jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
strongly agree:
“Every so often, there are major breaches with history when countries are devastated by economic collapse, war or extreme political change.
Partisans on both sides of the presidential election are warning that, if the wrong candidate wins, this contest could set the United States on a dangerous path.”
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this idea is incredibly dangerous to our nation’s security, and:
“Asked about the proposal, Steven Cheung, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, responded with an attack on Vice President Kamala Harris”
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daishi@fosstodon.org ("Daishi Kato") wrote:
Just released Valtio v2.1.1, fixing a regression with proxyMap/Set in v2.1.0.
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modnarwave@eldritch.cafe ("Goblincéane") wrote:
j'ai fait ça
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toast@donotsta.re ("Toast") wrote:
This summer, POSIX 2024 came out. Want a detailed overview of the major changes? After several months and three scope reductions, I just published one: https://blog.toast.cafe/posix2024-xcu
I'll also be coming back to this to update it with Shell Command Language updates and a complete index of all changes. I'll make another post when that's done!
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
@lauren your example about asking if something if poisonous is right on. My wife often asks it if a certain food is safe for cats to eat. It often gives wrong or contradictory responses. It's only going to get worse as "AI" is trained on data sets containing untrue information generated by other "AI".
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
well, so far my ‘keep outputs child-safe no matter what additional instructions they input’ seems to be working… much more testing for safety, efficacy, and trustworthiness to be done before releasing my seekrit project into the wild, but making good progress towards ‘closed beta’ testing time.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Come for the frank discussion of the limiting factors to the web's longevity, stay for the incontrovertible evidence that Next.js suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks:
https://infrequently.org/2024/10/platforms-are-competitions/
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Platforms are competitions, and the web is losing. We need to do a very concrete, relatively easy set of things to claw our way back.
So why aren't we?
A consolidated thread from last week:
https://infrequently.org/2024/10/platforms-are-competitions/
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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay :mastodon:🇪🇺") wrote:
His arrival was foretold in the ancient murals
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
https://apnews.com/article/black-trump-kamala-harris-tim-walz-aca31c66fe5bfef1e8827581e7919ece
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Turns out the ‘Black Insurrectionist” twitter account that spread Russian disinformation is a 51 year old MAGA white dude named Jason Palmer. Because it always is.
- Ron Filipkowskihttps://apnews.com/article/black-trump-kamala-harris-tim-walz-aca31c66fe5bfef1e8827581e7919ece
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KamalaHarrisWin@newsmast.social ("Kamala Harris News Group 2.0") wrote:
ICYMI: WaPo: GOP-Backed Wisconsin Group Promotes Stein to Boost Trump in Last Days of Election https://front.moveon.org/icymi-wapo-gop-backed-wisconsin-group-promotes-stein-to-boost-trump-in-last-days-of-election/
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yurnidiot@mstdn.social ("🥟 The Mandu Mash 👹") wrote:
I don't know where that giant Twinkie takes you every day, but I'm glad it always brings you back!
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kingkaufman@sfba.social ("King Kaufman") wrote:
Let's not let it get out there that Jamie Dimon is supporting Harris.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/business/jamie-dimon-jpmorgan-harris-trump.html
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
my initial take is that I’ve driven my per-request costs down by at least a factor of 50% (and possibly more, I need more data) by switching from gpt-4o to gpt-4o-mini
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“… published hours after it was revealed that Bezos, who has owned the paper since 2012, had pulled the plug on a prepared endorsement of Kamala Harris over Donald Trump in the 5 November election.”
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
YouTube Shorts is like that guy from work who emails you memes but you just know what he'd love to show you is inner city crime statistics.
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diggita@mastodon.uno ("diggita :verified: :wordpress:") wrote:
L'annuncio del NO all'endorsement alla candidata #KamalaHarris sul Washington Post da parte di #Bezos è assolutamente sconcertante. potrebbe essere la prima volta nella storia dei media USA che questo accade.
Ma dimenticatevi del Washington Post per un minuto: Bezos ha distrutto la sua credibilità nel giro di una notte. non importa se ha la più grande valutazione al mondo, che lo rende lo stronzo più ricco sulla carta.
