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Anathema wrote:

Literally everyone looks better in eyeliner.

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seachaint@hackers.town ("Seachaint :verified:") wrote:

Mastodon neither started nor standardised the Fediverse, it is merely the most well-known server. The Fediverse was developing before Mastodon, and if Mastodon starts to decay the Fediverse will comfortably outlive it.

And so will all your crazy nichey subcultures.

Don't worry.

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

LB: 2017 was really something wasn't it

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technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

Also, digging the fact that I have yet to see a screenshot of text, so let's keep that up, m'kay?

owl@beach.city wrote:

tentacles but said like hercules

owl@beach.city wrote:

The colours looked interesting with the dark sky and the sunlit treetops.

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• Evergreen treetops looming above the rooftops, with the cloudy sky behind them. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen") wrote:

I cannot overstate how convenient Apple Pay is. I didn’t have a single CHF on me the whole trip. I didn’t even need to carry my wallet around.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Fjällfjällen must be the most mountainy mountains around here.

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

You'll never guess who won the Space Race.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/02/the-gays-have-conquered-space/

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

Every now and then when I'm reading the puns that come through my timeline, one of them will actually cause a little "ba dum tish" to go off in my mind.

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capngloval@mastodon.sdf.org ("Denny") wrote:

It's a logic gate. 😆

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APoD@botsin.space ("Astronomy Picture of the Day") wrote:

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1803/AstroSoM/hudf.html

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in Light and Sound

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Sonification: G. Salvesen (UCSB); Data: M. Rafelski et al.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210802.html #APoD

owl@beach.city wrote:

Cat: I want to go out, I want to go out!
Me: Okay, let's go.
Cat:

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• A grey tabby cat who has flopped down on the ground right outside our door. (remote)

owl@beach.city wrote:

Actually the plural is Lineaux

owl@beach.city wrote:

Kaoskauz

owl@beach.city wrote:

Woodpecker is a pretty silly name for a bird considering slang meanings of wood and pecker.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:

My photo has made it to Flickr's /explore. I don't know why, but I can now consider myself a Real Photographer™ I guess? :-)

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emacsomancer@types.pl ("'(B . Slade)") wrote:

I do things with words. And the things that lie behind words.

I'm a #Linguistics professor, working mainly on Formal #Semantics and its interfaces. Much of my research also involves Historical Linguistics (/#Philology) to a certain extent. My central tool for analysis is a predicate logic-style system augmented with a typed #LambdaCalculus.

I frequently research languages of #SouthAsia (e.g. #Hindi, #Nepali, #Sinhala, #Sanskrit) & the #WestIndies (#Patois, #RastaTalk & the role of #African languages in the #Caribbean), as well as a bit of #OldEnglish (https://heorot.dk ).

I have a certain wary enthusiasm about particular types of technology. #LaTeX and fine #Typography more generally. #Lisp things, including #CommonLisp, and #Scheme (#Guile, #Racket), and #Emacs, as a sort of incarnation of a minor Lisp Machine. I'm #Haskell-curious, but don't care much for significant whitespace languages. (Software I've written mainly resides (for the moment) at: https://gitlab.com/emacsomancer/ )

Within linguistics, I work on a fairly wide range of things, from the use of delimited continuations in natural language semantics to the morphology of #Rastafari language to #Cyberpunk neologisms to #IndoEuropean myth-preserving formulaic language (slaying of dragons and worms) to algorithmic detection of different focus types and constituents in unannotated plaintext. (you can see more about these things here: https://lambda-y.net )

Recently, I've been exploring the use of devices borrowed from computer science (e.g. delimited continuations, monads) for working out computational issues in natural language semantic formalism.

Interested in social equity and its intersection with my other endeavours. Strongly #AntiCapitalist and #AntiWhig.

#introductions

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

The web as we thought we knew it is dead for most people. The only way *companies* have influence is to control the underlying platform the browser runs on. Apple's iOS, and Microsoft's Windows (where they heavily market Edge and decided to let Google's team do a lot the work for them.) It's a war of platforms. iOS vs Windows vs Chrome (nee the Web).

At least that's what it looks like from here.

(Atlernate CW: Unimportant opinion about the web)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

Safari is supposedly killing the web by not shipping features, which in the absence of total control of the web platform on iOS, will result in Google's Chrome dominating everything. So the suggested alternative is to go along with everything Google wants, but really *lean in* to the process to somehow convince Google to do something it probably doesn't want to do in the face of its overwhelming market power on the web.

https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/safari-is-killing-the-web/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Soooo, the sequel to Suicide Squad is also called Suicide Squad?! I don't find that confusing at all 🙄

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

Freethoughtblogs' 10 anniversary celebration is happening next week!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/01/freethoughtblogs-is-ten-years-old/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkeIKO6GAyQ

owl@beach.city wrote:

Some camels lived there too, they're big!
Almost like moose.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Thinking of those sweet donki

owl@beach.city ("ugla") wrote:

Now I have an illegal copy of that flying composition in my head.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:

So I guess the smoke from forest fires in summer is a thing now. "Climate change is a hoax" my ass...

owl@beach.city ("ugla") wrote:

Missed that there's a trailer for BotW 2.
The soundtrack sounds epic.
I'm running out of BotW 1 and need it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi-MRZBP91I

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

Running untrusted code was a mistake.

owl@beach.city ("ugla") wrote:

car-on-a-chip

owl@beach.city ("ugla") wrote:

owl.ooo is available