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asmw

@asmw@infosec.exchange 1 hr. ago

Peeking Out.

#photography #mushrooms

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Randahl Fink

@randahl@mastodon.social 57 min. ago

A tip to new users of Mastodon:

By adding a profile picture you make it easier for others to recognize individual users. If you don't, people like me see a follower list where everyone looks the same.

The best profile picture is a selfie. The second best is any other picture than the default.

Welcome to the best social medium on the planet!

♥️🐘

The Japan Times

@thejapantimes@mastodon.social 1 min. ago

TV networks have resumed covering White House events even as a legal battle continues over restrictions on CNN, MS NOW and Politico. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/26/world/politics/tv-networks-white-house-coverage/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #donaldtrump #censorship #us #media

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/26/world/politics/tv-networks-white-house-coverage/

History of Art

@historyofart@mastodon.art yesterday

Boats in an Upcoming Storm with the Church of Zandvoort (1696) by Dutch painter Ludolf Bakhuizen (1630-1708).

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/boats-in-an-upcoming-storm-with-the-church-of-zandvoort-1696-ludolf-bakhuizen-1630-1708.html

#art #ArtHistory #storm #sailboats

Bakhuizen here depicts an emergency. The 'wijdschip', a large sailing vessel, has been sailing into an estuary in order to gain the harbour, whose presence is signalled by the masts to the extreme right. The strong wind has driven it against the line of stakes, or groin as it is called; men on shore are pulling on a rope to steady her stern; other boats are coming to the assistance of the distressed passengers. The church and burst of blue sky to the right suggest that the scene may have an allegorical meaning concerning man's (or perhaps a nation's) struggle towards salvation.

Stellar Art

Boats in an Upcoming Storm with the Church of Zandvoort 1696

Bakhuizen here depicts an emergency. The 'wijdschip', a large sailing vessel, has been sailing into an estuary in order to gain the harbour, whose presence is signalled by the masts to the extreme right. The strong wind has driven it against the line of stakes, or groin as it is called; men on shore are pulling on a rope to steady her stern; other boats are coming to the assistance of the distressed passengers. The church and burst of blue sky to the right suggest that the scene may have an allegorical meaning concerning man's (or perhaps a nation's) struggle towards salvation. Bakhuizen evolved his manner of marine painting from observing the work of the Van de Veldes. Their departure for England in 1672 allowed him to exploit the lucrative Amsterdam market. This painting, dated 1696, belongs to the last and most polished phase of the Golden Age of Dutch painting. Viewers today tend to be disturbed by the artfulness of the scene. We expect instantaneous actions and the turbulence of Nature to be rendered with a raw, direct, bold and sketchy touch - more like Ruisdael's Waterfall or the storm scenes of Turner. We want to ask, with Shakespeare's Brakenbury, 'Had you such leisure in the time of death/ To gaze upon the secrets of the deep?' (Richard III, Act I, scene IV). This is of course irrational: all paintings depict an instant, whether it is an instant of calm or of catastrophe; all paintings are created out of more or less patient artifice. Bakhuizen allowed his original audience the fascination of contemplating something familiar but impossible to take in when it was actually happening. To do this, Bakhuizen subjects chaos to the organising power of art. Every form has a clear outline and shape which could almost be rendered in sculpture. The patterns of the sails, clouds and waves are wild, but also contrived, elegant and rhythmical. Where detail is withheld, as in the distant figures, a clear and simplified block of colour takes its place. The surface of the painting is given an even matt polish. The colour is minutely calibrated, with the most astonishing effect achieved through a narrow range of greys. There is no smudging. Even though to some extent we have to take the artist's word (or brush) for it, this type of artifice can only succeed if based upon observation. The scene must seem probable. In this case, the quality of the observation is extraordinary - especially in the translucency of the waves and the fine distinction between depths of grey cloud-bank to the top left. The church in the background has features similar to those of the Reformed church in Zandvoort on the west coast of the Dutch Provinces.(c) Dulwich Picture Gallery

Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:

@markwyner@mas.to 2 min. ago

@historyofart wow. I have no idea why this painting calls to me. But it’s rad.

Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:

@markwyner@mas.to 2 min. ago

Tonight’s libations. This is my favorite whiskey. And it’s local, which is a bonus. Oregon whiskey FTW!

#Whiskey #PNW #Oregon #Libations

Holding up a bottle of Pendleton Rye 1910 whiskey with a map in the background.

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr 11 hr. ago

malte

@malte@radikal.social 3 min. ago

Neil Brown

@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk 3 min. ago

Today, I am helping a family member move from one macOS machine to another.

But I think that they started using the new machine, which would be an added complication.

Oh well. The joys of providing tech support.

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MMR Nmd

@MMRnmd@todon.eu 4 hr. ago

#SusanSarandon est une des mes 3 héroïnes, peu de personnes il y a, qu'autant admire je et respecte qu'elle autant.

