#caturday #cat #cats #catsofmastodon

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@evacide it gets worse. Something that happened in my city last year. Abuser got a restraining order, the kind where both abuser and victim are tracked by the police to detect violations. Guess what happened next.

For the slower readers out there: the other policemen used it to track the victim and send her location to the abuser.

Well this is concerning.

I just suspended 14 Russian LLM generated bot accounts that were created around April 17 on my Mastodon instance, twit.social. Somehow they circumvented manual registration approval. I've turned on Captchas (much as I hate them) for new member requests in the hopes that will stop the bots. They must have discovered a registration bypass bug.

Thanks to IFTAS SW-ISAC for noting and reporting the bots.

@neil is this a usual thing for you, when playing Airsoft?

Aura’s delightful Aspen photo frame is on sale for $30 off this weekend
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/922513/aura-aspen-carver-walden-digital-photo-frame-mothers-day-deal-sale?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into The Verge @the-verge-theverge

Hi all, I've just moved to social.lol from a self-hosted instance, so it's time
for an updated #introduction

One of my big passions is writing: I have a personal website @
https://kedara.eu where I #blog, tend a #DigitalGarden and web weave a #wiki ,
and try to contribute to the #Indieweb #smallweb communities.

I'm very much into #yoga and #meditation and everything related to that. I'm
trying to learn #Sanskrit because its a beautiful language and also in order to
be able to read text like the #BhagavadGita #Upanishads #YogaSutras
#BhagavataPurana which greatly inspire me.

I'm from the #Netherlands and work in #science in the field of outdoor
#AirQuality I may occasionally share something about that, but this is not a
work account (and any opinions are my own).

I love #photography and am slowly getting back into #AnalogPhotography again,
mostly related to #nature #weather #clouds #trees and other beautiful moments,
people and things. I love the #forest, I'm grateful to live at the edge of the
beautiful #Veluwe nature area.

Unfortunately I'm operating at half power thanks to #LongCovid since Feb. '22,
so some of my hobbies are in "partial maintenance mode".

Let me know if you have similar interests and I'll be happy to chat!

@t0maz That looks very nice but they've made the server closed source. Shame, but profits > people in business.

In the April installment of Polylith, I share a new poem published in 'Dark Mountain 29'.

https://cscottmills.com/polylith/081/

#towardThePolylith #darkMountain #darkMountainProject

U.S. Congressman Adam Smith (Washington), top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, calmly laid out Hegseth’s and Trump’s failings with respect to #Iran, including Trump’s attacks on #NATO and allies and schoolgirls, and it is perfect. 10/10, no notes.

#Iran #AdamSmith
https://youtu.be/pE-dV4BtK6Q?si=eDfIXZBgKQXk9P-7

@janl lol what are we all subtooting this morning??

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
The question is what are the community rules about negative balances and how do you avoid excess concentration of wealth so one guy maybe has hundreds of times more balance than others.
@KevinCarson1

@roipoussiere n'ouvre que les jours fériés, et pas tous !
N'accepte que les clients sobres et concentrés (compréhensible quand on loue du matériel !)

@farah FARAH FAWCETT-MAJOR

Toward Lighthouse, at the tip of the eastern prong of the Cowal Peninsula, south of Dunoon. It was built in 1812 by the Cumbrae Lighthouse Trust to help ease navigation between the Isle of Bute and the mainland. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/dunoon/toward/index.html

#Scotland #Lighhouse #CowalPeninsula

#Maryland Is First to Ban #AI #Grocery #PriceGauging

A #state #law that goes into effect in October prohibits grocery stores & third-party delivery services from using consumer data to boost #prices.

The practice — supported by #ArtificialIntelligence & known as #DynamicPricing or #SurveillancePricing — can lead to 2 consumers paying different amounts for the same item from the same retailer, at roughly the same time.

#surveillance #tech #regulation #economy #inflation
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/business/surveillance-pricing-groceries-maryland.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The nearest CostCo is 27 minutes away though…

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @dlakelan In Greco's system there is no "minting authority" and the unit of account isn't "provided" in the sense of there needing to be a supply in circulation, any more than someone has to provide feet and inches to measure lumber. The money is created by the act of exchange.

RE: https://mastodon.art/@cartoonistcoop/116501571945650763

This is right now!