Bluesky Corporation have just started hosting and verified the US agency ICE:

https://bsky.app/profile/icegov.bsky.social

In other words, Bluesky are collaborating with racist violent thugs and murderers.

(Bluesky Corporation were already hosting the White House (https://bsky.app/profile/whitehouse-47.bsky.social), the Department of War (https://bsky.app/profile/deptofwar.bsky.social), JD Vance (https://bsky.app/profile/jd-vance-1.bsky.social), Homeland Security (https://bsky.app/profile/homelandgov.bsky.social) etc. This is a long-term collaboration with Trump admin.)

(via https://mstdn.social/@Grutjes/115907687819628134 )

Here we move from history to speculation, but I think the real reason this doesn't matter is that humans are extremely good at reconstructing mental 3D from visual 2D.

It doesn't appear to be well studied, but human binocular vision mainly works well up close, and peters out around 50 feet.

But anybody can look out a window and have a decent 3D model in their heads extending out hundreds, even thousands of feet. 14/

My objection is that otherwise smart people, over and over and over again, make big investments in that hypothesis without ever understanding why it has failed so many times before. Facebook's VR losses alone are above $75 billion dollars.

Stereoscopic 3D is a cool novelty, but at this point I'd be amazed if anything serious ever comes out of it. And if it does, it will be because somebody really looked at the failures and pursues products people actually care about. Because so far, every time, people get bored and quietly go back to the thing that was already working for them. 13/

My point here isn't "3D bad". It's that for 175 years or more, people have been thinking "2D success + stereoscopic 3D technology = the future".

It's not a dumb hypothesis, really. People do process (a relatively close portion of) the world with binocular vision. Seems possibly important. 12/

In honor of Meta's latest announcement, a thread on 175 years of 3D failure.

Let's first go all the way back to 1851 with the Brewster Stereoscope. No less a person than Queen Victoria was impressed, kicking off a fad that quickly sold over 250,000 units. Turns out it was not the future of photography.

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Always thought they didn't like the "Black" but it turns out they also don't like the "lives matter" part either.

hatred levels are 93% and rising

(93%) ■■■■■■■■■□

Potato sorting stations are common in Ukraine's agricultural regions. However, this one 1 km from Krasnosilka appears abandoned, partially dismantled, and unusually designed.

"how to get into fights with law professors and develop a reputation before you're even called to the bar as someone who's a nightmare to negotiate a settlement with"

RE: https://social.miyaku.media/@ryan/statuses/01KF4PAJZ6YE0HMP17DX8RPDMG

the real reason to learn like 12 languages is so you can know how to correctly pronounce all the words and names in those languages that are presented innocently as though they are normal english words that follow normal english rules of pronunciation

Doing some computer maintenance for the first time in ages. Grub has been like this for literally years and I’ve been just sort of living with it. I’d kind of like to fix it but I have no idea how.

EDIT: fixed now, thanks for the suggestions! It was a resolution problem, fixed in the grub configuration!

For #FungiFriday, with a hint of #Mosstodon and a fresh-fern-frond.

#Photography #VancouverIsland

Just two plant guys going nuts over some Poison Ivy in a Cleveland carpark.

The wonders of nature are all around us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czY3umhMrs

Y'all. This is where the "we must have Greenland" idea came from AND WHY.

Lauder and Trump went to college together.
Lauder now owns commercial property in Greenland.
Lauder is one of the businessmen pushing Trump's desire for rare earth minerals in Ukraine.

He claims he's planning to open a "boutique water" company, but look at what he really bought: an abandoned school riddled with black mold. Odd choice, right? Not based on it's location. It's an ideal spot for surveillance on the harbor below and next to communication towers.

Look at his business partners: he's trying to get in with "the Greenland elite" aka wealthy. One of his business partners is married to Greenland's Foreign Minister.

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2026/01/15/an-abandoned-building-a-billionaire-trump-pal-and-the-battle-for-greenland/

if you want to get rid of the annoying communities link on tumblr web in the sidebar that you may accidentally click more than the notifications link more than often, here's a quick userstyle

https://lachesis.pastes.sh/tumblr_userstyle

originally, generative AI was approached as like. a shitpost machine, essentially, and that's what it still is, but people eventually started trying to pretend it's not just that. but to me its like. you want me to use the shitpost machine to do real work? no thanks lol

@taq they used to be a child celebrity (Not Me on The Family Circus)

US ICE agents have been using tear gas on protestors in Minneapolis. There's been plenty of tear gas misinformation flying around on social media; here's a summary of the chemistry and the best way to get rid of it (TLDR: water): https://www.compoundchem.com/2020/06/09/tear-gas

Even if we have a blue sweep in the midterms, Democrats still won't do anything and will claim to be powerless

If you want my vote you better have a clear fucking plan and not be taking funds from APAC