@travisthetechie ("Travis Smith") retweeted:
@JustSayXtian ("Radical Traditional Jewish Person") wrote:
A subtle message of Encanto that I really appreciate it is that it sucks to be told that your disability is actually a gift.
Pepa's "superpower" is literally that she has anxiety. She can't control the weather - it controls her. But she still gets blamed for the storms
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
is this to be a furry test? capillary dilation of the so-called plush response?
@billyeichner ("billy eichner") wrote:
.@SenatorSinema I went to AZ to help register young voters to vote for you and I regret it. You’re awful. Thank you.
the log4j devs don't owe anyone shit
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@zkat__ ("kat.rs") replied to a tweet by @zkat__:
I also think there's some important nuance here re: no, I don't owe free labor to companies in the form of free support or more "active" work that doesn't directly benefit the commons. The commons is simply available, as-is, with no warranty, etc etc. We need to internalize that.
@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:
Avalanche Hive (pebbles?) this is how we can still win: 1/679
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@Marvel ("Marvel Entertainment") wrote:
Dispatch from Krakoa, the latest on the #XMenVote! ❌ Only one day left to cast your ballot: http://marvel.com/xmenvote
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
So this is what a stress-based breakdown is like. Could be clinically interesting.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/01/13/good-thing-i-dont-believe-in-prophetic-dreams/
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@sarahoconnor_ ("Sarah O'Connor") wrote:
Great piece on the "antiwork" trend in the US, which doesn't feel too dissimilar to young Chinese people stepping off the hamster wheel and "lying flat" https://www.ft.com/content/1270ee18-3ee0-4939-98a8-c4f40940e644
Robinhood has to pay a trader around $30K for restricting trades on certain stocks
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Jose Batista, a retail investor, was awarded almost $30,000 from Robinhood after filing a complaint using the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s (or FINRA’s) arbitration service. His case may end up being an example for other retail traders who are still upset at the trading platform’s actions in January of 2021.
On January 28th, Batista was planning on selling his stock in Koss and Express — but Robinhood had placed trading restrictions on them, limiting the amount of shares its users could buy. This meant that Batista had to watch helplessly as the prices of his stock fell to nearly half of what they were the day before the restrictions were put in place, according to MarketWatch. “Seeing it plummeting and plummeting, I felt...
You know how docker containers get a random name assigned when you don't specify one yourself? Names are randomly generated and look like "inspiring_pike" or "competent_darwin".
Turns out there's a special check in the code that prevents it from ever generating the name "boring_wozniak" 😄
https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/pkg/namesgenerator/names-generator.go#L844
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@ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:
Thanks again to @petermrobison for joining @bcantrill and me on our weekly Twitter Space to discuss his scintillating book "Flying Blind" which covers both the 737 MAX 8 tragedies as well as Boeing's transformation that presaged the engineering failures https://youtu.be/q6i9NPslfE4
@bradfitz ("Brad Fitzpatrick") wrote:
I wrote a little #golang writer for Nix NAR files:
https://gist.github.com/bradfitz/5091f77adaa43490f5371ae73bcf10f2
Thanks to @jbeda for the concise file format writeup 7 years ago (!) in https://gist.github.com/jbeda/5c79d2b1434f0018d693 which beats scrolling to page 101 in a PDF for docs.
@zkat__ ("kat.rs") replied to a tweet by @zkat__:
Hmmm. I kinda wonder if why stuff like Github Sponsors feels so different from Patreon. Patreon feels very _transactional_, but all my patrons on GH Sponsors are just like "I just want to send a tip your way keep doing your thing you don't owe us anything"???
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@jpags ("Jennifer Pagliaro") wrote:
By my quick calculations, Toronto Police represent 85% of the emergency services budgets (incl. paramedics and fire) so about $812 of the average annual property tax bill
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@tayery ("ad") replied to a tweet by @jpags:
@jpags @jsquaredink how much of this specifically goes to police????
