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simonbp@social.linux.pizza wrote:
Boosting this because I know a lot of you are, ahem, detail-oriented obsessives about something.
Would you like to obsessively detail over *entire galaxies* in images hot off a telescope in deep space, images that no human eye has ever seen?!
Give the Galaxy Zoo crew a shout:
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It could just be the propofol talking, but I'm feeling saintly and pure.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is great: “Researchers Decipher Cuneiform Tablet—and Discover It’s a Furniture Receipt” - Smithsonian Magazine
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eniko@peoplemaking.games ("Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now!") wrote:
Kitsune Tails is OUT NOW!! Run, jump, and dash across a land inspired by Japanese mythology and untangle the love triangle between three young women on a journey of self discovery. Explore the complicated relationships between kitsune and humans through classic platforming action.
get it now on steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325260 or itch https://eniko.itch.io/kitsunetails
we're a small underfunded team with a majority queer developers, and while we're punching way above our weight class we need the support of our community if this game is going to be a success. please boost this post, and if you can afford it buy it on steam and leave a positive review on the first day (the text doesn't matter, only the thumbs up, so "i like gay fops" is totally valid as a review)
i also want to prove fedi is powerful enough to make an indie game succeed, so even if you're not personally that into the game, please boost this post? 🙏
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karen@floss.social ("Karen Sandler") wrote:
It's #FOSSY day! I'm so excited to see everyone!
Some people have been asking - no, it's not too late to register, yes, you can check in to get your badge any day of the conference.
See you soon! (And don't forget the social event is tonight!)
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“… Vance’s introduction to America has not gone well, with Democrats highlighting his past statements on abortion rights and a suggestion that parents should have more of a vote than adults without children. Harris and her allies have started calling both Vance and Trump “weird,” messaging that has taken off online.
Seventeen days later, Trump and his allies have yet to quiet criticism from within their own party.”
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“A description from its publisher says it “blazes a warpath for the American people to take back their country,” and says conservatives should “burn down” various “corrupt” institutions, including the Department of Education, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the National Endowment for Democracy, as well as Ivy League colleges and The New York Times.”
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xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:
the 32-bit cafe is hosting our 5th (!!) community code jam, running from august 4th-17th!
our theme this time is *back to school*! any style of webpage (blog post, image gallery, coding experiment, etc.) is welcome to be submitted to this code jam, as long as it centers around a topic you either know a lot about, want to learn about, or are actively learning! teach us about new things through your submissions!
join us, a lot of folks are excited about this one!
https://32bit.cafe/~xandra/events/codejam5/
#smallweb #codejam #32bitcafe #indieweb #personalweb #webevent #webdev #cozyweb #internet #html #css #js
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Having an A/C in the house is a blessing, but boy this thing is power-hungry. And loud. So I'm investing in opening a lot of windows over night and cooling the house down to high 60s. Which keeps my A/C silent through most days, actually. Unless it's close to 90 outside.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
"A penny saved is $0.00999999999 earned"
—JavaScript throw pillow
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“If there was one thing life—and numerous missions—had taught Hạc Cúc, it was that nothing was ever truly lost, and that every plan needed fifteen different contingency ones. No one ever showed up for their own assassination according to plan.”
— Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard
https://a.co/5jSbZQn
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FediPact@cyberpunk.lol ("fedipact.online") wrote:
meta's public policy director for threads.net and other platforms is one of the authors of project 2025
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feoh@oldbytes.space ("Feoh") wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yfj_zB-PIE
I am becoming a Hiroko Yamamura fan :)
Her latest Boiler Room mix is just awesome IMO :)
ROCKET FUEL FOR YOUR HUMP DAY! enjoy! :)
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SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe ("Sally Strange") wrote:
@epakai Racist harassment: https://indieweb.social/@lucasgonze/112877661339722927
Condescending racist lying: https://indieweb.social/@lucasgonze/112877596261617480
Arrogant racist harassment: https://indieweb.social/@lucasgonze/112877571267736795
Racist harassment: https://indieweb.social/@lucasgonze/112877498836103949
Racist assholery and condescension: https://indieweb.social/@lucasgonze/112877015953417143
Framing privilege callout as personal attack: https://indieweb.social/@lucasgonze/112875967114122553
Racist harassment: https://indieweb.social/@lucasgonze/112867418673107464
In conclusion, go fuck yourself
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Is Trump racist? Big time. Really big time.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Worse, Apple and Google are *still* holding the coats of FB and Bytedance and other companies that subvert browser choice and enable more pervasive tracking on the web through so-called "in-app browsers":
@owa has the best explainer on what mobile OS vendors are doing to your choice in browsers when you aren't looking:
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This adds to the incoherence of saying "privacy is a human right" while consistently failing to sell devices that promise it to folks who aren't rich. Apple's whole market model is based on only selling hardware when it can make 30+% after service costs. That makes 80+% of the market a no-go zone.
