think they hate writing by hand actually hate cheap ballpoints that hurt their hands.)

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

RE: https://retro.pizza/@mrencyclopedia/116767709992953410

Hi it’s me, “English speaker who learned grammatical nightmare Dutch and then randomly decided it was time to get serious about Chinese, and did in fact learn to read Chinese”

Make your own flash cards. Write your own notes. Ideally with pen and paper, but if that’s not an option, type it letter by letter or use speech-to-text. Don’t copy-paste. Don’t autocomplete. Don’t generate with AI. You need to use YOUR hands or YOUR voice if you want to change YOUR brain, YOUR own inner neural network weights.

I’ve been trying an Obsidian plugin called HiWords. You select a word, right click, and add a definition; from then on, that word will be highlighted in Obsidian notes, and you can hover to see your definition. Elegant, helpful, I like it.

They have a (completely optional, opt-in) functionality to shell out to an LLM for filling in the definition. I imagine that a lot of students requested this functionality, and it wasn’t hard to implement, so I understand why they added it. I can see why the students want it; it sounds so much more efficient, so much more ✨data✨ per effort to get the vocabulary collection up and running. But it’s self-defeating. It’s drowning your senses in noise that won’t stick in your memory. Two or three words you took the time to look up and write down yourself are vastly more helpful than a paragraph churned out by a machine.

Do it by hand, learn it by heart. 📓💖

#languagelearning #languages

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Now that collections are more widely rolled out, once again sharing my web comics on the fediverse collection:

https://mastodon.social/collections/116533503334952204

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

is this how lawyers win in court?

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

also they seem to suggest i'm arguing the exact opposite of what i'm arguing. incredible stuff.

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

oh good, i've woken up to tone policing from the software freedom conservancy.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

this whole ::interest-button drama can be avoided by designers using a damn visible label in the first place!

I'm so tired of guessing what meaningless icons do 🫩

(and make buttons look like buttons!)

https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/13980

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

blogged: Life is too short for lowercase ASCII
https://dbushell.com/2026/06/19/css-methodology/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Can't wait to debug race conditions on quantum computers, where your thread is simultaneously deadlocked and not deadlocked... until you check the logs and the wave function collapses into a completely different error.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website ("a very weeny construct 💀") wrote:

i hate google, microsoft, etc., and block their corporate networks and bots, which should mean they have no (recent) copies or indices of my pages

and i've decided that i'm 100% fine with that; it's time for them to get replaced

but one thing i find myself missing, for google-avoidant sites like mine, is a tool that lets me search for info within that site

so, probably important to implement myself, and start encouraging and assisting other website havers in setting up that sort of thing

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
colinstu@birdbutt.com ("Colin") wrote:

Especially the pre-RSS days.

I just reminded myself of this video (which I found *so* profound back then): "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us" from 2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

I remember stumbling across RSS a *lot* in the mid 00's and being grumpy about it / not fully understanding its power, but after this vid and realizing what feed readers could achieve, I never looked back.

#RSS #OldWeb

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
servelan@newsie.social ("Servelan") wrote:

Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers - Slashdot

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/06/15/205219/google-chromes-next-update-will-mark-the-end-of-popular-ad-blockers

Boosted by jwz:
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

"when did Star Trek get woke??"

In the very first episode of Star Trek: the original series, we see a white Captain reporting to his black Admiral boss, a black woman on the bridge just a couple years after Jim Crow was abolished, wearing a short skirt (a symbol of feminist liberation at the time), a Japanese helmsman on the bridge only 20 years after the internment camps, a Russian crewmate on the bridge during the Cold War [edit: actually did not appear until Season 2 but the point stands], and the foundation of the modern concept of queercoding.

In the very first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, we see male crossdressing crew members, a female officer on the bridge in charge of security, a literal ship's counselor stationed at all times on the bridge, a single mom raising her teenage son on her own while juggling a full career in medicine, a blind mechanic whose "disability" is shown to be a strength, and an angry, all-powerful godlike being who is revealed to be simply a petulant child masquerading as a deity.

In the very first episode of Star Trek: Deep Space 9, we see a black man gain a powerful command position, respect the hell out of the customs of a religion he didn't understand, show respect and equal treatment to members of three other alien races he didn't understand, appoint a female guerilla fighter who defeated imperialist fascists to a position of authority within his administration and defer to her judgement in areas of her expertise, accept his friend's gender change, and tell his son he loves him.

Star Trek has always been woke. You just grew up to be a bad person.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
i_dabble@merveilles.town ("Helge Rausch") wrote:

"Stairwell In C# with Ultracontrapipe in A (Lydian)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23G5QDWqDUY