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ArneBab@rollenspiel.social ("Arne Babenhauserheide") wrote:

I uploaded "My best thing today" in #sketchnotes from August 2024 to September 2024:

https://www.draketo.de/kreatives/best-thing-today#2024-09

Please boost! I’m publishing these with some hope that others may start #bestthingtoday sketchnotes: it’s a great way to build and strengthen positive memories.

#ink #art #inktober #inktober2024

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• rough, small sketches in ink with the best experience for almost every day in the timeframe. The base is lineart in black and gray, often colored with sky blue, grass green, sun orange, or earth yellow as highlight-colors. On the right there is a streak of colors where I clean the pens after they take up black ink. It starts with travelling during family holidays while singing together and writing a poem. Many days the best thing was swimming or going to the village celebration. Other days it was listening to audiobooks, especially qualityland. One was an uncle saying thank you for coming, two are kisses, three times it was dancing. Two others were work projects: improving diagrams and optimizing algorithms. Many are with the dog. It ends with playing the dark ending of Baldurs Gate 3 after patch 7 and turning the bg3 sketches into a video. If the days feel dark or gray to you right now — as mine felt when I started this — maybe sketching like this could be part of self-care that helps you get out. I remember more joy now. What ever may be a good path for you: if you feel like you’re drowning in gray, you should take *some* path to remember more of the best moments of your days. Please take care of yourself. You are worthy of experiencing joy. (remote)

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miah@hachyderm.io ("Miah Johnson") wrote:

Oooh The Designed by, and Powered by OpenWRT router is now out!

https://liliputing.com/openwrt-one-wifi-6-router-is-now-available-for-89/

$89 and $10 of every order goes directly to the OpenWRT project!

Hope to see some folks get these and post reviews soon! (I'll order one as soon as I can afford to)

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djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

what's your favorite videogame that wraps its challenge in having the player build consensus and cooperation instead of competition and domination?

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griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com ("tj usiyan") wrote:

Them: “This is not a paywall.”
Me: “whew”

Them: Provide your Email address”

Me: “that’s a payment, though. Personal information is a payment”

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tech4palestine@infosec.exchange ("Tech For Palestine") wrote:

Google Was Set to Host an Israeli Military Conference. When We Asked About It, the Event Disappeared.

https://theintercept.com/2024/09/27/google-israel-defense-tech-conference/

#google #notechforapartheid

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

Doting grandfathers everywhere are getting a gleam in their eyes…

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/03/important-facts/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj9JSkSpRlM

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The goal? Make out there unbearable so that you're willing to pay to stay in here.

Where, "out there" is just the world, and "in here" are the little sanctuary malls, fantasy parks, and virtual realities designed by the same people who made "out there" so bad in the first place.

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Daniel_Grosse@fosstodon.org ("Daniel Grosse") wrote:

🎉 Just published in the October issue of IEEE #TCAD: "WAVING Goodbye to Manual Waveform Analysis in HDL Design with WAL".

📄 PDF (open access): https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10496480
👉 WAL: https://wal-lang.org
📂 GitHub: https://github.com/ics-jku/wal

#WAL #VCD #HDL #analysis #debugging #surfer

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stevelord@bladerunner.social ("Steve Lord") wrote:

Who called it "social media" and not "clout computing"?

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brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

Happy National Poetry Day to all those who celebrate.

Here’s a poem called ‘In Search of Poetry’. It’s constructed entirely from popular Google searches about poetry.

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• In Search of Poetry   why is poetry so boring why is poetry hard to understand why is poetry considered non-fiction is poetry a good clothing brand   poetry is an act of hope poetry is a waste of time poetry is a way of taking life by the throat poetry is not supposed to rhyme   why is poetry important why does poetry exist why is poetry pretentious who is the better poet shakespeare or taylor swift   poetry is a political act poetry is an egg with a horse inside poetry is the best words in the best order poetry is the mother of lies   why do poets repeat lines do poems have to follow rules why do poets repeat lines why is poetry taught in school   poetry helps mental health poetry is not real poetry is the music of the soul poetry makes you feel Brian Bilston (remote)

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

I wish someone had explained to me the purpose of my Flesh Crayolas years ago.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/03/we-were-using-our-crayons-wrong/

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• Flesh crayons (remote)

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

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

I was feelin' okay early this morning so I thought I got off light this time, but the Covid and Flu combo vaccine I got yesterday afternoon is catching up with me now. 🤒 But at lest I know this will be short duration discomfort.