Privacy, as defined by Apple, isn't for the poors.
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zoe@zoeoconnell.co.uk ("Zoë O'Connell") wrote:
British Medical Association calls anti-trans Cass Review “unsubstantiated”. https://www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/bma-to-undertake-an-evaluation-of-the-cass-review-on-gender-identity-services-for-children-and-young-people
This is major: the BMA is the major union for doctors in the UK and not a niche group, most doctors are members.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Privacy online isn't solvable without legislation. We need laws to drive the price of reidentification high enough to make it commercially infeasible. This is because technical interventions cannot credibly prevent fingerprinting without neutering basic functionality.
It's perverse that the only folks to build such a browser is the Tor project, and Apple prevents them from bringing those benefits to iOS while marketing privacy:
https://infrequently.org/2024/07/misfire/#fn-a-truly-private-browser-4
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Yikes. “Severe thunderstorm warning”…that’s not good, he says, as the sky falls on him with a roar.
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thiswomanswerk@blacktwitter.io ("Andrea is still here") wrote:
"I looked for 30 minutes and I couldn't find any racism on mastadon" is sending me...mbic that should be your sign to recognize that the call is coming from inside the house
#MassaDon is at it again
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OutOnTheMoors@beige.party ("CrazyMyra") wrote:
The only two bathrooms necessary
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punklawyer@mastodon.sdf.org ("PunkLawyer") wrote:
#NSFW: INCESTUOUS-MINDED GRIFTER URGED DAUGHTER TO PRODUCE #IVANKASEXTAPE LIKE #PARISHILTON
“The thing with Paris hurt Ivanka a lot,” a friend told New York Magazine. “He was heartbreaking to her at times.”
The piece said that she “buried her feelings and moved on,” thinking her father’s feelings about women were “complicated.”
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bhawthorne@infosec.exchange ("Brian Hawthorne") wrote:
We are clearly entering the “indistinguishable from magic” phase of the “Any sufficiently advanced technology” model. Semi-conductor nano crystals excited by single wavelength light to attach to PFAs and defluorinate them.
https://newatlas.com/environment/pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals-100-percent-break-down-overnight/
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unlobito@woof.tech ("harley!") wrote:
this is what a senior software engineer looks like
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wonderofscience ("Wonder of Science") wrote:
Stunning images of Jupiter captured by the Juno spacecraft during a close flyby in October 2018.
Video credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt
#space #science #nasa
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bwhitman@hachyderm.io ("Brian Whitman") wrote:
Tulip is now available to all! It's been a wild ride getting here. It's an incredibly low-cost fully open Python computer with an excellent synthesizer, MIDI, CV, etc. Make stuff in code. Please join us! https://tulip.computer/
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DeliaChristina@sfba.social ("Delia Christina") wrote:
Colleague: yeah, must be some weird cold we're having in July.
Girl, it's Covid.
You and your husband have Covid.
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At @freedomofpress we’re hiring a Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) consultant to help us develop a monitoring and evaluation framework for our digital security training courses. Are you a good fit, or know someone who is? Check out the job description and please share the posting widely! https://freedom.press/careers/job/?gh_jid=4443012005
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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
Due to "anti-democratic actions by the Georgian government," the US is pausing more than $95 million in assistance to the country in the Caucasus, announces Secretary of State Blinken.
