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Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
em0@hachyderm.io ("emerson") wrote:

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

One of the things our society does is engrain cost-benefit analyses into young people, where the only factor considered is the benefit to capitalism.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/12/12/get-a-job-they-say-and-wonder-where-the-artists-went/

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• Hand and hammer -- labor matters. (remote)

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

Time to name a snowplow!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/12/12/our-yearly-name-a-snowplow-contest-is-live/

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• Name a MnDOT Snowplow contest (remote)

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

The masters tell me what to say.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/12/12/who-rules-the-world/

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• Man has a spider in his apartment, is told it's good to keep spiders around. Later at home a giant spider whispers in ear that he has done well. (remote)

Reblogged by anathema@eightpoint.app:
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross (the real one)") wrote:

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• Meme found on Twitter, four panels, extolling the virtues of spiders (remote)

Reblogged by anathema@eightpoint.app:
newt@stereophonic.space ("💀💀💀 :0080: c̷̨̢̛̲̼̞̞͓̹͚̗̼͓͚͖͒̔̓̃̈̋̂́̏̆̐̐̈́̉͘͜ȑ̴̫͔͂̌̔̆̓͛͗́͐̍̃́̆ÿ̷̤̺̳̖͖͚͈́̄́͌͒͂͊͗̄̔̚p̶̢̧͇̞̯͍͇̤̖͖̙̫̪͋̏̃̃͗̎͜͝t̶͖̉̽̐̇i̴̭̜̼͖̬̽̀͆̃̓̂̚͝ͅc̸̡͙̪͎̫͚̫̘̱͚͔̫̣̣̒̃̋͜͝ 💀💀💀 :verified: ") wrote:

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• d00e65d16f06834c.png (remote)

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Wow, I'm kinda surprised I actually did make a few cool things this year. :blobartist:

#ArtVsArtist #ArtVsArtist22 #ArtVsArtist2022

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• “Art vs Artist“ 3 by 3 tile collage. In the center a selfie of me, surrounded by some of my art from 2022. (remote)

Reblogged by lloydmeta ("Lloyd"):
em0@hachyderm.io ("emerson") wrote:

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
melancholybear@mastodon.world ("MelancholyBear") wrote:

teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

New approach to consuming Twitter. Every time I get to a tweet in my timeline about the platform itself or its megalomaniac owner I close the site. Works really well.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

My top albums of the year

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• Devin Townsend - The Puzzle The Dear Hunter - Antimai Pain of Salvation - Panther Caligula's Horse - Bloom Devin Townsend - Lightwork (Deluxe Edition) Haken - Affinity Leprous - Malina Leprous - Aphelion Leprous - Pitfalls Devin Townsend - Snuggles Leprous - Coal Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever Leprous - The Congregation TesseracT - One The Dear Hunter - Act V: Hymns With the Devil in Confessional The Dear Hunter - Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I'm a little disappointed #Tidal doesn't just copy #SpotifyWrapped so I can do a little shout-out to my favourite bands at the same time as everyone else...

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

The point, if it isn'tly bleedingly obvious, of putting up with Big Co B.S. isn't to make your retirement 20% cushier, it's to make humanity 20% better off.

Yes, one of these is harder than the other. Get to work.

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graydon@types.pl ("Graydon Hoare") wrote:

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futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

Anybody want to buy a tiny ass watch? ⌚️ https://www.tinyassprops.com/store/p/tag-heuer-carrera-automatic-wv211bba0787-miniature-watch-replica

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

You might not enjoy this techical stuff. I'm talking about gene regulatory networks. Always the popular topics!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/12/11/creationist-tried-to-appropriate-eric-h-davidson-hope-they-regret-it/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndyH-kYvsj0

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

Such a great shot 🐘 https://glass.photo/cm/3lQnVFm6ZCpAisyOFQbDWs

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

A Tribute to John Coltrane on Aug 10, 2004

https://wolfgangs.app.link/aOwPOgKyGvb

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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

started keeping my nice camera on my desk so I can do nature photography out the window

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• A bluejay in the center of the frame sitting among fallen tree limbs on top of a shed (remote)

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Stupid border wall in Arizona https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/11/arizona-governor-border-wall-shipping-containers

Seriously, all this became such a farce… But their voters are happy because it's "owning the libs", or whatever…

anathema@eightpoint.app wrote:

Got a couple of nice photos but only had my phone because it’s waterproof and my camera isn’t

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• A view out over a frozen, snow covered pond at twilight, banked by trees (remote)
• A snow-covered tree illuminated by a streetlight. Falling snow is visible (remote)

anathema@eightpoint.app wrote:

It’s snowing proper snow where I live for the first time in ages so I had to go out and catch some snowflakes with my tongue :3

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
dcjohnson@mastodon.cloud ("Dave Johnson") wrote:

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

What would this achieve?

Well, the key problem with building performance culture is creating solidarity between the haves and the have-nots, and a mode like this that triggers for ALL users is critical in breaking through the privilege bubble.

This was overcome for SSL/TLS because every user experiences the crypto properties of connections the same way. For performance, we must build the connections more explicitly.

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

I firmly believe that if your site generates > 500ms main thread tasks for a sizeable fraction of users (say, 10%?), then browsers should put a "slow" icon in the URL bar and send a bloom filter down that opts your site into "single thread mode" for all users.

In this mode the browser would:

• disable off-thread compile and GC
• block scrolling on main-thread tasks
• animate on the main thread
• block on image decode

That we don't do this today is a failure of imagination.

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

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nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

This is great music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jbf_3XI3uI

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sMPcbV6fzM

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

got some really great replies to this, and it's so fun to see different approaches to a pretty simple and common but not quite trivial problem. for those curious, i think i am going to go with:

def join_bylines(l):
return ', '.join(l[:-1]) + ', and ' + l[-1] if len(l) > 2 else ' and '.join(l)

but some nice alternatives with generators, match statements, and even one with python's behavior of returning the first truth-y value in an and operation. neat!