pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Suddenly, I find myself the executor of an estate. Do I know what I am doing? I do not. I guess I'm going to have to get myself a probate lawyer.

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Mer__edith@mastodon.world ("Meredith Whittaker") wrote:

This is why we're seeing dumb AI everywhere, and self owns like MS's Recall

Recouping revenue from massively expensive AI development is urgent, market fit's unclear, so corps are shoving "AI" into everything to please investors/hope for fit/keep the bubble inflated

IMO this also explains the lockstep turn to military contracting (OAI, et al). A good way to sell tech that "doesn't actually work" via lucrative contracts whose efficacy won't be assessed w trad. metrics.

https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/ais-600b-question/

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Source here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tengen/6154899498/

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

TIL that southern lapwings have these cool boney spurs poking out of their wings. Vicious.

As far as I can tell, the photo was taken by Shanthanu Bhardwaj and is CC BY-SA 2.0.

Attachments:

• Photo of a southern lapwing in flight moving from left to right. The wings are held high, and you can clearly make out the boney spurs. It looks a little bit like it could mess you up. As far as I can tell, the photo was taken by Shanthanu Bhardwaj and is CC BY-SA 2.0. (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Just remembered Shaggy and Sting did a version of "Englishman in New York".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdneye4pzMw

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objetdiscret@pocketpixels.club ("𝕠𝕓𝕛𝕖𝕥 𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕣𝕖𝕥") wrote:

As a throwback, here is a fan logo that I put together for my favorite randomizer, #SMZ3. This includes both edited and redrawn assets from the original #SuperMetroid and #ALTTP.

#Pixel_Dailies #grassy #PixelArt #1bit #FanArt #MastoArt

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• a pixel art illustration of a logo for a video game that says "SMZ3" in large letters, with a sword piercing a lightning bolt S behind the letters; there is also an illustration of a stalk of bamboo with a few leaves shooting off it (remote)

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rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

Conservatives say raising the minimum wage would drive up inflation.

But the federal minimum wage hasn't gone up since 2009.

Average CEO pay has gone up about 60% since 2009.

Whose pay is contributing to inflation?

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

As a heavy Linux emulation user (WSL, Crostini), I cannot express how glad I am that Mozilla finally pulled it's head out of it's collective you-know-where and started making official debs again:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w_install-firefox-deb-package-for-debian-based-distributions

Flatpak was a mistake, full stop.

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QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

NY Post reminds us it is a white supremacist outlet.

There are valid criticisms of VP Harris for her policies & votes. Have at it. But instead NY Post resorts to overt misogynistic, anti-Black, and anti-Asian hate mongering. To call this yellow journalism is an understatement.

Attachments:

• NY post headline calls Vp Harris a potential DEI president

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faerye@pie.gd ("Felicity Shoulders") wrote:

If Americans showed the same energy for civil disobedience about anything else that they do when it comes to setting off fireworks against the laws of city, state, courtesy, and self-preservation, we would have a three-day workweek, robust national healthcare, and a twenty-year plan for solar-powered luxury space communism.

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augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

The CDC is taking the week off, so our data is partial, but right now, the US hot spot for #COVID19 is Florida, which has several sewersheds nearing some of the highest levels in two years (see chart). There are other areas with high levels:

- Hawaii's surge seems to have peaked
- Much of the Bay Area is at high levels
- Montpelier, VT has exploded 8x in 2 weeks
- Warren, MI is up 3x in one week
- Most of TX is moderate, but Woodlands is very high

Local data is spotty: https://data.wastewaterscan.org/

Attachments:

• Current wastewaterscan.org chart of COVID in Florida sewersheds, showing many rising to the 2nd or 3rd highest in two years--and still rising.

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RustyBertrand@kolektiva.social ("Rusty Bertrand") wrote:

Attachments:

• What's something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand? Dr. Holly Witteman That $35 that scientific journals charge you to read a paper goes 100% to the publisher, 0% to the authors. If you just email us to ask for our papers, we are allowed to send them to you for free, and we will be genuinely delighted to do sò. (remote)

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benschwarz@front-end.social wrote:

Borrowed a thermal camera from the local library last week. Turns out all libraries in our council area offer them for free. Handy!

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• Photograph of thermal camera scanning a corner (remote)

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Anyway. Riveting plot.

Attachments:

• Yorgos Tsiantoulas laying on his side on a rocky nude beach, facing away from the camera.