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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:
“Being obsessed with repressing women is goofy. Trying to watch what LGBTQ+ people do all the time is abnormal. Punishing people who don’t have biological offspring is creepy. It’s an incel platform, dude. It’s SUPER weird. And people need to know.”
~ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as quoted by Robyn Pennacchia
#Trump #JDVance #weird #Republicans
/9https://www.wonkette.com/p/aoc-correct-again-trump-and-jd-vance
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gtconway3@threads.net ("George Conway") wrote:
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xyzzy@mastodon.sandwich.net ("Text Adventure") wrote:
You enter a sweet-smelling, dark orange room. There is a POTTED PLANT near the window. You see a CUP OF COFFEE here, in the window. There is a BUSINESS EXECUTIVE here, shredding confidential documents.
Exits: SOUTH SOUTH DOWN
#bot
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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:
"Now that the media no longer has Joe Biden’s age to consume our every waking moment, the endless stream of bizarre things Trump and Vance both say and do is suddenly getting the scrutiny it deserves.
The 'Trump and Vance are weird' strategy is brilliant because it is multi-purposed."
~ Todd Beeton
#Trump #JDVance #weird #Republicans
/6https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/kamala-harris-donald-trump-weird
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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Oooh! Shannon Curtis added another track to their "80s Kids" back on the 5th:
https://shannoncurtis.bandcamp.com/track/dancing-in-the-dark
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axbom@axbom.me ("Per Axbom") wrote:
Organisations when they hire consultancy services: “We need a company credit check and report to ensure your finances are stable and that this will be a sustainable relationship.”
Organisations when deciding on using OpenAI: “We understand you spend $700,000 per day and need $5 billion a year to survive as a company, which is way more than any company has ever raised in history. Please take our money. We will integrate your tool into all our tools now. The lottery is our favorite way of investing in our own future.”
I've tried #VisionPro demo in an Apple Store (they have lots of available slots in the UK, BTW)
- It's heavy. When it doesn't crush my sweaty cheekbones, it makes my neck hurt.
- Resolution is the best I've seen, but at best a 1440p monitor equivalent. Text is ok, but a downgrade from a real 4K monitor.
- Spatial vid from iPhone is low res and barely any 3D.
- Apple's professional 3D content looks low res, and has wobbliness of 3DoF, like all VR
- FOV is average
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brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson") wrote:
On third party cookies: @slightlyoff says “The TAG missed a critical opportunity to call for legislative fixes to the technically unfixable problems it failed to enumerate.” https://infrequently.org/2024/07/misfire/ I (and we, at Vivaldi) completely agree. As we wrote at the weekend, "Politicians must grab the bull by its horns, put on some dry pants, and step up to fight for a better web. Banning profiling is what’s needed." https://vivaldi.com/blog/the-norwegian-minister-of-finance-is-peeing-in-his-pants-to-stay-warm/
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
JD stands for Jerectile Dysfunction
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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:
Noting that it enrages Trump when he's called weird, Oliver Markus Molloy says,
"If you want to break the spell that a fascist cult leader like Trump or Putin has over his brainwashed minions, destroy the hyper-masculine 'magic aura' of the fascist strongman.
Destroy his ability to give them a dopamine rush.
How? Show that you’re not afraid of him. Disrespect him. Make fun of him."
#Trump #JDVance #weird #Republicans #fascists
/5https://maganazi.substack.com/p/i-made-some-anti-trump-memes
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Willy Brown: “Oh yeah, if the public is fascinated with your antics, you survive,” he said, before lowering the boom. “It’s unfortunate, but you can’t really tell the voters they’re idiots.”
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kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:
If it actually happens, what an incredible prisoner swap this will be. I'm still waiting for news about Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva…
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
sitting/waiting in “central jury room”… Law of the Multiverse: everything takes longer
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realTuckFrumper ("#TuckFrump") wrote:
Cartoon: Weirdo welfare https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/7/31/2259355/-Cartoon-Weirdo-welfare?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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Can you tell which direction these figures are walking? What if we scramble the data points?
