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funnymonkey@freeradical.zone wrote:
KOSA will be used to hurt marginalized people, which is exactly what the far right wants.
The dems supporting this bill are misinformed, and should follow Ron Wyden's lead.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I think postmortem, when we hear the names #Mastodon and perhaps #ActivityPub, we'll see it as one of the greatest fumbles of the web.
It's not (just) the onboarding fiasco. Mastodon servers had something that #Meta could never replicate— real community.
We didn't need the corporate web to validate us. Our presence here could've been a beacon for what the web could be if you took VC money out of the equation. We could've saved people that way.
I don't know if this place ever gets that back.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
*camping*
her: if you keep assigning nationalities to the forest animals I'm leaving
me watching a wee darling O'possum scurry by:
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LambdaCalculus@hackers.town ("The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus") wrote:
A friendly reminder that Sticker Mule should not be given your business for any reason as the CEO has his head so far up MAGA's ass he can count the fillings in their teeth.
Use Sticker Giant or Sticker Guy! or basically anyone that isn't Sticker Mule.
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AndriiKuznietsov75@social.kyiv.dcomm.net.ua ("Andrii Kuznietsov") wrote:
Коли попросив дитину намалювати дерево і зрозумів, що з професією вона вже визначилася.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ouch
https://www.dw.com/en/manchester-city-vs-premier-league-over-115-charges/a-70220640
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘“It’s, like, four sentences,” Trump groused. “Run, Spot, run.”
Um, that’s three words. And isn’t Spot running so he doesn’t end up as charcuterie?’
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
new passport arrived
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A reminder: unless users are taking, or the server is sending, many related actions *about the same data set* per session, all you need is progressive enhancement and a bit of Ajax.
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vantablack@cyberpunk.lol ("vanta "tits out at the bridge rave" black") wrote:
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:
So NYPD subway cops chasing a man for $2.90 in fare money, shot 4 people, including a bystander and another cop? Cool.🤦🏿♂️
An important thing to know about the subway cops stopping the crime of fare evasion, is:
White New Yorkers evade fares more than anyone else.
Cops get fired if they stop white fare evaders vs Black or brown fare evaders.🤡
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112375817515001544
This is what cops mean when they say that the racism is systemic, that the system was not built by cops but by rich men.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
"State management" implies that something about the state of the application is managed. To accomplish that, we need data change propagation (which reactive tools like Lit or FAST or Svelte or Solid or Vue or Preact or even React -- because you need IE 9 support, I guess? -- make simpler) as well as some way to coordinate state with the server.
That latter half is where CRDTs and sync systems come in; tools like Replicache, Zero, and YJS.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Confusion about the difference between *real* state management and...whatever the React ecosystem is talking about...is underneath a LOT of the pain I see teams work through.
So if your system is confused ("agnostic") about sync, it isn't managing state. So we don't have to keep calling it "state management", because it isn't doing that.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Person from the 90s holding a floppy disk: what's the future of tech like?
Time traveler: *rips floppy disk from hand and throws it* now imagine that landed 100 miles away and you paid me twenty bucks a month to go fetch it for you whenever you needed it.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
IDK who needs to hear this, but you don't have to pretend that React or Redux do "state management". We're all adults, we can use words to mean things. We don't have to pretend that MVC-but-immutable (but not really) is anything but MVC, and we don't have to keep saying that systems that only do data propagation, but not management, somehow manage data.
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alenacpp@hachyderm.io ("Elena Sagalaeva") wrote:
The AI winter was harsh.
I remember sitting in a nearly empty room, listening to a lecture on neural networks — esoteric knowledge I thought I’d never use. Sure, it might come in handy for image recognition, but that’s about all.
How times have changed.
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are0h@h-i.social ("Secret Right Wing Cult Leader") wrote:
NYPD opening fire in a train station for 3 bucks is insanity.
There is no possible way to justify that kind of aggression.
Those cops just wanted to kill somebody.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Sorry for the amp link:
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Israeli podcasters are laughing about genocide.:
"If you gave me a button to just erase Gaza, every single living being in Gaza would no longer be living tomorrow. I would press it in a second." https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/06/israeli-podcasters-laughing-gaza-genocide-two-nice-jewish-boys
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Extremely good coverage of entirely disingenuous people:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/14/24244137/jd-vance-all-in-david-sacks-trump
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I want to be so clear right now. I am Puerto Rican.