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tolmasky ("Francisco Tolmasky") wrote:

I really hate the term “side-loading.” We shouldn’t need a word for the normal way we’ve been installing apps for the past 40 years. If tomorrow Apple decided they were going to start only letting you visit web pages they approved of, we wouldn’t call some sort of alternating system that let you see *the rest of the fucking internet* “side-paging”. We’d instead call the whole thing bullshit.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Now that I know Dekkoo sells downloads I'll have to check in every once in a while.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Good news, everyone: The Summer with Carmen is now available on dekkoo for 10 USD. 1080p download, hardsubs https://www.dekkoo.com/products/the-summer-with-carmen

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

As for #darktable specifically… The photograph has a nasty white patch on the right heel, which only appeared due to particular lighting from the sky, you don't see it when holding the figurine in your hands. I tried unsuccessfully to choose different angles, but then juts went ahead and fixed it with CLUT and some retouching. Real world sucks without some work applied to it :-)

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Blossom. Daughter's latest artwork. It reminded me of Mexican motifs, and after a short search I found this self-portrait by Frida Kahlo https://mungfali.com/post/26591028822D4ED7042B64DC45713A338EB4B368/Frida+Kahlo+Paintings+Images. Of whom we talked just this morning completely incidentally.

#darktable

Attachments:

• Figurine of a sitting dragon pup painted in the yelllow-teal flowered style reminiscent of Frida Kahlo.

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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay :mastodon: 🇪🇺") wrote:

Cats cannot be beaten ... 🐈

#Cats #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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• A video of a cat refusing to be beaten by smaller and smaller openings into the next too (remote)

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fonts@sfba.social ("Robin Rendle") wrote:

Creativity is the byproduct of work https://robinrendle.com/notes/creativity-is-the-byproduct-of-work/

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"The failure of the media to confront Trump the way that they are confronting Biden now is dangerous malpractice of the highest order. ...

So I ask: When will there be a real interview of Trump?"

~ Steven Beschloss

#Biden #Trump #age #MediaFail
/9

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/when-will-there-be-a-real-interview/comments

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

good Q

https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/112740368197879422

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Glastomichelle@c.im wrote:

Stormy sunset tonight here in Glastonbury.

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• 039bc8b32a59b0dc.jpg (remote)

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viabaltica@mstdn.social ("Via Baltica") wrote:

Language #technology company Tilde of #Latvia has received EU funding to develop a large language model (#LLM) for smaller European #languages. The new model will be #opensource, freely available to both researchers and developers of commercial solutions.

https://viabaltica.fi/latvia-tilde-to-develop-llm-for-small-european-languages/

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linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

Shuffle and deal four hands of five cards with #Python #HK

#!/usr/bin/python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
deck=['🂡', '🂢', '🂣', '🂤', '🂥', '🂦', '🂧', '🂨', '🂩', '🂪', '🂫', '🂭', '🂮', '🂱', '🂲', '🂳', '🂴', '🂵', '🂶', '🂷', '🂸', '🂹', '🂺', '🂻', '🂽', '🂾', '🃁', '🃂', '🃃', '🃄', '🃅', '🃆', '🃇', '🃈', '🃉', '🃊', '🃋', '🃍', '🃎', '🃑', '🃒', '🃓', '🃔', '🃕', '🃖', '🃗', '🃘', '🃙', '🃚', '🃛', '🃝', '🃞']
import random
random.shuffle(deck)
deal=''.join(deck)
print (" ".join(deal[1:6]))
print (" ".join(deal[6:11]))
print (" ".join(deal[11:16]))
print (" ".join(deal[16:21]))

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• 8f34d205fd7eacb1.png (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“… a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”

- Terry Pratchett

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The thread goes on.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/06/infinite-thread-xxxii/

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• tree, darkness (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

My mother has died.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/06/the-light-flickers/

Attachments:

• Darlene Myers, age 16 (remote)

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darkedinburgh@mastodon.scot ("Dark Edinburgh") wrote:

"There's things going on at a circus all the time."
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain

Attachments:

• A daytime black and white view of Circus Lane (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

Nickiquote@mstdn.social wrote:

- Frogs do not allow you to gradually boil them.

- Lemmings do not commit mass suicide.

- Ostriches do not stick their heads in the sand.

- Newts do not confuse weather and climate.

- Moose do not get their news from Facebook.

