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Boosted by jwz:
rmi@cloudisland.nz ("Rob Isaac") wrote:

If your assisted living facility lets you play music this late, here's a (most of) Cabaret Voltaire gig.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bkSzmBX9Nw8

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Boosted by jwz:
oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

lol I got this into the Associated Press.
#Infowars

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

chasing my dehydrated dog around the house with a syringe of salty water. he doesn’t particularly like me rn.

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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
imbl@treehouse.systems ("⚧️ schizotranny pride ⚧️") wrote:

"trans women are so overrepresented online"

a comic from webcomicname. a large group of grey blobs tells three pink blobs "you do not fit in here". the pink blobs say "okay will make our own place". in the final panel the grey blobs say "why are you excluding us" and the pink blobs say "oh no"

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

I'm not sorry though

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

this is a pretty bad joke

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

instance drama???

yeah I use geometry nodes why do you ask

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

For anyone who's curious, the screenshot accompanying the haiku upthread was from a DuckDuckGo news summary yesterday. The original article from the World Meteorological Organization used a superscript "0" instead of a degree-sign, and it got reformatted without the superscript in the news summary.

The thing is, we're all going to look at it and say "Phew, all is well, the 380 was a typo." But 38C (104F) is already bad enough!

All is, in fact, not well.

https://public.wmo.int/news/media-centre/wmo-recognizes-new-arctic-temperature-record-of-380c

This is a visual on a light red background that is comprised of three boxes. The first box shows a clip from a web news page at the World Meteorological Organization (WM). It has a headline that looks visually as if it were "WMO recognizes new Arctic temperature record of 38°F" except that the degree-sign (°) character is not used. Instead, a superscript 0 is used, as in 38⁰F. These look almost the same but semantically are quite different. Visually 0 is oblong and a degree sign is a circle. Semantically, one is a number, the other is a special symbol. The second box is irregularly shaped because it has a DuckDuckGo logo attached like a tab in the upper left. The rest of the second, or middle, box is an explanation of the wrongly chosen character, explaining that indeed this is a Superscript 0. The final box is the way DuckDuckGo has chosen in its search results to summarize what one would read if one clicked through to this article. The summary says "WHO recognizes new Arctic temperature record of 380C" because it is choosing to interpret superscript 0 as a 0 without superscripting it, and instead of "38°C" we see "380C".

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

:<

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

Maybe it’s about time we add ‘no cryptocurrency’ and ‘no AI’ to the Mastodon features list

Right beside the ‘no ads’ and ‘no tracking’

Crazy we live in a time where the ‘no’ features make you a better alternative

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jwz wrote:

Scientists decry conference's use of hidden prompts to snare AI peer reviews.

Better title: "cheaters outraged that they got caught." The 40th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) -- which is slated to take place in...
https://jwz.org/b/yk89

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

In this world drowning in slop, weird artist energy may be our last hope

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

I am really excited to meet @gwil next week, same energy as me in terms of "no no it's absolutely critical that our projects to save the internet have weird art student energy"

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

finally beat Slay the Spire 2 ascension 10 with The Regent

this deck absolutely melted act 3!

https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-07-02T18:25Z/

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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
kaixin@snac.bsd.cafe ("KaiXin") wrote:

Something going on with the #Linux #kernel archive: kernel.org ? All links to tarballs except the 7.2 rc leads to 404. Read it somewhere else but it seems to be happening for many.

#FOSS #News #unix #KernelOrg

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

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/116835001274355210

Reminder: around 32 hours from the time of this post, social.lol will migrate to a new server.

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/launch?iso=20260703T23&p0=413&msg=social.lol+migration&font=slab&csz=1

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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
ezri@shitpost.trade ("ezri/emily") wrote:

"papers, please" but it's about trans healthcare and you have to ask them increasingly inappropriate questions

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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
gwil@post.lurk.org ("sammy gwilym") wrote:

https://worm-blossom.org/#y2026w25

This week, Aljoscha completes the Bab project, officially. We've got lots of good links, including a podcast interviewing Aljoscha! And Sammy has been toeing the line between the world wide web and the sneakerweb.

An illustration of Aljoscha slumped in a bench, spirals spinning in his eyes. He's wearing a stylish pink RBSR-themed t-shirt. Sammy pumps her fist behind him, and mushroom-Dan cheers from atop the bench.