@kendallybrown ("Kendall Brown") wrote:
I have never respected another human being’s mugshot more in my life.
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Two women are facing a felony charge after police said they went to a man's apartment in Clearwater and started throwing glitter at him during an argument. https://8.wfla.com/3zKthVO
@zkat__ ("kat.rs") replied to a tweet by @zkat__:
re: "devs gotta eat"
Yes.
That's what regular jobs (in our current system) are for. What I'm trying to say with this whole thread is that it's _incoherent_ to try and jam the job system into the open source system.
@zkat__ ("kat.rs") replied to a tweet by @zkat__:
(the other point I'm making is that doing-things-for-free that big-corps-do-for-profit is good, because it undercuts the corps and grows the commons)
@AnnTelnaes ("Ann Telnaes") wrote:
Opinion | McCarthy knows who his master is
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/13/mccarthy-knows-who-his-master-is/?tid=ss_tw
@zkat__ ("kat.rs") replied to a tweet by @zkat__:
I also think there's some important nuance here re: no, I don't owe free labor to companies in the form of free support or more "active" work that doesn't directly benefit the commons. The commons is simply available, as-is, with no warranty, etc etc. We need to internalize that.
@vogon ("yves adele fartlow") wrote:
the disparity in these case rates by income quartile is insane, I would've expected high-income people to have better access to testing than low-income people but I wouldn't have expected it to be like a factor of 50 difference
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@DataDrivenMD ("Jorge A. Caballero, MD") replied to a tweet by @DataDrivenMD:
Yes, vaccinations help but it’s bullshit to say that everybody is going to wind up getting exposed and likely infected. The extent to which we’re failing our fellow citizens is a *choice* https://twitter.com/quicktake/status/1481310745413492736
Reblogged by technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see..."):
zpojqwfejwfhiunz@hackers.town ("Z") wrote:
getting pumped for some computer work by watching the boot-up sequence in Alien on repeat for an hour
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
*smells cat* how can cat smell so good
*smells own head-fur* oh because it has fur all over
@zkat__ ("kat.rs") replied to a tweet by @zkat__:
Contributing to the commons, a commons where others contribute for our benefit as well, is not the same as plain old labor. I'm starting to feel like trying to apply the "labor" lens to open source development is itself a problem that's pulling us in the wrong direction.
@zkat__ ("kat.rs") replied to a tweet by @zkat__:
maybe trying to jam capitalist concerns ("how do we pay for all this labor?") is always just going to be incoherent vs reality.
Maybe the focus needs to be "what are we doing for the commons which gives _us_ stuff for free?" and stop worrying about whether we're "paid fairly"?
The Expanse season 6 makes me worry about the future of touchscreens
I hope the future can do better
I can't believe I'm looping all the way back around to "permissive open source is actually good and we should actually be MORE AGGRESSIVE about it, to continue undercutting corporate products"
but here we are
@HillaryClinton ("Hillary Clinton") wrote:
"In recent years, the filibuster became a routine way for the Senate minority to to block important progress on issues supported by the majority of voters," @barackobama writes.
"But we can’t allow it to be used to block efforts to protect our democracy." https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2022/01/12/obama-senate-democrats-must-protect-democracy-majority-vote/9185565002/
@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") retweeted:
@PplsCityCouncil ("People's City Council - Los Angeles") wrote:
The mother of Jalani Lovett is here outside Men’s Central Jail demanding public officials in Los Angeles/California to DO SOMETHING about deputy gangs within the LA County Sheriff’s Department. Disband and dismantle LASD. #LASDgangs #Justice4Jalani
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artist + open source dev + armchair scholar
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@meghanbkelly ("meghan b. kelly") wrote:
if you were to switch careers, and money was no object, what would you do? I would open a bookstore/cafe.
@RepJudyChu ("Judy Chu") wrote:
119 years ago, the first Korean immigrants to the US arrived. Today, as we mark #KoreanAmericanDay, I’m thrilled to celebrate the contributions that Korean Americans have made at every level and how they continue to shape our country's future. Diversity is our strength!
