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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin@c.im
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Shared by Jeff Atwood

That Zohran Kwame Mamdani should be a serious contender for the leadership of America’s largest city is both a sign of the times and of his individual capabilities.

Polls show him within striking distance of the frontrunner Andrew Cuomo in what is now essentially a two-horse race, with Brad Lander trailing a distant third.
Mamdani came to the US aged seven from Uganda where he was born to parents of Indian descent.
His father is a political scientist Mahmood Mamdani, and his mother, Mira Nair, is the Oscar-nominated director of Salaam Bombay! and Monsoon Wedding.

He is a democratic socialist endorsed by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
He has been outspoken on the Gaza war, which he views as a genocide,
and is unrestrained in his criticism of Trump, whom he calls an authoritarian.
He denounced Lander’s arrest as “fascism”.

He is equally scathing about the establishment of the Democratic party, which he tells me has “betrayed” the people of New York.
And yet here he is, an unashamed progressive Muslim immigrant, snapping at the heels of the ultimate Democratic machine politician, the thrice-elected former governor of New York, Cuomo.

The outcome of the ranked-choice vote could illuminate so much more than the future of New York, important though that is.

There’s age. Mamdani, if elected, would become at 33 the youngest mayor in a century; Cuomo, 67, would be its oldest in a first term.
Could this election deliver a blow to what Ocasio-Cortez has called the “gerontocracy” of American politics?

There’s Trump. Lander’s arrest could be just the start – only a day before the comptroller was apprehended, the president announced he was prioritizing deportations from New York and other Democratic-run cities, putting whoever wins the mayoral race in the line of fire.

And there’s the Democratic party itself. Mamdani calls the election a referendum on the future of the party – and given the parlous state in which it currently finds itself, trapped in the headlights of a president who appears hell-bent on destroying American democracy as we know it, he may not be wrong.
This is gearing up to be a seismic clash at a turning point for the country.
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

‘New Yorkers have been betrayed’: can Zohran Mamdani become the most progressive mayor in the city’s history?

Six months ago, the 33-year-old was an unknown outsider polling in single digits. Now he is in striking distance of becoming New York’s youngest, most leftwing mayor in a century

www.theguardian.com · the Guardian

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:meow_awauu: 요즈미나 🎄 @Yozumina@serafuku.moe
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Shared by 상어학산타 :spinny_cat_gay:

(파인애플 통조림을 먹으며)
​:yuno:​ 🍍 : 와 이거 원재료가 특이하네
​:mina:​ 🍍 : 응? 뭔데?
​:yuno:​ 🍍 : 안에 들어있는 주스가 파인애플 주스야
​:mina:​ 🍍 : 엥 진짜? 설탕물에 넣은 파인애플에서 나온 과즙이 아니고?
​:yuno:​ 🍍 : 엉 그런가봐
​:mina:​ 🍍 : 와 그거 완전 에바에 탄 신지잖아
​:yuno:​ : ...네?
​:mina:​ 🍍 : 아니 왜 파인애플 주스에 들어간 파인애플이잖아 그걸 인간으로 바꾸면...
​:yuno:​ : ​:ablobcatsweatflip:​

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:meow_awauu: 요즈미나 🎄 @Yozumina@serafuku.moe
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(파인애플 통조림을 먹으며)
​:yuno:​ 🍍 : 와 이거 원재료가 특이하네
​:mina:​ 🍍 : 응? 뭔데?
​:yuno:​ 🍍 : 안에 들어있는 주스가 파인애플 주스야
​:mina:​ 🍍 : 엥 진짜? 설탕물에 넣은 파인애플에서 나온 과즙이 아니고?
​:yuno:​ 🍍 : 엉 그런가봐
​:mina:​ 🍍 : 와 그거 완전 에바에 탄 신지잖아
​:yuno:​ : ...네?
​:mina:​ 🍍 : 아니 왜 파인애플 주스에 들어간 파인애플이잖아 그걸 인간으로 바꾸면...
​:yuno:​ : ​:ablobcatsweatflip:​

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin@c.im
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That Zohran Kwame Mamdani should be a serious contender for the leadership of America’s largest city is both a sign of the times and of his individual capabilities.

Polls show him within striking distance of the frontrunner Andrew Cuomo in what is now essentially a two-horse race, with Brad Lander trailing a distant third.
Mamdani came to the US aged seven from Uganda where he was born to parents of Indian descent.
His father is a political scientist Mahmood Mamdani, and his mother, Mira Nair, is the Oscar-nominated director of Salaam Bombay! and Monsoon Wedding.