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

greenhouses are wunnerful

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

ahhhh

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Website League looks interesting. And it made me realize, the best way to fight back against Meta's definition of the social web is to simply make things that stand opposed to it.

https://websiteleague.org/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

"Threads posts with a 15 minute delay are now mixed with fediverse posts without a delay and presented as happening during the same time. This was already noticeable during yesterday’s U.S. VP debate, an event where people use microblogging for the real-time reaction. But part of the real-time reactions was actually 15 minutes delayed, while another part was not, which creates even more confusing experience."

#fediverse #DefinitelyNotSabotage

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Last Week in Fediverse – ep 86 – The Fediverse Report:

"A 15 minute delay is a long time in microblogging, and significantly impacts things like breaking news, and live-posting sports events. It also meaningfully impacts the ability to have a back-and-forth conversation with people in a comment section."

The fact that this was first reported by #TechCrunch but you wouldn’t know it because they burried the lede under rosy coverage. https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-86/

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

ahhh, to be in a real city again (Toronto)

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

Oh no! I robbed Jason Allen!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/03/in-which-i-commit-a-crime/

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• Digital painting created by MidJourney (remote)

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

Joe Gow was railroaded.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/03/its-wisconsin-im-surprised-they-didnt-fire-him-for-veganism/

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• @HappySexyCouple (remote)

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mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:") wrote:

Going on now: the Craig Maloney Memorial Auction, benefiting Mutual Aid Disaster Relief. Win a #ryoms sponsor gift purchased for a sadly deceased friend, and help those less fortunate. Runs through Tuesday evening, for reasons.

https://mwl.io/archives/23810

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

Collinsworth's Razor: the person demanding to be debated is almost always the one in the wrong.

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

a repeating life pattern for Trump:

“Donald Trump’s campaign spent more than it raised for the second month in a row as the Republican nominee struggles to keep pace with Democrat Kamala Harris’ robust fundraising operation” - Bloomberg Report

https://politicalwire.com/2024/10/02/trump-spent-more-than-he-raised-again/

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climatebrad ("Brad Johnson") wrote:

Don't you hate it when climate activists block highways
#Helene #climate

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• The Laurel Fork Road bridge sits destroyed from flood waters raging in the Upper Laurel Fork creek in Vilas, N.C., on Sept. 27.Jonathan Drake—Reuters
• Workers survey a large section of Highway 105 that washed away because of flood waters, on the outskirts of Boone, N.C., on Sept. 27.Jonathan Drake—Reuters
• NCDOT
• Rescue workers from the Pamlico County rescue team are shown working in the aftermath of Helene the area of Chimney Rock, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. Pamlico County Special Operations

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jalcine@todon.eu ("jack(y) or treat!") wrote:

In tandem, tech freelancers need to organize. With more than 300,000 tech workers let go, folks need to stop playing around.

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ForeTeeThree@gaminginthe.cloud ("Frixie") wrote:

@gavin57 @pluralistic

Wow.
"...an app is just a webpage skinned with the right kind of I.P. to make it a felony to put an ad blocker in it."
Yeah.

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brennen@federation.p1k3.com wrote:

this is a great song about trees:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGQZT0HbQLI

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Swing voters aren't real. They can't hurt you.

Undecided voters aren't real. Just scrunch your eyes closed real tight, and when you open them, the undecided voters will be gone.

I'm undecided on if I'm going to eat this here slice of cake after my workout*. 🍰

(*I am not undecided. That cake is as good as gone.)

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vkc@linuxmom.net ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

We made a thing

https://thestopbits.bandcamp.com/track/rip-out-the-battery-sid-edition

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

2. It (2017). What hte fuck was that? Where was Clara Bow?

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• Movie poster for It (2017). A kid in a little yellow raincoat faces away from the viewer. Beyond him Pennywise the Clown is partially visible in the dark, his arm holding a red balloon that obscures his face.

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MylesRyden@vivaldi.net wrote:

@soundconjurer @pzmyers

Every time this comes up no one in the media says anything about the 40% of the housing market being swallowed whole by private equity/corporate interests.

How can anyone talk about solutions when the diagnosis hasn't even started yet?

