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Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
z3r0fox ("⠵⠻⠷⠕⠭ 🍥🍉⚪🌹") wrote:

Happy Canada Day but in a qualified patriotic way (for what we got right) rather than nationalistic way (my country right or wrong) 🇨🇦 #CDNPoli

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

If you don't want your Mullvad fees going to fund neo-Nazis - or @mozilla VPN fees, which is rebranded Mullvad - cancel and get a refund immediately

that's whose "free speech" the official account is talking about here, and that's where your fees go to

EDIT: Mullvad has a 14 day refund policy. But the message below is a direct call to ask for a refund if you don't want to give money to Nazis.

If Mullvad refuse a refund, call your consumer protection agency. And reverse credit card charges on the basis of deceptive refund policy representations. It's not like you ever want to be a Mullvad customer again.

archive copy of Mullvad statement: https://web.archive.org/web/20260627172939/https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116822244689326681

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
aburtch@shakedown.social wrote:

They are coming for #trans people. We need to raise hell about it.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
witchgirls@woof.tech ("Marisa") wrote:

@davidgerard UPDATE: They granted me the refund. It wasn't the full payment, but most of it.

THIS MEANS YOU CAN GET A REFUND EVEN PAST THE 14 DAYS POLICY! Please email mullvad support asking them for one and tell them WHY!

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
pndc@treehouse.systems ("@pndc") wrote:

@davidgerard The bleached-anus logo company has done an "experiment" in which it puts in a backdoor specially for Chinese users: https://x.com/QuinnyPig/status/2072097751899525464

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
TheSunnyOne@eldritch.cafe ("Anya") wrote:

I know the vast majority of people don't care about this shit, and will continue to sink money into digital services for convenience, but I"m content being the rare curmudgeon on your timeline complaining about the time when we actually used to be allowed to own things rather than rent licenses to them.

Films, books, music, games, etc.

As others in this area have already noted, we are on the cusp of having to rent the hardware, too.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
oatmeal@kolektiva.social wrote:

The Bank for International Settlements warns that the massive AI investment bubble resembles past market manias and could trigger a global recession if financing collapses. Companies face extreme capital expenditures that may exceed sustainable commercial returns, creating significant financial instability. These systemic vulnerabilities are compounded by infrastructure constraints like electricity and chip shortages, risking severe economic consequences.

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/29/how-the-ai-bubble-could-pop-and-take-down-the-global-economy-according-to-the-bis/5263793

#aibuble #aihype #aicon #environment #ClimateChange #datacenters

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
art@mastodon.sdf.org ("arthur.pizza") wrote:

I'm sorry.

Boosted by Mastodon:
freedomofpress@freedom.press ("Freedom of the Press") wrote:

👋 Hey, fediverse!

Here's a Collection of Freedom of the Press Foundation's projects and staff members here:

https://social.freedom.press/collections/116806703114055392

#Collections

Boosted by Mastodon:
damianwalsh wrote:

Started compiling an 11ty collection on Mastodon. Some accounts I wanted to include are on servers that don’t support the feature yet. I tried to include some less obvious accounts. People whose posts don’t always show up under hashtags etc. By happy accident, the collection currently features (you guessed it) 11 accounts. It would be great to add more, up to the 25-account limit, based on recommendations.

https://mastodon.social/collections/116843661263838797

#11ty #collections

Boosted by Mastodon:
mellifluousbox ("Felix Hlatky") wrote:

I just created my first collection on history. Which historians or other history-related accounts in the fediverse am I missing?

#history #collection #collections

https://mastodon.social/collections/116843436442889237

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

lithium ion batteries are fucking terrible.

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

oh christ, not again. my macbook has popped open at the seams. i've got some more spicy pillows, haven't i?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
kumicota@akkoma.kumicota.moe wrote:

Nobody expects the spanish notation

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

🤖

For some reason, this is the week when GenXers woke up, looked around, and realized it’s not the world they grew up in anymore. Specifically the Internet is not the same! Shock! Horror! How come these people’s formative experiences in high school or college aren’t preserved in amber for all future time?! There oughta be a law! ⤵️

blog permalink: https://gerikson.com/m/2026/07/index.html#d01p01%5Fwed

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

I don't know, was there anything else going on this weekend?

