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Y’all have a happy #carurday! As you can see my baby boy Lucky was of great help yesterday when I was in Homeoffice. Obv getting my hair done was mighty exhausting so he needed plenty of cat. #cat #cats #CatsOfFediverse #catstodon
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"Don't make that doomy gloomy post. Don't make that doomy gloomy post. Don't make that doo..."
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wim_v12e@octodon.social ("Wim 🅾") wrote:
Cornflowers in evening light.
#photography
#florespondence
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pearlbear@social.overlappingmagisteria.org ("Max Pearl") wrote:
I'm curious about people on the #Fediverse and their use of corporate social media. So here's a poll. Boosts for coverage appreciated.
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jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
one of the new catnip plants is flowering
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bicmay@med-mastodon.com ("Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:") wrote:
"The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that individuals aged six months and older should be given an updated COVID-19 vaccine for the 2024-25 immunization campaign, irrespective of whether they have previously been vaccinated for the disease."
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
"No, you misheard me; I said 'silly con.' ...Silly con, because everyone here...you know what, that's fine, just call the valley by what you heard."
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Life has taught me that if all of a person's friends are posting unhinged shit on LinkedIn, that's a huge red flag.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I also tried my hand at studying some old portraits.
And I am forever drawing variations of alien/monster heads. Sorry not sorry.
I've also been sketching out ideas for pieces that I will likely never attempt, but it's fun to think about them. That one has mild backside nudity, so watch out!
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I guess it's been a month or so. TIME TO UNLEASH MOAR DOODLES!
Sorry, that was a bit much. I'll keep it down.
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kaminenmosher@zirk.us ("Petra Kaminen Mosher") wrote:
@futurebird My cats have obviously been slacking off in the cult department. I think two of them have second families, but no worshipful gifts for them deposited at our door.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Religious zombies have wrecked Oklahoma…and many other parts of the country.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/29/weep-for-oklahoma/
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galacticstone ("Galactic Stone 🇺🇦") wrote:
This is the face of a stone cold assassin. #Caturday
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johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:
In the Big Bang, about 1/4 of the matter in the Universe fused into helium. Unfortunately, very little turned into heavier elements. As far as I can tell, it took about 10 billion years for pathetic little stars to crank out enough carbon, oxygen and other good stuff to support life. By the time we showed up, the party was almost over: the peak of star formation was long past, and the accelerating expansion of the Universe had begun. In another 10 billion years, the portion of the Universe we can still reach by moving slower than light will shrink by 80%. If so-called intelligent life wants to spread across the Universe, it had better get its ass in gear.
What's the problem here? Why did the Big Bang produce so little of heavier elements?
One problem is that the steps after helium are tough. Lithium, beryllium and boron are not very easy to make, for reasons of nuclear physics, so the next one after that - carbon! - first got made by an awkward process where two heliums crash into each other and make an *unstable* form of beryllium, which decays quickly unless a *third* helium hits it first, making carbon.
Once there's a bunch of carbon around, other processes come into play. But that happened much later.
Another problem is the "deuterium bottleneck".
(1/2)
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MoiraEve@mastodon.world wrote:
Robert Hubbell:
If you work in a safe job, have medical insurance, have a retirement plan invested in the stock market, own a car or a home, have a college degree, and have access to clean water and safe food, then you owe it all to the existence of well-regulated “administrative state” that keeps the complex US economy humming along in a way that is the envy of the world.
// That’s now been subsumed by the Roberts Court. #Chevron
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Savvyhomestead ("Truth Or Consequences ✅") wrote:
Who knew that people, even in rural red America, don't like the orange asshole after all?
https://www.newsweek.com/latino-voters-donald-trump-joe-biden-debate-election-1918795
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
This new album from Eric Hilton, "Out of the Blur", has been my Saturday morning soundtrack:
https://erichilton.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-the-blur
It has been a pleasant companion to the slowly brightening dawn and bird song outside my window.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Beautiful little babies.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/29/teeny-tiny-little-friend/
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Look, I know as well as anyone there are plenty of very good and valid reasons to criticize Democrats in general and Biden in particular.
But I really don't think just wholesale embracing Trump's own framing is helping anyone but Trump.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
If you don't see the journalistic double standard yet, go look for the New York Times editorial board op-ed saying Trump should drop out.
(It doesn't exist. Everything Trump's done wasn't enough to prompt that. But one bad debate was all it took to get them to write it for Biden.)
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Really though: y'all know whose narrative this is, right?
You realize whose framing you're embracing here?
You do actually understand who this is helping, don't you?