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

The closest I'll ever come to the feeling of cruising down the road in a getaway car after having just successfully pulled off a major heist is disabling my linter's "no explicit any" TypeScript rule.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I'm delighted to report that the stuffed Mastodon toys have arrived at the German warehouse at @ravioli. The ones going to the US warehouse are still in customs. I imagine we'll open the store once both have arrived, unless US customs takes unreasonably long...

#Plushtodon #Merchtodon

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• Two stuffed Mastodon toys on a wooden table. One is being pat on the head to demonstrate the squishiness.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Funny thing is #Meta can't stop being a cartoon villain character long enough for the #socialweb guys to defend themselves.

They're like, "#Threads isn't so bad you guys, they actually--" BREAKING NEWS ZUCKERBERG CAUGHT FUELING AI SUPER COMPUTER WITH BABY ORANGUTANS

#ActivityPub #IndieWeb

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kellylepo@astrodon.social ("Kelly Lepo") wrote:

New results out of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Astronomers found a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the second closest star system to the Earth. The planet Barnard b orbits its star every 3.15 days and has a mass about 0.37 times that of Earth.

There are also hints of planets with 2.34, 4.12, and 6.74 day-orbits, although more observations are needed to confirm the existence of those planets.

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2414/

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• The image is an artist’s representation of the nearest stars to the Sun. In the lower part of the image is the Sun, surrounded by four semicircles that increase in size. Each semicircle indicates a certain distance from the Sun. The closest one coincides with a series of tiny white spots that represent the objects of the Oort cloud, located one light-year away. The second semicircle indicates two light-years away. The third semicircle indicates four light years away, and coincides approximately with two adjacent large spots that represent stars. These spots are yellow and red, the former being twice the size of the red one. These are labelled Alpha Centauri A&B and Proxima Centauri, respectively. The fourth semicircle indicates six light-years away and coincides with an orange spot the size of the Sun. This represents Barnard’s star. Around the same semicircle there are two smaller red stars, unlabelled, with a third one positioned a bit further away. (remote)

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dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt ("Dmitry Borodaenko") wrote:

@willoremus An entire article about #Threads without mentioning #Fedipact or quoting someone prominent, e.g. @jdp23, on it? That unresolved "and some wariness [that we are not going to talk about]" sticks out like a sore thumb.

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alice_i_cecile@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Alice I. Cecile") wrote:

A really delightful video taking a deep dive into the #rendering technology and #techart choices of #tinyglade! I learned a lot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvswAg5Lrtw

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

Since JD Vance seems so opposed to fact checking, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone he definitely fucks couches.

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thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:

@willoremus thanks for the gift link! The article makes some good points -- and I really like your phrasing of Meta's "gesturing" at interoperability.

On the other hand, when you talk about Meta's strategy, it's worth highlighting how much benefit they're getting just from from gesturing. As @laurenshof of @fediversereport points out, they've mastered the art of using tiny incremental improvements in fediverse-related functionality to get positive press. Including this article!

So at least in the short term, while I agree with @Gargron that so far Threads is only dipping their toe in, what's their real incentive to do more? After all, Mastodon has less than a million users -- not that many more than before the Apartheid Clyde acquired Twitter two years ago. And while many white male fediverse influencers are very gung-ho about Meta, there are also a lot of people who don't want them here. So they're very wise to tread carefully. And while I'm rarely one to praise Meta on many fronts, I think their decision to make federation opt-in for Threads users was a great one. It's pretty funny, but also sad, that some of their supporters here have criticized that decision.

Still, Meta's clearly keeping their options open to do more than just gesturing. In Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the Fediverse I talked about how they could try to use the Fediverse to help shape regulation and as a platform for decentralized surveillance capitalism ... time will tell.

In any case @Sarahp reported that Meta's one of the funders for the new @swf, so that's more evidence that they see it as useful to keep gesturing -- and I saw one of SWF's founders say that they'd make sure some of that money goes to Mastodon, so Meta still sees Mastodon as useful as well. It'll be interesting to see how things work out!

