#birds from a walk around the pond this evening.
The #gosling #geese are easy, but I'm not sure what the bird in the other two photos is. Any guesses?
#BirdsOfMastodon

Today's #infosec #compliance policy wonk poll. Do you think it's necessary for policies intended to be read and followed by all employees in a company to prohibit "illegal or unlawful" acts, or it sufficient (and perhaps even preferable) to say either just "illegal" or just "unlawful"?

As someone who tracks misleading content (culture) in real time, I think the TACO thing is funny as hell, but it's a meme not a strategy and Democrats shouldn't be spending a lot of time on it

What do you stand for? What hope can you offer? What actions are you taking to consistently protect Americans rights & our economy?

^5 times the above for every 1 TACO shit talking meme, press conference, or billboard

Savage justice for #Elon:
“Tesla, once the electric car powerhouse, is facing a grim reality: nobody wants the Cybertruck, and the company has no idea where to put them all. So, naturally, they’re stuffing them in abandoned parking lots.”

https://apple.news/AzJgxIOQuR9O90AbD2LqR3Q

I would like to punish the #Apple #macOS #UXDesign professional who decided it's a good idea that using command-tab to switch to another app when it's minimized to the dock does nothing, rather than oh, I don't know, maybe un-minimizing the app? #smdh

It's the kind of weather nowadays when I love to work in the backyard with my laptop, but when I do when it's sunny I need to remember to wear this absolutely ridiculous hat from https://sundayafternoons.com/ so my forehead doesn't get sunburned and my wife doesn't yell at me about not putting on sunblock.

The only thing they couldn't know were the specific numbers: 27% slowdown in the US (2.2% -> 1.6%) and 6% slowdown globally (3.1% -> 2.9%).

And the 8th grader thing: my recent 8th grader picked up equally complex information about Minecraft because he cared enough to search it out.
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Well duh. The average 8th grader could have known from a cursory reading of Adam Smith (I know, assuming they had the curiosity to do that reading) that imposing tariffs would slow economic growth in both the originating country and their trading partners. 1/2
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/03/economy/oecd-economic-downgrade-trump-tariffs-intl

This is focused on New Mexicans, but if you want to understand the overall current landscape for digital privacy in the US, I wrote about that for @ProgressNowNM: https://progressnownm.org/hidden-harms-nm-legislature-dropped-the-ball-on-digital-privacy-heres-what-we-can-do-about-it/

The piece digs into:

- How data is collected and used

- The risks/harms (baked into our everyday lives in ways we don't realize)

- Three keys for what good, sensible reform looks like

#NewMexico #DataPrivacy #DigitalPrivacy #DataUse #DataCollection

"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.

Officially the "Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge" but more generally simply the "59th Street Bridge", the view from Sutton Place at 58th Street on the Manhattan side is probably as flattering and uncluttered a perspective as you'll find for this piece of NYC infrastructure.

Immortalized in song by Simon and Garfunkel, in literature by Fitzgerald, and in cinema by Woody Allen, something about this bridge exemplifies the glamor and bustle of 20th century New York in a way that still holds up.

This was captured with the Phase One IQ3-100 back, Phase One XF DSLR camera, and the Schneider 80mm/2.8 "Blue Ring" lens. I had planned to use a technical camera and the Rodenstock 70mm, providing movements, but a cable was missing from the kit I had with me in the city that night. Fortunately, the 80mm SLR lens was just wide enough to not require movements, though the Schneider lens renders highlights (as prominent starbursts) a bit idiosyncratically for my taste.

Queensborough (59th Street) Bridge, NYC, 2019.

Pixels to slow you down if you move too fast at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/48418025131

#photography

I love fixes which just involve removing code.
In this case the problem was buggy logic, "A folder is a Drafts folder *if and only if* its parent is," which should actually be, "A folder is a Drafts folder *if* its parent is," which is what the comment above the code said but not what the code implemented.
I stared at the code for at least a minute to convince myself I was correct about the bug (which, to be clear, I wrote) before changing it.
#programming
Ref: https://github.com/Extended-Thunder/send-later/commit/4b4b96156c9c27a43a1e193712344c0275173c95

Do allistic people develop routines for everything, or is that a #neurodivergent thing.
Example: washing hands. Wet hands, take soap, rub soap all over hands for several seconds, rinse in running water, shake off water, rinse and shake off a second and third time, turn off water, dry hands.
This is how I wash my hands Every. Single. Time. My brain just naturally follows this script.
I follow ingrained routines like this without thinking about it for most things I do regularly.
Normal or ND?

#Wordle 1,445 4/6* mean: 3.82- winning: 98.03% streak(C/M): 39/165 std dev: 0.98- W/L/T: JvB: 28/40/54 JvOG: 52/33/36

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Creative thinking on 3, #youngpups, netted ties with both the #OldGal and the Bot today. Creative? Maybe. It was an uncommon choice, but couldn’t possibly solve the puzzle. It eliminated all but the solution, though.

Gotta take solace where I can.

I've been wondering why my bank is pushing me to redeem #creditCard #cashBack with every charge rather than asking for a statement credit at the end of the month. I think I just figured it out…
Every time I redeem points, my point balance, _including fractional points_, is zeroed out.
If I wait until the end of the month, all of the fractional points from different transactions add up. If I redeem incrementally, most of them get erased and the bank has to pay me less cash back. 🤔

I don't hang out on #Bluesky and I'm all in on the #Fediverse, but I have to admit that when I occasionally go over to Bluesky to see a thread that somebody has linked here or that was bridged here via #BridgyFed, I find that the comments on the thread tend to be quite good.
There's definitely an early-Twitter-before-it-turned-to-shit vibe to it.
Mind you, I don't think it will last, because everything backed by #VC eventually eventually enshittifies, but right now, it really is pretty good.

“I try to read 20-50 pages a day of a book that educates me”

Media she recommends to educate yourself on #Palestine #Israel occupation of #Gaza steadily without getting overwhelmed:
📚 We Are Not Numbers
📚 The Question of Palestine
📚 A Million Kites
🎬 Voices of Gaza
🎬 Ambulance

#Andor has so many lessons for us to resist #fascism today.

Watch our Live panel discussion with Get Free about Andor and Star Wars as a place for organizing lessons on the roots of change podcast @index

https://youtu.be/85iE36Ce4Nw