the point of camo for a soldier is to obscure their position from the enemy. camo in an urban environment is completely different, and this forest green or desert pattern is functionally useless. police only dress this way to project an image of power they should not have.

I won’t earn any street cred for saying this, but I continue to believe it’s beneficial to engage in fediverse interop with Threads. Hear me though: *I completely support* server admins who feel the need to block, and individuals of course have the ability to block any fedi instance they want […]

#aurora over the top of Loveland Pass

It sure is a good thing we have highly distributed cloud systems that eliminate single points of failure.

a few days ago the #MAGA harpie running the federal civil rights division at #DOJ (Harmeet Dhillon) called out a so-called "liberal judge" for ruling against the trump administration, after which that judge received all kinds of threats from MAGA chuds […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

Wife: Hey look, there's a "pi" in the sky!

If this were written and recorded today as a retro #synthwave #chillwave track, it'd probably be around two-thirds of its original tempo. Try it! Play it at a custom 0.65x speed on YouTube! 😂 https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?feature=shared

I got #nixos to work on my Wii-U!!

Deepwiki is pretty wild y'all deepwiki.com/ash-project/...

WARNING: Don't Smuggle Turtles to @defcon https://unionrayo.com/en/tsa-warns-us-passangers/

unnamed trick with a Maple by Crucial Life Yo-Yos. #yoyo

“In a functioning democracy with actual rule of law, the best products have the opportunity to win. In an authoritarian system, the company that makes the dictator happy wins—and that’s it.” https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/17/fascism-for-first-time-founders/

If you ask the new Grok 4 for opinions on controversial questions, it will sometimes run a search to find out Elon Musk’s stance before providing you with an answer! https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/grok-musk/

Last week, I rode my bike ~650 miles from Denver to Park City. On a brisk morning at the top of the Great Divide, I finally found words to explain how we can respond to technology fears with science and community, grounded in wonder & love. This post explains […]

Radio World - The estate of Paul Harvey is suing Paramount Global for allegedly using without permission on the TV show “Landman” a clip of one of the legendary broadcaster’s monologues […]

after 35 years, wing commander finally gets a speed patch (frame limiter) for DOS 👏👏👏 https://www.wcnews.com/news/2025/06/11/breaking-news-wing-commander-speed-fix-released #dosgaming #wingcommander

I was walking back from the mall and figured it couldn’t hurt to drop in to HARD OFF on the way back. Walking through the Junk PC aisle, I had a double-take, what is that purple beauty?? A SiliconGraphics O2? In MY rural Japanese city? How did that get here? […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

I know creators are going to get carried away over the summer, so I'll say this. iPadOS 26 elevates iPad into a new category of power & flexibility. It's great. But it's still an iPad — you don't get real versions of Photoshop, Blender, Xcode, Terminal, etc. Apps cannot make major use of […]

“I said do you want a little makeup? We’ll get you a little makeup. but he said ‘no, I don’t think so,’ which is interesting and very nice,” Trump said Thursday. “He wants to be who he is.” https://archive.is/OHUZ3

And Gov Polis just vetoed the algorithmic price fixing ban too, on the grounds that landlord have to be able to collude or there might not be enough housing: coloradosun.com/2025/05/29/j...

Kudos to the #connecticut legislature for passing a new law on digital books based on the 2020 model legislation from #libraryfutures.(@libraryfutures). https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/connecticut-ebook-bill "After the governor signs, #publishers will no longer be able to * Prohibit […]

Handy bilingual mnemonic for tool use. 🪛🔩 #english #spanish #screw #unscrew #tools #mnemonic

Here is my periodic statement that #Phanpy is a great UX for Mastodon and maybe my favorite one for any social network. If you aren't using it, really worth checking out. http://phanpy.social cc: @cheeaun

The existence of a Chicago Pope implies the existence of an M.L.A. Pope and an A.P.A. Pope. #manualestylihabemus

📢 @theerlef.bsky.social 2025 board election candidates announced 📢. If you're serious about #ElixirLang, #Erlang, #Gleam, please get involved. A fine cast of folks to choose from (if you exclude myself 😜)https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2025-candidates. Get involved, vote, make a difference!

the only reputable news source is teen vogue

You can't go back, but you can remember: (This was inspired by another post I saw about this image, which I'd never seen before. I wanted to show it without saying right away what it was. Hence the new post.)

#BookRec ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Internet Con by @pluralistic Ever since I was a teen and started to use/think critically about #technology , I've been a fan of Cory Doctorow. One of my favourites back in the day was Pirate Cinema, and it instilled in me a kind of ethos that […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

The White Lotus/Gemstones Walton Goggins double shot has never been more jarring

Now there's a protest sign you don't see often.

Amazing TIL for #ElixirLang If you set `export VISUAL=your_editor_of_choice` then are in an iex shell and press ESCAPE+o You enter your editor and can make multiline commands to run in the shell. Save and quit to execute.

#admin #indiewebsocial 🔥 IMPORTANT SERVER NEWS: "The Next Stage for Indieweb.social "I’d been looking for a way to transition this from a small self-run server, admin-centric place—and to turn it into a more user-managed one...I am grateful to have found a solution for all of these needs for […]

Ten years ago if you had written a dystopian SF story in which the person in charge of U.S. public health did a press event at a fast food joint to say that fried food is good but measles vaccines cause measles the ghost of Philip K. Dick would have said that you were being too bleak and unrealistic

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"think critically about the tools you use, ask yourself whose interests they serve, whether they align with your values..." @molly0xfff #fediversehouse 👏🏻

"Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)" is perhaps Mike Masnick's most important TechDirt post -- which is saying something given how long he's been publishing this essential-reading blog […]

#framework 12!!

"Move fast and break things" only works for the people who've never had to clean up after themselves.

#framework desktop!!

Noted transphobe, “China virus” conspiracy theorist, and xenophobic racist who is also the Founder and Lead Maintainer of the Ruby on Rails web framework, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), thinks VP JD Vance's speech to the Europeans in Munich was really, really spot on […]

[US Pol: SS good for them] There are not people who are "150 years old collecting social security checks" But, this effort by a billionaire to generate resentment against imaginary people getting a few hundred measly bucks is transparent. Trying to make all people who use the social security […]

this was such a great read: The hardest working font in Manhattan – Aresluna https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/

404Media has a good story about how anyone can push updates to the DOGE.gov website: https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Amazingly, this URL is still live […]

Humpback whale briefly swallows kayaker in Chile. Kayaker stays calm through it all and films the whole thing. https://apnews.com/article/chile-kayaking-tourism-whale-b0cafde4b640326f20a9da28003d6c26?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us !!! #marine #chile #whales

The Braille Institute created a font designed to make reading easier for people with low vision called Atkinson Hyperlegible in 2019. It just released an update (Atkinson Hyperlegible Next) and monospace version with enhanced characters, 7 weights, and variable weight. They’re free for […]

Yesterday afternoon, while I was out and about, I passed by a hardware wholesaler. I decided to stop by, "who knows, maybe I'll find something useful." At the entrance, the door was closed. I rang the bell, and the attendant came out. He had a little dog with him and, as he told me, he had to […]