Carol Danvers votes in favor of a nice nap. #catsofmastodon

I remembered about the Anthropeum game again, so I played it! Still a joy and a learning experience. :) #art #game #anthropeum

Anthropeum.com · Jul 28 2026
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Today I learned about the "BarackRoll" of, like, the year 2000. Idk how I missed this at the time, but this is awesome. 😆

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65I0HNvTDH4 #TIL #Obama #Rickroll

Is it just me or have Google maps and Google street view gotten worse in the past couple of weeks? Like, buggy and having trouble moving images and stuff? I use Google maps a lot for school projects, and I think this worked way better a few weeks ago.

Makes me wonder if something is failing in the background with AI integration or something. I suppose the enshittification will continue whether or not morale improves? #google #ai #enshittification

It's good to sit and watch the bees. (I didn't get video, sorry.) #Bees #bloomscrolling

This is just to say that my friend @effies is brilliant and this short story about developing laser eyes is SUPER RELATABLE. #SFF #scifi #disability #accessibility

https://www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-123b-laser-eyes-aint-everything-by-effie-seiberg/

(I love bikes and pedestrians and buses, please don't yell at me if you are randomly seeing this, lol. I don't own a car. I just think I'm funny, but if I were truly brave, I'd shitpost this to the Facebook groups and watch the world burn.)

Hot take for Somerville residents: You know what? Let's admit that we're never going to redesign Highland Ave. This is fine.

The potholes are traffic calming. The trees growing out of the pavement are stormwater management. The warts are structural.

Let's save the city time and money by moving on. Don't drive on Highland. It'll be a gravel-ish-covered pedestrian way or shared bike/ped route in another decade, maybe w/ a bus lane. Let nature take its course. #SomerPoli #SomervilleMA

RE: https://mastodon.nu/@sorenhave/116932621360673006

Oooooh, not only is this a superb essay from @pluralistic , but it can be paired with Monroe Price's "Market for loyalty" theory -- really brings forward the notes of blood in the machine. Amazing stuff, well done, Cory!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_for_loyalties_theory?wprov=sfti1#History_and_elements_of_the_theory

The apocalyptic sky this week strongly reminds me to share this story by @naomikritzer : "The Year Without Sunshine." #SFF #scifi #mutualaid

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-year-without-sunshine/

For those following the MA state senate seat to replace Pat Jehlen this fall:
https://www.gottaknowmedford.com/20260717_five-democrats-pour-nearly-500-000-into-open-2nd-middlesex-race/

For what it's worth, my vote is undecided at this time. I’m not voting for Barber and definitely definitely not voting for Hopcroft.

#MApoli #SomerPoli

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@jimsalter/116851027584816648

Just gonna re-boost this, because my justice sensitivity goes HARD, especially lately, and the CHAIR FUCKIN' KNOWS. 😈

This brilliant essay from Ted Chiang re "AI" sentience bullshit. This right here:

"What would it take to convince me that a computer program is actually conscious and using language the way that people use language? ...Before anyone can credibly claim that they’ve solved an extraordinarily difficult engineering problem, I need to be confident that they have previously solved the many much simpler problems that precede the difficult problem."

#AI #scifi

https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/?gift=tjkl4dkX2ikVIXb7b8QUnvkarl9Q0mu0tMpAV3zZSko

Anyway, the Minnesota 15 are still alive and fighting. The Prairieland kids are still alive (but their sentences are brutal and terrifying).

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/charged-in-anti-ice-conspiracy-two-minnesota-defendants-speak-out/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/texas-protesters-anti-ice-convictions

I hope they get to hug their loved ones. I hope they know they’re not disposable. I hope they know that some of us notice and worry about them.

And it’s NOT the same thing, I know it’s not, but it’s something. Whenever I read about the high-powered gov’t trying to quash people speaking up about what happened to them, speaking out against bad shit that’s happening — I think of how hard it was to push back against one dude with wealth. Hard, and lonely.

Well, I’ve been having some feelings about the shitty anti-free-speech action the US gov’t has been taking. Kinda reminds me of the time I was sued for defamation, although obviously there are differences.

One thing about that experience is that I couldn’t achieve calm easily while being cut off from my community, told to shut up or it’ll harm them, and handled roughly by people with guns at their hips. It’s pretty hard to keep calm then, actually, in my experience. I cried daily for a while.

Ahahahaha, I was soooo bad at the Anthropeum game from yesterday. Lowest 4%, amazing. Learned some things, though!

Anthropeum.com · Jul 1 2026
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Today I learned about the court case US v. ElcomSoft and Dmitry Sklyarov (and who Sklyarov was). Holy crap. #TIL #USPol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elcom_Ltd.

Heat wave this week, in case folks haven't heard already.

People in Somerville and Medford: MAMAS has an air conditioner redistribution project every spring/summer. If you have a working a/c to contribute, or if you are in need of one, take a look at the info on the website about this project!
https://mutualaidmamas.com/get-involved/ac-project/

If you are able to contribute $ to the community pool, that also helps tremendously.
#MutualAid #SomervilleMA #MedfordMA #SomerPoli #MAPoli

I think I miss having a summer reading game at the public library. I'm doing all of this reading, lately, but I haven't been awarded any stickers or advanced my game piece or gotten a certificate or anything.

... anyone want to play a summer reading game with me? 🥹