So I was downloading a web video with Shutter Encoder but it kept saving it as WEBM, so I tried to convert it to MP4 after the fact, but the re-encoding kept making my MacBook (M3) go into overdrive and the fan kept coming on and I realized you have to turn on hardware acceleration in Shutter Encoder manually to keep it from doing that. The fan noise on an M3 is so stressful because it never turns on. Lol
Holy crap, this is a privacy and surveillance disaster.
https://bsky.app/profile/chrisnelder.bsky.social/post/3mpeuc3dloc2h
“The National Design Studio, staffed by Doge veterans, installed visitor-tracking software on vital federal websites”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/28/government-website-visitor-tracking-surveillance-fears
Big tech is organized crime. Amen.
https://bsky.app/profile/slack2thefuture.bsky.social/post/3mpcjvcf33s2j
“Mark Zuckerberg Sure Sounds Eager to Get Young People Hooked on Online Gambling — The Meta CEO is developing a social network betting market app—and wants help from Polymarket and Kalshi.” https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/meta-prediction-markets-online-gambling/
"age verification is here to protect people" says industry that can't seem to stop leaking highly confidential info through really stupid basic ass security fuckups
Despite listening to JD in the 80s I never actually gave the music much thought but now I wonder whether the key was in a bit of The Doors and just stripping it of chroma and hippy and make the rhythms cooler to get a more stylish sound.
Started relistening to Joy Division and wonder if there’s anyone who still writes and makes music like them anymore and what it really was like for them to make that kind of music in the late 70s. There was such a big leap from An Ideal for Living to Unknown Pleasures.
AI is wack
‘A24 Wants You to Be Nice About Its Google AI Deal’
https://gizmodo.com/a24-wants-you-to-be-nice-about-its-google-ai-deal-2000778542
Damn, Linotype machines are incredible and I can’t believe this documentary is just free to watch online
It’s so heartbreaking how many families are being kept apart because of all this and none of them are criminals. And we all had to go through covid only to have to face this racism now.
Watch this https://bsky.app/profile/iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social/post/3mpcpsqcyxs2t
Things are getting too crazy
https://bsky.app/profile/northjules.bsky.social/post/3mpbossqpic2j
![Jules (@northjules.bsky.social):
BREAKING: Trump Administration releases report calling for end of separation of church and state, removing civil rights requirements for religious institutions, and injecting Christianity in all parts of American life.
[screenshot of an Aaron Parnas self-recorded instagram video explaining the report]](https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/116/824/167/112/886/211/small/92be808bf1a7720f.jpeg)
I'm going to try going back to blogging like it's 2000 but picking a name for the blog is so hard
Damn, this sounds horrible
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/25/russia-ukraine-war-putin-escalation-nato-europe/
Ugh. Unrelated: will someone please save us from the tyranny of formats like PDF and DOCX and invent something new
I know this post is about politics and not architecture but it still makes me sad that this Norman Foster slash Renzo Piano aesthetic is the what people use to symbolize utopia. Too slick, too sterile, too much glass, not enough people, too many cars, and not enough diversity in the greenery.
https://bsky.app/profile/louisevans.bsky.social/post/3mpbqf45tmk26
![Louis (@louisevans.bsky.social):
the world in 3-4 election cycles if the increased competitiveness of D primaries leads to every faction in the big D tent dramatically increasing both the depth and breadth of their political organizing:
[futuristic rendering of a city with glass buildings, a green lawn, a muted blueish color palette, flying cars, and a monorail]](https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/116/823/041/905/787/978/small/942e5bbca5c8ad4b.jpeg)
RE: https://det.social/@lostgen/116820546568940358
Daniel Ek (Spotify), Daniel Berntsson (Mullvad VPN), Tim Höttges (Telekom) etc: Whoever thought "our" tech bros would be less fascist - you can stop arguing now.
Join our side of fighting tech billionaires and millionaires across the globe.
That's absolutely sad to read. The CEO of @mullvadnet is not only financing the far-right Swedish Örebro party, but he even is their main financer. 70+% of their money is his donation. He is the reason why they go nationwide this year.
For obvious reasons i cease to trust this service. Also i do not finance parties that aim for forced deportations.
https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/
The depths of how fucked up this country has gotten is just incredible
https://bsky.app/profile/donmoyn.bsky.social/post/3mpb7glug7k2z
![jamelle (@jamellebouie.net):
the feds have done more to harass americans angry over good and pretti's
killings than they have to investigate them
Adam Steinbaugh (@adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social):
After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi.
This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York.
His home. A hotel.
They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution.
[webcam video of federal agents at the front door of a house]](https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/116/828/634/281/443/973/small/d1ce12cd3cc6d84e.jpeg)
![Joshua Mask:
[Post of a cartoon illustration of a frog holding a box, facing a toad.]
The caption reads:
Frog put Claude in a box. "There," he said. "Now he cannot run rm -rf/." But he can run bash -c 'rm -rf /', said Toad.
That is true, said Frog.](https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/116/826/031/193/436/109/small/f5e109e8235cff45.jpeg)
