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Stefan Bohacek
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A pretty neat Wikipedia page listing first images taken of Earth from space, including this solar eclipse from 1969 made by the Apollo 12 crew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_first_images_of_Earth_from_space

#wikipedia #space #photography #earth
A dark, grainy photo of a backlit planet Earth, with the Sun peaking from behind at the lower bottom left edge.
November 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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These are some lovely fonts, free for all non-commercial use, small businesses that give back to the community, and public-benefit corporations.

https://wehtt.am/fonts

via @piccalilli

#fonts #design #uxui #webdev
A sample of some of the fonts from the linked website, showing them applied to lines from poems.
November 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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From Time Magazine's 2007 list of "The 50 Worst Cars of All Time", an early automobile design from 1899.

"It contained a wooden horse head and neck attached to the front to make Horsey Horseless resemble a horse and carriage and therefore avoid […]

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An illustration of a carriage with a seat and a wooden head of a horse in front. Text in the top left corner says "Fig. 1".
November 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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@kim_harding Reminds me of this interview with the lead game designer on SimCity.

https://v-e-n-u-e.com/Sim-City-An-Interview-with-Stone-Librande
A portion of the interview from the linked article: Geoff Manaugh: While you were making those measurements of different real-world cities, did you discover any surprising patterns or spatial relationships? Librande: Yes, definitely. I think the biggest one was the parking lots. When I started measuring out our local grocery store, which I don’t think of as being that big, I was blown away by how much more space was parking lot rather than actual store. That was kind of a problem, because we were originally just going to model real cities, but we quickly realized there were way too many parking lots in the real world and that our game was going to be really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots.
November 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Cooperating instead of competing.

https://fediverse.stefanbohacek.com

#fediverse #typography #animation
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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✊

#solidarity #gif
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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#fediverse #typography
November 4, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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#fediverse #typography
The word "fediverse" translated into multiple languages, laid out in a large grid, written in various fonts and font sizes, in white color on a black background.
November 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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The actual first message that was sent that day was just "LO", first two letters of the word "LOGIN", when the system crashed.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241028-the-failure-that-started-the-internet

#arpanet #internet #history #otd #onthisday #technology
A portion of an interview from the linked website: Did you realise this could be a historic moment? Kline: No, I certainly didn't at that time. Duvall: Not really. It was another step forward in the larger context of the work we were doing at SRI which we did believe would have a large impact. When Samuel Morse sent the first telegraph message in 1844, he had an eye for drama, tapping out "What hath God wrought" on a line from Washington, DC to Baltimore, Maryland, US. If you could go back, would you have typed something more memorable? Kline: Of course, if I had realised its importance. But we were just trying to get it to work.
October 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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On this day, 56 years ago:

"At 10:30 p.m., 29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from this UCLA site to the Stanford Research Institute."

https://ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace_of_the_Internet,_1969

#arpanet #internet #history #otd #onthisday #technology
A black commemorative plaque with gold frame, inscribed with gold letters. It reads: "At 10:30 p.m., 29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from this UCLA site to the Stanford Research Institute. Based on packet switching and dynamic resource allocation, the sharing of information digitally from this first node of ARPANET launched the Internet revolution."
October 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Interesting. WordPress and Ghost now make up more than half of all fediverse servers.

https://fedi.wrm.sr

#fediverse
A pie chart labeled "Active instances software distribution" with a breakdown of the number and total portion of fediverse servers running specified software: - Ghost: 10,607 servers, 27.46% - WordPress: 9,753 servers, 25.25% - Mastodon: 9,348 servers, 24.2% - PeerTube: 1,639 servers, 4.24% - Misskey: 1,200 servers, 3.11% - WriteFreely: 785 servers, 2.03%
October 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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"Research outfit Five Percent has published a new white paper analysing online content published between January 2020 and May 2025. The results indicate that material created with machine learning tools initially overtook human-written content late last […]

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A meme illustration of a man pointing at himself in a mirror with the caption above the image saying: "You are not procrastinating on Mastodon, you are fighting for a free and open internet" with added words "and against slop".
October 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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The new post compose box feels a bit cramped, to be honest.