#fediverse #threads #fedipact @fediversenews

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

When the rest of the team asks why you're still working on a 2-point story after three weeks

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• The JD Vance "The rules were you guys weren't going to fact check" meme (remote)

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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

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• (Luke) You told me Vader betrayed and murdered my father (Obi Wan) The rules were you guys weren't going to fact check (remote)

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kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

Two college students paired Meta’s Ray Ban smart glasses with facial recognition tech and were able to pull up info on strangers (name, home address, phone number, and family members) in seconds just by looking at them. https://www.404media.co/someone-put-facial-recognition-tech-onto-metas-smart-glasses-to-instantly-dox-strangers/

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Rihilism@toot.community ("🦅 RKeller Photography 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Red-bellied woodpecker.
(01/02/24)

#birds #birding #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #MastoArt #photography #AltText

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• Image of a red-bellied woodpecker perched on a large, bark-less tree branch with out of focus branches and a grey, overcast sky in the background. The woodpecker is facing left with one eye visible. Red-bellied woodpeckers have off-white belly, chest, and neck feathers with a slight red blush on the lower belly, black and white back, wing, and tail feathers with a checkerboard pattern on the wings, a red-cap that extends from the beak to the shoulders, an off-white cheek with an orange patch below the dark eyes, black beaks, and dark grey legs and feet that are designed to grasp the sides of trees. (remote)

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shadowsminder@mas.to ("A.L. Blacklyn") wrote:

Monarch butterflies continue to exist.

#easternUSA #photograph

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• Two female Monarch butterflies are drinking from a persimmon fruit that had fallen into mowed grass. (remote)

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KE2AEQ@mastodon.radio ("Todd") wrote:

Hey U.S. people: thinking about getting your ham license? Free training, testing, and a radio.

"The Make Operating Radio Easier (MORE) Project is an initiative to reduce both gender and age imbalances in Amateur (Ham) Radio, through education and hands-on activities."

https://n2re.org/m-o-r-e-project

#HamRadio #AmateurRadio

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jangray ("Jan Gray") wrote:

Soft RISC-V Systems Workshop:
https://sites.google.com/view/srvs-workshop

Thu Nov. 7 & Fri Nov. 8, 8am-12pm PDT, the RISC-V Int'l Soft CPU Special Interest Group is presenting a free online (Zoom) workshop and celebration of the vibrant RISC-V soft processor community. Please spread the word and join us as attendee or presenter.

This workshop aims to be a technically focused, inclusive celebration of the world of RISC-V FPGA Soft Processor Systems, and the great diversity of designs, designers, and applications.

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

One cool thing about having a kiddo around is that you can put together a playlist to listen to while you're making them breakfast, and they get super stoked because they've never heard any of these songs before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_HoMkkRHv8

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

https://twrp.bandcamp.com/track/phantom-racer-feat-the-protomen

(There may be a theme.)

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redsad@strangeobject.space ("captain aaaaaaaacab 👻") wrote:

Yeah I read theory...

"It's a rich man's game no matter what they call it, and you spend your life puttin' money in his wallet."

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• A very long flashlight with a relatively weak beam, next to a tiny flashlight with a much more powerful beam. The long flashlight is labeled Karl Marx's Das Kapital. The short flashlight is labeled Dolly Parton's 9 to 5. (remote)

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

I'm not worried about this at all, why do you ask?

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

TFW your inner monologue starts to sound like Wolfman Jack...

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

My niece took a dollar from me, and returned two pennies and a Canadian dime.

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• Picture of two pennies and a Canadian dime on a glass table.

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

It's worth sharing this because 1) everyone should know JD Vance's whole intended playbook is shitty racist lies.

But 2) this is the archetypal abuser response: call out the person calling *you* out, as though *their* *response* to your lie is what matters. Make the offense everyone's taking about *their ordinary response*, not your original offense that prompted it in the first place.

Classic DARVO.

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

We’re at War With Iran - Ken Klippenstein:

"One can stand on the parapet with binoculars searching for Iranian tanks to come rolling across the desert to signal what everyone is insisting is something more to come. But reality should have set in today. Only the American people seem unaware because of secrecy and because of the lockstep narrative of the mainstream media, which is not to accept this fundamental reality. " https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/were-at-war-with-iran

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

Landlords are drooling at the possibilities here.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/02/i-didnt-watch-the-vice-pres-debate-last-night/

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• CBS News presenting ethnic cleansing as a housing policy to be compared with home construction tax incentives. (remote)

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

Jonathan Wells is no longer poisoning the discourse about evolutionary biology.

