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

if your company isn't looking at cost control, you can fairly easily change that.

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

DRAG THIS MOTHERFUCKER

https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-voter-registration-election-law

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bartknubben@mastodon.nl ("Bart Knubben") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116877164722118013

👌 Used on the instance of the Dutch 🇳🇱 government: https://social.overheid.nl

@communitymanager
@beheerder

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

LOL, just heard a statistic that 60% of companies deploying AI are looking at 'cost control'.

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

Well, since I'm here, I may as well mention TIL about the temporal styloid process:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal%5Fstyloid%5Fprocess

Like I've just been walking around my entire life without realizing I have this bone protrusion behind my jaw. That's probably a good thing... but now I know it's there!

I found out about it because I happened to get a nice reference skull (resin, not real) that can be mounted to a tripod and the instructions mentioned, "Be careful not to break the styloid process when mounting..."

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a1ba@suya.place ("bruh/a1ba") wrote:

babe wake up new chess piece has dropped

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

All Neatnik servers will be restarted tonight at 11 PM EDT (which is 3 AM UTC tomorrow). Services will be briefly unavailable (roughly 30 seconds).

If anything goes haywire, you’ll see a note on https://status.neatnik.net. But it should be quick and painless!

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
Laszlo@digitalcourage.social wrote:

Zu warm für die junge Amsel
#birds

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
debcha@saturation.social ("Deb Chachra") wrote:

Had reason to return to the incredible story about how unbelievably skilled seamstresses, with expertise in sewing bras and girdles, developed and fabricated the spacesuits for the Apollo missions, as documented by Nicholas de Monchaux.

"ILC’s attitude came through in a seamstress’s comment to a NASA technical team in 1968: “It might look all right on that piece of paper, but I’m not going to sew that piece of paper."”

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bra-and-girdle-maker-that-fashioned-the-impossible-for-nasa/

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

you see that with these quantities involved, there is no way it could ever be profitable even if memory wasn't going to the moon and nvidia didn't keep jacking prices up, right?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
UnicornRiot ("Unicorn Riot") wrote:

"Our democracy is dying in 4K and it's our job to fight," said a 22-year-U.S. Army veteran on July 4 in Philly.

He was among hundreds of veterans in Philadelphia marching in the "Freedom over Fascism" protest against President Trump.

Attachments:

• video: 5d21f5ec000c703d.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

NEW: The First Major Overhaul of Public Lands Grazing Regulations in a Generation Looks to Cut Out Public Involvement

For the first time since 1995, the Bureau of Land Management is rewriting its grazing regulations. The new rule, which governs ranching across 155 million acres of public lands in the West, would heavily favor the livestock industry.
https://www.propublica.org/article/public-land-livestock-grazing-ranching-access?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#News #PublicLands #Livestock #Cattle #Regulation #Native #Environment #Conservation

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
moira@mastodon.murkworks.net ("Solarbird :flag_cascadia:") wrote:

Three tanker ships hit by projectiles (at least one by a drone) in the Strait of Hormuz; one on fire, two others damaged:

https://aje.news/cq42fh?update=4745291

Strait's not going to be anywhere close to normal as long as this goes on.

Tick tock tick tock

#IranWar #oil #StraitofHormuz #ClockIsStillTicking

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rikiwilchins.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Riki Wilchins") wrote:

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul
Strength in Numbers analysis shows Dem Socialists aren't succeeding bec. Dem voters want radicals, but bec. they want candidates who _stand_ for something. Yet another data point suggesting that standing up for trans rights can pay off at the polls.

Why Democratic Socialists are ...

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

Sounds like the Summer of Ludd was a pretty good time for those who could attend:

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-luddite-festival-harnessing-gen-zs-rage-against-big-tech/

Also here, but they don't have the photos for some reason:

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/07/inside-the-luddite-festival-harnessing-gen-zs-rage-against-big-tech/

Gotta find my local equivalents.

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

LOL, apparently AI boosters are making a fuss about GLM 5.2, XAI's new open weights model

here's the amount of GPU RAM you'd need to make this fast for various levels of quantisation (where less quantisation = smaller, but shitter)

truly democratision of technology in action!

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

RE: https://zpravobot.news/@Rainmaker1973/116878008330490638

Confirmed: the moon is gay

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ketan@climatejustice.social ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

Shout out to the European Data Centre Association for saying out loud what they're working towards

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patrickbrosset@mas.to ("Patrick Brosset") wrote:

What's new in Edge for web developers: our new series to learn about the newest features in Edge (and Chromium), experiments you can test now, and highlights from the broader ecosystem.

In this issue: CSS gap decorations, focusgroup, PWA migration, Grid Lanes, and more!

➡️ https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2026/07/07/new-in-edge-for-developers-style-layout-gaps-improve-keyboard-accessibility-and-migrate-your-pwa-to-a-new-origin/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116879351825440719

Every global "Tech4Good" event, every meeting about digital "souvereignity", every summit about innovation has EA folks there poisoning the conversation with their eugenicist, corporatist, colonialist drivel. And politics is eating it up.

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jargoggles@kolektiva.social ("Jargoggles") wrote:

@rysiek
Having extensive records of Jewish people wasn't a problem until it became a big fucking problem.

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skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

someone asked me why AI pilots fail in production and i said 'because most of these projects didn't need AI'

'building a tech project to use AI, instead of to solve a problem, is just like building a project 'to use postgres instead of mysql'

i wonder if i'll still be invited next year

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
aks@scalie.zone ("Akseli") wrote:

🤘🤘https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.6/

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datarama@hachyderm.io wrote:

I think the times are ripe for a new religion; historically, those seem to pop up in tough times. In my prophetic vision in the shower this morning, it has been revealed to me that wealth is the only good and Mammon the only god.

Therefore, every year, we must sacrifice the richest person in the world to the Lord of Greed. It is a great honour to have become worthy of being sent to the eternal splendor of the afterlife; the heavenly palaces encrusted with gold, jewels, DDR5 RAM and divinely algae-free reflecting pools.

Of course, cowards who rush to distribute their wealth for the wider social good so as to not be the richest person in the world anymore would not be fit to serve Mammon.

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

you know 'insert' on a hashmap? a function whose only job is to uh... insert a key/value into the map?

the supposed future of software development would apparently really like it if the insert function could just say 'nah mate' if it became awkward to insert something. 😂

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

Minnesotans are predisposed to favor diversity.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/07/minnesotans-have-to-be-flexible/

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aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social ("mandy brown") wrote:

“When you eat illusions you end up hungrier than before.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/hungrier-than-before

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Elizafox@treehouse.systems ("Elizabeth :therian: :cascadia:") wrote:

People who've only ever known broadband often imagine dial-up as "just slower internet." It really wasn't lol.

What was practical was fundamentally different. Clicking the wrong link could cost you several minutes and stall your browser. Also tabs didn't exist just additional windows.

A page with a few megabytes of JavaScript is effectively unusable on dialup. Which is... most of them 🙃.

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shammers@mastodon.coffee ("Sham 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@soatok god I fucking hate self-assessments. it feels like a "write about yourself" assignment in middle school, but my livelihood depends on it now.

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

I understand why they're important/useful/whatever for businesses, but I hate doing self-assessments.

At the end of the day, if I were a bullshit artist, I could spin my past six months as 10/10 on pretty much all metrics. But I am not so arrogant.