Something like this might help! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/27102

(I know there is also a ticket to open the post composer in a modal, but I can never find it.)
A form for composing a new post: a large text field with two dropdowns above it, one for post visibility settings (it reads "Public, anyone can quote"), and one for picking a language (in my case "English"). The text input has a dimmed prompt in it "What's on your mind?" Below it are 4 icons: for upload media files, adding a poll, a content warning, and for inserting emoji. There is also an indicator for how many characters I can type (right now it's 800), and a button to publish the post labeled "Post". Yeah, cramped.
October 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Getting ever closer to living the dream!

"Slackbot today is fairly rudimentary. But what we've done is we've actually rebuilt it from the ground up as a personalized AI companion."

https://www.theverge.com/news/797890/slack-slackbot-ai-assistant-upgrade

#news #technews #technology #ai #work
A four-panel comic that's been modified from the original. Panel 1: Two cartoon people talking to an anthropomorphized representation of Slack as a blue ball with a face, arms, and legs. Slack: We can use AI to write your work email for you and generate the marketing reports! Panel 2, person 1: So...you don't really need us anymore. Slack: I guess not. Panel 3, person 1 following person 2 towards the door and giving a thumbs-up: We'll leave you to it then. Panel 4, person 1 and two are now outside, jumping for joy and exclaiming: We're free!
October 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Heads-up, New Jersey: Tomorrow is the deadline to register to vote in the upcoming NJ gubernatorial election.

You won't want to miss it.

https://www.nj.gov/state/elections/vote.shtml […]

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A screenshot of a paragraph from the linked article. Judicial Appointments For decades, New Jersey governors have upheld a custom of maintaining partisan balance on the state’s seven-member Supreme Court, with neither party holding more than a one-seat advantage. Editors’ Picks That Artsy Mural on a Brooklyn Building? It’s a Whisky Ad. Many Minor Hits Can Damage an Athlete’s Brain The Psychological Value of Repentance Mr. Ciattarelli has said he will end that practice, which he calls a “failed tradition,” and instead appoint only conservative judges when vacancies occur. Ms. Sherrill has said that she will continue alternating Supreme Court appointments by party. But she has also said that anyone she nominates will be a supporter of abortion rights.
October 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!

It might be worth browsing the "MutualAid" tag today and finding folks who could use some help.

Also, https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/10-ways-to-be-ally-indigenous-peoples/ lists 10 ways to be an ally to Indigenous Peoples […]

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Screenshots of a scene from the TV show The Good Place where one character explains: "Fun fact, Columbus is in The Bad Place because of al the raping, slave trade, and genocide."
October 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Hey fediverse, today is the World Sight Day!

How about, as a small gift for the blind and visually impaired folks on here, we step up our alt text game!

Visit https://alttexthalloffame.org to learn why this is important.

#alttext #imagedescriptions #accessibility #worldsightday
A chart showing the percentage of the last 35,957 images posted with alt text from various fediverse servers: beige.party - 100% jorts.horse - 95% mastodon.art - 83% aus.social - 78% chaos.social - 75% meow.social - 68% troet.cafe - 68% c.im - 67% hachyderm.io - 67% mastodonapp.uk - 63% kolektiva.social - 57% norden.social - 56% mamot.fr - 54% mathstodon.xyz - 54% piaille.fr - 51% infosec.exchange - 46% mastodon.online - 45%
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Very cool, @altstore, welcome to the #fediverse!

