cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I keep a hummingbird feeder going. Ever since the brief, but bad, cold spell we had about a month ago, I've noticed that the rate at which the level in the feeder goes down has decreased. I wonder if some of our tiny bird friends didn't make it through. :(
@MichaelaCoel ("Michaela Coel") wrote:
The Model Y just got more expensive. | Image: Getty Images
Tesla raised the price of its Model Y electric vehicle (EV) just hours after the US Treasury Department adjusted its EV tax credit rules, as first reported by Bloomberg. While the Tesla Model Y Long Range now costs $1,500 more at $54,990, the Model Y Performance went up by $1,000 to $57,990, excluding shipping fees.
On Friday, the Treasury Department updated the way it classifies vehicles that qualify for its $7,500 EV tax credit as part of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The change should allow more vehicles — including the Model Y — to qualify for the credit, as it no longer puts certain SUV crossovers in the same category as sedans.
Previously, some models of the Model Y, alongside the Cadillac Lyriq, weren’t eligible for the EV...
One day I will own a Braun Atelier HiFi system. One day.
@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") wrote:
February 4 is Liberace Day (it's the anniversary of his death, which is a bit grim, but let's go with it) and in addition to celebrating his many glorious performances I'm taking today to cherish this made-for-TV biopic with a BANANAS cast
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@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") wrote:
I knew that Garak played Liberace in a made for TV movie but I did not realize Rue McClanahan played his mother!
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@MaddowBlog ("Maddow Blog") wrote:
!! Yikes!
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@USCGPacificNW ("USCGPacificNorthwest") replied to a tweet by @USCGPacificNW:
(2/4)…who launched motor life boats from STA Cape Disappointment, the air crews arrived on scene to find the vessel floundering in the surf! The surf made rescue by boat dangerous, so the aircrew decided to lower the rescue swimmer and have the owner enter the water for rescue…
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@TristanSnell ("Tristan Snell") wrote:
Meanwhile, Russia's spy balloon remains intact in Florida.
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@susiebright ("Susie Bright") wrote:
Over 6 years, my persistent critic Mary wrote me a series of mis-addressed emails. —Not on purpose. She called me “Susy.”
Everyone makes bloopers, but these kept coming and coming —until she turned on “Susy” — and I wasn’t sure where to turn myself.
https://susiebright.substack.com/p/in-the-crowded-room-of-everyone-i
@alicegoldfuss ("malice ghoulpus") wrote:
How up-my-own-ass would it be to commission art for the 15k novelette I sold? It was a big sale for me, but like...it's not a novel. And I don't need the art for self-pub promo.
@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:
Malice Was Right
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@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") wrote:
When you want the spy balloon to take a nice pic of you for Grindr but you live in Seattle
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Yay. We popped a balloon.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/04/who-was-afraid-of-the-big-bad-balloon/
@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") replied to a tweet by @MattBaume:
I wonder if the CIA agent watching me through my webcam feels bad that I've moved on
@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") wrote:
Me noticing a spy balloon and waving hello
@AnnTelnaes ("Ann Telnaes") wrote:
https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/nyc-windows?utm_source=twitter&sd=pf
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@razorfemme (""Knives" Cheng, MSc, MSW, QMed, Extremist for Love") wrote:
Cover Reveal for Falling Back In Love With Being Human: Love Letters to Lost Souls, due from The Dial Press and Penguin Random House Canada in Aug 2023!
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek (left) and Neko Health co-founder Hjalmar Nilsonne (right). | Image: Neko Health
Spotify founder Daniel Ek is getting into the healthcare industry. A post shared on LinkedIn names Ek as the co-founder of a startup, called Neko Health, which specializes in providing body scans powered by artificial intelligence (AI), as reported earlier by European news outlets Sifter and Tech.eu.
“After four years of intense research and product development, we are officially launching Neko Health today,” the post reads. “The company was founded by Hjalmar Nilsonne and Daniel Ek with the vision to create a healthcare system that can help people stay healthy through preventive measures and early detection.”
According to a translated version of Neko Health’s website, the Swedish company’s non-invasive full-body scanner can detect and...
@alicegoldfuss ("malice ghoulpus") wrote:
let them fight
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@copyrightlately ("Aaron Moss") wrote:
BREAKING: Getty Images just filed a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit against Stability AI in Delaware District Court. Getty alleges that Stability copied more than 12 million Getty photos to train Stable Diffusion. Full complaint here: https://copyrightlately.com/pdfviewer/getty-images-v-stability-ai-complaint/
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@nymetrowx ("New York Metro Weather") wrote:
Live view of NYC as we approach 6:00pm
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@ReinH ("Senior Oops Engineer") wrote:
ok but, hear me out here, have you tried turning it off and then just leaving it off
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@willigula ("@willigula@vis.social") wrote:
I say we test this empirically. It's the only way to be sure.
