the elder sea

@zzt@mas.to @davidgerard@circumstances.run GNU Image Manipulation Program is still there, and they've been yelled at about it for years!

Another banger from @pluralistic@mamot.fr "The best argument for this ("rights for robots") is that every time we extend rights to the nonhuman world, we end up treating each other better. Movements to extend moral consideration to animals raised uncomfortable questions about the treatment of humans: slaves, workers, poor people, women, children. The Rights for Nature movement, which seeks to extend legal and moral personhood to watersheds and forests, has been key to winning legal and moral victories to protect the environment, and thus the animals and people who depend on it. But while extending rights to natural things produces positive spillovers for human thriving and rights, the opposite happened when we extended personhood to artificial constructs. Corporate personhood has been a catastrophe for human thriving..." https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/10/posthuman-as-in-no-humans/

@alice@lgbtqia.space Band name, calling it now.

@straphanger@urbanists.social Western Europe, step up your game! Central and eastern are doing a fantastic job. I remember an internal night train in France, decades ago. Such a great trip. Would love to take some others in the coming years.

@catsalad@infosec.exchange Calculatorio.

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange Significant chance of danger. People who act like Christ don't need to advertise with their torture symbols.

@gwynnion@mastodon.social If you don't listen to the pundit class and their consultant children, you can do a lot better!

@heiseonlineenglish@social.heise.de Eat your heart out, Ed Zitron.

@MissConstrue@mefi.social A much easier solution, I don't have any orbital nukes so the regular answer is right out.

@MissConstrue@mefi.social @blogdiva@mastodon.social @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io And if not? Pee on it then kill it with fire?

@MissConstrue@mefi.social @blogdiva@mastodon.social @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io You come across The Art of the Deal in a trash can. What do you do?

@danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host Every day, something new breaks in my Windows PC. It's quite crazy that it seems not only do they not fix things, any updates actively break more.

@mrs_malice@mastodon.world Love this display!

@DrorBedrack@mastodon.social @catsalad@infosec.exchange 'bout tree fiddy.

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange @ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu For sure. There's a lot of unexamined symbolism out there. Fourth of July has way more flags than I'd like, but I don't worry too much about my city flying them, or my neighbors if I know them. Depending how well, I might chat with them about it at some point. We all have our blind spots and things we don't consider how it'll make others feel! Hopefully, one good potential outcome of this time is that people will find out that a flag can imply a lot more than they thought!

@MissConstrue@mefi.social I'm not even asking to get a new one each year! I only need one!

@wwu@social.wikiworkersunited.org ✊

@danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host I run Linux at home, so far Fedora is still doing OK for daily driving, but I'm a tad concerned that AI code will start introducing more bugs and I'll have to find another distro. My work PC is an absolute nightmare. It's slow as hell, updates are broken, things that worked fine for years suddenly don't, I just don't get it.

@ana@starlite.rodeo This site is incredible. I would love it as a format, but I don't want to steal it from Jordan. What a wonderful slice of the human internet.

@jsstaedtler@mastodon.art I run it on my NAS and between all my PCs. My phone uses Tasker to launch it nightly to backup a variety of folders. In theory, I can drop stuff to my phone, but I rarely need to. Truly incredible how well it works. And it's fast.

@alice@lgbtqia.space 🫂

@krutonium@social.treehouse.systems @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems So you're asking it for stolen things then. There is no ethical use of this product. Full stop. And its providence is always tainted.

@gwynnion@mastodon.social REAL.

@gwynnion@mastodon.social "Any lifelong Republican should shut the hell up, go away, and never talk politics again because they've been wrong their entire lives and they have nothing of value to add." Honestly, conservatism is just acting like a pathetic child but actually being able to act on it. Their understanding of the world is incredibly stunted at best, and completely incorrect at worst. They don't understand complex societies, interactions, and people. It's a surface-level understanding of literally everything, and they should not be allowed to vote. On top of that, it's impossible to be a conservative and a good person. They think their private singular acts of charity make them good, while voting to strip many of their rights, kill plenty of others (and boy is this one in particular hard to take on, as an American in a shitty American political system), and in general harm anyone who isn't in their "friend" group.

We wooooo?