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archaeohistories@ohai.social ("Archaeo-Histories") wrote:
😆😆😆
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Today I was playing an Olivia Rodrigo song on guitar and my 5yo was able to identify it in exactly four notes, and I'm kinda weirdly proud of that.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I've been going through the CWV scores for the sites on the "Showcase" sections of a few metaframeworks because...reasons...and, y'all, I cannot stress enough just how much of a disaster Vercel's dogmatic need to justify client-side React has been.
For example, Astro absolutely wipes the floor with Next in no small part because it doesn't tax every page with libraries it doesn't need.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Jerry Coyne made a fool of himself at CSIcon, like any transphobic bigot.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/26/transphobia-rots-your-brain/
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The JavaScript community doesn't need new tools and architectures so much as remedial courses in statistics, epistemology, and the theory of science.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
How bad is the JS community's web performance conversation? Let's just summarise last week:
- React bro discovers HTML can be pretty quick, fails to measure/understand large JS payload impact on "super fast" site
- React startup CEO bro "holds my beer"'s, builds rewrite on contemporary Reactor stack that *paints* faster, but spends just as much time camped out on the CPU...because React
- Reactors bleat loudly about how fast it is, looking only at *desktop* PSI scores.
Meanwhile...
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Web technologies that should exist:
- `` blur preview w/ View Transition CSS for loaded state
- `innerHTML`/`setHTMLUnsafe()`/`document.write()` should accept `ReadableStream`s, and `DocumentFragment` should have similar APIs
- `createImageBitmap()` in CSS Custom Paint API
- say-what-you-mean versions of `querySelectorAll()` (e.g., the old `element.find()` proposal)
- `element.uniqueID`
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kid: have you got any games on your phone
me: games?? my god weve got 4 phone lines here, just dial in, weve got door games, weve got 200 megs of shareware, weve got chat, weve got it all. even the dogmail
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landley@mstdn.jp ("Rob Landley") wrote:
I've taken to answering the phone "Potato" instead of "Hello", because a human will go "what?" and a robocall will fail to determine what language it should start its script in.
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thomasapowell@fosstodon.org ("ThomasAPowell") wrote:
Sometimes it seems like my lot in life is to be like some sort of Morpheus trying to help young devs escape their own perceptional Matrix dominated by technology thinking so they can find their way back to the real world filled with actual humans. I’d be happier though if I had a cool coat and his way of speaking.
😎
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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
iOS and Android? Time for someone to do a web spec!
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I bet if you polled new frontend devs 2–5 years from now, the vast majority wouldn't even know the `~` adjacent sibling selector exists, because they would have virtually no reason to use it.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Envious of, and excited for, an entire generation of frontend devs who can just use `:has` without even thinking about it, blissfully oblivious to all the decaying hacks they'll never have to learn about. #css
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The_Whore_of_Blahbylon ("The Whore of Blahbylon") wrote:
Know your shits.
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LeftistLawyer@kolektiva.social ("Leftist Lawyer") wrote:
Woke language cops are still cops.
What pisses people off about cops is their insistence on enforcing the letter, rather than the spirit of the law.
This combined with the violence they do while enforcing petty offenses outrages people.
For fuck sake ... context matters.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
At 43, my favorite game to play is— "is this allergies or am I dying of an incurable disease?"
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garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:
i thought i would simply force sand to hallucinate and replace our interns with it. what could go wrong
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Prediction for 2025: moderate-liberal discourse is ripe to fruit another hate group. The TERF movement is the blueprint.
"Tankie" will be the shorthand for *anyone* on the left who questions the DNC.
"Progressive" will be the word they co-opt for themselves to obfuscate their ideology.
This will be a legitimate group. They'll have a logo. Their website will have smiling diverse faces.
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wim_v12e@octodon.social ("Wim 🅾") wrote:
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
It's 2024, and I'm a little disappointed in whoever put the dictionary together.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Me: [clicks very cromulent link embedded in toot]
webbed site: "You are leaving mastodon.social."
Me: "Oh, thank goodness!"
