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neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

“When the power of love beats the love of power the world knows peace”

Two people gettin’ hitched at the tippy-top of the Empire State Building and making a nice statement while they’re at it. I love this.

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• video: Two masked people perched at one of the Empire State Building’s broadcast antennas propose marriage, flying a banner reading “When the power of love beats the love of power the world knows peace”

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
adapalmer@wandering.shop ("Ada Palmer") wrote:

Scientists make the world’s most efficient solar panel. German researchers have built the most efficient solar panel ever, turning 34.4% of sunlight into electricity. That’s way higher than ordinary rooftop panels, which usually convert between 20-23%. This is a research breakthrough, not something you can buy for your roof yet, but it shows how much better solar panels may still become. CleanTechnica https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/12/most-efficient-solar-module-in-the-world-new-record/
#ShareGoodNewsToo

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

@pink @gianlucaventuri @_elena There is no *real* version of age verification on the internet that preserves privacy.

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

@pink @gianlucaventuri @_elena But it doesn't really work the way people think, because it's trivial to delegate.

Imagine you have a gas station selling cigarettes. Someone can come in and show you that they are indeed over 18. And imagine they cover up the rest of the id but you can verify that it's indeed a government that issued that part.

And so then they leave the store....

and hand the pack of cigarettes to the kids outside.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

All this time... they hate it. They hated how creative it was, they hated the serendipity, the intense meritocracy of memes and social vitality. All of the magical chaos that had me so delighted and charmed ...

I don't know why I didn't see this sooner.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

"People sometimes end up on obscure sites run by just... anyone. A page made by a local club is as easy to find as a corporate site."

I didn't realize that the guy I was talking with about the internet in 1999 thought of this as a *problem* to be solved... not what made the internet awesome.

All along there have been people who see everything you love about the internet as an unfortunate design oversight, something to be fixed. And they've been working for decades to make it happen.

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

i would like to complain about that movie "love, actually", where they imply that people will find a british accent incredibly attractive.

lies, never happened

Boosted by jwz:
mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

Who's in the Reflecting Cesspool? https://www.patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
TodePond@mas.to ("Lu wilson") wrote:

want to contract a prototyper?
my next availability is 2027
i care about: products for humans
i do not care about: replacing humans with LLMs

here's my CV:
i did R&D at tldraw
i was a researcher-in-residence at ink & switch
i made dreamberd

lu @ todepond . com

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
erin_catto@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Erin Catto") wrote:

I’m happy to announce the release of a new open source 3D physics engine called Box3D. I’ve been working on this project for a few years now, but it represents over 20 years of experience writing physics engines for games. Read more here: https://box2d.org/posts/2026/06/announcing-box3d/

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

I hate when I miss a silly typo for like 7 hours haha

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

I think what's fundamentally happening here is that people on Lobsters (and, to a lesser extent, Hacker News) think I write blogs for them.

Like I want their attention.
Like I want their approval.
Like I want to be one of them.

Nope. I was never welcome in your spaces beyond some notion of "usefulness". You can even observe an echo of this observation in the comment thread.

I am not, and never can or will be, a person of high esteem to that crowd.

So why would I write for you?

I write for my goddamn self. I write to help the people in my own space. Most are queer or furry (and the ones that aren't, simply don't mind that we are). They see me as part of a community, not some jackass on a pedestal that has to adhere to some abstract ideal of noble and/or academic etiquette.

My writing is messy, raw, and real.

What some people call arrogance or condescension is really frustration that, despite a better world being possible, egos get in the way of it happening.

So, lol, no thanks.

Boosted by Mastodon:
FediGarden@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Garden") wrote:

The aim of https://Fedi.Garden is to help people discover small and medium sized servers on Mastodon and the Fediverse.

All of the servers listed comply with the Mastodon Covenant (https://joinmastodon.org/covenant), have fewer than 50,000 members, are open for public signups and block threads.net. They can be any sort of Fediverse server, not just Mastodon.