@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") retweeted:
hey besties just a reminder that you can get your Girl Scout cookies online via Troop 6000, a troop specifically for girls living in homeless shelters. 🍪
https://www.girlscoutsnyc.org/en/whatgirlsdo/gs-troop-6000.html
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@BeingCharisBlog ("Mx. Charis Hill ♿🏳️⚧️ (they/them)") wrote:
This is how you give a non-ableist public health answer highlighting the disproportionate impact on high risk populations.
#COVID19 #HighRiskCovid19 #MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy
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@WHO ("World Health Organization (WHO)") wrote:
Dr @mvankerkhove provides an update on the #COVID19 and Omicron epidemiological situation ⬇️
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@KendraSerra ("Kendra Albert") wrote:
Glad to see the experts on video game preservation @adrishaw, @Liebenwalde given center stage in this article on what we're losing because the ESA is fighting fair uses of games. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/01/12/video-game-preservation-emulation/
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@joehudsonsmall ("Joe Hudson-Small") wrote:
is it this
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@theipaper ("i newspaper") wrote:
Why these millennials are rejecting home ownership to become forever renters https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/property-and-mortgages/renting-benefits-millennials-reject-home-ownership-mortgages-1393078?utm_term=Autofeed&ito=social_itw_theipaper&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1641889335
@schneierblog ("Schneier Blog") wrote:
Using Foreign Nationals to Bypass US Surveillance Restrictions https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/01/using-foreign-nationals-to-bypass-us-surveillance-restrictions.html
@joshbloch ("Joshua Bloch") wrote:
Living amongst Trump supporters is dangerous to your health. Imagine my surprise.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828993/data-vaccine-misinformation-trump-counties-covid-death-rate
Want the ‘TLDR’ on a site’s terms of service? There’s a bill for that
Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call
Democrats and Republicans are getting behind a new bill, introduced Thursday, that would force tech companies to simplify the language in their terms of service agreements, making it easier for consumers to understand.
The Terms-of-service Labeling, Design and Readability Act – or TLDR for short – would require websites to provide a “summary statement” for users before they opt in to a terms of service agreement. The statement would summarize the legal jargon into something more easily understood by the average user, along with disclosing any recent data breaches (from the three years) and the types of sensitive data the site may collect. The summary would also explain “whether a consumer can delete their data, and if so, provide...
@m_ou_se ("Mara Bos") replied to a tweet by @m_ou_se:
Path and Metadata now have an is_symlink() method. This saves some typing, as previously this had to be done with std::fs::symlink_metadata(path) followed by metadata.file_type().is_symlink().
5/11
The real beauty of Wordle is how its emoji results tell a story
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Did you struggle with Wordle today? I sure as hell did, racking up my second ever failure since I started playing the game at the beginning of the year. I was annoyed at myself more than the puzzle and eased that frustration by sharing my results on Twitter.
As I did, I realized why the game’s auto-generated grids of emoji are so brilliant. It’s not just that they’re social (though that certainly helps), nor is it that they’re intriguing (there’s no link to the game and no explanation for the uninitiated as to what the emoji mean). No, it’s because each grid tells a story with wonderful concision. With just 30 squares and three colors, Wordle’s emoji results convey narratives of luck, frustration, perseverance, and failure; each grid a...
@bascule ("Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹") wrote:
During a year where America being ravaged by multiple disasters relating to severe weather, and despite making a campaign promise to end oil and gas drilling on federal land, it seems Biden has wound up being quite a friend to fossil fuel https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12012022/on-the-defensive-a-year-ago-the-american-petroleum-institute-is-back-with-bravado/
@bascule ("Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹") wrote:
Despite making a campaign promise to end oil and gas drilling on federal land, it seems Biden has wound up being quite a friend to fossil fuel despite America being ravaged by multiple disasters relating to severe weather https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12012022/on-the-defensive-a-year-ago-the-american-petroleum-institute-is-back-with-bravado/
@travisthetechie ("Travis Smith") retweeted:
@kaylejh ("kayle hill ♿️") wrote:
from ME in @TeenVogue!