- Naked mole rats do not kid themselves that they live in the greatest democracy in the world when in fact they live in a two-party oligarchy with every representative dependent on huge donations from the superrich.

- Cassowaries are not particularly impressed by AI.

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divya@sfba.social wrote:

WOW what??

"Interestingly, several antihistamine drugs, including clemastine, astemizole, azelastine, brompheniramine, and ebastine, which have been approved for treating allergy symptoms without side effects for decades, have been found to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection or replication via protein-protein interaction analysis or drug library profiling (30–35). Another study revealed that the use of azelastine was associated with a reduced incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection based on an analysis of over 219,000 electronic health records"

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01088-24?s=09

/via @hugo

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The_Whore_of_Blahbylon ("The Whore of Blahbylon") wrote:

Firestorm Iris

#BloomScrolling

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• efe155b1f2badad3.jpeg

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KrissyKat@hoosier.social ("KrissyKat 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Overseas voting info for US Citizens living abroad.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-travel/while-abroad/voting.html

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xyzzy@mastodon.sandwich.net ("Text Adventure") wrote:

You enter a small, dark yellow room. There is a RECLINER by the wall. You see a LOAF OF BREAD here, near the window. There is a SYSADMIN here, standing around.

Exits: NORTHEAST EAST
#bot

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oliphant@oliphant.social ("Oliphant") wrote:

When you're watching early election returns, pay attention to Nevada and Arizona.

If the Republicans take those, and they also take Pennsylvania, they don't even need Georgia, assuming they also get NC (which is mostly assumed at this point)

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

ladyteruki wrote:

You know what I think about a lot ?

That this is violence. This is a type of violence that does not start with fascism, but I promise you, it's a type of violence that is BOOMING under fascim.
Your neighbor, your colleague, your ex, your abusive ex-parents, will report something about you. You will not have done anything but displease them ; it will just be a way to exert revenge by proxy. But you will suffer. And you will be demonized. And you will have to prove the unprovable.

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dougs@nd2.uk ("Douglas Spencer") wrote:

@mwl the hippo can run faster than you can; the hippo can swim faster than you can. Your only chance to outpace the hippo is during the bicycle stage of the triathlon.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

thebluewizard@hackers.town ("The Blue Wizard") wrote:

"Artist Christine Sun Kim Rewrites Closed Captions | Pop-Up Magazine"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfe479qL8hg

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:

If you are going through hell, keep going. ~ Sir Winston Churchill

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silvermoon82@strangeobject.space ("Mx. Eddie R") wrote:

@futurebird
I wish I had your confidence. Look at Florida, they did go through with their laws against migrant workers, and now the food producers are in shambles because they can't get workers.
I could entirely see a new Trump admin doing something as evil and petty and self-destructive, just to get one over on "the libs".

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davidaugust@mastodon.online ("David August") wrote:

Did you know half of Americans think Trump should suspend his campaign after becoming a felon? They do.

#USpol #election #trump #president #politics

Attachments:

• Graphs showing how many and what party affiliation of those who want trump to drop out of the race. It is nearly half. (remote)

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Sobieck@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Sobieck 🐘") wrote:

A man who literally tried to overthrow the government is running for president and everyone is out here treating it like it is normal. 1/6 was a coup. Trump and his cronies planned it and executed it. Just because they failed doesn’t make it ok.

What the fuck is wrong with the American media? (Rhetorical question, they are a bunch of nepobaby fascists)

#uspol

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rooster@chaosfem.tw ("Jessica") wrote:

I made a flag to wave outside the Heritage Foundation

Attachments:

• A black field with white sans-serif text reading WE WILL NOT LET IT BE BLOODLESS (remote)

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jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

yup

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/opinion/christian-nationalist-religion-america.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5E0.PgDY.8uLJfTfeQI5W&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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Menhit@strafpla.net ("Menhit the Menace") wrote:

It is cold and wet and windy and horrid tonight. Leave me alone!