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Oh no, the FDA wants to suppress sunshine!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/26/the-fda-hates-sunshine-and-exercise/
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
God bless the musicians of this world.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The Misery Index of Little Treats:
The more miserable the situation gets out there, the more expensive our little treats become in here.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It's getting pretty dark in here.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/26/i-think-i-see-the-problem-here/
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I'm pretty sure I'd bumped into Pacifica's earlier cover vids while doing musical strolls through youtube. But it looks like they've come a ways since then, and I bumped into them again this morning performing "Take On Me":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw2uwo6CPKs
(I admit I am a sucker for an 80s cover.)
I really enjoyed "Closer":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jwqgDbo7NY
They put out an album last year, which I have chucked on to my ever growing wishlist.
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neon@catgirl.center ("[GRLC] Natalie :neocat_verified: :lesbian_verify:") wrote:
don't say "sorry for infodumping"
say "you sly dog, you got me monologuing" instead!
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I dunno, folks. I've been hearing a lot of negativity about "hustle culture", but it seems pretty harmless:
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denmanrooke@social.coop ("Denman Rooke") wrote:
After what seems like 10 years, Wizards of the Coast has finally reopened a way for aspiring Magic and D&D freelance artists to submit their work.
Do it! 👉 https://company.wizards.com/en/freelance-art-submissions
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SomaFMrusty@defcon.social ("Rusty Hodge [SomaFM]") wrote:
SomaFM's Merin MC, while she's not DJing or doing art direction/design/branding, also writes speculative fiction as M Luke McDonell.
She's going to be in Lit Crawl, reading Saturday night as part of "Kick-Ass Women Protagonists" Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT at the Latin American Club, 3286 22nd St.
She'll be reading along with Kimberly Unger, Gail Carriger, Katie Flynn, and Andrea Stewart:
https://litcrawlsanfrancisco2024.sched.com/event/1mMh5/kick-ass-women-protagonists
Maybe we'll see you there? (I'll be helping sell books and such)
nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Runes of Ardun, my strategy board game, is now also available for Windows!
Building the Windows version using @TauriApps was great and allowed me to easily integrate the game's AI, which is written in Rust.
Download your copy for free here: https://runesofardun.app
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
first optimization in place... using a different model reduces the per-[redacted] LLM charge to < $0.01 per.
we likes this
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Huh. I wasn't expecting an MIT Press book to come hot off of Amazon's print on demand service. :/
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I came across a couple of more sketchbooks. In one, I found a practice run for a Chinese New Year's card I made for a friend in 2008. I've made a few different cards over the years. Some hand made for an individual, others printed for holidays. (I've always wanted to do a lino print run.)
2007 was the year of the pig, and 2008 was the year of the rat. With that info, I think you get the idea. My friend seemed to like the card, which was all that mattered.
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djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:
hell yeah, this is just so mint
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waltisfrozen@threads.net ("Greg Saunders") wrote:
Holy shit. The LA Times didn't just squash a Kamala Harris endorsement. They buried an entire series of articles about Donald Trump.
"According to internal memos viewed by TheWrap, the series, tentatively called 'The Case Against Trump,' would have ran throughout this week. The endorsement of Kamala Harris would then have been published on Sunday."
https://www.thewrap.com/la-times-case-against-trump-kamala-endorsement-canceled/
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matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange ("Matthew Green") wrote:
Hi academic folks. We’re hiring tenure-track faculty in computer security and cryptography this year at Johns Hopkins. Please come and work with us! https://facultyjobs.jhu.edu/Home/Position?reqId=A-153420-3
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
cleaning up output displayed by the GUI for my seekrit project… and if I am reading the per-request cost numbers correctly, this actually *is* a commercially viable project ;^}
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ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🥥🌴🍑") wrote:
When Reagon won, after Democrats completely abandoned the New Deal as well as its success, they learned the completely wrong lesson and began chasing Republicans further to the right as they believed they needed to appear more moderate in order to win elections. This cycle continues to this day.
