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Trump's justification for sending the the National Guard into Los Angeles is a lie. > But 99% of this city is business as usual, with brunches and beach walks and church and yoga classes. And even in those few pockets where the protests are happening, such as a march downtown Sunday, this is […]

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Per LA Times re: yesterday in Paramount: > At some point, deputies began shooting flash-bang grenades at the crowd, forcing them to retreat. People became angered, cursing at deputies. At least one man was seen yelling at the deputies while recording them: “What the hell are you doing?! […]

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[uspol, Andor, grim thoughts] We are Ghor. The galaxy is watching.

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I've realized over the last few years that my political position boils down to: 1. Don't be cruel unless you have to. 2. You usually don't have to, even when someone's going to get hurt. 3. One of society's goals should be cutting down on situations in which cruelty seems necessary […]

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There's a bit in a Leverage episode that I've been thinking about a lot over the last few months. A group of corrupt cops have taken over a motel and have been terrorizing the (mostly minority) staff trying to find something they think has been hidden somewhere in the motel. At one point during […]

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There is a huge difference between _calling_ in the National Guard and _sending_ in the National Guard.

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We’ve just launched our first ever service tailored to single user instances and using #GoToSocial #hosting #SelfHosting https://fedihost.co/hosting/gotosocial

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Any recs for a basic image editor for Android that will let me do basic crop/adjust edits _without messing with the EXIF_? (And without watermarking/tracking/etc) Fossify Gallery _mostly_ does, but there's a bug where it deletes location data. Google Photos doesn't mess with the location, but […]

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Going through an entire mod pack to figure out which one is crashing Minecraft. FML

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New app review on my website! Fedilab ★★★★☆ A full-featured app for connecting to Mastodon and other Fediverse servers. Includes specific capabilities for Akkoma, Pixelfed, PeerTube and more, without getting too cluttered. https://hyperborea.org/reviews/apps/fedilab/ #fediverse #socialMedia […]

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Out of control.😫 Via Yashar Ali: BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

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Cambridge mapping project solves a medieval murder "A tale of shakedowns, sex, and vengeance that expose[s] tensions between the church and England’s elite." #history #london #murder #mapping

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I keep forgetting how to spell Pachli, typing it as Patchli, and getting suggested patchouli instead.

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New post on my website! The State of Local-Only Fediverse Posts (WIP) Which Fediverse servers can handle local-only posts, and which apps can publish them? Here's what I've found so far. https://hyperborea.org/tech-tips/fediverse-local-posts/ #computers #fediverse #mastodon #gotosocial #akkoma […]

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I keep getting ketamine and melamine mixed up and whenever one is in the news I always get this weird image of rich people grinding up cheap plastic dinnerware into powder and sniffing it, which probably wouldn't be a good idea either.

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Huh. Michaels has bought the remaining in-house brands from #JoAnn and plans to increase their fabric, sewing, and yarn departments. Certainly a better outcome than other buyers could have been!

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I should rewatch Babylon 5. Get some Z'ha'dum scrolling in.

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It’s so exciting that the whole world now gets to experience instance admins repeatedly subtweeting each other on their respective shitty social media sites

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I love that on here I can "like" or reply to an individual post as a signal to its author without worrying that the site will decide to start showing me EVERYTHING RELATED TO THAT POPULAR TOPIC as it blazes a path through the network. I can just let that one person know I liked their take and […]

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That madman @ZachWeinersmith predicted vibe coding 14 fucking years ago https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2362

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🔥 Bonfire Social 1.0 release candidate has landed! Curious about what the fediverse could look like with real community control? Try out features like custom feeds, nested discussions, shared profiles, circles, and boundary-based permissions — then let us know what breaks or needs improvement […]

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I love this idea: both that robots would be fascinated with early web design, and that they built an actual website for the fictional restaurant using the aesthetic! @annaleen Automatic Noodle https://www.automaticnoodle.website/ Looking forward to the book!

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When we released post editing for #Mastodon, we first released a version that supported processing and displaying edits incoming from other servers, before releasing a version that flipped a switch allowing anyone to make edits. We're taking an identical approach with quote posts, as the […]

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The irony of calling someone "weak" because they...didn't give into your bullying?

