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Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
emilyenough@pix.lgbt ("Emily 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Spotted this turkey vulture circling overhead this morning while I was picking up the yard from the recent storms. Sorry little dude, I’m not dead yet.

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

“tokenalysis and john henry - Dan Davies - "Back of Mind"”

https://backofmind.substack.com/p/tokenalysis-and-john-henry

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
Damselfly@blackqueer.life ("Not Your Damsel") wrote:

Look I love visibility and the appreciation of history but I have yet to see white people engage with slavery or Jim Crow or the Civil Rights movement without it being mis-centered.

It’s all a story about the inevitable outcome of justice in this fair and beautiful country and Black folk become magical negroes in this story of white American’s success.

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
vantablack@cyberpunk.lol ("🌈 vanta rainbow black 🌈") wrote:

#trans #transgender

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

Happy day!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/19/happy-juneteenth-2/

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

Bobby Prince the composer of the original 'Doom' soundtrack has passed away at the age of 81.

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/bobby-prince-the-composer-of-dooms-iconic-soundtrack-has-died-at-81/

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/