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here's how the flow works. (minus writing + showing the new record at the end) you can complete it in 20-30 seconds

Sneak peek of the stage and outdoor food area for #DWebCampCascadia, get more info about camp at dwebyvr.org/camp/ #dwebyvr

Guess what folks? DWeb Camp Cascadia is on, and tickets are live! Aug 8-10, we'll be camping out on Salt Spring Island in the first-ever regional DWeb Camp for the Pacific Northwest. Learn more and get your tickets here: dwebyvr.org/camp/ #dwebcampcascadia @getdweb.net

By Rory Blank via @catvincent.bsky.social

Japan has an international reputation of being remarkably clean, but few people know that back in the 1970s, trash was such a massive problem that the government had to launch a nationwide campaign against garbage. They even called it the ゴミ戦争 (Garbage War).

fitness tamagotchi where it eats steps and heartbeats and stuff and dies if you dont workout

"If your decentralised protocol is missing features, the market will add them with centralisation." — @goat.navy *This*: - is why why the web was captured; - is why email became concentrated; - is why ActivityPub, as defined today, isn't capture-resistant.

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9 June 2019, six years ago today, over a million HongKongers marched, from Causeway Bay to the Central Government Offices complex in Admiralty, to protest the government’s anti-extradition bill and to demand the removal of CE Carrie Lam. (Video & photos from various sources) #NeverForget 1/

can't remember if I shared it before, but plonk.li is an atproto pastebin service, nifty plonk.li/p/0X astrolabe.at/at/nekomimi....

*brings first aid kit to the knife fight

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people will say “your site is upside down and inverted on my browser” and when i ask them which browser they use it’s always something like Thunderpussbox 45x Developer Edition which is ofc the default browser for the Crab Sauce linux distro originally made for a triangle shaped smart anklet in 2014

SkyMuseum is live! We hope you enjoy playing our game as much as we loved making it. What started as an experiment is now a full 3D gallery where you can explore Bluesky feeds and art shares like the works of art they truly are. Download it here: twigbit.itch.io/skymuseum

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Quick squid

I used to draw giant hypothetical diagrams for an grand open network, and can you believe that now I actually answer support emails for it! Let that be a warning to other dreamers

IRS’s Direct File wasn't open source while it was being developed. But somebody just made it public!

It becomes increasingly difficult to conceive of technological progress as a shared project when its benefits are siphoned up by capital and its harms offloaded onto everyone else.

Researchers have made contact lenses that give people infrared vision. The lenses are infused with nanoparticles that convert near-infrared light into shorter-wavelength light that humans can see. #neuroskyence #vision

Pretty little babies 🥰😍⁠ ⁠ The pearl octopus (Muusoctopus robustus) mates and nests in deep-sea thermal springs, where the warm water seeping from the seafloor accelerates the development of their embryos.⁠ Learn more: www.mbari.org/animal/pearl...

Oh my god, Copilot is allowed to create and fix issues on Microsoft github repos and it goes exactly as you'd have imagined. Try going into any of these PRs commits to see poor Microsoft engineers try to coerce Copilot into doing literally anything right. www.reddit.com/r/Experience...

serverCertificateHashes is key to libp2p — it lets browsers connect to non-browser nodes over WebTransport without needing CA-signed TLS certs. After some pushback, Apple agreed to keep it in the WebTransport spec! More 👇 github.com/w3c/webtrans...

Yet again, people are finding you can't just fly blind with your prompts. forestfriends.tech

STOP SCROLLING!!! my indie game is now on steam!! (Sandboxels) #indiedev #gamedev

I just watched an orangutan tie a knot. You should see it too.

If you're around Berlin after the conference, check out this fun community-organised event: User Agents Berlin - two days of space for hanging and hacking with friends you met at Local-First Conf! Register here: lu.ma/v457jxp2

too cynical?

www.localfirstconf.com

Two years ago, I heard that Taiwan's govt had unearthed surveillance files from the secret police of its authoritarian era. They were finally becoming open to the public, nearly four decades after Taiwan's democratisation. I wanted to see what was inside: www.economist.com/1843/2025/05...

This is #Daphnis, one of Saturn's moons. This image shows its unusual gravitational effect on Saturn's rings ...
Daphnis is only about 8 km wide, but its gravity disturbs #Saturn's A ring, creating ripples and edge waves. #astronomy #saturn Author ✍️ tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay...

it is extremely important to repeatedly hold the OS vendors responsible for failing to sandbox, theyve had decades to get it right