@nadim Nice! Pika as in Pikachu? 🙂
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@SBWorkersUnited ("Starbucks Workers United") wrote:
Why every one of us needs a union contract — from the Starbucks Partner Guide
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@railroadworkers ("Railroad Workers United ✊") wrote:
Timing is everything. Railroad Workers United passed our resolution calling for nationalization in October of last year. Due in large part to your support and our efforts, railroad nationalization is a growing conversation. Thank you! https://inthesetimes.com/magazine/is-it-time-to-nationalize-the-railroads
nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Today is a momentous day: my fiancée and I adopted our second dog. His name is Pika, and he is a Papillon dog.
Pika is a nine week old puppy, and he just arrived home today. Spent the evening introducing him to Diffie, our miniature poodle.
We are all incredibly happy.
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@TheLincoln ("Lincoln Michel") wrote:
I think the writers I'm most jealous of aren't the ones with massive sales, but the writers who just regularly put out their weird little books every year or two because they have an editor and press that supports them even without the sales.
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@CorgiHell ("J.R.") wrote:
This user PateraQuetzal quit twitter, taking with them one of the great tweets of our time
Some community members describe the cruiser as tone deaf and ill-timed, given tensions with police around the country. Miami police said they stand by the decision to unveil the special design.
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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Managers: if you want your web app/site to make more money, pay people for solving problems with markup and CSS rather than creating them with JS.
@mr_modular ("Allen Nemo") replied to a tweet by @mr_modular:
It would be helpful to clarify that in 2022 he was a then long shot that likely embezzled campaign contributions. But, ah, clout tweet is bad given today’s context.
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@JamesAHogg2 ("James Hogg") wrote:
Pete and Dud discuss Freud, the Id, and Dud's mum in front of Kirk Douglas and Dick Cavatt.
This is just bloody ace 👍
The giant white, aerial blob that US officials described as a Chinese spy balloon was seen plummeting towards the Atlantic Ocean near Surfside Beach, South Carolina, on Saturday afternoon, having been shot down by a US military fighter jet. “I ordered the Pentagon to shoot it down on Wednesday, as soon as possible,” President Biden […]
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@realTuckFrumper ("#TuckFrump") wrote:
'Burn bags,' logs and personal emails: Supreme Court security worse than leak investigation showed http://dlvr.it/Shx7dB
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@MarcusReports ("Marcus Weisgerber") wrote:
The military jets using the call sign “FRANK” is significant. Frank Luke Jr. was an American fighter ace in World War I better known as the “Arizona Balloon Buster.” He is credited with shooting down 14 German surveillance balloons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luke
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@AircraftSpots ("Aircraft Spots") wrote:
Chinese high-altitude surveillance #balloon:
USAF F-22s FRANK01 & 02 launched from Langley AFB, VA joining up with KC-135R #AE04B3 57-1473 GASMN02 for aerial refueling.
@LolOverruled ("Lolo") wrote:
“they shot down the Chinese spy balloon” ok did you call your mom today
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@faizsays ("Faiz Siddiqui") wrote:
A fun thing to happened to me today, as an adult, is Elon Musk’s security guy shushed me and made a little zip-it motion as I was asking questions
@RikerGoogling ("Riker Googling") wrote:
did captain picard lead the x-men
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@JCOviedo6 ("JC Oviedo") wrote:
Panel gaps secured!
The U.S. military downed a Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast, according to the Associated Press. The report came shortly after the FAA ordered flights in the region halted.
One image she had on display in a shelf behind her, together with the albums she had, reminded me of artwork from "Poison Elves", so I was intrigued. Just checked their page and it's artwork for exactly this song and available on a shirt! :D Now I'm waiting for it to hopefully arrive.
(Image taken from NFDs bandcamp: https://nfduk.bandcamp.com )
@mr_modular ("Allen Nemo") wrote:
Wow look at the casting job on that @Tesla suspension part. 😝
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@SilentAlert1 ("SilentAlert") wrote:
QA & QC controls are most important once mass production takes place. @Tesla Model 3 control arms faulty have increased exponentially. To maintain margins, cuts have to be made on Quality. Not ideal when paired with FSD. $TSLA
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@kareem_carr ("Kareem Carr | Data Scientist") wrote:
Woke professor Albert Einstein going out of his way to promote diversity, equity and inclusion during the Jim Crow Era
Thanks to Jane Wilkes I now have a new band to listen to. She made a video, talking a bit about the band (which has members from Fields Of The Nephilim) and showing the new merch she purchased. Been having this album on repeat and the first song is stuck in my head.