My people have been through multiple genocides, colonization by two empires, mass theft of our resources, slavery, and sterilization of 2/3rds of the island up to as recent as the 1970s.
You're out of your fucking mind if you think I will sit back and watch Israel do to Palestine what the US and Spain did to Puerto Rico.
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parismarx@mastodon.online ("Paris Marx") wrote:
Google and Microsoft recently admitted their emissions are soaring as they build out data centers to power the AI boom.
But new analysis from The Guardian suggests the data center emissions of Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple are 662% higher than the companies reporting.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech
#tech #ai #datacenters #microsoft #google #apple #meta #climate
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
it was a particularly ugly battle, and 26 is far too young
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
yes, GPT-4 o1-mini does a *very* nice job of offering coherent & useful coding assistance with clear explanations
Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
deno_land@fosstodon.org ("Deno") wrote:
Help us spread the word — it's time to #FreeJavaScript
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
"Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure citizens will be on their best behavior"
"Ellison said AI would be used in the future to constantly watch and analyze vast surveillance systems, like security cameras, police body cameras, doorbell cameras, and vehicle dashboard cameras."
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’:
"“We’re going to have supervision,” Ellison said. “Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there’s a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.”" https://archive.ph/qqhCj
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taylorlorenz ("Taylor Lorenz") wrote:
“A primary motivation for multiple key backers of the TikTok ban bill was the desire to mitigate the spread of pro-Palestinian content among young Americans.” https://matzko.substack.com/p/the-pro-israel-techies-who-got-tiktok?triedRedirect=true
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The Pro-Israel Techies Who Got TikTok Banned:
"In the aftermath, a group of influential pro-Israel activists from the US tech sector, angry over TikTok’s unwillingness to more rigorously censor pro-Palestinian content, began actively lobbying for a ban on the platform. In other words, TikTok became a target in a global (dis)information war over Gaza."
This is damning. https://matzko.substack.com/p/the-pro-israel-techies-who-got-tiktok
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css@front-end.social ("CSS by T. Afif :verified:") wrote:
💡 CSS Tip!
Using scroll-driven animations, you can link a CSS variable with a range slider and easily update its value!
No more JavaScript to do this. A few lines of CSS, one HTML element and you can update any value in real time.
It's chrome only for now but I am sure this will be one of the most used feature in 2 or 3 years.
Demo: https://codepen.io/t_afif/full/GRbawQm via :codepen: @codepen
Online Version: https://css-tip.com/css-variables-range-slider/
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wolframkriesing@mastodontech.de ("Wolfram wants peace") wrote:
You think you need an SPA?
Try this and you feel no difference (often):
- extremely fast loading page
- onunload: store scroll offset e.g. in localStorage
- at the bottom of the HTML restore scroll offset
- make slow JS inside the page async and use nice spinners
And voilà a page load feels like an inline content update, just like an SPA.
If you want you can also add
@view-transition {
navigation: auto;
}
which makes it even smoother in browsers that support it
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phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:
me + @slightlyoff
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quirk@computerfairi.es ("FoxQuirk 🦊") wrote:
Found this old meme when rummaging around my files
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
https://open.substack.com/pub/matzko/p/the-pro-israel-techies-who-got-tiktok
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Why isn't this guy working for CNN?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/16/good-fact-checking/
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Starting my morning with "What You Do With What You've Got" covered by Dick Gaughan.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
What if a D&D adventure was entirely about hunting, killing, cooking, and eating monsters?
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mpesce@arvr.social ("Mark Pesce") wrote:
Metformin decelerates aging clock in male monkeys
"The results highlighted a significant slowing of aging indicators, notably a roughly 6-year regression in brain aging. Metformin exerts a substantial neuroprotective effect, preserving brain structure and enhancing cognitive ability..."
Very significant finding published in CELL
fwiw i'd be looking closely for any correlation between metformin (which is widely prescribed) and age of onset of dementia
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
prediction markets like this one reacted strongly to the 10 SEP debate, and sentiment has generally continued on the same upward path for Harris. given that the two of them continue their current campaigns & there are no calamitous events in the interim, I see no indication that these trends will shift again.
