ZephyrXero

@zephyrxero@layer8.space
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Some guy on the internet...

Posts about art, music, movies/shows, politics, science, videogames, technology, and humor.

Twitterhttps://twitter.com/zephyrxero
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ZephyrXero1d ago
JWcph, Radicalized By Decency1d ago

"Google needs to keep up the story that it is growing. Once Google stops growing, it becames a "mature" company and its PE ratio will fall from 20:1 to something more like 4:1, meaning an 80% collapse in the company's share price..." - @pluralistic

Not to be the I said so guy, but it's near a decade ago that I first started muttering about maybe not calling Google a startup anymore - which is essentially & rather insanely what they're still doing.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114859081313037001 #tech #business #AI

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: When Google's slop meets webslop, search stops; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inhuman-gigapede/ #Pluralistic 1/

Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net
ZephyrXero4d ago
nixCraft 🐧4d ago
🤣 senior devs or sysadmins on the weekend be like …
ZephyrXero4d ago
Sheril Kirshenbaum5d ago
ZephyrXero5d ago

They're coming after the fact checkers now

https://www.theverge.com/news/705802/doj-antitrust-childrens-health-defense-covid-fact-checking-misinformation

#usPol #fascistAmerica #freeSpeech #journalism

DOJ paves the way for a legal war on fact-checking

The DOJ says US antitrust law can protect “viewpoint competition” in an interest statement in a case filed by an RFK Jr.-founded group.

The Verge
ZephyrXero6d ago
George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽6d ago
Now, look here, Donald. I was born during the Great Depression. The tariffs had already happened. And it was over by the time I was five. This is all false.
ZephyrXero6d ago
Tim Bray6d ago

Mastodon 4.4, now available, has a small setting that’s a big deal. See Administration/Server Settings/Discovery, “Allow external sites to see your Mastodon server as a traffic source”.

It means that every time you post a link to a site, that site is going to see as many hits as the number of instances that you have followers on, and those hits are going to be labeled as coming from Mastodon.

This is going to seriously increase Fediverse visibility. Get your instance admin to turn it on!

ZephyrXeroJul 9
Ricki Bowie Knives TarrJul 9
One of the reasons I think people are so fascinated by the Space Race is it is one of the few times in history that so many people have banded together toward a common goal. It's proof, that if institutions and organizations really wanted to, they can make big positive changes. Imagine that much money, time, and expertise was put into ending poverty and homelessness.
ZephyrXeroJul 9
internetarchiveJul 9

The Internet Archive is excited to host The Golden Gate Stereoscopic Society as they share their most accomplished 3D photography and an in-depth workshop of 3D photography techniques.

📅 Tues, July 22
🕕 6:00 PM doors open
📍 IN-PERSON, 300 Funston Ave, San Francisco
ℹ️ https://blog.archive.org/event/stereo-vision-the-art-of-3-d-photography/

ZephyrXeroJul 9
NPRJul 9

U.S. measles cases hit highest level in 33 years, CDC reports
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5461155/measles-outbreak-cdc-vaccination-health?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Shots — Health News @shots-health-news-npr

ZephyrXeroJul 9
Mission LocalJul 8

Video: ICE agents brandish rifles, drive through protesters at S.F. immigration court

Immigration agents clashed protesters, who were trying to stop an arrest at the courthouse, in San Francisco’s most violent ICE encounter of 2025.

https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/video-ice-agents-brandish-rifles-drive-through-protesters-at-s-f-immigration-court/

Video: ICE agents drive SUV through protesters at S.F. immigration court

Immigration agents clashed with protesters, who were trying to stop an arrest, in San Francisco’s most violent ICE encounter of 2025.

Mission Local
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Sheril Kirshenbaum5d ago
Show threadKevin Karhan 5d ago
@Sheril Damn! Why is #CarlSagan correct again?
Show threadAsahi 🖖🙂 | UFP-Liaison 🌈5d ago
@kkarhan Because he was clever. 🤷‍♂️
Show threadJustin M5d ago
@shinydelight @kkarhan the guy was smart enough to see what was coming. Shame no one listened
Show threadKevin Karhan 5d ago
@Jam123 @shinydelight I know...
Show threadOvertonDoors4d ago

@shinydelight @kkarhan

Clever is the asswipe who can't stop bragging about how much his Palantar shares are worth now. Clever is the guy who believes selling a thing is as good or better than understanding how it workes.

Sagan wasn't clever, he was deeply curious and committed to pursuing that curiosity. Even when that pursuit led him to places he didn't like. That's the difference between clever and intelligent. He was the opposite of the person who, as he so deftly identified, couldn't distinguish between what was true and what made them feel good.

"He who by force of will or of thought is great, and overlooks thousands, has the charges of that eminence. With every influx of light comes new danger. Has he light? he must bear witness to the light, and always outrun that sympathy which gives him such keen satisfaction, by his fidelity to new revelations of the incessant soul."

Sagan was a great thinker of his generation who remains so today 40 years after his bearing witness to the truth he so plainly saw in front of us all.

Show threadThe Drop Bear 2.05d ago
@Sheril eeek 😬
Show threaddelProfundo5d ago
@Sheril best book I ever read. Seems I need to gift a few more dozen copies.
Show threadMichael Gale5d ago
@Sheril and thats a big ole yikes
Show threadSnoopJ5d ago
@Sheril @0x0ddc0ffee big same. one of those curses of prophecy
Show threadKarsten Johansson5d ago
@Sheril Trump is the Anti-Carl.
Show threadAdderbox765d ago
@Sheril - Between Sagan's "Demon Haunted World" and Asimov's "Cult of Ignorance" 1980 article, it's utterly terrifying (though not surprising) how presient these futurists turned out to be.
Show threadAl & Val's Modern Homesteading5d ago
@Sheril Well, it really hasn't been that difficult to see and predict the outcome of life here when actors like Reagan are elected to office. Where Jerry Falwells are your go to religious leaders. Where a news commentator is elected the Senator from NC.
Show threadMarcus Reynolds5d ago

@Sheril

We live in extraordinary and fascinating times, poised on the brink of something either too wonderful to imagine or too terrible to contemplate. Probably, given what we know of life, a bit of both. But the mix remains vital and possibly still within our powers of control. What worries me most is that we have an alarming tendency to tilt the balance in the wrong, the ugly way.

#LyallWatson "Dark Nature" 1995

Show threadbstow5d ago
@Sheril That book should be required reading for high school, but they’d just find a reason to ban it if it was.
Show threadJo with elbows up & chin up5d ago
@Sheril accurate. Couldn’t be more prescient.
Show threadFaye5d ago
@Sheril Yes… And it seems unavoidable…
Show threadJohn Crowden5d ago
@Sheril not very scientific but - wow
Show threadSellaTheChemist5d ago
@Sheril Thanks for the reminder.
Show threadErica Laeta4d ago
@Sheril oh fuck.
Show threadJosje Toorop4d ago
@Sheril I was a 13 years girl when Reagan got elected and I can clearly remember cycling to school that morning with an intense sense of loss
Show threadRegressionToTheMeme4d ago
@Sheril Ouch. 🫤
Show threadSnackTraces4d ago
@Sheril I so wish he was wrong on this. I would love for him to be here and have to say "well, I think I predicted that incorrectly".
Show threadRosy Maths3d ago
@Sheril I have thinking of this book for some years, now.