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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Gustodon@mas.to ("Ω 🌍 Gus Posey") wrote:

Anyone who goes to the Kennedy Center after today is a slobbering nazi.

#USPol

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

A rusty Sóló stove. Designed by architect Jóhann Fr Kristjánsson, the Sóló stoves started production in the late 1930s. They stayed in production for decades and were quite popular.

#Iceland #photography #nature #abandoned #decay #countryside #rural #rust #history

A rusty Icelandic Sóló stove.

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

RE: https://c.im/@BBC/117090920808932927

Answer: A Giant condom, because he is such a large dickhead

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Shokunin @shokunin_studio  When you know someone has vibe coded an app in a matter of a few months or less then upload their app to Virus Total and check for malware and spyware. What we are seeing right now across Reddit is people quickly whipping up creative and utility apps with Al, but only because they want to deliver a virus into your computer. Almost all these guys use the same story “Il was tired of app X, Y or Z so | decided to make my own.” It sounds like they are doing something heroic and noble. Standing up to successful companies, etc. That's the trick they use to make you download their malware. They're not being Robin Hood. They're just trying to rob the hood.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

In my Feb 2026 talk, "Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of "AI": The View from the Humanities", I call on humanities scholars to make legible to the broader world how even as we work with texts (and write more texts), the words aren't the work.

This recent paper by Lauren Goodlad of @CriticalAI is an excellent example:

https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2026.175.3.80

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

Link to the talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Lc6QNxolQ

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
newsguyusa@flipboard.social ("Steve Herman") wrote:

A former Navy carrier pilot reacts to the president’s ‘steam’ order . https://news.usni.org/2026/08/13/new-white-house-memo-calls-for-foreign-built-warships-return-to-steam-catapults-on-ford-carriers

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

these seem worrisome and widespread depletions: https://newrepublic.com/post/214338/donald-trump-lost-quarter-reaper-drone-iran

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

ahhhhhhh

https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-am-weary-let-me-rest/1469581485?i=1469582699

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

AI coding agents, or as I've started calling them: tech debt as a service.

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Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
xapmat@mstdn.social ("Xapmat :heart_pan:") wrote:

Our owl family had moved out after the babies grew up enough to be in their own.
But we got some new ones who moved in. They are getting used to us and being a little more bold in coming up by the house.

Burrowing out standing on top of a blue and yellow planter. The owl is mostly brown and has its head cocked to one side as it was staring at me.
Two burrowing owls standing at the entrance to their burrow in a grassy lawn.

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

and meat in fact doesn't aim to destroy the craft of cooking, it actually provides more options to the skilled chef.

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

using zencastr for video podcast recording and it's excellent!

they just made a pile more stuff available on the free tier too, from 1080p to 4K

and shoved AI options in your face, because of course they did

i'm worried a bit because what's their corporate health like? that's a very expanded free tier. does anyone know anything?

for comparison, riverside charges $30/month for similar

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

you know, if meat producers thought they could get away with 10x costs overnight, they totally would. of course meat doesn't make you depend more on meat the way slop code does, so uh, yeah...

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

i admit it's kind of difficult to find good arguments when they're bundled in with calling everyone an SJW for not wanting the world to burn, but i feel like even without that, it wasn't exactly a winner.

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

personally i thought when linus brought up veganism while calling everyone SJWs, we all generally agreed that was a shit argument.

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

binface seems to have a youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@realcountbinface

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Haha. I don't have a problem with distraction, *you* have a problem distra... Okay, Sorry... I *may* have a problem, and I shouldn't speak so strongly about any problems you may or may not have. Apologies... But this music did help me with the distraction for a bit.

"Music for People Who Are Tired of Being Distracted":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ1R%5F-EaNyE

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

the level of spying on folks who are simply exercising their constitutional rights is astonishing

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/us-government-spied-anti-ice-protesters?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

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

still blows my mind how much of the internet is fucking ads

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
jripley ("John Ripley") wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/117089469038278431

Thought this was a really well known attack vector (I’ve used this as a PoC on other platforms) but from the reactions, apparently not?

(Platforms I worked on were made immune to this class because this is known)

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
fay59@tech.lgbt ("Félix") wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/117089469038278431

what, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mlncn@social.coop ("benjamin melançon") wrote:

Are there any movements, groups, or volunteer-heavy organizations you are part of that you think work particularly well? Do you have an idea of what makes them work well? Any public statements of goals or values, or guidelines for people engaging in the community, that you feel contribute to successful functioning? Please share!

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

here's binface's first ever (2020) interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9WDy2xhp9I

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115279113555007665

A trans women named Autumn Hill was sentenced to 50 years for her participation in a protest.

They didn't arrest her at the protest. They broke down her door.

Protesting is effectively illegal, and we should start acting as such by not posting photos of peoples' faces to social media, by not RSVPing with your name, email and phone to a fucking protest, and by not treating protests as Instagram photo parties. It not only puts yourself in danger but others too.

Trump administration • This article is more than 1 month old Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison Activists accused of being part of antifa get long prison terms in case seen as test of Trump's crackdown on dissent

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mcnees ("Robert McNees") wrote:

Painter, illustrator, and noted sci-fi artist John Berkey was born #OTD in 1932. While he doesn't have a lot of name recognition outside of nerds of a certain age, you've almost certainly seen his work or the results of his concept art.

Self portrait by the artist. He is wearing a white button down shirt, arms crossed and hands tucked under. His hairline is receding and he is standing against a white background.
The cover of the National Geographic book "Our Universe" featuring a painting of wedge-shaped, naval looking spaceship trailing multi-colored exhaust and flames.
In John Berkey’s painting “The Mechanical Planet” a white and red spaceship, trailing fire, seems to hurtle towards a large, spherical, metallic space station. It is covered in antennas, ports, and gantries. Two moons or planets hang in space behind it.
Promotional artwork for Star Wars showing a battle between rebel fighters (X-wings and Y-wings) and Imperial Tie Fighters. The Death Star looms in the background.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
coldclimate@hachyderm.io wrote:

Oufffrr.,.
PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation | Tom's Hardware https://share.google/GMVTwA0nQLlQtfeLM

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/117077837225854052

Update: Pi 5 retired and pulled from the mikro-rack, migrated HA to a Proxmox VM.

Deeply impressed with how seamless HA restore from a backup was despite CPU arch differences. Exposing various hardware peripherals was also painless. Five stars, would migrate again.

Amazing work, @homeassistant

The plucky pi5, now retired, but still wearing NVMe HAT.
The plucky pi5, now retired, but still wearing NVMe HAT.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
theruran@masto.hackers.town ("theruran 💻 🌐 :cereal_killer:") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/117089855118834424

finally, a good Spectrum article :cereal_killer:

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
coleenwalter ("Coleen Walter") wrote:

This Luna moth waited for the sun to warm her wings on a curb in a parking lot early this morning. I’m very lucky to have seen her because a Luna moth lifespan is only a week to 10 days. #moth #moths #nature #insects #wildlife

A pale green Luna moth sits on a concrete curb