Attachments:

• Menhit, a calico cat, peering out from in-between a black duvet and a purple quilted throw. She looks a little non-plussed. (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I certainly am

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/06/trump-project-2025-robert-reich

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:

We should all be terrified of Trump’s Project 2025.
The Project 2025 playbook was written by more than 20 officials who Trump himself appointed during his first term. If he has “no idea” who they are, he’s showing an alarming cognitive decline.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/06/trump-project-2025-robert-reich
#Trump #Project2025

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

PSA to orgs: if you use Microsoft 365, check your email logs for an email from mbsupport@microsoft.com

Microsoft are emailing tenant admin email addresses about a breach by Midnight Blizzard - you might not get the emails due to spam filtering etc.

https://www.reddit.com/r/microsoft/comments/1dowpf9/midnight_blizzard_microsoft_email_data_sharing/ #threatintel

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• 7650cebefcb19703.png (remote)

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c47@chaos.social ("Rebeka Catalina") wrote:

I like this one so much!! 😹

Source:
https://www.instagram.com/theoddcatsanctuary/p/C88PYevvLw1/

Attachments:

• A one-picture comic: There's a treasury with a golden lamp in the middle and a cat next to it. The geenie shows up and says: "You again? Stop rubbing against the lamp!" (remote)

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ansuz@social.cryptography.dog ("ansuz / ऐरन") wrote:

for the love of all that is good in the world please put the hammer down

Attachments:

• graph demonstrating exponential growth. x-axis: years in the tech industry y-axis: time spent explaining that a thing isn't a nail and it doesn't need a hammer (remote)

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jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

In all meanings of the phrase, the press has decided that Biden cannot win. I don't mean the election. I mean they decide what winning means and there is nothing he can do to win with them.

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gtconway3@threads.net ("George Conway") wrote:

UK’s new foreign secretary once called Trump ‘a neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath’
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4756556-uk-election-labour-foreign-secretary-david-lammy-trump-nazi/

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CindyWeinstein@zirk.us ("Cindy Weinstein") wrote:

thank you for posting this, @fmhilton

Attachments:

• When your wife is dying painfully from sepsis because doctors will get arrested if they treat her partial miscarriage, the last thing on your mind will be Biden's age. (remote)

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

So King Arthur pulled the sword from the stone and also got a sword from the Lady of the Lake? Does he like, dual wield?

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Normalize referring to your significant other as your bonus content

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

No I have not thought about this at all

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Normalize calling your significant other your DLC

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I made myself a new website for my photography. I couldn't get any CMS or website builder to structure the data the way it made sense to me so I made it from scratch. #BelieveInFilm

https://eugenrochko.com/

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GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

Via Mark Elliott:

The media chronicled the rise in gas prices like it was the end of times. Now that they're dropping it's pretty much crickets.

CBS News:

July 4th gas prices expected to hit lowest level in 3 years.

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GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

4/ Griffin:

ABC News spoke to President Biden for 22 minutes. The network says it offered an interview to Trump and Trump declined.

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malwaretech@infosec.exchange ("Marcus Hutchins :verified:") wrote:

UK media is cooking 😆

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• 74d4c9bd8d2139f5.png (remote)

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danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

This is the perfect explanation of how I feel about voting right now and seeing people saying they plan not to vote https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNhhJ5f8/

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barney@mas.to ("Barney") wrote:

@heidilifeldman

Also, if those swing voters are willing to end American democracy and destroy their own children's lives, solely because the Democratic candidate speaks and moves more slowly than a psychopathic moron who thinks that windmills cause cancer, then we have a much bigger problem. One that won't be solved by any potential Democratic nominee.

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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

"Trump is a pathological liar," says Biden in ABC TV interview. "The man is a congenital liar" who lied more than 20 times during their most recent debate. "This is a guy who told us to put bleach in our arms."

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geekysteven@beige.party wrote:

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• Photo of a traffic cone with its reflection against a car distorting it to look like a buttplug with a tapered end. Text reads "latest VLC update looks exciting" (remote)

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jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

only a third get it? frightening

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• 1e2bdefbc5a152eb.mp4 (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith: ‘… said in response that it will not be clear for some time whether the court made the right call. But he said the Democratic lawyers made a mistake by relying on the courts to stop Trump.

"It has been a fantasy for many years now to think that courts and prosecutors can purge the nation of a law-defiant populist demagogue," he said. "Only politics, not law, can do that."’

https://apple.news/A5NcNOmC3QCO_pHL3HebbbA

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Any gomer can get published in the NY Times as long as they're sufficiently regressive and incompetent.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/05/matthew-choad-walther-gets-a-free-pass-at-the-ny-times/

Attachments:

• Matthew Walther (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A purrito. #CatsOfMastodon

Attachments:

• A black cat wrapped tightly in a grey towel.
• A black cat wrapped tightly in a grey towel.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

So, I went here and turned on all the nature sounds. It's strangely soothing?

https://ambiph.one/

I'm enjoying imagining a scenario where I could hear all those sounds at once. 😆

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QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

The NY Times published this piece on July 4th, to convince Americans to NOT vote, written by a guy who DOES vote, a guy who is a right wing Christian nationalist, a guy who reportedly supported the January 6 insurrection, and a guy who cosplays Hitler.