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ainali@social.coop ("Jan Ainali") wrote:
What's a good list of #OpenSource video conferencing software? I am not looking for a particular solution, but a list I can pass on to others, and whose need may vary. If it feels serious and doesn't serve a lot of ads and cookies, that would be a bonus.
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stjepanlukac@mastodon.art ("Stjep") wrote:
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
When anyone can get an assault rifle, trying to commit crimes with an assault rifle doesn't make you famous anymore. Just another loser.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Mastodon "The Bear"
🤝
Like zero jokes
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
After scalpers bought up all the Chappell Roan concert tickets, she went in and canceled all the purchases and is now selling tickets on her website in small batches.
Love her.
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FediPact@cyberpunk.lol ("fedipact.online") wrote:
this is the sort of virulent transphobia that is allowed to exist on Threads. stuff like this actually literally gets people killed. why should we federate with a platform that willingly tolerates such hate speech?
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
sharpstick@sunny.garden wrote:
@fromjason On the contrary, just because Trump is a garbage fire doesn’t mean Kamala’s policies don’t deserve scrutiny and discussion.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
These flyers calling for mass deportation of Haitians and "Foreigners" were found in Springfield, Ohio.
Aside from being obviously horrific, I find the choice of font particularly interesting.
Up until the early 1940s, Nazi Germany's official font family was Blackletter typefaces, the same used in this flyer. They thought it was the one true "Aryan font."
Design can be used to convey a bunch of things, including racism.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Ronald Reagan coined the term "welfare queen" and fueled mass incarceration that destroyed millions of Black and brown families. Those effects can still be felt today.
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
requiem@hackers.town ("requiem 🏴") wrote:
Halloween 202…6?
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
reaping what his Court sowed
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
‘Conquer with love’: Springfield community shows support for Haitian neighbors
"The Miami Valley community broke bread with the Haitian community in Springfield Friday. Hundreds showed up at a local Haitian-Creole restaurant, but said the impact goes much further than just a meal."
Love to see this. https://dayton247now.com/news/local/conquer-with-love-springfield-community-shows-support-for-haitian-neighbors
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timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:
“This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.”: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body-05.html
bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
On the next Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I will reflect on Paul Graham's Founder Mode essay -- and on the reactions that it has engendered. Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific:
https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1284933375186174124
The original essay: https://paulgraham.com/foundermode.html
My thoughts on it: https://oxide.computer/blog/reflections-on-founder-mode
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tefferbear@mastodon.art ("soil gremlin") wrote:
whaaaale. took five hours to take this bad boy from jeans -> whale.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I don't agree with slavery but violence is never the answer — some moderate potato if we had social media during the Haitian Uprising.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Me: [last night] I'm always a little on edge when the rainy season returns. I worry about leaks and things.
Wife: You shouldn't worry so much. Everything is fine.
[ten minutes later]
Wife: You know just as I was saying you worry too much, there's a little leak coming from the top of our bedroom closet's door frame.
Me: [in my head only] There's no such thing as a little leak!
Me: [rushes to the attic to see what's going on]
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marius@social.nerdzoom.media ("Marius Quabeck :verified:") wrote:
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larsga@snabelen.no ("Lars Marius Garshol (en)") wrote:
Can you read Latvian, or you can share this with someone who can? If so, perhaps you can help me.
I have 68 archive documents from the Latvian National History Museum, describing traditional farmhouse brewing, dated 1925-1943. But I can’t read them and need the text translated.
The dots on the map show where the documents are from. If you can help, please contact me (e.g via email to larsga@garshol.priv.no). I will send you a document. They’re mostly short (1-2 pages), the longest is 7 pages.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The weirdest thing I have bookmarked is the Pepsi logo and brand guide. I can't tell if it's genius or insane. But I love it and I go back to it often.
https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell-021109.pdf
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
What is the weirdest thing from the #openweb that you have bookmarked? ⬇️
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venitamathias@masto.ai ("Venita") wrote:
#immigration
The US is a racist country period. All of the immigrants, they not like us, talk is the lifeblood of the white supremacist system in the United States; the immigrants targeted have always and will always be POC because that is what fuels white supremacy.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
A perfect demonstration that fascists do not say what is true; they say what would need to be true in order to justify what they intend to do anyway.
rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
We've had some nice cool and stormy weather yesterday and today but it's been causing power drops too. This morning's outage took me by surprise because it's just moderate rain without wind or thunder
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Fascinating. It turns out those "blue zones" where people supposedly regularly live to 100+ years old are probably not real, and the findings are mostly based on faulty and/or fraudulent data.