He's dead, but I'm trying to look on the bright side.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/02/jonathan-wells-is-dead/

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• Jonathan Wells, dishonest, ignorant pseudoscientist (remote)

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birdcubed@queer.party ("bird³") wrote:

All flying objects are UFOs if you're bad at identifying things

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

9 out of 10 developers enjoy code reviews.

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

I would like to, in my free time, start working on an iOS app that people might find useful. What is a privacy-focused use case that you’d like to see an app for and where you think I can meaningfully contribute? Let me know!

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phil@wears.tigerpajamas.com ("Phil Giammattei") wrote:

I beg you to toggle light mode on this web site
https://mastodon.online/@latte/113233330240863053

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

Hoo boy it's been a day in the Matt Mullenweg/WP Engine debacle. Here's a direct link to my updates on today's news:

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/fire-matt#unblock

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The fact that he doesn't like Taylor Lorenz makes me like her more.

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• Well-regarded by whom? Lorenz is a hack—a self-proclaimed social media expert done in by her own "private" Instagram post describing President Joe Biden as a "war criminal" that she subsequently lied about having posted. She didn't "exit" the Post. She was obviously and rightfully fired.

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cjust@infosec.exchange ("Tim Hergert") wrote:

Updated for the new millennium.

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• A COMPUTER CAN NEVER FIND OUT THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER FUCK AROUND (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Finally went ahead and removed Daring Fireball from my RSS

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• Cup to meatball: I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need this.

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

Stuff. Him. In. A. Locker.

🤦

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

Walz did not stiff him in a locker, and a nation mourns for an opportunity lost.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

So this new little blog is turning into me cataloging the bookmarks I've collected over the years. I'm into it.

#smallweb

https://web3.0sleptwithmywife.com/internet-manifestos/

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tmcw ("Tom MacWright") wrote:

senator, thank you, to remind the audience, birds are in fact real

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kims@mas.to ("Kim Scheinberg") wrote:

JD Vance is correct that many professional economists have a terrible track record, but one of the only people with an even worse understanding of economics is Donald Trump

#vpdebate

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Sources:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/24/as-the-open-social-web-movement-grows-a-new-nonprofit-launches-to-expand-the-fediverse/

https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/awarded-grants/

https://socialwebfoundation.org/donate/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The way this Tech Crunch article is phrased, you'd might walk away thinking that the Ford Foundation's "large grant" made up a lion's share of the #SocialWebFoundation's financial support.

But only $50k of the One Million Dollars in funding for the #SWF came from The Ford Foundation, back in February of this year.

The other $950,000?

#Fediverse #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #OpenWeb

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• The Social Web Foundation (SWF) has some backing from Meta as well, alongside other major implementors of the ActivityPub protocol, including the social magazine app Flipboard, newsletter platform Ghost, Mastodon, and others. The Ford Foundation has also offered the organization a large grant to get the project started. In total, SWF is closing in on $1 million in financial support.
• An online grant summary from the Ford Foundation showing details for grantee Exchange Point Institute, including a total grant amount of $50,000, approval date, and start date, all set for February 2024.
• The Social Web Foundation is a fiscally-sponsored project of Exchange Point Institute, a US 501(c)3 non-profit. Tax-deductible donations to the Social Web Foundation will support our mission, help us execute on our projects and build a bigger, better fediverse.

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

Last night, @bcantrill and I were joined by our colleague Ben Naecker to talk about OxQL—the Oxide Query Language we’ve developed for interacting with our metrics system.

“Another query language!” the comment sections responded, “why can’t you *just*… ?” So we explained why we can’t *just* …! Along the way we talked about metrics, ClickHouse, histograms, parser generators, and the beauty of domain specific languages.

https://youtu.be/RTsXM3kcAaI

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

ashleygjovik ("Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD") wrote:

Can we all take a moment and pour one out for all the DOJ & FTC attorneys that have to deal with Apple on that antitrust suit?