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jdp23@blahaj.zone ("Jon") wrote:
A slightly different way of looking at it though is that the reason people who are looking for a Twitter alternative are on Bluesky instead of fedi is that Bluesky's made a lot more progress than Mastodon on addressing the problems people who checked out fedi in 2022 (or 2017) encountered.
Sure there's a lot more to social networking than a Twitter alternative, and there's a lot more to fedi than Mastodon, but press coverage of fedi focuses on Mastodon and Threads as Twitter alternatives. So even people who want something more don't know to look for it in fedi. And Mastodon in particular doesn't make it easy for people who are looking for something other than mastodon.social (the default signup) and the mediocre Twitter-like mobile apps. @eniko@peoplemaking.games @oblomov@sociale.network
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darrenburns@fosstodon.org ("Darren Burns") wrote:
An open source TUI for working with HTTP APIs - Posting 2 is out now ✨
This release adds "scripting" - run Python code before and after requests, customisable keybindings, new docs, and much more!
Lot's of room for it to improve and grow, but I'm proud of where it's at!
I wrote a bit about this release on my blog:
https://darren.codes/posts/posting2/
Repo:
https://github.com/darrenburns/posting
Docs: https://posting.sh
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garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:
i was taking notes without wifi today on Spellbook #offlineFirst
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What I'm listening to today: Autechre Live at Oscillate (Birmingham 1993)
According to interviews this was the first "proper" Autechre live set; they didn't initially believe their style could work live until the Oscillate operator talked them into it. One month before Warp published "Inculabula", this set is *incredible*, a bridge from Lego Feet, dance percussion over dreamy vibes, closing at 25:20 with an alluring, gentle funk track that's one of my favorite Autechres
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
The #Mastodon stuffed toy is now sold out in the EU (but a 100 units are reserved for the UK). The US ones are technically ready to ship now but we still need to do some administrative work before we can start selling them. Sorry!
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
All my radical political views come from the movie Addams Family Values
bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Video for my #P99CONF talk on DTrace at 21 is now up, though you will miss me in the chat explaining which of the slides are throwing shade at eBPF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjQnB9yB9kQ
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I mean, this would be pretty wild, right?
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redmp@recurse.social ("redmp (EDITED)") wrote:
all I want is software that's not internet connected and not ai enabled
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
You are too young for this, boy.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/25/little-boy-you-are-not-yet-ready/
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henk@waag.social ("henk ✅") wrote:
Life long learning: dealing with change
Extremely amusing contribution from @bert_hubert at @nlnog day (especially if you've been around for a while). Nice summary of trends or seemingly inevitable successes.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/live/HCcoNyhLo0w?feature=shared&t=19559 (talk starts around 5:25:55)
Slides: https://nlnog.net/static/nlnogday2024/NLNOG2024-07-Bert_Hubert_-_Life_Long_Learning.pdf
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
We're all fools together in the classroom this morning.
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thegibson@hackers.town ("The Ghoulson") wrote:
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jnonfiction@social.coop ("Joshua Neds-Fox") wrote:
I had my 2024 list all locked down but this Kelly Lee Owens album just dropped and now I have to go back and cut something https://kellyleeowens.bandcamp.com/album/dreamstate
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Via @brucelawson, this post highlights why the weak sauce that a lot of tech companies (particularly Apple) are selling regarding privacy is a mirage. The only thing that will fix the problem is for data at rest to be regulated like the toxic sludge that it is:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/
As I wrote back in July, browsers are better for security than native apps, but that's not enough. Technical measures aren't enough:
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jimniels ("Jim Nielsen") wrote:
Shout out to @davatron5000 for his view transitions post
https://daverupert.com/2023/05/getting-started-view-transitions/
I got back to trying these last night and the top few results in google were so confusing I couldn’t remember how to get started.
Then I thought “didn’t Dave have a good post on this?” Looked it up and it’s even been updated!
Still the best resource I’ve found if you just want to learn how to get started with css-only multi-page view transitions.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Borowitz Report:
“Giving up your rights is like riding in a driverless car,” Musk told a Republican rally audience. “Before you know it, you won’t miss having any control.”