Dès le mois d'octobre 2023, elle a pris parti contre les bombardements insensés de l'IOF sur les civiles de Gaza.
Pour avoir eu raison 2 ans avant tout le monde, le lendemain son agent la lâchait, ses 2 films signés et en tournage imminent ont été annulés, pire, elle a été blacklistée et ne travaille plus ou si peu depuis octobre 2023...Maccarthy même pas mort.

Aujourd'hui, elle participait à un sit-in pacifique devant l’immeuble de l'ONU pour protester contre la venue du criminel de guerre #Netanyahu (on appréciera au passage que le représentant du peuple palestinien supplicié, #MahmudAbbas, pourtant diplomate, n'a pas obtenu de visa pour assister comme ses 200 homologues.
Dommage, il aurait pu entendre les propos orduriers, suintant le mépris, éructés par #Trumpanyahu.

Susan Sarandon, 79 ans, a donc été embarquée par la maison poulaga de NYC, menottée, sous la lentille de la caméra de FoxNews, magnifique dans sa robe noir, un sourire complice et insoumis.

Des gens comme elle, Ruffalo, Bardem me font beaucoup de bien lorsque parfois la lassitude me serre le coeur...et puis non, force à eux : davanti !

Dan Gillmor

@dangillmor@mastodon.social 4 hr. ago

The tech oligarchs are rallying around Elon Musk to block a filmmaker from advertising a deeply reported documentary that lays bare what a slimy -- and dangerous -- person Musk is. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/elon-musk-documentary-trailer-rejected-tiktok-youtube-1236710259/

(Meanwhile, Corporate Journalism continues to support him. Of course.)

The Hollywood Reporter

The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

Arapalla

@Arapalla@aus.social 5 min. ago

@dangillmor

They are afraid of contagion.

Today Musk, tomorrow Zuck..

Ad infinitum.

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MMR Nmd

@MMRnmd@todon.eu 4 hr. ago

From #SecretNEWS channel.

#Bezos #Amazon #Taxes #Billionaires #Trillionaires #antiunion #Lobbying #NYC #MayorMamdani #PromisesKept

I advise to all this 40" documentary on one of Mamdani huges campaign promises he is now on the way to deliver.

And his opponent isn't "small potatoes", it is Amazon's tyranic boss Jeff "No-Union" Bezos.

As today, NYC treasury has recoverde 9$ millions of unpaid tickets.
Settled a 135 million deal with DashDoor who stole it's employees tips during 5 years...5 years.

And he is now frontally opposin Bezos making mandatory their drivers be Amazon's employees and not 1/3 parties, disposable drivers.

For Bezos, it is all his businessmodel that depends on that.
Fight is far from won for Mayor Mamdani, it is no reason to give up.

Gwan Zohran !

https://video.liberta.vip/w/65nt47j19mfFLraXTDLtLS

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Randahl Fink

@randahl@mastodon.social 57 min. ago

A tip to new users of Mastodon:

By adding a profile picture you make it easier for others to recognize individual users. If you don't, people like me see a follower list where everyone looks the same.

The best profile picture is a selfie. The second best is any other picture than the default.

Welcome to the best social medium on the planet!

♥️🐘

Heather Evans

@feather1952@aus.social 6 min. ago

@randahl
A lot of these with no picture, zero followers & no bio are more than probably bots & should be blocked.

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knoppix

@knoppix95@mastodon.social 31 min. ago

X has sent cease-and-desist letters demanding Nitter and its instances shut down, alleging unlawful API use and data scraping. ⚖️
Nitter, an open source reader, is offline while its creator seeks legal advice. 🔒

🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/x-sends-cease-and-desist-to-open-source-project-nitter-over-alleged-scraping/

#TechNews #Nitter #X #Twitter #OpenSource #Privacy #API #FOSS #SocialMedia #Security #Developers #Technology #UserControl #Web #Software

TechCrunch

X sends cease-and-desist to open-source project Nitter over alleged scraping | TechCrunch

X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X frontends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.

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Rachel J Graves

@rachel@tech.lgbt 2 days ago

Can someone please drop a unicorn solo dev business into my lap so I can stop feeling depressed about the industry for a bit 😂

Rocketman

@slothrop@chaos.social 9 min. ago

Good morning! Had a decent night.

Now shower, breakfast, packing, and then a long day in the saddle, heading west.

#bodenseekonigsseeradweg

A lake at sunrise. A tree and some shrubs on the shore. Looks pretty!

Neil Brown

@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk 7 min. ago

@slothrop Good luck, and have fun!

Gjalt-Jorn Peters boosted

Bert Hubert NL 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦

@bert_hubert@mastodon.nl 15 hr. ago

Ik sprak een tech journalist over nostalgie nav de herlancering van de naam Hyves. En ik vertelde dat mensen ook enorm enthousiast zijn over retro Commodore 64's enzo. En toen vroeg 'ie wat een Commodore 64 was. Ik had helaas geen tijd voor een stevige boswandeling.