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/01/entertainment/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-wedding-weekend

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

Opinion: ‘It is this Declaration that is under assault from a political movement that rejects the creedal vision of the American Republic in favor of an exclusionary racial nationalism, that defines American citizenship by blood and heritage, that sneers at the “five words about equality” in the Declaration and that worships at the altar of hierarchy and caste. But it is also this Declaration that still inspires Americans to fight for their place in this country and demand their right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/opinion/declaration-independence-jefferson-douglass-lincoln.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

Such long legs? Arms?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/01/what-long-limbs-you-have/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M2hMBg0Ewao

Boosted by bribternative@bribstodon.xyz ("AlternaBRIBly"):
drachenmagier@mastodon.art wrote:

I love seeing wonky beginner art of people who are clearly exited about creating. Because with every line they draw, they get better. And it makes me wonder what kind of masterpieces they will come up with in the years to come.

Someone picking up painting today will create the legends of tomorrow.

And I love the idea that this person will try to create something for the first time because they saw our art today.

And went: "why not?"

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

@arch @ShadowJonathan @soatok

It's still better than a lot of places but, like any self-selecting community, it has echo-chamber problems. There's also a factor that anyone who actually likes Soatok's writing knows not to bother with the comments on lobste.rs (except maybe to flag the root reply), so don't bother engaging. You get the same thing in some vibecoding topics: most of us just filter the tag entirely so the only people who see the AI bro stuff are the people who haven't filtered it, which tends to be mostly the AI bros.

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

@dweb @soapdog @nicotentin @cwebber https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/9DWTF3/
this seems to work

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
ploum@mamot.fr wrote:

Y’a pas à dire, l’interface @12train , c’est quand même le pied : tu cherches ton train, tu cliques, tu paies, tu as une page récapitulative avec tous les PDFs du trajet.

Simple, efficace.

Ça en dit long sur notre société qu’une personne motivée peut rendre le service qu’aucune grosse entreprise n’est plus capable de faire !

Merci 12trains ! Tu rends le processus de réservation tellement moins stressant !

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

The only light I see in the future is the slow demise of one of the worst people in congress.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/01/i-am-so-pessimistic/

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

What happened to the fight for the internet? https://dustycloud.org/blog/what-happened-to-the-fight-for-the-internet/

A new blogpost from me. I believe the fight for keeping the internet free is more important than ever but also under more threats than ever.

And the irony is, centralization is partly to blame: people don't feel like the internet is theirs anymore.

But we can't leave it there.

We HAVE to act.

For our sake, for our kids' sake, for ourselves, for the future.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
_elena ("Elena Rossini 🌈") wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116841848684568048

The latest blog post by @cwebber is a MUST READ (I have never saved something to Linkwarden this fast.)

I didn't simply boost her original post because some of you have boosts turned off. Just go, give her some love (https://mastodon.social/@cwebber@social.coop/116841849068409994) and please please please read it ASAP.

It perfectly encapsulates how we are at a critical juncture and we should actively fight for the internet and the fediverse. New mandates about age verification are an existential threat to the web as we know it

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mlanger@mastodon.world ("Maria Langer | 📝🛥️💎") wrote:

Do you live near a data center that makes a noise loud enough to bother you in your home? If so, please DM me. Also, please boost this so I get some responses. I need some information.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

new #passkeys failure mode just dropped

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
gwenthefops@transfem.social ("Gwen the em dashing Fops :therian:") wrote:

using horny stickers and LGBT-specific acronyms

call that Queer-to-Queer encryption

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

current bullshit levels are 100%

(100%) ■■■■■■■■■■

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.cloud/@jasongorman/116844067988976085

Next week's Code Craft course is the final one for the knowable future. I don't think there's another training course quite like it.

Over the past 17 years, in one form or another, this training has changed more than a few careers.

2 spots left. Bring the boss a shiny apple before you ask them about it 🙂

Details in profile.