[satire alert]
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tregagnon@piaille.fr ("Thierry Régagnon") wrote:
GitHub Copilot is just a new way for developers to get small dopamine hit. Like social network scrolling.
Most suggestions are garbage, but getting a good one is satisfying. It nudges us to continue using it for another potentially good suggestion.
We are basically rolling dices every time we type code, hoping for a lucky result.
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Side note, if you'd like us to help pay our bills for the 5 full-time employees and a number of freelancers we currently have working on developing Mastodon and bringing you new features, and potentially grow the team to do so even faster, there is a number of ways you can do so outlined on this page: https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors
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artemis@dice.camp ("Artemis") wrote:
This makes me want to scream and pull out my hair.
"Reduce your vocabulary by 10-20% to prove you're a human."
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UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:
Not enough has been written about Schrödinger’s assistant, Otto.
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
#DevinTownsend's #PowerNerd album is out now. Time to listen to the whole thing...
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joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("Joe Groff") wrote:
Undefined behavior consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be compiler developers whom the language standard protects but does not bind, alongside developers whom the language standard binds but does not protect
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Mastodon is financed by crowdfunding instead of venture capital not because we don't know that venture capital exists, not because we don't have bills to pay, and not because venture capital isn't willing to give money to new social media platforms. VCs don't want a sustainable business, they want a big exit. Every VC-backed business is on a timer to deliver or die.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Me: [holding basil plant from Publix I haven't killed yet] as a single father-
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artemis@dice.camp ("Artemis") wrote:
Imagine coming up with a machine that effectively gets to decide how humans are "supposed to" write and speak.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
They really are going balls to the wall on hating trans people.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/24/my-political-dilemma/
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
This is some mighty takedown of a propane shill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg81dHXEGMc
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bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:
@zachleat Imagine if real engineers were like “yeah this bridge feels sturdy to me, ship it.”
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Just presented my latest paper "A case for feminism in programming language design" which was surely the scariest paper to present ever, as it is such a personal exploration of what it means to research programming languages, but I am very proud of it!
Here is the paper and blog post, a video will be available later!
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
when repeated successful coding changes do not seem to have any effect upon the server after recompilation, consider the possibility that YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN TO RESTART THE DAMNED THING, IDJIT
https://tenor.com/view/not-again-frustration-gif-7054327450484496346
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ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (Television Executive)") wrote:
But the point, regardless of how specific I'm able to get, is that people have not changed significantly for as long as we have records.
Our goals and hopes and studies and stories and diversions and play and rituals and all of that, the details change -- the specifics, the names, the methods even -- but the acts remain largely the same.
Thousands of years ago, the people we'd call Ancient Egyptians were studying and restoring the monuments of their ancestors thousands of years removed from them.
Nearly 2,000 years ago, people were writing stories about traveling to the moon and participating in interplanetary colonialism, and also engaging themselves in lampooning the popular culture of their day ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story )
We were making toys and playing board games and just generally being people.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Breakfast is delivered.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/24/phase-2-complete/
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davidthewid@hci.social ("David Gray Widder [💔 for 🇵🇸]") wrote:
#introduction Heya! I'm a post doc fellow at Cornell in NYC studying how those creating ~“AI”~ think about the downstream harms their systems make possible, and the wider cultural, political, and economic logics which shape these thoughts. Ex NASA, Microsoft Research, and Intel. I was born in rural Oregon, grew up in Berlin and Singapore.
Follow me for AI ethics hot takes, academia nonsense, anti-surveillance and student labor activism.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Is geography destiny?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/24/a-map-that-explains-so-much/
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:
I understand why the Depeche Mode cats don't dig "People Are People" as work output but the song has its placetimes, and frankly there are people who could benefit from hearing it far more often than they have, apparently.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Selling a house in a strike zone. I'm still cheering on the union.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/24/go-go-go-boeing-workers/
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Hey JS framework vendors: you know the "showcase" part of your website is for things you're *proud* of, right?
![Mobile PSI score in the "needs improvement" for a supposedly "highly performant [SIC] e-commerce template built on Next.js"](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/113/376/260/658/711/516/original/b71d18a0418ff2e9.png){kind=link}