Literal fascism is on America's doorstep. Who do you think is happy we're talking about the current president instead of *that*?
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
If only the media would hold Trump half as accountable for being an openly fascist narcissistic violent insurrectionist racist rapist dictator who lies so prolifically it's impossible to judge his actual grasp on reality as they do Biden for having one bad job interview.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Noooooo wiiiiiiiine
Sips like Gascón
Goes with dips like Gascón
Makes you drink to the very last drip like Gascón
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sam@social.coop ("Sam Whited") wrote:
I didn't find any sponsorship for FOSSY this year, but I had a talk accepted and am still considering going despite being even broker than last year (it really was a great time last year). Any chance I know anyone in Portland, OR with a couch I could crash on if I do manage to find a way to make it work?
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
This is a banger
Pluralistic: The reason you can’t buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you (28 Jun 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/28/dealer-management-software/
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"But who watches the watchdog?" he thinks to himself while pondering the precarious pile of tech he threw together to avoid the onerous commute.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Probably need a webcam too, now that I'm thinking about it... :thonking:
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I won't describe my WFH setup, but I will say that I am right now researching network controlled power and possibly a solenoid.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Good God, people, he had one subpar 90-minute showing in fucking JUNE. A little perspective, please.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Not Good: “Supreme Court Pares Back Federal Regulatory Power” - The Wall Street Journal
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Only in America can an openly fascist convicted felon wannabe dictator spend all evening spouting blatantly obvious lies, only for the media to focus all attention on the *other* candidate's shortcomings.
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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭✨") wrote:
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g7izu@universeodon.com ("Andy Smith") wrote:
Space Weather
Aurora Alert: A strong G3 Geomagnetic storm is now in progress. Mid-latitude radio aurora is now reported down to approx 55°N over Europe, and ~47°N over N America.
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stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:
I need such a suit
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Kierkegaanks@beige.party ("Kierkegaanks, regretfully") wrote:
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phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:
3rd day jetlag is the worst jetlag.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Things a good browser should block:
- scroll-based "signup" dialogs (e.g., for newsletters)
- more than 500KB of JS w/o a user interaction
- any JS served w/o compression or content-length headers
- images that are likely more than 3x the viewport size
- cookie consent dialogs
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Don't throw tarantulas, hand them over gently to me.
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theruran@hackers.town ("theruran 🌐🏴") wrote:
by the way, you can go to the https://sebokwiki.org and learn the systems engineering basics for free, complete with references. no one can stop you!
the latest INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook hardcopy can be obtained for US$90 (from Wiley) and the softcopy is free for INCOSE members, which you can just join if you want to. The Handbook is synchronized with the ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2023 International Standard - Systems and software engineering--System life cycle processes and you can even get certified by studying it and taking an affordable MOOC.
of course, there's the SWEBOK but it's not been updated since 2013 and I have not met a single software engineer that even mentioned it. :cereal_killer:
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Can we please have a brokered convention in August, where we select a candidate who won't fugue out on stage?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/28/joe-must-go/
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The geriatric debate club is meeting tonight to sway voters on which member’s trembling, diaper changing schedule and memory blackouts are going to cause the least problems to be commander in chief of the world’s largest nuclear weapons arsenal.
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metin@graphics.social ("Metin Seven 🎨") wrote:
A great cartoon by @GuidoKuehn
#cartoon #capitalism #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #TaxTheRich #satire #climate #ClimateCrisis #environment
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neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:
... sigh.
This is the kind of stupid thing hackers have been doing in text files for decades.
No one thought to harden the LLM products against it, apparently.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“During our testing, from April to May 2024, the jailbreak was shown to work on the following base models and hosted models:
Meta Llama3-70b-instruct (base)
Google Gemini Pro (base)
OpenAI GPT 3.5 Turbo (hosted)
OpenAI GPT 4o (hosted)
Mistral Large (hosted)
Anthropic Claude 3 Opus (hosted)
Cohere Commander R Plus (hosted)For each model that we tested, we evaluated a diverse set of tasks across risk and safety content categories, including areas such as …”
OTOH this is still the best version of #BadGuy ;)
Musical analysis of #BillieEilish Bad Guy — it's over my head (I'm not a musician), but interesting, and I have an extra appreciation for the song.
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quinn@chaos.social ("quinn, still illegally") wrote:
hi fedi, i'm looking for work :BoostOK:
i bring:
- almost two years of experience in compilers & programming language design and research (daily work in Java, C, some Nix)
- more than ten years of working on various open source projects, including maintainer roles (in languages such as C, C++, Python, Go)
- lots of private experience with sysadmin stuff (incl. Nix) for infrastructure
i want: 32 hours/week, remote, free choice of residence within the 🇪🇺
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fight@fightforthefuture.org ("Fight for the Future") wrote:
Tomorrow, the @InternetArchive is appealing in court for the right to own and preserve digital books, including half a million books that this suit forced them to remove from their library.