@ana@starlite.rodeo One benefit I really enjoy is the ability to browse albums and movies in a way that doesn't feel as "discoverable" on streaming (even if it's my hosted streaming). I can flip through a book or shelf of CDs, see what hits the spot, rather than having to know a genre or something. It's tactile and I appreciate that for me.

@gcvsa@mstdn.plus Nicol Bolas will not stand for this blasphemy!

@xgranade@wandering.shop I get that experience counts! But so does ability to function, as you well articulate. I've also dreamed of some sort of system that grants more votes based on some combination of experience and expected remaining life. I know that functionally it'd be nigh impossible to implement, but I would love to see it. Those with a longer stake in the world should impact it more!

@the_etrain@beige.party We thank you for your sacrifice.

@lamnatos@mastodon.xyz Andor, if you haven't been down that road.

@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange I will make an exception for houses also flying pride or BLM flags. I'm OK with people trying to reclaim national flags from the terrible folks who have "claimed" them in the past. But generally speaking, yes, it's a "chance of danger" signal.

@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems Brother has converted me. My B&W laser printer is probably 15 years old now, cost under $100, I can easily get toner refills, and it has an ethernet port so it. just. works.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@npr/politics-v8m4p3ukz/-/a-FxzcA-CpSvSS5kZiof3Y5g%3Aa%3A3195441-%2F0 I believe Betteridge had something to say about this.

@caitp@mstdn.social I remember when black mirror was a show that felt like "I can see how this is on our trajectory" and not a documentary. I think I was about 30 years younger.

@mrs_malice@mastodon.world How dare you, mother. Jail!

@gwynnion@mastodon.social I assumed it was racism or the suburbs and rural areas hating people for having broken free from the constraints that still chain them.

@mrundkvist@archaeo.social This is the direct consequence of this tweet:

The reason is capitalism. They want to be able to remotely disable things, remove features that you paid for, and be able to spy on you on the regular.

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange I hate that it can be good at natural language search. We spent a lot of time getting good at internet search, and this works, but it really needs to return a list of sources rather than explain it because that's where hallucinations cause problems. I expect many people just trust it because it's right *enough* of the time, and yeah...

@jsstaedtler@mastodon.art Syncthing is a software GOAT.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117044302327029099 So, officials of the Fed, here's your choice: you can let people want to kill Sam and Dario, or you can deflect that anger...to you. I know what I'd do, but I'm not cooked in the head.

@CuriousMagpie@beige.party @WEATHERISHAPPENING@weatherishappening.network @universalhub@mastodon.online When is the AQI supposed to go down out there?

@stux@mstdn.social I used to be able to build a custom high end gaming PC for this amount of dollars.

@Natanox@chaos.social Strawsta!

@krutonium@social.treehouse.systems @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems LMAO wut. AI is innocent is the least true statement out there. It can't give you known facts. It can't function without sucking up massive amounts of money, talent, and resources. It currently functions entirely based on theft. It's made by, and supports, the most unethical and immoral people out there. It is not possible to use AI ethically.

@schrotthaufen@mastodon.social @tante@tldr.nettime.org "I want to keep working at shitty tech/defense/oil company and I'll say I'm donating a bunch to a 'fund' for future babies or whatever bullshit and then I'll sleep easy at night knowing that my work is spying on/bombing/changing the climate but it's ok because 'reason'." Fuck those people. They can't reason their way out of the reusable shopping bag they bought for $58.

@leftylabourtech@mstdn.social “incorporate congestion relief measures at all major intersections to improve traffic flow" Relieve congestion by, say, getting fewer cars on the road? Maybe if people could safely use other modes? Nahhh These fuck'n people out here just wasting our money, time, undoing projects, causing messes, in general acting like a bunch of spoiled entitled children. 🤬

@Nickiquote@mstdn.social Betteridge strikes again.

@xgranade@wandering.shop We have to have some sort of term limits across positions. This is crazy time. But there are so many benefits in the house and senate so they stay, and some of them die in office! WTAF. There should be a Thank You For Your Service thing that you get after X terms of Y years above a certain level, and then you are out. We have a government by and for the people who won't be alive in 10 years. This is insanity.