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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
There's also the bad dream about dropping all your contacts at once.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/03/spiders-have-nightmares-too/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Oh, look. The University of Minnesota does the most minimal thing they can in the face of the pandemic.
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Mastodon FeedNow she must rest.
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Mastodon FeedShe found a good spot.
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Mastodon Feed"We were considering illegally selling out swedes' data to a USian corporation but decided against it" doesn't sound good
Mastodon FeedTo start with you could put options in "legal" and "not legal" buckets. Then only consider the legal options.
Mastodon FeedLocal authorities saying no to MS Teams because they don't want people's data to end up at US intelligence services. Have to wonder how it was even under consideration.
Mastodon Feedhttps://calpaterson.com/printers.html this is a great article, the end really sums up the at lot of the problems in society:
"Good business sense is to do only what is reasonable for yourself but great business sense is to make others do what is not."
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pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website ("p̸h̴o̸⁴c̵e̴ₓa̵") wrote:
still want an open source "smart speaker" whose only function is to shout expletives whenever anyone dares to utter "okay google" or "hey siri" in its vicinity
Mastodon Feedhype-ass filter
Mastodon FeedLiterally 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.
Mastodon Feedtechnomancy@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?
Mastodon Feedtentacles but said like hercules
Mastodon FeedThe colours looked interesting with the dark sky and the sunlit treetops.
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Mastodon FeedI 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.
Mastodon FeedFjällfjällen must be the most mountainy mountains around here.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@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.
Mastodon FeedCat: I want to go out, I want to go out!
Me: Okay, let's go.
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Mastodon FeedActually the plural is Lineaux
Mastodon FeedKaoskauz
Mastodon FeedWoodpecker is a pretty silly name for a bird considering slang meanings of wood and pecker.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("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.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@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)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@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.