But it’s not book banners they’re up against, it’s Big Publishing. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/internet-archive-forced-to-remove-500000-books-after-publishers-court-win/
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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
For the month of June, Cinelimite has put up a bunch of short films made in the early 80s by queer activists in Paraíba. English subs https://www.cinelimite.com/programs-2/a-onda-de-filmes-queer-em-super-8-da-paraiba
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I give the Verge (deserved) shit for failing to cover the mobile browser and web apps story with any clarity, but damn if they aren't on it with this AI plagiarism coverage:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/27/24187405/perplexity-ai-twitter-lie-plagiarism
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renee.diresta@threads.net ("Renee DiResta") wrote:
There’s a debate strategy often used by pseudoscience peddlers known as the Gish Gallop. The debater throws out a barrage of false claims, one after another, far too many for the opponent to ever actually refute them all.
The opponent stalls as he tries to figure out what to respond to first. He starts to explain. And he often looks like he’s rambling as he tries to rebut all the claims, getting in weeds to lay out facts.
This strategy was on display tonight during the PresidentialDebate
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
It's really interesting to me how, even for things AI should be great for on paper, it kinda backfires.
Example: I've noticed some local restaurants using AI to generate images of menu items.
Sounds like a perfect use case; saves you lots of money and time on food photography.
But there's so much AI imagery out there now, I can spot it a mile away. And seeing it on the menu automatically makes me wonder if the dish really looks like that, has those ingredients, or if the place is even legit.
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anildash@threads.net ("Anil Dash") wrote:
I didn’t watch, you shouldn’t watch, most people don’t watch, they have almost no effect, it’s just theater for inept media.
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danhon@dan.mastohon.com ("Dan Hon") wrote:
Can't believe Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions
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emilion@infosec.exchange ("Emilion") wrote:
@jsonstein Non paywalled source.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/27/supreme-court-sec-ruling-00165303
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
most excellent… finally figured out (and validated by testing from 2 other machines) that the SSL complaints my little test service is throwing into it’s errors.txt file are about my iPad’s certs, not about any problem with the server’s certs. it took me a while to think of testing from other machines to better understand the problem; at first, I was ready to look for a fault in my code.
vibe.d seems pretty stable & robust so far. I need to set up a stress test next.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
but of course, stress testing demands first talking to a couple of layers of network admins so they don’t freak out at a sudden flood of requests flowing in to my little test server 🙀
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected one of the primary ways the Securities and Exchange Commission enforces rules against securities fraud, likely also making it harder for other regulatory agencies to bring enforcement actions.”
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HarbingerOfSalem@kolektiva.social ("Harbinger of Salem") wrote:
@seanwithwords @HedgeNewby @AlisonW
All systems derive their existance from the consent of the governed until the governed will no longer tolerate it; by death or voting or any other means
To fail to vote is to consent; not to protest
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robrey@mastodon.art ("Rob Rey") wrote:
Flow
6 x 8 in, Oil on Yupo, 2021"If I could label each of my atoms at this moment ... some will undoubtedly become parts of other people, particular people. So, we are literally connected to the stars, and we are literally connected to future generations of people. In this way, even in a material universe, we are connected to all things future and past."
-Alan Lightman
xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
(i first off want to concede it's funny that zero-click is being used in a very different way from its security meaning here)
xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
are you familiar with the term "zero-click content," for stuff like email newsletters that don't aim to send you to existing web content? how do you feel about the concept?
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Some geometry.
📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8
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kelpana@mastodon.ie ("Alanna") wrote:
This is absolutely fascinating - quartz crystal manufacturing 80 years ago. These processes are the ancestor of modern chip making: https://youtu.be/duZlWWwxIPQ?si=YBjk8nY5fkCdu6x2
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Now you know what it's like to be an atheist on the internet.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/27/why-i-left-facebook/
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Another case of housing-first / UBI working great https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/denver-gave-people-experiencing-homelessness-1000-a-month-a-year-later-nearly-half-of-participants-had-housing/ar-BB1ouZ1g
With so many, you might wonder why we don't do this everywhere? Because local legislatures are bought out by corporations that use the threat of homelessness to keep employees compliant and heads down on their jobs.