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/alternative-app-store-altstore-raises-6m-connects-with-the-fediverse/
A screenshot from the linked article: "With the additional funds, AltStore wants to give back to the ecosystem that will make its social network possible. To that end, it’s giving back $500,000 to various projects in the fediverse. So far, it’s donated to Mastodon gGmbH ($300,000), as well as Bridgy Fed by A New Social, Ivory + Phoenix by Tapbots, Tapestry by The Iconfactory, mstdn.social, Akkoma, PeerTube, BookWyrm, and Fedify."
October 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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I brought this up to the Mastodon team (no response yet), but I wonder if the solution, at least a temporary one, to the problem where people get harassed with followers-only posts that @ mention them, thus hiding these posts from public view and […]

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A mocked up screenshot of the notification settings page. Among the default options (see full list below) I added: Followers-only mentions from accounts you don't follow Do you want to hide followers-only messages from accounts you don't follow? The default notification settings categories are: - People you don't follow - People not following you - New accounts - Unsolicited private mentions - Moderated accounts
October 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Just a CEO of a hot new social media platform calling its users freeloaders and telling them to stop posting, hm.

#bluesky #socialmedia
A pair of two posts from Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky. In first, she says "You could try a poster’s strike. I hear that works." In the second, she replied "Are you paying us? Where?" to someone saying "Yeah but a customer threatening to cancel their service usually gets a couple things accomplished. C'mon, Jay. Shame on you."
October 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Did you know that when government officials use ChatGPT, the chat logs are considered public records?

https://www.knkx.org/government/2025-08-26/washington-city-officials-chatgpt-write-government-documents-artificial-intelligence

via @muckrock

#news #foia #chatgpt
Screenshot of a paragraph from linked website: Through a series of public records requests, Cascade PBS and KNKX obtained thousands of pages of ChatGPT conversation logs from city officials in Washington. The volume of the records suggests widespread use of the technology in local government. In addition to drafting mayoral letters, officials have asked ChatGPT to generate social media posts, policy documents, talking points, speeches, press releases, responses to audit recommendations, application materials for grants and replies to constituents’ emails.
September 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Hey #newjersey, you might want to show up in November.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/nyregion/new-jersey-governors-race-issues.html?unlocked_article_code=1.n08.hAwU.sV4YRRncCxy6&smid=url-share

https://voter.svrs.nj.gov/register

#nj #election #uspol
A screenshot of a paragraph from the linked article. Judicial Appointments For decades, New Jersey governors have upheld a custom of maintaining partisan balance on the state’s seven-member Supreme Court, with neither party holding more than a one-seat advantage. Editors’ Picks That Artsy Mural on a Brooklyn Building? It’s a Whisky Ad. Many Minor Hits Can Damage an Athlete’s Brain The Psychological Value of Repentance Mr. Ciattarelli has said he will end that practice, which he calls a “failed tradition,” and instead appoint only conservative judges when vacancies occur. Ms. Sherrill has said that she will continue alternating Supreme Court appointments by party. But she has also said that anyone she nominates will be a supporter of abortion rights.
September 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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"The internet emoticon truly traces its lineage directly to Fahlman, who says he came up with the idea after reading "lengthy diatribes" from people on the message board who failed to get the joke or the sarcasm in a particular post -- which is probably […]

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A screenshot of two paragraphs from the linked article: 1982: At precisely 11:44 a.m., Scott Fahlman posts the following electronic message to a computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University: 19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-) From: Scott E Fahlman I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-) Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use: :-(
September 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Thrower
A screenshot of a paragraph from the linked Wikipedia page: An old man had a habit of early morning walks on the beach. One day, after a storm, he saw a human figure in the distance moving like a dancer. As he came closer he saw that it was a young woman and she was not dancing but was reaching down to the sand, picking up a starfish and very gently throwing them into the ocean. "Young lady," he asked, "Why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?" "The sun is up, and the tide is going out, and if I do not throw them in they will die." "But young lady, do you not realise that there are miles and miles of beach and starfish all along it? You cannot possibly make a difference." The young woman listened politely, paused and then bent down, picked up another starfish and threw it into the sea, past the breaking waves, saying: "It made a difference for that one." The old man looked at the young woman inquisitively and thought about what she had done. Inspired, he joined her in throwing starfish back into the sea. Soon others joined, and all the starfish were saved.
September 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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30 years of hacking the planet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film)

#hackers #hackersday #hacktheplanet #otd #onthisday #film #filmhistory #filmandtv
September 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM