A barge crashed into a bridge in Galveston, Texas, causing an oil spill and partially collapsing the only road to a small island where a university is located. The city of Galveston says there were no injuries, but one person on the barge fell into the water and was quickly rescued. The incident comes weeks after a cargo ship crashed into a column supporting the Francis Key Bridge in Baltimore, collapsing the bridge and killing six construction workers. The Associated Press has more.
Rescue workers in Baltimore, Md., are searching for as many as seven people after a major bridge in the city's port was struck by a container ship early Tuesday morning.
CNN reports: "Two people have been saved from the water so far."
BREAKING NEWS: #Maryland's Key Bridge collapses after being struck by a container ship as astonishing footage shows the 9,000ft structure crashing into Patapsco river.
BREAKING NEWS: #Maryland's Key Bridge collapses after being struck by a container ship as astonishing footage shows the 9,000ft structure crashing into Patapsco river, 1:28 am edt.
MAJOR BALTIMORE TRAFFIC ALERT: AVOID I-695 southeast corridor. I-695 Key Bridge collapse due to ship strike. Active scene. Use I-95 or I-895. #baltraffic#mdtraffic
Serious question for those that this is relevant to: if you don't understand how ActivityPub works, even a little bit, why do you feel the need to have opinions on how it should work?
Isn't this backwards as hell? Shouldn't you try to understand how something works, then ask why it is that way and if it's intentional?
Too many people here have this strange opinion that they have some sort of privacy, even if their profile/posts are set to "public".
This is just simply not true. We're on the internet. There's over 20,000 Fedi instances and there's just no way to manually parse them to make sure there's no "bad actors" using your "public" posts for whatever the hell they want.
We already see this happening with things like NewsMast which is aiming to be a "news" app where their users don't have to login or register to a Fediverse server, yet they will see posts by Fediverse users from bigger instances based on "categories".
Maybe do some research about how the protocol works and how it's VERY opt-out to the core, before you have opinions on it. Just saying....
By chance, I was in the area after dark recently and driving toward the bridge I saw the colours and just had to stop. First time I've seen it multi coloured like this.
A group of 1890s structures on the banks of the River Kelvin where it flows through the West End of Glasgow. To the left are the arches of the old Kelvin Bridge Railway Station, opened in 1896. Above this is Caledonian Mansions, James Millar's 1897 Glasgow Style gem, and to the right is Bell and Miller's 1890 Cast Iron Kelvin Bridge.
Two people died after a vehicle exploded at a checkpoint on the Rainbow Bridge connecting the U.S. and Canada in Niagara Falls. The explosion initially raised concerns on both sides of the border about a potential bombing, but New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says so far the investigation’s findings don’t indicate the event was a terrorist attack. Read more from the Associated Press about the incident.
The “Wire Bridge” over the Carrabassett River in North New Portland, Maine. The original towers and cable from the mid 1800’s are still solid. The cable was said to have been shipped from Sheffield, England and brought inland by a large team of local oxen. #Maine#suspensionbridge#Bridge#sheffield
With all that #fediverse effervescence, I just rediscovered #irc with #weechat, and realized that #neomutt also support #usenet servers. Going back to the source in a way.
I don't think mixing networks of different capabilities is a good thing. #Bridges between different chat #protocols have created enough adrenaline. Lots of them have been closed.
Usenet = a set of newsgroups.
Having a fediverse.* #hierarchy transported over NNTP by some Usenet providers would not make it part of Usenet. They often transport additional groups of non-Usenet communities too. I think that would be the own way for peaceful coexistence in there. Or just run own NNTP servers with that hierarchy and additionally peer with Usenet.
Mixing the fediverse's noisy #timelines with the Usenet's #hairsplitters and spam will not help either side.
You may call me hairsplitter now. ;-)
...and as long as tag hygiene in the fediverse doesn't get a surprising boost, I don't even see how the fediverse matches at all the hierarchy of groups/topics style NNTP is designed for. It will not blend into another well.
I'm all in for an own fediverse.* hierarchy as experiment and all out for bridging/blending the fediverse into each existing Usenet group.
The #IndieWeb service #Bridgy is ready to handle bridge AT protocol and ActivityPub protocol posts and replies once federation is enabled in production (already working in sandbox test server).
The format will be:
To follow a #Fediverse account from BlueSky / AT protocol: <username>.<server_domain>.ap.brid.gy
To follow a BlueSky / AT protocol user: <username>@atproto.brid.gy
Example: @atp.youronly.one@atproto.brid.gy
This allows users from each side to see new posts and to reply to these threads.
What is more interesting is that, if you have IndieWeb support on your website or blog, you will see comments from BlueSky / AT protocol appear as a comment, thanks to #Webmention. It is already possible to do this with Fediverse / ActivityPub. ^_~