“The study that Walensky cited is worrisome to me, and the idea of anyone finding those results encouraging feels like ripping open a calloused wound.”
go read my debut op ed ✨
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/cdc-director-covid-deaths-disabled
cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
A project to convert an older reference to something accessible to all with an internet connection.
"British Mineralogy and Exotic Mineralogy comprise 718 illustrations by James Sowerby in an effort to illustrate the topographical mineralogy of Great Britain and minerals not then known to it. Sowerby’s plates are some of the finest examples of hand-drawn mineral illustrations ever created."
@m_ou_se ("Mara Bos") replied to a tweet by @m_ou_se:
Newly stabilized in the standard library is File::options(). It's identical to OpenOptions::new(), but you don't have to import the OpenOptions type separately from the File type.
3/11
🦀✨ @rustlang 1.58.0 was released just now!
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/01/13/Rust-1.58.0.html
As usual, a thread to highlight some of the new features:
1/11
Baby Shark is the first YouTube video to surpass 10 billion views
Baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo. | Image: Pinkfong
“Baby Shark” became the most-viewed YouTube video of all time in November 2020, and just over a year later, it has achieved another huge milestone: it has become the first YouTube video to surpass 10 billion views.
“Baby Shark” is a cultural touchstone at this point. I remember singing it at summer camps as a kid growing up, and given the record-breaking popularity of the music video (which was created by the entertainment company Pinkfong), it seems I’m not the only person who will never forget this song. (I’ve been idly tapping my foot to the beat in my head the entire time I’ve been writing this post.) But the song’s impact doesn’t stop with the earworm hit. There’s also a Baby Shark show on Nickelodeon, a Baby Shark movie, and yes,...
What To Expect From PlayStation In 2022
The longest year ever, 2021, is finally over. But for all the trials and tribulations it put us through, there’s no denying there were some great games that helped us get through it all. Like Microsoft and Nintendo, Sony had a solid year with strong exclusives like Deathloop, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Ratchet & Clank:…
@olensmar ("Ole Lensmar") retweeted:
Monokle joined CNCF too: congrats guys from @thekubeshop Monokle team!
@fakedansavage ("Dan Savage") retweeted:
@ZiaAlcaldesa ("Zia Alcaldesa") wrote:
I was just reminded how Savage Love by @fakedansavage is probably a huge part of why I grew up thinking queerness and kink are totally ok and normal (in the 90s!). And how much better life is because of that. Thank you, Dan!
looks like some exciting changes are coming to my GH Sponsors thing, which definitely needs love, and this new stuff coming out (TBA) is gonna make it so much easier 👀
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@feminemi1y ("emily") wrote:
remember folks 😌
Fortnite Sneaks Back Onto iPhone By Way Of GeForce Now
It’s been 518 days since Apple kicked _Fortnite_off of the App Store after Epic Games tried to bypass its payment system. Now the popular free-to-play battle royale is once again playable on iPhones, sort of. Starting next week, Fortnite will be available on iOS by way of streaming, as part of an upcoming closed beta…
CAPTURED IDENTIFIERS
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@rustlang ("Rust Language") wrote:
We just released Rust 1.58.0, featuring captured identifiers in format strings and many more changes! 🎉
Read the highlights on our blog: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/01/13/Rust-1.58.0.html
@rustlang ("Rust Language") wrote:
We just released Rust 1.58.0, featuring captured identifiers in format strings and many more changes! 🎉
Read the highlights on our blog: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/01/13/Rust-1.58.0.html
Eternals’ awful sex scene is kind of clever the second time around
Marvel Studios
Marvel’s Eternalsfrom director Chloé Zhao was a film of many firsts for the studio, but it would be a bit inaccurate to say that it featured the MCU’s first sex scene, as a lot of people seem to think it did. _Daredevil_and the rest of the Netflix / Marvel gang spent seasons getting it in over in their neck of the cinematic universe, and those shows very much laid some groundwork for Eternals’ much-tamer take on superpowered sex. Eternals’ sex scene might not technically be Marvel’s first, or particularly “fun” to watch, but it’s one of the movie’s more clever ways of stating the obvious about how its story is going to end.