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
I remember this story about the first elected mayor of an Alabama town, who was denied the ability to actually serve as a mayor by a racist council. Apparently, he won: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/27/newbern-alabama-mayor-patrick-braxton
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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
OWA Meetup - London! Join Alex Moore, Stuart Langridge and the OWA crew tonight from 6pm till late. 🎉🪅
See you at the London Hospital Tavern at 176 Whitechapel Road.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Me, last week, driving down the 101: Hmmm...I wonder why Apple's running this thicket of billboards so dense it could be a Burma Shave ad?
Me, today, reading the CMA's takedown of Apple's privacy claims: ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....
https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/mobile-browsers-and-cloud-gaming#working-papers
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
We are cursed animals, that live by generating buckets of poop.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/27/poopology/
rust@octodon.social ("Rust tips") wrote:
Converting a slice
&[..]to a fixed-length array in #RustlangBy copying:
let arr: [_; N] = slice.try_into().unwrap();By reference:
let arr: &[_; N] = slice.first_chunk::<N>().unwrap();Single element only:
let arr: &[_; 1] = std::array::from_ref(element);If the slice length is obvious to the optimizer (e.g.
chunks_exact()iterator), theunwrap()will be optimized out. Otherwise, handle possibility of the slice being too short.There's more:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/primitive.slice.html#method.split_first_chunk
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foone@digipres.club ("Foone🏳️⚧️") wrote:
if I had a lot more time I think I might write a book on my ideas about "adversarial automation".
The idea that the point of computers is to help the humans do their job faster and easier, and sometimes the computer or the software on it is the enemy in that battle.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@owa Also, if you're in London, it's not too late to sign up for the meetup tonight! Some of @owa's inimitable leaders are in town, and would be great to see you from 6pm at the Hospital Tavern in Whitechapel:
Quick, digestible bites of TypeScript goodness for Deno developers. In this first bite, we introduce TypeScript, how to add type annotations to your code and why you should.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
So @owa is out with early reactions to a new update from the UK's CMA. Augurs well for an expansion of real browser choice on iOS and unlocking of critical Android APIs (e.g., WebAPKs):
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/uk-cma-browser-cloud-gaming-progress-report/
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jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
OMG, one of the catnip plants is flowering
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pmcneil@aus.social ("The pmcneil (nerd)") wrote:
Just heard about solar suppliers sprouting bullshit about having to replace the whole system if the inverter fails. This makes me very angry. No wonder people are suspicious of renewables when charlatans in the industry do this.
Let's be clear. A solar panel will last > 25 years and then some. They DO NOT FAIL*. An inverter can be replaced and it will cost about a $1000 maybe. Don't let these people bullshit you.
The things that may fail on a solar panel are the bypass diodes or the optimisers, not the panels. Those diodes can be replaced.
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KimPerales@toad.social ("Kim Perales") wrote:
Republican lies must be refuted 24/7. Undocumented immigrants & legal immigrants have consistently committed fewer homicides in Texas than native-born Americans.
"In Texas between 2013 and 2022, the homicide rate among illegal immigrants was 26% lower than that of native-born Americans. The homicide rate among legal immigrants was 61% lower than that of native‐born Americans.
-S Rattner
(from The CATO Institute)
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detachedspork@mastodon.ie ("detached spork") wrote:
I don't actually think we should have rules about who can and cannot attend pride, but we should have much higher standards for behaviour than we do.
The hands down worst behaviour I've experienced at pride came from gay men who felt entitled to grope me.
And you want me to be afraid a bi woman will bring her partner with her? Yeah?
Nah, fuck that.
The discourse is a fucking scam.
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krinkle@fosstodon.org ("Timo Tijhof") wrote:
From the Fast Company article:
> Robots Exclusion Protocol [..], compliance is voluntary. [..] Srinivas also noted that [it] is “not a legal framework.”Uh.. the robots protocol has in fact been tested in court. Trespassing, terms of use, and/or copyright prevailed over the liberty of unrestricted "universal" use without consent.
Short transcript / podcast:
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/book/search/Summary from a legal course:
http://www.tomwbell.com/NetLaw/Ch06/eBay.htmlMore:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_v._Bidder%27s_Edge#Order
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mikemathia@ioc.exchange ("🌪 MikeMathia.com 📡") wrote:
Please don't let #AI systems teach you how to set-up a campsite.
rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
check out this scene from 1931 where a swishy tailor openly flirts with James Cagney. It got taken out for the 1941 rerelease and only got restored in the DVD era, too late for inclusion in The Celluloid Closet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Whyks7Gp9E
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
KMHD delivered this little, dreamy gem of a song this evening. "Canario" from Karen y Los Remedios:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6RyZg1mcXw
and:
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Gone were plans to make subway stations more accessible to riders with disabilities, repairs to some nearly century-old infrastructure and the expansion of the Second Avenue subway line, among other now-deferred projects.”