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org ("LÆMEUR") wrote:
Boy, I haven't been posting much art on here lately, have I?
These are from a few months ago. I did the Castle Grayskull piece to try-out some new paints, and then I figured hey, since I've got a nice little BG painting, let's do a character cel to put over it! So Mer-Man there is a traditionally inked and painted cel.
Fun! I should do more of these some time.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
The kiddo's school uses a third party service to communicate to families, and the service in question has been pretty relentless about trying to upsell me to some sort of "plus" account. So I opted out of those emails, but requested to keep the normal announcement emails having to do with my kiddo and the school. However, ever since I opted out of marketing emails, it appears I've missed all announcement emails. Hmmm... 🤔
I mean, sure it's probably just a bug, but... not really.
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Septembeat 15! I used everything - including the kitchen sink - on this one. #tidalcycles to #reaper, time stretching, spectral fx, manual editing. If you like busy glitchy music you might like this:
https://bkstrm.net/septembeat-15/
#mastoMusic #tidalcycles #glitch
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Fuji Superia X-tra 400 is very pretty one stop overexposed. Much better than at box speed, to my eye. Too bad it's discontinued, I have just a few rolls left 😔 At least it's a more than zero.
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
We've been continuosly rolling out updates to mastodon.social over the past 11 months, which is good for getting stuff out there, but it's easy to lose track of individual improvements that way, so it'll be nice to put everything together for once.
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Ladsgroup@wikis.world ("Amir Sarabadani") wrote:
We at Wikimedia Foundation (the non-profit that keeps Wikipedia running) are hiring Senior SRE for databases and Senior DBA. It's a fun work in large scale and for a good cause where you get to work with a lot of smart people.
#GetFediHired
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/6243310?gh_src=84bf644b1us
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/6208098?gh_src=377f0e471us
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Blog post for Mastodon 4.3 is prepared. There's going to be another beta and then a release candidate next week but then we're good to go. I'm looking forward to concluding that work stream.
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Who's ready for the final day of #dota2ti? I think all my predictions turned out wrong.
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
emi@void.lgbt ("Emi:emi_blahaj: ") wrote:
Biblically accurate iPhone
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
People turning on Chappell Roan because she said fuck the government is some straight up cop shit.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Y'all are going to hate me, but— Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Animated. Narrated by Stephen Fry. Directed by Taika Waititi. Franchise.
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Still in awe of yesterday's huge science drop about that 9-day monochromatic seismic wave revealing a climate-induced glacial collapse that sent the equivalent of 10 Giza Pyramid's worth of rock and ice into a Greenland Fjord, creating a 200m high Tsunami.
That's about the red line in this diagram of the Eiffel Tower and Sydney's Centrepoint Tower.
And that's not even the coolest part. The 9-day seismic signal was the result of a 7m wave sloshing back and forth in the narrow fjord, with a period of 90 seconds, as the water slapped against the valley walls.
Read the paper here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm9247
OR watch this video explainer, which is very very good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60T9TKuuujs
📸 size explorer
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LRRRonEarth@beige.party ("LRRR :bc:") wrote:
I AM SO MAD I HAD TO LEARN WHO LAURA LOOMER IS.
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
bigheadtales@mstdn.party ("Big Head Tales") wrote:
Let's call this what it is, Trump and the Republicans are calling out their Brownshirt terrorist cells to attack and disrupt America.
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:
DON'T AMPLIFY RACIST DISINFO!
I just saw a post sharinng a video setting racist false anti-immigrant ranting from the debate to the theme from Peanuts. Stuff like this just gives oxygen to the racist disinfo. Please don't do this!
(And no, I'm not going to link to it. That's the point. If you hvaen't seen it, it's easy to find on X!)
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
We no longer have a political party willing to condemn this racist rhetoric lest we alienate the Cheney voting block.
Best we can do is laugh and satirize it, while never actually embracing the Haitian community.
