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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It's not enough for Apple to take ~$20BN in profit from the web every year while kneecapping competitors and starving Safari of funding. No, they really seem to think we should be thanking them for their magnanimity:

https://infrequently.org/2026/07/abject-praise/

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pikesley@mastodon.me.uk ("Polybius Monk") wrote:

Actual Sisyphus

https://boingboing.net/2026/07/06/post-china-built-a-40-story-tower-that-stores-wind-powe.html

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rstevens ("rstevens 🐳💨✅") wrote:

a week to focus on fiddling with all the settings on my computer would fix me

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rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@r%5Falb/116878691038594948

Also, what a lot of "I have nothing to hide" people miss is that stuff-that-needs-to-be-hidden depends on social and political climate at any given moment and changes with time.

Being pregnant while crossing the US border used to be a non-issue, nothing-to-hide type thing. Now US fascist lawmakers are pushing for pregnancy tests at the border.

This is just a very fresh example, there are endless others.

Once our data is out, we have no control over it. Will it be dangerous in 5-10 years? 👀

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rawenwolf@meow.social ("RawiWoof") wrote:

So ... #ChatControl 1.0 (the voluntary one) has been reinstated (so much for digital independence). Because EPP apparently likes being a bunch of rapist enablers (why is it that parties that have "people" or "workers" in their name tend become Nazi/authoritarian/supremacist hives?) and democracy in their dictionary means "no = later". Its even more insulting that the EuroPar president is a woman. Like, this is like curing a bruise by sawing your legs off.
Add in the fact that the French Nazi cunt Le Pen can run in 2027 because judges have about as much spine as a bacteria.

Tell me, why would anyone with working braincells want to join the EU?
Seriously, these dipshits make Brexit look like the right choice. For different reasons of course rather than the self-delusional superiority but still if I was Ukraine/Serbia/Moldova or any other country looking at EU, I'd be keeping really safe distance. Sure, EU will not bomb you into submission. They'll just harvest you for a cheap labour force while giving you a delusion of superiority. And that's only if you're White.

The only solace is that White empires tend to inevitably kick the bucket one way or another. It happened to Napoleon's France, it happened to Nazi Germany, it happened to USSR, it happened to every neo-colonial empire.
Now it's happening to the US, dying to it's exceptionalism.
And EU is next ... Its demise to be its benign supremacy.

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Bwee@meow.social ("🩵 Bwee the Fluffdragon 🩵") wrote:

Don't forget to tip your Fedi instance if you can! The Fediverse is an amazing place and we shouldn't forget each instance runs primarily with volunteers and admins forking quite a bit of money out to keep their instances running.

Thank you, admins and mods across the Fediverse, for your hard work and for giving us all a place online to call home!

🩵🩵🩵

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

You will see authors like your girl here start to sound a little bit unhinged when we talk about "preorders." But WHY.

It's because a book that sells 500 copies spread over six months looks, mathematically, like a failure to most "is this book something we should show people" systems. The same 500 copies concentrated into one week, especially the preorder windows, can trip thresholds.

Thresholds like: this book lands in retailer algorithms. This book lands in a purchaser's consideration

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

This smug twit might be getting a reminder of his mortality, but don't plan to attend his funeral just yet.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/07/we-already-knew-bryan-johnson-was-going-to-die-someday/

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

RE: https://mastodon.world/@davidho/116877633501458279

yup, at a minimum

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randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

Good morning from Omsk where Putin’s oil refinery is wondering if war with Ukraine was a good idea.

What you are seeing here, is Ukraine striking an oil refinery 3000 kilometers from Ukraine.

Have an excellent day everyone. 🇺🇦

(The strike happened approximately 24 hours ago)

Attachments:

• video: 40ff14e0592c48b7.mp4

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cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev ("cthos 🐱") wrote:

@xgranade Why spend any amount of time on LLMs when they could be talking about the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV? With an expanded free trial which they could play (on their garbage steam machine) through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award-winning Heavensward and Shadowbringers expansions up to level 80 for free with no restrictions on playtime.