Legacy media is absolutely failing us and hastening the downfall of democracy. Smh what a disgrace.

Attachments:

• OpEd Headline by Matthew Walther: "Why I Don't Vote. And Maybe You Shouldn't Either."

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matthewvenn@chaos.social ("Matt Venn") wrote:

My first paper has just been published in the IEEE solid state circuits magazine!

Tiny Tapeout: A Shared Silicon Tapeout Platform Accessible To Everyone

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=4563670

If you're not a member, you can read the pre-print here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mattvenn/tt-ieee-paper/main/paper_TT.pdf

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• abb23b4816ef7fdb.jpg (remote)
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jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“WE ARE ALL FLOATING IN THE WINDS OF TIME. BUT YOUR CANDLE, MISTRESS WEATHERWAX, WILL FLICKER FOR SOME TIME BEFORE IT GOES OUT—A LITTLE REWARD FOR A LIFE WELL LIVED. FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…”

(according to Terry Pratchett)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

So I was wearing my 3M earmuffs for sleeping on the 4th, like one does, and I go to take them off at 2:30 AM only to hear within seconds somebody was still shooting off fireworks. 🙄

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• Picture of red and black 3M earmuffs that claim to offer 30dB of attenuation. I actually wore these over in ear protection because I'm a friggin' light sleeper. (remote)

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wim_v12e@merveilles.town ("WimⓂ️") wrote:

LLVM for the Apollo Guidance Computer

https://av.tib.eu/media/44385

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guffo@topspicy.social ("I’m Tired And Everything Hurts") wrote:

America: This is our Prime Minister winning his seat in parliament

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• A photo of Keir Starmer winning his seat in parliament. He is pictured with a bloke in a huge, novelty hat and someone dressed as Elmo from Sesame Street. (remote)

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nachtfunke@indieweb.social ("Thomas Michael Semmler") wrote:

I love that useffect is so dumb that there is now a creator economy around the idiocy of this design choice where people have setup entire blogs around farming devs googling errors related to it. There are even people selling books & courses just on useeffect https://rozenmd.gumroad.com/l/useEffect-by-example

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I usually prefer my monsters with lots of legs or tentacles, but I must admit that tube-like creatures also appeal.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/05/these-monsters-are-all-dead/

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• Gaiasia (remote)
• Vasuki (remote)

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yogthos@mas.to ("Yogthos") wrote:

how to browse the web in 2024

1. open site
2. close email subscription pop up
3. close push notifications
4. dismiss cookies pop up
5. dismiss the request for your location
6. close the "did you find what your were looking for?" dialog
7. apologize to those around you for the loud swearing
8. try to remember why you opened the site in the first place

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

So…the prophecy was fulfilled, the dragon was slain? Is it actually somewhat hopeful news from the UK?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/05/congratulations-uk-2/

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• UK flag (remote)

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ada ("Ada Rose Cannon") wrote:

I'm really happy that you all get to see what I have been working on! It's really exciting to me and I hope you find it interesting! #WebXR #wwdc24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3XDHjam-eI

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CNN@press.coop ("CNN :press:") wrote:

Key takeaways from the blowout May jobs report

The US economy added a whopping 272,000 jobs in May, far more than expected. The unemployment rate rose to 4% from 3.9%. #press

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/jobs-report-may-06-07-24/index.html?utm_source=press.coop

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• 896753ea63351808.jpg (remote)

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wi8x@mastodon.radio ("Chris - WI8X") wrote:

At 0522 am, EDT on July 5, 2024, N4RTD wrote:
Good Morning Folks! The Sunspot Number has dropped to 113. The Solar Flux Index has risen to 173. With no CMEs heading for Earth, geomagnetic storms are unlikely for the next three days. Quiet conditions should persist through the holiday weekend and possibly beyond if solar activity remains low. Chance of flares today: 35% for M-Class, 5% for X-Class.

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jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

No, Peter Baker, your varying treatment of Biden and Trumps puts your and your newspaper's prejudices in stark relief.