Dems moved right, and so did they. Progressives are officially outside the Overton window. This has consequences.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
‘It just exploded’: Springfield woman claims she never meant to spark false rumors about Haitians
"Graphic video of a woman who allegedly killed and tried to eat a cat was also found not to have originated in Springfield but in Canton, Ohio, and does not have any connection to the Haitian community." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-just-exploded-springfield-woman-says-never-meant-spark-rumors-haitian-rcna171099
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Man I really used to know how to design a rad website! They don’t make em like this anymore.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
A friend shared this beautiful co-op typeface foundry with me as his first open web find. I'm obsessed with it. You did well, kid.
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
velobetty@toot.bike ("Elisabeth Anderson :bt:") wrote:
People.
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RustyBertrand@kolektiva.social ("Rusty Bertrand") wrote:
I've seen the Ursula K LeGuin quote about capitalism going around, but to really appreciate it you have to know the context. The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it’s time to make a standard “thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah” speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. Allis well. Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead inthe eye, and says “Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship* She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something “more profitable®. She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words” Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the most powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly “Your empire willfall. And | wil help it along"
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mayank@front-end.social ("Mayank") wrote:
300KB is a silly amount of CSS
it might not seem much in terms of file size over the network, but it decompresses into megabytes, of which only a very small fraction will actually get used.
you can build very very complex web applications with under 50KB CSS (compressed).
just write plain CSS if you don't want a build step 🤦
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tbeseda@indieweb.social wrote:
“Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city”
absolutelynot
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Whatever moral high ground we thought we had is being lost to party sycophants. We don't get to tell people how to feel, especially when the party we're demanding everyone vote for is starting to look a lot like the party we despise.
In short, draw contrasts, not lines.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Don't get me wrong, there is nothing anyone online can say to me that would force me to stay home and not vote Harris.
But I've been dialed in politically for decades. There was once a time when I couldn't keep the parties' names straight.
The day my political views hardened was when I watched Bill O'Reilly spew his hatred towards poor people for the first time. It was an admittedly emotional stance. At least at first.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Know that when people criticize Democrats for moving further right, there is also an unspoken fear that (white) Democratic voters are going to throw marginalized people under the bus because the base has become so sycophantic.
Words like these do not alleviate those fears.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Imagine instead of telling a brown person that they're a bad "ally” for not supporting a white supremacist war lord like Cheney, this person said something like:
"I'm voting for Harris for obvious reasons, but I did write my senator about the Democrats support of Dick Cheney and how unpopular that is in my circles. I agree it's concerning."
Draw contrasts, not lines.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Draw contrasts, not lines.
To paraphrase Imani, AKA Crutches & Spice, one of the most profound comms strategists on the web— Our words do not exist in a vacuum. When we speak, we represent the values we hold, or in this case, the "side" we support.
On the web, we are all mini-campaigns evangelizing our candidates.
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ctrlaltrees@oldbytes.space ("Rees 🦆") wrote:
As of today, I am officially a published author 😁
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freakazoid@retro.social ("Charles U. Farley") wrote:
It's basically uncontrolled geoengineering, pumping alumina into the upper atmosphere in quantities far greater than we currently get from meteors. It will probably damage the ozone layer, and it may increase Earth's albedo with unknown net effects.
https://www.space.com/starlink-satellite-reentry-ozone-depletion-atmosphere
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'm worried about executing step #5, but I think steps 1, 2, 3, and 3 will prevent me from getting that far.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/14/time-to-cook-the-eggs/
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
A righteous strike that will cause great pain to everyone in the greater Seattle area. And the root cause? Greedy capitalism.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/14/boeing-on-strike/
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
found a letter from my Mom to me yesterday, from ‘back in the day’ when I was living in a VW van on the streets of Berserkeley & just returning to grad school
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wilfredh ("Wilfred Hughes") wrote:
An ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a text adventure game -- or as I like to call it, a compiler.
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requiem@hackers.town ("requiem 🏴") wrote:
I’m looking for some diagramming software (mostly for flowcharts) and I think I want something web-based so I can easily share a diagram with a link and collaborate with others regardless of operating system, etc.
But I also want something that is foss and I can self-host if I want to so my drawings don’t go away when some company folds.
Also, I want it to be usable on things like phones because unfortunately most of my “free time” isn’t in front of a computer.
Does this exist?