He is a democratic socialist endorsed by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
He has been outspoken on the Gaza war, which he views as a genocide,
and is unrestrained in his criticism of Trump, whom he calls an authoritarian.
He denounced Lander’s arrest as “fascism”.

He is equally scathing about the establishment of the Democratic party, which he tells me has “betrayed” the people of New York.
And yet here he is, an unashamed progressive Muslim immigrant, snapping at the heels of the ultimate Democratic machine politician, the thrice-elected former governor of New York, Cuomo.

The outcome of the ranked-choice vote could illuminate so much more than the future of New York, important though that is.

There’s age. Mamdani, if elected, would become at 33 the youngest mayor in a century; Cuomo, 67, would be its oldest in a first term.
Could this election deliver a blow to what Ocasio-Cortez has called the “gerontocracy” of American politics?

There’s Trump. Lander’s arrest could be just the start – only a day before the comptroller was apprehended, the president announced he was prioritizing deportations from New York and other Democratic-run cities, putting whoever wins the mayoral race in the line of fire.

And there’s the Democratic party itself. Mamdani calls the election a referendum on the future of the party – and given the parlous state in which it currently finds itself, trapped in the headlights of a president who appears hell-bent on destroying American democracy as we know it, he may not be wrong.
This is gearing up to be a seismic clash at a turning point for the country.
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

‘New Yorkers have been betrayed’: can Zohran Mamdani become the most progressive mayor in the city’s history?

Six months ago, the 33-year-old was an unknown outsider polling in single digits. Now he is in striking distance of becoming New York’s youngest, most leftwing mayor in a century

www.theguardian.com · the Guardian

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Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ @elena@aseachange.com
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🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 186 (bandwidth edition)🚦

A moment of gratitude for #VarnishCache and how incredibly it has protected my self-hosted #Ghost blog from the so-called "Mastodon stampede" / "Mastodon hug of death":

Yesterday I published a page on my site with the French-language version of the Fediverse promo video https://news.elenarossini.com/fedivers-video/

Then I posted a message on my Mastodon account about it, asking people to boost it, so that people in the Francophone world could see it.

How many boosts did I get? 1300 so far (you people are amazing).

Well, my Ghost blog is still standing and super fast. Varnish is INCREDIBLE and I could not recommend it more.

Oh and my VPS with PeerTube is also still standing because I embedded the French version of the video on my Ghost site, so that hundreds of Mastodon servers attempted to fetch the cover image of the POST and not the cover image of the video.

Bandwidth consumption (for my VPS with GoToSocial and PeerTube) so far this month: 0.457 TB (my limit is 8 TB)

Bandwidth consumption for my VPS with Ghost: 0.06 TB (limit: 4 TB)

So far so good 😅​

#MySoCalledSudoLife

📺 Découvrez le fédivers : une nouvelle ère pour les réseaux sociaux

Découvrez un tout nouvel univers des réseaux sociaux, où la vie privée est respectée, les utilisateurs détiennent le pouvoir et les GAFAM n'ont pas leur mot à dire.

news.elenarossini.com · Elena Rossini

Link author: Elena Rossini ⁂@_elena@mastodon.social

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FediFollows 🎅 @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services
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There are many livestreamers on the Fediverse using the Twitch-style platform.

Follow an OwnCast account from Mastodon etc and it will post when it goes live:

➡️ @video - Music DJs playing soulful house, dance, hiphop etc

➡️ @hamishtpb - Friendly streams with music, chats, games, etc

➡️ @live - Funny streams by artist creating muppet-style puppets

➡️ @Funk - Chilled out streams, often gaming or just chatting

➡️ @studio - Italian artist doing illustrations, comics, design etc

🧵 1/2

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Fynn Ellie Becker @mvsde@mastodon.social
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Visited the newly opened Kinopolis Dolby Cinema in Hamburg yesterday which was fun for … reasons. The cinema itself is nice, but honestly it is a bit too clean and modern. No curtains, no red carpet. It looks like when Apple designed a movie theater. Lacking the comfortable atmosphere I normally associate with movie theaters.

But maybe I’m just spoiled by the Savoy theater in Hamburg which is the best. Not necessarily technologically, but the vibes are spot-on.