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“House Republicans on Wednesday advanced legislation that would slash funding for the Department of Justice and U.S. attorneys’ offices… would cut funding for salaries and other expenses at the Justice Department by 20 percent, and for U.S. attorneys’ offices by 11 percent… example of how House Republicans are again trying to inject the annual government spending bills with partisan policy mandates aimed at amplifying political grievances and culture war issues.”
Added an Elasticsearch-powered Retrieval-Augmented-Generation + Gemma notebook to Hugging Face's community cookbook site
https://huggingface.co/learn/cookbook/en/rag_with_hugging_face_gemma_elasticsearch
Hope that makes it easy to get started.
Credit where it's due: inspired by Mongo's cookbook + dataset 🙇♂️
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I admit I exaggerate a little. It is actually only 18,746 words according to wc.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Company: We've updated our privacy policy because we care about things like not getting dragged through court. We encourage you to read it. Here's the 19,000 words of legalistic phrases and vague sentences.
Me: *heavy, heavy sigh*
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Regarding LB[1]: It's worth following the link to see the video Adam Beane created in response to the recent "Apple crush" ad. I'm not an Apple fan (not even from a nostalgic angle), but I admire and respect the effort Beane put into crafting that message.
https://80.lv/articles/clay-sculptor-crushes-tim-cook-in-response-to-apple-s-infamous-ipad-ad/
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antijingoist@hackers.town ("Abbie 🏳️⚧️") wrote:
via https://80.lv/articles/clay-sculptor-crushes-tim-cook-in-response-to-apple-s-infamous-ipad-ad/
Edit: gif missed the punchline.
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yurnidiot@mstdn.social ("Mandu 🥟") wrote:
"This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!"
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
The sharpest image ever taken of Venus.
From the Japanese spacecraft Akatsuki.
The dark side shines in the infrared, which is how this photo was taken.
It's real!
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I pressure cooked some 🐷 which I will finish off over some charcoal for dinner tonight. I love me some Instant Pot 🙂
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
@djwfyi have you tried a #cupoftea? :blobcat_smilehappyeyes:
@mentallyalex
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rnd@toot.cat ("/dev/urandom") wrote:
general midi specifies a list of instruments, so that any genre of music can be played properly on any device
except sea shanties
those are handled by admiral midi
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MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art ("Michael Whelan") wrote:
Full post here:
https://www.michaelwhelan.com/unethical-use-of-data-at-meta/
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cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:
On May 19, three American citizens were hanging out at their apartment complex swimming pool -- A mom and her two children, a little girl, 3, and a boy who was 7 years old.
The mom was Muslim, so she wore a modest swimsuit and a hijab.
This infuriated Elizabeth Wolf, a 42-year-old white woman,
who, upon arriving at the pool, began loudly berating the young mother,
using racial slurs to tell her she wasn’t welcome in white America.
Wolf then jumped into the pool and grabbed the two children, who were playing in the shallow end, 💥and tried to drown them.💥
With mom’s help, the little boy escaped with scratches from Wolf’s fingernails, but Wolf succeeded in dragging the 3-year-old girl into a deeper part of the pool and was repeatedly holding her head under water as the little girl began to drown.
A bystander intervened, jumping into the pool and rescuing the little girl; when police arrived and handcuffed Wolf, she screamed at the arresting police officer:
“Tell her I will kill her, and I will kill her whole family.”An eyewitness who was also in the pool with her own 7-year-old told a reporter for KDFW:
“That was like 10 seconds, but it felt like forever. She was like, ‘Help me! She’s killing my baby, she’s killing my baby!’”
The little girl was so traumatized by the incident that she’s now afraid to leave her family’s apartment. Her PTSD may well affect her for the rest of her life.
Can you imagine if that had happened to your child or grandchild?
The mom, whom news reports aren’t identifying to protect her from the other many violent racists daily encouraged by Trump and Texas Republicans, told the local media:
We are American citizens, originally from Palestine, and I don’t know where to go to feel safe with my kids. My country is facing a war, and we are facing that hate here. My daughter is traumatized; whenever I open the apartment door, she runs away and hides, telling me she is afraid the lady will come and immerse her head in the water again. Also, my husband’s employment is jeopardized, due to having to leave work to accompany me and our four kids whenever we have appointments and errands to run.
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The_Whore_of_Blahbylon ("The Whore of Blahbylon") wrote:
Well that escalated quickly.