These tests are helping researchers understand the relationship between social skills and movement perception in children with #ADHD. #Neuroscience https://elifesciences.org/articles/90313?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic
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simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:
Wrote up some notes on trying out Aider, a neat open source Python terminal tool for working with codebases on disk via a variety of LLMs https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/31/aider/
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
well now, I’m going to bet this does not make the Trump Campaign folks happy
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
hah! truth…
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
screw the grandkids, let them deal with our greediness…
‘Donald Trump has made clear in his campaign that he supports a significant shift in U.S. energy policy, characterized by a robust emphasis on fossil fuels, extensive regulatory rollbacks, and a scaling back of renewable energy policies. He justifies these changes as necessary to reduce energy costs, achieve “energy dominance,” and boost the competitiveness of U.S. industries…’
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It's colonoscopy prep day! AAAAIAIIIEEE!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/31/not-going-to-be-a-great-day/
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Above Ambleside.
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
👤 Wife
⚗ Come Through Lab#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes
keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:
Friendly reminder that: the super detailed API reference of your huge library is not #documentation
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jenni ("Jenni Leder ( ͡♥️ ͜ʖ ͡♥️)") wrote:
"Public Work is a search engine for public domain content. Explore 100,000+ copyright-free images from The MET, New York Public Library, and other sources.”
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mnot@techpolicy.social ("Mark Nottingham") wrote:
Alex Russell @slightlyoff makes some solid points about the limitations of technical solutions to social problems: the @tag did indeed misfire here.
https://infrequently.org/2024/07/misfire/
BTW, a previous TAG recognised this limitation:
https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/unsanctioned-tracking/#h-limitations-of-technical-solutions
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
So my friends over at the @tag wrote a Finding on third-party cookie depreciation. TBH, I'm disappointed, but the good news is that could still be fixed with some targeted additions (and a bit less grandstanding).
I lay out the case here:
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lukeharby@octodon.social ("Luke Harby") wrote:
Hey!
Do you own a circular slide rule, or know someone who does? Maybe you have a box in the attic or a whole drawer of them.
I am working on an artist’s book with one chapter dedicated to circular slide rules.
If you would like to help me out and get a credit in a really cool book then please scan your slide rule(s) and submit via the form on my site or you can email me lharby@gmail.com.
Details and submissions at this link https://slackwise.org.uk/submit
Please retoot for more toot-ins!
Thank you!
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aliettedb@wandering.shop ("Aliette de Bodard") wrote:
Oh hey my book is out!
Four bickering juniors. One eldritch space monster on the loose. And just to make things worse, the juniors' superior is murdered.Aka "disaster lesbians try to cooperate. It involves a lot of finger waggling, dangerous situations, and also some pining and longing because what's a mission without a fling?"
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250324887/navigationalentanglements
(cover art; Sija Hong)
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Your Trump voting neighbor may deny they are supporters of anything "weird" like Qanon if you ask them.
But there's a good chance they believe some or all of the basic ideas of Qanon if they support Trump.
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technotenshi@infosec.exchange ("TechnoTenshi :verified_trans: :Fire_Lesbian:") wrote:
The Senate has passed the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which could enable extensive online censorship and monitoring under the guise of protecting children. This bill threatens free speech and privacy. Contact your representatives to protect our digital and privacy rights.
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elfin@mstdn.social ("`Da Elf") wrote:
@GottaLaff
@GhostOnTheHalfShell>>Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch wrote, "If Democrats can't defeat a party that wants to end recreational sex then I give up."
Right?!?
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socprof@masto.ai ("SocProf for Harris") wrote:
"Donald,. if you have anything to say, SAY IT TO MY FACE" was the line of the speech. And the crowd went nuts. 🐔
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
I think this view is towards Bowfell, but I'm not sure. From Dungeon Ghyll facing west.
📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #TheLakes #LakeDistrict #Cumbria
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yurnidiot@mstdn.social ("Mandu 🥟") wrote:
k-street food version of an "egg roll"
:insta: seoultoast_bong
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mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:
#stonecanyonfire #lyonscolorado #lyonsfire
Trying to move livestock to Jeffco as of 16:45. We do have some folks at BoCo fairgrounds. I have some alfalfa bales and chicken feed, water, human snacks here at BoCo fairgrounds (look for the red 4runner with llama trailer). If you need animals out of fire zone and don’t have trailer, hit me up and we’ll get folks to you.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Ewww, ick, wash your hands!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/30/reinforcing-that-dumb-jock-stereotype/
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Governments always want to censor and surveil the internet and the only thing that ever changes is the boogeyman they point to as justification for their power grab.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Some of y'all don't understand the gift that is not having to learn about some weird racist conditioning you have in public.
