Yesterday we had a session at #FediForum on #Europe and the #Fediverse
It would be great to connect & get to know people who are taking part from European countries. "Europe" as in beyond 🇪🇺
Feel free to use the hashtag #FediForumEurope to reach out and connect ✨
As @j12t pointed out regional FediForums would be great 🚀
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We're in the process of scanning 48 bankers boxes of the MIT MULTICS archive. We'd like to get a decent high speed document scanner to make this process go easier. Can you help us with a donation? sdf.org
Once the scanning is complete all of these will be made available online for everyone.
#archiving #scanning #documentation #archive #mit
Teddy Roosevelt Jr.: Son of the Rough Rider and a Hero at Normandy
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On this day, 81 years ago, tens of thousands of young men from ordinary backgrounds hit the beaches of Normandy and faced the most intense fire any group of attackers has ever faced in the history of modern warfare.Dylan Gwinn (Breitbart)
WASHINGTON, June 6 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday that it might be better toen.people.cn
A few weeks again, my friend Malaika Handa nerd-sniped me with an interesting request. She is a very prolific crossword constructor (think: multiple publications a week) and she keeps comprehensive records of those publications in a spreadsheet that …Parker Higgins (parker higgins dot net)
Being a Trekkie and a lover of Bluegrass music, I thought it would be really cool to combine the two. The result is my bluegrass arrangement of Jerry Goldsmi...YouTube
🚨 #FaggotTourney schedule update
Mark your calendars
June 13th:
CSB 
vs. Hachi ❓
June 14th:
SiRrogueKnight 🏳️🌈 vs. Adam Curry 
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NEW: An Italian parliament inquiry concluded that the Italian government used Paragon's spyware to hack activists working to rescue immigrants.
The committee, however, said it did not find any evidence that Italy's intelligence agencies (nor anyone else) spied on journalist Francesco Cancellato.
The report leaves a this, and other, key questions unanswered.
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A parliamentary investigation answered some — but not all — the questions related to a spyware scandal involving the use of the Israeli company’s spyware, Graphite.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
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Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. I've been away from my normal routine for a week and getting back to even some of it just feels super weird. everyone can do their part to help make everybody's weekend just a little more predictable. Have a good weekend.
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Technologies that promise to track, manage, and supervise workers, increasingly using artificial intelligence, are getting entrenched in the developing world, according to a new report by Coworker.org, a labor rights nonprofit based in New York.
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Startups are deploying employee tracking tools in low-regulation markets with help from Silicon Valley venture capital.Gayathri Vaidyanathan (Rest of World)
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"...at least one committee was told recently by a whistleblower that all research grants to the state were going to be cancelled..."
Talking Heads release the first official video for 'Psycho Killer'
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On social media, the Talking Heads teased a major announcement on June 5th, leading fans to wonder if a reunion—41 years after their last tour—might finally be in the offing.OC (Openculture.com)
Higher ed thrived in Berlin and Beijing. Then government stepped in.William C. Kirby (Harvard Magazine Inc.)
Trade unions, health and housing advocates, and peace groups are preparing for a major anti-austerity demonstration on June 7 in London.
Every time I see estimated costs for Trump's birthday parade, and $15m of the budget is allocated for road repairs afterward, I wonder about the gullibility of both the people putting together these estimates and those reporting on it
So, a quick poll
The damaged roads in DC will be repaired:
Economic Watch: U.S. tariff hikes deal blow to EU metals industry-english.news.cn
United States Digital Service Origins
Link: usdigitalserviceorigins.org/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
An oral history documenting how the United States Digital Service came to exist, and the initial days of building its foundation.U.S. Digital Service Founding Archive
They have shitty sleep because their own jowls choke them at night. So much of life is out of bounds to them because they can't move properly. They simply choose to "live" this way.
It is very strange.
I know people who are slowly drinking themselves to death. Bad teeth from sugary alcohol. They're probably on the fast track to alzheimer's. This is preferred over... life? Reality? It's almost like these people— extremely well-to-do sportsball fans and system-believers— are burdened by some vague consciousness of what we "wrongthinkers" know, but can never acknowledge.