This essay contains spoilers for Marvel’s Eternals.
Throughout Eternals, an emotionally-inert foray into the cosmic...
@JonahFurman ("Jonah Furman") wrote:
Assuming this 14% holds across the whole Kroger workforce, that's around 65,000 people working at the fourth-largest private employer in the US -- ranked 17th on the Fortune 500 -- who've been homeless while keeping the country's grocery stores running, in a pandemic.
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@alexnpress ("Alex Press") wrote:
this new survey of Kroger workers is brutal: 14% of respondents have been homeless in the past year, 34% say they skip or reduce meals, 36% say they're worried about getting evicted https://economicrt.org/publication/hungry-at-the-table/
@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:
they really left us to die lmao
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@ctvottawa ("CTV Ottawa") wrote:
NEW: Ottawa's top doctor says word of mouth will notify students, parents and guardians and teachers about rising COVID-19 absences in schools before absenteeism reaches the threshold for the principal to notify public health officials. #ottnews
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@SortaBad ("Your Local Congressman🔺 (🗑,🗑)") wrote:
when the foot locker employee finds an extra pair of the sold out shoes for you in the back
@mrfeelswildride ("Always Bet On Kubo") wrote:
Blizzard Employee in 2010: Whew, just finished stealing breast milk from the break room fridge, now to remove the damage from Warlock's Life Siphon
Me: emerging from a time portal with a glock as robocop's theme plays
@hrousley ("h. ou-sleigh 🛷❄️⛄️") wrote:
me coming back after a week off
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@70sscifi ("70s Sci-Fi Art") wrote:
Me, logging on to work on Monday
The best budget laptop of 2022
Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge
The best cheap laptops under $800 from HP, Lenovo, and more.
@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") replied to a tweet by @MattBaume:
@MattBaume clearly i need to unlock this pirate ship...
@smdiehl ("Stephen Diehl") wrote:
It's only been one generation since we banned company scrip because of how predatory it was. And yet we seem to have already forgotten, because we seem to be trying to reinvent the idea of digital company tokens for our new neofeudal internet hellscape.
Gap is launching NFT hoodie art that unlocks physical clothing
Image: Gap
Gap is selling NFTs, following other clothing retailers like Adidas, Nike, and Macy’s that in recent months have jumped into the NFT space. The NFTs are built on the Tezos blockchain, which touts itself as a more energy-efficient option.
The NFTs come in the form of a series of digital hoodie art, with different levels of rarity at different price points. Common level pieces starting at roughly $8.30, or 2 tez, are on sale today. Rare, epic, and one-of-a-kind tiers will roll out over the next few weeks. Gap is partnering with artist Brandon Sines, creator of the Frank Ape cartoon character, on the designs.
The gamified experience comes out to around $500.
For shoppers who’d prefer to buy something wearable, look no further than the...
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@tjvanhouten ("Ted Van Houten") replied to a tweet by @tjvanhouten:
today’s wordle solve is dedicated to all the LA gays interviewed in @homophiliapod and this song
https://open.spotify.com/track/6IFjVdrrtV3MngDnP89bHM?si=E7VO-mNkQxaTYUqMToWcbQ
@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:
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@owenblacker ("Owen Blacker") replied to a tweet by @meakoopa:
@meakoopa Anthony, sweetheart. Those books… could be… more… stable?
The Xbox One Is Officially Dead
The Xbox One is officially dead. RIP. It will not be missed.
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@HillaryClinton ("Hillary Clinton") wrote:
Your U.S. senators should hear from you this week—especially if you live in Arizona or West Virginia.