NFD - When The Sun Dies
https://song.link/s/2e8Y0GsMUyqTQo7bsOstmM#music #NowPlaying #goth #GothicRock #NFD #NoiseForDestruction
Bucking decades of political tradition, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) voted for a new line-up of early primary dates in the 2024 presidential cycle. It was a-long awaited move that top Democrats, including President Joe Biden, have championed for years in hopes of making the country’s nominating process more representative of the party’s voters. The […]
@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") wrote:
Projection Connections.
A 16 × 24-inch tangled web showing how 100+ different map projections are all related to each other: I'm not sure which corner of this image should ...
I'll be abandoning Twitter soon. Join me on Mastodon: @jwz@mastodon.social
@ewarren ("Elizabeth Warren") wrote:
Republican extremists want to replace our current federal tax system with a nationwide 30% sales tax.
Who’d end up paying more? The working class and middle class.
Who’d end up paying less? Millionaires and billionaires.
They just hope no one does the math. Too late.
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@DreamSong77 ("Sam Sanders") wrote:
Never forget
@taralx ("JP Sugarbroad 🐺") wrote:
"It"? There's at least 3 things wrong with that thing.
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@TerribleMaps ("Terrible Maps") wrote:
This is actually in a textbook...
Retweet if you see it.
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@RottenInDenmark ("Michael Hobbes") wrote:
Do people ever get tired of reading this shit
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@harriettsbooks ("Harriett’s Bookshop") wrote:
The radical act of existence.
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@thecrownact ("The CROWN Act") wrote:
It is Black History Month & we are here to showcase #BlackArt!
This painting was just so DOPE. The details, complexion, uniqueness are all so ethereal. The image shows just how versatile you can be with your CROWN.
📸 Tiktok : Thepaintertony
#TheCROWNAct #BlackArt #BHM
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@AaronLecklider ("Aaron Lecklider") wrote:
This is going to be a very long and niche gay history thread, so I apologize in advance. But something incredible happened and I have to share it.
@bdurette ("Brandon DuRette") wrote:
Yes! So much this! The last step in a big report should be "Observe..."
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@kevinwhoffman ("Kevin W. Hoffman") wrote:
When reporting a bug with "steps to reproduce," it's common to provide steps leading up to the problem, but we can do better.
Try to add one final step that makes it crystal clear where the reader should look to confirm the bug (in the browser, console, error log, etc.).
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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
currently BBC World is running & rerunning a clip of some retired COL asserting the PRC balloon has been somehow made to hang over a US target. you can put them & even maneuver them to where the prevailing winds are likely to take them somewhere near some earth-bound target, but you "can’t turn around and go the other direction; you can never go upwind in the balloon. You’re always going to be moving with the atmosphere that surrounds it." moving...
see for more info: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chinese-spy-balloon-has-unexpected-maneuverability/
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@fishnette cool! good to see you "here"... hope you are enjoying yourself
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@AlphabetWorkers ("Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA)") wrote:
BREAKING 🚨
YouTube Music workers are starting a strike today after @Cognizant and @Google management announced they were forcing workers to return to office on February 6.
This is the first strike for @AlphabetWorkers’ and the first known strike at Google. #YouTubeStrike
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A California judge is allowing Meta to close its acquisition of virtual reality fitness startup Within despite an ongoing antitrust case by the Federal Trade Commission, according to an unsealed ruling. On Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that the court denied the FTC’s request to block the deal but with a one-week delay that will give the FTC time to appeal. The orders were posted on Tuesday, and a status hearing on the case is set for February 7th.
The FTC sued in July of 2022 to stop Meta’s acquisition of Within, which makes the popular VR app Supernatural. The agency argued that Meta’s purchase would expand its dominance in the consumer VR market, where Meta has staked many of its resources in recent years. The commission highlighted...
@bryansafi ("Bryan Safi") wrote:
Aftersun ruined my life!!!!! fucking incredible.
The vote cements a shift in the presidential primary calendar that many Democrats have long called for and elevates states with greater diversity and voter access.
Nineteen minutes is basically enough time to watch a sitcom without commercials, cook a frozen pizza in the oven at 400 degrees, or walk one mile at a leisurely pace. But somehow within the first 19 minutes that EMTs Robert Long and JaMichael Sandridge were on the scene after 29-year-old Tyre Nichols was severely beaten […]
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@davidfrum ("David Frum") wrote:
Russia helped Trump win the 2016 presidential election.
Trump welcomed Russian help.