Like they have some suspicion that the future is an ugly place, not worth showing up to. 
Aides to US President Donald Trump convened a series of meetings to address the controversy sparked by Elon Musk’s recent tweets amid his expanding spat with the president, Reuters reported, citing a source.Sputnik International
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Wayne Allyn Root:
Here is How President Trump Can Defeat the “Resistance Judges” and Deport 20+ Million Illegal Alien Invaders F-A-S-T
On Thursday, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said that the recent hike in internet service rates by the state-run telecommunications company ETECSA isteleSURenglish
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On June 3, 2025, Venezuela’s National Assembly held a historic session in which it overwhelmingly approved a law that allows the country to formally join the International Organization for Mediation (IOMed) by ratifying the existing convention that c…Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
A year of funded FreeBSD development
Link: daemonology.net/blog/2025-06-0…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
On Thursday, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva accused Israel of committing premeditated genocide in the Palestinian territory of Gaza during a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.Iran Press
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#BlenderStudio is looking for a composer for their new short film project. Is this an opportunity for #BonkWave or #NotBonkWave to be in a soundtrack?
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When an ominous cosmic event swallows the icy home of a small space critter, he must find refuge among a group of luminous creatures watched over by a mysterious celestial being.Blender Studio
Israel arms ISIS-jihadists to fight against Hamas just like they armed Hamas to fight against the PFLP.
You may ask yourself “when will they ever learn?” but that's assuming the Israeli government's goal is to live in peace. Why should they need to learn, when arming terrorist groups that destabilize and escalate this conflict isn't a mistake?
Considering how much genocide, ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism and hence the expansion of their borders they have been able to justify due to hamas; considering their main argument behind stopping the entry of humanitarian aid was because they were sometimes raided by terrorist militias, which as it now turns out they funded, it was a worthy investment.
@unknownpseudoartist we both put out music with cats. you and i understand the internet 😛
i also like that you have your own site! im at work but got a tab open for you. ill be checking out your tunes when i get home!
also, you should check out indieart.support and shout out with your artist details @hello to get on the directory!
Celebrating independent art, community, comraderie and as direct as possible support for artists.indieart.support
haha totally! I mean... aren't cats and music like, the two best things in the world ever? 😻 🎵
also thanks a lot for checking my music! You have some interesting (and feline) stuff as well, glad to meet you! 😀
so im inclined to scold you for all your self-deprecation but then i would be a hypocrite. but i do like this part:
"Basically this is that kind of music you'd expect to find in a random MySpace or Soundclick profile in the 2000s. That kind of thing you'd get 128k MP3 downloads in a static HTML site. That kind of stuff that would normally be done by some passionate young person who just discovered they can do cool stuff to share online in a cyberworld full of people willing to discover and listen more random, creepy stuff like this. "
and i think you'll find plenty of company around here. especially as a #caturday-er.
anyways, you do a really good job with bass sounds. the overall tonal quality and just getting bass synth sounds. often times better than actual bass guitar but let's not awaken the bassists, right? i aint tryna die right before the weekend.
favorite track on the placeholder of something... i think gotta be absurd. ill check out the other album after this last listen.
hey thanks a lot for listening! this means a lot to me ❤️ (even if I don't agree with my fake bass sounding any better than real bass haha)
Regarding the self-deprecant comments... well, it's complicated, but let's say I was in a bad time and dealing with a bad situation in certain communities regarding harsh criticism and I was tired of that, and just felt the need to break with that and go more my way without any pressure. Feeling a lot better about that already, so no worries 😀
The international journal for independent thought, ethical standards, moral responsibility, and for the promotion and respect of public international law, human rights and humanitarian law.Zeit-Fragen
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So now I'm disgusted with my alma mater, the University of Michigan.
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h/t @knittingknots2
#Gaza #Palestine #Michigan #StudentProtests
The Kim Iversen Show LIVE | June 06, 2025 Dr. Stella Immanuel is one of the front line pandemic doctors who was outspoken about the Covid vaccine. She’s treated over 100,000 Covid patients and is theRumble
The team working behind the scenes on ActivityPub at Ghost grew from 3 to 8 in 2025, and now we're ramping up our work to launch things officially in Ghost 6.0 in the next month.