Because everyday, Black liberators are on these apps giving you the advice of a lifetime.
And instead of self reflecting next to a cozy fire and a recommended book, you decided to learn about your racism on the internet for all to see, under a Black woman's comment section.
My brothers and sisters in Christ, take the fucking advice and spare yourself the embarrassment.
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ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:
Please stop asking Black women who have spent their lives fighting racism what we’re doing to fight racism. That’s actual delusion.
Instead, ask your very White self what have YOU have done to dismantle racism in your own life. What are you actively doing to protect people of color from this type of behavior? That is the only question you get to ask or focus on.
Less on me. I wake up actualizing anti-blackness. What did you do today?
From: @lucasgonze
https://indieweb.social/@lucasgonze/112877498836103949
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Firefishy@en.osm.town ("Grant Slater") wrote:
Dear AI Companies, instead of sneakily scraping OpenStreetMap.org, how about a tiny $10,000 donation? We'll even throw in a shiny new download link to our entire planet's geo data! Who knew it was that easy? Start here: https://supporting.openstreetmap.org/donate/ #win #ai #bots #OpenStreetMap 🌍 🤖 🤑
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
The day we stop approaching racism, particularly anti-Black racism, as an external problem we need to fix, and approach it as internal conditioning we need to undo, is the day we make actual progress.
The people who believe they don't need to do that are the ones who need to do it the MOST.
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CaribenxMarciaX@scholar.social ("PVs- DR. Artist Marcia X") wrote:
"the insidious nature of whiteness has informed the building of the code and that is reflected in the way users interact with one another. To see the quote ‘For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change”-Lorde is an oxymoron on the fediverse."
This was written in what.. 2020
ITS 4 YEARS OLD
https://www.artistmarciax.com/post/archived-post-op-ed-decoloniality-and-fediverse
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
I love when white people tell us we should be grateful for what they enable us to have.
Just in case there was any question about which type of racism is the problem here:
"Minorities don't make as much money, or get as much education, and despite that, this place enables them to have a voice."
This is why moderation won't solve racism. Because who is going to suspend this diet-coke racist?
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redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:
great signal out here
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
We can't code away the racism problem in the Fediverse.
Racist trolls are a symptom to a much bigger issue. Mastodon's demographics mirror Big tech. Every last power structure in the Fediverse is controlled by white people who have sprinkled in a couple of tokens towards the bottom.
No one has done any anti-racist work because we all have either decided that we were born enlightened or that our oppressed identities omit us from white supremacy.
The call. Inside the house. So on.
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lmorchard@hackers.town ("Les Orchard") wrote:
This song scratched my brain meats in a good spot:
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Biles is friggin’ amazing, as a person and as an athlete
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timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her)") wrote:
Newsflash. 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️
White LGBTQ+ people can be racist. Is that something we need to say?
So many responses here being like, as a trans person, I got such better community on Mastodon from the beginning.
Change that to "As a WHITE trans person."
Take a look at what Black, Arab and other nonwhite trans people have been saying on here, and how you've been treating them.
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jdp23@blahaj.zone ("Jon") wrote:
You can't migrate your followers to a server that's been defederated (or that's defederated your server).
In other situations ... well, theoretically yes, but in practice it's not always smooth. Erin Kissane's Notes from a Mastodon Migration is a great read.
And of course you can't migrate your posts to another Mastodon server at all, whcih is what people really want. When people not familiar with the fediverse ask me why that is, I point out that the Mastodon code base is controlled by the same people who control the largest server, which is generally regarded as having bad moderation, so it's not in their interest to make it easy for people to move -- hmm, I wonder if that accounts for the lack of investment in this?@dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org @blogdiva@mastodon.social @KraftTea@mastodon.social @midgephoto@photog.social
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timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her)") wrote:
I'd like to see more "lets reflect on what the culture of the community that has been curated on the fediverse is, and how the tooling has enabled that culture," and less "its just about switching instances" or "do this one thing and the racism bug will be fixed."
