After six momentous leaps from a small aircraft, skydiver Gabriel C. Brown completed his mission. He and his photographer friend Andrew McCarthy created this stunning image that shows the adventurous subject falling in front of the sun.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/andrew-mccarthy-skydiver-sun-image/

#photography #nature

The Future is Federated - Elena Rossini's lovely, [soon-to-be?] #selfhosted, #Ghost newsletter/blog about federation, geared to newcomers

https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/the-future-is-federated/

> The Future is Federated is a series of essays about the Fediverse with the goal of introducing it to people not familiar with it... and showing interoperability between projects for more advanced users. The future is already here, thanks to the magic of ActivityPub!

What a photograph. “Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…” Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

@phillycodehound I have reached out in the past, and they have declined. I personally use phanpy as well and it's incredible.

Twitter, 2020: lol this Gwen Snyder freak thinks the "dirtbag left" is a pipeline to Nazism. Touch grass, bitch The entire world, 2026: oh wow all these people we did "dirtbag left" profiles on turned into Nazis. How did that happen? The world may never know

Interesting data point from the brilliant @AmandaMarcotte

"It’s not surprising that the three #Republican women who signed the discharge petition are divorced. That gives them a level of psychological independence that married Republican women almost never enjoy."

https://www.salon.com/2025/11/14/sorry-nancy-mace-donald-trump-hasnt-protected-women/

#USPol
#Epstein

Look at these pants my partner made me 🤩 These are #RETROCOMPUTING selvedge jeans!! With floppies on the pockets!

God bless Vince Gilligan

“Gilligan is critical of AI in filmmaking, calling it ‘the world’s most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine’. In an interview with Polygon whilst promoting Pluribus, he stated ‘I have not used ChatGPT, because as of yet, no one has held a shotgun to my head and made me do it. I will never use it.’”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Gilligan#Personal_life

#ResistAI #AIBubble

I finished reading the complete works of Fletcher Hanks, and I made a list of my favorite lines. I realized that his work is the first time I've come across a "so bad it's good" thing in comics, like a graphic novel by Ed Wood or Tommy Wiseau.

Another dataset confirms that last month was the warmest October on record in the #Arctic. The previous record was 2024. This is already a month with a very large increasing temperature trend (i.e., Arctic amplification). Not good.

Data from NASA/GISS GISTEMPv4 (https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/).

Kein Geld für die dauerhafte Absicherung des #Deutschlandticket.
Kürzungen beim #Bürgergeld.

Aber auf 350 Millionen Euro für billigere Flüge zu verzichten, ist anscheinend kein Problem.

Das ist nicht mein Kanzler, nicht meine @Bundesregierung.

#Flugticketsteuer #Bundeshaushalt #Klimawandel #Verkehrswende @bmv

Calling LLMs AI when they’re not even in the ballpark is one of the greatest marketing “successes” of all time

They’re not intelligent or even close. They’re Paywalled Premium Autocorrect.

But people, including ones who run companies, have been hearing the phrase “AI” in pop culture for over 60 years.

They hear it used for a product, assume it’s what the term has always meant, & proceed as though it’s fucking R. Daneel Olivaw without the annoying terms & conditions.
https://spacey.space/@60sRefugee/115537404570803355

I have to ask: How actively maintained is #BookWyrm as a project these days?

Apparently, my own instance (bookrastinating.com, which is the second largest one) - recently lost its SSL certificates, and the admin account seems to be inactive.

And the archive/export function doesn't work, either, which makes me rather nervous.

Also, the Patreon Page for BookWyrm as a whole hasn't been updated since 2022.

#Fediverse #FediHelp

'Verloren im Dunst' // Lost in the haze
#FotoVorschlag

Schwarzwald, Jura, Alpen.
Sorry, ich hab kein Besseres...
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Black Forest, Jura, Alps.
Sorry, I don't have a better one...

In the unsolicited series #CityTrees : featuring Place St Catherine in #Brussels 💛