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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
gwil@post.lurk.org ("sammy gwilym") wrote:

why do I put up with this

A screenshot of a chat between Sammy and Aljoscha. Sammy asks “what could encrypted sneakerweb look like?”, Aljoscha replies “U2FsdGVkX1+mJnmWX0kejBRPJDu0 OhgRxUK8Tx1g+cBmBvArYK9cYKVe Co3oVz44XokaN7vdPWa7D9ai6vei”

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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
gwil@post.lurk.org ("sammy gwilym") wrote:

https://spectra.video/w/7hsRkrevhuTyV1q1qxkPjM

"Centralised systems were designed with the best of intentions, but were turned against us anyway. And peer-to-peer systems will be exactly the same.

How do we make the next generation of protocols more difficult to weaponise?”

Here’s a clean recording of my #FOSDEM talk “Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future”. This talk was a real labour of love, hope you enjoy it!!!

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

somebody recharge this christine

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

I am out of juice

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

💉💉🔥d

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

i found a particularly strange edition of "I am a Strange Loop" online. In addition to the entire book, several pages were filled with text and hyperlinks to various physics, computer science/AI topics, and conspiracies. I am very curious what that's all about.

Large text "I am a strange loop", surrounded by a whole bunch of conspiratorial text here is some: Geometry of electromagnetism Here the true trajectory of the particle is calculated by the "quantum computer" of nature itself and not by the method of calculus of variations, but by the method of Feynman path integrals! A. V. Kaminsky The Westminster Declaration “Open discourse is the central pillar of a free society” - How to explain the presence of an electric charge in an elementary particle? - Why are the opposite charges of the electron and proton exactly equal? Corruption People, fight for your rights! Apple Delays Launch of Feature That Would Scan Photos for Child Abuse The idea has drawn fierce criticism from privacy advocates New EU rules would require chat apps to scan private messages for child abuse Our brains sense the future through a new quantum-like implicit learning mechanismOur brains sense the future Fluctuation-induced first order transition to collective motion Hysteria-19 Divide and rule is a method for gaining and maintaining power. – How does the counter-emission of photons by a proton and an electron lead to their mutual electrical attraction? Deception of people (YouTube / Google): people's comments and "likes" other people do not see. Digital concentration camp. Lies and deceit The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature Electro-Active Polymer Hydrogels Exhibit Emergent Memory When Embodied in a Simulated Game-Environment

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

oh noes, performance on checks notes more than a quarter of a terabyte of memory will be less optimised.

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

Your naive questions are built on false premises.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/02/evolution-wasnt-made-up-by-a-guy/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwuX8QNiQzE

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Quenepas as a Puerto Rican fruit that tastes tart with a sort of slimy texture that turns into a mango-ish texture once you suck it. There's a big pit, like 80% of it.

It's my fav fruit. Reminds me of my childhood in Miami.

An open container of quenepas (also known as mamoncillos) is displayed, with one fruit held in a hand. The outer green skin is partially peeled away, revealing a translucent, yellowish fruit inside. The background includes a steering wheel

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

Over at Whatever, some thoughts on the upcoming 250th anniversary of the US, how I feel about it, and how it affects what I will be doing with the rest of my life.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/02/some-passing-thoughts-about-250-years/

The Bennington Flag, a flag commemorating a great Revolutionary War battle, flying at my house for the occasion of the week of July 4.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Scary Austin") wrote:

Yesterday in #WashingtonDC, on the steps of the Capitol where protest is currently not allowed (!), an active duty officer in the #AirForce deliberately broke the law to honor his oath of service. He called for the removal of Trump, and he wore his uniform to do it.

Rep. Al Green, my favorite member of Congress, and the Removal Coalition stood with him, as did a crowd of DC protesters.

#50501movement #Trump #fascism #military

Congressman Al Green, Major Jason Paul Watson, and Removal Coalition founder Jessica Denson stand together outside the US Capitol with a sign that says "REMOVE THE REGIME."

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

House of the Temple, Washington, DC, 2023.

All the pixels, none of the secret rituals, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53288608886

#photography

An imposing Masonic temple at night, with Ionic columns, ornate features, flanked by human lions statuary.