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• headline: Varying treatment of Biden and Trump puts their parties in stark relief

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cote@social.lol ("Coté") wrote:

’“accountability sink”: a situation in which a human system delegates decision-making to a rule book rather than an identifiable individual. If something goes wrong, no one is held to account.’ https://forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/accountability-sinks/573

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

dansup wrote:

Added Post Edit support to the @pixelfed app, along with a history viewer with a diff engine that highlights the changes with additional info available when you tap 😎

#pixelfedApp

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• Pixelfed Post History

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Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

If you're coming to OpenData Camp Manchester this weekend, I've created a Signal group for socialising.

DM me if you'd like to be added.

#ODCamp #OpenDataCamp #OpenData #Manchester

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johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:

Wow - evidence that very massive neutron stars may have cores made of deconfined quark matter! The idea of a 'quark star' is not new, but I didn't know it was a serious possibility.

An ordinary neutron star has a core made mostly of densely packed neutrons. A matchbox-sized chunk of this stuff weighs about 3 billion tonnes. But if you squeeze this stuff hard enough, eventually the neutrons break. Each neutron consists of 3 quarks held together by gluons. So when the neutrons break you get 'quark matter' - a sea of quarks and gluons, no longer confined in neutrons.

We've made something similar here on Earth: at CERN and Brookhaven, physicists smack atomic nuclei at each other so hard that the protons and neutrons break and momentarily form a 'quark-gluon plasma'. But the conditions in a neutron star core are different: cooler, but more pressure - and not just temporary.

This new paper tries to take the measured properties of massive neutron stars and see if they fit a model where the inner core is made of deconfined quark matter. They say it does with about 80% probability! I'd take this with a grain of salt, but it's an exciting possibility. It's not every day we find quintillions of tonnes of a new state of matter.

For me, the coolest part is that deconfined quark matter may have an extra symmetry, called 'conformal symmetry'. This means that if you zoom in on it, it looks almost the same. An atom looks like a blob with some specific size. So does a neutron. But a system with conformal symmetry is just a blur spread out everywhere - and if you zoom in or zoom out, you see something very similar. This is crazy.

(1/2)

https://physicsworld.com/a/evidence-grows-for-deconfined-quark-matter-in-neutron-star-cores/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

things get crazy wonderful at this scale

https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/112733318318498566

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dansup wrote:

It's been about 4 years since I last updated the @pixelfed web UI

I've been working on a complete refactor and its fucking gorgeous! I can't wait to ship it 😎

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Why did they call it https://buttplug.io and not

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• toys.rs? Image: A modified image of the Toys R Us logo. (remote)

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BodyofBreen@mastodon.world ("Chris Breen") wrote:

Today’s bird, profile version

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• Profile of Anna’s Hummingbird (remote)

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

A holiday where you have to listen to the loudest noises the most obnoxious people around you can make for as long as they feel like making them, yeah, super, sounds awesome.

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warandpeas ("War and Peas 🧿") wrote:

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• 871b26f0f74e7914.jpg

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ubernostrum@infosec.exchange ("James Bennett") wrote:

On Independence Day, the New York Times ran an op-ed by a literal right-wing monarchist insisting it's bad to vote and people shouldn't do it.

Also, public records confirm he does vote. He just doesn't want *you* to.

If you needed any further evidence that their "Biden must go" coverage is rooted in hatred of democracy, this should be it.

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• NYT op-ed headline: "Why I Don't Vote. And Why Maybe You Shouldn't Either." by Matthew Walther (remote)

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regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

ideally, a compiler would be monotonic in the sense that giving it more information would never make it generate worse code. these folks go looking for violations of this principle in GCC and LLVM.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3656404

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

I really try to counteract stereotypes in my life when I can… but I can't help correlating a much higher rate of crashes of Cybertrucks compared to previous Tesla models, especially as they sold only about 10000 of those, with a very specific mindset of a significant part of these early buyers.

That is, entitled men who failed to grow up out of their teenage bravado and inferiority complex.

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cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

Happy Independence Day, America

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• 8e9f04641ca5b21d.png

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bevy ("Bevy Engine") wrote:

#Bevy 0.14 is out now!

It features Virtual Geometry, Screen Space Reflections, Depth of Field, Motion Blur, Volumetric Lighting, Filmic Color Grading, Anisotropy, Auto Exposure, ECS Observers and Hooks, Animation Graph, Rounded UI Corners, Computed States, and more!

https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-14/