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Took a first look at @kagihq maps. I had to see if they were using OpenStreetMap as a base (they are, with Mapbox on top of it) and if it renders buildings with multiple height sections (it does). 👍

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A classic found in my Pocket exports: When Researchers Used IHOP to Determine if Kansas Is Flatter Than a Pancake #pancakes #kansas #ihop

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Sincere question: Does anyone here actually _like_ any of #Disney's live-action (or photorealistic animation, in the case of the Lion King) remakes? * Which one(s)? * Do you like it as much, more than, or not as much as the original cartoon, and why?

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New datacenters should be required to support themselves using renewable energy.

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[Uspol, offshore wind farms] The article is mostly about a project in Maine, but also mentions one in California that needs to coordinate with NOAA regarding a recently designated marine sanctuary. Which makes me wonder: On one hand, we have a president who hates renewable energy and wind […]

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I look back on the 3 musketeers of web design in the 1990s: Jeffrey Zeldman, David Siegel, and Jakob Nielsen. Each had a distinct web design philosophy (and if you read till the end, you'll discover which one I believe 'won' in the long term). I focus in particular on 1997, which is when Flash […]

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In Neverwinter, jello eats you!

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The old landline phone's text-to-speech for caller ID sometimes comes up with utterly bizarre pronunciations, like "sur-vee re-zir-ich" (Survey Research)

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New software review on my website! Ecosia (Search and Browser) ★★★★☆ Non-profit search provider that uses renewable energy and partners with environmental organizations. AKA 'the search engine that plants trees.' https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ecosia/ #software #search #webBrowser […]

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[Uspol, "efficiency'"] A telling paragraph: https://18f.org/announcement-of-legal-challenge/ > From streamlining federal permitting to making it easier for everyday people to file their taxes, our interrupted projects—already funded and underway—were exactly the type of technology […]

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Hot take: stop using words ending in "ism" to discuss politics. Labels are convenient shorthand, but they don't mean the same thing to everyone. That ambiguity totally interferes with earnest conversations. And it's shamelessly abused by malicious pundits to create false equivalences.

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SoCal community invited to help map goldspotted oak borer infestations in June > A tiny beetle is causing big problems for Southern California’s oak trees. Goldspotted oak borer larvae tunnel beneath the bark and feed on the tissues that transport the tree’s water and nutrients, slowly starving […]

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Welp, Amazon canceled its Wheel of Time adaptation. My thoughts: 1. Dammit, just when it was getting really good, and all the main characters are finally set on their paths! 2. At least I don't have to argue with myself over re-subscribing to Prime for a month when the next season doesn't […]

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Flash vs. the Measles: The Show Must Go On! "A producer sabotages a rival's play by faking a measles outbreak among the cast, forcing a quarantine. The solution: the Flash plays every part at once!" Ah, the 1940s, when people still understood what quarantines are for. #measles #TheFlash […]

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A quotation from Orwell > Back in the nineteen-hundreds it was a wonderful experience for a boy to discover H. G. Wells. There you were, in a world of pedants, clergymen and golfers, with your future employers exhorting you to “get on or get out”, your parents systematically warping your […]

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Interesting: a crowdfunded project to help trans individuals in places where getting proper HRT treatment is difficult (or impossible) by providing syringes, needles, wipes and sharps disposal kits for those taking the DIY route. No medication, just the equipment to use it safely. HRT Harm […]

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As someone who actually used Pocket for over a decade, I'm kind of sad that it's shutting down...but then I mainly used it for the read-it-later features it began with, not the recommendation engine Mozilla turned it into, and I finally switched to Wallabag for that a few months ago. #Mozilla […]

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More on magic: I'm tired of people who pretend that technology is magic. Technology is magic, but not in the way you think. It is magic when: it is explainable, teachable, usable. Technology that excludes people, technology that elevates self-professed magicians so they can gatekeep […]

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sorry to #USPol but if you’re American and especially if you’re cis please call your senators today to oppose this travesty of an anti-trans healthcare bill https://bsky.app/profile/laurelpowell.net/post/3lprboabyk22g

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Oh, Collins and Murkowski have "voiced concerns" about the bill. That makes me feel _so_ much better /s

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New book review on my website! Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler ★★★★★ Hard to put down. And hard to pick up again. It's certainly not a _fun_ book, but it's extremely engaging, despite the bleakness of the slow-apocalypse setting and story […]

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