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

Maybe this old guy should retire and get out of the classroom at last.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/01/behold-the-worst-teacher-in-the-world/

Attachments:

• My horrible face (remote)

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

1. Sleepy Hollow (1999). What a very odd movie. I can't believe this didn't flop. It actually made its money back by a considerable margin. There's a scene where Johnny Depp does a mostly off-camera autopsy of a pregnant woman and it's strongly implied that the Headless Horseman decapitated and stole both her head and that of her fetus in utero. It's played for laughs; the camera stays on Johnny just long enough for the corpse to squirt blood on his steampunk goggles like a grapefruit

Attachments:

• Poster for Sleepy Hollow (1999). The Headless Horseman holds his axe aloft as his black steed rears up on its hind legs. Behind him, the gnarled trunk of a huge dead tree curves up and over him. In the background, an enormous full moon

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja (he/him)") wrote:

Y’all know that CNN has a text-only web interface, right?

If you want to experience how GODDAMN FAST the web can be without the tens of megabytes of adware tracking cruft and hundreds of npm dependencies, try this out:

#news #web #tech #noJavascript

https://lite.cnn.com

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

chris_gammell@chaos.social ("Chris Gammell") wrote:

I have been following Katerina Galitskaya on LinkedIn for a while, she posts really great animations and explanations of RF fields with antennas. I asked her to be on The Amp Hour to talk more about how she thinks about antennas and how listeners could benefit from her wisdom. It's a whole segment of the electronics field that is magical to me, so it was great to learn more myself!

https://theamphour.com/678-all-about-antennas-with-katerina-galitskaya/

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• 401ee9b048ecb8bd.jpg (remote)

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

OCT 2024 Daily Horror movie thread!

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

so_treu@blackqueer.life ("Ra'il IK") wrote:

"'When Rape was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence during Slavery' is the first book to solely focus on the widespread rape perpetrated against enslaved black women by white men in the United States. The routine practice of sexual violence against enslaved black women by white men, the motivations for this rape, and the legal context that enabled this violence are all explored and scrutinized. Enlightening analysis found that rape was not merely a result of sexual desire and opportunity, or simply a form of punishment and racial domination, but instead encompassed all of these dimensions as part of the identity of white masculinity. This provocative text highlights the significant role that white women played in enabling sexual violence against enslaved black women through a variety of responses and, at times, through their lack of response to the actions of the white men in their lives. Significantly, this book finds that sexual violence against enslaved black women was a widespread form of oppression used to perform white masculinity and reinforce an intersectional hierarchy. Additionally, white women played a vital role by enabling this sexual violence and perpetuating the subordination of themselves and those subordinate to them."

#queertheory #gendertheory

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• The cover of the book "When Rape was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence during Slavery" (remote)

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

eleventy@fosstodon.org ("Eleventy 🎈 v3.0.0") wrote:

Eleventy 3.0.0 is now available!

https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/releases/tag/v3.0.0

Over a year of work, 22 pre-releases, so many contributors. Thank you to our entire community—y’all make this project possible. ❤️

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

After a shower.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 Wife
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes

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• A woman with damp long black hair huddling a shawl around herself in front of a window with a view on a lake and a green hedge.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

hey its that time of year to unplug your internet and shake the cable to get all the bullshit out of it.

lots of bullshit going on is what i'm saying.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Threads users can now see who follows them from other fediverse servers | TechCrunch:

"Mosseri noted that if you have connected your account to the fediverse, your Threads posts will be shared to the fediverse 15 minutes later, after the edit window is closed. "

For breaking news, you leave Mastodon and head to Threads or be ~~five~~ fifteen minutes behind. #Threads https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/01/threads-users-can-now-see-who-follows-them-from-other-fediverse-servers/

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

taylorlorenz ("Taylor Lorenz") wrote:

~personal news~ I'm going independent and launching my own media outlet on Substack called User Mag.

Please consider buying a yearly subscription to help me continue my work https://www.usermag.co/p/introducing-user-magazine

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Fuji bring back Superia X-tra 400 😢 I have only 3 left in the freezer, and ebay is not looking promising anymore.

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

RenewedRebecca@oldbytes.space ("Becky") wrote:

You can tell how old a programmer is by mentioning “68k assembly” and seeing if they get all misty eyed.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

jdp23@blahaj.zone ("Jon") wrote:

A great thread to show people next time they say "Mastodon's easy, just like email!"

RE: https://infosec.exchange/users/atax1a/statuses/113233369726378601

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

This ended up being a pretty solid essay overall. I think the arguments hold up well. I don't fully agree with the conclusions regarding AI assistants, but I apparently work in a subset of the industry where things like stack overflow et al. are usually not helpful to me, so I can't imagine a scenario where AI assistants are any better. Good documentation and well written textbooks *are* helpful, so I hope we continue with those things.

