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

“…Tamil Nadu discoveries could significantly reshape our understanding of human technological development… push back the global Iron Age timeline by approximately 2,000 years, challenging the previously held belief that the Hittite Empire in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) was the birthplace of iron technology around 1380 BCE. The evidence suggests that complex iron smelting technology, requiring temperatures up to 1,400°C, was mastered in Tamil Nadu over 5,000 years ago.”

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/oldest-iron-age-objects-found-pOdkaDs.Qn.xTskxbkklpw#140571af-add2-4d1d-b82b-b4fbe11e82b9

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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

Everyone who distrusted Free Our Feeds was 100% right but in a more hilarious way than anyone anticipated: what if we take the bluesky firehose.... and put it on a blockchain
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/who-owns-the-future-of-social-media-a-giant-leap-to-decentralize-core-components-of-blueskys-at-protocol-ecosystem-302387397.html

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

some great whines on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/s/CZRvKEPsNZ

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rissarwx.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Dr. Larissa") wrote:

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

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HamonWry@mastodon.world ("Ham on Wry") wrote:

We’ve never seen anyone hate America as much as Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the GOP. Even America’s foreign enemies have never shown a hatred so all-encompassing.

#musk #trump #gop #republicans #maga

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vzq@social.lol ("Jose") wrote:

How do they keep making each episode of Severance better than the last?!?

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

“discussion of Mr. Musk, especially in the United States, often misses something: He is a white South African, part of a demographic that for centuries sat atop a racial hierarchy maintained by violent colonial rule. That history matters. For all the attempts to describe Mr. Musk as a self-made genius or a dispassionate technocrat, he is in fact a distinctly ideological figure, one whose worldview is inseparable from his rearing in apartheid South Africa.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/opinion/elon-musk-south-africa.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

“Today, the official Covid death toll in the United States stands at 1.22 million. Excess mortality counts, which compare the total number of all-cause deaths with a projection of what they would have been without the pandemic, run a little higher — about 1.5 million.

In other words, the alarmists were closer to the truth than anyone else. That includes Anthony Fauci, who in March 2020 predicted 100,000 to 200,000 American deaths and was called hysterical for it.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/opinion/covid-fifth-anniversary.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

checking in on decentralized assets intended to be independent from governments and big banks

#crypto #cryptocurrency

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

I wanted to share my newest doodle, but it wouldn’t have made any sense since I haven’t introduced Vincent yet!
Here he is! 😎 The man with the connections, the dude that arranges the jobs, the guy you just can‘t stay mad at. Olivia and Katharina have known him for a long time and consider him a friend (even though Olivia wouldn’t admit it).
#mastoArt #sketch #sketchbook #shadowrun #penDrawing #penSketch

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
sungo@anti.social.sungo.cloud ("sungo :mood:") wrote:

Folks, four Command & Conquer games were just made legally open source by EA and deposited onto Github.

https://www.polygon.com/news/531365/command-and-conquer-open-source-code-ea

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

#Severance

Attachments:

• gifv: Jon Stewart Hearing GIF

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jarelion@social.lol ("jarelion :totoro:") wrote:

miss you rdio

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endonend@social.lol ("Jason") wrote:

In.
https://kottke.org/25/02/the-february-28-economic-blackout

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nsmsn@social.lol ("Nick Simson") wrote:

Cleaning up some files...

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

New Mozilla TOS diff. This is what they just removed:

* Does Firefox sell your personal data?

> Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise.

The purpose of the new TOS appears to be to enable them to do this - such as for their advertising and AI sidelines.

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social ("Brodie Robertson") wrote:

The red means it was removed in case you're not sure about github, the term sell has been entirely removed from the FAQ page https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/faq/

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e#commitcomment-153095625

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
CyberpunkLibrarian@hackers.town ("Cyberpunk Librarian") wrote:

Going live at 7:30pm Central time this evening with spacey tunes and ambient grooves. If you need to tune out, then tune in to Radio Free Elsewhere. Cosmoeuphoria starts in about 20 minutes.

See ya there, at Radio Free Elsewhere.

https://cyberpunklibrarian.nohost.me/rfe/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
paul@oldfriends.live ("Paul Chambers🚧") wrote:

@mastodonmigration The best part of lists for me is, 'Hide these posts from home' timeline. If ticked on, accounts on the list will appear in lists and not in the main timeline. I put my news accounts in one list, flipboards, politics, certain topical accounts in their own list, etc.

#MastoTip #Lists

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jenniebreeden@mastodon.sdf.org ("Jennie Breeden") wrote:

I do this joke every 5 years as a reminder that your brain is an asshole. #throwbackthursday

https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/14639

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io ("Doc Impossible") wrote:

*Long, long sigh*

Trials for an mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer have shown a 75% cure rate, when administered after diagnosis. Only 2 patients had their cancer return.

Life expectancy after diagnosis with PanCan, under conventional treatment, is less than a year.

My dad died from pancreatic cancer in 2018.

Im not going to do an explainer thread for why this is an incredibly big deal today. You can ask someone else, or read the study for yourself.

I miss my daddy.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08508-4

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

NYTimes news summary:

‘Officials working to contain an Ebola outbreak in Uganda disputed a claim made by Elon Musk, who revealed at a White House cabinet meeting on Wednesday that his government efficiency team “accidentally” and “very briefly” cut off funding for several programs fighting the disease. The delay was actually weeks, the officials said. And hours after Mr. Musk spoke, the Trump administration terminated at least four of the five contracts for Ebola-related work in Uganda.’

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer :batman:") wrote:

Bye!

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer :batman:") wrote:

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

our military readiness is headed for an historic low within the next year, and we are becoming increasingly vulnerable to attack.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/1Ex7PpFvX1

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I'm not planning to buy anything tomorrow, but honestly so much of that is wrapped up in having no actual plans to leave the house, is it a boycott if I'm just plain lazy

RE: https://www.threads.net/@pattonoswalt/post/DGl6WdMRgpS

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I mean, we knew the GOP were cowards, this is just additional confirmation

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/republicans-trump-threats

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The jardin des Tuileries was a little barren, but I don't know what else you could expect in the middle of February. I tried out a wider lens, and Amelia tried out a new, Parisian haircut.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 55mm/4
👤 Wife
⚗ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Paris

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Font I'm having a temporarily renewed obsession with for prose writing in Ulysses and Obsidian: iA Writer Quattro.