Trump's intimates sought even more help.
Trump's campaign manager shared information.
All repeatedly lied about it.
In office, Trump supported Russian policy goals
Saved you 24,000 words.
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@JoJoFromJerz ("Jo 🌻") wrote:
The craziest thing about the Chinese spy balloon is that Republicans want you to forget that they’re coming for your books, your history lessons, your teachers, your right to bodily autonomy, the pronouns you use, the words you say, your Medicaid, Medicare & your Social Security.
@alyankovic ("Al Yankovic") wrote:
SOMEBODY had to do it! Thanks to @adamhillscomedy and @TheLastLeg for doing a biopic of our biopic. #WEIRDTheAlYankovicStory
@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by @steveklabnik:
oh wait this is just nazis, isn't it
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@BatsDaily ("Bats Nightly 🦇") wrote:
THE EAR WIGGLES!!!!!! SO CUTE I'M GOING INSANE!!!!!! 🥹🦇
@computrnerd ("COMPUTER NERD") wrote:
TECH PEOPLE: A professor I know who specializes in the study of propaganda is researching how AI might relate to disinformation. If you have an understanding of AI and some opinions on its use and potential use, can I connect you for a chat?
@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by @steveklabnik:
like i'm sure that this person exists, somehow. and i'm not about to complain about even less people trying to get others deported.
i'm just... curious at how one arrives there
i am *very* confused at the kind of person who would normally call an immigration tip line, but wouldn't in order to support a strike
The midrange Galaxy Chromebook 2 packs plenty of bang for just $499. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Happy Saturday, readers! During its Unpacked event on Wednesday, Samsung introduced a new line of Galaxy Book3 laptops with better displays and Intel’s 13th Gen Core processors. However, if you don’t need an ultraportable laptop or a high-end machine squarely aimed at the MacBook Pro 16, Samsung’s Galaxy Chromebook 2 is on sale at Amazon and Best Buy in its fiery, “fiesta red” colorway for $499 ($200 off), its lowest price to date.
The midrange Chromebook 2 certainly isn’t the most powerful Chromebook you can get — blame it on the 10th Gen Intel Core i3-10110U processor — but it should suffice for everyday work use and multitasking, especially with the machine’s 8GB of RAM. Moreover, it touts decent battery life (when compared to the o...
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Twitter wants to cash in on businesses on the platform by charging them $1,000 per month to keep their gold checkmarks, according to a report from The Information. As noted by The Information, brands who don’t pay the $1,000 per month fee will lose their gold badges, although it’s unclear when that will happen.
Internal messages viewed by the outlet also reveal that Twitter’s looking to tack on an extra $50 per month charge to add badges to each account affiliated with the business. This aligns with a screenshot posted by social media consultant Matt Navarra, which shows what appears to be an email between Twitter product manager Evan Jones and an unnamed business.
“As an early access subscriber, you’ll get a gold checkmark for your...
@DaveHolmes ("Dave Holmes") wrote:
How long until they make the B-52s illegal
One time, I accidentally put a personal medical appointment on the public work calendar. Years ago, I tweeted something (very innocuous) from a brand account, intended for my own followers. The modern workplace requires vigilance (and numerous browsers and devices) to demarcate the strictly professional from the private. For you and me, co-mingling can feel […]
@LolOverruled ("Lolo") wrote:
Absolutely it’s gonna kill a lot of people
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@EvasTeslaSPlaid ("Eva McMillan ♥️") wrote:
Cybertruck will be a killer! @elonmusk
@LolOverruled ("Lolo") wrote:
If someone said the words “Chinese spy balloon” to me on the subway I would pepper spray them
@TracketPacer replied to a tweet by @TracketPacer:
link 2 original video https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRGL7gNU/
@LolOverruled ("Lolo") wrote:
Just boomer posting all around
Priya Kansara in Polite Society. | Image: Sundance Institute
It was a busy festival filled with gruesome horror, inventive sci-fi, and plenty more films that will be coming to theaters and streaming services in the coming months.
@Extrawurst ("Stephan D.") wrote:
#Fosdem allowed me to hack away a new #gitui feature: reset to a commit in the rev-log: https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui/pull/1534 #rustlang 🦀❤️
@RikerGoogling ("Riker Googling") wrote:
o7$R%nOqUN@aMykDKxl7K4c5rhA4rlZ#Y86!90@n49k
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@RoseSchmits ("Rose Schmits, Trans Kiln Witch™") wrote:
That every trans person still standing is a survivor of a society that wants them gone
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@DrLoupis ("Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis") wrote:
Transgender people are 19 times more likely to commit suicide. What does that tell you?