If you run such an instance, send me a message if you'd like to be listed.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
kitten_tech@fosstodon.org ("Alaric Snell-Pym") wrote:

@joshix @cwebber @TodePond it's always a good time to learn LISP!

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haubles@hachyderm.io ("hannah aubry") wrote:

Not to let the cat out of the bag prematurely, but...

If you were going to start posting about cool servers that aren't run by Mastodon GmbH on the @Mastodon account, which hashtag would you use?

#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastoAdmin

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

@cwebber @TodePond that's great. Time to learn LISP I guess

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

RE: https://furs.social/@Rycochet/116844174227373120

Hooray, the end to my Reddit addiction!

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
cyberlyra@hachyderm.io ("Cyberlyra") wrote:

If bots are running the #stockmarket with no grip on reality, well, it's no wonder the #AI bubble is so huge.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
aks@scalie.zone ("Akseli") wrote:

The fact of life is:

If you have to trust your data between techbro corp and singular furry writing a hobby project, always choose the furry.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
b0rk@jvns.ca ("Julia Evans") wrote:

@dthompson @cwebber oh I remember this now from the one time I tried to use a Lisp! I switched to emacs for a week or something and then switched back haha

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
RikerGoogling@mas.to ("Riker Googling") wrote:

federation to klingon power adapter

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
datum@zeroes.ca ("datum (n=1)") wrote:

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

bad internet bills are being proposed across the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK. They're using the usual tactics: they claim they're fighting for kids or fighting security risks, but in general, that's what surveillance and censorship bills have always claimed.

Here in Canada the Carney Liberals are shoving through this legislation without even giving it full debate in parliamentary committee!

#CDNPoli #internet #politics

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
fortyseven@defcon.social ("Dr. Fortyseven 🥃 █▓▒░") wrote:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1008867415365404

#uspol #palantir

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• video: 21b6568813ea0002.mp4

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

Y'all this is some COOL-ASS-SHIT! Wanted to get into @spritely tech but you didn't use emacs or didn't run Guix or all those other things? What if there was a structural editor right in the browser that was *designed* for hacking on @spritely tech?

Well that's EXACTLY what @dthompson is working on! I gave it a test today and built this cool picture language demo, printing out a rainbow right at the REPL!

It's a structural editor! So you're not even editing text, you're editing the structure of the code itself! It's damn cool!

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
aspyrine@mamot.fr ("Olivier M.") wrote:

@soatok "and the ones that aren't, simply don't mind that we are"

I'm one of those non-furry who really appreciate your posts, and their illustrations.

Thank you for teaching a lot of important stuff to developers like me :)

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

We're working hard to make it easier to hack on Spritely tech *without* needing to install anything special... just an ordinary browser! Check out this screenshot of the work-in-progress Hoot IDE, featuring some hacking using Ricardo Wurmus' picture language for Guile! All running in the browser, using Spritely's Hoot Scheme -> WASM compiler!

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

These fuckin' headlines.

"Far-left extends victory streak into Denver"

Far-left? Far-left?!?

Only billionaires think fair wages, reasonable healthcare, decent schools, and viable housing support are "far left" issues.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
twipped@twipped.social ("Jocelynephiliac :reclaimer:") wrote:

@soatok I genuinely thought Lobsters was just an alternative frontend to HN. I had no idea it was a totally different site.

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

This is your regular reminder that even if you “dispassionately” assess LLM tools purely in economic terms, they are a complete and utter failure. Massive costs and capital expenses (chips, training, datacentres) that deprecate rapidly, all for a negligible boost in economic productivity

Using them also makes you a dickhead for all of the usual ethical and moral reasons, but people who put undue weight on “economic” reasoning have long since made their peace with being assholes.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

The revived #Pebble watch uses a USB-C charging dongle that is backwards compatible with the 11-year-old Pebble Time. Respect.