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

doing cleanup on service mgmt scripts:

cleanLogs.sh (removes existing logs)
restart.sh (stops service, cleans logs, starts service)
start.sh (starts service, appends to log files if exists else creates them)
stop.sh (gracefully kills off service, kills off any existing log-watchers)

split logfiles into:

storytellerErrorLog.txt
storytellerLog.txt

created log-file watching script:

watch.sh

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Introducing User Magazine - by Taylor Lorenz - User Mag:

"User Mag is founded on the belief that the real story of technology lies with its users. Instead of focusing on corporate earnings and boardroom conflicts, User Mag will cover how people are actually using technology. "

I like Taylor Lorenz. I hope this works out. https://www.usermag.co/p/introducing-user-magazine

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I'm considering migrating my #MicroBlog somewhere else, or just scrapping it altogether.

The community is cool, the product is good. But now that the #fediverse is the Meta-funded social web, I don't know that I want my dollars funding it.

I see something like #cohost closing and I think, damn I could've been supporting that place with a monthly payment.

In short, I want the little disposable income I have going to a vision of the web I believe in. I won't be tricked by Zuck a second time.

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breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social ("Bread and Circuses") wrote:

Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist and climate activist, was interviewed yesterday by Democracy Now about the impacts of Hurricane Helene. Here is part of what he said...
___________________________

I was reading articles about the flooding in western North Carolina in The New York Times. The articles did not even mention climate change, not a single mention. This is what’s driving it. And then there’s the larger context of irreversible global overheating, which is caused by the fossil fuel industry. They’ve been lying and blocking action for decades.

The planet’s overheating. It’s irreversible. It’s caused by the fossil fuel industry. And the reason I say “industry” specifically, not “fossil fuels,” is because this industry has been systematically blocking action for almost 50 years, for decades and decades.

This will get worse as the planet continues to get hotter. We’ll see even worse storms in the future. Every day that we continue burning fossil fuels and allowing this industry to continue spreading disinformation and blocking action, the planet gets hotter.

Hotter oceans fuels these storms, causing them to intensify more rapidly, to get much more powerful. And a hotter atmosphere holds more water, so we get these intense rainfalls, which cause the sort of flooding that’s happening right now.

I think that this is the most evil thing that's possible to imagine, that fossil fuel executives and lobbyists will continue to lie so they can line their bank accounts at the irreversible expense of our planet and the future of humanity.
___________________________

LEARN MORE -- https://truthout.org/video/media-fails-to-link-hurricane-helene-to-fossil-fueled-climate-change/

#Media #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange

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• Headline from linked article says: "Media fails to link Hurricane Helene to fossil-fueled climate change." Below this is a photo of severe flooding in Asheville, North Carolina, with water covering the streets and halfway up the sides of buildings. (remote)

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

@fromjason Weird. I thought there was "no causal connection".

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/113199692160859973

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Has Social Media Fuelled a Teen-Suicide Crisis? | The New Yorker:

"Haugen, who also released thousands of the company’s internal documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission and to the Wall Street Journal, claimed that the company knew about the harmful effects of social media on mental health but consistently chose “profit over safety.”" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/07/social-media-mental-health-suicide-crisis-teens

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

Ouch. How to rebuke your father, with love.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/01/i-hope-i-never-disappoint-my-daughter-this-much/

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• Rudy Giuliani (remote)

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

The blog is finally back up, and here I come with a depressing observation about the environment. Everyone needs to learn to fear the extinction vortex. 🧪

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/01/one-day-you-wake-up-and-find-yourself-in-a-dystopian-eco-disaster-novel/

Attachments:

• The extinction vortex (remote)

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

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

Attachments:

• Photo by George Conway on October 01, 2024. May be a Twitter screenshot of 4 people, the Oval Office and text. (remote)

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

GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

🧵via Katie Phang: 1/…

REMINDER:

Today is the bench trial (meaning just the judge and no jury) over whether the #Georgia State Elections Board must certify the county election boards’ election results by the November deadline as set forth under Georgia law.

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

Today in History: American composer Roy Harris dies, 1979

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

Today in History: Paul Dukas born in Paris, France, 1865; French composer, critic, scholar and teacher