Call them at (202) 224-3121 to demand they pass the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act.
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@NAACP_LDF ("Legal Defense Fund") wrote:
"If we are going to survive as a democracy, we must have voting legislation to fix the Voting Rights Act." - @Sifill_LDF
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@usefathom ("Fathom Analytics") wrote:
Breaking news: The Austrian Data Protection Authority has ruled that Google Analytics is illegal.
If you have anybody from the EU visiting your website, you need to read this thread immediately.
@Extrawurst ("Stephan D.") wrote:
This feeling when you see the second bar appearing 😬
@volkadav ("Mike Jackson") retweeted:
@Lenniesaurus ("✨Len Pennie✨") wrote:
"Not all men" is said by the men that it is.
@RachelAppel ("Rachel Appel") retweeted:
@RealSwimburger ("Niels Swimburger.NET 🍔") wrote:
Just published ✨ Learn how to send SMS with C# .NET and Azure Functions ⚡️ using the Twilio Output Binding 📬
#CSharp #dotnetcore #dotNET #Azure #AzureFunctions
https://www.twilio.com/blog/send-sms-with-csharp-dotnet-and-azure-functions-using-the-twilio-output-binding
@NfNitLoop ("Cody C. #BLM") retweeted:
@brianbeutler ("Brian Beutler") wrote:
The easiest concession in the world Democrats could offer the young voters at their wits end with the party is to stop treating fascists, liars, and seditionists as people deserving of comity.
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@DougAndres ("Doug Andres") wrote:
Sen. Durbin: "Perhaps the president went a little too far in rhetoric."
@trixiemattel ("Trixie Mattel™") wrote:
This is not a joke btw- I’m opening a motel. 🏨
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@trixiemattel ("Trixie Mattel™") wrote:
did you know blueprints aren’t blue? @trixiemotel
@bascule ("Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹") wrote:
Woohoo, @rustlang 1.58 with interpolated format strings ships today! 🎉
Also `saturating_div`
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
Fascinating. I guess people do catch up eventually.
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@JenniferJJacobs ("Jennifer Jacobs") wrote:
NEW: Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, other tech co’s meeting with White House today. Agenda: log4j and how to improve security of open source software, which, because it’s used & maintained by volunteers, is “a national security concern,” @JakeSullivan46 says.
technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
@owl I've pretty much given up on Signal as they don't even offer arm64
was meaning to look for hacked CLI alternative clients but then the scamcoin happened and so I just gave up
2021 was hot as hell, NASA confirms
Photo taken on Aug. 12, 2021 shows burned bushes after a wildfire caused by high temperature in Siggiewi, Malta. Matla was hit by a heatwave which has swept across the Mediterranean Sea. | Photo by Jonathan Borg/Xinhua via Getty Images
The last eight years have been the eight hottest years on record, NASA and the National Oceanic Administration (NOAA) confirmed today. 2021 ranks as the sixth hottest year on record, the agencies said, as global average temperatures trend upward. Rankings aside, there were plenty of red flags throughout 2021 to show us how remarkable the year was for temperature extremes.
“The fact is that we’ve now kind of moved into a new regime ... this is likely the warmest decade in many, many hundreds, maybe 1000s of years,” says Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “There’s enough change that it’s having impacts locally.”
In North America, those local impacts included epically bad summer heat, even for typically...
@KamalaHarris ("Kamala Harris") retweeted:
@POTUS ("President Biden") wrote:
I am directing my team to procure 500 million more COVID-19 at-home, rapid tests.
That will mean one billion tests to be distributed for free.
@bascule ("Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹") retweeted:
@RexChapman ("Rex Chapman🏇🏼") wrote:
32-years ago today MC Hammer released “U Can't Touch This” (1990) …
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@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
Raskin: A quarter century ago, Republicans changed Texas state law to permit astronauts to vote absentee from space. They want to make it easier to vote from space and they want to make it harder to vote on earth.