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What is Ghost?
Yet another site or project where you read endless paragraphs that talk abstractly about ideas and concepts instead of just showcasing what the delivered product/app actually is or looks like. Drives me up the goddamn wall sometimes. Why should I be interested, you know what I'm saying?
Edit: alright guys, every person doesn't have to reply saying what it is. I'm not actually interested anymore. My point was to whine about how it wasn't clear from their home page. 👍 When I realized it was too hard to figure out what this is, I lost interest.
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At least WP is free, Ghost is as “free” until you find out its only useful with the rest of the payed platform. editorjs.io is much better in that sense.
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OP linked to an entry in their newsletter. If you check out their site, they are being pretty clear that they're in the business of "Independent technology for modern publishing", stating in pretty big letters that "Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.".
Reading their newsletters would get boring fast if they started every single one of them with repeating what they are.
Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.Ghost - The Professional Publishing Platform
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Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.
For me, this first paragraph from the site says clearly that they are a tool to build sites and sell content.
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It needs a show case, to show me what it can do! Like, what is the output? Does it spit out a React project? Does it post directly to a hosted CMS type service? What!
There's just too much of what we in Sweden would call "word shitting". Lots and lots of words that say fuck all.
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I think this is going to be pretty huge.
I ended up subscribing to @feed@404media.co (404 Media) after following them on Mastodon. It just feels like a more direct way of following media that fits with how I consume stuff online these days.
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Israel's destruction of Gaza’s schools.Sami Vanderlip (Drop Site News)
This is why they say things like, “without god what’s to stop you from going around murdering and raping?” In their system of morality, those things are only bad because an authority said they were bad. And when the authority says they are okay, they’re okay. Which looks inconsistent to us, but makes perfect sense to them.
This is why they also think that abolishing the police would result in the purge for example. They can’t conceptualize morality independent from authority
i guess that means we're in for some years of blatant financial and civil rights crimes done without anny pretense of covertness, because Dump did it.
A few well-chosen televised firing squads might help a lot. Ask Ceaucescu.
If one can not think for themselves, they need a prophet to follow for guidance.
Here are some of the newest residents of Van Cortlandt Park. I counted three baby Green Herons but there may be a fourth.
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All universities in Gaza have been destroyed. What does this mean for Palestinians?
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Isabella Michie (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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So some Democratic politicians actually got the memo, but clearly others are flailing. To help them out, I’d like to offer my sage political wisdom. Try the following message:
1. Kick Trump out.
2. Tax the living shit out of billionaires.
3. Use the money to get folks back on their feet and clean up this mess.
Just that. Simple and direct, no fussing around. Give that a try and see how it lands. Float a trial balloon in some minor swing district election and see what happens.
That’s a great platform.
But oof, do I have some bad news about where the Democrats get their campaign funding 😝
From UE News | Photo Courtesy of ueunion.org | UE News Reuse Policy BOLLINGBROOK, IL—On April 25, Local 1123 members ratified a new three-year agreement with their employer, National Consolidation Services (NCS).UE (Labor Today)
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tried watching a restream of the game fes bullshit show
couldn't last more than 5 minutes before an illogical discomfort and rage took handle of me so i decided to stop
i don't think i can ever go back to watching those shitshows tbh
not now knowing that majority of it is slop(with denuvo mind you) if not outright subversive leftoid shit
SaaS is just vendor lock-in with better branding
Link: rwsdk.com/blog/saas-is-just-ve…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The pitch of modern SaaS is "don't reinvent the wheel." But every wheel you bolt on comes with some friction.rwsdk.com
Lots of talk today about having more apps than users on Nostr with the rise of vibe coding. What if I told you... that's the strategy? 👀
From the #OsloFreedomForum last week:
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Soapbox Chief Executive Officer Alex Gleason explores the current landscape, challenges, and future of decentralized social media and censorship-resistant co...YouTube
My frens @mk and @alex
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Lots of talk today about having more apps than users on Nostr with the rise of vibe coding. What if I told you... that's the strategy? 👀From the #OsloFreedomForum last week:
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The State of Decentralized Social Media | Project Spotlight
Soapbox Chief Executive Officer Alex Gleason explores the current landscape, challenges, and future of decentralized social media and censorship-resistant co...YouTube
Occasional renewal of the prediction that Trump will not finish his term, and I think it's even plausible he'll be out by the midterms.