Entry to a Dolby Cinema with opened black doors and blue mood lighting, the entry hallway curves slightly to the left. It looks like entering a weird spaceship or travelling through a wormhole or something.
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もちもちずきん🍆 @Yohei_Zuho@mstdn.y-zu.org
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Shared by モナコ広告 :fedibird1: ＠技術・雑談

明日の昼は勉強会ですよ〜！！
fedilug.connpass.com/event/357

第9回 Fediverse Linux Users Group 勉強会 (2025/06/22 13:00〜)

## FediLUGについて Fediverse Linux Users Groupは、Fediverseというネットの”地域”に焦点を当てたLinuxユーザーグループです。 初心者から玄人まで、Linuxやオープンなソフトウェアを通じて楽しい時間を共有する目的で運営されます。 勉強会では、それぞれが持ち寄ったネタを発表しあい、知見を深めるということを行っています。 ## 会の形式 参加者がスライドを持ち寄ってLT形式で発表をして、議論をする会になります。 流れとして * FediLUGの紹介と流れについての説明（5分） * 自己紹介（🔇がついている人は飛ばします）...

fedilug.connpass.com · connpass

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맹꽁이 @sunwoo1524@pointless.chat
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사실 우주는 시뮬레이션이다, 우리는 실험실의 뇌다, 우주는 블랙홀 안에 있다 등등의 가설들을 편하게 받아들이려면 먼저 우주는 시뮬레이션이든 아니든 원래 의미가 없다는 것부터 받아들여야 함

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Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga @humberto@mastodon.online
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Shared by Christine Lemmer-Webber

@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber

I submitted a bug to debian on this. Startup on aarch64 jumped from a few seconds to several minutes on my MNT Reform 2. The guix version works fine.

```
$ which racket
/home/humberto/.guix-profile/bin/racket
$ time racket -e "(* 5 6)"
30

real 0m3.246s
...
$ time /usr/bin/racket -e "(* 5 6)"
30

real 3m39.905s
```

bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep

#1085959 - racket: Racket is unusually slow on aarch64 - Debian Bug report logs

bugs.debian.org

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ahimsa @ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social
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"Scale of how ME/CFS affects blood revealed"

ed.ac.uk/news/scale-of-how-mec

"People with ME/CFS have significant differences in their blood compared with healthy individuals, a new study reveals, suggesting a path towards more reliable diagnosis of the long-term debilitating illness."

This is early research, not a diagnostic test yet! The wording in some articles has been misleading.

@mecfsMECFS group

The largest ever biological study of ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) has identified consistent blood differences associated with chronic inflammation, insulin resistance, and liver disease. Significantly, the results were mostly unaffected by patients’ activity levels, as low activity levels can sometimes hide the biological signs of illness, experts say. The volume and consistency of the blood differences support the long-term goal of developing a blood test to help diagnose ME/CFS, researchers say.
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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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Captain Cook's missing ship found after sinking 250 years ago

Link: independent.co.uk/news/science
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Captain Cook’s missing ship found after sinking 250 years ago

HMS Endeavour, which had been lost for centuries, has finally been discovered off the coast of Rhode Island

www.independent.co.uk · The Independent

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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This is a bit of code I wrote in my Rust program:

macro_rules! tern {
(true, $one:expr, $_:expr) => { $one };
(false, $_:expr, $two:expr) => { $two };
}

This seems so blatantly useful it seems like it *ought* to be in the standard library, but to my knowledge it is not. Am I missing something? Does this four-liner exist somewhere well-known already?

(Explanation in next post)

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Elena Rossini ⁂ @_elena@mastodon.social
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Fedi promo video in numbers - a mini thread 🧵

I originally published the video "Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" on my self-hosted Ghost blog / PeerTube 11 days ago.

So far it has 10k views on PeerTube with 33 comments. Mostly positive.

I also uploaded it to YouTube 5 days ago - to spread the message farther - and it has 14.4k views there, with 166 comments (initially positive, but they've turned dark and critical lately).

Anyway these numbers don't tell the whole story

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Amit Gawande @amit@me.dm
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Hello! I'm a coder by profession, who loves to read & write to keep myself inspired. I've been a blogger for over 15 years, but lost touch with writing when Twitter was at its peak. Maybe I lost love for my words.

Anyway, the IndieWeb sparked my love for the technology and also for writing. Since then, I've been working on numerous indie projects and writing my heart out on my blog. I hope that this place doesn't kill my drive for reading & writing, but instead brings fun to it.

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Meshtastic @meshtastic@mastodon.social
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We KILLED the OLED UI🧨... to build something better. 

✨ Meet BaseUI and more in the 2.7 Tech Preview!

🔗 meshtastic.org/blog/meshtastic

Meshtastic 2.7 Preview: UI Overhaul - Introducing BaseUI! + New Input Support + TFT Unification | Meshtastic

Meshtastic 2.7 is here with a complete redesign of the standard UI, Introducing BaseUI! New input support on native linux, and the ability to switch between UIs on supported hardware.

meshtastic.org

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