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timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her)") wrote:
@TomSwirly
As I wrote many times, I want to see more reflection on the culture here & less "maybe its the instance I"m in that is better that's why I don't see racism."We received a lot of abuse from trans white people.
Seems like people don't want to believe that the fediverse is as blatantly racist as it is. You don't see it because you're not the target. Period. Not because you're on better instance, or someone else is doing something right. You're not the target in a toxic platform.
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timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her)") wrote:
The report continues
"...In any case the "trans women masquerading as ..." trope is highly offensive and the amount of barely concealed transphobia that followed on from it was almost shocking. I say almost because I am almost immune to it now."
It seems that according to Mastodon, only white queer people exist!
And we have the insufferable brand of "its your moderation that's the problem."
Not its you. Its your supremely white toxic curated community on here that's the problem.
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timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her)") wrote:
Let me show y'all just how toxic you are.
Someone at lgbtqia.space reported Alex, an Arab trans woman with this to say about her and our instance.
"I find this problematic in the context of wide ranging reports of racist abuse coming from BIPOC folks on Masto and dair-community dot com. It seems that this is an AI centred community with an incredibly laissez-faire attitude to moderating, with a transphobic mod who also tolerates ableist hate towards autistic people at the very least.....
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bitmaker ("Jason Martens") wrote:
If you haven’t seen any racism on the timeline recently *that is a part of the problem*. It remains invisible for people who are not targeted. Also go follow @timnitGebru or @Are0h or #TheBadSpace to hear from people who are both impacted by the racism and working to fix it.
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MisuseCase@twit.social ("Misuse Case") wrote:
How the fuck is #Mastodon a worse place for black people than #Twitter #xitter which is owned and operated by an actual fashy techbro?
This is a major collective failure and instead of doing “well actually” at black users who talk about discrimination on here we should be working harder on community moderation, which may require adding new features to Mastodon.
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blogdiva ("yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:
ah, the good ole :
THERE IS NO WAR IN BA SING SE
school of business management
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I keep typing the phrase "4G is a miracle, 5G is a mirage" into my network and device baseline posts[1], but this is the sort of thing that will change the situation in a few years when current devices reach EOL:
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basus ("Shrutarshi Basu") wrote:
Is there a comprehensive resource (book, survey paper, website) covering known parsing techniques? Ideally, it would cover classical techniques like recursive descent, LALR, LL, parser generators, but also modern things like parser combinators and PEGs. If there isn't one single resource, are there a bunch I could cobble together?
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Six months ago, when I suggested Meta is poised to pivot to infrastructure, the bootlickers laughed and said it was fantasy.
Now that such a pivot seems inevitable, they've suddenly decided it's a good thing, and that it will *help* users and decentralization.
This is weirdo shit. And it's the least surprising thing to ever happen.
Needless to say, #Meta taking over our infrastructure is not a good thing for anyone but Meta. Full stop.
From: @raphael
https://mastodon.communick.com/@raphael/112876395773839536
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I made the unfortunate decision to read multiple things early this morning that made me sad. But the video in LB[1] was a nice balm. Philip Achille's version of "Take Five":
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Dio9sys@haunted.computer wrote:
Sometimes you need to see someone absolutely WAILING on a harmonica.
rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:
Dark mode, RSS feeds, performance optimizations and more: read all about the ongoing development of crates.io on the Rust Blog. ✨
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/07/29/crates-io-development-update.html
I give it five more years until your browser is just a glorified wasm package manager.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
That's a grocery bag she is lying on. I'm afraid I can never use it again.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/30/every-day-same-spot/
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Regarding LB[1]: That poem reminds me of my little post:
https://social.coop/@cstanhope/110248783091539248
I mean, imagine living through those unprecedented times.
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Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io ("Doc Ranma Saotome") wrote:
Time to get fierce.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Apparently we have left the "you're stupid for thinking this" phase to the "of course this is what Meta is doing and it's good for users, actually" phase.
Cool.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The tech juggernaut is going to roll right over all of us.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/30/the-planet-is-so-screwed/
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