The current situation is unsustainable, even for the people who are benefiting most from it. Those people will, of course, try to keep him in place as long as they can, but it's a losing battle. With a lot of ugly tradeoffs in the meantime.
Sadly, Dem leadership are among the ones who believe they benefit. They don't even try to hide it. Schumer and Jeffries, like the fash faction and theocrat faction, want to keep Donny Littlehands in the Oval Office as long as possible, because they think that's what's best for them. Lesser techbros will start turning on Trump now, with Musk and Thiel paying the bills, but they can't do much harm without getting hurt back. And the bigger techbros (Goog, MS, FB, Apple, Amazon) are basically part of the Big Bidness faction. That faction isn't going to defect until the very very last minute.
BTW if you want to be horrified go look for Jeffries's response when a journalist asked if he was planning to do anything about Trump having crossed Jeffries's "red line" of congressional arrests. When I say he'll be much worse than Pelosi that's what I mean. Pelosi was good at procedure and knew how to use money to whip. The only things Jeffries is good at are passing the buck and reassuring donors.
That means the rest of us just have to hope we survive, and that midterms don't get derailed by a terrorist attack, and Trump doesn't get martyred in a way that cements GOP power, or any of a dozen other obvious that could wreck the possibility of Dems regaining control of one or both chambers.
@benda okay, fair.
I kinda felt like defending him with "yeah but what donors want now is probably for him to be as completely incompetent and useless as possible, like Schumer" but I get what a crappy defense that is 😁
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fyi all you tech bros salivating over some kind of "ai assistant" that's intelligent enough to understand you and act on your desires, but for some reason doesn't need to be treated with respect or be given any sort of compensation at all...
hate to break it to you but you're reinventing something again, and it's definitely not something good
You are talking about slavery?Star Trek: The Next Generation. Season 2 Episode 9 "The Measure of a Man"YouTube
and the tech bros hyper focus on llms becuse any actual sentient being (including artificial sentience) would bitch slap them
Slaves is how you create a enemy and a generational grudge
Yes you can create a artificial sentience for a pourpose but you need to treat them as their own being and not property
In Argentina today, there are countless conflicts stemming from many causes in both the state and private sectors. Addressed individually, they generate little visibility or political impact.Worker Wire Services (Labor Today)
Wendelstein 7-X sets new fusion record
Link: heise.de/en/news/Wendelstein-7…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A record has been set at the Wendelstein 7-X research facility. The researchers see this as progress towards the commercial use of nuclear fusion.Werner Pluta (heise online)
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Been off my anti depressants since April now and now I feel like I've reached a state of craziness. I've developed an unhealthy obsession with someone (who hopefully doesn't know, but I did send a Facebook request), and am not sleeping at night. If I don't work through this over the weekend, I'm afraid it is back to the Zoloft for me.
Keep checking my fb to see if the request is accepted, and I'm guessing it will not be. Keep checking said persons active status on Teams at work. Keep trying to walk past said person. I am a psycho.
Also in the strangest coincidence, when I tried messaging said person at work, it actually failed to go through. You can't block internal people so that was fucking weird.
Why I am returning to my regular dose of Prozac after 2 years of tapering off. A few days ago, at a candy store in another town, I asked if I could buy some empty chocolate boxes.Nina Paley
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As we have watched things unfold, we have noticed that Tulsi Gabbard and Marco Rubio seem to be the most effective at delivering results despite the efforts of the entrenched control mechanisms of the deep state intelligence community.Sundance (The Last Refuge)
The World Federation of Trade Unions held its preparatory meeting ahead of the 113th ILC, with the participation of its affiliates and friends.WFTU (Labor Today)
Occupied West Bank (Quds News Network)- Israel’s far-right Finance Minister has urged the government to begin work “towards the implementation of sovereignty” following meetings with settler groups inEditing Team (Quds News Network)
Small Programs and Languages
Link: ratfactor.com/cards/pl-small
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
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