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@travisthetechie ("Travis Smith") retweeted:
@LadyDoctorSays ("Thee Lady Doctor Says | تقول الطبيبة | 🇮🇶") wrote:
Stop saying omicron is mild.
Hep C is asymptomatic until you're dying. Herpes & syphilis can lie dormant until they're encephalitis. HIV is asymptomatic until it's AIDS. HPV is asymptomatic until you've got metastatic cancer.
"Mild" doesn't mean jack shit.
#longcovid
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@donwinslow ("Don Winslow") wrote:
BS. You know why.
Senate Democrats offered Manchin a huge compromise on checks to parents. Then Manchin blew it up and they don't know why https://news.yahoo.com/senate-democrats-offered-manchin-huge-191625659.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr via @Yahoo
Genshin Impact's Greece-Inspired Update Is Surprisingly Devastating
Genshin Impact’s first major update of the year takes place in the Chinese-inspired city-state of Liyue. The update centers two new characters, and Liyue will soon host Genshin’s annual Chinese New Year event. So I understand why the newly added Enkanomiyan islands aren’t depicted as the meat of this update. There’s…
Fortnite is technically back on iOS, thanks to a GeForce Now game streaming loophole
Fortnite is back on iOS today... sort of. The popular battle royale game isn’t back on the App Store (where it’s been missing since Apple pulled the app from its storefront in August 2020), but iPhone and iPad owners can now stream Fortnite to play on their phones and tablets through Nvidia’s GeForce Now service, which opened up a closed beta today to test the new streaming version of the game.
Nvidia and Epic Games have been promising that Fortnite would come back to iOS through GeForce Now running through Safari’s web browser (the only way that Apple currently allows game streaming services like GeForce Now, Stadia, xCloud, or Luna to operate on iOS) as far back as November 2020, when the service first launched on Apple’s hardware....
White House hosts tech summit to discuss open-source security after Log4j
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
The White House will meet with leaders of major tech companies including Apple, Google, Amazon, Meta, IBM, and Microsoft on Thursday to discuss the security of open-source software. The issue has become urgent in the wake of the extremely serious Log4j vulnerability, discovered in December 2021.
The summit will also include the Apache Software Foundation — the owner and maintainer of the Log4j library — and Oracle, owner of the Java software platform on which the Log4j library runs. GitHub and the Linux Open Source Foundation will also be represented.
Executives from the tech companies will meet with representatives of various federal agencies, including the departments of Commerce, Defense, Energy, and Homeland Security. Other agencies...
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
@EricBoehlert ("Eric Boehlert") wrote:
34 paragraphs and not one sentence abt how every major economy in the world is battling inflation bc of pandemic
press obsessed w/ leaving out all context and making this a Biden story; https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/politics/joe-biden-democrats-inflation-midterm-elections/index.html
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
@justinbaragona ("Justin Baragona") wrote:
It appears that Fox News used a 10+ year old photo for an on-air graphic blasting Biden for empty shelves.
with quote tweet:
Uhh is this the same picture?
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
@joncoopertweets ("Jon Cooper 🇺🇸") wrote:
Missing from the media’s inflation coverage is an acknowledgement that the trend of rising prices is a GLOBAL phenomenon, fueled by the pandemic. Downplayed is the fact that systemic, record-setting inflation is occurring in virtually EVERY major economy. https://pressrun.media/p/inflations-a-global-problem-the-press
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@jennlholland ("Jennifer Holland") wrote:
Happy #Peacemaker day! @hbomaxpeacemaker is now streaming on @hbomax ! LET’S DANCE MOFOS🕺🏻. (Not to be confused with FOMOS, which is what you’ll be having if you don’t watch this show.)
📸: @steveagee (on the set for the open credits dance sequence)
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@nrookie ("noliwe rooks") wrote:
Unpopular opinion, but I think that quarter is an accurate representation of the politics of where we have been for some time re: slavery, capitalism and symbolic representation and optical diversity as stand ins for equity and justice.