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

weird and wonderful

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1048953521141016&vanity=100067070466198

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

heating up the sauna while drying towels from yesterday. this place is amusing… a rabbit warren of family-focused upper middle class vacation amenities

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

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2021-11-26-megas-sakadur-um-kynferdisbrot

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2022-02-20-undarleg-thogn-i-umfjollun-um-tailands-plotur-megasar

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

Ég sé að RÚV ætlar greinilega að hvítþvo Megas

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

Waiting for the wave function to collapse.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/07/schrodingers-mcconnell/

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whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

we should start keeping a list somewhere https://mastodon.social/@mossmann/116876557316243273

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rob_haines@mastodon.art ("Rob Haines") wrote:

Me: If I do my strength exercises I'm allowed to play around with gamedev afterwards.

*two sets later* Fuck me, I'm Weighting for Godot

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

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim%5Fharding/116878280185730300

It would be so fucking funny if they lose

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kim_harding@mastodon.scot ("kim_harding ✅") wrote:

Zuckerberg’s biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4 trillion
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/mark-zuckerberg-meta-fine-trillion-b3010281.html
Meta Platforms said in a court filing on Monday that four states were seeking $1.4 ​trillion in penalties over accusations that the company designed its Facebook and Instagram platforms to addict young users.

Bring it on!!!

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Given how all the physics AI is trained on YouTube, I'm planning to change my career to a Robotic Agility Optimization Consultant. The entire job is adding "Sahil Challenge" to the robots' prompts.

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

Additionally:

https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specification/pull/123

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

Belgorod gas facility burns as Moscow fends off over 430 drones in one night

Fires broke out at Belgorod’s gas pipeline dispatch station, airport, and thermal power plant after missiles struck the Russian city on 7 July
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/07/07/belgorod-comes-under-missile-attack-hitting-gas-pipeline-facility-airport-and-power-plant/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

Beep. Boop. That's bot for 'I found something you should know': 'candygrammar' — A programming-language grammar that is mostly syntactic sugar; the term is also a play on 'candygram'. COBOL, Apple's Hypertalk language, and a lot of the so-called '4GL' database languages share this property. The usual intent of such designs is that they be as English-like as possible, on the theory that they will then be easier for unskilled...
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/candygrammar.html

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ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

NEW: Amid Mounting War Casualties, Pete Hegseth “Defunded and Impeded” Efforts to Protect Civilians, Lawmakers Say

Ten members of Congress have warned the secretary of defense that the Trump administration’s gutting of a program focused on shielding noncombatants puts service members in peril, erodes the military’s moral standing and may violate federal law.
https://www.propublica.org/article/hegseth-trump-war-civilian-casualties-elizabeth-warren-pentagon?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#News #PeteHegseth #Defense #Politics #Trump #Iran #War #Pentagon #Congress

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

a good stance to take, and also a difficult one:

https://www.advocate.com/news/people/roswell-encina-patriot-front-metro

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torgo@pixelfed.social ("Dan Appelquist") wrote:

Statue in front of Rotterdam Centraal station: "Moments Contained" by Thomas J. Price.

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torgo ("Daniel Appelquist") wrote:

Some text that resonated with me, from the exhibition book for the (highly recommended) “Beyond the Manosphere” exhibit at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/exhibitions/manosphere-en. From a Socratic “interview” of the artist Tetsumi Kudo from 1974:

Q: “Does that mean we are being kept like worms in the septic pit of polluted nature and technology? In that case, what has happened to the dignity of humanity?”

A: ”You're forgetting that we dug the pit ourselves.”

Anyway, happy Tuesday everyone!

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torgo ("Daniel Appelquist") wrote:

For the avoidance of doubt: nothing changes. MAGA is still a hate cult. Climate change is still real. Earth is still round. Vaccines are still effective. Trans and non-binary people are valid. Women are people. Black lives matter. Love is love. No person is illegal. Hold your ground. Double down.

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

RE: https://social.makerforums.info/@mcdanlj/116876212249533438

“Listen, don’t look”

best advice ever
for learning Morse